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This study aims at providing a better understanding of the process of entrepreneurial activities. By reviewing recent literature on start-ups, it establishes the micro foundations of firm’s entry and exit, etc., and characterizes the features of founder, firm and regional context. Statistical data of start-ups in 2005 and their performance in the following three years are drawn from Statistics Swe

Sammanfattning: Detta arbete består av tre mer eller mindre självständiga delar. I den första delen presenteras de olika systemen för utvinning och lagring av naturvärme. De två andra delarna innehåller en regional och lokal kartläggning, där tillgångarna bedöms. Valda områden är Kalmar län respektive Västerviks kommun. Naturen omkring oss kan användas både för utvinning och lagring av värme. Med

The purpose of this essay was to find out if it is possible to: ? Detect different groups of gender among children in grave materiel and church art and if that was the case, in what way? ? What different groups of children can be seen in these two categories? ? What does the material say about children's position in society? The time span is from early Christian time to 17-th century and th

Social movements are an important part of our history. It often reflects conflicts in society, and has many different faces and ambitions. The human rights movement is one of them. Since the 18th century, the thought of human rights have developed and the values of human beings are now protected by laws and conventions. Still to this day, violations of these rights are common. Organizations like A

Voices from within the victim movement express a need for morality to have fixed boundaries between good and evil, right and wrong. However, such a morality is not always easy to define and uphold. It is thought important to consider the victims particular experiences, through another logic and morality than the strictly legally defined. This dissertation studies victim support as a moral definiti

As multi-storey buildings with wooden framework are being build, constructors are faced with problems like, for instance, deformation of the wood, that is barely noticeable in a smaller house, but significant in larger buildings. Largest deformations of the wood occur w hen wood with a high original moisture content is loaded perpendicular to the grain and simultaneous allo w ed to dry, for instan

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate effects of warping and distortion in thin-walled box-girder bridges, see figure below. The master thesis deals with a number of different analytic methods, which are compared to finite element models. Transverse distortional bending moments and direct stresses, caused by torsional and distortional warping, is determined by analytic methods. Simpl