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The rapid growth in hedge funds has triggered an international debate on the risks involved with their operations and potential negative effects on the financial system. The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management - which prompted the US Federal Reserve to engineer a bail-out - still haunts the sector 10 years on. Simultaneously we have to admit that markets and investors benefit from a wide

The objective of this work was to examine the evacuation process in a smokefilled environment. In a series of six experiments, eight subjects (in each experiment), were instructed to walk through a smoke filled room. The time and the smoke density were measured and the subjects comments were collected. Geometry, lighting and smoke density was varied during the experiments. The smoke was of a non-i

There are several accident investigation methods and they are used in a wide range of fields. However, the methods have not been used so much in the fire accident area. In the present thesis, the methods’ capability to investigate fires and what they result in are explored. In addition, answers are given concerning how important the background information is for their applicability. First, a selec

The tourism season in Europe is mainly limited to a few months in the summer. Thus, there is a need to develop attractive tourism products that can contribute to an extension of the tourism season. Photo tourism, which is based on the breakthrough of digital cameras, camera function of cell phones in combination with the use of computers among the general public, is one of the tourism products tha

Vid avtalsförhandlingar mellan privata näringsidkare kan det vara nödvändigt att utlämna hemlig information för att avtal ska kunna komma till stånd. Information och kunskap utgör ofta centrala tillgångar i ett företag och möjligheten att skydda sådana tillgångar i avtalsförhållanden kan vara av avgörande betydelse vid affärsuppgörelser. I detta avseende spelar sekretessavtal en viktig roll inom nIn contract negotiations between commercial parties, it may be necessary to disclose confidential information to establish a contractual relationship. Information and knowledge are often key assets of a business, and the ability to protect these assets may be crucial for the contracting parties. In this respect, confidentiality agreements play an important role in commercial relationships. In the

Vid årsskiftet 2009/2010 så trädde konfliktlösningsregeln i kraft i svensk lagstiftning. Konfliktlösningsregeln är ett tillägg i KL:s 3 kap och tar sikte på att lösa de konkurrensproblem som kan uppkomma vid offentlig säljverksamhet. Enligt den så kan stat, kommun eller landsting förbjudas att bedriva ett visst förfarande i sin säljverksamhet ifall detta snedvrider eller hämmar konkurrensen eller