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The gas turbine has been around for over a century, providing power for a variety of applications. The efficiency, i.e. the amount of power produced per kilogram of fuel provided, has increased steadily over the years and is today greater than 44 percent in a state of the art gas turbine. For electricity production the efficiency can be increased further by combining the gas turbine with a steam t
Kambodja var fram tills mitten på 90-talet en relativt isolerad ekonomi med väldigt begränsad handel med omvärlden. De producerade främst agrikulturella varor och hade komparativa fördelar i dessa. Efter ett regeringsskifte så riktade sig Kambodja mot att bli en mer marknadsorienterad ekonomi vilket slutligen ledde till ett medlemskap i ASEAN 1999. Efter denna period har Kambodjas handel med omvär
Inconspicuous luxury consumption describes a descreet approach to luxury and refers to the avoidance of displaying ostentatious logos and blatant patterns on consumed goods. This consumption practice represents an evolving phenomenon and challenges the traditional perception that luxury consumption is highly visible. So far, research on inconspicuous consumption is scarce and points out its comple
I takt med utveckling av tekniken, har det aldrig varit enklare för en privatperson att dela med sig av sina personuppgift. Under 2016 presenterades dataskyddsförordningen (GDPR) som kommer att träda i kraft i maj 2018, och ersätter därmed PuL. Lagen kommer att ge privatpersoner bättre kontroll över sina personuppgifter. Studiens ändamål är att undersöka hur svenska e-handelsföretag kommer att han
For decades, foreign aid has been a way to uphold political relationships, promote growth and development as well as a response during emergencies. Research on the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth has been done extensively. However, research on aspects beyond economic ones is far more limited. To extend the discussion regarding foreign aid, this thesis examines foreign aid and
Alcohol consumption is important within the research of service management in retail, because it is not only a consumption phenomenon, but also a societal matter. Inappropriate drinking culture and unhealthy drinking habits can cause serious issues to the individuals and the society. Consumers’ drinking habits could be significantly influenced by the value that they perceive and seek for ((Babin,
The impact of trade on environmental quality has received a considerable attention, both in policy debate and in theoretical literature. However, the empirical evidence on the topic remains lagged. This thesis adds to the empirics by unearthing the relationships and decomposing the effect into scale-technique effect and trade-induced composition effect using Arellano-Bond GMM estimation technique.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether an expansionary monetary policy since 2008 has caused inflation in price indices other than the consumer price index, CPI. Most inflation targeting central banks use a CPI to measure inflation. The CPI only covers a subset of all prices in the economy and CPI-inflation has been low despite an expansionary monetary policy during the last 10 years. A
Bakgrund: Många barn upplever att de inte får tillräckligt med stöd när deras förälder blir sjuk i cancer och att de ofta hamnar i skuggan av förälderns sjukdom. Det finns en generell kunskapsbrist om hur barn hanterar situationen som anhörig och både sjukvårdspersonal och föräldrar upplever att de har svårt att bemöta barnens behov. Syfte: Att belysa barns hantering när en förälder är sjuk i canc
The increased capital requirements, as a result of Basel III regulations, have been widely debated among bankers, regulators and other agents. In this thesis, we aim to evaluate if the increased capital requirements have had an effect on bank lending in Sweden. To analyze this, we gather quarterly data from the four largest Swedish banks and divide lending to the public into five categories. We us
Denna uppsats syftar till att analysera och diskutera kriskommunikationen och krishanteringen inom svenska myndigheter för tre olika fall; Estoniakatastrofen 1994, Tsunamikatastrofen 2004 samt Terrorattentatet på Drottninggatan 2017. En väl fungerande krishantering bygger på samverkan på olika nivåer. Såväl efter Estoniakatastrofen 1994, Tsunamikatastrofen i Sydostasien 2004 samt Terrorattentatet
An initial public offering, IPO, is the first offering of a company´s shares to the public. Multiple studies have shown that there are certain anomalies tied to IPOs as they often generate high returns on their first day of trading and underperform in the long-run. This paper investigates the occurrence of these anomalies on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange during 2010-2016. The results indicate that
In most European countries today, immigrants are doing worse than their native counterparts on the labour market, resulting in economically and socially undesirable outcomes. This thesis studies differences in labour market segregation for immigrants among European countries and explains how different institutional factors on the labour markets of Europe affect labour market segregation. More prec
Georgia has through the past 25 years been undergoing changes characterized by rapid transformations and is now a society in a large development. In this thesis, I apply a critical Marxist perspective to the case of women’s rights organizations in Georgia and what characterizes the relations they make with respectively the Georgian government and the Swedish donor organization Kvinna till Kvinna.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the recent trend of economic growth and corruption in Bangladesh. Observing the recent data and analyzing the relevant studies the thesis aims at finding the changing pattern of corruption and how it can be a challenge for attaining sustainable development. The thesis is qualitative in nature based on theoretical studies and few secondary data. The study fin
This paper examines the effect of Chinese OFDI on China’s bilateral trade with affected countries, to investigate the possible build-up of a Eurasian China-centric trade network. The main contribution of the paper is to have combined economics, war theory and geopolitics to analyse and produce a theoretical framework for it. Whereas there is a lack of consensus on the effect of FDI on trade in ge
Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur ett kommunikativt perspektiv, tillsammans med teorier om meningsskapande och meningsgivande, kan användas för att bilda en djupare förståelse för organisationslärande efter en kris. Organisationer försöker i allt större utsträckning kapitalisera på kriser genom att lära sig av dem, men forskning visar att de ofta misslyckas med detta. Genom intervjue
Several significant pathogenic bacteria exhibit surface proteins that bind human antibodies, preventing them from being recognized by the human immune system. These bacteria are thus protected from elimination and can survive in the host organism. One common such bacteria is the Streptococcus pyogenes that exhibits the antibody binding M protein on its surface. Streptococcus pyogenes causes more t
The effects on trade from negotiating and entering voluntary partnership agreement is estimated using forest product trade data from 2000 to 2014 on countries in the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licensing process. Gravity model framework is used and the result shows that beginning negotiations lead to an export drop by approximately 0.6 percent and is relatively stable the
