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Recent studies have shown the discriminatory and patriarchal nature of personal status laws in Lebanon (Geagea et al. 2015; Mikdashi 2018b). Stories abound of women losing custody of their children due to laws that favor paternal custody and of couples pursuing civil marriages abroad to avoid being subject to religious courts in Lebanon (Abillama 2018). Literature on the subject has focused on the
Abstract Digital sourcing platforms were invented in the last decade of the 20th century and brought tools such as electronic reverse auctions (eRA) into the hands of purchasing professionals. The Trelleborg Group initiated a project to implement such a digital sourcing platform last year but the research in the field is outdated. Focus was directed to the choice of sourcing approach, i.e. either
This study compares the performance of equal- and value-weighted portfolios using a broad investment universe consisting of the stocks from the Swedish stock market. While implementing random sampling in the portfolio construction procedure, three rebalancing schemes are applied on the equally weighted portfolio in order to observe differences in performance among these. In order to compare how mu
IPO underpricing is an international phenomenon that has been documented by numerous authors. However, the IPO market keeps evolving. Since the decline in IPO volume following the “dot-com bubble”, there have been periods with high IPO volume, as well as periods with low IPO volume. This paper uses a linear regression model and t-tests to investigate underpricing of European IPOs between 2001 and
Wet cupping, or traditional Finnish cupping has been practised in Finland for several centuries. It is a treatment where blood is removed from the body through a ritual-like procedure. The treatment starts with the cupper making small cuts on the skin with a lancet or cuppers axe. Cups are placed over the cuts, and through the vacuum that emerge under the cups blood is drained. Still in the middle
This thesis aims to explore the workflow related to designing an application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP). An ASIP is a processor similar to a hardware accelerator (HAC) in terms of performance and efficiency, but containing elements of general purpose processors (GPPs) when it comes to programmability and flexibility. The thesis centers around the design of an ASIP which will handle
I denna studie har vi studerat de interna patienttransportörernas arbetsflöde och det förändringsarbete som finns inom lean. Vi har även belyst medarbetarnas värdeskapande och välmående i vårds- och arbetsmiljön. Arbetet utgår ifrån fallstudien om Malmö Universitetssjukhus och bygger på att skapa en förståelse över deras verksamhetsstyrning i interaktion med logistiken för att vidare kunna impleme
The marginal pricing power and individual impact of proxies used in international asset pricing and financial integration studies is not well researched. In this study I look at the most widely used proxies; i.e. World Index Return, change in Eurodollar rate, change in spread between 10-year U.S. T-bond and 3-month U.S. T-bill, and change in spread between Baa and Aaa rated bonds; and ascertain wh
In archaeology, we face a unique situation where our primary research method is destructive; excavation as a recording method can only be conducted once. But with the introduction of modern 3D recording methods, much of the process of excavation can be saved and reused. But at the same time, we must overcome the difficulties of examining sites where the data recorded has been accumulated over vast
Sustainability communication is an emerging concept in communication practice and become organization matters in term of organizational communication and organizational legitimacy. This study is taking from a sustainability initiatives point of view on how the organization communicates their sustainability initiatives in order to gain legitimacy and stakeholder support, particularly through web-ba
The paradigm of of cloud computing have brought with it the challenge of vendor lock-in, preventing customers from choose from alternative vendors and induces substantial costs for switching provider. Since only a limited number of in-depth studies who investigate the complexity of cloud lock-in problem within enterprise organizations exist, this thesis tries to describe the measures taken by comp
Many premature deaths and health problems could be prevented by adhering to a healthy diet, however, many people lack the self-regulation needed for maintaining healthy behaviors. Goal-conflicting situations (i.e., when a person needs to decide between one of two conflicting goals) are an obstacle for self-regulation, while coping planning is found to be useful in these situations since it entails
Immune function is an important parameter in almost all organisms which determines their ability to survive and fight off pathogens. Immune function (like other physiological functions) is temperature dependent. So that opens the question of how immune function is in poikilotherms. Being poikilotherm means that the species depends on the ambient temperature for body heat regulation. I used crucian
Neuronopathic Gaucher’s Disease is an early-onset neurological disorder with progressive dysfunction and degeneration of neuronal cells, caused by dysfunctions in the endosomal-autophagic-lysosomal pathway. A lysosomal enzyme deficiency results in accumulation of substrate and subsequent impairment of the lysosomes. While the cause is known, the disease mechanisms driving the neurodegeneration are
Many evidence supports the notion that protein aggregation in the brain leads to neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by progressive degeneration of neuron structure and function in the brain. Protein aggregation causes a variety of diseases such Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Generation of extracellular amyloid-beta (Ab) plaques and aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn),
Text classification is one of the main tasks within the field of natural language processing, which has been growing significantly during the last decade with applications in different industries. Despite different approaches to text classification showing good results, such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, their shortcomings give substance to the need for further research on other approache
In today’s society fast fashion has taken over the consumers and prices on clothes are so low that the clothes have lost their value due to their disposability. People are consuming more than they need and also throwing away clothes that they no longer need but are still fully functional. In short, we need to change our consumer habits. This paper will be exploring the sharing economy focusing on
Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka vilka hinder och begränsningar livförsäkringsföretag möter vid implementeringen av maskininlärning i deras beslutsprocesser avseende livförsäkringar, inom allt från teknik till juridik. Uppsatsen nämner även potential och möjligheter som ges av den nya tekniken. Studien genomförs genom att först beskriva försäkringsmarknaden, för att sedan gå djupare på den
