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I present a theoretical model for competitive interaction between schools and grade inflation. To test the model, I estimate the effect of competition on grade inflation in Swedish upper secondary schools using data from all schools in the years 2012-2015. To solve the endogeneity problem of competition, I use Instrumental Variable estimation with Fixed Effects. I use the sudden shutdown of 17 sch

The primary purpose of this Master’s thesis was to understand the consumer behaviour of elderly people, more specifically the silent generation in regards to adopting household robotics. The objective was to gain a deeper understanding on the attitudes, beliefs and intentions, as well as values and attributes that are affecting the consumer behaviour of elderly people to determine whether elderly

Today densification of existing urban fabric is the main strategy for how to sustainably meet the needs of a growing population. But what does this development mean for ecological values inside of the city? Historically, we have thought of cities and the human kind as apart from nature, as a defense from wilderness and natural forces. Today we can no longer think only of ourselves as vulnerable to

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are becoming increasingly influential in social, economic and political spheres and have also been recognised for their potential within health promotion, especially when targeting youth and adolescents. Despite the potential of these new technologies, there is a growing understanding of how prevailing inequalities between men and women and socio-c

The problem with adolescents who do not want to participate in investigation processes as witnesses, is a recurring problem for investigators with the police in Örebro. A problem that contributes to many disused investigations, despite the known existence of potential witnesses to the different crime events that involve youths. The purpose of this study is to analyze the causes that contribute to

Collaborative filtering is a method for making predictions about consumer interests by collecting preferences or information about opinions from other consumers. For this purpose statistical modeling techniques are applied to learn personalized models for each consumer based on every purchase or provided rating to the available items. Such a technique is probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (pLS

Pälsdjursuppfödning är en kontroversiell näring som helt eller delvis förbjudits i flera europeiska länder. Finland är en världsledande pälsproducent, men även dess legala status utmanades då medborgarinitiativet Turkistarhaton Suomi (≈ Finland utan pälsfarmer) syftade till att kriminalisera all pälsdjursuppfödning i Finland p.g.a. välfärdsproblem hos involverade pälsdjur. Lagförslaget förkastades

This research explored how entrepreneurs differ from non-entrepreneurs regarding creative,rational, and intuitive thinking. Individuals’ creativity was tested through the Kaufman Domain of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS). Individuals’ rationality and intuition was tested by the Revised Rational Experiential Inventory (REI). Analyzing from 68 entrepreneurs and 106 non-entrepreneurs from all over the worl

The purpose of this report is to map how HTA, Health Technology Assessment, is being used for MDD products for inpatient care in Sweden. Swedish Medtech, a professional association for medical technology companies, has a need to carry out a survey about the use of HTA in Sweden for their future work. They have a project which goal is to inform policy makers about the value of innovative medical pr

The thesis studies the main sustainability challenges of Emmaus Fredriksdal, which is one of the groups of Emmaus International in Sweden. The organisation has its origin in a solidarity movement, which started in Paris after World War II with the purpose to provide support to the homeless and needy. Emmaus Fredriksdal is a young non-profit organisation in change that is becoming particularly acti

Ända sedan Klein populariserade termen Anti-branding har dess tekniker använts för att vända organisationers egna varumärken mot dem, och på så sätt sprida kritiska budskap. Med utvecklingen av sociala media utmanas många av förutsättningarna för att driva varumärkeskommunikation. Hur organisationer kommunikativt kan hantera att bli utsatta för Anti-branding och mer specifikt hur introduktionen avEver since Klein popularised the term Anti-branding, organisations has been using it’s techniques to turn companies’ own brands against them and to communicate messages of critique. With the development of social media, many old trueisms regarding brand communication has had to been reevaluated. How organizations communicatively can handle being exposed to Anti-branding and more specifically how t

För att kunna bevara och tillgängliggöra det europeiska kulturarvet krävs det att institutioner som är tillgängliga för allmänheten runt om i Europa massdigitaliserar sina samlingar och arkiv. För att kunna underlätta detta antogs Europaparlamentets och rådets direktiv 2012/28/EU av den 25 oktober 2012 om viss tillåten användning av anonyma verk ska underlätta i fråga om tillgängliggörande av herrIn order to preserve and make the European cultural heritage accesable to the public, requires that institutions, that are available to the public in Europé go trough a mass digitize of their collections and archives. In order to facilitate this process the European Parliament and Council Directive 2012/28 / EU of 25 October 2012 on certain permitted uses of orphan works where adopted this was sup

Den här uppsatsen bygger på översättningen av utvalda texter med den gemensamma rubriken Asuntos lingüisticos (Språkliga företeelser) ur Juan José Millás bok Articuentos (Artikelberättelser)(2000)

En välskött golfbana kräver ofta ett intensivt skötselarbete för att tilltala spelarna estetiskt och spelmässigt. Kemiska bekämpningsmedel används både mot svampangrepp och ogräs, men med hjälp av förebyggande metoder kan man minska denna användning. Även tillsynsmyndigheten kan se till att användningen minskas genom att ställa hårdare krav på verksamheterna. För att få golfbanorna att bli så gröTo keep a high standard of the golf courses intensive maintenance work might be required. To avoid weeds, fungi and diseases on the courses almost half of all golf clubs in Sweden use chemical pesticides. Because of the toxic nature of the the substances it may cause negative impacts on the environment which makes it important to reduce or stop entirely with the use of chemical pesticides. This st

Sammanfattning/Abstract En undersökning om varför elever som studerar på nätbaserad gymnasieutbildning avbryter studierna i förtid. Undersökningen innehåller två delar, en enkät som skickats ut till elever som avbrutit studierna på Korrespondensgymnasiet mellan åren 2013-2015 samt en intervju som genomfördes med elever som besvarat enkäten och tackat ja till att delta i en intervju. Elevernas bakg

Denna uppsats är baserad på en översättning av två medicinska texter om anestesi respektive antibiotika som publicerades 2014 och 2015 på den brittiska webbsidan NHS Choices. I uppsatsen analyseras först källtexten enligt Hellspongs och Ledins analysmodell (1997), med fokus på hur stor roll klarspråksarbetet har för texten. I övervägningar för översättningen görs det klart att texten har översatts

Coronary heart diseases is one of the biggest health problems in the world today. By segmenting the coronary arteries in medical images and examining them, important information about abnormal narrowing and plaque, which are main causes to these diseases, can be found. Manual segmentation of the coronary arteries are time consuming and dependent on the observer, which makes the need of automatic s

Precis som en viss färg kan beskrivas som en specifik blandning av grundfärgerna, så kan också en elektron också beskrivas som en slags blandning. Den här blandningen kan påverkas av ljus så att "mängden" av de olika komponenterna förändras. Det här är intressant att undersöka, för om vi vet vilka förutsättningar som gör att elektronen hamnar i en viss blandning, så kan man återskapa de This project aims to study the process of electron excitation by a light pulse, a process at the core of many important contemporary and possible future devices. Data from an experiment where the electron dynamics is probed with attosecond laser pulses are analyzed in order to gain insight on the rapid population oscillations within the excited atomic system and simulations are constructed with th

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuropsychiatric condition containing a large spectrum of developmental disorders. The diagnosed condition is increasing among people today. With this in mind, there is also a growing need for competence and experience with services and organizations providing care for this target group. The aim of this study was therefore to examine what competence and experien