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This study contributes a novel perspective on how new venture teams navigate task re-allocation during the new venture development phase. It highlights the relevance of task re-allocation conflict, shows how “negative affect expectations” shape the unfolding of such conflicts, and demonstrates why acting out conflict and its associated negative affect can enable team members to make substantial ta

Religious Experience Revisited explores a dilemma which has haunted the study of religion since William James. Is religion rooted in experiences? Is religion rooted in expressions? How are experiences and expressions related? The contributors to this international and interdisciplinary compilation explore the possibilities and the impossibilities of a hermeneutics of religion. Combining theology a

Risk and vulnerability analyses can play important roles in the society’s proactive emergency management. This thesis addresses two ways of improving the analysis of risk and vulnerability analysis in this context. First, by developing methods for risk and vulnerability analysis of technical infrastructure networks and emergency response systems. Secondly, by aiming to improve practises related to

This study examines how survival strategies of homeless people in St. Petersburg, Russia, have been affected by “roll back” and “roll out” patterns of neoliberalism. The chaotic transition to market economy after 1990 caused widespread poverty, but it also provided opportunities that allowed the most marginalized people to carve out niches to exist. Outdoor markets, railway stations, and other pla

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att evaluera patienters erfarenheter av att ha genomgått Dialektisk beteendeterapi (DBT) vid en specia-listmottagning inom vuxenpsykiatrin. Dialektisk beteendeterapi för borderline personlighetsstörning, utvecklad av Marsha Linehan är speciellt utformad för klinisk behandling av kroniskt suicidala patien-ter med borderline personlighetstörning. Forskning kring DiaThe purpose of this study was to evaluate patients´ experiences of being subjected to Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in a specialized out-patient psychiatry unit in a South Swedish town. DBT, developed by Marsha Linehan, is specifically designed for clinical treatment of chronically suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder. Re-search on dialectical behavior therapy, its design an

The basic concept of capital flight regarding how easy capital can move in cross- border transactions of Adam Smith is one of the groundwork of this thesis. It cannot be denied that both developed countries and developing countries are facing the same problems regarding capital flight. However, European Union (EU) countries have been moving several steps further concerning cross-border transaction

Food waste, a consequence of not keeping food fresh! This really became one of our main objectives to tackle during the project. Food waste that is produced today has a great impact on our world throughout the whole cycle of food production to the plate of the consumer. Design a new way of serving and presenting buffets in the Scandinavian hospitality sector, for minimizing food waste and increa

The aim of this study is two folded. We wish to investigate if there is a value premium from hedging jet fuel exposure for American and European airlines. We also seek to answer if airlines can affect their probability to default by using Risk Management. During the period 2003 – 2006 there existed a value premium for airlines that hedged their expected future consumption of jet fuel. This premium

Control allocation problems, in which optimal actuator values are assigned based on desired control actions and actuator constraints, are typically formulated as constrained optimization problems. Initially, only approximate solutions to the problems were deemed tractable for real-time applications. Recently however, active set algorithms have been identified as a means for solving control allocat

As a consequence of the information society, smart and specialized IT based system, such as Warehouse Management Systems, have been developed to harness the increasing flow of information. While they are designed to increase the efficiency in the warehouse, the implementation of them requires the warehouse implementing it to adjust to the new environment it creates. This adaption have proven hard

In the north-east part of Lund, Sweden, the MAX IV facility is (in the event of writing this thesis) under construction. MAX IV is a synchrotron radiation facility which has a high requirement regarding low vibrations. Within this thesis a nearby road-bridge for the highway E22 was studied using experimental and numerical methods. The aim was to determine the magnitude of the road-bridge influence

The purpose of this study is to compare different schemes of anti-windup. The methods are compared for different processes and different disturbances; step response in setpoint, and load and measurement noise. The controller parameters are determined by the MIGO method and the reset time constant. The tests have been done by simulation in Matlab Simulink and the report is divided for PI and PID co

Although the divergence over the last decades between Europe and USA has drawn much attention, the dispersion of rates of economic growth is even larger among the countries within Europe. There is reason to presume that the more successful among the European countries are those that have set more innovations into production. This paper exploits the correlation between innovation, as materialized i

The development of T-cell leukaemia following the otherwise successful treatment of three patients with X-linked severe combined immune deficiency (X-SCID) in gene-therapy trials using haematopoietic stem cells has led to a re-evaluation of this approach. Using a mouse model for gene therapy of X-SCID, we find that the corrective therapeutic gene IL2RG itself can act as a contributor to the genesi