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Review of the exhibition Chris Marker - A Grin Without a Cat at Lunds konsthall

Hybrid powertrains have become a very attractive technology over the last ten years due to their potential for lowering fuel consumption and emissions. A large portion of all manufacturers worldwide are now focusing on hybrid electric powertrains, which are the most common hybrid powertrains of today. However, in recent years a new technology has emerged, namely the pneumatic hybrid powertrain. Al

Background: The health care costs of kidney transplantation and dialysis are generally unknown. This study estimates the Swedish health care costs of kidney transplantation and dialysis over 10 years from a health care perspective.Method: A before–after design was used, in which the patients served as their own controls. Health care costs the year before transplantation were assumed to continue in

I det här projektet bestämde jag mig tidigt för att arbeta utanför en urban kontext. Jag kände mig mer lockad av att behandla något som innebar okänd mark för mig: att utforska arkitekturens roll i ett sammanhang som ligger utanför de stora systemen, utanför urbana strategier, förtätning, bostadsbrist och segregation. Jag ville fokusera på den enskilda människan och beröra dennes interaktion med nThe focal point of this project is the interaction between the human individual and nature. It all started with a wish to study the role of architecture outside of urban contexts and bigger systems of urban strategy, segregation and densification. In order to do so, I chose to work with a location in nature that has made a particularly strong impression on me: the southern esker of Kåseberga. This

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to elucidate the organisation Family First's campaign against the anti-smacking law in New Zeeland. This has been done through a qualitative content analysis of how Family First use arguments and rhetoric in their campaign, and what consequences Family First mean the anti-smacking law has had for the society, the parents and the children and how this con

The purpose of the study was to capture a number of views on what impact language has on integration processes and social life. Since language is an important component of communication amongst people, it affects several aspects of everyday life such as occupation and social participation. To accomplish the aim eight people of foreign origin with experience of studying the language education progr

Our main findings are that Swedish cross-border M&A’s on average perform positively around the announcement of cross-border M&A’s, which is contrary to previous studies. Furthermore, we also find cultural distance to positively impact the announcement effect of cross-border M&A’s, also contradictive to previous findings. However, we cannot ensure that cultural distance itself affects t

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to investigate how private equity backed IPOs perform once they go public. That is, to investigate whether or not these private equity firms have created highly competitive, high performance portfolio companies and to see if the portfolio companies are able to retain those qualities even after going public. These results are then to be compared with previous re

Purpose The purpose of the research is to analyse the consumer’s underlying motivations for behaviour and decision-making in an impulse buying context, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the drivers behind impulse buying. Method The study is conducted with an explorative approach. A combination of self-administered diaries and semi-structured interviews were chosen to collect the empirical