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The waste treatment facility, Sobacken, is located south of Borås, Sweden. At Sobacken there is a lake built to collect the leachate from the area. Leachate is a term for water that has the potential of carrying environmentally hazardous substances, in this case water that might have passed through waste. This thesis focused on the development of a hydrological model that from common climate vari
Background: The role of physical therapists are affected by several aspects including the therapeutic relationship, inter-professional relations, workloads, autonomy and their relations to everyday tasks. In particular, the latter of these is a topic of interest in regards to Japanese physical therapists since healthcare in Japan has shown tendencies toward the adoption of new technology. This, th
Familias en Acción, during more than a decade, has encouraged investments in human capital and children’s health in poor households in Colombia. The program has been able to benefit a wide range of population to such a great extent, that now the program has become a national public policy. While the positive effects on health and education have been widely studied, there are some other important i
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Problem discussion: There are still today many problems related to health in developing countries. When reasoning on how to deal with these problems, it is important to study the determinants of health in each country. Each country has got its own characteristics. The development process never ends, and each health care system needs to be adaptable for the ongoing changes, in order to meet local n
Offending images are representations that hurt people’s feelings deeply. My thesis deals with the way in which people read and interpret these offending images. It becomes important to understand what makes some viewers vulnerable to a certain image thereby provoking strong reactions against it. The aim is to put myself at the receiving end, in the place of those who are offended and look at the i
This essay investigates the extent to which the four emerging Central Eastern European stock markets of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine have become integrated with the developed market of the European Union over the sample period from 1997 to 2010. Rolling-window correlation and a more advanced, dynamic conditional correlation approach with GARCH and EGARCH specifications are utili
Purpose - This study is about the triadic relationship with a Triple Helix approach between the state, industry and university in Japan. The intention is to see if an increase in collaboration between the three actors generates an increase in patents, start-up companies and new organisations. I will use the Triple Helix model as a hypothesis and see if the increase in collaboration leads to an inc
Background: Along the rapid economic growth and social change in China a more liberal attitude towards pre-marital sex has emerged Aim: To examine how nurses in urban China view young unmarried women’s knowledge, information need as well as the nurses’ desires for quality improvement within sexual and reproductive health. Results: One overall theme appeared, “A shy search for information”. Main ca
Revolutions are historically recurring events, from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring. This thesis explores two plausible pre-revolution connections to post-revolution democracy levels, measuring democracy as a spectrum rather than a threshold. The first concerns the potential relation between pre-revolution democracy and post-revolution democracy. The second regards whether there is a patt
This thesis focusses on three distinct unevenness’s seen within the Covid-19 pandemic. Geographical unevenness shows in an uneven spread in and between countries. Societal unevenness is seen as Covid-19 deaths mainly occur in the elderly population, or people with underlying conditions. Finally, governmental policy unevenness is seen between countries as some have imposed strict health measures, a
Preliminary firm level evidence suggests that macroprudential policies reduce firm credit growth and MSME investment, and could therefore have a negative impact on economic growth. However, the question remains if macroprudential policies affect R\&D investments as well. Although R&D is primarily financed internally, the literature also suggests that debt financing may be used to some degr
The regularization of forcibly displaced migrants is promoted by NGOs and intergovernmental organizations as a good practice in migration policy. Regularization of forcibly displaced migrants increases their protection, facilitates their access to necessary services, increases their resiliency, and provides access to the formal labor market. Furthermore, providing forced migrants the right to work
We examine the effect of natural resource shocks on violence by drug cartels at the municipality level in rural Mexico from 2003 to 2017. For this, we use an Instrumental Variable setup by instrumenting our main explanatory variable vegetation density with rainfall. Vegetation density is an indicator for natural resource shocks and reflects the “greenness" in a particular area which is consid
This thesis explores the investment criteria applied by venture capitalists (VCs) for early-stage Deep Tech hardware startups in Europe, focusing on how these criteria and their characteristics vary across Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A funding rounds. Drawing from a dataset of 102 relevant investment rounds spanning from 2022 to 2024, the study employs quantitative methods to analyse funding dynami
This thesis examines the approach differences between different sized organizations towards the increasing usage and availability of AI services, focusing on organizational structures and processes for service based companies in the private sector. Conducting semi-structured interviews with five managers while factoring to different sized organizations regarding approaches to operations, employmen
Research question: How do social relationships and social interactions shape the behavior of young consumers on Social Media and Communication Apps? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to enhance the understanding of how the Social Customer Journey influences the purchasing behavior of young consumers on Social Media and Communication Apps. Furthermore, the study aims to explore the dynamics o
This thesis investigates the role of organizational culture, structure, and processes in the implementation of IT governance (ITG) within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the context of rapidly evolving technological landscapes and regulatory environments, effective ITG is crucial for enhancing organizational capabilities and performance. The research addresses the gap in understandin
