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The aim of this qualitative study was to explore older persons' (n = 28, 75-96 years of age) experience of becoming in need of public home help, their experience of participation and of having influence on the needs assessment procedure and the decisions made about public home help. A content analysis revealed a broad overarching category, labelled: experiencing discontinuity in life as a whole -

This is "an account of variable responses from Swedish municipalities in terms of both adaptation and mitigation measures. By looking at the relationships between national and municipal policies, Langlais examines the adaptation barriers and acknowledges the role of 'visionary individuals' in some municipalities for initiating local actions unders similar institutional and governance conditions. H

Problem Description Both academic researches and consulting firms claim that Internet of Things will come to change the society we live in, as well as create entirely new business opportunities for companies. However, there is little research that analyzes the actual benefits with Internet of Things, how companies should act in order to find these benefits, and in what way their business models m

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka de möjligheter och utmaningar som finns relaterade till innovativa tjänsteföretags strategiska arbete med digitalisering av tjänsteprocesser. Syftet diskuteras utifrån följande frågeställningar: På vilket sätt innebär innovativa tjänsteföretags digitala strategi att kunden involveras i tjänsteprocessen och bidrar till strategin? På vilket sätt bidrar de innovativa

Air pollution is a problem that has been linked to health risks and disease and contains aerosols with very small particles (PM2.5) which reach deep down in the lung tissues and cause problems leading to both cancer and other health issues. Different authorities and fire and rescue service departments in Sweden create large emissions when training their personnel in facilities for smoke producing

The bachelor’s thesis explores end-customers’ perceptions regarding the differences between AI-based and human customer service, and the interaction factors that influence their experi-ences. With a focus on customer satisfaction and perceived problem-solving, the study aims at providing recommendations for the development and design of AI chatbots to better meet customer expectations and satisfac

This study investigates how the TRAP-18 instrument can be used to identify and prioritize threats from lone actor terrorists by applying the framework on a case of a Swedish man convicted of weapons offenses and crimes against the law on flammable and explosive substances. This case is a contribution to the increasing number of studies using TRAP-18, due to the fact that the individual studied is

This study aims to forecast the Swedish FCR-D Down A2 market prices through a hybrid model combining a volatility model and a machine learning approach, and compares its performance with a standalone machine learning model. We further examine the impact of different lag orders (1-Hr vs. 24-Hr) on volatility estimates and forecast performance. Evaluation metrics include root of mean squared error (

The purpose of this study is to investigate the consequences of Netflix’s latest policy change on consumers’ perceptions of the brand promise and on their willingness to continue using the service. Furthermore, we aim to explore the negative emotions that arose in response to the policy change.

Frågeställningar: På vilket sätt påverkas personalens arbetsmotivation av personalkostnadsbesparingar? Vilken betydelse har arbetsmotivationen vid personalkostnadsbesparingar för det finansiella resultatet på kort och lång sikt?

Samhällets syn på pengars värde har kritiserats i debatten mitt under den ekonomiska kris vi hittills inte sett vidden av. En del företagsbelöningar, av ibland astronomisk karaktär, har satts under lupp och framtiden får visa utkomsten av denna girighetskritik. Detta har gett företag ännu en etisk fråga att förhålla sig till, förutom de ökande kraven på miljömässigt och socialt ansvarstagande, i v

MC, Machine Corporation, although historically successful is facing challenges as the industry in which they operate is matured. They thus need to find new ways of generating revenues. The service and parts market penetration rate decreases in the Danish market as the machine ages, but the need of service and parts increase why we argue that there is a market potential not being exploited as of to

Thesis purpose: This thesis will through a case study of a recently rebranded bank “Jyske Bank”, seek to research deeper within the field of service sector rebranding. The internal communication used in connection to the rebranding, will be analyzed in order to investigate what initiatives Jyske Bank’s organizational leaders launched to implement the rebranding and furthermore whether the initiati

South Africa is the worst impacted country in the world in terms of HIV and AIDS. The country faces HIV prevalence rates of a good 20 percent and AIDS is today the leading cause of death in the country. As the epidemic spreads through the country it poses severe threats to the country’s economic growth and development. South Africa is thus in utmost need of free and effective health care services.

The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the services on the mobile Internet and to identify when, where, and how these service offerings can be profitable. The thesis is a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with key stakeholders in the service value chain and with relevant experts. Case methodology have been used to gather and structure the empirical material from three c

MC, Machine Corporation, although historically successful is facing challenges as the industry in which they operate is matured. They thus need to find new ways of generating revenues. The service and parts market penetration rate decreases in the Danish market as the machine ages, but the need of service and parts increase why we argue that there is a market potential not being exploited as of to

Management control in professional service organizations is fundamentally different from the control in classical industrial and producing corporations. This is mainly due to the special context a professional service firm has to face, as the value creation is knowledge intensive, demands a high level of education, and the professional employees have different expectations concerning their work. H

Intermittently incubating birds alternate between sessions of egg warming and recesses for foraging during the day, but stay on the nest continuously at night. Hence, energy costs of nocturnal incubation (which increase during longer and colder nights) cannot be replenished until the next day. Night conditions might therefore be expected to affect morning incubation behaviour the day after. We tes