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I februari 2006 antogs en ny "superkonvention” vid den internationella arbetskonferensen för sjöfart som ett svar på utvecklingen inom sjöfarten under de senaste 25 åren. Initiativet till sjöarbetskonventionen (the MLC) kom från arbetsmarknadens parter i ILO och syftet var att anpassa de arbetsrättsliga reglerna till den moderna sjöfarten och att ersätta så många som möjligt av ILO:s konventiIn February 2006 a new “super convention” was adopted at the Maritime Session of the International Labour Conference as a response to the developments in the maritime industry over the past 25 years. The initiative to the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) came from the social partners of the ILO and the purpose was to adapt the maritime labour standards to the modern maritime industry and to replac

Introduction: Social CRM is a relatively new concept that is considered an extension of traditional CRM – performed through social medias. The concept has little prior research and the aim of this paper is to investigate how Social CRM influences the company´s Brand Equity and customer relationships. Research questions: R1. How can Social CRM on Facebook influence Brand Equity? R2. How can Socia

Objectives: Select articles and define their optimal quantity for a multi package. Examine where and in what ways a multi package will affect a company’s warehousing. Method: A quantitative methods builds the foundation for the thesis. Interviews made on TPP constitute the empirical foundation. A descriptive approach has been made on the data received from TPP. We have developed our own method in

Studien syftar till att besvara frågan huruvida en signifikant likviditetspremie kan påvisas på Stockholmsbörsens small-, mid- och large-cap-listor för varje enskilt år under tidsperioden 2005 till och med 2015. Med utgångspunkt i resultaten ämnar studien bidra med en bedömning av huruvida investerare kompenseras för illikviditet på Stockholmsbörsen. Urvalet till studiens empiri består av data hämThe purpose of the study is to determine if a statistically significant liquidity premium can be found on the size-based listings large-, mid-, and small-cap of Stockholm Stock Exchange, for every individual year spanning from 2005 to 2015. Moreover, the study aims to provide a general perception of whether investors are compensated for carrying the risk of illiquidity. To fulfill the purpose of t

Violence in the name of honour is a quite new phenomenon in Sweden. The violence can be shown as threat, abuse, and harassment. Women happen to be the main victim in many of the cases of violence in the name of honour. My ground thesis in this paper is just about the question about gender and that women are more exposure to the violence in the name of honour than men. The purpose of this theoretic

In an economic environment signified by shortened product lifecycles, product proliferation and reduced profit margins, product replacement decision making (PRDM) ought to be an important part of management. The case is however often that considerably more energy and resources at a firm are spent at the opposite task, hence product development. The main purpose of this master thesis was to constru

To 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

Utilities, such as steam and cooling water, are often shared between several production areas at industrial sites, and the effects of disturbances in utilities could thus be hard to predict. In addition, production areas could be connected because of the product flow at the site. This paper introduces a simple modeling approach for modeling the relation between utility operation and production. Us

Plastic waste that ends up in the oceans as marine litter is a tangible and urgent environmental pressure reaching even the most remote parts of the global oceans. It impacts marine life from plankton to whales and turtles to albatrosses. Public awareness on how the modern lifestyle and the use of plastics in all sectors of society has influenced the marine ecosystems in the lastdecades is growing

Characteristic modes (CMs) of a spherical shell are found analytically as spherical harmonics normalized to radiate unitary power and to fulfill specific boundary conditions. The presented closed-form formulas lead to a proposal of precise synthetic benchmarks that can be utilized to validate the method-of-moments matrix or performance of CM decomposition. Dependence on the mesh size, electrical s

We conduct a contest experiment where participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an uncertain performance variable. Subjects are treated with different prize schemes and in accordance with theory we observe substantial investments in spread. We find that both types of investments can be controlled with a three level prize scheme. However, the control is imperfect and beh

Genetic fine mapping can be performed by exploiting the notion that haplotypes that are structurally similar in the neighbourhood of a disease predisposing locus are more likely to harbour the same susceptibility allele. Within the framework of Generalized Linear Mixed Models this can be formalized using spatial smoothing models, i.e. inducing a covariance structure for the haplotype risk paramete

HAMLET (human alpha-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) is a tumoricidal complex consisting of partially unfolded protein and fatty acid, and was first identified in casein fractions of human breast milk. The complex can be produced from its pure components through a modified chromatographic procedure where pre-applied oleic acid binds with partially-unfolded alpha-lactalbumin on the stationar

We prove that there are 3-CNF formulas over n variables that can be refuted in resolution in width w but require resolution proofs of size nω(w). This shows that the simple counting argument that any formula refutable in width w must have a proof in size nO(ω) is essentially tight. Moreover, our lower bounds can be generalized to polynomial calculus resolution (PCR) and Sherali-Adams, implying tha

Achieving consumer loyalty will remain a prime objective of every business in the current volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment (VUCA), which demands some out-of-thebox thinking on the part of policymakers to sustain the competitive advantage. Sustainability has been emerging as a “new normal” for all industries of the present era, which forces all sectors to incorporate it into t

In this clinical case, the importance of early detection of Hurler syndrome for outcomes of stem cell transplantation in this patient population is illustrated. Nowadays, children with Hurler syndrome can be treated with stem cell transplantation, but the results largely depend on the moment of treatment. If the procedure is initiated in an early stage of disease, better results can be obtained. T

The paper presents how Grafchart can be used to implement batch recipe structures. Grafchart, a toolbox based on Grafcet/SFC, object-oriented programming constructs and ideas from high-level Petri nets, is presented in the paper. Grafchart exists in two versions, one basic version and one high-level version. By using the different features of Grafchart in various ways, recipes can be given differe

Background: As the prevalence of dog allergy rises, component resolved diagnosis might improve the diagnosis, understanding of the clinical outcomes and the effectiveness of immunotherapy. Considering the paucity of data in adults, the current study characterized the patterns of sensitization to dog molecular allergens in an adult population. Methods: Data were derived from the West Sweden Asthma