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This essay investigates inflation and inflation uncertainty in Sweden from 1970:Q1 to 2014:Q4. GARCH models are used to generate a measure of inflation uncertainty estimated under the distributional assumption of Student's t-distribution and GED. The preferable model found for Swedish inflation was a EGARCH(1,1) estimated with Student's t-distribution. The coefficient of the asymmetry in t

In the Dominican Republic, residing Haitians and their descendants, emigrated from the neighboring country Haiti, occupy the lowest societal strata. A societal position ascribed to the long and fraught history between the two countries. Their presence has for decades caused great aversion and has officially been labeled anti-Haitianism. Described as a viable political tool for conservatives and na

Title: “Language is access to everything” - A qualitative study of SFI-teachers' experience of the transition to digitalized distance education. Authors: Rania Elwan and Fitore Mehmeti Supervisor: Karin Kullberg Assessor: Maria Bergendal Arvidsson The purpose of the study is to investigate from teachers for Swedish for immigrants (SFI) perspective how the transition to digitalized distance ed

This thesis investigates the role of the Human Resource (HR) departments in the success or failure of the Merger or Acquisition (M&A) process. Through M&As, companies aim to gain strategic advantages by obtaining another company’s core competences, buying their biggest competitor or building a stronger organization by merging with another. In contrast of the high quantity of M&As condu

År 2014 presenterade åtta forskare ett nytt maskininlärningsramverk för artificiell intelligens där två neuronnätverk samverkar för framställning av manipulerat verklighetstroget material. Teknologin har bidragit i värdefulla forskningsframsteg, men kan också användas för framställning av manipulerat intimt material. I samband med teknisk innovation uppstår därmed nya tillvägagångssätt för användaIn 2014, eight researchers presented a new framework for artificial intelligence in which two neural networks collaborate to produce manipulated, realistic material. While this technology has contributed to valuable research advancements, it can also be used for the production of manipulated intimate material. With use of this technological innovation, new methods for users to create realistic por

Arbetet ämnar ge ett teoretiskt perspektiv på utformningen av det svenska lagspråket. Genom en retorisk argumentationsanalys, grundad i Chaïm Perelmans teori om föreställda publiker och Lloyd Bitzers teori om den retoriska situationen, utreds konsumentlagstiftningen i sin egenskap som meningsbärare mellan en retorisk avsändare och en retorisk mottagare. Den gamla och den nya konsumentköplagen jämfThe thesis aims to provide a theoretical perspective on the language used in the Swedish law. Through a rhetorical argumentation analysis, grounded in Chaïm Perelman’s theory of perceived audiences and Lloyd Bitzer’s theory of the rhetorical situation, the consumer sales act is investigated in its capacity as a carrier of meaning between a speaker and an audience. The old and the new consumer sale

The goal for this master thesis was to investigate the possibility of using an existing web server and modify it so it can be used in ABB controllers. The work has resulted in two different versions of a web server. The basic functionality is the same for both versions. The web servers are able to present a number of controller-related information. For example: hardware, which control programs tha

The master thesis intends to investigate the advantages and disadvantages with the simulation language SIMSCRIPT. The programming language was learned from manual and books about SIMSCRIPT (see references). Two models were made ato describe two different systems, one fictive and the other already existing. The first model simulates the work at an assembly line. The model illustrates the use of the

Archaeology has always centred on material studies and has a long tradition of establishing methods for addressing the vast source material at hand. Typology is one of the most prominent of these methods, where the material is categorised into types according to morphology and geometry. There is an ongoing debate regarding the subjectivity of the typological approach and the problems that follow t

In modeling unsteady compressible viscous flow problems with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, time adaptive implicit methods are needed to solve the initial value problems that arise when discretizing the equations in accordance with the method of lines. The methods most used in industrial code today are a family of multistep methods called BDF-methods. Because BDF-methods with higher ord

Landskapsformen drumlin har länge diskuterats inom akademin och den här studen syftar till att sprida lite ljus över dom. Genom att kartlägga två drumlinområden runt sjön Åsnen i Småland, södra Sverige har deras utsträckning kartlagts med en precision som länge ansetts omöjligt. Detta gjordes genom att använda hög upplösta hillshade modeller framtagna från LiDAR data för att efter att ha analyseraThe landform group called drumlins has since long been enigmatic; this study aims to shed some light on them. By mapping their extent in two areas around Lake Åsnen, Småland, southern Sweden, their extent and prop-erties have been mapped with a level of detail that would have been next to impossible just a few years ago. The method used in this study utilized LiDAR derived high resolution hillshad

Våren 2015 spenderade jag som praktikant på kulturfövaltningen i Malmö stad. Under min tid där skrev jag en rapport som handlade om hur organisationer som beviljats verksamhetsstöd inför 2015 arbetade med jämställdhet. Anledningen till att jag skrev rapporten var att kulturstödsenheten året innan hade instiftat nya mål kring att organisationerna nu var tvungna att beskriva hur de jobbade med jämstDuring the spring of 2015 I had an internship at the department of culture in Malmo. My main task assignment was to write a report on how the organizations that had been given financial support from the department were working with equality issues. My bachelor thesis is a continuing on that report were I further explore how the organizations describe how they work with equality within their own or

Vertical axis wind turbines have vertical rotation axles, unlike traditional wind turbines, which rotate around horizontal axles. Vertical wind turbines convert energy from turbulent winds, pick up wind energy from all directions and are easy to serve. The noise from a vertical axis wind turbine is only one-tenth as strong as horizontal-axle wind turbines, which make it possible to place the verti

The latest years have seen the worldwide interest around wind power increasing significantly. Italy as well has joined this global movement. But does the Italian wind power industry have the capabilities for a substantial and sustainable future growth? This paper analyzes the Italian wind power sector using a slightly modified Porter’s diamond model in a comparative analysis with the Spanish one,

The theory of the hedonic wage model and compensating wage differentials dates back to the times of Adam Smith, and this study attempts to investigate, using econometric analysis, whether the Swedish labor market can give any claim to these theories. A brief background to the health economics discipline is followed by relevant theory and research in the field of compensating wage differentials. Us

China has the world’s largest telecommunication market and the competition in this market is becoming fiercer among corporations. To survive and increase market shares, competitive advantages are the key factors each corporation strives for. As one of the representative companies in the industry, China Mobile established in 2000, with its competitive advantages, has expanded rapidly and led to hug

The EU has a legacy of being both a trading power and a normative power. During the course of its existence the EU has acquired a history of collaborating with developing countries, this cooperation is to be guided by the promotion of normative principles, such as: human rights, democracy and good governance to mention a few. One way found to promote these norms is through exports and imports. The