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The first chapter develops a theoretical model of marriage and divorce. The model has two periods and assumes Pareto efficient time allocations. There is a risk of divorce in the second period, which is modeled as exogenously given. The second chapter utilizes the model developed in the previous chapter to analyze the equality between married men and women. Equality is defined as the spouses' rel
This paper conducts an analysis of peace agreements that constituted an end to civil conflict, with a specific focus on consociational conflict management in divides societies. Drawing on Arend Lijphart’s theory of consociationalism, and Anna Jastad’s two dimensions (inclusion and decentralization), this study employs a qualitative comparative text analysis of three peace agreements. These are the
The purpose of this thesis is to explore SMEs’ relations to stakeholders when implementing corporate social responsibility. Furthermore, it examines what role the size of the SMEs play in implementing CSR and in managing stakeholders. The thesis explores whether the competitive landscape of the market creates tension where SMEs’ decision makers feel pressured to choose between doing well financial
Sammanfattning Följande är en arbetsrättslig uppsats med fokus på turordningsreglerna i Lagen (1982) om anställningsskydd. Texten förklarar vilket syfte som fanns bakom 22 § i lagen och går in på hur det resonerades vid dess införande. Hur är lagen konstruerad, vad är dess rekvisit, har syftet förändrats över tid eller är det detsamma i dag som när den instiftades? För att svara på dessa funderingAbstract This is a labour law essay with a focus on the priority rules in the Swedish employment protection law (Lag (1982) om Anställningsskydd). The text explains the reasoning and purpose behind the 22 § in this law. How are the law constructed and what are its requisites, has the purpose changed over the years or is it the same today as when the law was introduced? To answer this the text deco
Examensarbetets titel: Text mining into customers’ minds Seminariedatum: 4 juni 2019 Ämne/kurs: FEKH29, Examensarbete kandidatnivå i marknadsföring, 15 högskolepoäng Författare: Viktor Alfredsson, Jakob Ferenius & Rebin Naderi Handledare: Burak Tunca Fem nyckelord: Varumärkesassociationer; varumärkesassociationsnätverk; text mining; kundrecensioner; maskininlärning Syfte: Att utvTitle: Text mining into customers’ minds Seminar date: 4 June 2019 Course: FEKH29 Business Administration: Bachelor Degree Project in Marketing Undergraduate Level, 15 credits Authors: Viktor Alfredsson, Jakob Ferenius & Rebin Naderi Advisor: Burak Tunca Keywords: Brand associations; brand association networks; text mining; customer reviews; machine learning Purpose: To develop
The figure-of-eight solution is unusual in being a stable solution of the planar three-body problem. To study its stability, we first implement a numerical integrator, the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method, and demonstrate that it is accurate enough to integrate the figure-of-eight for thousands of periods. To examine what effect initial perturbations have on it, we define two perturbation schemes, one
This paper looks into investigate what consequences an infrastructure project such as high speed railway could have on smaller cities and how those could gain from it without having a station in their own municipality. The study looks into the municipalities of Bollebygd and Ulricehamn in Västra Götaland, Sweden. These two smaller cities were disappointed when the government’s representatives for
Fashion magazines in Japan are targeting a younger audience, students and employed people in their 20s and 30s. The readers are interested in new ideas, the surrounding world and most of all its products. In these magazines it should be possible to find many loan words for new concepts or loan words used for giving an image of quality, taste and exoticism. This survey points out which loan words t
Previous research in the field of Environmental Federalism has not reached an agreement on whether fiscal decentralization leads to an increase in environmental pollution, i.e. a race to the bottom, or decrease in it, i.e. a a race to the top. Farzanegan and Mennel (2012) point out that this discrepancy may be due to institutions. Employing the OLS estimator, they find that fiscal decentralization
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of family composition and work-related characteristics on retirement and to identify to what extent these factors explain the differences in retirement rates between men and women. This study is conducted under a life-course perspective framework and uses a logistic regression and a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis as methodological ap
In what way can an artisanal perspective and artisanal knowledge contribute to current archaeology? How can theories about skill and expertise explain and affect research on artisanal issues? These are the questions that are in focus and have been explored in the four collected papers and in the concluding article in this thesis. The author proposes an artisanal perspective from an interdisciplina
Background: Liposuction for International Society of Lymphology (ISL) late stage II or III limb lymphedema is an established surgical option to remove excessive adipose tissue deposition and has been performed in Australia since 2012 at the Australian Lymphoedema Education, Research and Treatment (ALERT) Program, Macquarie University.Patients and methods: Between May 2012 and May 2017, 72 patients
What does it mean to live with fossil fuels? Studying farmers in the sugar beet districts on the plains of Southern Scandinavia, this thesis investigates the history and ethnography of a troubled relationship between subterranean energy and everyday life. How did it come about that farmers first came to depend on fossil fuels? What changes followed in their use of the land and their gendered divis
