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The competitive corporate environment of today, as marked by continuous changes and enhanced global competition, forces companies to constantly adapt their current business activities and increasingly excel. Innovation is considered a critical imperative in order to respond to these increased competitive threats. Hence, innovation ought to permeate corporate environments and their inherent busines
This thesis assess three different conditional variance models from the GARCH family - GARCH(1,1), EGARCH(1,1) and GJR-GARCH(1,1) - and their accuracy in making one-day forecasts together with Value at Risk. The study is made on the daily returns of the OMX Stockholm 30 index between 2002-01-01 and 2010- 12-31. A five year in-sample set was used to estimate the model parameters and to make one-day
Galectin är ett protein som har visats vara involverad i biologiska processer som intracellulär transport, cellsignalering, celldöd och celladhesion. Dessa processer kan i sin tur vara relaterade till inflammation, cancer och immunitet. I galectin finns det kolhydrat igenkännande domäner där β-galaktosid kan binda in. β-Galaktosid är en glykosid som innehåller galaktos. Glykosider är ämnen med tvåGalectins play an important role in inflammation, immunity, cancer progression and are potential targets for novel anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory compounds. Coumarin thiodigalacoside hydrid had proved to be potent, nanomolar, and selective inhibitor of galectin-3. Three novel coumarin thiodigalactoside derivatives have been synthesized by copper-catalyzed multicomponent reaction. Two compounds
Abstract The breeding season of the natterjack toad (Bufo calamita Laurenti 1768), a „prolonged breeder“, lasts up to three months in southern Sweden. However, not all reproducing individuals are present at the breeding sites during the full time span. Thus, some populations can be sub-divided into temporally isolated subpopulations using earlier or later periods of the season for reproduction. T
A big challenge in the Wind Power industry is the breakdown of gearboxes. To increase the knowledge about Wind Power and gearbox breakdowns Vattenfall has done measurements on both the mechanical and electrical system of a wind power turbine e.g. during full load and partial load. In this Master Thesis focus is on voltage and current measurements on the generator conductors and the measurements of
A rising problem within electronics today is that, since the frequencies have increased dramatically, it is now very difficult to measure signals. If a traditional probe is used, then the direct contact will destroy the signal. The general idea behind this master thesis project is to make use of the crosstalk between transmission lines to create non contact test points. This thesis aims to evaluat
The objective of this master thesis is to review the present and future condition of generator step up power transformers at the combined heat and power plant Öresundsverket, in Malmö. The objective of this work was to prolong the lifetime of power transformers at Öresundsverket. The thermal properties of power transformer are been taking into consideration for their life time assessment. The most
In this thesis, I have attempted to understand how young people are using social media tools to increase capabilities. The primary fieldwork was carried out in Harare, Zimbabwe. A qualitative study was completed, employing Sen's (1999) Capability Approach, adapted by various authors to account for the role of information and communication technologies. After presenting empirical analysis, the
Title: Change – A way forward: An interpretative and qualitative study examining an organizational change initiative. Seminar date: May 28th 2013 Course: BUSN49 - Degree Project in Managing People, Knowledge and Change - Master Level Authors: Lena Ytterberg, Susanna Hallner Advisors: Stefan Sveningsson Department of Business Administration Lund University School of Economics and Management,
This thesis deals with norms and the perception of possibilities. I discuss how norms, individuals and society are interlinked and interdependent. From this basic connection, based on the case of Can Decreix, a centre for practical and theoretical experiments on the topic of degrowth, I explore how a different normality can be established. The way that norms both enable and restrict is discussed a
Collaborative consumption is a recently emerged consumption pattern based on the practice of sharing, swapping, lending, bartering and other similar modes of exchange, practiced instead of the conventional way of buying products and services. The unique character of this consumption practice suggests a shift in the idea of private ownership, where accessing products becomes more important than own
The current paper addresses the Chinese-initiated Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Africa through a case study of the Ethiopian Eastern Industrial Zone (EIZ). The paper investigates the development potential of this innovative cooperation strategy for Africa based on the theoretical foundation of an unbalanced growth-strategy, offering a new perspective of understanding the role of SEZs as a devel
“Tube food” is a fascinating facet of Swedish food culture. From an international perspective, it is interesting how a packaging type that is not very common in other parts of the world can encompass a wide range of food products in Sweden. Since tube food consumption in Sweden is not a well-defined phenomenon, an exploratory research was done to address the concern that this knowledge gap exists.
Abstract Objectives: Serum from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is often characterized by their ability to promote phagocytosis of necrotic cell (NC) by polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs). The aim of this project was to study phagocytosis of NC by PMNs in presence of serum from SLE patients, and associate the ability of phagocytosis with circulating nucleosomes and autoantibodi
This thesis analyses the social construction and discursive development of the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) and aims at an improved understanding of the interaction between political language use and social change in EU-China relations. To this end, the thesis undertook a critical discourse analysis, based on Fairclough’s dialectical-relational approach, and analysed how EU-C
The purpose with this study is to explore how consumers explain the attitude-behaviour gap in the field of environmental consumerism. For this qualitative research, constructionism as an ontological approach was chosen to reach the purpose. Further, phenomenological philosophy has been the interpretative approach and in order to reach rich and nuanced empirical material focus groups were chosen as
Until recently, the areas of patent law and human rights law were treated separately. The tensions between pharmaceutical patents and the human right to health could be felt already in the 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS pandemic broke out and the pharmaceutical company that discovered a drug which could be used to treat this disease decided to patent it and set the price so high, that it was impossible
