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The economic growth in Ireland, during the 1990s, lead to changing migration patterns. Ireland became a destination country for immigrants instead of an emigration country. Before 2004 people who were born on the island of Ireland had a constitutional right to Irish citizenship. This right was removed after a referendum in 2004. National identity is a sense of community constructed through common

Purpose: The study aims to investigate the knowledge sharing processes in a knowledge-intensive firm and to explore how organizational culture influences knowledge sharing. Methodology: The present study is qualitative, and the material is approached through interpretative reading. The richness of the results is further enhanced by critically analyzing the informants’ taken for granted understandi

Utifrån att många implementeringar av IT-stöd upplevs som bristfälliga, och får till följd lågt användande, ville vi undersöka vilka faktorer som kan påverka acceptans och användning av ett system. I denna studie har en undersökning gjorts av faktorer som påverkar systemacceptans med utgångspunkt i individens erfarenhet och inställning till teknik, systemets nytta och användarvänlighet samt organi

Dagens TV-bransch är en dynamisk och växande industri som omsätter stora pengar. Konkurrensen mellan kanalerna ökar och det gäller att sända de bästa och mest populära programmen för att locka så många tittare som möjligt. Många av dagens populära program, ''Vem vill bli miljonär?'', ''Big Brother'' och ''Let´s dance'', är så kallade TV-format som är

This thesis examines the relationship between organizational buyer behavior and brand sensitivity and factors that affect them when making purchase decisions in hotels and restaurants.

The purpose of this study is to identify if a relationship exists between excess cash and stock returns analysed across periods of boom and bust. Our findings document an overall positive relationship between excess cash holdings and stock returns. In regards to the specific period this paper documents a negative relationship in boom times and a positive relationship in times of downturn. From the

The purpose of our thesis is to, based on theory, investigate if venture capital investment generates value by increasing the credibility of Swedish start-up firms. If so, we continue by studying which factors influence the credibility value added in Sweden. The methodology is based on the concept of non-financial value added (NFVA) and we use primary data collected through a survey. We conclude t

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the video and campaign KONY 2012. KONY 2012 became world news in March 2012. The film is produced by the non-profit organization Invisible Children with the purpose to stop the leader of the Ugandan army LRA, Joseph Kony. The aim is to get a deeper understanding of how non-profit organizations working with human rights are marketing by humanitarian branding

HIV är ett stort och dödligt problem speciellt i Afrika söder om Sahara. HIV positiva kvinnor kan under graviditet, förlossning och genom amning föra smittan vidare till sina barn. Studiens syfte var att belysa olika omvårdnadsproblem avseende HIV smitta och uppfödning via amning och bröstmjölksersättning till spädbarn i Afrika. Studien gjordes som en litteraturstudie bestående av 10 vetenskapliga

En av de mest revolutionerade tekniska innovationerna under de senaste decennierna har varit Blockkedjeteknologin. Sedan Bitcoins intåg i vardagslivet har blockkedjan blivit ett hushållsord, men trots det har juridiken ännu inte enats om hur denna teknologi bör integreras i samhället. En del ser teknologin som en metod för ytterligare säkerhet i det offentliga rummet, medan andra förutspår att tekOne of the most revolutionary technological innovations in the last few decades has been the block chain technology. Since the herald of Bitcoin into daily life, the block chain has become a household name, but despite that, the law has been lagging behind, providing no unified answer on how to integrate this technology into society. Some view the technology as a means of more secure public certif

The World Health Organization suggests mental ill health in terms of depres- sion soon to be the highest-ranking disease problem in the Western part of the world. However, some critics argue that the alarming reports on mental ill health have their ground in the methods of inquiry themselves and refer to medicalization as an important issue. The aim of this article is to explore and illuminate the

The work presented in the thesis concerns the developments of laser-based diagnostics and its application to the study of turbulent premixed combustion. The diagnostic developments, mainly concerned with planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF), are intended to provide instantaneous visualization of the key species originating from the combustion processes involved in the burning of hydrocarbons

Konceptet att sågtandande polyper kan leda till kolorektal cancer är relativt nytt. Sågtandade polyper orsakar upp till en tredjedel av all sporadisk kolorektal cancer. Trots detta är kunskaperna om sågtandade polypers etiologi, incidens, prevalens och naturalförlopp ofullständiga. Sågtandade polyper är svåra att identifiera och ta bort endoskopiskt. Endoskopister och patologer måste ha kunska

Understreckare om den yazidiska tragedin