The thesis aims to explore what influences the Danish consumers when choosing food distribution channels in 2020 and further to test if current theories of consumers’ channel choice can be applied in the year of 2020. The thesis takes on a qualitative approach with mathematical principles and employs the Delphi Method as the primary method to collect data. To conduct the empirical analysis a desk

There is an economic interest in the development of reliable climate models that can give us a good estimation of the present and future climate. Farmers, electricity- and insurance- companies are some of the clients that need long term (monthly) weather information from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). This work focuses on the evaluation of the Rossby Centre Regional

Abstrakt Författare: Eva Fazlagić eva.fazlagic.484@student.lu.se Titel: Återvandring, en studie om drivkrafter och problematik Kandidatuppsats: SOCK01, 15 hp Internet Handledare: Birgitta Ericson, Sociologiska institutionen, Vårterminen 2012 Migration är antagligen mer problematiskt än vad man kan föreställa sig. Migration kan medföra problem för flera generationer. Det kan också vara något p

The law that banned doping substances in Sweden was founded in 1991 and was strengthened in 1999 and 2011. The use of anabolic androgen steroids (AAS) however, is still increasing. Research about AAS is limited and the approximation of the number of AAS users is uncertain. On the gyms there are warnings about punishments risked if one is caught using AAS. But those warnings are without any informa

The thesis discusses the European Commission's application of the full-function criteria to joint ventures based on the method of their establishment. While the Commission's practice is clear when a new joint venture is established, it has been very inconsistent regarding operations when joint control is acquired over pre-existing undertakings, thus transforming them into joint ventures. T

Klassificerning av biologiska och icke-biologiska partiklar är av avgörande betydelse inom många forskningsområden och inom industrin, inbegripet biologi, medicin och så kalladtissue engineering. Gemensamma parametrar i inmärknings-fri separationutgörs vanligen av storleken, formen och de mekaniska egenskaperna hos partiklarna. Anordningar baserade på deterministisk sidoförskjutning (DLD) har upp

This essay argues that acedia is a helpful concept in illuminating the fiction of the American author David Foster Wallace, particularly his unfinished novel The Pale King. Following a brief biographical sketch of Wallace, the essay explores the development of the term acedia—which means something along the lines of apathy, sloth, and listlessness—and the two types of acedia: personal acedia and t

The upcoming ESA space astrometry mission Gaia, planned to be launched in early 2012, has been designed to scan the whole sky (flux limited, corresponding to magnitude 20 in the Gaia passband) during a five-year observational phase. It will measure the astrometric parameters (positions, parallaxes and proper motions) of more than one billion stars, complemented by multi-epoch spectrometric and rad

Arbetslösheten är hög i Europa idag och bidrar till ett utanförskap för många människor som har sämre förutsättningar att nå den ordinarie arbetsmarkanden. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka på vilka sätt arbetsintegrerande sociala företag kan motverka detta utanförskap och vilka faktorer som kan främja organisationsformens utveckling. Det sociala företaget Yalla Trappan i Malmö har studera

Purpose: This research explores how status is manifested within the foodie culture. More specifically, we explored how foodies claim status and express inconspicuous meanings through their food consumption practices. Methodology: A hermeneutical epistemology approach was pursued, with the use of Interpretivism to generate insights into the foodie lived experience. A constructionist ontological pe

Importance of the business and human rights field for solving the conflict between pharmaceutical patents and the provision of access to medicines. The author suggests an original approach named Regionally Restricted Licenses as a way to solve the conflict and provide access to essential medicines in a systematic and sustainable manner.

I dagens individualiserade samhälle är frågan om individens självbestämmande, samt inskränkningar av denna, högst aktuella. De flesta fall av självbestämmande passerar obemärkt förbi i vårt vardagsliv, men var går egentligen gränsen för vad vi som individer kan välja att bli utsatt för utan inträdandet av straffansvar? I denna uppsats avhandlas till vilken grad den svenska straffrätten godkänner aIn todays individualized society questions concerning individual autonomy, and its limitations, is ever so current. Most cases of individual autonomy passes unnoticed in our everyday lives, but where is really the limit of what we as individuals can choose to be exposed to without the onset of criminal liability? This paper deals with to which degree Swedish criminal law agree that individuals can

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur de japanska personsuffixen, sama, san, kun, chan samt utelämnandet av personsuffix, passar in i F. Brauns (1988, 2010) lingvistiska teorier och R. Browns (1965) universella teori över tilltalsord. Uppsatsen inleds med en överblick över Brauns och Browns forskning som visar att analys av tilltalsord är ett mycket komplext och mångfasetterat ämne, dä

In the ongoing work to harmonize legislation throughout the European Union the focus is now set on protecting the weaker party in a contractual agreement. With the increased cross-border trade the consumer’s rights are put to risk due to different national rules throughout the Member States. Consumers that are not familiar with the legislations in other Member States will choose to shop locally so

China is one of the leading providers of seafarers in the world. Following it, cases involving violation of seafarer wages occur occasionally. As for the measurement in settling the disputes, a seafarer can choose from the following: reconciliation, mediation, labor arbitration, law suits, and etc. If a law suit is chosen by a seafarer, he has to know how to protect his rights and interests then.

A brief summary of the Standard Model of particle physics is presented with some of its problems listed. After this some necessary concepts and mathematics are introduced. Then the simplest Grand Unified Theory, the minimal SU(5) will be presented in some depth, with its predictions stated, the reasons it fails to describe reality given and an extension of the Higgs sector making it viable is pres

De studier om röstkvalitet hos träningsinstruktörer som hittills genomförts har alla innefattat subjektiva skattningar. Tidigare har inga objektiva mätningar utförts på träningsinstruktörer under pågående träning. Syftet med den här studien var att genomföra en explorativ studie gällande träningsinstruktörers röstanvändning och den ljudmiljö de vistas i. Objektiva röstmätningar utfördes med hjälp Previous studies of voice use in aerobics instructors have all been based on subjective ratings of the voice function. No studies have included objective measurements of the voice during a workout. The purpose of this work was to make an explorative study of voice use in aerobics instructors and the acoustic environment in the halls where they instruct. The objective measurements were made with th

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka fonologiska och lexikala förmågor hos flerspråkiga elever med läs- och skrivsvårigheter. Undersökningsgruppen flerspråkiga elever med läs- och skrivsvårigheter jämfördes med en grupp enspråkiga elever med läs- och skrivsvårigheter samt med en grupp flerspråkiga elever utan läs- och skrivsvårigheter. I arbetet har även den lexikala organisationen hos ensprå