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This paper sets out to investigate what effects healthcare privatisation has on healthcare staffing levels and other healthcare metrics in regional Swedish healthcare. Using econometric techniques and relying on public data of public healthcare spending on private actors as a proportion of total regional healthcare spending, this paper finds that privatisation in general has no significant effects

I övergången mellan de triassiska och jurassiska perioderna, för ca 200 miljoner år sedan, inträffade ett massutdöende som bedöms ha koppling till vulkanism i den Centralatlantiska magmatiska provinsen (CAMP). En signifikant ökning av växthusgaser som koldioxid (CO2) eller metan (CH4) och andra flyktiga ämnen, med efterföljande global uppvärmning som följd, föreslås vara den viktigaste drivkrafterAround the Triassic-Jurassic-Boundary time interval, a severe mass extinction event occurred, which has been associated to volcanism of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). Significant amounts of greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane (CH4) and other volatiles are suggested to have been released into the atmosphere, leading to global warming with subsequent impact on the bio

This study aims to explore and analyze how Eurovision Song Contest functioned as an alternative – cultural – battlefield in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict over Crimea. With the use of soft power politics in warfare as the root of interest, this study uses the theories of cultural diplomacy and visual international relations to explore how images may be central to modern-day warfare and conflicts a

Dörrsimulator - att skapa automatiserade tester I detta projekt skapades ett program för att kunna simulera en industriell port. Resultatet blev lyckat med ett program som kunde simulera portar som öppnas och stängs. Programmet kommer i framtiden att kunna användas för att testa produkter på företaget ASSA ABLOY. Detta examensarbete skrevs för ASSA ABLOY på deras avdelning Industrial Door SolutiThis report describes the development of a simulator for the simulations if industrial doors. The project has been conducted at ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems, industrial door solutions in Landskrona. The purpose of this thesis project was to design and implement a system that can replicate the behaviour of an industrial door on a test-rig. The design should follow requirements set by ASSA ABLOY suc

This thesis – Fashionable communication: a semiotic analysis of end of the century Vogue – investigates how American Vogue creates the myth of fashion in its early years through text and pictorial elements. The aim is to understand with what words and tone the text talks about fashion and how it is visualized in illustration and photography with poses and lighting to create certain associations. T

Scholars have increasingly emphasized the ineffectiveness of sanctions in changing the targeted state’s foreign political behavior after their will. The thesis intends to tackle this problem by examining how sanctions against Russia, in relation to Crimea, should be designed to incentivise Russia to change their behavior. The dissertation bases its research on the hypothesis that the design has to

Since the beginning of statebuilding interventions following the end of the Cold War, they have been strictly focused on rebuilding state institutions, wherever they have taken place. As a growing percentage of states that had experienced civil war relapsed into new intrastate conflicts, it started to dawn on researchers that this approach was inadequate. Focus amongst researchers started to turn

In recent years, the insurance industry has undergone a transformation where new technologies and digitalization has impacted the competitive structure of the industry and the value chain. The competitive structure in its turn may affect the incentives to innovate. This thesis attempts to examine how technological development and digitalization has affected different parts of the value chain in th

This thesis was initiated with Toyota Material Handling Europe. The aim of the project was to find a business area in the world of material handling, and develop a conceptual design fulfilling the material handling need. Stepping outside of what is considered conventional material handling, I looked for a new context within consumer trends and future predictions. I found a correlation between th

Recent years have seen great changes to Chinese women’s period-tracking practice, shifting from the method of pen and paper to smartphone applications, and from women-only practice to practice involves men. This study explores such transformations by looking at a specific app named Easy Period in China and users practice with it by using qualitative methods (textual analysis and semi-structured in

Flutter prediction is a vital part of aircraft development which requires efficient and accurate analysis methods. Saab AB Aeronautics is currently using linear analysis based on the panel method and nonlinear analysis using their in-house CFD software program. These methods are in contrast to one another in terms of computing time and accuracy. There is a need to fill the gap between these method

The thesis analyses the supposed impact of ICT on the economy of the European Union during 2000 – 2017. ICT access and usage proxies combined with macroeconomic control variables in panel data regressions indicate that ICT access has a positive, statistically significant effect on economic growth and labour productivity. Yet no significant results are observed with the employment data, thus disagr

Terrorist organisations ability to conduct successful counterintelligence activities to achieve operational security is key in managing a successful terrorist attack. This thesis examines empirical data by using an analytical framework consisting of three complexity levels of terrorist counterintelligence: Basic denial, Adaptive denial, and Covert manipulation. Within the analysed case, eight inci

Seminar date: 03/06/2019 Course: BUSN79 Business Administration: Degree Project in Accounting and Finance, 15 credits Authors: John Kleven Falck and Sebastian Lindeborg Advisor: Håkan Jankensgård Key words: Spin-offs, agency theory, efficient market hypothesis, investment strategy, corporate governance, The Corporate Governance Scorecard Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test an invest

This paper estimates the impact of the processes of the Eurasian integration in the post-Soviet space that led to the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in 2015 over the exports of the member countries and their main partners outside the EEU and its predecessor, the Customs Union (CU). Applying the gravity model technique over the dataset for 1995-2015 obtained from UNESCAP Trade Analyt

The expansion of Chinese media’s global influence has attracted many attentions around the world. When scholars focus on describing how the state-owned media extend beyond borders to reach audience around the globe, the long-existed Chinese diasporic media overseas are lack of discussion. How have they performed and shaped the imagination in-between China, host societies and transnational space? I

This thesis examines the decolonial feminist approach of the transnational feminist collective, Feminists for a Binding Treaty (FBT), as they advocate for the inclusion of a gender perspective in a Binding Treaty to curb corporate power. Drawing on Freeden’s ideology theory and Transnational Feminist Theory, this thesis highlights what a decolonial transnational feminist collective should look lik

Denna uppsats studerar Komintern som underrättelsetjänst. Den överbryggar kopplingen mellan tidigare forskning avseende vad en underrättelseorganisation kan sägas vara och göra och jämför denna kunskapsbas med empiriskt material om Kominterns verksamhet. Fokus läggs på Kominterns arbete i USA genom det amerikanska kommunistpartiet CPUSA och uppsatsen sällar sig till Stout och Warners förståelse av

How can the tools used in elementary school facilitate mathematical learning and understanding? This project has been a study in how maths is taught and how to create a broader understanding of the subject. This report covers the process of, and is part of, my Master thesis at the Industrial Design School in Lund, Sweden. It includes the research and the development of “A Whole”, a mathematical t

Despite the fast food industry’s significant contribution to climate change, climate action plans are not common practice. Furthermore, there is a lack of academic works devoted to researching climate change issues within the fast-food industry. This thesis project examined the Swedish fast food chain MAX Burgers’ involvement with climate responsibility. By applying an internal and external influe