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While women comprise the majority of the hospitality industry workforce, making 56% in the EU market, they still remain significantly underrepresented in leadership roles, with 38% in top-level roles and less than 40% in managerial positions. This gender gap is evident in the Swedish hospitality sector where the higher volume of women are concentrated in part-time roles with a lower pay and facing
This thesis presents a generative deep learning framework for outpainting of missing regions in partial fingerprint images. The architecture builds on a U-Transformer backbone, incorporating Swin Transformer blocks and trained within a GAN setup using the WGAN-GP loss to ensure stable adversarial learning. The model learns to create plausible extensions of fingerprint images, maintaining ridge str
This paper examines the consequences of the US transition from a T+2 to a T+1 settlement cycle. We assess whether the reform enhanced market liquidity, increased settlement frictions, and whether effects varied across firm types and time horizons. Using a Difference-in-Differences design with matched US–EU firm-level data, we evaluate short-, mid-, and long-term impacts on three liquidity proxies:
This study aims to capture stakeholders’ perspectives on the placemaking process in shaping Singapore's Somerset Belt. Guided by three research questions, it examines: (1) how placemaking is perceived and experienced by stakeholders, (2) the challenges and learning reflections in the placemaking process, and (3) how stakeholders define creativity and how it applies in placemaking. Using purpos
As the drive to find sustainable and technological solutions to ongoing global problems becomes increasingly urgent, implementing timely innovation is needed now more than ever. The concept of regional innovation systems has recently gained popularity as a recipe for innovation and increasing knowledge transfer on a smaller scale. Specifically, the role of education in regional innovation systems
Med bakgrund i FN generalförsamlings begäran om ett rådgivande yttrande från Internationella domstolen (ICJ) gällande staters ansvar i klimatfrågan, enligt resolution A/77/L.58, undersöker denna studie hur icke-statliga organisationer (NGO:er) framställer statligt ansvar för klimatrelaterade människorättskränkningar. Särskild vikt läggs vid rätten till liv samt rätten till ett rent, hälsosamt och
Purpose: The study aims to examine whether health consciousness, as a cognitive heuristic, influences the impact of vegan labels, as external cues, on product attribute perceptions such as taste, health, and environmental friendliness, as well as on consumption intentions. As consumers face cognitive limitations when evaluating food products, this research aim to contribute to the understandin
The 21st century has been marked by repeated financial crises that have challenged the effectiveness of traditional portfolio management strategies. Events such as the 2008 financial crisis, the Eurozone debt crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed the vulnerabilities of conventional models, such as the widely used Markowitz (1952) mean-variance framework. Since this model balances risk and
This thesis explores how Black and African-diasporic community archives in Europe respond to the legacy of colonial erasure resulting in archival silences by utilising emerging archival practices to shape identity and collective memory, and build archival repositories for the future. Focusing on the digital platforms of three European community archives: Black Archives Sweden (BAS), the Black Cult
This thesis analyzes how managerial responsibilities and competencies are affected by the integration of AI within organizations. As AI technologies increasingly support or automate operational tasks, decision-making processes and strategic planning, the responsibilities of managers are evolving. The study aims to identify these evolving responsibilities, and the competencies required to effective
This thesis investigates how women's suit trousers from different price ranges differ in terms of durability, construction, and materials and discusses which pair of trousers has the longest lifespan. The study is grounded in theories of class, consumption, and luxury, and explores the concept of quality and longevity. By combining theoretical perspectives with a six-step object analysis, thre
This study aims to highlight the discursive structures present in Sweden's integration policy document. It focuses on defining the concept of integration and how the subject is constructed in the policy document. The study critically examines how immigrants are constructed in relation to "Swedishness" and identifies which actors are responsible for promoting integration. The research
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness, demand, and regulation to adopt more sustainable practices within business operations. As a result, companies face increasing institutional pressures related to sustainability, which require them to adapt their businesses, comply, and remain competitive. This research contributes to the interpretation of sustainability in a business environment
Forskningsfråga: Hur förtrollar sociala medieplattformar såsom TikTok, unga konsumenter (Generation Z)? Vilket typ av konsumentengagemang skapar TikTok? Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur unga konsumenter förtrollas av TikTok som social medie och vilka faktorer som skapar konsumentengagemang, för att ta reda på vad som gör appen lockande och varför det leder till beroende. Metod: Research question: How do social media platforms like TikTok enchant young consumers (Generation Z)? What type of consumer engagement does TikTok create? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how young consumers are enchanted by TikTok as a social media platform and what factors create consumer engagement, this to find out what makes the app appealing and why it leads to addiction.
Meteoritnedslag har spelat en grundläggande roll som ytmodifierande processer på jorden och andra himlakroppar. De har haft stor betydelse för omstruktureringen av jordskorpan, bassängbildning samt bildan- det av magmatisk och hydrotermal aktivitet. Av de cirka 200 nedslagsstruktur som identifierats på jorden har de flesta bildats på land, medan betydligt färre exemplar finns bevarade från marina Impact cratering has played a fundamental role as a surface modifying process on Earth and other celes- tial bodies. It has significantly influenced crustal reshaping, basin formation and the development of magmatic ac- tivity and hydrothermal systems. Of the roughly 200 impact structures that have been identified on Earth, the ma- jority occurred on land, with significantly fewer known examples p
Examensarbetets titel: När det ideella möter vinst – En kvalitativ studie som undersöker attityder till strategiska samarbeten mellan icke-statliga organisationer och kommersiella företag Forskningsfråga: Hur påverkas intressenters attityder och uppfattningar av samarbeten mellan icke-statliga organisationer och kommersiella företag? Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur strategiskTitle: When Nonprofit Meets Profit – A qualitative study exploring attitudes towards strategic collaborations between non-governmental organizations and commercial companies Research Question: How are stakeholder’s attitudes and perceptions influenced by strategic collaborations between non-governmental organizations and commercial companies? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how
Staden är ett lappverk av fragment. Lager på lager av material som funnits och använts, förändrats och förvanskats, fortsatt existera och försvunnit. Lager på lager av historier, berättelser och minnen som formats av och format materialen och rummen. Allting ihoptrasslat; en dialog mellan det som varit, det som är och det som kan bli. I kuststaden Varberg har hamnområdet avvecklats och flyttats f
This thesis explores how young Swedish consumers interpret retro branding by analyzing their engagement with advertisements through a semiotic lens. Using Pierce's triadic model and Hall's conceptual map, we examined the way young consumers interpret retro branding stimuli in the form of video advertisement. We showed two advertisements from the same brand, FILA, a retro campaign and a con
