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Previous research has focused on the correlation between CSR and returns, whilst considerably less efforts have been undertaken to investigate whether CSR affects a company’s valuation. Therefore this paper focus on investigating the correlation between these two variables. This is done by comparing valuation multiples of constructed indices consisting of bad and socially responsible companies to
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the reasoning behind the prominence of resilience building in Malawi’s development strategies, how resilience building is performed in Malawi, and what the potential and consequences of resilience in Malawi might be. In observations of a resilience building project and interviews with development practitioners, it was found that resilience had become promin
The aim of this essay is to study if the Chicago Board of Options Exchange’s volatility index VIX can be used as an indicator on the stock market, and if an investor can make a profit on portfolios by using a volatility strategy based on VIX. The study is based on nine volatility strategies that are tested on four different portfolios containing stocks from Mega Cap, Large Cap, Mid Cap and Small C
Uppsatsen behandlar frågan om hur USA:s konstitution ska tolkas. Frågan har inget givet svar, tvärtom, det råder väldigt delade uppfattningar om det. Skillnaderna grundar sig inte enbart i frågan om vilket tillvägagångssätt som är bäst för att tolka konstitutionen. I grund och botten handlar frågan om vilket sorts dokument konstitutionen är. Den stora skiljelinjen går mellan de som anser att den hThis essay deals with the question of how the United States Constitution should be interpreted. That is not a question that has a clear answer. On the contrary, the question in fact has no answer, at least not one that people agree about. As we will see, the differences in opinions runs far deeper than merely being about what kind of methodology should be used to construe the various statutes with
Since Ethiopia has a high number of recorded adverse birth outcomes, the city of Adama was subjected to a study (Flanagan et al., 2022) that gathered data from 2085 pregnancies. This thesis utilizes that data to investigate the usage of machine learning in environmental epidemiology. Using the classification methods logistic regression, random forest, support vector classifier, and k-nearest neigh
The First Submarine Flotilla is expanding. Four submarines are to become five and a new, larger signal intelligence ship is to replace the current one. At the same time many employees are on the verge of retiring and new ones in need of training arrives. It is therefore of utmost importance that the existing staff want to remain in their workplace. The purpose of this study was, through a survey b
Att lära en högupplöst radar känna igen människor inomhus: övervakning med integritet i åtanke Ett problem med övervakning med videokameror är att det kan vara integritetskränkande. Från en bild kan man både identifiera personer och se exakt vad de gör, vilket kan vara befogat i offentliga miljöer men inte i den privata bostaden. Här kan högupplöst radar vara en lösning. Med en radar går det inteVideo cameras are the primary equipment used for indoor surveillance. There are however areas where alternatives are needed as the use of cameras is sensitive or forbidden, e.g. in homes, bathrooms or dressing rooms. A more privacy-preserving method is using a radar. The interest in radar-based surveillance indoors has increased in recent years with the development of high resolution radar sensors
Labeling the map is one of the most essential parts of the cartographic process that requires a huge time and energy. It is proven that the automation of map labeling is an NP-hard problem. There have been many research studies that tried to solve it such as rule-based methods, metaheuristics, and integer programming. However, the results achieved so far are not satisfactory and require much manua
The number of publications in the field of chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry (XL-MS) to derive constraints for protein three-dimensional structure modeling and to probe protein-protein interactions has increased during the last years. As the technique is now becoming routine for in vitro and in vivo applications in proteomics and structural biology there is a pressing need to
Reconstructing the evolution of baleen whales (Mysticeti) has been problematic because morphological and genetic analyses have produced different scenarios. This might be caused by genomic admixture that May have taken place among some rorquals. We present the genomes of six whales, including the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), to reconstruct a species tree of baleen whales and to identify phy
This project targeted automating production steps where stud bolts are welded on a heat exchanger within allowed perpendicularity and position requirements. Until now, this has been a manual process where an operator uses steel templates to position the bolts in the right place and manual welding guns to weld the bolts. The scope of this project is to create a digital model of a robot cell to calc
Under de senaste decennierna har rörelsefriheten för barn minskat. Föräldrar är mer oroliga för deras barns säkerhet idag än tidigare och antalet föräldrar som kör sina barn till skolan har ökat. Barns rörelsefrihet är viktig för deras utveckling både fysiskt och psykiskt. Barn har speciella behov avseende trafikmiljön om de ska kunna använda det självständigt. De kan inte hantera trafiksituationeThere has been a decline in the independent mobility of children over the last decades. Parents are more worried about the safety and security of their children and the number of parents driving their children to school has increased. The independent mobility of children is important for their development both physically and mentally. Children has special needs concerning the traffic environment i
The initiative Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is an example of the use of amnesty within American immigration politics. Enacted in June 2012, it addresses the delicate situation of young undocumented immigrants so called childhood arrivals. They are part of the society in many ways, but not on paper. The dilemma is characterized by a conflict of interest – the rights of the sovereign state
After several decades of collaborative arms procurement conducted on juste retour principles the Member States of the European Union are moving towards market based solutions in their attempts to maintain a competitive and sustainable defence technological and industrial base on the continent. This paper seeks to conduct a baseline study on the impact of the European Defence Agency’s 2005/6 Code o
This study focuses on custody cases in Sweden, especially examining how children’s involvement is addressed in custody, residence, and visitation judgments. By analyzing court decisions and corresponding district court rulings after Sweden’s 2020 implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and especially referring to UNCRC articles 3 and 12. Through qualitati
In recent years the liberal representative democracy has been subject of a substantial critique because of its inability to accommodate difference and create a genuinely democratic political process. One such critique comes from the theory of deliberative democracy. Supporters of deliberative democracy try to promote a model of democracy that take its vantage point in free and equal deliberation
