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Uppsatsen syfte är att undersöka huruvida en minskning av working capital kan påverka lönsamheten och om det i så fall skulle kunna användas som en strategi för företagsledningar. Ett sekundärt syfte är att undersöka om finanskrisen har påverkat arbetet med att minska working capital. Uppsatsen exemplifierar problemet genom att undersöka en hårt konkurrensutsatt bransch, hemelektronikbranschen i SThis study examine the relationship between working capital and profitability to see if a reduction of working capital could be used as a strategy for managers to increase profitability. A second purpose of this paper is to examine how the latest global financial crisis can impact working capital management. This paper exemplifies this problem by examining a struggling industry in Sweden, specific

Although Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage programs have proven ineffective in reducing teenage pregnancy rates and the spread of STDs, thirteen states in the U.S still stress abstinence in their sexual education curricula. This in turn has created a big debate over what sexual education in public schools should contain. This paper intends to determine whether the arguments proposed by three advocacy

Supersymmetri (SUSY) är en av de teoretiskt bäst motiverade modellerna för fysik bortom standardmodellen (BSM), och en lovande kandidat för upptäckt vid Large Hadron Collider (LHC). ATLAS-kollaborationen har utfört omfattande sökningar efter SUSY-signaturer med hjälp av data från proton-proton kollisioner i LHC, tagna under 2010, 2011 och 2012 års tid vid energier på 7 TeV och mer nyligen 8 TeV. DSupersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the best theoretically motivated beyond the Standard Model (BSM) scenarios, and a favored candidate to be discovered by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The ATLAS collaboration has been extensively searching for SUSY signatures using 2010, 2011 and 2012 data from LHC proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and recently at 8 TeV

With the rapid economic development, China has accelerated its trade and investment at home and abroad. China’s banking sector, in supporting financial activities with capital flow, has become an emerging force at international financial stage. Meanwhile, this numerous amount of cashes provide banks an environment for excessive lending and investments. The increasing environmental accidents have s

The World Heritage Site the Vredefort Dome in South Africa is an area that is continuously exposed to the dangers of veldfires. In this study it was investigated how risk communication is used to raise public awareness about safe fire use, fire hazards, and veldfires. To what extent the community is reached by the communication and their level of knowledge about fire hazards and risks was also stu

This essay investigates the construction of the American self image during “War on Terror” by analyzing three State of the Union speeches delivered in 2003, 2007 and 2013. The study intends to answer the following question: How is the American self image constructed during the War on Terror? The analysis is based on the theoretical lens of social constructivism, which emphasizes the role of instit

Svenska historieläroböcker innehåller en historiografisk kanon för det svenska samhället och detta speglar sig i alla länder, där historia didaktiskt förmedlas i utbildningssyfte. Utbildning är inte en neutral verksamhet utan en i grunden ideologiskt, politiskt och moraliskt påverkad verksamhet och historieämnet utgör en nyckelfaktor i alla tre av dessa aspekter av utbildningen. Detta är en föruts

Building on the case of three municipal currencies (in Brazil, Spain and Belgium), the policy brief argues municipal currencies can be considered transversal careinfrastructures because, depending on their design and governance, theyfacilitate the visualization and circulation of economic, social andenvironmental value in ways that directly address community needs, enhancesocial welfare, promote e

Rhesus macaques (RMs) are a vital model for studying human disease and invaluable to pre-clinical vaccine research, particularly for the study of broadly neutralizing antibody responses. Such studies require robust genetic resources for antibody-encoding genes within the immunoglobulin (IG) loci. The complexity of the IG loci has historically made them challenging to characterize accurately. To ad

Para athletes are at higher risk for sports-related injuries, illnesses and other health conditions when participating in sports. In fact, the unique demands placed on Para athletes, both in terms of the specific impairments they experience and the adaptive equipment they use, can lead to a distinctive set of challenges and risks in the context of sports-related health compared to nondisabled athl

Stochastic texture filtering (STF) has re-emerged as a technique that can bring down the cost of texture filtering of advanced texture compression methods, e.g., neural texture compression. However, during texture magnification, the swapped order of filtering and shading with STF can result in aliasing. The inability to smoothly interpolate material properties stored in textures, such as surface n

What is the role of deictic gestures in expressing affective valence, and can such gestures serve as an indicator of awareness in choice making? To examine this, we analyzed participants’ deictic gestures toward preferred and non-preferred picture alternatives in an experimental choice justification task. The task involved manipulation: in some trials, participants were presented with the rejected

The municipal government of São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, proposed the construction of the Usina Verde incinerator for urban solid waste in 2012 through a public-private partnership with SBC Valorização de Resíduos Revita e Lara. The plant would burn 3,000 tonnes of waste daily and produce energy. Located in the Alvarenga neighbourhood, the former landfill area, it would replace recycling and

This essay examines how masculinity is negotiated through equestrian symbolism in Nicholas Evans’s The Horse Whisperer (1995) and Jilly Cooper’s Riders (1985), situating both novels within the cultural context of late twentieth-century neoliberal Britain and the United States. Drawing on masculinity studies, neoliberal theory, and animal symbolism, the essay argues that the horse functions as a ce