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Title: The connection between the surroundings environmental demand and the business world’s environmental work link – A study about DHLs environmental conditioning Date: 29 May 2009 Level: Bachelor’s degree in Service Management, 15 points Authors: Nina Lemic, Elaine Wendt and Björn Östman Advisor: Hervé Corvellec, Birgitta Olsson and Filippa Säwe Key words: Environmental work, DHL, contingency t

Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to investigate whether the future development of the Digital Home creates incentives for Sony Ericsson to initiate an Open Source based platform strategy. Issues: The main issues presented: To create future scenarios of the Digital Home environment and describe its ecosystem of consumer electronics and mobile phones. To investigate the competitive advantage fo

This study examines nine adolescents’ idiosyncratic experiences of one family therapy session. The treatments took place in the settings of community family treatment centers in northern Stockholm. Adolescents are referred to treatment in these settings for various reasons, mostly due to criminal behavior, drug use or behavioral problems. Some enter treatment due to family relational problems or p

Drivkrafter, barriärer och lösningar för integreringen av blågröna lösningar i den fysiska planeringen Hur kan samhället anpassas till klimatförändringarna och dess effekter? Ett sätt är att använda sig av blågröna lösningar, som exempelvis träd och dammar. Dessa strukturer kan minska översvämningsrisken, ta hand om skyfall och reglera temperaturen på varma sommardagar. De kan även bidra med en r

Bilindustrin genomgår en transformation som inte tidigare har skådats och samtliga aktörer längs med värdekedjan påverkas. Ett företag som befinner sig mitt i detta är Axess Logistics som erbjuder billogistiklösningar till generalagenter och återförsäljare på den skandinaviska marknaden. I tider av förändring uppkommer nya affärsmöjligheter, vilka Axess Logistics vill identifiera. En tydlig trend The automotive industry is undergoing an unprecedented transformation, and all actors along the value chain are affected. A company in the midst of this is Axess Logistics, which offers car logistics solutions to general agents and dealers in the Scandinavian market. In times of change, new business opportunities arise, which Axess Logistics wants to identify. An evident trend is the electrificati

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att utreda gällande rätt angående juridiskt kön och två typer av identitetshandlingar – körkort och pass – samt att analysera gällande rätt ur ett queerteoretiskt perspektiv. Med en teoretisk utgångspunkt i den heterosexuella matrisen, performativitet och makt redogör jag för hur det juridiska könets förekomst i körkort och pass kan påverka transpersoner, personer mThe purpose of this essay is to study the law on legal gender and two kinds of identity documents – driving licenses and passports – and to analyse this law using queer theory. My theoretical framework revolves around the heterosexual matrix, performativity, and power, and with them I describe how the legal gender’s presence can affect transgender people, persons with intersex variations, and othe

This thesis explores the process of becoming a creative entrepreneur and how this process can be supported in and out of an incubator. Using ethnographic methods and cultural analysis, I argue that being an entrepreneur is an overarching lifestyle and the process of becoming one is affected by each individual’s backgrounds, motivations, identities, existing skills, social networks and perceptions

I syfte att få en bild av subjektiva upplevelser av självet hos personer med schizofreni intervjuades fyra personer som är eller har varit diagnostiserade med schizofreni och/eller har upplevt återkommande psykotiska episoder. Självet definierades utifrån the minimal self som innebär en omedelbar, upplevelsemässig realitet, och schizofreni som en störning i självet snarare än närvaro och utbredninIn purpose of gaining insight into subjective experiences of the self in people with schizophrenia, four people, who have or have had schizophrenia and/or have experienced recurring psychotic episodes, were interviewed. The self was defined as the minimal self which has an immediate experiential reality, and schizophrenia as a self-disorder rather than presence and prevalence of psychotic symptoms

The determination of the phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) pattern of soil organisms has become one of the most commonly used methods to study microbial community structure. Here we recapitulate the background of our work applying the PLFA method to soil in the early 1990s. We also stress that although the PLFA method was, and still is, a rapid and sensitive method to detect changes in the microbial

Many decisions in the everyday work of the structural engineer are taken under the influence of uncertainties. The degree of uncertainty affects the quality and variability of the outcome of the structural design work. The effect of uncertainties related to knowledge and experience of the structural engineer was studied in a round robin investigation. Despite a relatively well defined task, the re

This thesis has two values. On one side, it aims at being a contribution to a betterunderstanding of the original concept of distributed economies. On the other side, it aspires atproviding useful decision criteria to those stakeholders that plan to locally develop a biogassystem.This thesis is developed from the Distributed Economies concept, which envisionsdecentralized, self-reliant and synergi

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in the potentially advantageous thermoelectric properties of one-dimensional (1D) nanowires, but it has been challenging to find high thermoelectric power factors based on 1D effects in practice. Here we point out that there is an upper limit to the thermoelectric power factor of nonballistic 1D nanowires, as a consequence of the recently est

This study presents the results of surgery in the elderly for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) from a single institution's experience. We retrospectively analyzed 898 cases of surgically treated PHPT, divided into two groups: 135 elderly patients (A) and 763 patients younger than 65 years (B). PHPT was symptomatic in 68.8 per cent patients in group A and in 81.6 per cent in group B. Unilateral t

How do we perceive voices coming from different spatial locations, and how is this affected by emotion? The current study probed the interplay between space and emotion during voice perception. Thirty participants listened to nonverbal vocalizations coming from different locations around the head (left vs. right; front vs. back), and differing in valence (neutral, positive [amusement] or negative

A novel modified method for obtaining approximate solutions to difficult optimization problems within the neural network paradigm is presented. We consider the graph partition and the travelling salesman problems. The key new ingredient is a reduction of solution space by one dimension by using graded neurons, thereby avoiding the destructive redundancy that has plagued these problems when using s

Background. The aim of this study was to compare laparoscopic colposuspension with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) in terms of costs to the county. Methods. In a prospective, randomized study, we approached 270 consecutive women presenting for evaluation of stress urinary incontinence symptoms at one university hospital. Preoperatively, and at 1-year follow-up, the women underwent urodynamic eval