Background IKEA has realized the potential benefits of improving inventory management on a strategic level. For IKEA as a market leader in the home furnishing business, an efficient supply chain and proper management of inventory is of crucial importance in order to support their business idea of offering lowpriced products to the many people. Inventory management at IKEA is characterized by an ad

A growing middle class and increased consumption call for better utilization of resources. For companies to make use of all resources in the production system is not only a way of meeting the changing customer demands and regulatory changes regarding sustainability, but also a way of increasing profits. Finding new business opportunities for by-products can be considered as early stage innovation,

Commercial private equity as an investment industry have quickly grown since its formation in the late 80’s, and now account for a significant part of the investments made both globally and in Sweden. In 2014 the Swedish commercial private equity companies had a combined turnover of 311 billion SEK, accounting for around 9 % of Sweden’s GNP. The sector has been studied extensively by the investmen

Background Kenya is facing social and economic problems related to the high unemployment rate the country has suffered since independence. The Kenyan government are placing a lot, if not all, eggs in one basket and betting on entrepreneurship to solve these problem. For entrepreneurship to thrive there needs to be an ecosystem facilitating it and inherent in this ecosystem are support organisation

Arbetets syfte är att belysa hur en effektiv överlämning av stora projekt från entreprenad till drift och underhåll går till. Syftet är också att undersöka vilka nyckelfaktorer som skapar framgång och motgång i denna fas av projektet Frågeställning i studien är: Hur görs en effektiv överlämning av ett stort projekt? Vilka faktorer skapar framgång tillika motgång för projektets överlämning? Varför The purpose of the study is to illustrate how a efficient handover is done in mega project between the constructional and operational phases. Furthermore the purpose is the study what key factors lead to success and failure throughout the handover. The objective of the study is to answer the following questions: How is an efficient handover done? What factors lead to success and failure in mega pr

The objective of this study is to describe and analyze the child welfare officers’ understanding of their work with the young offenders and how they explain and handle their double assignment (help vs. control). Three main questions in this study are following: 1. Which goals, motives and methods do child welfare officers have in their work with the young offenders? 2. What makes a child a young

Våld mot kvinnor är ett könsbaserat hatbrott. Våldsutövandet sker mot dem just för att de är kvinnor. Mest förekommande är våldet från män de har eller haft en nära relation med. Våldet skapar fysiska och psykiska påfrestningar för utsatta kvinnor. Samhället behöver med gemensam kraft få ett slut på våldet. Kvinnorna i sin tur måste veta vilka skyddsåtgärder som finns att tillgå när de riskerar elViolence against women is a gender-based hate crime. The acts of violence are committed against women expressly because they are women. Most often they are hurt by men who are close to them. Violence and abuse cause terrible physical and emotional pain for the women. The society needs a wide strategy to combating the violens. Women have to know their rights and ability to get protection when they

Within the climate justice movement there is a clear tendency in the last years towards actions of civil disobedience. The Red Lines protest in Paris during COP21 was meant to be one of the main events of the movement in 2015. However, the Paris attacks on November 13 and the subsequent state of emergency drastically changed the conditions for political protests. This thesis provides an analysis o

Potatoes Solanum tuberosum, L are among the most consumed crop type by millions of people around the world. It has high amount of starch content and it is known to be a good source of potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C and fiber. There are more than 4000 varieties of potatoes. Salome, Ditta and Asterix cultivars are among well-known potatoes in the Swedish market. In recent years the consumption of

In line with the Capitalocene narrative, this thesis argues how globally prevailing social* and environmental injustices (including ecological injustices) are driven by systemic capitalist patterns of thinking. In order to enhance social* and environmental justice, it seems thus essential to tackle these. However, there does not yet exist an analytical framework providing a comprehensive overview

In the quest to find a ‘least cost solution’ for climate change mitigation that do not interfere with business-as-usual, carbon trading and PES schemes were introduced. PES schemes with carbon forestry projects are implemented in the Global South as a win-win-win tool for climate change mitigation and sustainable development. In this thesis, the Ugandan carbon forestry project Trees for Global Ben

The aim of this study was to examine if the radial swelling of wood correlated with the density of the wood. The aim was also to investigate whether the area of the lumen changed from dry to water-saturated state for wood with different densities. Two different experiments were performed. In the first experiment a light microscope was used to examine different species of wood. The wood samples wer

Cancer is one of today’s most common causes of human mortality. For long, chemotherapeutics has been a conventional treatment of the disease, but due to its low precision and high frequency of side effects, this treatment has been highly debated. Nanosized particles, so called nanoparticles (NPs), have emerged as a promising tool for cancer treatment, due to their ability of selectively reaching t

Trots att bemanningsbranschens utveckling på arbetsmarknaden har ökat de senaste åren har forskningen och kunskapen om bemanningsanställda inte ökat i samma takt. Den psykosociala arbetsmiljön har förändrats de senaste decennierna i och med framväxten av alternativa anställningar. Både den fysiska och psykosociala arbetsmiljön har betonats som viktig för personers hälsa och välbefinnande. I arbetsThe development of temporary agencys on the labormarket has been increasing over the past years, despite of this the research and knowledge about temporary workers has not increased in the same pace. The psychosocial environment has changed the past decades with the emergence of alternative empolyments. The importance of the physical and the psychosocial work environment has been emphasized for th

Cofactors are essential for the growth of bacterial pathogens also inside a human host and one source of cofactors are proteins in blood. Pathogens can use surface proteins to bind and extract cofactors from these blood proteins. Here, using protein modeling of these proteins in complex with bacterial protein combined with bacterial growth assays with blood proteins from different species, we demo

The automotive industry, a matured and vital global sector, is currently facing the biggest upheaval so far in the necessity to emancipate itself from fossil fuels. This moment before technical revolution is used for a detailed comparison of innovative performance of the sector in the last 15 years. With innovation being interpreted along the lines of technical progress in key variables, this thes

En optimal tolerans är nyckeln till att skapa en produkt som är både billig att tillverka och samtidigt uppfyller kraven gällande livslängd och funktion. Att hitta den optimala toleransen är ofta betydligt svårare än vad man tror och kräver både tillverknings- och konstruktionskunskap.In recent years measurement techniques and equipment have developed well. The new measurement technology has made companies realize that products not are according to drawings. Meanwhile the products still works as planed and can be sold to customers. The reason that the details are not according to drawings can be traced to a surface with narrow angle tolerance. The project is limited to two sma