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This thesis examines the gendered dynamics of entrepreneurial pitching, focusing on the experiences of female founders in Germany. Despite the continued growth of female entrepreneurship, there are still significant challenges, particularly in relation to fundraising. Therefore, this thesis focuses on pitching situations as a strategy to raise funding. A qualitative methodology is used, to explore
In recent years, mobile phones and GPS have become increasingly common tools for people working in elderly care. In the home care service, the mobile phone is now completely central to planning who will do what and when. The aim of the study was to investigate how home care staff shape their view of care work in the light of the mobile phones they use. The method chosen for this study was qualitiv
The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the factors of authority and of power and how these factors effect the relationship between social workers and their clients from the social workers point of view. Four semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers from an Investigative Unit for Adults with Substance Abuse within the Municipal Social Services. The data was analysed b
Bakgrund: Primärvården tillhör första linjens sjukvård, och det är hit många söker hjälp relaterat till sin hälsa. Psykisk ohälsa är vanligt förekommande bland patienter. Hälso- och sjukvården ska arbeta hälsofrämjande och preventivt med patienter med psykisk ohälsa. Det finns brist på studier om arbetsterapeuters erfarenheter relaterat till hälsofrämjande arbete och prevention. Syfte: Syftet var
The purpose of the study was to gain an increased knowledge and understanding of women's pathways into prostitution and the experiences and feelings that coexist with being in this life situation. To find relevant empirical data for what we intended to investigate, we used our questions as guidance when we searched for autobiographical works depicting the life stories of prostituted women. We
Denna rapport utforskar ett nytt open-source-baserat verktyg inom turbindesign tillsammans med ett komplett flödesberäkningsprogram. Detta arbete utfördes hos Volvo Trucks med applicering mot deras turbocompound-turbin. för att undersöka möjligheterna att implementera en elektrifierad turbocompound-turbin. Resultatet är en god arbetsmetodik inom turbindesign tillsammans med två möjliga framtida elTurbomachinery design is based on multiple physical thermodynamical relations and fluid mechanics. Software implementing these relations in computing fluid flows have been broadly accessible since the 1990’s and has also become more applied to turbomachinery design. However, the software is unfortunately a large expense on research and development departments. Cambridge Professor Emeritus John D.
In recent years, business plan competitions have become a popular tool for entrepreneurs to obtain assistance in their desire to start a company. Despite this support service, the start-up failure rate remains high. Therefore, this paper aims to increase the understanding of how business plan competitions impact new venture development. Based on prevalent theories of entrepreneurship, venture life
Despite the massive growth of the tourism industry worldwide in the past years, there is still a noticeable scarcity in scientific and scholarly literature when it comes to the phenomenon of food tourism, or simply the awareness that food and beverages play a vital role within the tourism industry. Particularly in developing countries but also in cosmopolitan cities such as Shanghai, food tourism
Despite the massive growth of the tourism industry worldwide in the past years, there is still a noticeable scarcity in scientific and scholarly literature when it comes to the phenomenon of food tourism, or simply the awareness that food and beverages play a vital role within the tourism industry. Particularly in developing countries but also in cosmopolitan cities such as Shanghai, food tourism
This thesis investigates the virtual meetings characteristics and policy intervention options in Chinese organizations. Virtual meetings can enable the communication of two or more parities in different locations with assistance of ICT technologies. It is thus possible for virtual meetings to substitute conventional physical face- o-face meetings without business travel and the associated environm
En effekt av den globaliserade ekonomin är att skattekonkurrensen mellan länderna ökar. Skattekonkurrensen leder till att många länder sänker sina skattesatser och inför lättnadslagstiftningar för vissa typer av företag. När en stat minskar sina skattenivåer för att locka till sig investeringar och bolag från andra länder anses det ofta utgöra skadlig skattekonkurrens. Detta fenomen har på senare
To identify weather controls of beech diameter growth and masting in southern Sweden, we analyze records of monthly weather, regional masting record, and tree-ring chronologies from five beech-dominated stands. The results indicate a strong weather control of temporal pattern of masting events in southern Sweden over the second half of the 20th century. Negative summer temperature anomaly 2 years
Critical thinking is an important aim of higher education, and it is a skill particularly important in interdisciplinary fields. I am proposing a seminar where, based on an initial text and some central discussion questions, we can discuss our experiences with teaching and learning in an interdisciplinary manner. The experience from sustainability-related teaching shows that addressing interdiscip
Migration influx in Western countries resulting in increasingly diverse societies results in more complex situations for bureaucrats in their client interactions in welfare organizations. The role of discretion for services to clients has received much attention in the public administration research and therefore this study explores the relation among perceived workload, anti-immigration attitudes
High latitude mires are key ecosystems in the context of climate change since they store large amounts of carbon while constituting an important natural source of methane (CH4). However, while a growing number of studies have investigated methane fluxes (FCH4) at the plot- (~1 m2) and ecosystem-scale (~0.1–0.5 km2) across the boreal biome, variations of FCH4 magnitudes and drivers at the mesoscale
Arctic tundra is a globally important store for carbon (C). However, there is a lack of reference sites characterising C exchange dynamics across annual cycles. Based on the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) programme, here we present 9-11 years of flux and ecosystem data across the period 2008-2018 from two wetland sites in Greenland: Zackenberg (74°N) and Kobbefjord (64°N). The Zackenberg fen
Background and AimsThe ecosystem engineers Sphagnum (peat mosses) are responsible for sequestering a large proportion of carbon in northern peatlands. Species may respond differently to hydrological changes, and water level changes may lead to vegetation shifts in peatlands, causing them to revert from sinks to sources of carbon. We aimed to compare species-specific responses to water level drawdo
The circumpolar Arctic is currently facing multiple global changes that have the potential to alter the capacity of tundra soils to store carbon. Yet, predicting changes in soil carbon is hindered by the fact that multiple factors simultaneously control processes sustaining carbon storage and we do not understand how they act in concert. Here, we investigated the effects of warmer temperatures, en
