This thesis is concerned with the possible existence of a motivated relation between sound and meaning (“sound symbolism”) in demonstrative pronouns. The goal was to search for evidence of such non-arbitrariness, and to gain a better understanding of the motivating factors behind it. Six motivations are considered. Two motivations were based on the senses of Touch and Vision. Two others - on the s

This thesis focus on how notions of equality and neo-liberal pursuits for growth are negotiated in policy, discussing the relationship between problem definition at top level and the implemented solution at policy level. The problem is defined in the European Union’s growth strategy Europe 2020 as Europe having to increase productivity, while the implemented solution I focus on is the emerging foc

Det språk vi använder är ett sätt att visa hur vi ser på verkligheten. Löpsedelsrubriker når oss varje dag, fyllda av information om människor, information som vi får via språket. Denna information speglar då verkligheten, men faktum är att informationen eller språket även präglar och reproducerar verkligheten. Det torde alltså var av största vikt hur man uttrycker sig, det är åtminstone min utgån

How rich is an experience of a visit at the museum Kulturen in Lund? According to the economists Joseph Pine and James Gilmore there are four realms of an experience; an educational, an entertaining, an esthetic and an escapist. The more of these realms that you feel in an experience, the richer the experience is. In this study I have through a hand out survey to 50 visitors at Kulturen in April 2

A qualitative study of family members and spouses experiences regarding the depression and the support One third of the Swedish population has at some point of their lives been afflicted with a depression, and although there are many interventions to be had, a majority of them focus solely on the individual with the depression. Shedding light on how family members and spouses experience the suppo

On the ground of a highly dynamic economic environment, the necessity for time-varying risk measures emerged. Inclusion of higher-order conditional moments in asset pricing models is a very common topic in recent research articles. The present essay was inspired by the seminal work of Harvey and Siddique (1999), who proposed estimation of time-varying skewness and pricing its explanatory power by

The supportive infrastructure is an important dimension in the discussion of regional innovation system. This study argues that the interactions between the supportive actors in the cluster of the Swedish side of Medicon Valley consist of a relatively mature supportive structure compared with the case in Taiwan. The development of the Medicon Valley cluster is a bottom-up process. After the cluste

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka medarbetarskapet hos personalen på en statlig myndighet i Skåne, både genom att undersöka om det fanns situationsrelaterade skillnader i gruppen som helhet, men även om det fanns skillnader gällande individrelaterade variabler som kön, anställningstid och utbildning. Material om personalens utveckling i medarbetarskapet, stilmönster, samt deras agerande i The aim of this study was to examine employeeship at a government agency in Skåne, both by examining if there were situational differences in the group as a whole, but also if there were differences regarding individually-related variables such as gender, seniority and education. Information about the development of the staff, employee style, and their actions in different situations, employee sty

The structural approach to credit risk modeling has gained a growing attention in both the academics and in the industry. In this dissertation, we outline the basic ideas and structures of the KMV (Merton) model and also explain some related issues before implementing this model. Referring to the KMV model, we use the KMV model to identify the credit risk of listed companies in China. We use real

Kinesiska skriftspråkets egenheter tillåter inte punktskriftstranslitteration i analogi med gängse metoder för latinska skrivtecken, varför det inom ramen för denna uppsats lagts fram en detaljerad kartläggning. I studien har translitterationsförfarande och historisk utveckling presenterats för de två vedertagna translitterationssystemen i Folkrepubliken Kina, Den gällande blindskriften och KinesiThe nature of the Chinese written language does not allow straightforward transliteration into Braille by the standard methods used for Latin characters. For this reason, a detailed study has been carried out. This essay has outlined the history and transliteration procedure for the two recognized Braille formats in use in the People’s Republic of China: namely Current Braille and Two-cell Chinese

I dagens Stockholm ägnar man mycket tid och energi åt att planera, finansiera och diskutera sitt boende. Den ständig överefterfrågan på hyresrätter leder till att det reellt sett bara finns en väg in på bostadsmarknaden: att köpa en bostadsrätt. I media pågår ständiga spekulationer om huruvida priserna kommer att rasa eller fortsätta gå upp, och mot bakgrund av detta undersöker vi huruvida det fin

Tvångslicensieringar av upphovsrätter har kallats kontroversiella eftersom de går emot immaterialrättens grundläggande intressen avseende att innehavaren erhåller en ensamrätt vilken denne/denna själv bestämmer och förfogar över. Vid en tvångslicensiering måste en innehavare av en upphovsrätt, mot sin vilja ingå avtal med en konkurrent som vill få tillgång till upphovsrätten. Ett företags vägran aCompulsory licensing of copyrights has been called controversial since it goes against the main interest and goals of intellectual property rights, which is that a right holder has the right to choose how to use his intellectual property right. When a compulsory license is granted the right holder has to share his protected copyright with competitors which has demanded access to the copyright. A c

In this paper we investigate the performance of Nordic hedge funds in terms of their ability to earn abnormal returns during the period 2003-2011. We further test for the presence of short-term persistence during the period of disturbed market conditions. The single-index and four-factor models are used in order to estimate the traditional performance measures for individual funds as well as for p

Purpose: This paper analyzes the connection between the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and the South Korean stock market. It also focuses on the BDI’s connection to the three biggest shipbuilding companies in the country. Methodology: The paper embarks from an econometric perspective. Data was collected and tested through regression analysis. The approach is quantitative. Result: The result assesses that

Bland forskning som behandlar kriskommunikation är det ovanligt med studier som fokuserar på vilken roll relationsbyggande i de sociala medierna har i förkrisfasen och hur detta kan användas för att förebygga förtroendekriser. Syftet med denna studie är därför att belysa och problematisera organisationers användning av sociala medier i sin kriskommunikation, specifikt i förkrisfasen, ur ett relati

Inom fältet kommunikation sker en ständig diskussion kring hur sociala medier bör hanteras. Det finns brist på empiri som stödjer löften om dess kommunikativa möjligheter för företag. Arbetet lyfter diskussionen kring sociala medier och sätter dem i förbindelse med en holistisk syn på organisation och kommunikation. Syftet är att belysa organisationskulturens betydelse för relationsskapande kommun

The society has gone throw a structural change and with it, the political arena. Today several actors are involved in staging the "political". This pose questions about with what purposes these actors enter the arena and how they use communication as a tool to achieve their goals. The purpose is to describe and explain why, and how, different political actors work with strategic communic

The purpose of this study was to explore how medical doctors and nurses in four different hospital work areas look upon the professional role of the hospital counsellor. I wanted to get an insight into how they understand the hospital counsellor’s position in the practise of caring as well as in the team. The questions I set out to answer also concerned the other professional’s expectations upon t

This thesis analyzes how the field of library and information science is constituted in 580 theses written between 2000-2010, by library and information science students at the three Swedish universities Borås, Uppsala and Lund. Furthermore, I investigate how the findings from the three universities differ from each other and how the results as a whole can be understood in relation to libraries an