"Principal Components Regression" (PCREG), also sometimes called "biased regression methods" is used to model data with highly correlated explanatory variables. This well-known method has been discussed by multiple previous authors (Marquardt 1970, Hoerl and Kennard 1970, Lott 1973, Hawkins 1973, Webster, Grace and Mason 1974, Hoerl, Kennard and Baldwin 1975, Marquardt and Snee

The purpose of the present study was to examine school psychologists’ perceptions about their own as well as other school professionals’ involvement in, and preparation for, crisis management in the schools. This was to be achieved by taking into consideration various demographic variables of interest. A total of 359 members of the Swedish Association of Preschool and School Psychologists (PSIFOS)

Europe has established the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, from the early years of the construction of the EU as a tool against rural poverty and food deficit. As the years passed by CAP became more goal oriented towards the economic growth and development of each country. The latest development known as Agenda 2000 opted for a competitive agriculture led by the international market powers and fo

Volkswagenkoncernen har utan tvekan lyckats att diversifiera och profilera de varumärken som nämns i uppsatsen. Vad som dock bör understrykas är att det är i sin helhet som koncernen fungerar bäst. Vart bilmärke är, utifrån Volkswagenkoncernens direktiv, profilerade på ett sådant sätt att de konkurrerar så lite som möjligt internt med varandra utan snarare tillsammans täcker ett stort utbud. Samti

Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats är att försöka utvärdera hur grundare i tre olika klädföretag fattar beslut under deras företagsetablering. Detta hoppas vi skall försöka bidra till en ökad förståelse för hur beslutprocessen ser ut i nyetablerade företag samt, vilka faktorer som påverkar denna process. Vi har genomfört en abduktiv fallstudie där primärdata samlats in genom kvalitativa intervjuer i

The cultural board of region Skåne decided fall of 2008 to reorganize the fundings of the cultural pedagogy. What the reorganization implicates is that the everyday practice of the pedagogues will not be paid for by the region, and instead the pedagogues will focus on capacity building and competence maintaining towards all of those who work pedagogically with children. They will work in five diff

Education is a basic welfare pillar. Education in schools influence and is influenced by society and politics. Democratic education is the alternative that the students seek in many countries where there is an authoritarian education system like Greece my country of origin. The idea of the present Master thesis topic emerged out of my studies in the Master program of Global studies at Lund Univer

One reason for poverty is that many people are denied access to financial markets. A new alternative way of providing credit to people living in a vulnerable economic situation is microfinance. Microfinance has often been a success story and one explanation has often been the impact of social capital. This thesis investigates the relationship between social capital and microfinance. Do individual

Green movement has started in the 1970s and gained popularity in the 1980s. Its expansion continued to grow even more in the 1990s. Today, in 2010, environmental issues are parts of political agenda, and everyday life. It has become a must to consider environmental aspects in design processes. Green design has gained enormous importance as well as green consumption and green marketing over the yea

This thesis provides an analysis of three photographs from the New Mothers-series by Rineke Dijkstra, which serve as a point of entry for a discussion on how the maelstrom of visual expressions surrounding the contemporary subject is transforming his/her experience of what is real in relation to visual expressions. In the exploration, the concept of “the real” is examined in its construction and a

The purpose of this study was to examine school counselors’ constructions of the honor related problems as well as their constructions of their own and the school´s role in relation to these problems. The aim was also to learn about the wider social consequences of the school counselors’ constructions. I was interested in learning about the meaning and significations the school counselors use in t

This study is an assessment of the functioning of the three year old Transparency Mechanism. The mechanism has a surveiling role in the WTO of the Regional Trade Agreements (RTA). Formation of RTAs has been increasing rapidly during the latest twenty years, causing a tension in the multilateral trading system. RTAs give more preferable treatment to parties within the agreement than to trading part

Offending images are representations that hurt people’s feelings deeply. My thesis deals with the way in which people read and interpret these offending images. It becomes important to understand what makes some viewers vulnerable to a certain image thereby provoking strong reactions against it. The aim is to put myself at the receiving end, in the place of those who are offended and look at the i

This thesis is dedicating to analysis the contribution of Knutpunkten building which is located in Helsingborg southern Sweden with regards to its visual impact role on the society and environment from its visual appearance of the elements of design mainly colour and light element. Different philosophical conceptions of colour and light from different theoretician notion is using as a main empiric

Animals are often used in advertising, especially in commercials. When given human characteristics, and used in several commercials over a longer period of time, anthropomorphic animal spokespersons are born. These animals are neither real animals nor humans. They are hybrids, or fake animals. Fake in the sense that they are fictive, they lack an existing model and they are an assembly of many thi

Denna studie har som syfte att undersöka om och på vilka sätt vuxna utlandsadopterade erfar rasism och särbehandling på grund av deras utomeuropeiska utseende, samt hur deras adoptivföräldrar har talat om och hanterat deras kroppsliga annanhet i relation till, och frågor rörande rasism och diskriminering. Undersökningen utgår ifrån en litteraturstudie och fyra intervjuer med vuxna adopterade. En t

Sett till senaste finanskrisen kan konstateras att oroligheterna på marknaden haft stor påverkan på oljepriset och i synnerhet West Texas Intermediate (WTI), vilken jag valt att titta på. Tydliga signaler pekar på relevansen av att kunna prognostisera oanade utfall (risk). En metod som är vanligt förekommande vid prognostisering av risk är Value at Risk (VaR), vilken summerar risken till ett enda

With this thesis we want to prove that by using a single formula for picking stocks, Joel Greenblatt’s ‘’Magic Formula’’, it is possible to achieve returns higher than those achieved by a related index. To prove this, we will construct a portfolio, according to “The Magic Formula”, and backtest the portfolio in the Swedish stock market. The test period will be March 1999 to January 2010 and we wil

This thesis provides an analysis about the issue that how national identity is constructed and approached by Swedish domestic design works. The case studies mainly focus on the products from two companies in Sweden. They are the porcelain of Gustavsberg AB and the domestic design of Svenskt Tenn AB. Majority of the empirical material was collected by the author through the visit of these two compa

As the representation of people’s identity, dress reveals people’s characteristics, social status and most importantly, how people want to be “looked like”. The same theory can be applied to film costume, which is not only a purely visual spectacle but also an important element to sustain the entire film. Film costume on one hand helps to form the concepts and images of different characters and th