Individual inventors have played an important role in shaping modern economic growth with their inventions. However, the upsurge in corporate and institutionalised research and development (R&D) has overshadowed the individual inventor in both academia and policy research. In Sweden, the individual inventor continues to provide socially and environmentally beneficial innovations that solve pro

Forskning visar nu entydigt att den globala genomsnittstemperaturen stiger och att antropogena växthusgasutsläpp i stor utsträckning är orsaken till detta. Medan klimatförändringen är en global angelägenhet, är det också en fråga om stor orättvisa. De utvecklade länderna har generellt sett bidragit mest till klimatförändringarna, men effekterna kommer att bli värre för dem som har bidragit minst. Scientific findings now unequivocally show that the global average temperature is rising and that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are largely responsible for this. While climate change is a global concern, it is also a concern of great injustice. Developed countries have generally contributed most to the climate changes, but the impacts will strike harder on those who have contributed least

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among the female population in Sweden. Genomic mutations of patients are a very important source of information for treatment choice and outcome prediction. RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has become the de facto standard for expression profiling and can also be used for the detection of genomic variants. However, RNA-seq-based variant detection suffers fro

In recent years, the awareness and concern for operational risk in financial institutions have increased, and several disastrous events in the last two decades been caused by human error. With this, the regulatory demands have increased on the financial institutions to control operational risk. One operational risk that Svenska Handelsbanken AB (SHB) has detected are the audit changes of trades wh

This thesis project named AI (Artificial Intelligence) begun from a curiosity about the history of mankind and the potential future which awaits us within the ever expanding realm of technology. The project is based the latest published work from Max Tegmark, Life 3.0 (2017), Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind (2011) and part two Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow (2015).

I denna uppsats studerar jag om hur unga kvinnliga entreprenörer konstruerar entreprenörskap. Jag undersöker hur genus formar unga kvinnors erfarenheter inom entreprenörskap och hur så kallade inkubatorer bidrar till genuskonstruktionen av entreprenörskap. Studien är baserad på etnografiska data i form av intervjuer och observationer. Med hjälp av begreppen “genusperformativitet” och “hegemonisk mIn this thesis, I study how young women entrepreneurs construct entrepreneurship. Specifically, I look at how gender structures entrepreneurial practice for young women and how incubators contribute to the gendered construction of entrepreneurship. The study is based on ethnographic data in the form of interviews and observations. I draw on the theoretical concepts of “gender performativity” and “

Abstract The amortization requirement stipulates that all new mortgages will be amortized in the interval between 50-70 per cent of the residence value; an additional, stricter, amortization applies if the mortgage exceeds 450 per cent of the individual´s gross annual income. The stricter amortization requirement is brand new, implemented the 1st of March 2018. This action was introduced when t

Non-communicable, or chronic, diseases (NCDs) are the major contributors to the mortality worldwide. In Ukraine, where the primary causes of deaths are chronic cardiovascular diseases, a healthcare domain suffers from insufficient financial provision, facilities and resources, and the lack of attention to social aspects of poor health conditions. The aim of this research is to explore social conse

This thesis aimed to develop a deeper understanding for the interplay between cultural integration and employees’ organisational identification in a cross-border post-acquired firm and how the employees account for their organisational identification five years after an acquisition. A qualitative research method based on a hermeneutics epistemology and a constructionist ontological perspective wa

Att E-handeln ökat stort de senaste åren har inte gått ouppmärksammat och dess inslag har märkts både privat och inom näringslivet. Den fysiska handeln har ändrats handel via internet vilket är en utveckling från byteshandel som var en av de tidigaste handelsformerna. Sedan internet, och E-handelns, lansering i början av 1990-talet har utvecklingen gått snabbt och de senaste tjugo åren har omsättnThe fact that e-commerce has increased significantly in recent years has not gone unnoticed, and its features have been marked in both private life as well as in business. The physical commerce has changed to an increased shopping through the internet, which is a development of the trade of goods that was one of the earliest commercial forms. Since the internet, and thereby the E-commerce, was lau

Sammanfattning Handeln har traditionell sett haft sitt fäste i stadskärnorna men har sedan 1990-talet haft en svag utveckling i jämförelse med externhandeln och e-handeln. Externhandeln är förvisso pressad av konkurrensen från andra handelsplatser men är fortfarande en tuff konkurrent till cityhandeln. Trots detta har externhandeln expanderat de senaste åren och numera finns det köpcentrum och hanTraditionally, city commerce has always had a strong foothold in Swedish cities. However, in recent years the city commerce has experienced a weaker growth in comparison with external shopping and e-commerce. While the external shopping sector is experiencing competition from its own sector and e-commerce and struggles with an over-supply of malls it’s still a tough competitor to city commerce. De

The Asian tigers have been a tremendous case of economic success for decades. The economic financial crisis of 1997 put this to a test and they clearly passed it. This dissertation tries to unveil whether the same factors that led to the growth path in the 1960s, the so-called East Asian Miracle, are still responsible for overcoming the crisis. By means of factor analysis and a set of multivariate

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att dels prova en ny observatörsskala, kallad TRICS, Therapist Relational and Interactional Competence Scale, för att mäta terapeuters förhållningssätt och beteende under en given terapisession och undersöka dess psykometriska egenskaper och dels undersöka bedömares subjektiva upplevelser av att använda skalan. Den psykometriska analysen baserades på tjugo videoi

In order to fight climate change and meet the Paris Agreement to keep the global temperature rise below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, there is an urgent need to change the dominant way of producing and consuming energy worldwide. However, governing an energy transition is a complex and challenging task, as different actors and interests clash on different levels. In this study, I have a closer

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and pre-trained word embeddings have revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) during the last years. In this project, CNNs are used on top of the Word2Vec word representation for a sentence classification task on medical research articles. Both individual networks for each category as well as a combined classification network are optimized

Syfte och frågeställning: Syftet med studien är att försöka ta reda på varför vårdtagare väljer att söka vård online genom videosamtal samt hur vårdupplevelsen påverkas av att vårdbesöket är medierat. För att uppfylla vårt syfte frågade vi oss vilka som var de huvudsakliga motiven till att vårdtagare kontaktar vårdgivare genom videosamtal samt hur vårdtagare upplever det medierade vårdbesöket. Me

This essay focuses on experiences of sexual harassment / abuse taken from www.minnen.se which tellstheir stories in a narrative form. The experiences shared via minnen.se are largely positive. The focus is circuit on upset feelings and displeasure of a more or less social accepted behavior, and lack of trust in the legal system. To handle the material, a criminological and sociological perspective

Att retorik och demokrati går hand i hand är ingen hemlighet. Denna uppsats ämnar belysa relationen mellan retorik och demokrati, och hur retorik kan bidra till implementeringen av det demokratiska uppdraget i ämnet svenska på gymnasiet. Genom en innehållsanalys synliggörs retorikteorins demokratiska potential, vilken utgörs av två framträdande perspektiv på retorik: att föra sin talan och att för

The Swedish city of Malmö has a problem with crime, which is shown in official statistics. However, the crime rates in other comparable Swedish cities are very similar. Despite this fact Malmö is depicted as a more dangerous city by the media, and this image of Malmö has been internalised by many. This study aims, using a qualitative method, to look into whether employees at the municipality of Ma

Company-driven initiatives to collaborate with startups are increasingly arising as a reaction to the competitive landscape of today, influenced by globalization, digitalization, and an increased demand for open innovation practices. Startups constitute a major source of innovation and have the ability to overthrow current technologies and business models. Due to vast differences, and the compleme