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Nowadays, Chinese government tries to gain more sustainable and high speed growth on the economic performance with more innovation brought by improving intellectual property rights (IPR) system. A view on protecting IP by previous studies is that the effect of strength IPR on economic growth is not clear. There is no doubt that the IPR construction could bring both benefit and cost to China. In th
This thesis describes bio-ethanol production and use for transport fuel in Ethiopia, focusing on current status and potential, barriers, implications and recommendations for a sustainable market. The need for such research is justified as it paves the way for bio-ethanol development in Ethiopia towards a more sustainable path as challenges are surmounted. Bio-ethanol from molasses is identified in
Commercial banks can play an important role in environmental issues. Having a role of an intermediary in an economy, because of their importance for the business sector, commercial banks can influence and contribute to the healthy environment significantly. Still, the banking sector is slowly responding to environmental challenges in comparison to other sectors: banks’ direct impacts on the enviro
Fast development of energy efficient buildings is necessary to deal with growing and high levels of energy consumption and related environmental impacts in the Middle East countries including Iran and Israel. Design for climates such as hot arid and Mediterranean climates entails facing challenges regarding both heating and cooling energy demands in buildings. Since the late 70s, research has been
Volatility smile arising from the Black-Scholes model is a long studied subject in option pricing theory. By analysing higher order derivatives of the model, I hope to put another perspective to the problem. Accoridng to a study on the American S&P 500 future options, about 90% of the risks of holding an option in five days can be removed by using higher order derivatives of Black-Scholes. The
This paper examines the income differentials and characteristics relevant to the labour market of East-West migrants, West Germans and East-German stayers in Germany in 2006. This is done by using descriptive statistics as well as regression models based on the Human Capital theory by Becker and Mincer. The data used in this paper comes from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) of the German Institute
This study looks into the existing policy gap in the management of E-waste in the Philippines, by identifying the different barriers to – and drivers for – the adoption of E-waste management measures, through the perceptions of the different stakeholders involved in E-waste issues. Existing waste management policies in the country lack a specific framework for dealing with E-waste. This research e
This research investigates the current situation of bioenergy development in rural China from the business perspective. Biomass combustion power stations, medium and large biogas facilities, and household level biogas digesters are discussed in the research. In total 6 empirical case studies and interviews with different stakeholders are employed in the research. This thesis argues that the govern
The task aims to investigate if it is possible to produce two portion packages with the same technical equipment and cycle time as for the 1000 ml Carton Bottle package. The assigner is MSc Pär Andersson at Tetra Pak. The work followed Ulrich and Eppingers “front-end process” and started with an interpretation of the client needs translated to target specifications. Several package concepts were d
The purpose of this essay is to give further understanding of the relatively new phenomena Chinese popular nationalism. I will have my benchmark in traditional theory of civic and ethnic nationalism but also in popular nationalism theory and the from-culturalism-to-nationalism thesis. To further understand the identity shaping role of the populist movement in China I will separate it from official
Due to a German research project on slavery in antiquity, I became aware of the fact, that within the field of slavery and manumission a lot of research still needs to be done. 1 A university course on social identity inspired me later on and made me think about different identities; ‘being a slave’ was one of them. The habit of freeing slaves was so widely spread during the late Roman Republic an
Recent studies have shown that increased liquidity is perhaps not always strictly beneficial and that high trading volumes can produce trading noise causing increased volatility above that based on fundamentals. This study investigates whether this applies to the Swedish stock market by analyzing dual-class stocks that have the same cash flow rights but different control rights and different tradi
In English, there are specific verbs called posture verbs. They denote the posture of subjects and objects. To state whether an animate object is standing or sitting is hardly any trouble but how do we state inanimate objects? What determines their posture? These posture verbs denoting inanimate object are easily found in recipes, thus, this essay will examine which variables are the ones determin
Investigating the dynamics of blood flow is essential to understanding the cardiovascular system and its pathologies. Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PC-MRI) enables acquisition of 4-dimensional time resolved velocity experiments. Slice-by-slice analysis of the data is time consuming and cumbersome. In this master thesis a simple but eective algorithm for fully automatic visualization o
