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This thesis evaluates the risk parity and tail-risk parity approach against conventional weight budgeting approach. The risk parity and tail-risk parity approach, in contrast to weight budgeting approach, is about distributing the risk between the asset classes in the portfolio. The risk, is traditionally measured in terms of volatility together with the assumption that returns follows a Gaussian
This project is a proposal for structural construction through fabrication and assembly of 3D-printed ceramic bricks developed side by side with a metaphysical investigation into the potential to express the living nature of matter through its material and formal attributes. Through an explorative process in the intersection of craft and digital fabrication, we have developed a system for LDM extr
Enligt den gällande lydelsen av våldtäktsbestämmelsen går gränsen för straffbarhet vid huruvida målsägandens deltagande är frivilligt eller inte. Att fokus i bestämmelsen ligger på bristande frivillighet medför att svåra bedömningar måste göras av den tilltalades uppsåt. Det ska inte enbart göras en bedömning av den tilltalades mentala tillstånd vid gärningstillfället, utan dennes insikt ska även According to the current wording of the rape provision in Swedish law, the dividing line for criminal liability lies in whether the injured party’s participation was voluntary or not. The fact that the provision focuses on lack of consent entails that difficult assessments must be made regarding the defendant’s intent. It is not only a matter of assessing the defendant's mental state at the ti
This project will analyze the current situation for fiber routing. It will research how well planned excavations on the roads and their restorations are today. The project will also study how often road reinforcements and fiber routing are applied simultaneously and how experts perceive the situation. The project is carried out in the municipality of Svalöv who are currently building a fiber netwo
I maj 2022 beslutade regeringen kommittédirektiv om effektiv beskattning av orealiserade kapitalvinster, när fysiska personer flyttar ut från Sverige. Utredaren ombads undersöka möjligheten att ersätta tioårsregeln med en utflyttningsskatt, för att säkerställa att vinster som upparbetas i landet, även beskattas här. Nuvarande skattesystem med tioårsregeln dränerar den svenska skattebasen och utgörIn May 2022, the Government appointed an inquiry by committee directive on effective taxation of unrealised capital gains, when individuals emigrate from Sweden. The special commissioner was requested to consider the possibility of replacing the current tax system regarding extended tax liability, the so-called ten-year rule, by exit taxation, to ensure that profits generated in Sweden also are su
This thesis explores the diverging trend of preschool teacher-child ratio in Swedish municipal preschools and the conditions behind this development. Despite a long tradition of public childcare in Sweden, the government and municipalities report a shortage of preschool teachers, a profession essential for satisfying the pedagogical mission inscribed in the Swedish preschool curricula. In the ligh
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate if a CEO with finance and accounting working experiences would affect corporate hedging decisions, in terms of the decision to hedge, the extent of hedging, and the type of hedging tools used. This thesis uses panel data regressions where the hedge ratio, binary hedging decisions and hedging types are dependent variables, controlled by independent varia
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The growing need for renovations is one of the key challenges within the Swedish multifamily rental stock. Sustainable development is essential and renovations affect all three major categories of sustainability, the social, economic and ecological factors. All buildings need to be remodeled sooner or later – the question is only when and how. With this in mind it is important to understand how re
Denna uppsats utreder förhållandet mellan entreprenadrättsliga ÄTA-arbeten och upphandlingsrättsliga regler gällande ändringar i ett upphandlat kontrakt under dess löptid. I ett entreprenadavtal tillerkänns beställaren principiellt en vidsträckt ändringsbefogenhet. Denna ändringsbefogenhet tar sig i standardavtalen AB 04 och ABT 06 form av beställarens rätt att föreskriva tilläggsarbete, ändringsaThis thesis aims to investigate the relationship between rules regarding the possibility to amend a contract in civil construction law and public procurement rules regarding changes of a contract during its term. In Swedish standard-form contracts the constructor is given the right to order additional works or changes to the contract works, commonly abbreviated as ÄTA-works. According to the stand
This article presents new estimates of the material living standards among the rural population in southern Sweden from the 1670s up to 1865. The development of rural consumer patterns over the period is analyzed using a newly constructed database of 1665 probate inventories from three benchmark periods. It finds that that all rural households, no matter their socioeconomic status, diversified theThis article presents new estimates of the material living standards among the rural population in southern Sweden from the 1670s up to 1865. The development of rural consumer patterns over the period is analyzed using a newly constructed database of 1665 probate inventories from three benchmark periods. It finds that that all rural households, no matter their socioeconomic status, diversified the
This paper proposes an alternative semi-analytical Fourier modal method adapted for general periodic anisotropic gratings made of dielectrics with moderate to low index profiles corresponding to materials ranging from conventional dielectric 3D printing materials to ceramic materials. The proposed method is closely related to classical Rigorous Coupled-Wave Analysis built on scattering matrices, h
The aim of this working paper is to expand the range of pedagogical tools for teaching statistics to social work students, by introducing an innovative tool that is based on the factorial survey and intended for practicing statistical analysis. The factorial survey, which was pioneered by the American sociologist Peter Rossi around 45 years ago, involves the use of experimentally constructed ficti
Background: To support care after discharge following surgery for anorectal malformations (ARM) and Hirschsprung's disease (HD), an eHealth device was invented, offering families bilateral communication through chat, photo, questionaries and video. Aim: To explore the impact of eHealth on postoperative patterns of expert consultation, complications and treatment after discharge following surgery f
With the emergence of autonomous vehicles comes the requirement of adequate and rigorous testing, particularly in critical scenarios that are both challenging and potentially hazardous. Generating synthetic simulation-based critical scenarios for testing autonomous vehicles has therefore received considerable interest, yet it is unclear how such scenarios relate to the actual crash or near-crash s
This paper presents a low-profile, single-layer, broadband, polarization-reconfigurable metasurface antenna with a low radar cross section (RCS). The design leverages characteristic mode analysis (CMA) applied to a staggered elliptical-shaped unit cell metasurface. The unique arrangement of the elliptical-shaped elements, oriented at 90°, promotes mode fusion through CMA, effectively reducing RCS.
Visual assessment of medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA) in the clinical workup of cognitive impairment is traditionally corrected for age since MTA increases with age. In addition, common pathologies in the elderly such as amyloid, tau, alpha-synuclein and TDP-43 accumulation as well as white matter hyperintensities representing small vessel disease may affect the association between MTA and age.
A wideband, compact monopolar patch antenna with an inherent filtering response is presented in this paper. By employing a slot-assisted mode-tailoring technique, the field distributions of several higher-order modes at the patch center are engineered to produce a stable monopolar radiation pattern with enhanced bandwidth. The closed-form analysis indicates that increasing the current intensity at
The saturation of the IJTAG concept and its approval as the IEEE 1687 standard in 2014 has generated a wave of research activities and created demand for a set of appropriate and challenging benchmarks. This paper presents such a set developed by an industrial and academic consortium and constructed in a way that facilitates objective comparison of experimental results across research groups as we
This paper proposes an alternative semi-analytical Fourier modal method adapted for general periodic anisotropic gratings made of dielectrics with moderate to low index profiles corresponding to materials ranging from conventional dielectric 3D printing materials to ceramic materials. The proposed method is closely related to the classical rigorous coupled wave analysis built on scattering matrice
