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This paper investigates whether inflation series are mean-reverting. Traditional unit root tests (ADF and KPSS tests) are conducted in the paper. These tests indicate that inflation contains a unit root. It is however well-known that traditional unit root tests have difficulties to distinguish between a unit root process and a fractionally integrated process. Hence, in this thesis, fractional inte

It is argued that philosophers who adopt the perdurance theory of persistence and who subscribe to the principle of Unrestricted Mereological Composition (UMC) are in a position to regard "Phosphorus is Hesperus'' as false.

The aim of the present study is to identify the extent to which English conceptual metaphors presented in Lakoff (1980 & 1987) apply in the framework of Japanese. In addition to that, certain Japanese conceptual metaphors not present in English are identified and analyzed. The study uses mainly a corpus of written Japanese and a two dictionaries as data sources. The results have shown that the

Different types of biogenic remains, ranging from siliceous algae to carbonate precipitates, accumulate in the sediments of lakes and other aquatic ecosystems. Unicellular algae called diatoms, which form a siliceous test or frustule, are an ecologically and biogeochemically important group of organisms in aquatic environments and are often preserved in lake or marine sediments. When diatoms accum

This book is about the relation between philosophy and organization in so far as it concerns organization studies. The book, then, revolves round the interplay between philosophy, organization and organization studies. The purpose is both to ask philosophically the question ‘What is organization?’ and to question the importance of this kind of philosophical questioning for the field of organizatio

In this paper we provide new evidence showing that fair behavior is intuitive to most people. We find a strong association between a short response time and fair behavior in the dictator game. This association is robust to controls that take account of the fact that response time might be affected by the decision-maker’s cognitive ability and swiftness. The experiment was conducted with a large an

Idag konsumeras det som aldrig förr, samtidigt som hållbarhetsfrågan tar allt större utrymme i debatten kring konsumtion. Det har lett till att konsumenten söker efter andra konsumtionsalternativ, ur vilket fenomenet delningsekonomin har växt fram. Delningsekonomin har i många fall betraktats som ett optimistiskt konsumtionsalternativ, eftersom det för med sig mindre klimatpåverkan än den traditio

This paper examines the relationship between the ESG-score, including its pillars Environment, Social and Governance and market return from July 2002 through June 2018 by using the Stoxx Europe 600 index. The comparison is done by applying a portfolio approach and panel data fixed effect approach. By comparing some of the most used multifactor models, the CAPM and Fama- French three-factor model w

Syfte: Studien ämnar öka förståelsen för kunskapsöverföring, närmare exakt överföring eller transformation av så kallad tyst kunskap till explicit kunskap. Metod: Studien är en kvalitativ fallstudie som antar ett hermeneutiskt angreppssätt med ett tolkande perspektiv. Metoden kan närmast beskrivas som abduktiv med starka induktiva inslag. Empirin är insamlad genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. T

HIV är ett stort och dödligt problem speciellt i Afrika söder om Sahara. HIV positiva kvinnor kan under graviditet, förlossning och genom amning föra smittan vidare till sina barn. Studiens syfte var att belysa olika omvårdnadsproblem avseende HIV smitta och uppfödning via amning och bröstmjölksersättning till spädbarn i Afrika. Studien gjordes som en litteraturstudie bestående av 10 vetenskapliga

The effects of a driver assistance system for keeping safe speed and safe distance (referred to as SASPENCE) on driver behaviour, reactions and acceptance were evaluated in a test carried out in 2006. Twenty test drivers, recruited by ads, drove two times (once with the system off and once with the system on) in real traffic conditions along a 50 km long test route containing urban and rural roads