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Numerous electronic travel aids (ETAs) to increase the mobility of blind or low-vision (BLV) individuals have been proposed. However, the lack of established and well-motivated methods, and of recruiting enough BLV test participants, keeps a successful aid illusory. To combat this, a new aid-agnostic questionnaire focused on mobility, the Desire of Use Questionnaire for Mobility of BLV individuals

The purpose of this essay is to examine kitsch in high culture and Jeff Koons’ and Thomas Kinkade’s relationship to kitsch in their art and artistry and how this relationship affects their status as artists. The study is a comparative analysis based on institutional and sociocultural theory. Tools from Pierre Bourdieu’s study of fields are used methodologically to examine the artists positions in

Purpose: This thesis mainly aims to investigate how an open and encouraging approach to customer complaints can affect churn in software as a service companies. This by examining how the approach affects the presentation of complaints, dissatisfaction, negative word-of-mouth and customers repurchase intention followed by a service failure. Methodology: The thesis applies a quantitative approach c

Denna studie ämnar undersöka matbud från ett av de största matbudsföretagen i Sverige. Deras uppfattningar om sitt arbete, deras identitet och synen på det egna arbetets uppfattade status i samhället. Med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra matbudsarbetare från ett av det största matbudsföretaget i Sverige undersöktes tre huvudteman: uppfattning om den egna arbetssituationen, Vilka referensgr

The aim of this essay was to understand young people´s approach towards the digital environment during the covid-19 pandemic, when their physical education relocated into the digital environment and their homes. A form of teaching they have never faced before, which can be equated as almost an experiment. This one-year master thesis includes a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews. Eig

Den här uppsatsen är en komparativ studie mellan originalmanuset till och slutversionen av filmen Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019), tillsammans med en djupgående undersökning av den instrumentala filmmusikens uppbyggnad utifrån Claudia Gorbman och Pauline Reays tankar om den instrumentala musikens roll i filmtexten. Baserat på resultaten av dessa analyser görs sedan en tolkning av filmen med utgångspunThis thesis is a comparative study of the original script for the film Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019) and the final cut of the film, along with a close examination of the structure of instrumental score for the film, using Claudia Gorbman and Pauline Reay’s ideas on the impact of the instrumental score on the film text. From the results of this analysis an interpretation of the film is then made, usi

The purpose of this study is to investigate if a CRE sale and lease back transaction generates a positive abnormal return on the lessee’s stock value, by using event study methodology. Furthermore, the probable relationship between the positive abnormal return and the transaction value, as well as the cash flow is investigated by using linear regression. A short term as well as a long term perspec

Syftet med denna studie är att vi vill beskriva vad de skärpta reglerna i lag (SFS 2009:62) om åtgärder mot penningtvätt och finansiering av terrorism innebär för revisorer. Vi vill även diskutera om och hur revisorerna fullföljer det ansvar som följer med lagstiftningen. Empirin består av sju semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Fyra intervjuer är gjorda med representanter från revisionsbyråer och tre

The growing focus on customer relationship forces enterprises to tailor their processes in a more customer oriented way. The concept of customer relations is a topic of marketing studies, but it has strong implications on organization studies because of its role in the formation of employee understanding. “Customer orientation” is said to be at the very heart of the IKEA way, especially in Returns

The aim of the thesis is to establish what impact the selected push- and pull factors had on the total number of emigrants and three chosen professional groups, farmers, factory workers and maids, who emigrated from five different Swedish counties between the years of 1870 and 1900. Analysis will also cover responses of the professional subgroups, such as the rural/urban- and female/male professio

Problem discussion: How should information be handled to facilitate and benefit from modularity? How should Clarkson Inc. adapt their information handling to modularity and what benefits can be reaped by doing this? Purpose: The purpose of this master thesis is to help Clarkson Inc. adapt their information handling to modularity and to extract theories, methods and tools to guide companies in simi

The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding of the dynamics behind Chinese-Western buyer-supplier relationships. The study takes on a partially inductive approach by commencing with exploratory in-depth interviews. The main body of the study consists of a cross-sectional survey. Data has been collected through an on-line questionnaire. The theoretical review consists of industrial re