The retail banking market in Sweden is highly concentrated and oligopolistic. This has been confirmed by numerous reports from different competition authorities within the EU, for example the Swedish competition authority. A considerably high number of different sorts of competition barriers has been pointed out in these reports. The competition barriers are mainly directed to the smaller banks and the potential competition. The retail banking market in Sweden is dominated by four major banks, which together has over 80 percent of all market shares.

This report describes a master thesis performed at Saab in Arboga. The main purpose was to build a controller for a system containing a turn table and an antenna beam. The idea is to use this system on a boat where it will be exposed to position disturbances due to waves. The desired behaviour is that antennas placed on the antenna beam should point towards the same target all the time. To solve this problem the system has been modeled and simulated in Matlab and Simulink.

The purpose of this essay is to examine Swedish HR-managers who have either received, or been nominated for, the award ?HR-manager of the Year?. We investigate the managers? personalities, how they think about their own role and HR?s function in the organization, all in an environment that can be characterized by some skepticism towards HR. We find the HR-managers to be ?winners?; strong individuals that are confident, communicative, and driven.

The aim of this study was to determine the basic movements of the riders? pelvis and upper body when riding in trot seated. The study was preformed at a treadmill with seven high level dressage horses and their riders. The movements of the horse and rider were captured with a motion analysis system (ProReflexÂź) and also recorded on video. The horses were ridden in collected trot, 3.0 m/s.

This essay comprises a study of the bridal crowns of Tjust, with respect to their national history, concept and aspect of mythological symbol. The tradition of bearing the parochial bridal crown is closely associated with religious medieval politics, and has also come to include elements of superstition and folklore. Attention is paid to these aspects dealing with the position of the bridal crown within current forms of tradition and culture and the impact on brides of this day and age. As the tradition of Church-owned bridal crowns is intrinsic to this country, and especially in the area of which Tjust is a part, possible solutions to the continued tradition are investigated..

Article 4.1(h) in the Rome I regulation establishes which law that will be applicable on contracts concerning financial instruments concluded in multilateral systems. The main problem is that most contracts concluded within these systems have standard clauses which contain a clause on the applicable law. If this is the case, Article 3.1 in the Rome I Regulation is applicable instead. This problem makes it difficult to find a need for article 4.1(h) if it will only be applicable in exceptional cases. However, the legal position on this matter is still unclear since the Rome I Regulation has just been put into force.

Detta arbete redogör för vilka arter som stÄr att finna pÄ ett av Alnarps sÄ kallade KinafÀlt och i vilken fysiologisk kondition de befinner sig i. VÀxterna position pÄ fÀltet Àr delvis baserad pÄ deras naturliga vÀxtplats elevationsmÀssigt (vÀst-östligt riktning pÄ fÀltet), och dels utifrÄn vilken akt i successionsordningen de infinner sig och kan konkurrera framgÄngsrikt (nord-sydlig riktning). Studien visar att majoriteten av vÀxtmaterialet Àr i gott skick och bör vidare utvÀrderas för eventuell anvÀndning i södra Sverige..

PÄ grund av den ökade konkurrensen pÄ vÀrldsmarknaden krÀvs det att företag stÀndigt utvecklas för att hÄlla sin position pÄ marknaden. NÀtverksstrukturen kan vara ett av mÄnga sÀtt att möta den hÄrda konkurrensen pÄ mellan företagen. Uppsatsen behandlar tvÄ nÀtverksorganisationer med olika strukturer och arbetssÀtt dÀr det ena företaget Àr uppbyggt utifrÄn ett franchisekoncept och det andra utifrÄn en federativ organisation samt strategisk allians. Syftet Àr att se hur organisationerna Àr uppbyggda samt belysa likheter och skillnader mellan dessa tvÄ företag. Uppsatsen bygger pÄ en kvalitativ ansats med djupgÄende intervjuer med tvÄ delÀgare i MÀkleriet AB och med VD:n i JK FörsÀkringar AB..

The purpose of this paper is to interpret two stories of creation and compare them to each other with focus on the gender perspective. The interpretation is generally limited to the creation of mankind and how women are represented in each particular story.  The stories I?m interpreting is the story of creation from the Holy Bible, the so called genesis, and from The Nag Hammadi Library?s story of creation called On the origin of the world. I want to show the difference between these two stories when it comes to the women?s position and in what level she is described.

Many sexual crime matters are in a difficult position when it comes to proof, where it's word against word between the parties. However, the legislation states that it's the offender's actions that are to be in focus for the judicial judgement, but often the focus is on the woman, whether she said no and how she acted in that particular situation (Sutorius & Kaldal, 2003).The purpose with this essay was to investigate the professionals' view of the raped woman and what image the professionals convey/construct of the legal proceedings she goes through. With professionals, we mean lawyers and other professionals that function as support or treatment contacts for raped women. The questions we considered to be relevant for our investigation were: What image of the raped woman do the professionals convey? What image of the crime rape do the professionals convey and what image do they convey/construct of the legal proceedings the woman goes through? How is the view of the raped woman constructed in society? We considered qualitative interviews mixed with earlier studies and theories to be the best investigative method for our purpose.

European cities of today are under the challenge to find ways to stay competitive and flourish in a rapidly changing world, where the old patterns of centrality and periphery not necessarily holds true. New and improved communication networks, a changed political geography in Europe, and the globalisation of not only the financial and industrial markets but also to a certain extent the globalisation of people, have all led to great challenges for cities and regions.In a changed spatial reality the classic monocentric models are challenged by newer models of urbanisation. The polycentric urban region is one such model which has been used to describe urban regions like the Randstad in the Netherlands and the Rhein-Ruhr region in Germany. Regions which lack the single dominant central city of the monocentric models of old, and instead shows a high degree of more equal-sized and sometimes more specialised cities in regional cooperation. The polycentric urban region is in that aspect a possible model for how other urbanised regions in Europe may act to be able to position themselves as attractive urban regions and regional hubs in the European urban network.Polycentric urban regions are not a universal solution, though.

According to science internal communication is a complicated, yet very important, issue of organizations today. An organization with a successful internal communication shows better results both economically and in terms of coworker satisfaction. The two main theories on communication are sensemaking and transmission. After a century with a transmissionary point of view, researchers stress the importance of sensemaking internal communication.Main question of this thesis is ?Which of the two main theories is the most useful when anchoring important messages in large organizations??According to the results of this study, conducted by interviews, neither one is more useful than the other.

Syfte: Att utveckla ett starkt varuma?rke a?r ett sa?tt fo?r fo?retag att utma?rka sig fra?n ma?ngden, vilket idag a?r no?dva?ndigt pa? grund av den sta?ndigt o?kande konkurrenssituationen. Varuma?rket anses vara ett av fo?retagens mest va?rdefulla tillga?ngar men a?r problematiska att va?rdera. Problematiken beror bland annat pa? att va?rdet pa? varuma?rken pa?verkas av flertalet olika faktorer, da?ribland fo?retagets innovationsfo?rma?ga.

Detta arbete undersöker och presenterar en lösning för berÀkning av nedslagsposition hos fallande objekt givet okompletta mÀtdata frÄn ett antal olika mÀtsystem. Arbetet Àr utfört Ät Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) pÄ Robotförsöksplats Norrland (RFN) dÀr man ofta har behov av att Äterfinna provobjekt efter nedslag i terrÀngen. Lösningen pÄ problemet har varit att Ärligen avsÀtta en stor grupp mÀnniskor till att gÄ skallgÄng genom stora arealer skog. Den föreslagna lösningen som utgör detta examensarbete Àr ett program som ger en förutspÄdd nedslagskoordinat tillsammans med kvalitetsmÄtt pÄ mÀtningarna. DÀrmed ges betydligt bÀttre förutsÀttningar för ett snabbt upphittande..

I dagens samhÀlle har det blivit allt viktigare för företag att kommunicera effektivt med olika grupper av intressenter i omgivningen. Börsnoterade företags Ärsredovisningar och kvartalsrapporter anvÀnds numera som ett medium dÀr företaget kommunicerar mer Àn bara finansiell information. Företagen anvÀnder detta medium till att kommunicera sina synliga strategier till marknaden. En vÀl fungerande strategi ligger till grund för att ett företag ska lyckas prestera bra. En framgÄngsrik strategi mÄste bland annat kunna förÀndras dÄ omgivningen förÀndras.