In this day and age we carry out our purchases through different channels. We can shop our clothes and computers in a store or online. Nowadays we can even purchase our groceries through the Internet. The biggest retailer chains within groceries in Sweden have established virtual stores online and are distributing the goods in cities throughout the country. This thesis is dedicated to investigating crucial success factors when going about selling groceries online. Our main research question for this study is “How should a grocery design their business if they want to be successful selling groceries online”. To answer this question we have used a qualitative method when we carried out our empirical research. We conducted interviews with directors and managers of stores who sell groceries online as well as in stores who don’t. The focus of the study has been on those interviews but we have also gathered relevant models and theories from areas like e-commerce. Our findings have shown us that a grocery who wants to be successful with a virtual store needs to have the right size and location. Furthermore we have concluded that a store needs specific equipment as well as a thought out information systems. We hope our findings can work as a blueprint for the store that wants to sell groceries through the Internet.

The oratorio, La Resurrezione (1708) is considered by many to represent the summary of George Frederic Handel's Italian compositions. This achievement would not have been realized without the support of Handel's young and ambitious Roman patron, Francesco Ruspoli. The money and effort that Ruspoli spent on the staging of this oratorio confirm that it was planned as the climax for the Easter musical festivities in 1708. The preliminary chapters of this thesis present the background to the presentation of La Resurrezione and include discussions on Handel's presence in Rome, his relationship with Ruspoli, the role of the Accademia dell' Arcadia, and a biography of Carlo Capece, the librettist of the oratorio. Musical issues relating to the oratorio are discussed in chapter four. These include: manuscript sources, the performers of the work, and Handel's musical response to Capece's libretto. The use of a buffo bass (and the notion of Lucifer as a comic character) is traced back to the mid-seventeenth-century. The focus of chapter five is on the music of La Resurrezione, and on examples of Handel's subsequent re-use of the music. As well, the stimuli that prompted Handel to refer to a particular borrowing source are examined. Often a similar dramatic situation prompted Handel's recollection of a previous source; at other times a comparable textual affect, a similar phrase or even a single word in common provided the stimulus for borrowing. The five borrowing groupings discussed in the chapter are chosen because they represent the various means that prompted Handel's recollection of a previous source. Each grouping is organized by an appropriate term which reinforces the argument that it is a textual word, phrase or affect that is the key to understanding the borrowings. A consideration of the borrowings highlights Handel's great talent for portraying people and varying dramatic situations.

This thesis explores the relationship between Handel's borrowing practice and his creation of a new genre---the English Biblical oratorio. It focuses on the types of borrowing, the genres Handel borrowed from, and the use of self-borrowing vs. borrowing from other composers. A comprehensive list of borrowings discovered in Handel's Biblical oratorios (Appendix A) allows the patterns in Handel's borrowing practice and the evolution of the genre to be revealed and discussed. / Chapter One provides a review of the literature on Handel's borrowing in general and the historical roots of Handel's Biblical oratorios. Chapter Two looks at the scholarly treatment of Handel's borrowing, and goes on to discuss specific musical examples of three borrowing types: Type I (reuse), Type II (rework), and Type III (new work). The final chapter identifies borrowing patterns that emerge in Handel's early, middle, and late Biblical oratorios. The borrowing type shifts from Type I to Type III, whereas the genres borrowed from change from sacred choral works to secular operas. Self-borrowings dominate in his early oratorios, drastically decrease in the middle period, and increase again in the late period.

The World Trade Organization has its own binding dispute settlement system. To ensure compliance with the outcome of the dispute settlement procedures, the claimant Member is authorized to retaliate in case the respondent Member fails to comply within a certain period of time. However, the rules and procedures regarding retaliation and determination of compliance are ambiguous and have caused an interpretational problem called the sequencing problem. To address the problem, the parties to any dispute generally conclude bilateral ad hoc procedural agreements. However, by examining the procedural agreements concluded to date and by analyzing the potential problems of these agreements, this thesis concludes that due to the dependence on the will of the parties and the uncertain legal status of the agreements, the procedural agreements do not constitute a satisfactory method for addressing the sequencing problem. Alternatives such as amendments to the dispute settlement rules, an authoritative interpretation of them or ― if consensus cannot be reached soon ― clarification by means of a precedent from the Appellate Body, should be considered and attempted.

Syftet med studien är att ta reda på hur och på vilka sätt modeföretag kan marknadsföra sig via digitala medier för att skapa närmare kontakt och påverka kundernas köpbeteende. Undersökningen är baserad på en kvalitativ metod i form av sex intervjuer. Intervjuerna bygger på fyra huvudgrupper i processen av användandet av digitala medier. Respondenterna som medverkat i intervjuerna är alla på något sätt aktiva eller har kunskap inom digitala medier. Studien visar på en problematisering om huruvida utvecklingen av digitala medier påverkar modeföretag eller inte. Samhällets digitalisering innebär både negativa och positiva effekter för modeföretagen. De positiva effekterna inkluderar bland annat möjligheten för modeföretag att ha en snabb kommunikation med kunderna, samt att det går oerhört snabbt att nå ut med budskap till omvärlden. Baksidan av detta är att även negativa budskap sprids lika fort, samt att kunden ställer högre krav på att modeföretag ska vara kontaktbara dygnet runt. Resultatet av studien är att digitala medier är en otrolig tillgång för modeföretag, framförallt gällande kommunikation med kunder och marknadsföring.

Denne oppgaven tar for seg den økonomiske betydningen Spania hadde for Norge i mellomkrigstiden. Hovedfokuset er betydningen under borgerkrigen i Spania 1936-1939.

The sacred oratorio Jephtha, Handel's last major work, contains intense drama, impressive character development and a brilliant use of music. In studying the work one discovers not only a masterpiece of art, but also learns a great deal about the composer who, through his music, discloses much of his soul. From a formal point of view key schemes are important.There are different editions of this score; some are more reliable than others. When studying the score one should be aware of the significant number of borrowings present in this work; these include borrowings from Handel's own works as well as from works of others.It is important for every musician to be familiar with the Baroque style as its study will be necessary in performance of music of that period. There are many things to consider when determining a Baroque interpretation of this work. These include style of wind and string playing, phrasing, pitch, ornamentation, instrumentation, and tone quality. It has become common practice, in performance of a Baroque work, to strive towards achieving a recreation of the original performance of the seventeenth or eighteenth century. / School of Music

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur svenska e-handlare bygger strategier för att nå den internationella kunden. Författarna finner ämnet viktigt att studera då det är brist på empiriskt forskning kring huruvida e-handlare integrerar strategier för kundbevarandet i deras affärsstrategi. Ett huvudproblem och tre delfrågor har formulerats, vilket kommer ligga till grund för uppsatsen och dess syfte. De teoretiska referensramar som använts i studien är: strategier för kundbeteende, kundrelationer samt uppfattade risker. Den metodologiska strategin som uppsatsen grundas i är en abduktiv forskningsansats tillsammans med en kvalitativ forskningsmetod i form av fallstudie på tre fallföretag: Gents, Skyltmax och Eton. I det empiriska kapitlet redogörs intervjupersonernas svar som sedan jämförs med teorin i analysen. Författarna påvisar i studiens slutsats att svenska e-handlare har goda kunskaper samt erfarenheter kring ämnet. Dock anser författarna att e-handelsföretagen bör arbeta mer med tydliga strategier kring hur de vill synas och vilken image de vill skapa genom sitt varumärke och sin identitet. Avslutningsvis redogör författarna sina rekommendationer, begränsningar, teoretiska bidrag samt de förslag författarna vill ge till framtida forskning.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Zugl.: Leipzig, Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2005