La corrupción es un acto no ético e ilegal, es un abuso ejecutado por una persona con poder decisivo en un sector público o privado, el cual busca tener cierto grado de influencia en la toma de decisiones del negocio para verse beneficiado. Se presenta diversos tipos de corrupción, causas y consecuencias que afectan a la economía de un país, a los negocios en marcha y a los proyectos de inversión. Para valorar los proyectos de inversión se basa en hallar el VAN y en el análisis de las proyecciones de los flujos de caja futuro, descontado bajo una apropiada tasa de descuento, la cual tiene dos componentes básicos: la tasa libre de riesgo (Rf) que toma en cuenta el valor del dinero en el tiempo y una prima por riesgo que ha de compensar el riesgo adicional de la inversión. Un factor clave que está dentro de la prima por riesgo es el factor corrupción, para determinar si este factor tiene preponderancia en la evaluación del proyecto, se analiza diversos casos de una misma industria, subiendo la prima de riesgo, y manteniendo los otros factores constantes, de esta manera obtenemos la variación del VAN con respecto a la prima de riesgo. / Corruption is an unethical and illegal act, it is an abuse carried out by a person with decisive power in a public or private sector, which seeks to have some degree of influence in the decision making of the business to benefit himself or herself. There are various types of corruption, causes and consequences that affect the economy of a country, business in progress and investment projects. Valuation of investment projects is based on finding the NPV and the analysis of projections of future cash flows, discounted at an appropriate rate, which has two basic components: the risk-free rate (Rf) that Takes into account the value of money over time and a risk premium that compensates for the additional risk of the investment. A key factor that is within the risk premium is the corruption factor, to determine if this factor has a preponderance in the project evaluation, it analyzes several cases in the same industry, raising the risk premium, and keeping other factors constant, In this way we obtain the variation of the NAV with respect to the risk premium.

The first chapture explains the basic terms of foreign direct investment. The second chapter is about foreign direct investment development in developing countries. The third chapter discusses policies of developing countries toward foreign direct investment and the last chapter concentrates on the actual trends in terms of foreign direct investment in developing countries.

The diploma work is divided in two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part describes the municipal authorities, the budget of the town and the verification of the management of municipalities, followed by the charakteristic of the town. The practical part analyses the observance of the budget and the economic actual of the town Blovice in years 2006-2008.

The purpose of the present study is fourfold: (1) to investigate the predicted relationships between self-acceptance and acceptance of others, (2) to investigate self-acceptance, acceptance of others, and their interrelationship with acceptance by others, (3) to investigate the patterns of interrelationship between self-acceptance, acceptance of others, actual acceptability to others, and predicted acceptability to others, and (4) to investigate an hypothesized curvilinear relationship between self-acceptance and acceptance of others.

The purpose of the present study is to compare the calculated creatinine coefficients of young college women based on lean body mass weight with those based on actual body weight.

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of performance feedback on Athletic Trainers’ (ATs) perceived knowledge (PK) and likelihood to pursue continuing education (CE). The investigation was grounded in the theories of “the definition of the situation” (Thomas & Thomas, 1928) and the “illusion of knowing,” (Glenberg, Wilkinson, & Epstein, 1982) suggesting that PK drives behavior. This investigation measured the degree to which knowledge gap predicted CE seeking behavior by providing performance feedback designed to change PK. A pre-test post-test control-group design was used to measure PK and likelihood to pursue CE before and after assessing actual knowledge. ATs (n=103) were randomly sampled and assigned to two groups, with and without performance feedback. Two independent samples t-tests were used to compare groups on the difference scores of the dependent variables. Likelihood to pursue CE was predicted by three variables using multiple linear regression: perceived knowledge, pre-test likelihood to pursue CE, and knowledge gap. There was a 68.4% significant difference (t101= 2.72, p=0.01, ES=0.45) between groups in the change scores for likelihood to pursue CE because of the performance feedback (Experimental group=13.7% increase; Control group= 4.3% increase). The strongest relationship among the dependent variables was between pre-test and post-test measures of likelihood to pursue CE (F2,102=56.80, p<0.01, r=0.73, R2=0.53). The pre- and post-test predictive relationship was enhanced when group was included in the model. In this model [YCEpost=0.76XCEpre-0.34 Xgroup+2.24+E], group accounted for a significant amount of unique variance in predicting CE while the pre-test likelihood to pursue CE variable was held constant (F3,102=40.28, p<0.01,: r=0.74, R2=0.55). Pre-test knowledge gap, regardless of group allocation, was a linear predictor of the likelihood to pursue CE (F1,102=10.90, p=.01, r=.31, R2=.10). In this investigation, performance feedback significantly increased participants’ likelihood to pursue CE. Pre-test knowledge gap was a significant predictor of likelihood to pursue CE, regardless if performance feedback was provided. ATs may have self-assessed and engaged in internal feedback as a result of their test-taking experience. These findings indicate that feedback, both internal and external, may be necessary to trigger CE seeking behavior.

My thesis contains the analysis and following suggestion of a solution of the application for the reporting. The reporting application has a goal to display actual costing data for a selected material and be a part of the SAP applications. The description of the theoretical background that is used in the thesis is the first part of the thesis. In the following chapter is the description of the current situation and analysis of the selected company. The last chapter contains an analysis of the possible risks which are followed by the suggested solution. At the end of the thesis is an economic evaluation of the project.

The subject of this diploma thesis is the creating 3D model and building plans of the main building of the hospice in Rajhrad. The first part includes information about locality and description of surveying. The following section is devoted to 3D modeling in AutoCAD, and creation of the specific model. Last part of the thesis deals with the procedure for creating building plans and testing accuracy. All outputs of this work will serve for an increasing efficiency of management of this building owned by the Regional charity Rajhrad.

In 2017, the Church of Sweden elected a new service-book which is mandatory for the liturgy in the ceremonies. This undergraduate thesis aims to analyze the prayers of forgiveness to recognize the hamartiology, understandings of sin, in the Church of Sweden. The main question asked was: "In the moment of Prayers of forgiveness in the handbook of the Church of Sweden, which different ideas of sin and forgiveness can be identified?". A total of eight prayers of forgiveness were analyzed with three sub-questions: (A) How is the sin understood? (B) How does God relate to sin? (C) To the person praying, what change does the prayer aim to affect? The theories in this paper were based on contemporary, Lutheran theology, with the origins from the Church of Sweden, linked to sin and forgiveness. The prayers were compared with different understandings of the original sin (ontological sin, and structural sin) and the actual sin (subjective sin and objective sin). The result of the thesis revealed that the actual sins were the most common in the prayers of forgiveness. The structural sin can be understood as the original sin as being structures one is born into. As shown in the first two prayers, named B1 and B2 in this paper, the idea of an ontological sin was identified in various prayers, such as B4, B5, and B8. The B3, B6, and B7 prayers were lacking a direct link to the original sin and were instead directed towards a God described as loving and merciful. The subjective sin was expressed through the encouragement of self-reflection in B3 and B6. The objective sin was identified in most of the prayers.

Research Question: To what extent do social media reviews’ effect on the purchase   intention and actual buying behaviour of consumers differ in the beauty industry in a cross-country comparison?     Purpose:   The purpose of this study is to explore to what extent consumers in the beauty industry perceive the importance of social media reviews and if it has direct or indirect effect on either their purchase intentions or buying behaviors or if not on both. The aim is then to contribute to limited research available and to see if this connection differs with the country particularly between Sweden and Sri Lanka.   Methodology:     A descriptive qualitative research strategy was approached conducting semi-structured interviews with a total of fourteen participants both from Sweden and Sri Lanka. Open-ended questions were asked and thematic analysis was used when analyzing the collected primary data.   Conclusion: Respondents from Sweden were more engaged with social media reviews and their purchase decisions were based mostly on social media reviews. Sri Lankan respondents were interested in negative reviews while Swedish respondents were highly affected and motivated by positive reviews. Even if young consumers in Sri Lanka were motivated to purchase beauty products because of social media reviews, almost all of the Sri Lankan respondents’ purchase decisions were highly impacted by family and friends compared to effects of social media reviews.