Value creation form a gender perspective - a case study of Caran

Women ledaers and profitability, is there a correlation? Earlier research show different outcome on the correlation between women leaders and profitability. A Swedish consultant firm, Caran has a belief that more women leaders would create more financial profit, we ask us if that is the true situation. Using two different IC measurement methods we have shown the difficulties in calculate intagible resources, which methods that can/ can not be used and if women leders create financial value. We found the women leaders in Caran to add more value per dollar spent on the woman leaders than the value added per dollar spent on men leaders. This can be due to the wage difference between genders

Value creation from a gender perspective – a case study of Caran

Caran has a strong belief that women leaders affect the financial profitability positive. Since women leaders are intangible resources it is very difficult to calculate its exact value. The authors found that one of their measurement methods can’t be used to calculate the value of women leaders. The other measurement method can calculate significance between women and men leaders and provides an index to be compared to other groups. But there is no prove that women are better creating value than their men colleagues, the figures indicate that women add more value due to their lower wages

Det skotska informella äkteskapet och de svenska samboreglerna. En komparativ studie av informella parrelationer i två rättssystem.

Uppsatsen behandlar det informella äktenskapet i skotsk rätt jämfört med de svenska samboreglerna. Det informella äktenskapet har sin grund i den kanoniska rätten. Genom reformationen förändrades synen på äktenskapet och äktenskapsrätten. Skottland har under lång tid varit en självständig nation med ett eget rättssystem som influerats både av kontinental rätt genom relationen med Frankrike och av engelsk rätt genom unionen mellan dem. Skotsk rätt bygger på rättskällorna lagstiftning, prejudikat, sedvana, equity, insitutionell doktrin och källor utifrån. Tvistemål kan börja i Sheriff court, gå vidare till Court of sessions och till slut till House of Lords. Det skotska informella äktenskapet beror liksom formella äktenskap av äktenskapshinder som gör äktenskapet ogiltigt. Ursprungligen fanns tre varianter av det informella äktenskapet, verba di presenti, löfte subsequente coupula och äktenskapet genom ''habit and repute''. De första två avskaffades 1940 och nu nyligen genom lagändring 4/5 2006. Verba di presenti innebar att äktenskapet ingicks genom avtal mellan parterna, subsequente coupula innebar ett löfte om äktenskap följs av sexuellt umgänge. Äktenskap genom ''habit and repute'' ingicks genom att två personer levde tillsammans som om de vore gifta, delade säng och måltider och allmänt utgav sig för att vara gifta. Informella äktenskap ger upphov till samma konsekvenser som formella äktenskap vilket innebär att fördelning av egendom ska ske vid dödsfall och vid separation. Detta sker enligt principer om rättvis fördelning och kompensation för uppoffringar den ena parten gjort. Från och med 4 maj 2006 upphörde möjligheten att ingå äktenskap genom ''habit and repute''. I stället kommer dessa personer bli föremål för regler om samboskap. De svenska samboreglerna innebär att personer som bor tillsammans i ett parförhållande och delar hushållsgöromål och samarbetar kring ekonomiska spörsmål faller under sambolagens tillämpning. Reglerna som gäller vid samborelationers upplösning innebär likadelning av bostad och bohag som varit för gemensamt bruk och möjlighet för den som bäst behöver bostaden att överta den även om den faller utanför bodelningen. De två lagstiftningarna reglerar mycket lika omständigheter. Skillnaden utgörs av avsiktsbeaktandet vid avgörande om ett informellt äktenskap uppkommit. Konsekvenserna av relationerna skiljer sig också åt. Det informella äktenskapet innebär en större värdemässig delning och större rättigheter vid dödsfall. För tredjeman utgör det informella äktenskapet ett osäkerhetsmoment eftersom en informell relation kan vara svår för utomstående att uppfatta

Educational attainment does not influence brain aging.

Education has been related to various advantageous lifetime outcomes. Here, using longitudinal structural MRI data (4,422 observations), we tested the influential hypothesis that higher education translates into slower rates of brain aging. Cross-sectionally, education was modestly associated with regional cortical volume. However, despite marked mean atrophy in the cortex and hippocampus, education did not influence rates of change. The results were replicated across two independent samples. Our findings challenge the view that higher education slows brain aging

Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at \sqrt{s}=7\TeV

A measurement of the production cross-section for top quark pairs(\ttbar) in $pp$ collisions at \sqrt{s}=7 \TeV is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in two different topologies: single lepton (electron $e$ or muon $\mu$) with large missing transverse energy and at least four jets, and dilepton ($ee$, $\mu\mu$ or $e\mu$) with large missing transverse energy and at least two jets. In a data sample of 2.9 pb-1, 37 candidate events are observed in the single-lepton topology and 9 events in the dilepton topology. The corresponding expected backgrounds from non-\ttbar Standard Model processes are estimated using data-driven methods and determined to be $12.2 \pm 3.9$ events and $2.5 \pm 0.6$ events, respectively. The kinematic properties of the selected events are consistent with SM \ttbar production. The inclusive top quark pair production cross-section is measured to be \sigmattbar=145 \pm 31 ^{+42}_{-27} pb where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The measurement agrees with perturbative QCD calculations.Comment: 30 pages plus author list (50 pages total), 9 figures, 11 tables, CERN-PH number and final journal adde

Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements are presented of production properties and couplings of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the decays into boson pairs, H →γ γ, H → Z Z∗ →4l and H →W W∗ →lνlν. The results are based on the complete pp collision data sample recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 7 TeV and √s = 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 25 fb−1. Evidence for Higgs boson production through vector-boson fusion is reported. Results of combined fits probing Higgs boson couplings to fermions and bosons, as well as anomalous contributions to loop-induced production and decay modes, are presented. All measurements are consistent with expectations for the Standard Model Higgs boson

Standalone vertex finding in the ATLAS muon spectrometer

A dedicated reconstruction algorithm to find decay vertices in the ATLAS muon spectrometer is presented. The algorithm searches the region just upstream of or inside the muon spectrometer volume for multi-particle vertices that originate from the decay of particles with long decay paths. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated using both a sample of simulated Higgs boson events, in which the Higgs boson decays to long-lived neutral particles that in turn decay to bbar b final states, and pp collision data at √s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2011

Measurement of the top quark pair cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV using final states with an electron or a muon and a hadronically decaying τ lepton

A measurement of the cross section of top quark pair production in proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is reported. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.05 fb -1. Events with an isolated electron or muon and a τ lepton decaying hadronically are used. In addition, a large missing transverse momentum and two or more energetic jets are required. At least one of the jets must be identified as originating from a b quark. The measured cross section, σtt-=186±13(stat.)±20(syst.)±7(lumi.) pb, is in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction

Hunt for new phenomena using large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum with ATLAS in 4.7 fb−1 of √s=7 TeV proton-proton collisions

Results are presented of a search for new particles decaying to large numbers of jets in association with missing transverse momentum, using 4.7 fb−1 of pp collision data at s√=7TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2011. The event selection requires missing transverse momentum, no isolated electrons or muons, and from ≥6 to ≥9 jets. No evidence is found for physics beyond the Standard Model. The results are interpreted in the context of a MSUGRA/CMSSM supersymmetric model, where, for large universal scalar mass m 0, gluino masses smaller than 840 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, extending previously published limits. Within a simplified model containing only a gluino octet and a neutralino, gluino masses smaller than 870 GeV are similarly excluded for neutralino masses below 100 GeV