Abstract This essay will examine if there is a possibility that the Millennium Development Goal number 3 (MDG 3) can be achieved by year 2015 in Bangladesh. Therefore, an examination will be performed of the report The Millennium Development Goals, Bangladesh Progress Report 2011. Focus will be on MDG 3 which aims on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment for instance in Bangladesh. In

Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to explore relevant authenticity-inducing attributes within the consumer good of music, and to identify a channel within which some of these attributes can be mediated efficiently. Theoretical Perspectives The study relies on previous insight from the field of Consumer Culture Theory, authenticity, authenticity-inducing attributes and the construction of s

Spurred on by pressure to find sustainable energy production alternatives to fossil fuels, many industries have been acquiring land in order to plant crops for biofuel production. In Tanzania, biofuel development is in an early stage, and over the last decade, several foreign actors have tried to start up biofuel projects in the country (without success). Land acquisitions are seen by many as a fo

The main purpose of this study, which is performed from a sociology of law perspective, is to illuminate the factors that ha direct impact on the implementation of the new litter law, applying in Sweden from summer 2011. The study was founded on Naturvårdsverket’s reports regarding particular commitment to prevent litter in our community. Material for the study was collected by a quantitative surv

Sandvik SRP AB in Svedala has recently made a big investment in a completely new production facility that is called Greenfield. The facility will be ready for production in 2013 and will have eleven top modern axle lathe- and vertical boring milling machines. The machines will process casting to parts for the stone crushers Sandvik SRP in Svedala manufacture. The goal with Greenfield is to get wor

Det individuella och det kollektiva är två begrepp som ständigt utforskas i den spanska författarinnan Belén Gopeguis verk. Den här uppsatsen utgår från observationen att relationen mellan de två behandlas som en sammanflätning. Dess roll i Gopeguis politiskt-litterära projekt undersöks, där det kollektiva presenteras som en förutsättning för de förändringar som projektet eftersträvar. Verket i al

Xylem Inc., with the main production plant in Emmaboda, has in one of the product workshops decided to analyse the benefits of creating a central packaging station for its five assembling lines. The author of this report was given this objective as a master thesis. The methodology of the project is divided into three different phases – one descriptive, one explorative and one problem-solving phase

This master thesis is on Statistical Process Control (SPC). The objective is to evaluate if SPC can be used in a process that produces plates for heat exchanger, the process evaluated is located at Alfa Laval Lund AB. The products are produced in the process by punching and shearing metal coils. An ambition in the project is also to increase the knowledge about Statistical Process Control at Alfa

Sandvik Rock Processing in Svedala is a business area within the Sandvik Group who manufactures crushers and spare parts. A new production plant, Greenfield, will be completed in 2013 and as part of the change the company makes in connection with the new plant, there is a desire to revise and optimize the order quantities in the production. There are several models for lot sizing. Economic Order Q

DPM is a manufacturing company within the metal cutting industry. A number of years ago there emerged a desire to make statistical calculations for its production. Until today, the company has not done any post-calculations, which means that they have based their cost calculations and sales prices on precalculated costs. The absence of post-calculations leads to lack of cost-consciousness that is

A particle accelerator consists of a large number of components, which among other things includes several acceleration modules, which consists of one or several cavities. A cavity is a complex and essential part in the accelerations process and is usually made of oxygen-free copper (OFC) or niobium. These two materials are special when it comes to metal cutting, it´s hard to find information abou

Metodutveckling för analys av cellulärt upptag av nanopartiklar Cancer är idag en utbredd sjukdom som tusentals människor världen över diagnostiseras för dagligen. Möjligheterna att få en korrekt behandling ökar om tumörer upptäcks i ett tidigt skede tidigt vilket ger en större chans att tillfriskna. Men detta har visat sig vara en utmaning då nuvarande metoder som används inte är av tillräckligAbstract MRI, magnetic resonance imaging, is used for disease detection such as assessing blood flow, detecting tumours and diagnosing many forms of cancer. Contrast agents are chemical substances that increase the MRI sensitivity. One class of contrast agents are the so called nanoparticulate contrast agents. Since tumour-associated formation of new blood vessels often results in highly permeab

Popular science summary: Analysis of Map3k-dependent molecular mechanisms regulating signaling in lymphocytes My research involves investigating the roles of Map3k1 and Map3k7 genes in relation to invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells. iNKT cells are a unique population of T cells whose phenotypical, developmental and functional characteristics differ from conventional T cells. iNKT cells exp

This thesis identifies ten main narratives related to Lithuania in the reporting of five major Swedish newspapers between 2010-2012, and investigates how these narratives have been discursively constructed and why they might have been chosen to serve as a frame of reference for Swedish readers. Through narrative analysis and a theoretical framework including the concepts of ‘narrative’, ‘collectiv

What kind of influence does percentage of private share have on state-owned enterprises’ operating efficiencies? The thesis studies on the correlation between percentage of private share and SOEs’ operating efficiency in China. By analyzing both input and output side of SOEs’ performance (i) theoretically, based on previous studies, and (ii) empirically, through data bivariate analyses and variabl