CITIES SHOULD BE OPEN AND INCLUSIVE, say municipality officials in Sweden. So why are they not? One answer is norms. Invisible norms are constantly present in our daily lives and affect us by limiting possibilities and narrowing our perspectives and views of each other in ways that can lead to exclusion and discrimination. The norm-critical approach has become a commonly used method to make norms

The data visualization softwares Qlikview and Qlik Sense are based on an associative data model, and this thesis analyzes different tools and methods for solving 0-1 integer programs as well as examines their applicability to the computational engine behind these softwares. The first parts are dedicated to a theoretical background on mathematical optimization, linear programming and Qlik’s impleme

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka förekomsten av pares på n. laryngeus superior hos patienter som genomgått en thyroidektomi. Studien syftade även till att undersöka om en dylik pares kan upptäckas vid flera olika pre- och postoperativa undersökningsmetoder samt hur patienterna upplever sin röst före och efter operation. Metod: I studien ingick 20 deltagare. Samtliga deltagare genomförde

Abstract: Previous research has found car-sharing schemes to have great potential, internationally and locally, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the personal transport sector, and contain significant locally bounded advantages with implications for improved urban sustainable mobility and more efficient land-use. The aim of the paper is to explore how and why shared mobility services, specif

I den här uppsatsen diskuterar vi flera möjligheter om hur man kan förklara den kosmologiska konstanten. År 1998 genomfördes observationer av typ 1a supernovor som visade att universums expansionshastighet ökar. Det här fenomenet blev kallat mörk energi. Sedan dess har flera olika hypoteser framlagts. Vi ska studera en teori som använder Yang-Mills-fält som en mekanism som hjälper att klargöra fleThe cosmological constant is one of bigger mysteries in modern fundamental physics and cosmology. In this work we investigate one of the possible interpretations for the cosmological constant. The model a studies spatially-homogeneous mode of the Yang-Mills field known as the Yang-Mills condensate and throughout the work we discuss the dynamics and the time evolution of the homogeneous isotropic Y

Europeiska fotbollsklubbar har i allt högre grad kommit att anpassa sig efter den globala tevemarknaden och de potentiella nya supportrar den för med sig snarare än sina lokala supportrar. Mot den bakgrunden har ett visst samhällsvetenskapligt intresse börjat hysas för så kallade satelitsupportrar; det vill säga supportrar på distans som huvudsakligen konsumerar sitt lag via teve och andra medier.

In trying to find a project from my bachelor’s degree, I looked back at my previous 3 years studying design. I wanted to give myself a challenge and decided to take this opportunity to work on some of my problem areas. My personal style have always been minimalistic but not explored enough as my projects often becomes conceptual with less focus on the aesthetics of the finished product and more on

This study examines how the social movement Refugees Welcome to Malmö managed to mobilize hundreds of volunteers in a short space of time in the autumn of 2015. The movements aim was to help refugees who had arrived at the Central train station in the southern swedish town Malmö with food, clothes and money. Using a theory-testing approach, this paper examines if the theories of framing and of dis

Hedersmord är ett ämne som framkallar starka känslor hos många människor vilket är ett av skälen till att ämnet är omdebatterat. Ämnet har debatterats ur många aspekter: rättsliga, sociala, religiösa, moraliska m.fl. I denna uppsats kommer enbart den straffrättsliga aspekten att avhandlas och analyseras. Inledningsvis är det nödvändigt att definiera heder. Kvinnans sexualitet är central. Trots dHonor killings are a subject that arouses feelings for many people, it is one of the reasons that the subject is very debated. The subject has been debated from many aspects: legal, social, religious and moral these are some of the many aspects. In this essay, however, the legal aspect is analyzed. Firstly it is necessary to define honor. Central is a woman's sexuality, even though it is the

Högerpopulistiska partier har haft stora valframgångar i Europa och Skandinavien under de senaste årtiondena, där vissa partier även deltagit i koalitionsregeringar. Dessa partier agerar på en ny politisk dimension och politiserar frågor som tidigare inte ansetts särskilt viktiga, främst invandringsfrågan. En viktig uppgift blir därför att försöka besvara vilka faktorer som påverkar de högerpopuli

Syfte: Studiens syfte var att undersöka om receptivt och produktivt ordförråd respektive förmågan att känna igen objekts form vid 20 och 24 månaders ålder kunde predicera språkliga förmågor i 6 - 7 årsåldern. De tidiga måtten på ordförråd och formigenkänning samlades in i Borgström, Torkildsen och Lindgren (2015), vilken föreliggande studie är en uppföljning på. Metod: Deltagarna var 36 barn i åld

High yield-obligationer är obligationer med lägre kreditbetyg än andra räntebärande tillgångar som exempelvis investment grade-obligationer. High yield-obligationer ger investerare möjlighet till högre avkastning än obligationer med högre kreditbetyg. Dock har high yield- obligationer generellt sett även högre risk än andra obligationer vilket innebär att risken att förlora det investerade kapital

Digital technology has revolutionised modern society and brought about profound changes to the way many of us live our lives. It has enabled unlimited free access to many products that were previously scarce and expensive. We have gotten accustomed to on-demand music and movies, and we are used to being able to have answers to all questions at the tip of our fingers, carrying it with us at all tim

Stabilisering av urin för återanvändning av näringsämnen I naturen finns kretslopp för näringsämnen. När människan via avloppsvattenreningsverk släpper ut näringsämnen i vattendrag eller i luften bryts kretsloppen. För att bli en del av de naturliga kretsloppen behöver näringsämnena som människan avger återföras till jorden. Av: Marianne Olofsson Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning av masteruppsaMunicipal wastewater contains a lot of compounds that could be seen as resources. Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are common ingredients in fertilizers and can all be found in wastewater. Nowadays only a small part of the nutrients found in wastewater are used on arable land. Urine contains the most of the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium secreted by humans. Source separation of urine is a wa

Given monocular video of people performing daily tasks our objective is to estimate the 3D positions of 32 given joints associated to the human skeleton. Due to the success of deep convolutional networks in image classification, image segmentation and activity recognition we propose to estimate 3D joint positions from video using deep convolutional networks. The modeling is carried out within the

This master thesis aimed at exploring different methods of producing a beverage based on Lantmännen’s Swedish grown white beans. A flour was milled from beans that had been soaked and boiled in order to inactivate antinutrients such as lectins, trypsin inhibitors and phytic acid, and subsequently dried and milled. A water-based beverage with 8% bean flour was boiled for 5 min. 1.5% of rapeseed oil

Add to the understanding of a boutique firm unique work characteristics, while supporting them in developing their competitive strength. It’s essential to learn how a boutique firm can be sustainable in the long term with its unique features against multinational firms.

Increasing proportions of elderly are one of the major challenges arising from changes in the age distributions of many Western societies. Whilst much attention has been to paid to continental and national trends of population ageing, relatively little consideration has been to regional patterns of population ageing. This paper focuses on the population ageing process in 33 municipalities in Skåne

This paper analyzes the impact of population growth, GDP per capita and technological improvement on Ethiopia’s carbon dioxide emission in the period 1971-2011. Using a STIRPAT model and Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) l to analyze this impact, the study found that the highly growing population of Ethiopia has the greatest impact on carbon dioxide emission. More specifically, 1% increase i