Low specific contact resistivity (ρc) of alloyed Ni/Pd/Au and nonalloyed Ti/Pd/Au Ohmic contacts to unintentionally doped n-InAs and n+-In0.63Ga0.37As, which is a potential candidate for highly scaled HBTs and MOSFETs, is reported. Contacts were formed by UV-ozone oxidation and oxide removal with 1:1 HCl:DI water, and then deposited by either thermal evaporation or sputtering, followed by annealin

Executive summary Title: Energy optimization at a chemical industry enterprise Case study - Perstorp AB Authors: Sandra Leksell and Anna Parsdotter Supervisors: Patrick Lauenburg, PhD, Dept. of Energy Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University and Daniel Hansson, Technical Manager, Perstorp Specialty Chemicals AB Background: The industrial sector in Sweden consumed 152.4 TWh energy in 2010,

Many Swedish amphibians are threatened and included in action plans to prevent them from extinction. There are many reasons for amphibians being threatened but one important factor is the loss of suitable breeding ponds. This report evaluates if 34 ponds created for threatened amphibians, and financed through these action plans, have been colonized by threatened amphibians in Scania. The ponds wer

Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att genom semistrukturerade intervjuer synliggöra elever på resursskola och deras upplevelser av problemsituationer och bemötande i en skolmiljö. Åtta elever i åldrarna 10-16 år vid två olika resursskolor i Skåne intervjuades för ändamålet. Tematisk analys användes för identifiering av teman i intervjumaterialet. Resultaten visade att problemsituationer och The aim of this qualitative study was through semi-structured interviewing to make visible students in resource school and their experiences with problem-situations and response in a school environment. Eight students aged 10-16 years at two different resource schools in the south of Sweden were interviewed for the purpose. Thematic analysis was used for identifying themes in the interview materia

Syftet för undersökningen är att utreda identitet, relationer och gränsdragningar i den döva gruppen under 1954-1970. Detta genom att undersöka en lokal dövförening, Malmö Dövas Förening ”Svenske”. Källmaterialet utgörs huvudsakligen av protokollanteckningar från föreningsstyrelsens sammanträden. Analysen stöttade sig mot teoretiska begrepp hämtade ur deaf studies och disability studies, två forsk

Sedan kalla krigets slut har underrättelseorganisationerna genomgått en långdragen process för att anpassa sig till nya hot så väl som ökade krav på demokratisk insyn och kontroll av verksamheten. Vi har undersökt hur denna process har sett ut, vilka aktörer som varit drivande och vad som gör att underrättelseorganisationerna är så svåra att reformera. Våra slutsatser indikerar att det helt klart

Since the late 1970s, public administrative management has increasingly been in-spired by corporate-inspired governance-models to have an effective management. The reforms came to be called New Public Management. Today modern manage-ment is facing new challenges and perhaps the New Public Leadership model may be the proper answer to these new challenges? This study examines Eslöv municipal adminis

European integration has increasingly come to depend on the abolition of national regulations, driven by the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ). According to previous research, this mode of integration effectively undermines the institutional foundations of social democratic welfare states and coordinated systems of industrial relations – something which has not been fully appreciated by

The aim of this study was to see how a group home for mentally ill people was portrayed in a local newspaper debate about building a new home for mentally ill people in residential area. The research material found in the daily newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad was both articles and debates. We selected the articles and debates (posts) that could answer our questions. We used text analysis and were i

Abstract: The zooplankton community of The Area of Multiple Use Hawaii (AUMH), South Pacific Coast of Guatemala mangrove channel ecosystem was studied in the dry season between February and March 2011. Zooplankton samples were taken during two lunar cycles, four tidal cycles (flood, high water (HW), ebb, low water (LW)), at four different sites. For each sampling occasion, salinity, pH, dissolved

Abstract Replacing fossil oil with renewable resources perhaps is the most urgent challenge that the human being now is facing. Bioenergy has been considered as one of the best alternatives to fossil oil. Diverse non-edible applications of plant oil have been explored in the chemical industry recent years. However, both quantity and quality need to be improved from different oil crops for diverse

Very high accuracy and a very high repeatability, both in the range of a few microns, is very hard to achieve with today's common serial robots. An approach utilizing the Gantry-Tau principle is used in my theses together with a dual motor control to eliminate the troublesome backlash rising from the mechanical limitations. Both hardware and software will be regarded and with an antagonistic c

Large quantities and numbers of organic compounds (OCs) from industries and domestic sources enter the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) everyday, which is an ever-increasing issue in modern society. In WWTPs, the pollutants are either degraded or emitted to the air, the effluent (water) or the sludge (biosolids). Even though the sludge may contain toxic contaminants and heavy metals, there is a

Title: Pawnshop of hearts? – The dynamics of identification and meaning creation in a property management organization. Submission Date: 22nd of May 2013 Course: BUSN49- Degree Project in Managing People, Knowledge and Change (Master level) Authors: Linnea Hansson and Mathilda Welin Brook Supervisors: Jens Rennstam and Stephan Schaefer Department of Business Administration School of Eco

France and Germany are two closely connected countries with two very different identities. Despite of these differences they have been cooperating for many years and have been a driving factor behind European integration and have had a common interest in making the European Union a global actor with a more united foreign policy. Agreement between the two countries are not an axiom though, as the i

De senaste åren har privatiseringar inom välfärdssektorn blivit allt vanligare. I denna uppsats undersöker vi hur detta påverkar öppenhet och insyn i verksamheter som drivs externt på uppdrag av kommunen. I Sverige finns en lång tradition av öppenhet inom offentlig sektor, där offentlighetsprincipen är en av de viktigaste stöttepelarna. Men lagarna kring öppenhet och insyn ser olika ut beroende på

Denna uppsats undersöker begreppet säkerhetsdilemmat. Detta för att vi anser den gamla begreppsdefinitionen förlegad och inte applicerbar på moderna konflikter. Med en begreppsutrerande metod definerar vi säkerhetsdilemmats underliggande logik, för att på denna logik utveckla en ny definition av begreppet. Genom att applicera begreppsdefinitoner på en modern konflikt, det amerikanska kriget mot te

Graves’ disease (GD) is an autoimmune disease in which autoantibodies against the thyroid stimulating hormone receptor stimulate the thyroid to overproduce thyroid hormones. GD is caused by interplay of genetic, environmental and endogeneous factors and is more likely to affect women compared to men. Furthermore 1/3 of the patients suffering from GD develop symptoms of Graves’ opthalmopathy (GO).