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The thesis at hand aims to provide an overview of the reuse market(s) for desktop and laptop computers in Sweden in order to support policy-makers and computer reuse organisations in developing strategies and measures to foster computer reuse and thus reducing the volume of related e-waste as outlined in the national Waste Prevention Plan 2014-2017. Existing types of computer reuse organisations,
Structural changes to agricultural landscapes due to agricultural intensification caused declines in biodiversity and abundance of animal groups providing ecosystem services and disservices to agriculture. Little is known about the relative contribution of animals to services and disservices after harvest and how these animal groups are affected by landscape configuration. Therefore, this study in
Gradient-based algorithms are popular when solving unconstrained optimization problems. By exploiting knowledge of the gradient of the objective function to optimize, each iteration of a gradient-based algorithm aims at approaching the minimizer of said function. In the age of web-scale prediction problems, many venerable algorithms may encounter difficulties. However, as the data sets grow larger,
The Spanish newspaper El País wrote on the 25th of November 2015 that Spain has 3,4 million empty homes. Today one sees skeletons of unfinished buildings scattered throughout the country as well as finished buildings uninhabited due to corruption and diminished investment opportunities. We can no longer expect that the buildings we design will inhabit the same program throughout their lifetime. I
Den här uppsatsen består av en analys för att undersöka om och i så fall hur samtalsstilarna skiljer sig åt mellan kvinnor och män i ett av vår tids största sociala forum, podcasten. Därefter följer en diskussion för att undersöka hur det påverkar förhållandet mellan kvinnor och män. Med hjälp av olika teorier har det bildats kategorier som urskiljer och beskriver det typiskt kvinnliga och manliga
Building codes around the world give extensive guidance on how to design straight stairways, and engineering guidelines provide methods to calculate movement speed and population flow in these. Less guidance is provided for spiral stairways. By conducting experiments down spiral stairways, enough data was collected to derive equations for calculating both movement speed and population flow down sp
Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur körundervisning påverkar en musikhögskoleutbildning, och hur detta skulle kunna se ut i praktiken. Studien var baserat bland annat på Zoltán Kodálys skrifter som kretsar kring ovanstående tema, och annan forskning och litteratur som rör körundervisning och andra aspekter av undervisning. Forskningsfrågorna fokuserade på vad körundervisning har för effekter The purpose of this study was to explore how choral education influences higher music education. The basis of the study is partly Zoltán Kodálys writings that were relevant to the subject, and research and literature relevant to choral education and other aspects of teaching. The research questions focused on effects of choral education relevant to a music academy education, and how choral educati
The constantly increasing awareness of protecting the environment has put electrical roads in the spotlight as an alternative solution to fossil driven means of transport. Dan Zethraeus has developed an innovative idea for a prototype electrical road which conductively supplies power to the cars whilst driving. The concept is to place a line of short rail segments in the middle of the drive lanes
Bakgrund: För att tillverkande företag skall kunna vara konkurrenskraftiga, så är det viktigt att kontinuerligt sträva efter att eliminera alla orsaker till slöseri. En av de verktyg som kan användas för att bekämpa slöseri är TPM, vilket huvudsakligen är ett strukturerat sätt för att öka företagets tillförlitlighet till sina maskiner och produktionseffektiviteten genom att förstärka företagets unBackground: In order for manufacturing companies to stay competitive today, it is important to continuously strive towards eliminating any sources of waste. One of the tools to address waste elimination is to work with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), which essentially is a structured way of improving the company’s machine reliability and production effectiveness through enhancing the sites mai
Byggnadsprojekt påverkar en rad olika aktörer som har olika intressen, behov och krav. Vidare gäller att olika projekt påverkar olika typer av aktörer vars intressen beror på typ av projekt och i vilket det givna projektet befinner sig i. Dessa aktörer benämns idag som ett projekts intressenter. Man kan definiera intressenter som individer, grupper av personer, eller organisationer som påverkas avConstruction projects will affect numerous actors with various interests, needs and demands. Different project will affect different actors where their specific interests will vary depending on project type but also throughout the projects execution. These actors are today referred to as a project’s stakeholders. A project’s stakeholders can be defined as the individuals, groups, or organisation,
"It’s not like I’ve lived on a park bench…" : About stigmas surrounding narcotics abuse There are stigmas surrounding the abuse of narcotics that the members of society share and uphold. The stigma is produced by the idea of who a narcotics abuser is on a political level, an idea that will be reproduced by the instances of society, such as the health care or social services, that deal w
Nowadays in China, especially in big cities, young people are living under huge pressure. Everyone is living a fast-paced life. According to a report by the Social Survey Center of China Youth and Sina News Center 84% of people think they live in an "urgent time society”( fast-paced and stressful work), among them 71.1% people think that too much pressure and stress is the reason to make them
Examensarbetets titel: Är det fortfarande rea? – En studie kring teorierna om börsintroduktioners avvikande avkastning Seminariedatum: 12/1 2017 Ämne/kurs: FEKH89, Examensarbete i finansiering på kandidatnivå, 15 hp Författare: Julia Borrebaeck, Viktor Lloyd, Jesper Vamborg Handledare: Tore Eriksson Fem nyckelord: Börsintroduktioner, Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, underprissättning, långsiktig underprestatTitle Still on sale? – A study on the theories about the abnormal return of IPO:s Seminar date: 12/1 2017 Course: FEKH89, Corporate Finance Degree Project, Undergraduate level, Business Administration, 15 ECTS Authors: Julia Borrebaeck, Viktor Lloyd, Jesper Vamborg, Advisor/s: Tore Eriksson Key words: IPO:s, Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, underpricing, long term underperformance, comparative research Purpo
Uppsatsens övergripande syfte är att identifiera, systematisera och problematisera de objektiva förutsättningarna för underlåtenhetsansvar i svensk skadeståndsrätt. Avsikten är därtill att konstruera en teoriram kring dessa förutsättningar, med en ytterligare ambition att analysera de språkliga företeelser som bygger upp rätten på underlåtenhetsområdet. Uppsatsen utgår därför från frågeställningarThe general purpose of this research paper is to identify, systematise and problematise the objective criteria for liability in relation to omissions in Swedish tort law. In addition, the paper aims at constructing a theoretical framework around these criteria, with a further intention to analyse the legal-linguistic aspects of the issue. Hence, the paper is based on question formulations regardin
The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate and shed light on how care workers perceive their care work and the dilemmas they encounter in the work of adults diagnosed with severe intellectual disabilities. I conducted six semi-structured interviews with care workers working with the study target audience. For my analysis, I have applied the theoretical perspectives ethics of response, pr
In a small and confined one dimensional geometry of nanowire, even few defects can influence the performance of the devices. Main objective of this thesis is to conduct photoluminescence study of such defect states in GaAs nanowires, which we will first introduce by diffusing copper impurity atoms, in very low concentrations. In low concentrations, ideally single atom in a wire, the photoluminesc
Lysdioder används nuförtiden i många sammanhang, som indikatorljus, i trafikljus, till allmän belysning och i kommunikationstillämpningar. Lysdioder har flera fördelar som att man kan välja färg, att dom är stöttåliga men framförallt att dom är energisnåla, dom omvandlar effektivt elektrisk energi till ljusenergi. En flaskhals när det gäller att utnyttja allt ljus som genereras i en lysdiod är attThis work concerns the light extraction from InGaAlP LEDs. Two possible improvements are studied. Resonant cavity LEDs with a long cavity (optical path >> lambda) are simulated and improvements in light output are found, but with possibly unwanted effects, such as the spectrum splitting into different peaks at different wavelengths, on the emission pattern. Also, measurements are done on four diff
I denna uppsats undersöks hur två noveller “Spökhanden” av Selma Lagerlöf och “The Yellow Wallpaper” av Charlotte Perkins Gilman förhåller sig till genren Female Gothic och till varandra. En signifikant skillnad mellan de två novellerna är fokaliseringen vilket öppnar upp för en intressant komparativ analys. Därav är fokuset i den komparativa analysen fokalisering. Syftet med uppsatsen är att unde
Ett av Sveriges klimat- och energipolitiska mål avser effektivare energianvändning. Ett sätt att uppnå målet är genom kravställning på energihushållning vid renovering av byggnader. I de fall då det med hänsyn till byggnadens kultur- och arkitektoniska värde inte går att tillämpa beprövade metoder får andra alternativa metoder sökas. En sådan annan alternativ metod är en dubbelskalfasad och innebäOne of Sweden's political objective is to increase energy efficiency. One way to achieve the objective is by making demands on the use of energy after a building has been renovated. Regarding the building's cultural and architectural values there are cases where it is not possible to apply proven methods to meet the demands, and other alternative methods must be sought. Such an alternative
In this report the fire safety on board vessels in the so called Victoria-class has been evaluated. A series of tests were conducted in a container at Revinge with the purpose to analyze the self-activation temperature and extinguishing effects of pyrotechnically generated aerosol (PGA) devices. The ventilations influence on the fire behavior and how the hull material is affected by fire were also
