Author: Emil Bengtsson Title: Flexploitation or flexibilisation? - A cross-sectional study of youth well-being in a changing labour market. Supervisor: Max Koch Assessors: Roberto Scaramuzzino & Katarina Jacobsson The aim of this study was to explore the development of well-being among youth in the Nordic countries in relation to changing labour market conditions. The dimensions of focus cons

Häri beskrivs en metod för sulfonering av EPDM. Detta examensarbete syftade till att tillverka jonledande, elastomera filmer för korrosionshämmande packningsmaterial. För att uppnå jonledning svälldes vulkaniserade prover i 1,2-dikloretan innan sulfonering med trimetylsilyl klorsulfonat som sulfoneringsagent. Förändringar i mekaniska och termiska egenskaper utvärderades, samtidigt som jonledning sHerein a method for sulfonation of EPDM is described. This thesis aimed to prepare ion conducting elastomer films for use as corrosion inhibiting materials. To achieve ion conductivity, vulcanised samples were swelled in 1,2-dichloroethane and sulfonated using trimethylsilyl chlorosulfonate as sulfonating agent. Changes in mechanical, thermal and ion conductive properties were assessed. Sulfonated

Background: Since the last decades of the twentieth century there have been lots of companies who had moved their production processes from the origin country to another different country because of a lower cost of operations in the new location. These better conditions were due to fewer labor costs, fewer land prices, fewer transport costs and lower taxes, among others. However, nowadays reshorin

Bra tryck för fjärrvärme Nio av tio flerbostadshus i Sverige värms med fjärrvärme, där värmen produceras i stora anläggningar och leds ut till kunderna via rörledningar i marken. När ledningsnät förstärks uppstår ofta komplexa system där det är svårt att veta vilka vägar vattnet tar. Detta examens-arbete har resulterat i ett datorprogram som räknar ut vilken väg vattnet tar i nätet och hur detta pLarge district heating networks often have a complex structure that requires iterative calculations to determine the flow distribution throughout the network. This Master’s thesis describes a piece of software implementing methods and data structures to determine and present the flow distribution and pressure state in such district heating networks. The purpose of the thesis work was to create a t

Josefin Palmqvist Risk- och sårbarhetsanalyser i Skånska kommuner Idag är det ett faktum att människans framfart påverkar miljö och klimat på ett negativt sätt. Mänsklig aktivitet leder till ett förändrat klimat, en sådan förändring av klimatet leder i sin tur till effekter på samhället i form av exempelvis översvämningar, värmeböljor och skyfall. Därför är det viktigare än någonsin att kommunerThis paper highlights the work with risk and vulnerability in Lund’s municipality. It also shows how three other municipalities in Scania work with these questions and how their work is different from their work in Lund’s municipality. How these municipalities’ work with these types of questions is presented through a review of different reports linked to each municipality and also through a prese

The purpose of this paper is to explore how competency is evaluated in the process of recruiting and selecting corporate leaders and managers. Another perspective is to understand the role of diversity in the process and how it affects the outcomes of hiring decisions. Qualitative interviews were analyzed from a single case study of eight leaders from the manufacturing sector. Empirical data regar

This study was carried out in order to identify the main insect species responsible for forest damages (pests) in Sweden, and to explore the relationships between insect outbreaks and environmental variables (temperature, precipitation, and availability of insect host trees, including storm damaged trees). Special attention was given to changes in management practices through time, and their conse

The use of sensors in the automotive industry is increasing, improving performance and safety of the vehicles. The ambition at BorgWarner TorqTransfer Systems AB is to increase torque accuracy to optimize their powertrain solutions. Different methods to measure torque on a rotating shaft is presented and evaluated. The method that was selected was the magnetoelastic method. This method utilizes th

The essay's overall purpose was to study the parents 'interpretation of their young adults' independence and participation in society. The study has been performed on a qualitative approach in the form of unstructured interview in the form of a focus group with five parents of young adults aged 21-22 years with a mental disability. The data consists of a sound recording. The empirical

Bakgrund: Många barn tvingas förhålla sig till allvarliga och utdragna föräldrakonflikter utan möjlighet att påverka sin situation eller få sina behov av trygghet och förutsägbarhet tillgodosedda. Barnets känsla av ensamhet och rädsla synliggörs sällan och barnet drabbas av lojalitetskonflikter. Syftet: Studiens syfte var att undersöka vuxnas erfarenheter av barndomens utdragna föräldrakonflikter.

Title: The Annoyance of Cultural Diversity Management Authors: Gijs Appeldoorn & Max Leo Rodeck Supervisor: Sverre Spoelstra Date: 22nd May 2015 Purpose: The purpose of this master thesis is to contribute to the merger and acquisition, the post-merger integration and, in particular, the cultural diversity management literature with insights into how middle managers experience organizationa

The dynamics of misvaluation and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) have long been debated in light of the efficient market hypothesis. Still, the existence of misvaluation in itself raises the eyebrows of economists as it would entail the possibility of cross-border arbitrage. Consequently, within the debate trying to enlighten the matter, the primary purpose of this thesis is to investigate the dyn

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för hur konsumenters preferenser av försäljningskanaler reflekteras av deras relation till premiumvarumärken vilken vidare medieras via deras identitetsskapande. Metod: Denna studie har hermeneutik som utgångspunkt och har använt en kvalitativ metod med abduktiv ansats för att kunna kombinera befintliga teorier med insamlad empiri. Teoretiska pers

Hållbarhetslabb – ett konkret sätt att skapa hållbara städer Städer står inför många utmaningar. Redan idag koncentrerar städer utsläppsintensiva aktiviteter såsom transporter, boende och konsumtion och lider också av negativa effekter av utsläppen i form av ett förändrat klimat med bland annat värmeböljor eller översvämningar. Sociala problem som till exempel segregation är inte heller ovanligt Cities face growing pressures from increasing populations, giving rise to environmental and social problems. The transition towards more sustainable urban areas has thus become an urgent matter, demanding innovative solutions and means to test and deploy them. Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have emerged as a new approach to experimentation in real-life city settings. This thesis seeks to examine how ULL

This thesis explores the status of socio-political society, rule of law, and economic society in Communist Poland and contemporary Egypt prior to their respective transitions. After establishing a status of aforementioned societal institutions, this thesis will aim to show the influence these institutions had on a transition process in both of these cases. In order to achieve this task, the thesis

Unlimited vacation policies are a rising trend, particularly among startup and tech companies. Giving employees total freedom to choose their vacation days may prove to be beneficial for both company and employees. Within this paper, a qualitative research is presented, with the objective of finding out how unlimited vacation policies (UVPs) influence job satisfaction among employees, and what imp

Nytt verktyg för att studera svampars växtsätt Med ett nyutvecklat verktyg med mikrolabyrinter gjutna i silikon kan man studera svampars tillväxt på nya sätt. Svampars växtsätt är inte väl utforskat trots att de har en väldigt stor betydelse för mänskligheten. Att ha mikrolabyrinter i silikon under en kemisk gradient innebär att man bättre kan förstå hur svampens olika delar kommunicerar mellan Recent research has been done with fungal hyphae growing in mazes or hyphae growing under the influence of a gradient. This research could give new knowledge on how fungi grow in relation to its surroundings. As fungi are important for biological decomposing, human agriculture, medicine and many other areas, this has inspired us to study hyphal growth inside a maze simultaneously under the influen

This thesis describes the development of software for an X-ray spectrometer at MAX IV. The main functionality of the software is to create an energy spectrum from detector data. A new beamline, SPECIES, is under construction at the MAX IV synchrotron facility. One of the experimental stations at SPECIES contains an X-ray spectrometer. The spectrometer will be used to analyse X-rays scattered by r