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This master thesis is written at the faculty of engineering at Lund University in collaboration with IKEA Industry. The aim is to analyze the potential in electricity production from excess wood biomass coming from production. The available biomass varies in form, quantity, size and moisture content. Various technologies, handling different kind of feedstock for electricity production were investi
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate short term poverty and reduce intergenerational poverty by supplying targeted poor households with cash transfers contingent upon certain program parameters, such as school attendance for children. Evaluation on CCTs have found that such programs generally increase school enrolment and school attendance but its subsequent effect on labor ma
Nowadays, the use of digital signal processing is essential in various measurements of different machines. There has been many projects done at Sandvik AB on how to collect and measure data signals on the cone rock crusher. None of those measurements could present the correct data. The reason could possibly be due to the lack of theory behind the use of digital signal processing which this thesis
It is commonly understood that Intellectual Property Regimes are aimed at protecting private rights and in doing so sometimes neglect public interests. Historically IP systems were considered to allow authors or creators to secure certain monopolies on rights, hence in the 1970s and 1980s the concern over public needs came forward requiring the IP system to respond to it in a way that would stimul
Examensarbetet är utfört på och i samarbete med Imtech Ventilation i Malmö. Författarens avsikt har från början varit att skapa något som kan vara till stor nytta för företaget. Därför har examensarbetet utförts i nära samarbete med Imtech Ventilations medarbetare. Författaren har gjort en bakgrundsanalys av energikravs-läget i byggbranchen. Detta för att ta fram en validerad problemformulering ocThis master thesis is performed on and in cooperation with Imtech ventilation in Malmö. The author's intention was from the beginning to create something that can be of great benefit to the company. The master thesis has been carried out in close cooperation with the employees of Imtech Ventilation. The author has done a background analysis of the current excising energy regulations. This was
Bus lanes are being built as a measure to increase the share of public transport, thereby reducing congestion and environmental impacts. Evaluations are rarely made and the effects of the measures are therefore, in many cases unknown. It is currently unclear whether there are some general correlations between the Swedish cities where bus lanes have been built. This report examines the general tren
This thesis explores methods to find features that affect the start time of mobile apps. To help app developers improve performance over patch cycles, we implement an alarm pipeline in Apache Spark and tested it. This implementation is able to detect notable changes in the start time distribution and alert the developer. Spark is a scalable cluster computing framework, that proved well suited for
In the debate surrounding the genealogy of nationalism, the link has often been made between nationalism and the intellectual history of eighteenth century Germany — particularly to the German philosophers associated with transcendental idealism. Are such claims just, or are they simply the product of wishful thinking? If they are, to what extent? Is it fair, as Elie Kedouri once famously put it,
Aquaculture is the culture of plants, algae or animals that live in aquatic systems. It started being developed in the 50s and it has increased enormously since then. Aquaculture has the potential of mitigating some worldwide problems such as the global hunger and the fishing pressure. However, aquaculture is not perfect and it has several impacts over the environment. In order to assess all of th
The role of startups in today’s economy grows increasingly more important while more and more companies engage in open source software (OSS) development. Both startups and open source projects are sources of, and rely on, innovation. As startups are typically very resource constrained and open source potentially offers low cost labour and innovation sources; the intersection of startups and OSS is
Nära infrarött ljus (NIR) kan användas för att säkerställa djurfodrens näringsinnehåll Det är viktigt att kunna garantera att djurfoder innehåller rätt mängd näringsämnen, oavsett vilken sorts fettkälla (såsom vegetabiliska oljor eller fiskolja) som används vid fodertillverkning. Detta kan göras med NIR-teknik! För att djur ska vara välmående är det viktigt att de får i sig rätt mängd näringsämnThe aim with this master thesis was to investigate if a certain sow feed requires different calibrations in near-infrared analysis, due to if the sow feed have fish oil or AkoFeed as fat source. To investigate this, a basic sow feed mix was prepared and divided in 60 jars with 250 g in each. In 30 of the jars 0 to 15 g fish oil were added and in the other 30 jars 0 to 21 g AkoFeed were added. 2/
Continuous Integration is an approach to handle the complexity in modern software development projects. Instead of developing modules separately and then performing a time consuming phase of integrating all modules in the end of each project, it is possible to continuously test the compatibility of a single module as they develop. The company HMS Industrial Networks is a leading independent distri
Title: Virtual Reality as presentation tool for architects Authors: Adrian Norlund och Lisa Rask Supervisor: Fredrik Wikberg, Department of Building Construction, Faculty of Engineering (LTH) Question formulation: - Will the audience get a better idea of an object in VR compared to current presentation techniques? - What is most useful for architects, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or VR room (CAVE
When a website has critical points in time when the amount of visitors increases significantly within a very short time frame, it is extremely important for the underlying system to be prepared to properly handle these large amount of requests. In Emues’ case it’s about more than just keeping the services running, but also to improve on the user experience while purchasing tickets for events. The
This essay is focusing on the Chinese author Lao She’s work ErMa, a novel that is about two Chinese who move to England in the beginning of the twentieth century. In the novel there are plenty of cultural differences and prejudices between the English and the Chinese. This essay will focus on these and compare them with real, non-fictitious travel writings written by travellers to China and Europe
This master thesis is a project report of a system identification experiment of pressure sensors in order to characterise their frequency behaviour. The information about the frequency behaviour is for example very useful in the automotive industry, where pressure sensors are used to measure the dynamic pressures in combustion engines. The sensors are identified by means of impulse response analys
The purpose of the study is to contribute to the debate on whether smallholder or large-scale farming is the more pertinent strategy to spur agricultural growth and commercialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study will examine the meteoric increase in the growth of ‘emergent’ medium-scale commercial dairy farming in Zambia. Both the Magoye and Fisenge dairy cooperatives will serve as a case stu
People’s obsession over objects and constantly renewing them was the initial core of the project. This led us in the direction of the fast fashion industry. The unrelenting change of trends forces the consumer to continuously update their wardrobe, while the time spans for new trends keep decreasing. The textile industry is one of the largest environmental issues of today. By focusing on outdoor e
