Popular science summary: What the zebra finches did not see There is more out there than what we can see; that is something that most people would agree on. And I am not talking about ghosts from the beyond or aliens from space; I am talking about all those things that we know exist but that we are not able to see with our own eyes or feel with our own senses. I am not talking science fiction, I

Bart Streumer utilizes the principle “R: We do not have reasons to do what we cannot do” in order to justify that ‘ought’ implies ‘can’. This thesis questions Streumer’s assumption and instead argues that we have reasons to do what is psychologically-, physically and maybe even metaphysically impossible but not conceptually or logically impossible. As is shown in the thesis we do not have reasons

Concerns about the decline in knowledge concerning food growing stemming stem from the Green Revolution, as well as the rapid urbanization since the beginning of the 20th Century. There is a gap in the literature about community gardening in industrialized English-speaking countries, and since sharing of knowledge is a well-documented achievement of community gardens, the aim of this thesis is to

In February 2013, the United States and the European Union announced to start negotiations on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. If these negotiations lead to a free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union, the two markets together will form the largest trading bloc in the world. The US and EU are already each other’s main trading partners and

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Protein-protein växelverkan för det globulära proteinet laktoferrin har studerats vid låg elektrolythalt (5 mM) med hjälp av statisk ljusspridning och mätningar av andra virial koefficienten, B2 som innehåller information om protein-protein växelverkan. Växelverkan mellan proteinmolekyler är mycket komplex vilket beror på de ingående aminosyrornas egenskaper. DesIn this work the effect of pH and ionic strength on interactions for the globular protein lactoferrin has been studied using static and dynamic light scattering. The interactions were investigated in terms of the second virial coefficient, B2, and the collective diffusion coefficient, Dcoll, at different concentrations of electrolyte. The conditions investigated in this work will serve as a stable

Idag tillhör persondatorerna våra käraste prylar, men så har det inte alltid varit. Kring 1980, då persondatorerna slog igenom i Sverige, sågs "datafrågorna" istället tillhöra samhällets stora utmaningar, tillsammans med bland annat energiförsörjningen och miljöfrågorna. Dessa datafrågor debatterades häftigt, och i fackpressen kritiserades särskilt Sveriges Television för att ge en allde

In times of increased environmental awareness, there exists a desire to not only build new environmentally friendly and renewable power generating units, but also to increase the efficiency of all existing technology. Wind power is such a renewable and environmentally friendly technology. Wind turbines and wind power have made giant leaps in the world in the past years, with an almost exponential

The purpose of this study is to explore if and how the situation for women in India and Bangladesh changes through microloans. In this thesis I describe what microloans are about, what empowerment is and how Grameen Bank works. The data for this study consist of anthropological research and field studies as well as statistical data, which have been analyzed using from a perspective of applied ant

Bakgrund Att ha rätt mängd varor, vid rätt tid och på rätt plats är ett centralt problem i färskvarubranschen. För att ta itu med denna problematik har författarna undersökt i vilken utsträckning avancerade prognosmodeller kan hjälpa branschen med detta problem. I arbetet undersöks effekterna av både enkla och avancerade modeller och jämförs med manuella prognoser som görs av säljarna på Pågen AB.

FTRTIL is rapidly expanding on the Indian market after initiatives by the Indian government to increase the number of rolling trains. FTRTIL is today experiencing a greater demand for their products. Meanwhile are they also planning to expand their product range with new introductions. After trying to respond to the prevailing market demand for the E70 brake panel without any success made FTRTIL r

Ekosystemtjänster är ekosystemens direkta och indirekta bidrag till människors välbefinnande. Ekosystemtjänster är ett forskningsområde som får en allt större uppmärksamhet internationellt, men också i Sverige. År 2006 gav regeringen Naturvårdsverket i uppdrag att ta fram en vägledning för tillämpningen av ekosystemansatsen i Sverige och regeringen fastslog 2012 att betydelsen av biologisk mångfal

Popular science summary Is the European hake “shrinking” under the current fishing practices? Did you know that the current fishing practices have caused significant declines in body size of many exploited fishing stocks? This effect of fishing management has become one of the major threats for commercially exploited fish species and it can have severe negative consequences for the offspring of

Popular science summary Are aerial drones the future for wild boar crop damage surveys? The wild boars are back, and they have returned in force. This is a rather recent trend since wild boars were extinct in Sweden until the 1970s and since then they have multiplied explosively, spreading all over central and southern Sweden. Their re-appearance has led to conflicts with human interests, namel

I denna kandidatuppsats behandlas David Foster Wallaces författarskap och hur han reflekterade kring skrivandet. Syftet att undersöka en författares synpunkt på relationen mellan litteraturen och filosofin, samt det privata och det offentliga. Detta görs genom att utforska Wallaces uttalanden kring ämnet i olika skeden utav hans författarskap. Då vissa filosofiska teorier framträder i detta samman

This study is an evaluation of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program Universal Allocation per Child (AUH) in Argentina as a policy to reduce inequality of opportunity among children. Creating a Human Development Index (HOI), as developed by Paes de Barros et al. in 2009, I measure the changes in level of opportunity before and after the implementation of the AUH program, and I complement the

The MAX IV facility is a 3rd generation state-of-the-art synchrotron light source currently under construction in Lund, Sweden. The MAX IV 3 GeV storage ring has a large negative natural chromaticity, which has to be corrected to positive values to prevent head-tail instabilities. On the other hand, high linear chromaticity can lead to a large tune footprint limiting Touschek lifetime. Therefore,

This study concerns the prospects of the Victims and Land Restitution Law in Colombia, of successfully contribution in increasing agricultural productivity, through a restitution of land to the victims of the country’s armed conflict. According to the theory of Giovanni Andrea Cornia very small-sized farms and large-sized farms have a lower relative productivity than middle-sized farms, due to th

Background The trend of postponed reproduction to late in life has increased demand for fertility treatment. The current program of subsidized ART-treatment in Sweden is thoroughly debated and critiqued. The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics has highlighted the ethical shortcomings of the current system and called for a program change. This thesis expands on the proposal and introduces a