The Living Table is the result of my master thesis, a study about the table culture of our modern lifestyle. My aim was to create a concept that communicates values, motivates to share values and traditions that are related to food and table culture. The project was divided in two parts; the theoretical part, where I explored the development of the table and food culture within Europe and analysed

Human trafficking is an alarming issue that has been discussed by many scholars and policy makers from different fields. It has been argued that poverty is one of the root causes of trafficking, making people to take any risks to improve life. The severe exploitation that occurs during trafficking experience has put victims of trafficking in a difficult situation where they are often seen as objec

Internet Piracy has become a phenomenon as a result of developed Internet technologies and file-sharing applications. With the growth of the Internet and the increased number of Internet users around the globe, the world is becoming ever more digitalized. Users are expecting digital information to be readily available at the touch of a button. This has caused an immense demand for digital goods, w

This thesis examines if international law and its protection mechanisms satisfactorily address the protection needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs). At the end of 2011, around 25 million people around the world were internally displaced by armed conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations. In contrast, the number of refugees was approximately 16 million. In spite of the fact

Dagens byggande av bostäder präglas av ökade krav på kortare byggtider, lägre byggkostnader och en jämn och hög kvalitet. Miljötänkande har också fått en allt högre prioritet. De ökade kraven har medfört olika typer av satsningar på att förbättra material, teknik och metoder för att bygga villor. En tydlig linje i denna utveckling har varit en ökad användning av förtillverkade komponenter och elem

The structural behaviour of a shear wall mainly depends on the configuration of the sheathing to framing joints, and the connections to the surrounding structure, of which the anchoring to the substrate is of major importance. However, most of the today used sh ear wall design methods are linear elastic models limited to the design of walls fully anchored at wall ends and openings. For the design

The purpose of this master thesis has been to study prestressed concrete in different bridge codes. The studied codes are the Swedish BRO 94, the American AASHTO code and Eurocode. The codes are compared by dimensioning of a bridge slab in transverse direction and the factors that decide the amount of prestressing steel are evaluated.

This Masters thesis examines the possibilities of using structural masonry in modern building with respect to statical load bearing capacity, building physics, building costs and acoustics. The examination is done by designing three buildings using an existing building as a model. These buildings are then compared to each other and to the existing building with respect to the areas of interest men

In this master thesis, the properties of shell bedded autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) are investigated. There are reasons to believe that the values for flexural, compressive and shear strength in the Swedish regulations are on the low side. The work within this master thesis consists of determining the characteristic values based on experimental tests. The test results indicate that the values

This thesis examines the independence of the UN treaty bodies, both in its entirety and the autonomy of the individual treaty body members. Since independence is very difficult to measure empirically, this paper uses the theoretical framework of Principal-Trustee theory as a tool by which the independence can be understood. This instrument allows us to examine the independence of the treaty body s

The concern raised in this paper is whether the cone of diversification for EU to its low income trading partners has become more similar over time, as this would imply a risk for a Stolper- Samuelson effect. In order to assess this risk, the methodology in this paper is designed to capture any rising similarities of EU to its trading partners since a Stolper- Samuleson effect infers that the good

Pore water pressure is defined relative to atmospheric pressure and it is cero kPa at the water table. Under the water table the pore water pressure rises linearly at a hydrostatic pressure distribution and above the water table it sinks. How the pore water pressure profile above the groundwater table develops in practice depends on the soil water content. The relationship between water content an

This paper presents two methods of shear capacity design in two-dimensional membrane elements. The aim in this thesis is to find a method who calculates one resulting transeverse reinforcement instead of two. A procedure (Unified Shear Theory by Collins and Mitchells) is presented for design of transverse reinforcement in two-way concrete slabs. This procedure is compared to the Swedish procedure

In this master’s thesis automatic generation of reinforcement distribution in the structural engineering program FEM-Design Plate was investigated. The reinforcement distribution proposed was to be as accurate as possible, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. For this purpose, calculation routines considering current national codes and engineering practice have been developed. Th

When designing concrete structures, there are great demands made on quality and service life of the construction, and for this the size of concrete cover is crucial. The concrete cover protects the reinforcement bars from carburization and from infiltration of chlorides, which make them corrode. When using today’s codes while designing, a thick concrete cover will yield a large crack width, which