Before developing a new product, the future market of the identified opportunity needs to be estimated. There is a need to evaluate the probable future product in terms of profitability, which requires prediction of sales price, costs and future volumes. A forecasted volume is not only basis in profitability calculations but it also serves as an input for planning of future capacity in terms of e.

Alfa Laval DC Lund is both a spare part manufacturer and distributer. The spare parts that Alfa Laval DC Lund supplies are used for the heat transfer business unit of Alfa Laval. Sometimes orders need to be produced fast as customers may have breakdowns in production and sometime orders arrive months earlier than customers want to receive delivery as scheduled services occur at the customer. Probl

Popular summary: Air quality data mart built in this study consists of historical air pollutant data for cities across Ontario. This data is available at the Ontario ministry of environment website from 2000-2007 for most of the cities. There is missing data for some of the cities and some pollutants as well. It is because the monitoring of those specific pollutants did not commence in or before 2

The competitive corporate environment of today, as marked by continuous changes and enhanced global competition, forces companies to constantly adapt their current business activities and increasingly excel. Innovation is considered a critical imperative in order to respond to these increased competitive threats. Hence, innovation ought to permeate corporate environments and their inherent busines

Spatial and temporal variations in malaria transmission are naturally associated with prevailing climatic and environmental factors, for example rainfall, humidity, temperature and human activities. These factors influence malaria transmission mainly in non-deterministic ways, making them less appropriate for accurate geographical mapping of malaria risk. One distinctive phenomenon, ‘photosyntheti

Dealing with water diffuse pollution is a major problem for watershed managers. This problem raises many complicated questions, which are important to answer in order to reach water environment protection goals. This study suggested some possible answers for the country of Lithuania. Among them were the identification of critical source areas, the identification of sensitive areas and the applicat

The aim of this essay is to explore the motif in the Epistle to the Hebrews of the believers’ entry into the Heavenly Sanctuary. The author portrays how Christ, on behalf of the believers, has entered into heaven with his own blood as a high priest and as a forerunner. But the author also exhorts his readers that they ought to enter the Sanctuary (Heb 4:14–16, 10:19–22). It is this theme I explore

Syftet med denna uppsats är att visa hur staden Lagos har vuxit i storlek och ökat i befolkning mellan åren 1990-2008. Jämförelser över staden för åren 1990, 1999 och 2008 har gjorts så att huvudragen i stadens tillväxt har kunnat visas och analyseras. Baserat på hur staden har vuxit och förändrats under dessa år så har även tre stycken framtidsmodeller för hur Lagos kan tänkas se ut år 2020 produThe aim of this thesis is to show how the city of Lagos has grown in size and population between the years 1990-2008. Comparisons over the city for the years 1990, 1999 and 2008 have been made so that the main characteristics of the city’s growth can be shown and analyzed. Based on this expansion future prospects for the city has been provided through producing three different scenarios on how Lag

This thesis is devoted to the analysis of the I-V properties of axial InP pn-junction nanowires made for solar cell application. A novel method has been used to measure the I-V characteristics very accurately and reproducibly, using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The STM is used to first image the nanowires from top and then form a low resistive point contact between the STM tip and an indiv

There is a story behind everything, that is what makes life interesting. In this project the aim was to use such stories as an inspiration in order to create several pieces of furniture. This could be seen as an example on how a process that from the beginning was very fuzzy, in the end could result in something very tangible.

Människa eller dödsiffra?-En kritisk diskursanalys i svensk storstadspress rapportering från kriserna i Syrien och Jemen är en uppsats på kandidatnivå skriven av Helena Johansson i ämnet Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Institutionen för kommunikation och medier vid Lunds Universitet. Med utgångspunkt i teoribildning kring medlidandets politik, orientalism och nyhetsvärdering analyseras rapp

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att pressentera ett antal tekniska lösningar för att förbättra säkerheten och kapaciteten i ställverk 59. Ställverk 59 är den vanligaste ställverkstypen på Trafikverkets järnvägsnät. Grundkonstruktionen är utvecklad på 1950-talet, men ställverkstypen nybyggs fortfarande trots konstruktionens ålder. Ända sedan järnvägen infördes har det funnits behov av att styra t

Scientific summary: The fast development of computational power of the mobile phone have made it a suitable platform for running map applications. Both public and field working professionals can benefit from easy access to a mobile map client application with features such as route planning, location based services and simple GIS operations. This master's thesis describes the mobile operating The fast development of computational power of the mobile phone makes it a suitable platform for running map applications. Both public and field working professionals can benefit from easy access to a mobile map client application with features such as route planning, location based services and simple GIS operations. This master's thesis describes the mobile operating system (OS) Android from

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om implicita och explicita fördomar mot attraktiva och oattraktiva ansikte kan reduceras. Det undersöktes genom att deltagarna tvingades hålla med om ett antal motivationspåståenden om vikten av att ej vara fördomsfull mot attraktiva samt oattraktiva. Deltagarna fick sedan göra en affektiv misattributionsprocedur där de fick skatta attraktiva samt oattraktThe purpose of this study was to examine if implicit and explicit prejudices against attractive and unattractive people can be reduced. This was meant to occur when the participants were forced to agree with a set of motivational statements about the importance of not prejudicing against attractive and unattractive faces. The participants then rated attractive and unattractive faces in an affectiv

Problem/Bakgrund: Högriskorganisationer kännetecknas av arbete som i vissa avseenden innebär risker. I de organisationerna måste säkerheten premieras, annars kan det få ödesdigra konsekvenser. Hur säkerheten premieras och vilken effekt det får, är fokus för föreliggande studie. Mer specifikt studeras om individens upplevelse av säkerhetsarbete kan förklaras med Émile Durkheims religionsteori. Syf

This report investigates the gas-cooling effects of compressed air foam (CAF). A literature review has been made on the subject and on related issues in order to gather information. Two experimental series were conducted, the first to evaluate the gas-cooling properties of CAF compared to water. The other one was conducted to investigate how the recommended tactic, with application from a safe dis

Det finns idag en idé om att städer, likt varor, måste marknadsföra sig för att på detta sätt sticka ut ur mängden och därmed visa sin unika nisch. I Göteborg finns tanken att marknadsföra staden som en evenemangsstad. Syftet med uppsatsen är att studera hur argumentationen för och emot denna marknadsföringsbild presenteras samt hur risken att bilden av den marknadsförda staden och den upplevda st

This essay concerns the imagined meanings of life in relation to Mivida and Al Rehab, two gated communities in the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt. It is based on promotional material and interviews conducted with relevant actors. It discusses, through a Gramscian-Foucauldian approach, how hegemonic narratives of life and the urban constitute privatized lived geographies, where the neoliberal subject

Alla ekosystem, skogar, sjöar, hav etc., är föränderliga och står under konstant påverkan, såväl inre som yttre, vilken försöker driva det för stunden rådande tillståndet åt olika håll. Sjöar har två dominerande tillstånd som de kan befinna sig i, antingen är de näringsfattiga och klara eller så är de näringsrika och grumliga. I den har studien har jag undersökt Börringesjön, i södra Skåne. SyftetAbstract All ecosystems, forests, lakes, seas etc., are changeable and are under constant influence, inner as well as outer, that try to push the for the moment present state in different directions. Lakes have two dominating states in which they can exist, they are either clear and low in nutrients or turbid and high in nutrients. In this study I have been examining lake Börringesjön in the sout