This research aims to fill the knowledge gap with regards to food waste prevention with a specific focus on quick service restaurants (QSRs) – also known as fast food restaurants. Restaurants are in a prime position to reduce food waste produced in the consumptive stages of the food supply chain, and more focus should be placed on how restaurants can help achieve food waste reduction targets. The

The Netherlands has experienced a rapid rate of land use change from 2000 to 2008. Land use change is especially urban expansion and open agriculture reduction which is due to enhanced economic growth. This thesis reports an investigation into the application of remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical methods to provide quantitative information on the effect of land us

Ambiguity and controversy abounds the debate over the thousands of people trying to enter the European territory and their rights, especially in their procedural form. This paper explores the latest developments in the context of the European Court of Human Rights’ and the European Court of Justice’s expansive interpretation of the right to an effective remedy and the procedural guarantees afforde

The goal in this project was to design a system that will provide the women in the townships of Namibia with affordable nutritious food without having to use too much money, water or time. The system should be both built and used by the women themselves and hence be very easy and flexible. How do you get enough food to survive the day? This is something less fortunate people living in many parts o

In this thesis a political economy perspective on institutional change comprising the public choice theory and the interest group theory is adopted to identify forces that have been driving the process of institutional change in China. Representing the public choice perspective are state strength and state incentive variables whereas one domestic and one foreign interest group, managers of state o

Syftet är att undersöka hur ett miljonprogramsområde kan förbättra imagen genom att sammankopplas med ett populärt turistmål. Det vi kommer fram till är att bostadsområdet har inte tillräckligt goda förutsättningar idag för att bli ett attraktivt område och måste därför först göra förbättringar på plats innan en sammankoppling med det populära turistmålet kan tas i beaktning. Trots att det finns f

Syftet med arbetet är att beskriva de roller mellanchefer tvingas ta i ett förändringsarbete för att öka förståelsen för problematiken i förändringsarbete. Arbetet är en kvalitativt inriktad studie där författaren med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer som sedan analyserats utifrån olika teoretiska begrepp belyser delar av problematiken i förändringsarbete. Den valda teorin tar upp Theory of Ne

Denna uppsats bidrar med att bygga vidare på forskningen kring att investera efter direktavkastning (utdelning/aktiepris) på den svenska aktiemarknaden. Syftet med uppsatsen är att testa om man kan slå mitt valda index OMXS30 med tre varianter av Dogs of the dow strategin, men också om man kan påvisa några signifikanta skillnader mellan dessa tre likartade portföljsvalsstrategier,som skiljer sig i

I det här arbetet undersöks Google Translates möjligheter och svårigheter att översätta från ryska till svenska. Undersökningsmaterialet är dels hämtat från olika hemsidor, dels från forskningsartiklar om olika ordföljdsmönster som förekommer i ryska. Syftet är att studera det översatta materialet med inriktning på tre problemområden: placeringen av satsadverbialet inte, placeringen av genitivattr

Detta examensarbete grundar sig på en översättning av tre kapitel ur romanen Norte (2011), skriven av den bolivianske författaren Edmundo Paz Soldán. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys i vilken romanens stil analyseras. Därefter följer ett avsnitt som redogör för de olika översättningsstrategier som aktualiserats under översättningen. Detta avsnitt leder över i en översättningskommentar med fo

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To produce food that ends up being thrown away is a big unnecessary climate impact which is easily avoided by just treating the product in a different way. There are many reasons why food waste appears, it could be that the “best before” date has expired, the product has been damaged or it is something wrong with it from the beginning. The biggest reason for food waste is that the “best before” da

The European Union has a special place in the popular culture when talking about democracy. The mass media represent “the watch dog of democracy”, therefore it is hard to imagine a real democracy without free mass media. Even though this freedom is guaranteed by the EU legislation, it is sometimes constrained in supposed democratic countries. The study aims to find if is possible to constrain the

his paper analyses the structural principles used to apply the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [hereafter the ECHR or Convention] 1950. It reviews some of principles and tools of application utilised by the Strasbourg court when adjudicating to discern the rationale behind the instrument. The main issue that the thesis tackles relates to looking at the principle of sub

The rise and dominance of the corporate form of business organization and its impacts on society and the environment, has lead the concept and practice of Social Responsibility (SR) or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to grow, flourish and spread. This thesis focuses on the assessment of the current CSR status of Swedish commercial vehicle component manufacturer Haldex. The company is going t

This project started from a will to understand and reflect over our behaviours and ourselves; as designers, as individuals and as users. The first part of the project reflects this will through a deep research on two intertwined, polarized yet highly mutually dependent Human attributes; rational thinking on the one hand and emotional thinking on the other. The research has an open end; it gives an

The high small-scale diversity of plant species in semi-natural grasslands can be seen as a function of environmental conditions and land use history. This study explores the potential of using Worldview-2 spectral imagery and accessible GIS data to identify a set of vegetation characteristics known to influence biodiversity in semi-natural grasslands. Field sampling was done in 52 grassland sites

This thesis has been written as input for a publicly funded research project on the economic evaluation of the implications of renewable energy expansion in the German electricity and heating sector. So far, the project has only qualitatively assessed the impact of renewable energy deployment on energy security. This thesis presents the first approach of its kind to quantitatively assess the influ

Buildings account for a significant portion of energy consumption and carbon dioxide production in the United States. Renovations could improve the energy efficiency of these buildings. However, a number of market barriers, e.g. high upfront costs, are resulting in a low adoption rate of energy efficiency (EE) technologies in the building sector. Apartment buildings face an additional challenge of