With rapid urbanization and population growth, Addis Ababa faces a big challenge of dealing with slums in the inner city. It has used up most of its space within its boundary and there are now a number of projects on the pipe line to redevelop the inner city slums. This seems to be the single most pressing issue currently. The recent public housing projects and inner city renewal programs has cau

Title: Ensuring Supplier Compliance to Stakeholder Demands Author: Fanny Åklundh Supervisors: Stefan Olander, Department of Building Production, LTH Brian Sieben, Head of Sourcing Excellence, Hilti Group Examiner: Radhlinah Aulin, Department of Building Production, LTH Purpose: To create a conceptual framework for defining requirements for supplier qualification in terms of certificates and

Abstract Background: Person-centered care is increasingly regarded as being synonymous with best quality care. However, the concept and its precise meaning is a subject of debate, and reliable and valid measurement tools are few. This study is a part of a larger project named KUPA who´s main aim is to improve palliative care and person centeredness for elders living in nursing homes in two souther

Jordbruksfåglar i områden med hög respektive låg andel vall Fåglar används ofta som indikatorer på miljöförändringar tack vare sin position högt upp i näringskedjan samt det faktum att de är lätta att studera. Fågelarter som förekommer och häckar i jordbrukslandskapet har minskat kraftigt i och med vårt moderna och intensiva jordbruk. Många studier påvisar hur olika faktorer som följer med det moMany bird species living in farmland habitats have suffered severe declines in recent years. This fact has been object to many studies and the reasons for the decline are many, but it all comes down to effects of our shift to a more effective farmland management. We use the land in a more intense way than before. The use of chemicals has effect both on the birds and their food resources. A more ho

The growth of informal settlements especially in third world countries has become a problem on a global scale. In Asia and Africa, although under different circumstances, the fastest urbanization takes place. To find a good way on how to include the poor city migraters into the growing cities will be crucial in order to have more sustainable, peaceful and just societies. My focus lays on the semi-

Sammanfattning Grundprincipen för utrymningsdimensionering är att tiden det tar att utrymma en byggnad ska vara mindre än tiden till kritiska förhållanden uppstår. Enligt Boverkets byggregler kan en inåtgående dörr till lokaler som rymmer fler än 30 personer bidra till köbildning vid utrymning, därför föredras att dörren öppnas utåt. Tvärtemot Boverkets byggregler är en utåtgående dörr vid vissaAbstract The purpose of the study was to investigate if the inwards door in a room that holds more than 30 people leads to queue formation. Queuing can lead to prolonged evacuation, which increases the risk of people still being in the room when critical conditions arises. In this study, movement times with inward and outward opening doors were examined as well as queuing in both directions. The s

When insurance companies calculate compensation for products no longer on the market, they need to identify an equal product for val- uation. Subjectively matching products poses a unique challenge with a many-to-many pairing, which is currently handled by an algorithm that requires day-to-day maintenance. This thesis investigates current methodologies and tools and presents unique machine learninInsurance companies manually find replacements for thousands of products every day. Can a machine replace the manual labor while remaining faithful to the consumers’ desires?

The United States middle class has become a major topic of discussion and debate over the past several years, playing an intricate part in economic and political policies today. The reasoning behind this is due to the acknowledgement of the average American household struggling to maintain their standard of living with rising costs of goods and services along with stagnating wages. Unemployment is

I denna studie undersöks demokratibistånd och under vilka förutsättningar det kan generera demokratiska och ekonomiska effekter i mottagarlandet genom en deskriptiv litteraturöversikt av moderna forskningsresultat. Förutsättningar hos både givarparten och mottagarlandet tas upp för diskussion. Studien går sedan vidare med en fallstudie av Moçambique. I fallstudien undersöks hur förutsättningarna v

With the wind farms moving further from shore, new challenges arise. Technicians must visit the turbines almost daily because of the constant need for maintenance. But when the transport time from shore to the wind farm turns into hours is some kind of permanent accommodation required at the farm for the technicians to live on. Apart fromaccommodation the deep water is a big challenge. This paper

An increasing amount of research findings is showing that higher engagement in cognitive tasks alleviates the interference of anxiety and worry on task performance as compared to lower task engagement. Yet, it is still not clear which cognitive functions are mostly contributing to this relieving effect. To add to the current knowledge, the present experimental work investigated the relations bet

Resource related challenges are becoming increasingly severe. The shift towards a circular economy is viewed as one prominent way to overcome the challenges. A shift towards a circular economy would partly require new business models, commonly referred to as circular business models. In order to enhance the development of circular business models, there is a need to understand how companies with c

Studier har funnit att skiftarbete kan ha en negativ inverkan på hälsa, arbetsprestation och biologiska rytmer, men det finns få studier kring skiftarbete och aktivitetsbalans. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur personer som arbetar skift beskriver sina upplevelser och erfarenheter av aktivitetsbalans i vardagen. En kvalitativ ansats användes där semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med 1

Premenstruellt syndrome är ett vanligt problem för kvinnor världen över. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur svår premenstruellt syndrom (PMS) påverkar upplevelsen av olika roller och aktiviteter hos arbetande mödrar med småbarn. Studien genomfördes som en intervjustudie med semistrukturerade frågor kring deltagarnas upplevelse av roller och aktiviteter i vardagen samt hur dessa upplevdes und

Bakgrund: Fritidsaktiviteter kan bidra till både bättre fysisk och psykisk hälsa samt allmänt välmående. Vid reumatiska sjukdomar är ofta fritidsaktiviteter den första aktivitetsgrupp som faller bort, detta trots att fritidsaktiviteter för många är den mest värdeskapande aktiviteten. Syfte: Att undersöka hur pensionärer över 65 år med artros i händerna beskriver sina upplevelser och erfarenheter a

With the climate change and urbanization process, the frequency of the urban flooding’s occurrence has increased in the recent years. It brings great economic losses to the cities, especially to the basements of individual properties. Low Impact Development (LID), which currently advocated by more city planners for managing stormwater, is considered as a more sustainable way to mitigate urban floo

The current state of security found in the IoT domain is highly flawed, a major problem being that the cryptographic keys used for authentication can be easily extracted and thus enable a myriad of impersonation attacks. In this MSc thesis a study is done of an authentication mechanism called device fingerprinting. It is a mechanism which can derive the identity of a device without relying on device

In this study it is examined whether the amount of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) is affected by terrorism in three developed countries in Europe from a time series approach. The countries that are examined are France, Spain and the United Kingdom. The time period is 1975-2016 and the observations are annual. In previous literature there is evidence that terrorism should have an impact on FDI. F