The increasing production of single-use plastics negatively affects the climate. The resulting plastic ocean debris has fatal consequences to marine life. As a result, the European Parliament has placed a ban on single-use plastics by 2021, making it essential to study sustainable materials for single-use products such as straws. Previous research has investigated how enzymes can be used to cataly

Ett protein måste upprätthålla sin tredimensionella struktur för att bevara sin funktion. De flesta proteiner veckas inte spontant till sin fungerande konformation och med tiden veckas de ut. Därför behöver kroppens celler ett system som främjar korrekt veckning och ser till att de bevarar denna veckade form. Proteiner som har denna uppgift kallas chaperoner. Chaperoner binder till och veckar andrIn order to maintain proteins’ functionality their native folding state must be preserved. Chaperones fold other proteins and DNAJ-chaperones may collaborate with Hsc70 chaperones to prevent aggregation of aggregation-prone peptides such as polyQ and Aβ42, which form fibrils in currently incurable diseases as Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s, respectively. Fibril formation of polyQ and Aβ42 is detecte

Immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees with no swedish passport or residence permit can under particular circumstances be transferred to and held in custody. For the sake of simplicity, all of the terms above will be referred to as “immigrants etc.” in this abstract. These individuals residence in custody are regulated by criminal laws, except certain facilitations regarding contact with others o

Läroböckernas roll är central i den svenska skolan och därför intressant att studera i relation till styrdokumentens krav om etik i undervisningen. Syftet med studien är att få en bild av hur läroböcker i gymnasieskolans biologi 2 kan stötta lärare i etikundervisning, vilket gjordes med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av läroböcker för denna kurs. Constant comparative method användes för at

Enligt Hirschman och Holbrook (1982) innebär hedonism njutning, och de hävdar att turister reser av hedonistiska skäl. Hotellverksamheter har blivit allt mer ifrågasatta ur ett hållbarhetsperspektiv när hedonism blivit allt viktigare inom hospitalitybranschen. Hållbarhet har blivit en trend i dagens samhälle och allt fler individer är medvetna om vad deras handlingar kan ha för konsekvenser för kl

This thesis aims to investigate the influence of social media content on youth tourism by assessing the perceptions of youth travelers from four countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to examine the cultural differences of youngsters’ attitudes towards social media use in travel planning. It uses a quantitative research approach. The da

Åt skogen med Sveriges sätt att bedriva skogsbruk? - Framtidens klimat kräver anpassning! Vem minns inte stormen Gudrun 2005 eller den extremt varma sommaren 2018? De ökade utsläppen av växthusgaser påverkar vår jord och ändrar förutsättningar som vi idag tar för givet. Klimatet blir varmare och extremväder blir allt vanligare. Skogen vi känner till dag kommer inte vara sig lik i framtiden. SkogeIncreased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will have an extensive impact on Sweden's forests. These are an important natural resource, and they contribute with socially important functions such as ecosystem services and timber production. The purpose of the study is to synthesize existing knowledge about how climate change affects Swedish forests, which risks are increasing, and what forest

The current study aimed to investigate what motivational effects Leader Autonomy Support (LAS), frequency of competitions and competitive climate have on employees within retail. A total of 350 stores were approached with an online survey, collecting answers from 64 retail employees (N=64). The hypotheses that LAS would have a significant association with intrinsic motivation was confirmed. Cooper

The objective of this study is to explore a new synthesized field and contribute to a better understanding of customer experience in relation to the introduction of new digital technologies focusing on the m-commerce industry. The core fields involved in the synthesis include technology, customer experience and ethics. Quantitative in nature, the study relies on online self-completion questionnair

The purpose of this master thesis was to increase the understanding of the role of gender in the Gig Economy. This research followed a social constructivist approach with an abductive mechanism that allowed for parallel working with theory and empirical data. Ten in-depth semi-structured interviews build the foundation for the research in this thesis. With the metaphor of ‘walking barefoot’, this

Detta examensarbete har utförts i samarbete med Knowit Core i Malmö för att utveckla nästa generation av ett system för markupplåtelser, som används på Malmös fastighets- och gatukontor. Målet med arbetet har varit att undersöka hur ny teknologi och kunskap kan användas för att förbättra användbarhet och arbetsflöde i ett förlegat system. För att bygga en kravspecifikation över det nya systemet haThis thesis work has been done in collaboration with Knowit Core in Malmö to develop the next generation of a system that handles leases, used by the housing and street office of Malmö city. The purpose of this thesis has been to research how new technologies can be used to enhance the useability and workflow in an outdated system. Interviews and focus groups have been held with users from Malmö a

Heat exchangers are important devices in many applications. Extensive work is done in optimization, but the overall designs are often one of the conventional varieties such as plate or shell-and-tube heat exchanger. These are constrained by their manufacturing, for example the use of construction material such as sheet metal and cylindrical pipes. The current progress in additive manufacturing has

En oskriven men samtidigt stark princip inom den svenska försäkringsrätten är produktfrihetsprincipen. I korthet föreskriver principen att det är försäkringsbolagets prerogativ att fritt få utforma sin produkt. Den här friheten följer dock inte helt oväntat med en rad begränsningar, i den här uppsatsen undersöks några av de framför allt försäkringsrättsliga lagregler som inverkar på den här frihetAn unwritten but yet strong tenet of Swedish insurance law has long been the principle of product freedom (Produktfrihetsprincipen). In essence this principle states that it is the prerogative of the insurance company to freely design their product. However, this freedom naturally has its legal limitations and this paper seeks to investigate some of the cornerstones of Swedish insurance law that r

The debate on the inclusion of women in peacebuilding has hit the scholarship field and received wide attention in the last years. There is a greater understanding of the significance from including women in the peacebuilding process. Most existing research focuses on the inclusion of women in the peace process. This thesis also took the same direction but diverged in using postcolonial theories t

Hälso- och sjukvården i Skåne står inför en ohållbar kostnadsökningstakt som till stor del beror på att allt fler människor insjuknar i kroniska sjukdomar. Många av dagens kroniska sjukdomar kan kopplas till en ohälsosam livsstil. Primärprevention handlar om att förhindra att sjukdomar uppstår hos friska individer och via primärpreventiva insatser går det att motverka ohälsosamma levnadsvanor i en

”The worlds most gender equal country”, a phrase often associated with Sweden. The national gender equality politics impact has been growing since the 1930s and today gender equality is considered a Swedish national value. This essay explores gender equality discourse within two public state inquiries regarding the parental insurance system. One is focusing on limiting the ability to use the syste

Throughout history, there have been several theories conducted regarding the internationalisation process, perhaps the majority concerning the traditional company. However, this degree project focuses on the applicability of internationalisation theories in regards to cleantech start-ups with circular ideas, hence a fundamental shift from the traditional linear business model. By conducting qualit

Genom att använda X-band väderradar-data och ett neuralt nätverk kan höga avloppsvattenflöden till Källby avloppsreningsverk i Lund förutspås upp till en timme in i framtiden, vilket ger värdefull tid att vidta säkerhetsåtgärder. Med ytterligare data kan prognostiden potentiellt förlängas med flera timmar.This study aimed to forecast combined sewer flow into a wastewater treatment plant in Lund, Sweden by using uncalibrated X-band radar data with a neural network. Neural networks have proved themselves useful in the field of forecasting as they can solve multiple kinds of problems and recognise patterns in the data (Alemu et al. 2018) as well as model complex real-world problems (Zhang 2012). In 20