Being the largest bilateral donor for reproductive health assistance, USAID has played a significant role in shaping the global reproductive governance. This thesis is therefore interested in how USAID represents the issue of reproductive health in its development policies. The thesis is designed as a qualitative single case study, analysing USAID’s policy documents about reproductive health from

The premise of this thesis was to explore United Nations construction of gender in their Guidance on gender and inclusive mediation strategies. The Guidance, published in 2017, stem from United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security in 2000, which stressed the importance of including women in peace processes. Through Lazar’s feminist critical discourse analysis, th

Inspelningar av medicinska operationer möjliggör utvärdering av kirurgers arbete och kan användas som utbildningsmaterial. Medicinska videor tenderar dock att vara långa och kräver manuell redigering för att förbättra användbarheten. Idag finns det företag som erbjuder att med sin medicinska expertis sammanfatta operationsvideo manuellt. Målet med det här examensarbetet är att skapa en uppsättniRecording of medical procedures makes it possible for medical staff to review their work, learn from the mistakes and produce material for education. Medical videos tend to be long, which has an impact on usability and raises issues concerning memory storage. The aim of this master thesis is to make the material more user-friendly with an intelligent toolbox based on machine learning and image an

By the year 2030, the world will need 50% more food, 45% more energy and 30% more water. This growth in demand will increase pressure on our natural resources. Ingenuitive and adaptive thinking will therefore be required in the ways we build our cities. Finland, with its abundance of natural resources: its forest, its lakes and its aquatic resources, as well as its expertise in sustainable resourc

This case is about Starbucks acquisition of Teavana and the events that followed.

In order to achieve sustainable development, there is perhaps not one strategy more often used in contemporary urban planning than density. Many cities have a dedicated densification strategy of their inner city, such as HafenCity in Hamburg or Älvstaden in Gothenburg. However, one critique of contemporary architecture is how new urban developments are becoming generic; more and more similar to ea

Artificiell intelligens (AI) har på senare tid fått en otrolig uppmärksamhet. Det tröttsamma arbetet med att manuellt koda in lösningar i ett program har ersatts av att lära programmen att hitta egna lösningar; detta är en AI-teknik som kallas för maskininlärning. Sådana program tränar upp förmågan att känna igen mönster eller anomalier i data, vilket kan användas för allt från att köra bilar tilMachine learning projects are often constrained by data that is messy, scarce, sensitive or costly to produce. These are issues which could be mitigated by synthetic data. This thesis tries to improve Swedish license plate localization in images by synthesizing images through superimposition, a process that produces data cheaply and in abundance. A generative process algorithmically creates imag

In this report, we model the mechanical properties and fracture behavior of SiC nanowires with different polytypes using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. The mechanical properties investigated are the Young’s modulus, the maximum tensile stress and the fracture strain. The three polytype tested are SiC (3C), (2H) and (4H). Tensile tests are performed on bulk and nanowire samples using three com

STYRD KYLNING AV GJUTGODS – ett allt hetare ämne Många industrier står idag inför stora utmaningar angående resurseffektivitet och energi-användning, inte minst de som involverar väldigt energikrävande processer. Metall- och gjuteriindustrin står idag för ungefär 15% av energi-användningen i Sverige. Därför finns det intresse att utreda möjligheterna för att återanvända värme som i dagsläget går tIn this project, the cooling and solidification processes for a Valmet Foundry product have been simulated in order to shorten the cooling time. The study has also been done in cooperation with RISE Swecast in Jönköping, as a part of finding ways to make casting procedures more energy efficient. Another scope of the study is to evaluate how well COMSOL Multiphysics can be used to simulate these ty

Title: The importance of creating a credible brand in the new digital world of social media influencer marketing. Submission date: May 29th, 2019 Course: BUSN39 Degree project in global marketing Authors: Sandra Juncker & Charlotta Carlquist Supervisor: Javier Cenamor Keywords: Social media, Social media influencer marketing, Social media influencer Influencer marketing, Influencers, Brand Cre

The modernisation of the Global South is a complex and often overwhelming task. However, one of the most cross-cutting issues is often overlooked. The arena of energy poverty – specifically electric poverty in rural areas and how state policies tackle this problem - is one that often discussed in the wider development discourse. By answering the questions ‘How is the problem of access to electrici

This study set out to investigate relations between language and cognition. More specifically, to examine if language fluency had any effects on measures of attention. Eighty participants with varying linguistic fluencies were recruited on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and completed the study on Qualtrics. Three measures were implemented to gather data: an image-recognition task, a non-verbal scale of

Titel: Digitala rabattkupongers upplevda påverkan på konsumentbeteende vid online-shopping. - En kvalitativ studie på unga konsumenter. Nivå och kurs: Kandidatuppsats i Service Management, VT 2019. KSMK65 Service Management: Examensarbete för kandidatexamen, 15 hp. Institution: Institutionen för Service Management och tjänstevetenskap vid Lunds universitet, Campus Helsingborg. Författare: Alva Ber

The present perceptual learning study was conducted in an attempt to investigate to which extent naïve listeners’ L1 prosodic background affected their learning performance of a lexical tone language and whether an auditory-image (AI) training paradigm curtailed the online-learning process of lexical tones. Thirty-three Mandarin-naïve Swedish-native listeners (NS listeners) and 33 Mandarin-naïve E

Företag väljer att övergå till en modernare marknadsföringsmetod såsom Influencer Marketing. Influencer Marketing fungerar genom word-of-mouth som är en metod där information sprids från en person till en annan. Studien avser därför att analysera om företag som jobbar med Influencer Marketing fortfarande använder sig av könsstereotypisk reklam för att marknadsföra sina produkter. En semiotisk analCompanies today choose to abandon traditional marketing methods in favor of new and modern marketing methods. One such method is Influencer Marketing which uses a method called word-of-mouth in which information is spread from person to person. This study is therefore aimed to investigate whether the use of gender stereotypical in advertising still remains despite the more modern marketing methods

Genom en simpel sökning på internet kan man nuförtiden hitta många vackra bilder på enskilda galaxer och på stora samlingar av galaxer, galaxhopar. Vårt solsystem befinner sig i Vintergatan, en spiralgalax inte helt olik många av dessa galaxer. Bilderna visar oftast ljuset som kommer från stjärnor och stjärnstoft, men galaxer består även av gas. Det är från massiva gasmoln i galaxer som stjärnor fThe interstellar medium of both local and distant disc galaxies is observed to be supersonically turbulent and the turbulent motion of the gas is thought to be important for galaxy formation and evolution, particularly as a key ingredient for star formation. Consequently, this generates a striking relation between the star formation rate (SFR) and gas velocity dispersion ($\sigma_{\rm g}$; a measu

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how the new railway line, Malmöpendeln, can break the segregation and improve integration in the city of Malmö. The subsidiary aim with the essay is to further investigate if Rosengård station can lead to a positive urban development and improved integration. The underlying methodology have been document analysis and semi-structured interviews. The

Getting girls to go to and ​stay​ in school is a worldwide issue - predominantly in the global south where it is a particular problem in Sub-saharan Africa where poverty is particularly high. This issue is also one of gender, as the majority of children who do not have access/go to school are female. This paper investigates this problem in central western Uganda, in the west county of the Kalungu

Benin, an impoverished nation in West Africa, has been consistently ranked as one of Africa’s best democracies. While countries in the region have seen major democratic backlashes, this study seeks to explain how it is that Benin’s democracy has survived since 1991. This thesis operationalises a theoretical framework of democratic consoli- dation based on three approaches — structures, attitudes