The aim of this Master’s thesis is to evaluate what possible impact an increased use of groundwater may have on the spread of nitrogen pollution. The work is part of a larger project where Sweco Environment AB assists about 40 farmers in the “Köpinge - Vrams vattenförening” to apply for authorization for groundwater use in agricultural irrigation. The work was performed in three steps: a literatur

Soaring prices for rare earth metals have led to significantly increased production costs for permanent magnet motors. This has motivated research into alternative motor types, one of them, the switched reluctance motor (SRM), will be discussed in this thesis. The SRM has several positive and negative characteristics as well as highly nonlinear dynamics. It is not clear how trade-offs between thes

Denna uppsats inriktar sig på identitetskapande i ett konsumtionssamhälle. Med det konsumtionskulturteoretiska forskningsfältet som utgångspunkt, undersöker denna uppsats hur konsumtion utav Apples Mac-dator används i en identitetskapande process. Undersökningen är gjord med en kvalitativ metod i form utav djupgående intervjuer med Mac-användare. Teorin som ligger till grund för uppsatsen är från

Rökning ses enligt praxis idag ännu som något normalt och något hyresgästen får göra i lägenheten och på tillhörande balkong. Rökning i hyreslägenheten kan dock medföra att tvister uppstår mellan hyresgäst och hyresvärd av olika skäl. Det står klart att en hyresgäst kan bli skadeståndsskyldig för skador som orsakats av rökning i lägenheten. De kriterier som bedöms när det gäller frågan om hyresgäAccording to Swedish law, smoking is considered normal behavior and tenants are allowed to smoke in a rented flat. Smoking in the rented flat may still result in disputes between tenants and landlords, for various reasons. It has been established that a tenant can be liable for damage caused by smoking in the flat. The criteria considered for the tenant's liability is the damage caused and it

This report is a result of a Master Thesis in Mechanical Engineering with Product Development at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. The Master Thesis was performed during the spring of 2012 at Frankly Development in Malmö. Frankly is Product Creation Company with great knowledge in developing consumer electronics, sports equipment and other type of products. The thesis was initiated by C

When timber is used as a building material a connection is required between the elements in order to transfer the load. A typical connection is the steel to timber joint with nail as connectors. These connections can fail in ductile manner, causing the nails to reach their plastic moment capacity, or in brittle manner so called plug shear failure, causing the timber to fail in combined tension and

Uppsatsen är en diskursanalytisk studie av hur den indiske författaren Rabindranath Tagore blev skildrad i svensk tidningspress 1913 då han fick nobelpriset i litteratur och 1921 då han besökte Sverige för att retroaktivt ta emot sitt pris. Utöver analysen av tidningarnas skildringar har ambitionen även varit att problematisera Edward Saids teorier om orientalism.

Gwadar port is a deep-sea port that lies at the southwestern coast of the Balochistan province. Since 2002, it has been given quite some attention; the government realized its potential of becoming a major hub port of the region, given its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, a sea passage through which a fifth of the world’s oil transit occurs. MOUs have been signed and commitments made in excess o

There has been an increasing engagement between China and Africa in recent years as reflected by the level of aid, trade and investment flows. Building on the data available on China’s development assistance flows into Africa together with China’s FDI stocks as a ‘strategic interest variable’ gives an insight into the considerations given to the allocation of development financing. The findings ba

Though the paradox between Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights has been discussed, their relationship remains unclear. In this paper, to clarify the relationship between human rights and intellectual property rights in the process of globalization, I will examine the legislation and analyze the function of the legal regime we have today and present my arguments.

Problem: Dagens komplexa ekonomi med ökad mobilitet av arbetskraft har lett till ökad konkurrens om talangfulla medarbetare samt till att välutbildad och skicklig arbetskraft efterfrågas i allt större utsträckning. De här faktorerna har drivit fram den nya HR- strategin, talent management som berör identifiering, attrahering, utveckling och bibehållning av talanger. Då turismbranschen kännetecknas

SAMMANFATTNING Titel: Från barberarsalong till uppstickarbank Universitet: Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg, Institutionen för Service Management Kurs: SMK01, Service Management: Examensarbete kandidatexamen, 15 hp, VT2012 Seminariedatum: 29 maj 2012 Författare: Mikaela Hutzelmann - Persson, Isabella Nessmar, Louise Slettengren Handledare: Christer Eldh, Michael Johansson Nyckelord: Personalp