SSAB Tunnplåt AB manufactures high strength steel to e.g. beams to trailers, containers, trucks and cars. In high strength steel designs the ratio width to thickness is also high and therefore the risk for local buckling is high. When buckling occurs the stress will re-distribute and large deformation will occur. It is therefore important to take buckling into consideration when dimensioning high

The purpose of this paper was to examine how five persons who identify themselves as porn addicts view their addiction in terms of how the addiction have come about, what affective experiences they associate with the addiction, how it affects their relations to others, what makes them continue using pornography, what forms the addiction takes and how they live with their addiction today. Based on

Ett reportage om hemlösheten i Lund i december 2012, och om Bostad först.

The aim of this master thesis is to detect and recognise wheels in images by means of image analysis. This could later on serve as a foundation for a safer vehicle counting and classification method than those currently in use that requires personnel to cross the lanes on installation. The general layout of the classification system consists of five stages: multi-scale transformation, window ext

Syfte: Undersöka och klargöra påverkan mellan socialt kapital och absorptionskapacitet. Metod: En kvalitativ fallstudie genomfördes, med datainsamling via semi-strukturerade intervjuer som analyserades genom pattern-matching logik. Teoretiska perspektiv: Socialt kapital diskuteras frekvent i undersökningar av kunskapsspridning i organisationer som beroende av interaktion emellan individer medan ab

This dissertation explores the development of Asian American YouTube channels. Since the mainstream media are not offering any characters which are a fair representation of Asians, YouTube has become an outlet for Asian Americans to represent themselves. In order to break the general stereotype of a person of Asian descent, these YouTube channels post videos to empower Asians globally. Their succe

Background: The Eye Clinic at Södersjukhuset used to be a healthcare facility with hospitalized patients, who stayed overnight. But with the construction of S:t Eriks eye hospital the healthcare facility was turned into a daytime clinic. The clinic stayed in the premises, which was oversized and not suited for clinical work. Over time the amount of patients and personnel increased until all rooms

50-talet är ett omvälvande decennium. Kulturdebatten och samhället i övrigt verkar befinna sig vid de definitiva motsättningarnas kokpunkt – ska vi gå framåt eller bakåt? De stora socialdemokratiska reformerna för välfärd tar fart och många centrala delar av den klassiska bildningstanken förlorar fotfästet när kyrkan och kristendomen på allvar ifrågasätts. Samtidigt tränger en alltmer industrialis

Popular summary Estuarine eutrophication, the systemic limitation of oxygen in a body of water, has been increasingly monitored and scrutinized as an environmental concern needing acute and long term remediation efforts. The roots of eutrophication are largely attributed to anthropic sources within the watershed, sources that are products of modern civilization; such as agricultural and urban poll

This thesis is a case study of international marriages in Sweden. It concentrates on Asian women and Western men. The purpose of the research was not to generalize but to present individual cases and to detect what ideas, life experiences and circumstances influence the choices of life partners in international marriages. It also examines gender relations, influence of stereotypes, attitude of the

Abstract The purpose of this essay is to investigate, from the points of view of the novels Nada (1944) by Carmen Laforet and Los girasoles ciegos (2004) by Alberto Méndez, the perspective of the future toward the Spanish postwar period. Both novels take place during the Spanish postwar but were written in two different eras. Considering both periods, it is possible to evaluate whether the elapsed

The collective identity is under permanent negotiation. Due to the lack of incentive to offer public communication, the collective identity of Japanese bureaucrats; kanryo(官僚) has been constructed separately inside and outside of ministries. Firstly, I explore how the collective identity of kanryo has been constructed in two Japanese national newspapers. Also, the constructed identity of kanryo wi

Bangladesh is located in a danger area of the World. The geographical location makes the country vulnerable for tropical cyclones and other hazards. An increasing number of natural disasters such as floods, storms, and tropical cyclones, always keep the coastal people in a worst condition. Bangladesh government is not always fully successful in recovering the situation and gives a sustainable live

Syftet med studien är att identifiera och förklara hur aktiekurser vid nyemissioner, när turbulensen ökar, fluktuerar på Stockholmsbörsen och vilka faktorer som påverkar aktiekursutvecklingen. Detta sker genom att undersöka hur olika faktorer kan bidra till att förklara variationen i kursrörelserna vid nyemissioner på kort sikt. Resultatet ämnar hjälpa befintliga och potentiella aktieägare samt öv