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

Intresset för upphandling med partnering ökar stadigt i Sverige då samarbetsformen medför goda effekter såsom till exempel minskade konflikter, ökad kvalité, tidsoptimering, minskade kostnader samt närmare relationer. Idag tenderar partnering i största utsträckning ske mellan entreprenör och beställare men även andra aktörer, såsom till exempel underentreprenörer, inkluderas allt oftare i samarbet

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to make a comparison and measure what effect the integration of real-time in transmedia storytelling has on social media engagement. Furthermore, this research aims to add new insights to the social media engagement and real- time marketing field, by incorporating knowledge from the transmedia storytelling literature. Problem: Previous research argues that tr

-The purpose of this work is to investigate and identify the most efficacious methods to optimize train maintenance and operations during winter months. The study analyzes scheduled and unscheduled maintenance problems during winter months and considers various options on how to streamline current methods and procedures by identifying key areas and addressing optimization. This study presents prop

The aim of this study was to investigate how older people are described as victims in the morning and evening press in Sweden. The aim was further to make a brief comparison of how it looked at 25-year intervals during the periods 1991-1992 and 2016-2017 to see if and how the victim discourse has changed. The three issues I assumed were: how older people exposed to crime are presented in Swedish p

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases that affects 1 % of the human population. After an initial insult, the brain undergoes several changes that lead to hyperexcitability. These changes include downregulation of both GABAA receptor subunits and CB1 receptors. These receptors normally work to decrease excitability, so their downregulation leads to an increase in excitability. If

Since the early 1990’s, sector-wide evaluation reports have identified substantial weaknesses connected to women’s empowerment and gender equality interventions. These weaknesses result from the failure to institutionalise activities, a lack of resources and deficient reporting of results. Additionally, recent evaluation reports have identified the same weaknesses as were identified in the early 1

Reducing microorganisms by UV light is has been commonly used for drinking water for many years. In other liquid products like apple juice it is a rather novel application. The advantages would be that quality parameters like aromas and vitamins are less affected by the UV treatment compared to a heat treatment. Furthermore it would probably be cheaper, as the lamps need less electrical energy tha

Terra sigillata is a roman pottery type that was primarily produced in western Europe during the period between first century and fourth century AD. This pottery, as well as other objects imported from the Roman Empire, can perhaps show trading routes between societies in Scandinavia and societies in Europe. Accordingly the aim of this essay is to distinguish possible trading routes that have been

This thesis explores the connection between climate change and human rights from a legal perspective. Its starting point is the consideration of the plight of small island developing states (SIDS) in light of the adverse impacts of climate change on their territories and populations, such as the exacerbation of resource scarcity by climate change. In light of this, the thesis focuses on how water

Titel: Ett effektivare inköpsarbete genom produktkategorisering Författare: Martin Lundgren & Henrik Sjöstrand Handledare: Anne Landin Professor, avdelningen för Byggproduktion, Lunds Tekniska Högskola Annika Pålsson Projektchef, Midroc Construction Problem: Det har gjorts lite forskning inom inköp i byggbranschen. Byggföretagen själva anser att det finns stor potential inom inköpsarbete saTitle: More efficient purchasing with product classification Authors: Martin Lundgren & Henrik Sjöstrand Supervisors: Anne Landin Professor, Department of Construction Management, Lund University Annika Pålsson Project Manager, Midroc Construction Problem: Small amount of research regarding purchasing in the construction industry even though the construction companies see a large potential

Sensorer för elektriska mätningar i mikrofluida system Behandling av neurodegenerativa sjukdomar, så som Alzheimers och Parkinsons, är en av vår tids största utmaningar. Med en växande åldrade befolkning förväntas antalet patienter öka, och att hitta effektiva behandlingsmetoder blir alltmer brådskande. Den stora utmaningen ligger i att få läkemedel att nå centrala nervsystemet. På grund av blod-Transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) measurements are used to quantitatively monitor cell barrier formation in in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier. TEER measurements in microfluidic in vitro systems are technically problematic and have suffered from poor measurement reproducibility. The aim of this Master’s thesis project was to develop fully integrated electrodes for measuring TE

Due to the tendency among managers to focus on operational performance at the cost of strategic long-term objectives, the purpose of this study has been to shed light on how a company can, by focusing on its people and taking a step forward from “customer first” focus to “people first” as a strategy, ensure sustainable performance. There are different theoretical viewpoints of how companies view t

inSIGHT began as an exploration of the future relationsip between virtual world and physical archiecture. It ended up being a proposal of an augmented reality platfrom for digital manipulation of physical transparency. Augmented reality (AR) is a fairly recent development in technology and not everyone is very well aquainted with it. Therefore research of the evolution of parralel realities as we

Kvinnans förhållande till sitt eget mytiska arv är ett komplicerat sådant, som Beauvoir förklarar: ”representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.” Alienation från sin egen historia har lett till en lång tradition av kvinnliga författare som tacklas med sitt mytiska arv för att försöka hitta

Liposomala drug delivery system för effektivisering av Gemcitabin-baserad behandling i pankreascancer Cancer i bukspottkörteln, även kallat pankreascancer, är en av de mer dödliga cancerformerna. Behandlingsmöjligheterna för patienter med paknreascancer är begränsade och endast 5 % av de drabbade lever i mer än 5 år. Gemcitabin är standardbehandlingen för pankreascancer, men har visat på brister.Gemcitabine is the first line treatment of pancreatic cancer, a treatment that is relying on the expression of human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1 for cellular uptake. Combined with its short blood half-life and intracellular activation steps, Gemcitabine treatment has many limitations. In this project we tried to circumvent the need for cellular uptake as one step towards increasing the

Prostate cancer was in 2012 the second most common type of cancer for males globally. To be able to treat prostate cancer in the most effective way it is important to know how aggressive the cancer is. This aggressiveness is graded using the Gleason score. The diagnosis is done by pathologists inspecting prostate biopsies, but the advancement of pattern recognition using Convolutional Neural Netwo

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka erfarenheterna av att vara ungdom och leva i bostads-området Seved i Sofielund, Malmö. Vilka är de sociala normer och band som finns hos ung-domar i ett geografiskt väl avgränsat bostadsområde? Undersökningen gjordes utifrån en kva-litativ metod baserad på semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju stycken ungdomar boende i Se-ved. Fem teman trädde fram efterhand i

This report details the collaborative project between the Author, Zenit Design AB which is performed on behalf of the bluetooth speaker manufacturer, Orlo AB. The Project is divided in two parts, where the first aims to identify a new market where Orlo’s technical expertise will benefit the user in a unique way and the secondary part is about designing a speaker for the said market. Several poten

The present thesis is a quantitative study investigating the attitudes of Swedish learners of Japanese towards Japanese dialects. Current or previous Swedish students of Japanese completed a survey in which they listened to recordings of five different dialects of Japanese, and evaluated these dialects in terms of various personality traits. Furthermore, their ability to identify the dialects was