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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a powerful tool for supporting disaster risk reduction (DRR). International agreements such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction call on high-income countries and other partners to support lower-income countries in strengthening their DRR capacities. This thesis explores the experiences of stakeholders in strengthening GIS capacities for DRR
Cities around the world are leading the race toward an environmentally sustainable future, but one of their major obstacles have been the personal automobile. The movement of people using public transportation often has a far lower impact than the personal automobile, but these systems are often rigid and expensive to build and operator. Now, with the emergence of intelligent transport systems – a
With rapid urbanization and population growth, Addis Ababa faces a big challenge of dealing with slums in the inner city. It has used up most of its space within its boundary and there are now a number of projects on the pipe line to redevelop the inner city slums. This seems to be the single most pressing issue currently. The recent public housing projects and inner city renewal programs has cau
Felaktiga domar sker i både Sverige och andra stater. Detta trots att straffprocessen innehåller starka krav på rättssäkerhet så som oskyldighetspresumtionen och rätten att inte bli lagförd två gånger för samma sak. Den senare principen hänger ihop med regeln om att när en dom inte längre kan överklagas får den rättskraft, innebärande att fallet inte får prövas igen i ny rättegång. Alla ordinära rWrongful convictions happen both in Sweden and other countries, even though the criminal justice system is filled with principles regarding the rule of law, such as the presumption of innocence and the right not to be tried or punished twice. The latter is closely linked with the general rule that once a verdict no longer can be appealed, it enjoys legal force (prejudice), meaning the case cannot
I följande uppsats kommer jag att undersöka rättsprincipen negotiorum gestio. Principen stadgar rätten till ersättning vid ingripande för annans intresse vid den personens frånvaro. Den hjälpande kallas gestor och den som åtnjuter tjänsten huvudman. Rättsinstitutet har historia tillbaka till det romerska riket och har sedan dess levt kvar rättsbildningen. I Sverige har aldrig någon kodifikation avThe following essay investigates the principle of negotiorum gestio – also known as benevolent intervention. The core actors of the principle are the helper called gestor and the helped called dominus. The principle regulates reimbursements to the gestor when managing dominus business in their absence. The principles emerged in the ancient roman empire due to its massive expansion and is still rec
This thesis aims to explore the problems archaeologists have to face when working with mixed kontexts and multi cultural technologies. The thesis explores how archaeologists could use linguistic explanations when working with material culture studies and how material culture spreads in human societies. The thesis concludes that material culture spreads and function like language and that such meta
The purpose of this study is to investigate how pictures of good parenting is challenged, consolidated and renegotiated on a Swedish online-community for parents. This online-community includes a forum feature consisting of several categories, whereas data for this study were collected from the category “childrearing”. With a qualitative approach, a netnographic document study was used to obtain e
Bakgrund: Många barn känner obehag och rädsla inför medicinska åtgärder inom sjukvården. Studier har visat att nålrelaterade moment är det som upplevs mest skrämmande. Barn kommer till en röntgenavdelning för att undersökas och ofta behöver kontrastmedel injiceras. Stickrädsla hos barn är ett vanligt förekommande problem och det är därför viktigt att åtgärda det. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att unde
The phase center is defined as the point on an antenna from which the far field radiation seems to originate. Phase center calculations are often uncertain and vague, and very little concrete information is available on the subject. Recently, a replacement parameter called the radiation center was introduced in [5]. The radiation center is more rigorously defined than the phase center and possesses a
Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) are known as hydrocarbons emitted into the atmosphere from the biosphere. They have physiological and ecological functions such as communication within the plant and plant – plant, protection against environmental stress factors and defense against herbivores attack. Coniferous forests are known to produce larger quantities of BVOCs, especially terpenes,
En stor del av samhällets miljöpåverkan kommer från bygg- och fastighetssektorn. Från årsskiftet 2022 finns det nya krav för nybyggnationer på att en klimatdeklaration ska genomföras för bärande konstruktionsdelar, innerväggar samt klimatskärmar. Kraven kan vara ett startskott för att fler delar i byggnader ska klimatdeklareras. Projekt Villazero, ett småhus som uppförs i Borlänge av Fiskarhedenvi
This thesis was dedicated to investigating the use of different parameter update schemes for Hidden Markov models with time-varying parameters, with an emphasis on developing alternatives to the quasi-Newton step. The focus was on applications to financial returns, using data from the S\&P-500 and the Nikkei index, and for comparison, a trial using synthetic data was also performed. Different
Introduction:The XenX is a small animal irradiation system that acquires high-resolution cone-beam tomography (CBCT) images of small animals and treats small animals with higher precision than medical linear accelerators. MuriSlice is a software for CBCT image reconstruction. This thesis aims to optimise the CBCT image reconstruction protocol in MuriSlice to enable the segmentation of CBCT images
A technique for measuring oxygen concentration in the lungs of preterm infants is one of the latest advancements in neonatal care. It is called GAs in Scattering Media Absorption Spectroscopy (GASMAS) and enables non-invasive, bed-side monitoring of the lung function of our most fragile patients, preterm newborns. The technique is promising and its potential is now evaluated in preparation for cli
Governance and ideology have significant influence on how problems and policies are conceptualized. This conceptualization affects the way in which political subjects are formed and how individuals regard themselves. In this paper we approach environmental policy from a post-structuralist stance. Our ambition is to demonstrate a paradoxical relationship between the current consumer oriented repres
Due to the public health threat that antibiotic resistance poses to humanity, there is increasing interest for understanding the mechanisms behind the development and transfer of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in different environments. Soil is one of the largest and most diverse microbial habitats on earth and represents a vast terrestrial reservoir of organisms with tolerance to antibiotics.
Tack vare internet är det idag möjligt för en slutkund att jämföra priser och produkter online på olika hemsidor, innan slutkunden väljer att genomföra köpet. Det stora utbudet av varor och tjänster på internet har ökat konkurrensen på marknaden. För att tackla den ökade konkurrensen på marknaden har många aktörer online valt att använda sig av avtalsbegränsningar med sina avtalsparter. Bland annaIt is nowadays possible, thanks to the internet, for an end-customer to compare prices and products online on different websites, before choosing to make the purchase. The wide range of goods and services on internet has increased competition on the relevant market. In order to tackle the increased competition on the market, many online operators have chosen to apply contractual restrictions with
It is a common practise to quote option prices using their BlackScholes implied volatility. A volatility surface describes an options implied volatility as a function of the strike price and time to maturity. It can be used as a tool for hedging but also valuation when prices are not directly observable. The short-term evolution of this surface has been described by a variety of apocryphal rules.
Det saknas ett specifikt lagskydd för personlig integritet i anställningsförhållande. Frågan om speciallagstiftning på området har lyfts flertalet gånger men har aldrig resulterat i ny lagstiftning. Därmed har den svenska implementeringen av dataskyddsdirektivet, personuppgiftslagen utgjort det övergripande skyddet för hur och när arbetstagarnas personuppgifter får behandlats. Den 25 maj 2018 ersa
