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In 2008 Stockholm County Council decided to finance the construction of a new university hospital in Solna, Stockholm utilising public-private partnership (PPP). This decision received heavy criticism, partly due to the cost amounting to 61 billion SEK. The aim of this paper is to investigate, utilising Kingdon’s Multiple Stream Framework (MSF), why Stockholm County Council decided to finance the

I denna rapport analyseras koncept för tandborstar med låg vikt och kort tillverkningstid. Förhoppningen är att låg vikt och kort tillverkningstid kan leda till positiva effekter såsom lägre koldioxidfotavtryck, mindre materialanvändning och en mer kostnadseffektiv tillverkning än vad som gäller för dagens tandborstar. Med hjälp av Ulrich & Eppingers produktutvecklingsprocess har flera olika kThe work presented in this report investigates how a toothbrush can be designed to be lightweight and at the same time fast to manufacture. If a low weight and short manufacturing time can be obtained, several other advantages can be had, such as reduced carbon dioxide footprint, less need of material, and more cost-efficient manufacturing. With the help of Ulrich and Eppinger’s product developmen

This study is investigating the possibilities for the Indigenous Sámi People of Sweden to exercise their right to participate in, and influence, decision-making processes over land. The objective of the study is to investigate how Sámi rights are interpreted and applied within the institutional setting of municipalities, and within the planning process of land management. The study derives from tw

The intellectual property regime within the European Union is one which has a rich and lengthy history, encompassing a wealth of forms of expression. The harmonisation of copyright can be dated to the creation of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1886. Video games, in comparison, only joined the cultural zeitgeist in the mid-20th century. In the pursuing yea

Syftet med denna studie var att genom en kritisk diskursanalys utforska vilka diskurser som tar plats i kommunikationen hos svenska gymkedjor samt vilka sociala strukturer i relation till träning och fysisk aktivitet de bidrar till att skapa och/eller reproducera. Det insamlade materialet bestod av det visuella materialet på hemsidorna hos Sveriges fem största gymkedjor, vilket analyserades med hjThe purpose of this study was that through a critical discourse analysis investigate what discourses take place in the communication among Swedish gym facilities, and what social structures regarding physical activity they are currently creating and/or reproducing. The collected material consisted of the visual mate-rial presented on the webpages of the five larges gym facilities in Sweden. The ma

Är kunderna nöjda? Låt röstteknologin berätta Snart kan kundservicecenter plocka ut statistik över hur glada, arga, ledsna eller kanske förvånade deras kunder har varit den senaste veckan, dagen eller timmen. Vi har byggt en sentimentmodell som automatiskt kan klassificera känslorna hos en talare utifrån både tonläge och sammanhang. Redan idag analyseras stora mängder samtal i kundservice för atSpeech Emotion Recognition (SER) opens up the possibility to collect opinions from people in channels that have not be conceivable before, such as youtube videos, podcasts or phone calls. SER is becoming more advanced, and the SER models that have been published recently are reaching accuracy-results well beyond state of the arts. However, SER is not a simple task and it is most common that the mo

This study aimed to investigate various properties associated with human protein deletions, encompassing deletion length and position, amino acid composition, flanking amino acid composition, functions of the host proteins, the functional role of the corresponding gene, relative positioning with protein domains, protein structure within the deletion region, and conservation, to identify potential

Studying translations gives us more insight into cultures and languages. Machine Translation is an application area of the field Natural Language Processing (NLP), used to transfer information from one language to another. Creating these tools require a lot of data, including data about the semantic relationships of the texts, and for unspoken languages like Ancient Greek, there does not exist a l

A barrier option is a financial derivative whose payoff depends on the underlying asset breaching a predefined barrier level. Compared to vanilla options, barrier options are less expensive and may be customized for specific risk management strategies or strategic financial applications. In practice, the underlying asset is monitored only at discrete times, yet accurate and efficient pricing of di

This work recompiles studies that have been done with respect to hygroscopic growth in the regime of high relative humidities and with respect to activation for different kinds of particle at LACIS (Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator) during the last few years. The particles examined consisted of a mixture of succinic acid and ammonium sulfate, seawater samples, soot coated with an organi

In poeciliid fish the male anal fin has been transformed into a gonopodium, an intromittent organ required for internal fertilization. Elevated testosterone levels induce metamorphosis of a subset of anal fin rays to grow and form the specialized terminal structures of the gonopodium. The molecular mechanisms underlying these processes are largely unknown. Here, we investigated whether retinoic ac

Capsule The majority of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus that spend the winter in England are derived from the British breeding population. Aims To investigate the popular hypothesis that Hen Harriers which over-winter in England are derived principally from breeding populations in mainland Europe. Methods Demographic data were used to estimate numbers of Hen Harriers in Britain at the end of the breed