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Purpose: To study the effect of environmentally-relevant personal values (biospheric, altruistic, egoistic and hedonic) on the purchase intention of second-hand clothing (SHC). Methodology: This research is a quantitative study and follows a deductive research approach. The empirical data was obtained through convenience sampling by means of an online self-completion questionnaire. A total of 669

Pollenanalys och landskapsrekonstruktionsmodellering (modellen REVEALS) användes för att undersöka landskapsutvecklingen i Botorpsströmmens dräneringsområde i södra Sverige över de senaste 2000 åren. Studien ingår i två större projekt, The archaeology and ecology of collapse: social and agricultural change following the Black Death och Managing Multiple Stressors in the Baltic Sea. Resultaten frånThis thesis reports the results from a pollen analytical and quantitative landscape reconstruction (REVEALS model) study in the drainage area of the Botorpsströmmen River in southern Sweden as a part of the project The archaeology and ecology of collapse: social and agricultural change following the Black Death and the project Managing Multiple Stressors in the Baltic Sea. The focus of this study

Bakgrund: UNFPA är en underorganisation till Förenta Nationerna (FN). UNFPA fokuserar på populations- och utvecklingsstrategier och jämlikhet mellan könen. I mars 2005 bestämdes det i UNDP/UNFPAs styrelse att UNFPAs inköpsavdelning (PSB) skulle behöva förbättras om de skulle nå upp till sina mål. Flera studier har genomförts och resultatet av dessa visade bland annat på en rekommendation att införBackground: UNFPA is a subsidiary organ to the United Nations (UN) with a primary focus on population and development strategies, sexual and reproductive health and gender equality. In March 2005 the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board had realized that for the UNFPA Procurement Services Branch (PSB) to operate in line with its mission, focus would need to be directed specifically towards improvements in t

The purpose of this Master’s Thesis is to investigate how the risk of onset of mould and decay will change due to a changing climate. The research encompasses the time period 1960-2099 in open fields near the cities Göteborg, Lund, Stockholm and Östersund for the emission scenarios A1B, A2 and B1. The risk of onset of mould and decay is studied on wood in outdoor climate as well as the risk of

Abstract Nutrient availability is one of the most important components of soil chemistry, and has Been shown to strongly impact ectomycorrhizal community composition and diversity. Phosphorous, magnesium, and potassium are important macronutrients for plant growth. Tree growth in the boreal and temperate forests is immensely dependent on their fungal mutualistic partners for their nutrition, parti

Abstract Toxic cyanobacterial blooms can form in both freshwater and marine environments, which could threaten the health of human beings and animals. The genera that are known for causing the scums in freshwater are Anabaena, Microcystis, Cylindrospermopsis and Planktothrix. In order to control lake water quality and minimize the potential health risk associated with the cyanobacterial blooms, th

Arable land is a valuable natural resource. In Iceland the total size of potential arable land has not been determined but preliminary estimates vary from 420 ha to 15000 ha. These have been based on different definitions of potential arable land and assumptions for minimum continuous land area. In 2010 the Farmers Association of Iceland concluded that there was a need for a standard for evaluatin

Background: Life skills-based approaches are broadly used in HIV prevention programmes world-wide. However, evaluations of such programmes have found mixed evidence for their effects on indicators of safer sexual behaviour. Methods: Questionnaires of 4,381 participants of the Star for Life (SFL) life skills-based prevention programme in South African schools were analysed using binary logistic reg

During the Salvadoran armed conflict (1980-1992) hundreds of children became separated from their families. The majority of the children were abducted by the armed forces of the government and still to this day the fate and whereabouts of most children are unknown. These children are the ''disappeared children of El Salvador''. In 1994, families of the disappeared children formed a

En grundläggande princip inom brottmålsprocessen är att ingen person ska bli dömd för ett brott denne inte begått. Detta kan dels uppnås genom bevisbördans placering på åklagaren och dels genom att höga krav ställs på bevisningen. Beviskravet är inte lagstadgat, utan lagstiftaren har överlämnat åt domstolen att formulera och precisera det. I NJA 1980 s. 725 formulerade HD för första gången beviskrA fundamental principle in the criminal proceedings is that no person should be convicted for a crime he or she has not committed. This can partly be achieved by placing the burden of proof on the prosecutor and partly by placing high demands on the evidence. The evidentiary requirement is not regulated by law, instead the legislator has entrusted the court to formulate and specify it. In NJA 1980

Ökande andel småskalig solproduktion introduceras i elnäten, detta medför möjligheter och utmaningar för nätägare. I detta arbete har möjligheten undersökts om småskalig solproduktion kan bidra till att upprätthålla spänningen i nätet vid trefasiga kortslutningar. I dagsläget är det många privatägare som installerar solceller. Denna utveckling har pågått länge, men de senaste åren har intresset sThe focus in this thesis has been active power from small scale solar production and what possible impacts an increased proportion of small scale production can have, in a larger context, during short circuit (SC) faults in the grid. The main research question prompting this work was whether active power from small scale solar pro- duction can help support voltages during SC faults, and meet LVRT-

Läkemedelstransportering med lipidnanopartiklar (LNP), särskilt svampfas lipidnanopartiklar, har varit intressanta på grund av dess möjlighet att inkapsla läkemedel och överföra läkemedlet genom cellmembranet. Svampfas LNP formuleringen kan påverkas av lipidens molekylära struktur, temperaturen, pH-värdet, utspädningen, bufferten och existerandet av en stabilisator. Projektets syfte var att ersättDrug delivery with lipid nanoparticles, especially sponge phase lipid nanoparticles (LNP), has been well studied because of its ability for drug encapsulation and transferring the drug through the cell membrane. The sponge phase LNP formulation could be affected by the molecular structure of the lipid, the temperature, pH, dilution, the buffer, and the addition of a stabiliser. This project aimed

The European Union implements the Environmental Noise Directive (END), which offers a framework for evaluating and assessing environmental noise. All EU members are required to create strategic noise maps to inform the public about noise pollution and its effects. This study followed these directives and guidelines to collect the required data and employed the NORD2000 model to simulate traffic no

- Kan man förutse en kräms hållbarhetstid utifrån dess tjocklek? I detta examensarbete har de reologiska- och texturegenskaper undersökts hos två typer av krämer, en med Cetostearylalkohol som förtjockare, och en med ett mer naturligare alternativ som Xanthan Gum, samtidigt som stabiliteten hos dessa två krämer har undersökts under längre tidsperiod. Att utveckla nya läkemedel är en tidskrävandeThe aim of this project was to develop analytical methods for characterizing rheological behavior of creams. The rheological methods of shear ramp, thixotropy, amplitude sweep, and frequency sweep, as well as texture analysis were initially developed at LTH and later transferred to Galenica. For this project two series of emulsions were formulated and used as test subjects for these methods. One u

Histopathological examination, crucial in diagnosing diseases such as cancer, traditionally relies on time- and resource-consuming, poorly standardized chemical staining for tissue visualization. This thesis presents a novel digital alternative using generative neural networks and a point light source (PLS) microscope to transform unstained skin tissue images into their stained counterparts. This

As CO2 builds up in the atmosphere causing global climate change (IPCC, 2022) trees have become an international symbol of combatting this, and for good reason. Trees take up CO2 which as a result combats these changes, and when these trees are cut down fewer individuals remain to take up the CO2 that we humans emit (Chapin et al., 2011). This means that clear-cut areas don’t act as the carbon sin

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is a highly nonlinear optical process in which extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation is generated due to the interaction of an intense laser field with atoms. This process enables the production of high harmonics, which would not be achieved with standard nonlinear media. The utilization of two-color laser fields (formed by combining a fundamental field with one

Abstract Purpose: The main purpose with this thesis was to describe the complexities involved when public sector organizations initiate changes in their organizational culture. This research also aims to depict how managers in a public organization interpret the implementation of two separate “shared value systems”, that originates from different parts of the organization. Research design: This th

Abstract Failures in achieving the 2010 goals of slowing down or halting the loss of biodiversity, and the setting of new biodiversity targets set for 2020, stress an urgent need to expand current reserve networks and to improve their effectiveness in protecting species and habitats. Habitat suitability models, and derived maps from them, are among the broadest used tools for identifying the ecol

Today there is a high focus on the energy use when constructing new buildings. This mainly depends on the increased regulations and energy classifications that have been issued. Because of this, studies have shown that mechanical cooling in office environments leads to high energy consumption and service costs. This has led to an increased interest in analyzing if cooling only through ventilation