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In the future an increasing number of industries will have to comply with greenhouse gas reduction directives. Plans and projects that aim to reduce CO2-emissions are associated with multiple sources of uncertainty and the use of point estimates could lead to misjudgements and erroneous decisions. Within other fields of science uncertainty analysis is a commonly used tool to improve decision basis

‘Green growth’ is a concept that has gained credence in the literature and wider policy-making circles, broadly referring to the implementation of policy and development strategies that encourage economic growth whilst ensuring that environmental wellbeing is maintained and / or improved. However, few examples of ‘green growth strategies’ have been produced to date, and the literature is sparse re

The purpose of this study is to analyze how the child’s perspective is used in social services today and how the usage of the child’s perspective is expected to change due to the incorporation of the convention on the rights of the child. We collected data through qualitative interviewing with six participants from the same social service office. In our study we have established that the concepts

Mindfulness is an increasingly popular social work intervention. The aim of this study was to examine how the social problems addressed by mindfulness are framed and how the nature and goals of social work are constructed in the latest mindfulness research from 2017 onwards. 25 peer-reviewed articles were examined with the help of Håkan Jönson’s perspective analysis, which asks questions about the

The purpose of this study was to investigate the supervision of non-smoking school yards in Sweden. Smoking costs Swedish society an estimated 30 billion SEK annually in cost for healthcare, production losses and sick leave. Smoking among adolescents has declined in recent years, but it is still 24 % in high school's grade 2, which categorized as smokers. The supervision of the schoolyard is t

Many people today possess a private digital photo collection. Such collections are often just chronologically sorted. One way to make photo browsing more interesting would be to suggest semantically related photos to a currently viewed photo, and if, in addition, such a relationship could be justified in words, that would create extra value for the user. To find a solution to this problem, the ap

Utifrån handböcker för hållbar dagvattenhantering har information om geometrisk utformning och uppbyggnad av några hållbara dagvatten- anläggningar tagits fram. Tillsammans med bland annat information om effektiv porositet har den totala volymen som dessa anläggningar kan magasinera beräknats med hänsyn till hur ytkrävande de är, kubikmeter dagvatten per kvadratmeter yta. Dessa värden har sedan anBased on manuals for sustainable stormwater management, information about the geometric design and structure of a couple of sustainable storm water facilities was collected. Together with information about the effective porosity and the total volume that these facilities can store it was possible to calculate how space consuming each facility was, cubic meters of rainwater per square meter of surf

Recent events such as the covid-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war have led to a tremendous increase in volatility, making financial markets riskier for investors. To see whether investors can counteract or profit from such risk, we develop a volatility timed trading strategy. To do so, a volatility forecast is used, in our case, the direction of the VIX. We predict the one week ahead movem

The main question for this thesis is to discuss how come there are so many different theological motivations for the social actions of the church. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how this can be. The main study is in the context of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden. The organisation of the church does not give central regulations to the local congregations which means that they ar

Most vehicles today use some kind of hydraulic brake system in order to stop the vehicle. There are other techniques that will not only decrease the stop length, but also create a more stable vehicle; an example of such system is the Electromechanical braking system. The problem with such a system is that the requirements of data transmission and reliability are different from the system that is u

Cardiovascular diseases are currently the leading cause of death in the world, which killed nearly 17 million people in 2011. For this reason, research in Cardiovascular diseases are of the up-most importance. In this thesis, real-time Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging data is used to create simulated cardiac cycles for multiple phases of the respiratory cycle. By exploring image classification o

A selection of well known period luminosity relations for cepheid variables are studied under the assumption that cepheid variables have a mean vertical velocity of zero in the galactic plane. Proper motion data from Hipparcos and Thyco-2 catalogues are coupled with the distances obtained from applying the period luminosity relations on a database of known classical cepheids to calculate the veloc

Widespread abuse of labour rights, leading to poor working conditions, is a major problem in many developing countries. Pressure from civil society has led international buyers to set up corporate codes of conduct (CoCs) and monitoring mechanisms, in order to ensure that labour rights are respected by their suppliers in these countries. However, research has shown that these efforts have been mode

Abstract Equine assisted therapy - a qualitative study of therapeutic riding Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed Equine assisted therapy is not a new treatment. During the 1500's riding was recommended for maintaining health or improving it, then riding was considered to have positive impact on both physical and mental health. In the 1600's horse-like machines were manufactured to

This master thesis studied mitigation and preparedness measures for forest fires made by local fire brigades and county administrative boards. Both actions taken today and related to a future scenario characterised by climate change were considered. The aim was firstly to get a picture of the work conducted and secondly to compare and review the present actions and discuss the measures taken for t

What we generally are lacking within the field of research regarding complaint management is a more niched knowledge about its usability and potential to foster competitive capability within a specific industry. The thesis main objective is the hotel industry and we have found a knowledge gap regarding how service recovery can foster a hotels competitive capability. Our purpose is to describe and

The growing number of users and the changes in customer behaviour over the last few years caused new hype in the e-commerce industry. This imposed pressure resulted in some technical disruptions in those systems. Software development teams responsible for creating and maintaining these systems, in their turn, were affected by the sudden shift to remote work. The current study aims to investigate s