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On 20 May 2014, Malawi arranged tripartite elections for president, parliament and local councils. The elections were remarkable for several reasons, seen from both an African and a Malawian perspective. Despite an uneven electoral playing field, the elections were highly competitive, ultimately leading to the country’s second turnover of power when opposition challenger Peter Mutharika defeated t
Extending the use of Monte Carlo (MC) event generators to jets in nuclear collisions requires a probabilistic implementation of the non-abelian LPM effect. We demonstrate that a local, probabilistic MC implementation based on the concept of formation times can account fully for the LPM-effect. The main features of the analytically known eikonal and collinear approximation can be reproduced, but we
This paper examines the relationship between environmental accidents and voting. Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, environmentalist parties entered parliaments in several nations. This paper uses Chernobyl as a natural experiment creating variation in radioactive fallout exposure over Sweden. I match municipality-level data on cesium ground contamination with election results for the environm
Spring water, however, is often formed in complex geological formations and therefore it is difficult to determine the catchment area contributing to the flow. The Sayanokami spring, located in western part of Fukuoka City, Japan, is such a spring and an important water resource for the local agriculture. In order to better understand the hydrological properties of infiltration and groundwater pro
In the current study, the effects of the nonlocally generated long sea surface waves (swells) on the power production of a 2 × 2 wind farm are investigated by using large-eddy simulations (LES) and actuator-line method (ALM). The short sea waves are modeled as a roughness height, while the wave-induced stress accounting for swell effects is added as an external source term to the momentum equation
For simulating mobile MIMO performance, local area SNR variations can be reproduced if small-scale fading distributions are known, transmit bandwidths can be chosen appropriately if flat fading bandwidths are known, and, assuming plane waves, spatial covariance functions can be estimated if power-weighted histograms for angles of arrival (AOA) and angles of departure (AOD) are known. This paper re
Burdur Lake, which is located in southwest of Turkey in Lake Region, and has been drying rapidly in the last 30 years. Disappearance of the water from the lake brings dramatic changes to the region on both socio-economic and cultural levels. This paper explores the processes that brought Burdur Lake and its locals to the point where the lake is today. Transformations in cultural habits and everyda
This paper is about drug prevention. In my paper the aim is to examine when, where and how the drug prevention work, by law, is being realized, on local levels, in school and municipality, towards youth. My central questions are among others: What does it imply, how the municipality and school value the drug prevention work?, Which prevention programs do the municipality and school use? and Does
Ecotourism is a strong and upcoming branch of the traditional tourism industry. Is there a strong demand among tourists for travelling in accordance with ecological and ethical principles? This study uses an established framework for the definition of ecotourism to estimate the demand for some ecotourism criteria among visitors at the Cuyabeno Reserve in Ecuador. A survey based on the Choice Exper
Fluctuation measurements are important sources of information on the mechanism of particle production at LHC energies. This article reports the first experimental results on third-order cumulants of the net-proton distributions in Pb–Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy sNN=5.02 TeV recorded by the ALICE detector. The results on the second-order cumulants of net-proton distributions at sNN=2.7
We use the exact strong-interaction limit of the Hohenberg-Kohn energy density functional to construct an approximation for the exchange-correlation term of the Kohn-Sham approach. The resulting exchange-correlation potential is able to capture the features of the strongly correlated regime without breaking the spin or any other symmetry. In particular, it shows "bumps" (or barriers) that give ris
The report describes a control system for a new mechanical design of a stabilized platform. The platform design is based on rotation of two medges. It has the advantage that mechanical design is very simple. A key difficulty is that the transformation from platform orientation angles to gimbal angles in nonlinear and that it has a singularity. A control system based on local linearization of the t
Varumärket utgörs idag inte endast av företagets produkter och tjänster, utan av hela fö-retaget. Medarbetarna har därför en viktig roll i varumärkesbyggandet då deras beteen-den påverkar hur kunder uppfattar varumärket. Studiens syfte är att, genom kvalitativa intervjuer med medarbetare på Fujitsu i Malmö, skapa en ökad förståelse för medarbeta-rens kommunikationsroll i en konsultorganisations vaA brand does no longer consist only of products and services, but of the company as a whole. Coworkers therefore have an important role in branding since their behaviours affect how customers perceive the brand. This study aims at, through qualitative interviews with coworkers at Fujitsu in Malmö, creating an increased understanding of coworkers’ communication role in a consulting company’s brand,
The objective of this thesis is to develop a methodology for evaluating the performance of material models during biaxial loads. This is done by executing identical punch tests, one in a simulation and one in a physical experiment, and then comparing the results from the two. The material model that is to be evaluated is used in the simulation and a specimen of the corresponding material in the ph
In this work, the forestry-enabled dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS was used to simulate forest standing volume for the three main regions of Sweden. At the regional scale, the model results were evaluated against observational data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory. Carbon fluxes of net ecosystem exchange (NEE), gross primary productivity (GPP), and ecosystem respiration (Reco) were si
Do negative income shocks increase conflict risk? I study the relationship between desert locust infestations and conflict in 26 African countries. Combining geolocalized data on locust swarms and bands with information on conflict events, I construct two panel datasets at spatial resolutions 0.5◦ × 0.5◦ and 0.1◦ × 0.1◦, covering the years 1997–2017. I find a negative relationship between locust i
The Lake Poopo basin, located on the Bolivian Altiplano, is extremely vulnerable to environmental degradation. The basin displays extreme spatial and temporal variations of water resources and rapidly decreasing water quality due to anthropogenic and natural pollution. The region’s population lives in extreme poverty, and the authorities’ efforts to manage the water resources efficiently have been
Bakgrund På grund av den rådande klimatkrisen måste Sverige göra omfattande klimatanpassningar för att skydda sig mot kommande och nuvarande effekter av klimatförändringarna. Ansvaret för arbetet tillfaller för det mesta Sveriges kommuner genom bland annat planmonopolet. Kommunerna kan söka finansiering för dessa typer av åtgärder genom matchade statsbidrag. Däremot är bidragsprocessen för de svenIn response to growing risks associated with climate change, Sweden must address the need for climate change adaptations. A central actor in addressing this is Swedish municipalities, due to their local planning monopoly and their ability to identify risks associated with local geographical conditions. However, studies have shown that there are several obstacles within the process of adapting to c
This thesis is located within an ongoing development initiative designed to support and enhance environmental education proces Sustaining Development Initiatives: A study of the SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Master of Science at Lund University, Sweden By Michael Robert Ward c/o LUMES P.O. Box 170 221 00
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