Voice recognition plays an important role in human communication and there is increasing interest in so called ‘earwitness’ testimony in the courtroom. However, research on voice identification or earwitness identification by way of short linguistic as compared to non-linguistic sounds remains in its infancy. To address this issue, the present study set out to examine speaker recognition from shor

Fankulturen har idag kunnat ta plats på en större arena tack vare internet i form av fan communities och fansajter. Detta har lett till att fansen idag har enklare tillgång till andra fans, interaktion och livsstilsbildande. Gemenskap är ett socialt fenomen som är en intressant och en central aspekt att undersöka på dessa digitala plattformar, eftersom gemenskapsaspekten för människan är relativt

Over the last decades, the share of income accruing to upper income groups and the overall inequality has increased in many developed countries. This thesis primary objective has been to analyse whether there is a cointegration between Norwegian top income shares and the inverted Pareto-Lorenz coefficient. If a cointegration relationship is found it means that the top income shares could be used a

The out-migration of adolescents and its ensuing consequences, such as rising costs in infrastructure, are a central concern for most rural municipalities in Germany today. This thesis is inspired by and based on the youth participation process titled “Jetzt rede ich!” (in English: “I am talking now!”), which aimed to answer the question of how a municipality in northern Germany can keep youth and

Most OECD-countries, including Sweden, have during the last decades experienced a declining trend in the labour’s share – the ratio of incomes from employment in relation to the economy’s total income (GDP). This thesis analyses the declining labour’s share of the Swedish transport and communication sector 1920-2000. The transport and communication sector has gone through changes of importance to

This thesis compares the Swedish cities of Lund’s Meaningful Meetings and Umeå’s Curiosity and Passion - The Art of Co-Creation applications to be named European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2014. The applications focus on two criteria of the EU, European Dimension and City and Citizens. The way the two bids worked with the criteria will reveal the process of Europeanisation – the process of creating

Vi gör ett försök till att konceptualisera gemensamt värdeskapande i ett digitalt kundmöte. I vår teoridel presenterar vi tre teorier; Servuctionmodellen för ett fysiskt möte, modellen för sfärer i gemensamt värdeskapande, samt DART-modellen för interaktion inom gemensamt värdeskapande. Vi kombinerar dessa modeller till en sammanslagen. Denna sammanslagna modell analyserar vi sedan ställd mot vårt

This paper aims to identify challenges that the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic might face in the future. The research was carried out in the form of a review of existing literature on the Stockholm Convention and other relevant environmental agreements as well as performing primary research of original data and political documents. This study shows that the Stockholm Convention will fa

The presumption of parental liability is an important tool for the Commission, enabling it to hold parent companies jointly and severally liable with their subsidiaries. Parent companies claim however, that they cannot rebut the presumption and are thus rendered strictly liable for their subsidiaries’ conduct. Due to the fact that parent companies repeatedly failed rebutting the presumption with e

Sammanfattning Examensarbetets titel: Företagskulturs påverkan på anställdas motivation inom kunskapsintensivt arbete Seminariedatum: 2014-06-04 Ämne/kurs: FEKH19, Examensarbete kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng Författare: Rikard Frangeur, Carl Jägerholm Fowelin, Robert Nyberg Handledare: Ola Mattisson Fem nyckelord: Företagskultur, Motivation, ansträngning, agentkostnader, Kunskapsintensivt a

SAMMANFATTNING Examensarbetets titel: Miljöcertifiering av kommersiella fastigheter i Sverige - som värdeskapare och långsiktig konkurrensfördel Seminariedatum: 2014-06-04 Ämne/kurs: FEKH19, Examensarbete i Strategic Management på kandidatnivå, 15 HP Författare: Isak Albihn, Eric Jacobson och Emil Rydén Handledare: Christine Blomquist Nyckelord: Fastighetsbranschen, Miljöcertifiering, VärdeskapandUMMARY Title: Environmental certification of commercial real estate in Sweden – as a value creator and as a sustainable competitive advantage. Seminar date: 2014-06-04 Course: FEKH19, Degree project Undergraduate level, Strategic Management, 15 University Credits Points Authors: Isak Albihn, Eric Jacobson and Emil Rydén Advisor: Christine Blomquist Key words: Real estate, environmental certificati

This master’s thesis, departing from the work done by Peter Trudgill and Paul Simpson, aims at widening the scope of research on the identity performance of British rock and indie musicians by taking into account the influences and intersections of local and global social contexts. It not only analyzes the musicians’ accents but also focuses on their lyrics, music videos and statements in intervie

When working against deadlines, individuals deal with the time pressure in different ways. Working against tight deadlines has been found to relate to stress (Herrero, Saldaña, Rodriguez & Ritzel, 2012), however frequency of deadlines has not been prevalent in studies in relation to stress. Participants were 84 employees at two transportation companies in Iceland. Frequency of deadlines was a

Det är viktigt att ha en god energihushållning på grund av rådande klimatsituation och ökande energipriser. Det sätts även högre krav på inomhusmiljön i våra byggnader. En viktig faktor för att minska en byggnads energianvändning och samtidigt förbättra inomhusmiljön är att minimera luftläckaget. Eftersom att det de senaste åren oftare har satts krav på ett lågt luftläckage har nya produkter och m

Environments with a high number of systems that are dependent on each other create complexity in the testing of each system. For a test to perform correctly, every dependency has to be fully functional. If this condition is not met, the test will fail and measures need to be taken into the systems that are causing the problem before it can be repeated again. This is a problem that the test departm

The Chua circuit, known to exhibit chaotic behaviour, has been constructed and studied. The goal was to investigate the experimental underpinning of the theory. The component relationship of the resistors, capacitors, inductors and operational amplifiers have been measured and established within their domain of validity. The system equations themselves cannot be directly validated through a tradit

Popular science summary: Untangling the mystery of Ogfod2 protein Human body consists of tens of thousands of proteins. Some of them have been studied in depth and their functions are well known. Others, however, have not been studied at all and nobody can tell if the protein has some very important function or not. One of these unstudied proteins is the human Ogfod2 protein. Human Ogfod2 prote

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Är ledgångsreumatism på väg att botas? Det finns väldigt många olika sorters virus och bakterier som kan göra oss sjuka. För att undvika detta har vi ett immunförsvar som ska skydda oss. Ibland blir det fel under upplärningen av immunförsvaret och istället för att döda virus eller bakterier går det på den egna kroppen. Om en sjukdom utvecklas på grund av ett fAbstract Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation in the joints. The available therapies are just relieving the symptoms, not curing the disease. Therefore there is a need for new better therapies. The pathogenesis is still unknown but by using animal models it was discovered that ROS produced from the NOX2 complex could be beneficial for the dise

Syftet med denna pilotstudie är att undersöka förändringar avseende uppmärksamhet, impulsivitet och aktivitet hos personer med ADHD som genomgått en sjuveckors mindfulnessbaserad gruppbehandling med hjälp av en objektiv testmetod. Graden av mindfulness och självbilden har också undersökts. Metod: Förändringar undersöktes både genom subjektiva självskattningar med Conners’ Adult ADHD Rating Scale –The aim of his pilot study is to investigate changes regarding attention, impulsivity and activity in individuals with ADHD who have participated in a seven-weeks mindfulness based group therapy by using an objective test. The degree of mindfulness and self-concept has also been investigated. Method: Changes were investigated from the self-rating scales Conners’ Adult ADHD Rating Scale – self-repo