In order to achieve sustainable development, there is perhaps not one strategy more often used in contemporary urban planning than density. Many cities have a dedicated densification strategy of their inner city, such as HafenCity in Hamburg or Älvstaden in Gothenburg. However, one critique of contemporary architecture is how new urban developments are becoming generic; more and more similar to ea

Artificiell intelligens (AI) har på senare tid fått en otrolig uppmärksamhet. Det tröttsamma arbetet med att manuellt koda in lösningar i ett program har ersatts av att lära programmen att hitta egna lösningar; detta är en AI-teknik som kallas för maskininlärning. Sådana program tränar upp förmågan att känna igen mönster eller anomalier i data, vilket kan användas för allt från att köra bilar tilMachine learning projects are often constrained by data that is messy, scarce, sensitive or costly to produce. These are issues which could be mitigated by synthetic data. This thesis tries to improve Swedish license plate localization in images by synthesizing images through superimposition, a process that produces data cheaply and in abundance. A generative process algorithmically creates imag

In this report, we model the mechanical properties and fracture behavior of SiC nanowires with different polytypes using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. The mechanical properties investigated are the Young’s modulus, the maximum tensile stress and the fracture strain. The three polytype tested are SiC (3C), (2H) and (4H). Tensile tests are performed on bulk and nanowire samples using three com

STYRD KYLNING AV GJUTGODS – ett allt hetare ämne Många industrier står idag inför stora utmaningar angående resurseffektivitet och energi-användning, inte minst de som involverar väldigt energikrävande processer. Metall- och gjuteriindustrin står idag för ungefär 15% av energi-användningen i Sverige. Därför finns det intresse att utreda möjligheterna för att återanvända värme som i dagsläget går tIn this project, the cooling and solidification processes for a Valmet Foundry product have been simulated in order to shorten the cooling time. The study has also been done in cooperation with RISE Swecast in Jönköping, as a part of finding ways to make casting procedures more energy efficient. Another scope of the study is to evaluate how well COMSOL Multiphysics can be used to simulate these ty

Title: The importance of creating a credible brand in the new digital world of social media influencer marketing. Submission date: May 29th, 2019 Course: BUSN39 Degree project in global marketing Authors: Sandra Juncker & Charlotta Carlquist Supervisor: Javier Cenamor Keywords: Social media, Social media influencer marketing, Social media influencer Influencer marketing, Influencers, Brand Cre

The modernisation of the Global South is a complex and often overwhelming task. However, one of the most cross-cutting issues is often overlooked. The arena of energy poverty – specifically electric poverty in rural areas and how state policies tackle this problem - is one that often discussed in the wider development discourse. By answering the questions ‘How is the problem of access to electrici

This study set out to investigate relations between language and cognition. More specifically, to examine if language fluency had any effects on measures of attention. Eighty participants with varying linguistic fluencies were recruited on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and completed the study on Qualtrics. Three measures were implemented to gather data: an image-recognition task, a non-verbal scale of

Titel: Digitala rabattkupongers upplevda påverkan på konsumentbeteende vid online-shopping. - En kvalitativ studie på unga konsumenter. Nivå och kurs: Kandidatuppsats i Service Management, VT 2019. KSMK65 Service Management: Examensarbete för kandidatexamen, 15 hp. Institution: Institutionen för Service Management och tjänstevetenskap vid Lunds universitet, Campus Helsingborg. Författare: Alva Ber

The present perceptual learning study was conducted in an attempt to investigate to which extent naïve listeners’ L1 prosodic background affected their learning performance of a lexical tone language and whether an auditory-image (AI) training paradigm curtailed the online-learning process of lexical tones. Thirty-three Mandarin-naïve Swedish-native listeners (NS listeners) and 33 Mandarin-naïve E

Företag väljer att övergå till en modernare marknadsföringsmetod såsom Influencer Marketing. Influencer Marketing fungerar genom word-of-mouth som är en metod där information sprids från en person till en annan. Studien avser därför att analysera om företag som jobbar med Influencer Marketing fortfarande använder sig av könsstereotypisk reklam för att marknadsföra sina produkter. En semiotisk analCompanies today choose to abandon traditional marketing methods in favor of new and modern marketing methods. One such method is Influencer Marketing which uses a method called word-of-mouth in which information is spread from person to person. This study is therefore aimed to investigate whether the use of gender stereotypical in advertising still remains despite the more modern marketing methods

Genom en simpel sökning på internet kan man nuförtiden hitta många vackra bilder på enskilda galaxer och på stora samlingar av galaxer, galaxhopar. Vårt solsystem befinner sig i Vintergatan, en spiralgalax inte helt olik många av dessa galaxer. Bilderna visar oftast ljuset som kommer från stjärnor och stjärnstoft, men galaxer består även av gas. Det är från massiva gasmoln i galaxer som stjärnor fThe interstellar medium of both local and distant disc galaxies is observed to be supersonically turbulent and the turbulent motion of the gas is thought to be important for galaxy formation and evolution, particularly as a key ingredient for star formation. Consequently, this generates a striking relation between the star formation rate (SFR) and gas velocity dispersion ($\sigma_{\rm g}$; a measu

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how the new railway line, Malmöpendeln, can break the segregation and improve integration in the city of Malmö. The subsidiary aim with the essay is to further investigate if Rosengård station can lead to a positive urban development and improved integration. The underlying methodology have been document analysis and semi-structured interviews. The

Getting girls to go to and ​stay​ in school is a worldwide issue - predominantly in the global south where it is a particular problem in Sub-saharan Africa where poverty is particularly high. This issue is also one of gender, as the majority of children who do not have access/go to school are female. This paper investigates this problem in central western Uganda, in the west county of the Kalungu

Benin, an impoverished nation in West Africa, has been consistently ranked as one of Africa’s best democracies. While countries in the region have seen major democratic backlashes, this study seeks to explain how it is that Benin’s democracy has survived since 1991. This thesis operationalises a theoretical framework of democratic consoli- dation based on three approaches — structures, attitudes

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur erfarna psykodynamiskt inriktade psykoterapeuter upplever och förändras av känslomässigt nära möten med klienter. Negativa aspekter av det psykoterapeutiska arbetet är mer belysta i psykoterapiforskningen, varför studien fokuserade på hur psykoterapeuter upplever övervägande positiva och meningsfulla förändringar inom sig själva. Tre psykodynamiskt inriktadThe aim of the study was to investigate how experienced psychodynamic psychotherapists experience close encounters with their clients and how they can change as a result of it. Since negative aspects of the psychotherapeutic work are more highlighted in psychotherapy research, this study focused on how psychotherapists experience positive and meaningful changes. Three experienced psychodynamic the

This thesis was carried out at CellaVision, a company within digital blood analysis, with the aim of investigating the possibility of autovalidation of blood cells using neural networks. The thesis started with preparing a dataset for training and validation, including cell features and binary labels indicating if the cell is easy or difficult to classify. This dataset consisted of 122 227 cell im

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between alexithymia, exhaustion syndrome and well-being. The examination was designed as a crosssectional study in which the measures TAS-20, KEDS and BBQ was administered by a survey online. A total of 557 participants were recruited. The results showed that higher degree of alexithymia was connected to more severe symptoms of exhaustion s

Psychological health among adolescents has declined over the past decades. A big portion of adolescence is spent in the school environment where, with time, demands increase. The aims of this study were to explore 1) pupils’ experience of student health services, family, friends, and the learning situation, 2) whether there is a difference in self-perception, well-being, perceived stress, learning

This thesis builds on a case study of the car sharing company Volvo Car Mobility within the city of Stockholm, with the main purpose to answer how car sharing business models operate to enable socio-technical transitions in relation to transportation. The thesis stems from three sub-questions related to how the company captures value, how the city of Stockholm encourage mobility services and what

This paper examines how planning can increase the ridership on public transit by using measures that influence behaviour. This is done by examining the planning process of the new bus network that is to be implemented in the city of Enköping which aims to increase the ridership on city buses. Mobility management is a tool in planning which entails the use of measures to influence peoples’ behaviou