The Swedish Sea Rescue Society (SSRS) currently does not have a convenient and intuitive solution for the at sea communication. Today there are several helmets and radio devices tried to fulfill their needs but neither of them has succeeded to work well as a system. Through both primary research (Interviewing coastguards and other SSRS staff, field trips to rescue stations, trying out existing ge

We are a team of Environmental Management and Policy Master’s students at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, Sweden. As part of our Strategic Environmental Development course we were invited by Madam Mayor of Zabrze, Ms. Małgorzata Mańka-Szulik, to develop a framework for a sustainable mobility strategy for the city of Zabrze. Zabrze is loc

Since the late 1990s county party committees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have experimented with semi-competitive township elections. The central government in Beijing encouraged such initiatives, hoping to use township elections to restrict the power of the county party secretary in appointing township leaders. However, these experimental elections were never institutionalized, and as

There are few objects in this world which has true spiritual value and that possesses its own soul. The motorcycle has inspired generations through their iconic and rebellious nature. We have created a new future from an old motorcycle in order to inspire people to reuse and repurpose what exists instead of falling into the hamster wheel of consumption.

Syfte: Studien undersöker hur svenska barn med språkstörning i årskurs 4 och 5 avkodar ord och nonord jämfört med svenska barn med typisk utveckling i motsvarande årskurser. Studien undersöker även huruvida det finns en skillnad mellan ord- och nonordsavkodning, inom och mellan årskurserna, för barnen med typisk utveckling. Metod: 21 barn med språkstörning, 11 i årskurs 4 och 10 i årskurs 5, har j

Syfte: Virtuella agenter är ett fenomen som det forskas mycket om, framför allt inom utbildning och språkförståelse. Barn i lågstadiet gynnas av att se sin lärare tala. Det förbättrar taluppfattningen, speciellt om klassrummets akustik är påverkat av stökigt bakgrundsbuller. Virtuella talare kan göra det möjligt att studera hur barns audiovisuella integration påverkas om talaren de ser på är virtu

Denna studie undersöker medborgarnas involvering i kommunala platsvarumärken. Platsvarumärkesarbetet är en stark trend som fått kritik från akademiskt håll för att inte ta tillräcklig hänsyn till platsen med dess medborgare. Med målet att utreda hur professionellt anställda ser på problematiken har intervjuer med disciplinens praktiker genomförts för att komma åt deras föreställ-ningar och konstrThis study examines the involvement and visibility of the citizens in municipal place branding, a trending phenomenon which has been criticized for not taking the diversity of a place, and its citizens, into consideration. The aim of this study is to elucidate how this problem is perceived by pro-fessionals. Therefore interviews with practitioners of place branding have been conducted to illumina

This paper focuses on the effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties and Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements on outwards FDI stocks of developed countries (proxied by OECD countries) in one another in the period of 1985-2013. Estimations are obtained with use of the gravity equation in a large panel based on OECD FDI positions data, where the “knowledge-and-physical-capital model” of interna

Beslutsstödsystem (BSS) är inom IT-branschen ett väletablerat ämne och har använts i beslutfattningsprocesser för att lösa komplexa problem och frågor. Denna problematik fanns emellertid inte enbart i företag utan även i andra verksamheter som ställts inför komplicerade och svåra beslut. Därför har uppsatsen behandlat BSS inom svensk elitfotboll. En pilotstudie har gjorts med två fotbollsklubbar i

Execution time is an important issue in the field of numerical analysis. Simulations are getting more and more complex and the execution times are rapidly increasing. In the scope of this thesis a time integration library is used to solve initial value problems. The aim of the thesis is to implement and investigate two different approaches to decrease the execution time for the library. The main f

Den mänskliga hjärnan är kanske det mest avancerade och komplexa system som vi känner till. Den är kapabel både till att skapa kreativa tankar och idéer och också till att skapa och minnas erfarenheter och lära sig från dem. Vetenskapen har kommit långt i utforskningen av hjärnans struktur, och idéer om hur vi kan ta till oss och använda den kunskapen är många. I hjärnan finns ett nätverk av nervcThe Maxout network is an alternative to artificial neural networks that use fixed activation functions. By adding extra layers of linear nodes the Maxout network is able to learn both the relationship between the hidden nodes and the activation function that they use. The idea was presented as a natural companion to the dropout technique when training large convolutional networks, showing state-of

Title: The Economic Cycle’s Effect on IPOs Seminar date: 2016-06-02 Course: BUSN89 Degree Project in Corporate and Financial Management – Master Level, 15 ECTS Authors: Niklas Lindh and Viktor Pennsäter Supervisor: Håkan Jankensgård Key words: IPO, initial public offering, economic cycle, market timing and IPO waves. Purpose: Investigate how the economic cycle influences IPO initial return

In the past decade the term Green Chemistry has steered the direction of chemical indus- try and research. Green Chemistry is the idea of reducing environmental impacts of chemical reactions by lowering the energy consumption and reducing the amount of by-products. Nearly all industrial chemical processes use a catalyst in order to make their reaction more effecient. This study examines two differ

Satellites are key components in today's modern world, but they are expensive to launch and the orbits are crowded. With use of a dual band circular polarization selective structure (CPSS) the satellites can be improved and the number of reflectors needed to carry out a certain task can be reduced. A dual band CPSS reflects one handedness of circular polarization and transmits the other, over

Många företag använder ett kundhanteringssystem för att registrera interaktioner med sina kunder. I en allt mer mobil värld vill användarna av dessa system kunna använda systemen var de än befinner sig men oförändrad prestanda och funktionalitet.Working distributed is increasingly important today with technology being more and more portable while connectivity is still lacking in some areas. Cellphones and laptops are increasingly in use outside the office with connectivity to internal office services being unreliable, either due to lacking speed or inability to have a connection. Different solutions exist. One is a client-server setup wh

The expansion of the internet has increased steadily since its introduction in the early 1990’s. Whilst having many positive effects on many different areas of society, one area that has not been thoroughly analysed is the political. Being a source for information and communication the potential for the internet to have political implications is large. This essay analyses the possible effects high

ChemCo is a high quality producer in the speciality chemical market, a market characterised by complex production and high variability. With limited system-support and limited data quality, delivery accuracy suffered, and so did production efficiency. ChemCo believed that this was due to poor lead-time performance, why they wished to research the problem. Research on setting lead-times has focused

I provide evidence on the impact of pre-primary school expansion on maternal labour supply in the context of South Africa. I draw on administrative data from the South African National Census in 2001 and 2011, and a Community Survey in 2007, to extract household information. My identification strategy exploits the staggered timing and intensity in the expansion of pre-primary school facilities acr

Automated Software testing is becoming increasingly popular, which in turn creates more information that has to be analyzed. At the software company Qlik a tool called NIOCAT is used to create clusters of failed test cases thought to originate from the same code defect. The clustering is done in order to decrease the ever increasing amount of manual analysis needed to be done with regards to softw

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur Socialdemokraternas partiledare och statsminister Göran Persson och Moderaternas partiledare Bo Lundgren hanterar en debatt inför det stundande riksdagsvalet. För att uppfylla syftet analyseras valduellen ur ett retoriskt perspektiv med tre teorier. Dessa är retorisk situationsanalys för att klargöra Perssons och Lundgrens retoriska situation och hur de fö