The purpose with this diploma work is to find solutions that facilitate the manual demining process by designing tools and equipment used by manual deminers. Manual demining is a part of humanitarian demining that has been neglected for a long time even though its a vital part of mine action programs around the world and very important for humanitarian demining in general. The main idea is to prov

This paper examines the income differentials and characteristics relevant to the labour market of East-West migrants, West Germans and East-German stayers in Germany in 2006. This is done by using descriptive statistics as well as regression models based on the Human Capital theory by Becker and Mincer. The data used in this paper comes from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) of the German Institute

This thesis investigates the role states play in promoting and directing a country’s development. More specifically, it is examined, which factors determine differences in state performance and why different types of states form. This is done through a comparative case study of Botswana and Zambia, two southern African countries that after a similar start into independence developed very different

Det är i mötet – idag framför allt det medierade mötet – mellan journalisten och politikern som nyheter om politik uppstår och som vi medborgare bygger merparten av våra uppfattningar om politiken kring. Som en ingrediens i detta möte kan medieträning ha betydelse för vad som sker och sägs. Medieträning som bruk och verktyg är dock ömsom ifrågasatt och kritiserat, ömsom förklarat som nödvändigt i

Improving an inhalation device so that the patient has full control of his health status, is the #1 objective of the project. Being a futuristic project, carried out from a patien's prespective, the ambition is still to perform a realistic industrial design assignment. The project concentrates on aesthetical qualities, as well as matching them with the fundamental functions of the device. Th

An EU strategy to reduce carbon emissions and become more energy independent was the introduction of Directive 2002/91/EC. The EU member states were required to transpose a directive into national legislations. This resulted in that Sweden admits the law on energy certification of buildings. Certified energy expert who declares the buildings must be certified energy expert and independent of his p

This thesis is to research the relationship between inflation and economic growth of China from 1978 to 2007. No unambiguous conclusions on this problems have been obtained from previous literatures. This thesis will employ co-integration and error correction models accompanying with correlation matrix and the Granger Causality Test to examine the inflation-economic growth relationship. The data i

Previous research has found clear spatial patterns of agricultural supply, both in pre-industrial Europe (Grantham 1978; Grantham 1989; Kopsidis 2009) and in the less developed countries of today (Benziger 1996; Stifel & Minten 2008). The spatial structure of farming intensity is mainly attributed to the declining net-returns with the distance from the market. This paper examines the impact of

En jämförelse mellan Stendhals roman "Rött och svart" och filmen med samma namn av Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe.

Problem discussion: BCC:s product portfolio includes a transplanting machine that plants seedlings from trays to the field. The machine is more than 10 years old and need improvements to meet future demands from customers around the world. The main issues are that the machine does not have the capacity to detect missing plants from trays, the planting speed needs to be higher and the row distance

This thesis is a concept study performed at Caran AB by order of Volvo Car Corporation, VCC. The background is a market research performed by VCC. From the research, a need for a product that facilitates reaching the trunk level in Volvo’s SUV, XC90, was recognized. It was also found, that dogs seem to find it difficult to get up in the trunk, why dogs have been accounted for during the developmen

Before a processing unit is taken into production it is prepared with water instead of product, among other things it is sterilized this way. When this preparation phase is done, the water is pushed out with the product that is about to be processed. During this phase a mixed zone of water and product occurs. This mixed zone of water and product results in a cost for the producing company due to l

FAS Converting Machinery AB makes machines for plastic-bag manufacturing. The company is located in Ystad in the very south of Sweden. They want a new method for detecting the perforated joints between the plastic-bags, to make the machine able to count the number of bags rolled up. The current method uses a spark that goes through the small holes in the perforation. That method does not work at h

This master thesis has been made on behalf of Sony Ericsson in co-operation with Machine Design at Lund Institute of Technology. The background is a need within Sony Ericsson to test moulded plastic parts before they are assembled together to a phone. There are today various specified tests that are made on every single phone before it is launched, but they are all made on complete assembled phone