The impressive growth of smart city initiatives can be widely witnessed worldwide. These cities are launched at the effort to improve quality of citizens’ life and help city planners optimize and operationalize management of urban infrastructures. Smart cities are characterized by technologies and systems that are sources of high-volume and high-variety data sources which can be gathered, stored a

Servitut är ett rättsförhållande mellan fastigheter där den ena fastigheten har rätt att nyttja den andra fastigheten för att komplettera fastighetens behov så att den kan användas funktionellt och ändamålsenligt. En grundregel för servitut är att rättigheten ska gälla tillsvidare. I vissa situationer är det dock möjligt att upphäva servitutet. Ett servitut som upphävs är i de flesta fall berättigThe master thesis aims to examine which profit-sharing principle that is appropriate for repeal of easement for the release of development rights and if recent court deci-sions on the matter has had any impact on these situations. Easement is a legal relationship between real properties where one property is enti-tled to use the other property to complement the property's needs, so it can be

An alternative energy and chemicals must be found to meet the future demand. A possible source of renewable energy is plant oil since it has a close chemical structure to fossil oil with less refining requirement. However, vegetable oil has not made a significant contribution to replace fossil oil as an energy source because of high demand of fossil oil. It is possible to substitute fossil-based c

Lignin is found in nature as one of the most abundant biopolymers. The large amounts of lignin generated as a by-product or waste from mainly pulp and paper industry have great potential as a source of renewable (aromatic) carbon and could be applied for production of platform chemicals in the proposed circular economy/biorefinery concept. Due to the heterogenous lignin polymer structure, its degr

Smart city is a phenomenon here to stay, constantly evolving and expanding and is fast becoming a paradigm for the transformation of connected cities. More and more parts of cities are being connected and with it, the risks and issues are on the rise. However, smart city projects often overlook the pervasive cyber security risks and threats that permeates these initiatives. The endeavour of this r

The technical department usually own the Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) systems. However, due to the need for faster decision-making, the business users started to demand using BI&A in their daily work as well. The traditional training for BI&I focused more on the technical people, who have proficient technical background while the business users lack technical backgrounds.

The increasing globalization of innovation activities has generated “globally organized web of complex interactions” for innovation, which are called global innovation networks (GINs). The current study on GINs has extended our understanding of network participants to the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from emerging economy, and enlightened us on the drivers behind the participation of

The real space behavior of the GW self-energy in the electron gas model was investigated in this thesis work. The self-energy is naturally decomposed into the screened-exchange and the Coulomb-hole components. The self-energy calculated with different electron densities as function of frequency and position was compared with the static approximation. At low frequency, the screened-exchange self-en

Eutrofiering är ett världsomspännande problem för sötvatten. Höga tillflöden av fosfor leder till försämrade förutsättningar för många typer av rovfiskar såsom abborre (Perca fluviatilis) och gädda (Esox lucius). Biomanipulation är en åtgärd som antas förbättra förutsättningarna för dessa rovfiskar, men kan samtidigt betyda försämrade förutsättningar för rovfiskarter som får konkurrensfördel av lå

Disaster risk management efforts currently focus on long-term preventive measures and post-disaster response. Outside of these, there are many short-term actions, such as evacuation or distribution of water purifications tablets, medical supplies or flood response drills, which can be implemented in the period of time between the warning and a potential disaster to reduce the risk of impacts. Howe

IS analysis and design processes rely on models for communicating requirements between business and IS professionals. Modelling standards are universally recognisable notations/languages for constructing these models. An emerging approach is to capture business decisions intended for decision automation in models. The Object Management Group has recently released a standard for this purpose, the D

Although landscape representations in the US-European culture have traditionally been acknowledged as a peaceful ordering of the world or the tool of imperialism, nationalism and private property (sometimes all simultaneously), a new shift in the landscape scopic regime seems to be happening. Produced by the current rise of concerns around climate change and environmental crisis, this shift seems

The aim of the study was to examine verdicts from the Swedish Administrative court regarding the Care of Abusers (Special Provisions) Act, LVM. The aim was to examine how the client and the client’s need of treatment is constructed in the verdicts, by the authorities and by the client itself. Sixteen convictions were analysed through qualitative text analysis. The study found that authorities; the

By exploring a case study of a Swedish media company, this thesis examines the roles of the middle management in influencing the decision-making of the top management and employees in decentralized innovation departments. For the top management’s decision-making, it was found that the middle manager performs an informing role, an inspiring role and a championing role, which are manifest on either

This thesis closely examines Reborn-Art Festival, a new arts and culture festival inaugurated during the summer of 2017 in one of the regions hardest hit by the triple disaster that devastated the northeastern coastline of Japan in 2011. In the face of an unspeakable tragedy like the Great East Japan Earthquake art may not seem like a central concern, but this thesis focuses on that subject specif

Coastal ecosystems are some of the most productive, and most at risk, in the world. These ecosystems are at risk due to the high levels of pollution entering the system. Most of this pollution comes from either run off or atmospheric deposition. There are a few ways in which this pollution could be tackled without a complete overhaul of societal systems, the most common solutions being grey or gre

Under de senaste åren har Fake News kommit att bli en väldigt omdiskuterad pro-blematik i den politiska sfären. Etablerade mediehus, tidningar och politiker har i en ökande takt blivit attackerade, ifrågasatta och anklagade för att sprida falsk och vilseledande information till offentligheten. Denna studie ämnar till att ge en djupare förståelse gällande orsakerna till framväxten av Fake News i enFake News has over the last couple of years become a very discussed issue in the political sphere. Well established newspapers and politicians have in an increased rate been attacked, questioned and accused of spreading false and misleading in-formation to the public. This study aims to give a deeper understanding regarding the causes of the emergence of Fake News in the modern and digitized world

Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize an