Previously developed methods to evaluate FED and FEC level via combination of CFD and evacuation simulation have been verified by new features of FDS6 and extended to fire cases involving common building materials. The FED levels calculated by the conversion factor [1] based on carbon monoxide are compared with the direct calculation by way of mass fraction of carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and

Användning av sociala medier har ökat mer och mer under det senaste decenniet och ett av dessa är Facebook, en internetsida där användarna kan chatta med sina vänner, lägga upp foton samt titta på andras och göra statusuppdateringar. Denna studie undersöker om det finns en relation mellan hur människor använder sig av Facebook samt två specifika personlighetsdrag. Fokuset var ensamhet, som är indeThe use of social media has increased during the last decade, and one of them is Facebook, a website where the users can chat with friends, submit pictures, write status-updates and browse other people's entries. In this study, research was conducted to establish if there is a relationship between how people use Facebook and two specific aspects of personality. The focus of the study was lonel

During the last decade, upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) doped with rare-earth (RE) ions have been extensively studied in the field of biophotonics. Due to their unique properties of anti- Stokes shifted luminescence and with excitation and emission wavelengths optimal for biomedical imaging, they have become an interesting class of fluorescent contrast agents. An issue with downconverting fluor

Att nätverka är väldigt användbart i dagens samhälle för företag. Malmö Cleantech City är ett nätverk för miljöteknik företag i Malmö som ville få sin verksamhet utvärderad för potentiella utvecklingsmöjligheter. Därför utformades denna studie med kvalitativmetod och genomfördes genom telefonintervjuer med åtta respondenter. För att uppnå syftet formades forskningsfrågan “hur upplever företagen i Networking is a useful tool in today’s society for business development. Malmö Cleantech City is a network for environmental engineering in Malmö, who wished to get their network evaluated for potential progress opportunities. The study was designed with a qualitative methodology and was conducted through telephone interviews with eight respondents. The following research question was formed "

Using data from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS), this research uses a logistic probability model to determine the associations between maternal characteristics, such as the exposure to physical domestic violence and low women’s status, and the risk of develop problems of malnutrition in children under 5 years. Using anthropometric indicators of malnutrition such as stuntin

In this thesis, I investigate if inequality has a significant impact on crime rates in Latin America and the Caribbean for the period from 1950 to 2010. Several studies in the past have found robust correlation between indicators of inequality and crime incidence, even when accounting for confounding factors and country-fixed effects. However, a major drawback of those studies is that they ignore

The interaction between two block copolymers (Pluronic® P65 and F127) and the bile salt sodium glycodeoxycholate (NaGDC) was investigated by means of static and dynamic light scattering (SLS and DLS) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). First a temperature study on pure P65 (1.0 wt%) in water in the temperature interval 5-80 °C revealed a critical micellization temperature of about 40 °C f

Klimatförändringar orsakade av antropogena faktorer har en ökande effekt på både naturliga och humana system. Klimatförändringar bidrar till en förändring av varaktigheten, frekvensen och intensiteten av extrema väderhändelser (som till exempel stormar, översvämningar och värmeböljor). Några exempel på konsekvenser från klimatförändringar på de humana systemen är förlust av liv, förlust av egendomThe changing climate caused by anthropogenic factors has an increasing effect on natural and human systems. There is therefore an increasing need for society to adapt to the effects of climate change (IPCC, 2012; Rescalvo et al., 2013) This is vital since the effects of climate change are already being noticed in many parts of the world (Rescalvo et al., 2013). However, municipalities in Sweden ge

Denna studie undersöker hur författarrollen har förändrats i samband med att läromedel och läromaterial i allt större utsträckning har digitaliserats och datoriserats. Teoretiskt fundament utgörs av Svedjedal (2002) och Renman Claesson (2009, 2012) och metodiskt tillvägagångssätt är kvalitativa intervjuer. Resultatet av denna analys visar på att författarrollen i och med digitaliseringen omfattar

Authors: Matilda Berggren and Sanne Modin Title: The power within empowerment - A study of the outreach work performed by Mentor Mothers in The Kingdom of Swaziland Supervisor: Anna Angelin Assessors: Anna Meuwisse and Max Koch Our aim with this thesis was to identify potential barriers and potential possibilities in the work of Mentor Mothers. Through interviews with women working in the project

This study is a survey of the bottom life of Hjälmsjön outside Örkelljunga in Skåne. The municipal and a row society are going to make an application for permission to dredge the bottom in order to increase the depth up to two meters depth. In the application they need a description of the area including which species live on the bottom and what the ecological status is for the lake. I have sample

Författare: Jacob Johannisson och Marcus Johansson Handledare: Jon Bertilsson Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka förståelsen för hur sociala medier påverkar relationsbyggandet mellan företag inom business-to-business och på så sätt bidra till dagens teorier och forskning kring relationsmarknadsföring. Metod: För att samla in empiri och kunna svara på frågeställningen har denna uppsats eAuthors: Jacob Johannisson and Marcus Johansson Advisor: Jon Bertilsson Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of how social media affects relationship building between business-to-business companies and thereby contribute to current theories and research within the relationship marketing area. Methodology: To enable us to collect empirical data and give an answer to

Syftet med denna uppsats är att utreda vilken inverkan utbildning har haft på Chiles BNP per capita under perioden 1970-2010. Uppsatsen fokuserar på gymnasial- och eftergymnasial utbildning och dess inverkan på Chiles ekonomiska tillväxt. Metoden som används är tillväxtbokföring. Tillväxtbokföringen möjliggör en nedbrytning av produktionsfunktionen i syfte att finna varje variabels inverkan på til

Examensarbetet undersöker problematiken i Sverige med impregneringsmedlet kreosot som finns träsliprar, utifrån användning, konsekvenser, avveckling och kostnader. Informationsinsamlingen har genomförts med litteraturstudier och intervjuer med presoner som har kunskap om ämnet. Det är viktigt att identifera hur giftigt kreosot är i anläggningen samt hur mycket det finns i Sverige. Det krävs att al

This research departs from two domains within the research field of consumer culture theory (CCT), Consumer Identity Projects and Marketplace Cultures. The goal was to add insights to the field by investigating social distinction through exploration of a context that traditionally has been characterized as being democratic and folksy. This research will study speciality coffee consumers as they di

The objective of this study is to obtain knowledge about the important factors that affect people when evacuating by elevator from underground stations. The objective is also to contribute for future development of recommendations and research in the field. The study was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in Stockholm. Two groups were selected, the first consisting of randomly selec

Stjärnorna på himlen syns vara små eftersom de är avlägsna objekt, solar på enorma avstånd. Den närmaste stjärnan är Alfa Centauri på ett avstånd av 4,4 ljusår, cirka 41 miljon miljoner kilometer. Solen är den enda stjärna vars yta vi kan se i detalj medan andra stjärnor är så avlägsna att de inte ens i de största teleskopen syns som mer än små ljusa prickar. De skarpaste bilder som i dag erhållContext. Intensity interferometry was invented and used by R.Hanbury Brown and R.Q.Twiss in the 1960's to measure stellar angular diameters. Its main advantage over conventional interferometry is that it enables very long baselines and is insensitive to poor seeing. However, because it requires very large light collectors, it was never pursued further. The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a

This master’s thesis examines 21 master’s theses written in Library and Information Science in Sweden between the years 2010 and 2013. The master’s theses are written in Lund, Borås and Uppsala and all of them have literature and/or reading as subject matters. The aim of the thesis is to investigate how master’s theses in our time handle the question of reading and literature as a subject matter i

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a principle that is always up for discussion, and has been since it was first mentioned in the ICISS report from 2001, which was issued as a consequence of that rhetorical question that Secretary General Kofi Annan asked about the genocide that occurred in Rwanda and Srebrenica in the 1990s. He questioned how we should react to systematic violations of Human Righ

The last decades China was highly relaying on export led growth, which drove the economy to enormous GDP growth rates. Due to the financial crisis in 2007/2008, its trade partners were loosing the ability to import as much as before and China’s GDP growth started to decline. The reason for that is the neglect of the domestic consumption rate of private households. This paper examines the correlati