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The Role of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC) in Lund in the Broader Context of the Integration of Ethiopian and/or Eritrean Immigrants in Sweden

The study focused on the role of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC) in Lund in helping its congregants integrate into the larger Swedish society. It is an empirical study conducted in two different parishes of the EOTC in Lund. The study identified social capital and its various forms development among immigrants as the driving force of their integration into Swedish society. In additio

Moth and Birch

The goal of this thesis is to build a near-real time defoliation detector that could be used, early in the spring, to find out which areas of a birch forest are being affected by an insect outbreak. The importance of a reliable detection at the beginning of the spring lies on the possibility for an early intervention. The data on which the study is based is the Normalized Difference Vegetation Ind

Brandskydd i behovsprövade särskilda boenden - En studie av det organisatoriska brandskyddet

This thesis aims to evaluate the fire safety in special accommodations in Sweden. A survey was carried out along with interviews involving the regular staff of the special accommodations. It was found that special accommodations for the elderly suffering from dementia have the lowest share of personnel during the night that can help with evacuation in relation to individuals in need of physical he

Understanding Information Based Processes in Traffic Modeling

This thesis covers the automatic update of the model parameters in traffic modelling using two mathematical tools, the Relative Entropy Rate and the path-wise Fisher Information Matrix. The traffic model used is based on a lattice of cells, representing the road, that can be either occupied or empty that is updated with a kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm. Because of fluctuating traffic density during

Scandinavian Design, a Collective Brand out of Control?

Collective country-of-origin (COO) branding has been a previous research focus concentrating on beneficial aspects of this strategy. Regarding this focus, this thesis both lays open and refutes two major existing assumptions in collective branding research through its abductive approach: that collective COO brands are deliberately created and controlled by a brand manager and that a willingness to

WPP design and analysis - An assessment of wake effects and power fluctuations from large scale wind power plant clusters

For the last decades, the wind energy industry has been growing rapidly. More of the production is moving offshore, and in the Baltic Sea some key areas have been identified as particularly suitable for wind power plants. The European Commission have initiated the Baltic Integrid project to assess the potential of building meshed HVDC grids between the Baltic countries and use these areas for wind

Styrsystemens roll i implementeringen av CSR-strategi

Syfte: Studiens syfte är att beskriva och analysera hur stora svenska företag i tillverkningsindustrin använder sig av styrsystem för att implementera CSR-strategi. Metod: En komparativ forskningsdesign som bygger på en kvalitativ flerfallsstudie innefattande tre stycken företag har valts för att uppfylla studiens syfte. Datainsamlingen har främst skett via semistrukturerade intervjuer. Teoretis

A Saviour Emerges: A processual view on normative control in practice

This Master’s Thesis contributes with a rich description of normative control as a social process, through the illustration and interpretation of the practical efforts and sense-making that surround it. These contributions are made possible through an ethnographic case study at a medium-sized, fast-growing dotcom company with a distinct and salient corporate culture and normative control efforts.

Motivation i lärandet. Elevers upplevelser av motiverande faktorer i en lärandesituation

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur lärare jobbar med att motivera sina elever och vad eleverna uppfattar som motiverande. Detta är gjort genom att intervjua fyra personer som har haft en musiklärare som har varit en betydelsefull motivationskälla för dem. Studien är gjord med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer, där jag har utgått ifrån kategorier inom motivation som är tydliga i tidigare fThe purpose of the thesis is to study how teachers work to motivate their students and what the students perceive as motivating. This is done by interviewing students who have had a music teacher who has been a significant motivation source for them. The study is done using semi-structured interviews, and is based on motivation categories that were clear in previous research. Through the method, t

The Impact of Public Policy on Fertility Rates in OECD Countries: A Comparative Study

Since the 1980s, fertility rates in OECD countries stayed almost stable at levels below replacement (2.1 children on average per woman), which can have significant feedback effects on the social welfare system. While females still have the desire to form a family, this wish competes with career ambitions, leading to persistently low fertility rates due to the potential incompatibility of family an

Fingerprint Matching using Small Sensors

Antalet produkter som använder sig av fingeravtryckssensorer för systemåtkomst har under de senaste åren ökat. Denna typ av teknik är nu i princip standard hos flera olika mobiltelefontillverkare. Fingeravtryckssensorer i mobiltelefoner är ofta så små att de inte kan läsa av ett helt fingeravtryck på en och samma gång. Två avläsningar kan därför ha liten likhet även om de kommer från samma finger.Fingerprint software is widely used in applications such as smartphones. There has to be some overlap between two fingerprint samples in order for them to be considered as belonging to the same finger. Determining if this overlap exists is normally not a problem if a fingerprint sensor is big enough to capture a sample from the whole finger at once. However, if the sensor is small it might capture

Cost-effective and energy-efficient renovation measures of multi-family apartment buildings constructed during the million program - Where carbon dioxide emissions minimization is a key issue

The Swedish construction and real estate sector has a significant impact on the total national carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption. Thus, energy efficient and environmentally friendly renovation measures of existing buildings in Sweden plays an important role in the attempt to mitigate the climate changes. By applying the methodology developed by the IEA EBC Annex 56, this study focuse

Kommunernas bostadsförsörjningsansvar

År 2017 anger 255 av 290 kommuner i Sverige att de har bostadsbrist. Detta innebär att utbudet av bostäder inte möter det behov och den efterfrågan som finns i kommunen. Den nationella prognosen för antalet bostäder som ska byggas fram till år 2025 är 710 000 och grundas på den förväntade befolkningsutvecklingen. Något som inte förklaras av siffran är vilken typ av bostäder som ska byggas. De finnThe lack of housing in Sweden is a problematic question of big importance. Based on the clarification of the Swedish law related to municipal housing responsibility, this study has been conducted with the purpose of investigating whether a statutory housing supply liability is of importance to municipal housing planning. To clarify its importance, interviews have been held with 21 representatives

”Det känns som om jag borde förstå”: dansk-svensk språkförståelse i samtal

I uppsatsen analyseras förståelseproblematiken i tre dansk-svenska samtal. En tydlig dansk-svensk problematik har konstaterats tidigare forskning, men hur den tar sig uttryck och hanteras i samtal är inte lika väl beskrivet. Syftet med denna uppsats är därför att undersöka förståelsen i samtal, vilket innebär analys av problem, strategier och bakomliggande faktorer. Materialet har samlats in med e

Identifying large-scale land acquisitions and their agro-ecological consequences : a remote sensing based study in Ghana

Sedan 2008 har allt fler företag övertagit rätten att nyttja mark i låginkomstländer världen över. Dessa markövertag, eller mark markförvärv som de också kallas, kan ses som nödvändiga investeringar som driver jordbruksproduktionen framåt eller som fråntagandet av mark från fattiga. Studier har visat på att dessa markförvärv kan få sociala och ekonomiska, socioekonomiska, konsekvenser för befolkniToday there are more than 45 million hectares (ha) of concluded large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in the low- and middle- income countries around the globe. Whether LSLA is referred to as land grabbing or land investment, LSLA means that the right to utilise land is moved from the local people to investors. Few studies investigate agro-ecological consequences and water use of LSLAs. Hence, t

Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Traceability Systems

Background Tracing physical objects from producers to end consumers is a challenging task. In the wake of Bitcoin’s success, the retail industry sees potential in using blockchain technology to tackle some of these challenges. While blockchain technology itself has been subject to extensive research lately, the intersection between blockchain technology and supply chain traceability is still rathe

”Det sjunger inom mig” - En kvalitativ studie om hur körsång påverkar körsångarna

Den här studien handlar om körsång och dess potentiella påverkan på människor. Syftet är att ta reda på om – och hur körsångarna i Sinnesrokören upplever att körsången påverkar dem och vilka faktorer det är som gör att de i sådana fall påverkas. Körledarens drivkrafter och mål och hur dessa visar sig i praktiken undersöks också. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats och metoderna som använts är intervjThis study is about choir singing and its potential influence on people. The purpose is to find out if - and how the singers in the Serenitychoir experience that the choir singing affects them, and what factors matter when it comes to forming the experience. The choir conductor’s intentions and goals and how are transformed into practice are also investigated. The study has a qualitative approach

Hydrology and surface water chemistry in a small forested catchment : which factors influence surface water acidity?

Försurning och övergödning utgör betydande hot mot världens ytvatten och svenska vatten är bland de mest utsatta. I den här studien har avrinningsområdet Storskogen analyserats för att undersöka sambandet mellan atmosfäriskt nedfall, hydrologi och ytvattenkemi. Med atmosfäriskt nedfall menas de luftburna föroreningar som landar på avrinningsområdet antingen för att de fångas upp av trädkronorna eWater chemistry alterations such as acidification and eutrophication represent major threats to the running waters of the world, and Swedish waters are among the most vulnerable. In this study the small forested catchment Storskogen, part of the SWETHRO monitoring network, was analysed to examine the links between deposition, catchment hydrological properties and surface water chemistry. Storskoge

Watershed delineation for runoff estimations to culverts in the Swedish road network : a comparison between two GIS based hydrological modelling methods and a manually delineated watershed

Till följd av de förväntade klimatförändringarna beräknas nederbördsmönstren i Sverige att förändras. Episoder av intensiv och kortvarig nederbörd förväntas öka på flertal ställen i landet, samt att utsträckningen av långvarig nederbörd, som kan pågå under flera dagar, även den, förväntas att öka. Det svenska vägnätet stöter redan idag på problem att möta de förändrade nederbördsmängderna, då vägsThe anticipated climate changes are predicted to alter the precipitation patterns in Sweden. Increased episodes of intense short-duration rainfall and higher intensities of day long-duration rainfall are expected. Road sections are often a target of flooding, causing impassable roads, due to the lack of capacity of drainage systems. One of the factors determining the water flow to a depression is