The traditional play stage once played a big part in Chinese architecture. They witnessed the most common public entertainment for Chinese people, and became a unique icon of traditional architecture, arts and urban life. In today’s society, though the traditional play stage dose not seem to disappear thanks to the developing notion of architectural preservation, it still has to face the fact that

This article uses a systematic and rigorous empirical study of the effects of the policies of the national high-tech zones using relevant socio-economic data from 266 prefecture-level cities in 30 provinces in China from 2001 to 2016. We use the characteristics of the gradual advancement of the national high-tech zones to adopt the difference-in-difference model model to estimate the policy impact

Population ageing affects most European countries, placing increasing pressure on publicly funded Long Term Care (LTC) systems. Informal care is often seen as a low-cost alternative to formal care services, yet it may induce unwelcome reductions in labour supply. This study presents evidence on the relationship of informal care provision, employment probability, and work hours of mature caregivers

SCAPIS is a national project in Sweden and stands for Swedish CardioPulmonary bioImage Study. The objective of SCAPIS is to find biomarkers in order to improve the risk prediction and lower the death rate of Cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD is a big health problem and is one of the main causes of death in many industrial countries. It is usually related to atherosclerosis, which is plaque buildup

Videorekrytering är en form av rekrytering som möjliggjorts inom ramen av den digitala utvecklingen, som under de senaste åren haft stor påverkan och förändrat HR-avdelningarnas sätt att arbeta. Studier kring eHRM (elektronisk Human Resource Management) har haft mycket fokus på organisationens perspektiv, och kunskapsluckor har uppstått kring kandidaternas upplevelse av detta nya sätt att rekryterVideo recruitment is a form of recruitment that has grown in the recent years as a result of the rapid digital development within the field of Human Resource Management. Studies within eHRM (electronic Human Resource Management) have mainly focused on an organizational perspective, leaving knowledge gaps regarding the candidate’s experience. Företag X has noticed from their own recruitment process

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.

Klimatet på jorden ändras hela tiden och temat klimatförändringar är mer aktuellt än någonsin. För att förstå vilka konsekvenser klimatförändringarna har är det viktigt att förstå hur klimatet påverkades förr av uppvärmning eller avkylning. För att utröna detta används olika proxymetoder. Under senare år har man insett att Mg/Ca kvoten i skalen hos bentiska foraminiferer är en användbar proxymetodThe climate on earth is continuously changing, and climate change discussions are more relevant than ever. To understand the consequences of climate change one has to understand how the climate responded to changes in temperature in the past. Different proxy methods can be used to determine these changes. During later years, researchers have discovered that the Mg/Ca ratio in benthic foraminifera

De senaste decennierna har allt fler aktörer pekat på att utveckling och rättigheter är starkt sammankopplade och därmed börjat anamma olika former av en Right Based Approach(RBA) till utveckling. Brist på utveckling kan ha sin grund i diskriminering. En grupp som halkat efter och som är strukturellt underordnad är kvinnor. En världsdel med hög andel fattiga är Afrika. Där finns det också en feminThe last 20 years diverse actors such as states, NGOs (Non-governmental Organizations) and IGO:s (Intergovernmental organizations) have adopted a Right-based Approach to Development(RBA). The main reason for adopting this approach is since development and rights are inter-connected. Discrimination is one cause for lack of rights and poverty. One group in an extra vulnerable position in poverty and

Följande rapport behandlar Östgötateatern i Linköping och skrivs som en del av kursen Brandteknisk Riskvärdering vid Brandtekniska avdelningen, Lunds tekniska högskola. Syftet med rapporten är att utvärdera personsäkerheten i byggnaden vid händelse av brand. Information om objektet fås genom ett platsbesök, varefter ett antal möjliga brandscenarion identifieras. Genom att utföra en grovanalys på d

Increased popularity of additive manufacturing has pushed the method into new areas where it has not been used before, such as construction. Buildings are being 3D printed by various companies around the world, but the application of additive manufacturing in construction is still in its early stages. In order to conduct research in this field, the Department of Design Sciences at Lund University

Sustainable development and sustainability entrepreneurship are the hot topic in the academic literature. With high importance of the context where entrepreneurships operate, it is vital to study sustainability beyond the border of the developed countries. On the one side, transition economies are complex places to start sustainable startups. On the other side, transition economies are lagging beh

District heating systems need to be made more ecient. Lower system temperatures are desirable for the eciency of the entire system, but it also decreases the temperature-margins that can compensate for faults in the system. Therefor it is crucial to decrease these errors. The majority of the improvement potential is on the customer's side of the system; in the substation or in the building'

Fretting is a complex set of mechanical and electrical mechanics that occurs at the contact surface between two vibrating objects. It is widely present in electrical connectors close to combustion engines due to the constant exposure to vibrations. Fretting is an extensive problem in the automotive industry but little research is done. In this thesis, a connector attached to a high pressure fuel p

Data augmentation is a process to create new artificial data by altering the available data set. It has by many been considered a key factor for increasing robustness and performance of image classification tasks using deep learning methods, such as the convolutional neural network. This report aims to investigate the effect of data augmentation for the segmentation of magnetic resonance (MR) imag

Large particle accelerators are difficult to setup. One of the first problems that can be encountered, before production configuration is found, is the beam not passing through the accelerator. The process of guiding the beam through the accelerator is called beam threading. Depending on the accelerator complexity it can take days before the beam passes for the first time. Currently the beam thre

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur olika typer av omskrivningar; metaforer och liknelser används av elever och lärare i ämnet Gehörs- och musiklära. Mer specifikt undersöks hur elever väljer att beskriva tre typer av färgade ackord, hur de upplever användandet av dessa beskrivningar som hjälp för att identifiera ackorden samt hur en lärare i ämnet Gehörs- och musiklära använder sig av metaThis study aims to investigate how different types of rewriting; metaphors and similarities are used by students and teachers in music theory and ear training. More specifically, how students choose to describe three types of colored chords, how they perceive the use of these descriptions to help identify the chords and how a music theory teacher uses metaphors, descriptive words and associations

Contrary to what practice suggests, social media platforms may not be an appropriate forum for communicating with civil society about sustainability issues. It is common knowledge that fake news and misinformation campaigns are distorting the line between fact and falsity on social media platforms. Complicating this arrangement, these circumstances are the backdrop of a wider distrust of expert op

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an agile methodology that aligns collaboration between multiple teams in agile software development. SAFe is commonly being applied to global environments where team members are sitting distributed, through so-called virtual teams. The aim of this study is to investigate how the Scaled Agile Framework is perceived by employees working within a virtual team sett