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Children today grow up with a plurality of technological opportunities. In the last ten years the digital development has enable multiple possibilities to participate in a so called ‘digitally mediated society’. Ever since the discussions do not stop, in what way do children learn a responsible use of digital media. How do children develop to Digital Citizens in the future? For the investigation o
In applications of real time gesture detection on devices which have cameras and limited power supply it is important to consider both robustness and maintaining a low power consumption. A well explored approach is the use of cascades of boosted classifiers. As retraining is a very cumbersome process, online environment adaption would be an appealing approach to counter situations where the booste
The purpose of this thesis is to analytically examine and investigate if male and female have no meaning with regards to the County Administrative Courts descriptions and assessments in cases regarding the Care of Abusers (special provision) Act (LVM). It is to investigate if notions of gender are expressed in these LVM-cases, and if so, how are they expressed and how can we understand these expre
Title Identifying critical service issues in the service encounter – a first step in the development of a conceptual for the shipping industry Author Claas Boomgaarden Key Words Service Quality, Service Encounter, SERVQUAL, INDSERV, PDSQ, LSQM, Shipping Industry, Service Science, Service Dominant Logic, Relationship Marketing Purpose The purpose of this research is to provide a first step in th
Background: Many companies are today struggling to keep up with the challenges that have arisen from the increase of globalization and harder competition during the last couple of decades. This might reflect on companies as they need to do a strategic organizational change in order to create or retain a competitive position on the market. Those kind of change projects are usually difficult to
The reality of climate change and the substantial impact it can have on our environment and social systems in the future is globally recognized. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have acknowledged that global warming will lead to higher temperature and less precipitation and that it will have an effect on food safety, especially in developing countries. The aim of this study is to i
Working Capital Management (WCM) is a management tool used in large companies to optimize the use of cash by minimizing the amount of cash tied up in working capital accounts, in order to reduce the risk of insolvency and to increase profitability. One of the main reasons why start-ups fail is related to liquidity issues. Despite a wide acceptance regarding the importance of WCM for start-ups, the
This Master Thesis report describes the development of a new surveillance camera design containing PIR-sensors (Pyroelectric Infrared). The background to this project lies in the idea that PIR-sensors and video-motion detection technology can complement each other and thereby reduce false alarms. Research on PIR-sensors and optics were carried out to gain and understanding of the limitations and p
Bygg- och anläggningsbranschen är, och kommer fortsatt att vara, en extremt viktig gren av det svenska näringslivet. Av konstanta och beräknade ökningar i befolkningsmängd följer nödvändiga satsningar på bostäder, infrastruktur och industrier. Det är därför av största vikt att den kontroll, alltså besiktning, som sker av byggen utförs enligt kontrakt och avtal samtidigt som denna är smidig, korrekThe construction industry has historically constituted, and will continue to constitute, an important part of the Swedish industry. Projected population increases will require important investments in housing, infrastructure and industry. It is therefore of upmost importance that construction surveying be conducted in an accurate, efficient and timely manner so as not to impede the delivery of the
This thesis aims at comparing the differences between Chinese welfare system and Swedish welfare system in respects of maternity insurance, parental leave and childcare. The reason comparing welfare system in these specific aspects is because they have intense relations with the mothers’ and children’s benefits. They also influence the mothers’ will of pregnancy. Selecting these two countries as t
The Common Agricultural Policy is one of the most important policies within the European Union. However, the support from CAP have had some unexpected consequences for the environment. Major changes were made in 2003 regarding the way payments were given to farmers, in order to reduce the environmental impact of agricultural production. The support was made decoupled, which basically meant a great
The process of European Integration and creation of the single market revealed many questions and boundaries on the development and improvement of the European Social Policy. Pension’s sustainability has become the priority issue especially during the EU enlargement processes. Different policy instruments and institutions available to governments of Member States in realization of social objective
The most common way to develop System-on-Chip's (SoC) today is to utilize hardware design on a Field programmable gate array (FPGA). By utilizing the hardware on an FPGA, the opportunity to verify the hardware and start software design before implementing the final solution on silicon is possible. However, using an FPGA as a reference model for a final design gives a slightly imprecise estimat
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is an EU agency, providing scientific advice and standards surrounding risk assessment in order to maintain food safety in Europe. The aim of this study was to investigate how EFSA communicates uncertainty in conditions of their assessment and if the recommended guidelines by EFSA 2019 is fulfilled. 15 Randomly picked scientific articles produced during th
Determining whether the information read online is credible or not has become a crucial part of the process of consuming new information. With technology and the internet becoming all more advanced and developing continuously, the question regarding the influence of an argument’s strength on information credibility arose. The aim of this study was to contribute to the field of strategic communicat
This study sought to evaluate the historical impact of changes to an ordering page of an online travel agency on its conversion rates. Data gathered from the website over a year, detailing aspects such as travel dates, prices, itineraries, number of passengers, travel time, and carriers, was analyzed. External data sources were also included, with the dataset covering 12 changes to the website'
Fokus på offentliga diskussioner och vetenskapliga utforskningar som berör intim human-robot-interaction blir alltmer framträdande. Likväl saknas det psykometriska instrument avsedda för explorationen av intim social kontakt mellan människa och social robot. Det övergripande syftet med denna studie var att utveckla ett nytt psykometriskt test, Robot Intimate Receptiveness Scale (RIRS) för undersökPublic discussions and scientific inquiries centered around human-robot relationships are rapidly gaining momentum. As artificial intelligence integrates into new social landscapes, corresponding scientific explorations are called for. As of today, there are no psychometric instruments tailored to measure intimate social contact within human-robot contexts. In the light of this gap, the primary ob
During high speed machining of titanium alloys both the tool and workpiece material diffuse into one another affecting the surface integrity of the cutting tool edge and leading to fracture. One proposed mechanism by which the tool integrity is compromised results from the possible formation of porosity in to subsurface of the tool substrate close to the tool cutting edge. In this study the porosi
At the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution, technologies such as digital twin seek to shift the way industrial companies operate. A digital twin is a virtual replica of a product, system or process. Historically, the focus has been on representing single objects but it is now shifting to interconnected processes, such as supply chains. Advanced versions of a supply chain digital twin can
The goal and ambition of this thesis has been to investigate a topic that could lead to a possible solution to the environmental crisis we are witnesses of. Replacement of fossil fuels is an essential step towards a renewable society that needs to be taken. This thesis will investigate one of those possible solutions, production of a biofuel from a renewable source. A large amount of research with
