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Context. The ESA space astrometry mission Gaia, planned to be launched in 2013, has been designed to make angular measurements on a global scale with micro-arcsecond accuracy. A key component of the data processing for Gaia is the astrometric core solution, which must implement an efficient and accurate numerical algorithm to solve the resulting, extremely large least-squares problem. The Astromet
Background: The rate of biological ageing is individual and represents the steady decrease in physiological and mental functions. Adverse social factors have been shown to influence this process. Self-perceived early ageing (SEA) might be a useful indicator of early biological ageing and increased mortality risk. The aim of this population-based study was to identify markers of SEA, including telo
The purpose with our essay was to increase our knowledge about what social workers, with experience from working with drug addicts, perceive as the explanations to a person stopping the abuse and succeed in staying drug free. Our framing of the question was: - How do social workers define the term drug free? - How big a roll do the social worker believes she/he has in the process in which a pers
Many driving schools request cheap, safe alternatives to driving lessons. Some VR (Virtual Reality) car simulators already exist today, but they are either too expensive or not adapted to the Swedish trac system. The purpose of this master thesis has been to investigate whether a virtual environment can be realistic enough for a driving school student to actually benet from using it. To answer the
Building on a previous thesis, which focused on the historical emergence and transformations of different conceptions of so-called human rights cities (HRCs), this study focuses on the ramifications of operationalising the concept in practice in two cities on the Indonesian island Java. The thesis adopts sociological- and discursive new institutionalism as a point of departure for its analysis, lo
The purpose of this thesis is to create an additional critique of academic publishing through the lens of black open access – illicit measures for access to academic documents. This is done primarily through the process of qualitative interviews with librarians and PhD-students active at two Swedish universites. The thesis also includes a minor statistical case study aiming to show the usage of th
I centrum för denna studie står författarens utveckling av det övre sångliga tonomfånget. I det här sammanhanget innebär det toner från den tvåstrukna oktaven och uppåt. Utgångspunkten för arbetet är bland annat författarens egna sångtekniska problem och tidigare erfarenheter. Därför bygger studien på aktionsforskning där författaren undersöker sitt eget arbete med höga toner i samråd med Anna-LenThis study aims to show the problem of getting a desirable upper tone range. In this context, it means tones from the two-line octave and upwards. The starting point for the work is the author's own singing problems and previous experiences. Therefore, the study is based on action research where the author examines her own practice with high tones, under the instruction of Anna-Lena Tideman, a
We live in a world built on consumerist values and a spatial rationale of capital accumulation. This modern society has led to architecture thriving through super consumption and super production ultimately leading to the generic. Cities and spaces that were usually rich in variation and texture have now become an architectural melting pot. Architecture has become smooth, simplified and reduced to
Cua Lo river mouth is a coastal inlet connected to an estuary at the central coast of Vietnam. The area is valuable for maritime trade, fishing industries, and tourism development. Natural disasters during the monsoon period are a problem, causing seasonal flooding. In connection to the inlet lies an elongating sand spit which causes erosion and destruction of residential areas on one side of the
With the progress seen in recent years, and especially since the beginning of the decade towards a more globalized world, airlines have gained special relevance as key players in this new game field. Then role they play is fundamental to guarantee that industries and individuals can move freely around the world, enabling many economic processes to succeed. Academics have studied, among other thing
A Power Amplifier (PA) is an essential electronic component in all microwave and millimeter-wave applications and, more specifically, in any transmitting system where the level of input power signal needs amplification to the desired level.Linearity and high efficiency are of utmost importance in PAs. However, high-efficiency PAs tend to be non-linear, and PAs working in the linear region might ha
År 1926 färdigställde Processkommissionen sitt principbetänkande angående rättegångsbalkens ombildning. Kommissionen föreslog en form av förenklat förfarande, där enklare mål skulle kunna lagföras utanför domstolen. Den största anledningen till att ett enklare och snabbare förfarande ansågs behövas var för att avlasta domstolarna från en allt för tung arbetsbörda. Snabbspolat framåt, så reglerasIn 1926 a commission report about a new code of judicial procedure was completed. The commission suggested the introduction of a summary procedure for misconducts that did not need to be resolved by the court. The main reason for this procedure was that it would unburden the courts from a heavy workload. Fast forward to today, the summary procedure, penal order, is regulated in chapter 48 of the
Uppsatsen behandlar ämnet slöjförbud i Sverige. Syftet är att undersöka hur en svensk partipolitiskt obunden organisation, som arbetar med hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck, konstruerar deras ståndpunkter om slöjförbudet samt hur de tillförskriver attribut till slöjbärande kvinnor som kan bli påverkade av slöjförbud. Materialet består av en skrift från den slöjkritiska organisationen ”Glöm aldrig The subject in this thesis is ban of veils in Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to examine how a Swedish non-party political organization, that works with honor related violence and oppression, constructs their positions about a ban of the veil, and further how they prescribe attributes to veiled women who can be affected by the ban. The analyzed material is a publication from the Swedish veil-cri
Different interests ascribe different meaning to the role of culture in urban regeneration and discourses are created. Previous research showed that successful examples of urban regeneration happened as culture-led bottom-up processes, where inhabitants had a supporting cooperation with the city administration. No strong evidence has been presented in previous research that culture has trickle-dow
In the broader context of an increasing awareness of perspectives that for long have been a taboo in development thinking, such as ecology and gender questions, this study focuses on the subject of disability in development. By raising the question if disability can be mainstreamed the subject of disability will be compared with what can be learned from gender-mainstreaming. Conducted as a critica
This thesis provides an analysis of the embodied experience in Olafur Eliasson’s installations Your blind passenger (2010) and Your negotiable panorama (2006). The empirical material was observed in 2011 at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark, where the two installations were located at the time. The author argues that the experience of a work of art is done through the beholder’s entire b
Delivery of goods at the port of discharge is an obligation incurred upon the carrier under a contract of carriage by sea. The extent of the carrier’s obligation is to give the consignee a reasonable time to take proper delivery of the goods against presentation of an original B/L. Delivery of goods is currently not regulated in any international laws on carriage of goods by sea, it is only regula
Adapting to climate change is a growing policy area and today more municipalities see a future need of protecting themselves against rising sea levels, floods and higher temperatures. In 2012 the city of Malmö took a significant step when adopting a strategy plan where actions where pointed out and prioritized. But the plan was three years later neither pursued nor prolonged. By using the advocacy
