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Ethnography has become something of a buzzword in recent years. It is talked about and invoked in disciplines ranging from anthropology and ethnology to literature, history, business administration and design studies. Textbooks that teach ethnography tend to imbue students with the impression that ethnography is a mode of systematic investigation by which the researcher gets closer to the realitie
Background: The commercialization of second-generation bioethanol has not been realized due to several factors, including poor biomass utilization and high production cost. It is generally accepted that the most important parameters in reducing the production cost are the ethanol yield and the ethanol concentration in the fermentation broth. Agricultural residues contain large amounts of hemicellu
Complexity in property development projects involves and affects stakeholders with different attributes, interests, needs and concerns. Thus, each stakeholder may influence a project negatively or positively. The literature suggests that the concepts of stakeholder, participation, social sustainability and sustainable development are intertwined and together can contribute to social change. To enh
Idag lever vi en globaliserad värld där varor, tjänster och personer rör sig över större avstånd på ett allt enklare och snabbare sätt. Detta har resulterat i att fler företag har valt att etablerat sig internationellt och i allt större utsträckning strävar efter att etablera sig och verka globalt. När företag verkar i flera länder är en av konsekvenserna att företagen måste efterfölja lagar och r
The Emissions Trading Scheme represents a new departure in the field of environmental policy-making in the EU. With it, the EU has deployed a market-based instrument to meet its Kyoto Carbon Dioxide emissions reduction commitments. This paper will account for its emergence as a concrete policy output. It will first refer to the historical, ideational and interest-based logics which shaped its emer
The general view of learning has dramatically changed during the last two decades. Today we talk about learning for life and educate to meet the demands of the information society. This new view forces us to constantly relearn and develop new knowledge ? something which has resulted in large restructuring within the upper secondary school. New forms of teaching, where the pupils are given the oppo
In this thesis we investigate the level of deliberative democracy in the current implementation of the 24/7 Agency in the local government. We are interested in how the combination of the two seemingly opposing ideals of Demokratiutredningen and the 24/7 Agency is solved. Our analysis is based on interviews with civil servants from three kommuner in Skåne and a schematic overview of their websites
Talk about work traditionally has meant an interruption of the finer, more bacchanalian sensibilities. To wit, labor is laborious. But what happens when work becomes play? When play becomes work? This paper is an exploration of the seemingly incongruent marriage of work and play. Often seen as frivolous and disorderly, play is not simply the terrain of toddlers; it is pervasive, for adults play to
Globalization increases competition between companies and competitive advantage is becoming more and more important. Global trends such as international trade, overseas production and increased consumption have led to that freight transport volumes have grown strongly over the past decades. As the global warming debate intensifies, increased costs and stricter regulations on CO2 emissions are intr
Problem discussion: Long-term supplier relationships have become more common. Hence, supplier evaluation is a critical activity for many companies. However, making a relevant supplier evaluation is time consuming. Therefore, it is important to decide which of the suppliers to put an extra effort on. Should all suppliers be evaluated in the same way? Previous, focus has been on purchasing of direct
The cooperation between the bridge team members onboard merchant vessel has been given considerable attention since the mid 90´s when the focus on non-technical skills (NTS) was adopted from the aviation industry. In the maritime industry NTS training is called Bridge Resource Management (BRM) training and was introduced to avoid single person errors resulting in accidents. Initially the focus on
Although digital inbound marketing has been widely researched within B2C industries, very little academic research has been done on the subject within B2B sectors. With today’s rapid flow of information and constant change in buying behavior when purchasing consumer goods, B2B buyers are also demanding a simpler, more digitized approach of gathering information. This master thesis focuses on ident
Denna uppsats är skriven ur ett komparativt perspektiv med en komparativ rättsvetenskaplig metod i syfte att undersöka och jämföra den svenska och norska implementeringen av de Förenta nationernas konvention om barnets rättigheter. I Norge ratificerades konventionen 1991 och implementerades passivt genom att normharmoni konstaterades mellan konventionen och nationell rätt. Metoden ansågs till visThis thesis is written from a comparative perspective using a comparative method with the purpose to examine and compare the Swedish and Norwegian implementations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Norway, the convention was ratified in 1991 and thereafter passively implemented by the establishment of legal harmony between national law and the convention. The method w
Visualisering är läran om hur man representerar information med visuella element. Datastrukturer kan tjäna på att visualiseras, då det kan öka folks förståelse för strukturen. Ju mer komplex en datastruktur är, desto svårare är det att hålla reda på de olika relationerna mellan olika objekt i strukturen utan en bra visualisering. Målet med detta examensarbete var att skapa ett verktyg för visualisVisualization is the discipline of representing information with visual elements. Data structures can benefit from visualization, enabling people deeper understanding of the structures. The more complex the data structure, the harder it can be to keep track of different relations between different objects in the structure without a good visual representation. The aim of this thesis was to create a
The purpose of this study was to investigate how child and family social workers on the basis of a specific mentor model express their discretion in their professional role. The data was collected by using qualitative interviews with five social workers from the same workplace.The benchmark of the municipality was determinative for the social embeddedness, the social climate and the social network
The European Spallation Source (sv: Europeiska Spallationskällan) kommer att bli den mest kraftfulla spallationskällan i världen när den är i drift vid full kapacitet. Neutronerna som används av vetenskapsmän och ingenjörer är spallerade från ett roterande hjul av volfram, som blir bombarderat av accellererade protoner. Hjulet, även kallat målet, upplever värmeutveckling under spallationsprocessenThe European Spallation Source (ESS) is going to be the worlds most powerful spallation source once in full operation. The neutrons used by scientists and engineers are spallated from a rotating wheel of wolfram, being bombarded by accellerated protons. The wheel, also called the target, develops heat in the process, and is therefore cooled by a helium cooling system. The target primary cooling sy
Alunskiffern i Sverige har länge varit av intresse för forskning. Historiskt sett har den varit av intresse för industriellt bruk, senare under utredning för dess eventuella olje– och gasinnehåll. På senare år har alunskiffern varit föremål för forskning på grund av dess innehåll av tungmetaller, exempelvis uran, samt hur detta kan påverka grundvattenkvaliteten. På södra Öland finns några av SveriThe Swedish Alum Shale has long been of interest within research. Historically it has been used for industrial purposes, later because of its potential content of oil or gas. Recently it has come to be of interest due to its content of heavy metals, such as Uranium, and how this can affect the groundwater supplies and its quality. In the southern parts of Öland some of the greatest Alum Shale form
This paper explores how evolutionary epistemology can offer insights into the discussion of naturalization of epistemology and normativity. Living organisms have an inherent disposition to continue living – i.e., staying in homeostasis – which they accomplish through an anticipatory regulatory process called allostasis. Organisms only survive under certain conditions, and so their actions and pred
