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Due to their outstanding mechanical properties, fibre reinforced materials allow a substantial reduction of mass for modern vehicles, thus making energy-efficient mobility viable. However, the cost for material and manufacturing of parts made out of carbon exceed the allowable costs for a broad market. New preforming technologies offer a potential to manufacture composite parts in a highly automat

Framtiden för verktyg på bibliotek Ett sätt att minska vår belastning på miljön är att dela saker med varandra. Att kunna låna verktyg och andra prylar på biblioteken - är det ett bra sätt att få fler att dela? Många säger sig vilja dela saker med andra men det är inte lika många som faktiskt gör det. Många av de initiativ för delande som finns idag bygger på delande mellan främlingar, men de flThe sharing of goods and services has a lot of potential in tackling the environmental consequences of consumption. Studies indicate that public lending has advantages over private individuals lending each other necessities. It is therefore important to investigate how public lending can be organised most efficiently. Some Swedish libraries provide tools and other things that are not typically ass

Bolivia has experienced a drastic decline in inequality and poverty since 2000. It coincided with the administrative period of Evo Morales between 2006 and 2019. Hence, it is debated whether poverty reduction was mainly driven by economic growth alongside the commodity boom in the 2000s or by policy implementations during Morales’s presidency. This study addresses the research question: “How and w

Principen om jura novit curia är en allmänt vedertagen princip i svensk rätt. Principen innebär att domstolarna självständigt bestämmer vilka rättsregler som ska tillämpas i varje enskilt fall. I detta ingår ett ansvar för domstolarna att utreda innehållet i gällande rätt. Det förhåller sig dock annorlunda när det är fråga om tillämpning av utländska rättsordningar. Domstolen kan då delegera en deThe Latin legal maxim iura novit curia is applied in Swedish law. The maxim expresses the principle that the court alone is responsible for determining which law applies to a particular case, and how it is applied. Consequently, the court is responsible for researching the content of the law. This, however, is not the case when foreign law is applicable in Swedish courts. In these cases, Swedish c

This study investigates the process of how eight people left competing informal institutions, in the form of gangs, to join substitutive informal institutions, which is more compatible with a democratic society, and in this way became ‘good citizens’. The research question is as follows: How do ex-gang members explain their change in lifestyle, from past involvement in gangs to the subsequent tran

Many construction companies have a construction service department but it is normally never the largest part of the company. Rather, the building services department has been seen as a fender to keep employees engaged when the economy’s been bad, with the result that no large investments have been put towards the service department. The logistics of the construction services business is different

Background: There is an ongoing trend amongst management within engineering and construction business to adopt Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Since this line of business requires timely information in order to take the adequate decisions and actions to ensure that no delays occur. Kockums AB operates within the defence industry with development, design and production of naval vessels. This comp

I arbetet med att göra industrin mer energieffektiv har packningsförsedda värmeväxlare en betydande roll då den effektivt överför värme mellan fluider. Detta exjobb ämnar at utreda och utveckla en ny stöttande fot till Alfa Lavals packningsförsedda värmeväxlare. Målet var att ta fram en design som kan klara av allvarliga externa laster genererade av till exempel ett anslutande rörsystem eller jordIn the process of making the industry more energy efficient, the gasketed plate heat exchanger has an important role as it effectively transfers heat between fluids. This master thesis aims to investigate and develop a new supportive foot for Alfa Laval’s gasketed plate heat exchangers. The goal was to present a design that can sustain severe external loads induced by for example the connecting pi

Innovations with the goal of creating a more sustainable economy and industry has been a topic of study for many researchers over the recent decades. This comes to no surprise since large organizations flag for the problematic consumption and production patterns that could lead to environmental problems at a global scale. The research on these environmental innovations that has been done up until

På senare tid har framsteg inom computer vision tillåtit datorer att se och förstå vår omvärld på olika sätt, i realtid. Detta innebär att vi befinner oss i en spännande, utforskande fas när det gäller teknikens applikationer och vad som är möjligt. Advagym, Sonys uppkopplade gymlösning har tillsammans med Sonys R&D Center Lund Laboratory undersökt hur man med hjälp av Internet of Things (IoT)Computer vision is on the cusp of revolutionizing several different markets through its applications. One such market is that of fitness and exercise. Advagym, Sony's connected gym solution is currently employing IoT solutions to track exercises in a gym environment. Together with Sony's R\&D Center Lund Laboratory's computer vision- and machine learning-equipped tracking system -

The Japanese writing system has gone through a variety of changes over the years, one of these being the abolishment of the historical kana orthographical system in 1946. This system of writing, which was based on the historical and ancient writing of the kana from many centuries before 1946, had evolved into a system that was very different from the spoken language and hereby the reforms quickly

The aim of this study is to investigate how technocratic water management is affecting the possibilities of the public to participate in decision-making and care for their local waters. This was investigated during the consultation process regarding the draft River Basin Management Plan and Program of Measures for the years 2021-2027 in the Bothnian Sea Water District in Sweden. The analytical fra

As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions, many companies found themselves in the reality that they had to conduct their business operations from home. The pandemic has heightened the need for Professional Service Firms (PSFs) to shrink, pivot, re-invent themselves, as well as redeploy organisational culture and resources dramatically, abruptly, and possibly disrupti

Vid sidan av strävan att uppnå AI-modeller som kan skapa extremt verklighetstrogna texter och bilder existerar även målet att kunna generera mänskligt tal. Målet med detta område, kallat "talsyntes", är att skapa en syntetisk mänsklig röst som har förmågan att läsa upp en given text. Detta kan t.ex. användas i automatiserad kundtjänst eller för personliga assistenter. Själva problemet haThe emergence of machine learning based text-to-speech systems have made fully automated customer service voice calls, spoken personal assistants, and the creation of synthetic voices seem well within reach. However, there are still many technical challenges with creating such a system which can generate audio quickly and of high enough quality. One critical component of the typical text-to-speech

Even though agriculture is the backbone of India´s economy, farmers from various parts of the country are committing suicide. It is not a phenomenon by itself; instead, it is an intense demonstration of the underlying distress (the agrarian crisis) present in the nation for a long period of time. The statistical information provided by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in India suggests tha

Dry etching is one of the most important methods of pattern transfer in nanofabrication. There are many dry etching methods, the most commonly used is reactive ion etching (RIE), that is based on a continuous supply of reactive ions and radicals generated in a radio-frequency (RF) plasma discharge. The RIE approach can be very accurate and may provide high resolution etching, below 10 nm in latera

The government saw the negative effects of increased alcohol consumption in Sweden and Welfare gave the mandate to further develop an idea to counter the trend. The idea was presented and a decision was taken. When Ängelholms municipality was able to take advantage of opportunities on the basis of these decisions was launched Projekt Insikt. Decisions were taken on municipal management and the thr

Following rising remuneration levels, significant owner reactions to excessive executive pay, and a request for more executive accountability, there has been increased focus on disclosure of more complete information on the pay levels, program structure and performance criteria for key executives in most European markets. In general, the academic research in the area has been about the conformance

HR indicators are increasingly used as a method for analysis in the work with human rights. However, the concept of HR indicators is often subject to confusion due to the lack of a common and universal theoretical framework. This study focuses on the elaboration of HR indicators for state reporting within the UN treaty monitoring bodies and argues that an extended and more coherent use of HR indic

In the latest financial crisis, risk management and forecasts of market losses played a crucial role in the area of finance. This thesis evaluates the theory of Value-at-Risk through a quantitative study of two non-parametric approaches and three parametric: Basic- and volatility-weighted Historical Simulation, Normal distribution, Log-normal distribution and Student’s t-distribution. The thesis c