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Hygrothermal simulation programs are commonly used by design engineers to analyse moisture performance of building envelopes. For ventilated assemblies, programs typically require the user to enter cavity ventilation rates. If such input data are not prepared on physical grounds, it can impair the quality of the simulation results. In earlier papers: (1) estimations of ventilation rates in experim

Several methods to detect faults have been developed in various fields, mainly in chemical and process engineering. However, minimal practical guidelines exist for their selection and application. This work presents an index that allows for evaluating monitoring and diagnosis performance of fault detection methods, which takes into account several characteristics, such as false alarms, false accep

The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases-AKT-mammalian target of rapamycin pathway (PI3K/AKT/mTOR) is central in colorectal tumors. Data on its role in hereditary cancers are, however, scarce and we therefore characterized mutations in PIK3CA and KRAS, and expression of PIK3CA, phosphorylated AKT, and PTEN in colorectal cancers linked to hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). Sequencing was

In vision-based feedback control systems, the time to obtain sensor information is usually non-negligible, and these systems thereby possess fundamentally different timing behavior compared to standard real-time control applications. For many image-based tracking algorithms, however, it is possible to trade-off the computational time versus the accuracy of the produced position/orientation estimat

Phenyl β-d-galactopyranoside was found to be an efficient acceptor of l-[14C]fucose when guanosine diphosphate l-[14C]fucose was used as the donor substrate and human serum, submaxillary glands or stomach mucosa were the sources of l-fucosyltransferase. The enzyme utilising phenyl β-D-galactoside was present in the serum of donors of all ABO blood-groups examined, except those of the rare Oh (Bomb

Mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) may account for one half of all familial breast cancers. Because of the wide spectrum of different germline mutations, identification of BRCA1 mutation carriers using current techniques is laborious and difficult. The majority of the identified mutations, however, lead to aberrant expression of the gene product in tumor tissue, potential

Klimatförändringar har skett i alla tider har haft förödande effekter för livet på jorden. Nu för tiden har man hittat kopplingar mellan miljöproblemen och människans aktiviteter (IPCC 2013, 7). All utveckling påverkar naturen på ett eller annat sätt, det gäller också turismutveckling som till exempel bidrar med mer transporter till en plats. Då kan ett hållbart tillvägagångssätt vara en lösning fA sustainable approach could be a solution for the tourism industry to reduce its climate impact. The aim of this thesis was to develop a sustainable tourism strategy, in collaboration with Swedish region Halland. The sustainability concept was set against the developed tourism strategy, both on a theoretical and practical level. The strategy was compared to other sustainable tourism strategies a

Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats är att jämföra rätten till humanitär intervention med den på senare år utvecklade principen om responsibility to protect (R2P). Rätten till humanitär intervention innebär en möjlighet för stater att intervenera i en annan stat som kränker mänskliga rättigheter. R2P utgår istället från att suveränitetsprincipen inbegriper ett ansvar för stater att skydda sin befolknThe purpose of this bachelor thesis is to compare the right of humanitarian intervention with the principle of responsibility to protect (R2P). Humanitarian intervention implicates an opportunity for states to intervene with military force in another state that violates human rights. R2P implies that sovereignty comprises a responsibility for states to protect their populations. If a state is unab

The aim of this paper is to examine the effect small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) access to finance has on economic growth. The relationship will be explored using data from the European Commission’s SMAF index covering the 28 EU member countries. By using the System Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator, a significant and robust relationship between access to finance and economic growth

Från analogt till digitalt - snabba och strömsnåla omvandlare Dagens digitala samhälle ställer höga krav på prestanda och effektivitet. I samarbete med Ericsson i Lund har en krets för signalomvandling utvecklats. Genom smart design uppnås hög hastighet och låg strömförbrukning som ligger i forskningens framkant. Från analogt till digitalt Ett viktigt byggblock för telekommunikation och videoap

OECDs reglering för internprissättning av svårvärderade immaterialrätter har fått stor uppmärksamhet under utvecklandet av BEPS action 8. Rapporten öppnar upp en möjlighet för skattemyndigheter att använda skillnaden mellan företagets prognoser och det faktiska utfallet som bevisning för trovärdigheten av informationen som användes vid prognosen. Denna ex post bevisning har presumtiv verkan och föOECDs regulation regarding transfer pricing of hard to value intangibles has been subject to attention during the development of BEPS action 8. According to the final report, tax authorities can rely on ex post information as presumptive evidence as to the reliability of the information used ex ante in determining the transfer price. The burden of proof is shifted from the tax administrations to t

Mellan näringsidkare råder i regel möjlighet att välja de affärsmetoder och villkor som passar det specifika affärsförhållandet. Däremot finns det förfaranden som definieras som otillbörliga. Sådana affärsmetoder har enligt Europeiska kommissionen negativ effekt, i synnerhet gentemot små- och medelstora företag (SME:s). Det finns inte någon övergripande EU-lagstiftning som reglerar otillbörliga afIn general traders are able to choose trading practices and conditions that will suit their business relationships. However there are producers that are defined as unfair trading practices. Such practices may cause negative effects, in particular concerning small- and medium sized enterprises (SME:s). There is no existing EU-legislation that regulates unfair trading practices between manufacturers

Anyone trying to maintain a set of text documents in an information retrieval system will run into problems keeping it relevant and up to date as the amount of data increases. This thesis investigates how a collection of documents can be clustered in a way that resembles how a human would organize it. It also assesses how difficult it is to implement this into an existing information retrieval sys

Today, the world contains an unimaginably massive amount of digital information, increasing ever so rapidly and bringing about a wide range of opportunities across industries such as predicting future trends, combating crime to name a few. As a result, more and more organi-sations are investing heavily in Business Intelligence (BI) with the hope of gaining insights through data and analytics and h

This Master Thesis proposes to use a Spatial Hawkes Process to model the news flow in the world. The spatial part is divided in both geographical areas as well as different topics. Therefore, in the Hawkes model every news article corresponds to a point in space and time. In a certain region and topic the intensity of the released articles will be modelled with the Hawkes Process. This can be of i

In this work mathematical models of a granulating process plant have been determined. The plant is situated at the SUPRA company, Landskrona Sweden. The product studied is a fertilizer NPK. In the process there are oscillations in the material flow. The models will be used an attempt to explain and hopefully control the process better.

In the first stage it was tried to obtain a physical

The development of electrical circuit boards is increasing and the time spent in the development stage can be quite long. The thesis has tried to shorten the time spent developing new electrical circuit boards, by first finding a common denominator for efficiency losses in the development process and then implementing an example solution. The problem identified was the lack of attention towards pr

Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) is nowadays suggested as a fourth (quaternary) treatment step at municipal wastewater treatment plants to remove certain chemicals and particularly organic micropollutants (OMPs). This work investigated the different factors that affect the performance of the GAC filter for the removal of micropollutants in a municipal wastewater treatment plant. This study is purel