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A fossilized democracy : the fossil free movement’s work in liberating democracy from the fossil fuel industry

The science of climate change stipulates that fossil fuels must be kept in the ground in order for earth's global temperature to stay below the 1.5 degrees' Celsius increase pre-ordained as safe for continued human civilization, and to avoid catastrophic natural, social, and economic disasters. Although this is a scientifically proven and agreed upon, governments around the world continue

Why Care Matters: Analysing the German Response to the European Refugee Crisis from a Global Ethics of Care Perspective.

The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a global reading of the feminist Ethics of Care and its theoretical conceptualisation as framework for the political response to the global migrant crisis. To pursue this end, the thesis starts by indicating the need for a joint political response to the global migrant crisis, the lack of compas- sion on political level for refugees fleeing from conflict

Kommunikatörens konsultativa roll: En kvalitativ studie av hur kommunikatören coachar och ger råd i organisationen

Denna studie undersöker hur kommunikatören arbetar konsultativt för att sprida kommunikativ kompetens och förståelse i organisationen. Jag har undersökt kommunikatörens roll som rådgivare och/eller coach genom en kvalitativ studie med semistrukturerade intervjuer med kommunikatörer, medarbetare och ledare på Trafikverket. Syftet har varit att skapa större förståelse för hur kommunikatörer arbetar

Utvärdering av det svenska energiverifieringssystemet för byggnader

This study aims to highlight and evaluate current energy policy instruments for supervising the work on energy verification of buildings. The verification is directed to be performed by each municipality. Energy verification is aimed to present a buildings real energy use. It will also confirm or deny that the building meets the requirements in the National Board of Housing’s building regulations

Nästa generations utsättningsverktyg

In recent years IT-solutions have had a big and fast progress in many areas and with this progress many opportunities have followed. The building industry has struggled to keep up with the progress IT has gone through, there for there are vast possibilities to use different IT-solutions in this industry today. This project focuses mainly on in what way IT-solutions can be used when building interi

LoadSplunker - Dashboard

At the IT department of IKEA, test specialists who are responsible for software testing are currently using a suite from Hewlett Packard called HP Application Lifecycle Management that includes an analysis tool for test result evaluation. During the implementation of this thesis work, the real world demand for a replacement of the analysis tool became apparent, as the interface of the analysis too

Sensorfusion i Sakernas Internet

Internet of Things is commonly known as the next big thing in com- puter science. This thesis evaluates and shows the concept of Internet of Things using Microsoft Azure. The main goal was to exhibit the commer- cially purpose of the system to Combitech and other potential clients. The result of the implementation were a fusion of three different sensors that, combined with two microcontrollers, c

Development of a dashboard as part of PinDown’s new graphical user interface

Dashboards are used in many different situations where it is necessary to be able to display information on a single screen, in a way so that the information can be monitored at a glance. This thesis explore the possibility of using a dashboard for the new graphical user interface of PinDown, an automatic debugging tool developed by Verifyter. The dashboard will be used to monitor projects from a

Jämförelse och implementering av visionsystem

This thesis project has been conducted in collaboration with Automationsteknik in Hässleholm. The issue of this thesis was to investigate two vision cameras from different manufacturers and create an application that can improve part of an existing automation system. The process that was to be improved packs cupboard doors with an industrial robot arm. Mechanical aspects of the packing process wil

Datahantering från PLC till SQL-databas

This bachelor thesis was executed at Mårtensson Consulting in Kristianstad. The thesis aimed at investigating how information from a PLC can be transferred to an SQL-database. The project was done with the intention of implementing it at one of Mårtensson Consulting’s clients. This influenced the choice of for instance PLC and software. The information that was to be logged came from a Clean In Pl

Import Intensity and Firm Productivity - An Empirical Analysis Based on Swedish Firm-Level Data

Most exporting firms in the world also import foreign inputs in production. Recent findings elucidate the importance of imports as a driver of firm productivity on the amount of goods exported. This study aims at investigating the correlation between imports and firm productivity, not the causality. It will add to previous research by shifting focus from import participation to import intensity an

Corruption and Trade in the Western Balkans

Corruption has for long been considered a major constraint on economic growth and international trade. In protectionist countries however, it has been shown that corruption can have a trade enhancing effect. By measuring corruption’s influence on the trade levels of the countries in the Western Balkans, I have in this thesis aimed to test the extent to which corruption hinders trade, and whether c

Modeling Life Insurance Guarantees

Insurance contracts with guarantees have been issued by insurance companies for a long time. For example, in the 1970s and the 1980s, when the interest rate in the UK was as high as 15-20%, these contracts were issued with guaranteed rates of as high as 10%, thinking the interest rate levels would stay around the same. However, the interest rate decreased and, as of today, interest rate levels are

Infant Mortality Factors of Bangladesh

Infant mortality is a powerful indicator to measure the health and social status of a country. The purpose of this study is to identify the important factors that in uence the infant mortality of Bangladesh. Moreover, this study suggests the government and the policy makers to improve the health and social sectors for reducing the country's infant mortality signicantly. To investigate the impo

Är gröna energibolag i det gröna? - En studie om relationen mellan oljepriset och gröna energibolags aktiepriser

Denna uppsats syfte är att undersöka relationen mellan oljepriset och europeiska gröna energibolags aktiepriser för att således utgöra ett underlag för investerare och beslutsfattare. Metoden denna uppsats bygger på är en kvantitativ studie. Genom att skapa ett index för europeiska gröna energibolag undersöks relationen mellan deras pris och priset på Brent råolja. Detta genomförs med hjälp av oli

Bygglogistikcenter - En möjlighet att förbättra samordningen och minska slöseriet inom byggbranschen?

Sammanfattning Med rådande bostadsbrist och en ökad urbanisering i samhället, ställs stora krav på byggbranschen att anpassa verksamheten och skapa förutsättningar för att bemöta problematiken som kommer med urbaniseringen. Därför ställde vi oss frågan om bygglogistikcenter (BLC) kunde vara en del av lösningen på problemet kring stadsutveckling och byggnadsarbete på begränsad yta. Viss forskning h

Relationen mellan arbetstillfredsställelse och kreativt arbetsklimat

Syftet med studien var att undersöka sambandet mellan arbetstillfredsställelse och kreativt arbetsklimat, vilket mättes med en svensk översättning av Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) och Creativity Climate Questionnaire (CCQ). Hypotesen var att kreativt arbetsklimat korrelerar med arbetstillfredsställelse. Intresse fanns också att undersöka om det gick att finna tendenser till skillnaderThe purpose of this study was to examine the relation between job satisfaction and creative work climate, which here measured by a Swedish translation of the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) and Creativity Climate Questionnaire (CCQ). The hypothesis was that creative work climate correlates with job satisfaction. There was also an interest to examine if a tendency for differences between

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The aim with this thesis is to examine whether there are any differences between the linguistic and cultural strategies used by translators when translating song lyrics from English to Danish and Swedish. A description of translations of song lyrics has been presented as well as three popular songs from different time periods. The songs were analysed using five criteria for translation: singabilit