The social significance of destiny in old Icelandic sagas and eddas from the thirteenth century is examined in this paper. I ask the question how destiny is explained and in what shape it is described, what it means to the characters in the sagas and how they handle the predictions of their future. The role of the gods and the creatures such as nornor and valkyrior is a central part in trying to u

Popular Science Summary The aim of this project was the synthesis of the tris-Tröger's base, a molecule with three Tröger’s base units and four aromatic rings fused together linearly. Because syn-syn-tris-Tröger's bases have a unique concave structure, the idea stands to reason, that if several bases in syn-syn conformation are combined in a linear way a helical structure will be taken. Th

Popular Science Summary The protein folding is the physical process in which a protein withdraws into its characteristic three-dimensional structure and function. Each protein begins as a linear chain of amino acids, resulted from a sequence of our genetic material, and does not have three-dimensional structure. However, each amino acid chain has certain chemical characteristics that can influence

Problemställning: Är m-modellen ett lämpligt verktyg för att utvärdera byggnader och byggnadsdelar ur ett mögelriskperspektiv? För att undvika problem med mögel i byggnader har mögelriskmodeller blivit ett allt vanligare verktyg för att bedöma sannolikheten för mögelpåväxt på ett byggnadsmaterial eller en byggnadsdel. En av de mögelriskmodeller som finns är Skanskas m-modell som ska kunna användas

Abstract Author: Arianna Pilhav and Karolina Mogren Title: Females abuse against men in close relationships. Supervisor: Anders Lundberg The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of abused men and professionals' views on domestic violence, focusing on women's violence against men. Our questions regarded women's violence against men in intimate relationships, both from a p

This essay aims to connect naturalism and virtue-ethics to a form of realism about values. The thesis advanced in the essay relies heavily on the Wittgensteinian concepts language-game and weltanschauung as explanatory tools for how values can be both real and unreal, both objective and subjective, both at the same time but not from the same perspective. It is argued that a good life is a concept

Palynologiska och sedimentologiska studier av prover från en borrkärna från Thar-kolfältet (nedre Indus Bassängen), Pakistan har genomförts. De kenozoiska sedimenten ligger på det granitiska urberget (som utgör den Indiska skölden) och utgörs främst av kolavlagringarna vilka är mellanlagrade av sandsten och silt-sten.. Thar är namnet på det stora ökenområde som breder ut sig i gränsområdet mellan A palynological and sedimentological study of samples from the Thar Coal Field (Lower Indus Basin), south eastern border of Sindh, Pakistan was performed. Thar is the name of the large desert extending into India and Pakistan and overlying rich coal deposits on both sides of the border. The Cenozoic coal deposits alternate with sandstones and in turn overlay the granitic basement rocks of the Indi

The aim of this Master’s thesis is to evaluate what possible impact an increased use of groundwater may have on the spread of nitrogen pollution. The work is part of a larger project where Sweco Environment AB assists about 40 farmers in the “Köpinge - Vrams vattenförening” to apply for authorization for groundwater use in agricultural irrigation. The work was performed in three steps: a literatur

Soaring prices for rare earth metals have led to significantly increased production costs for permanent magnet motors. This has motivated research into alternative motor types, one of them, the switched reluctance motor (SRM), will be discussed in this thesis. The SRM has several positive and negative characteristics as well as highly nonlinear dynamics. It is not clear how trade-offs between thes

Denna uppsats inriktar sig på identitetskapande i ett konsumtionssamhälle. Med det konsumtionskulturteoretiska forskningsfältet som utgångspunkt, undersöker denna uppsats hur konsumtion utav Apples Mac-dator används i en identitetskapande process. Undersökningen är gjord med en kvalitativ metod i form utav djupgående intervjuer med Mac-användare. Teorin som ligger till grund för uppsatsen är från

Rökning ses enligt praxis idag ännu som något normalt och något hyresgästen får göra i lägenheten och på tillhörande balkong. Rökning i hyreslägenheten kan dock medföra att tvister uppstår mellan hyresgäst och hyresvärd av olika skäl. Det står klart att en hyresgäst kan bli skadeståndsskyldig för skador som orsakats av rökning i lägenheten. De kriterier som bedöms när det gäller frågan om hyresgäAccording to Swedish law, smoking is considered normal behavior and tenants are allowed to smoke in a rented flat. Smoking in the rented flat may still result in disputes between tenants and landlords, for various reasons. It has been established that a tenant can be liable for damage caused by smoking in the flat. The criteria considered for the tenant's liability is the damage caused and it

This report is a result of a Master Thesis in Mechanical Engineering with Product Development at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. The Master Thesis was performed during the spring of 2012 at Frankly Development in Malmö. Frankly is Product Creation Company with great knowledge in developing consumer electronics, sports equipment and other type of products. The thesis was initiated by C

When timber is used as a building material a connection is required between the elements in order to transfer the load. A typical connection is the steel to timber joint with nail as connectors. These connections can fail in ductile manner, causing the nails to reach their plastic moment capacity, or in brittle manner so called plug shear failure, causing the timber to fail in combined tension and

Uppsatsen är en diskursanalytisk studie av hur den indiske författaren Rabindranath Tagore blev skildrad i svensk tidningspress 1913 då han fick nobelpriset i litteratur och 1921 då han besökte Sverige för att retroaktivt ta emot sitt pris. Utöver analysen av tidningarnas skildringar har ambitionen även varit att problematisera Edward Saids teorier om orientalism.

Gwadar port is a deep-sea port that lies at the southwestern coast of the Balochistan province. Since 2002, it has been given quite some attention; the government realized its potential of becoming a major hub port of the region, given its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, a sea passage through which a fifth of the world’s oil transit occurs. MOUs have been signed and commitments made in excess o

There has been an increasing engagement between China and Africa in recent years as reflected by the level of aid, trade and investment flows. Building on the data available on China’s development assistance flows into Africa together with China’s FDI stocks as a ‘strategic interest variable’ gives an insight into the considerations given to the allocation of development financing. The findings ba