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Chinese furniture industry is facing serious problem of limited virgin resources, environmental pollution and has an overall low profit rate. Implementing the circular economy in the industry is necessary and will contribute to its economically sustainable growth. Exploring and understanding these limited business models and conditions under which resource efficiency can be enabled and secured, es
The sharing economy, new and still evolving, is being put forward as a potentially disruptive sustainable solution to economic, social and environmental problems. Its design is mainly shaped and analysed by people from the Global North, while the spread of sharing economy initiatives in the Global South has escaped the purview of scholars. More so, the sustainability potentials claimed by proponen
As companies compete on the global market with an increasing amount of competitors trying to win market shares the need for an increasingly effective production becomes apparent. By utilizing the correct indicators the company can identify and improve their weaknesses to becoming more effective. The project is performed at five of Alfa Laval’s production sites, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The study is also
This essay investigates the online L2 processing of restricted collocations and figurative idioms. Earlier research has shown there to be a difference in how these word combinations are processed depending on a variety of factors. In this study a self-paced reading experiment is administered to 15 second language learners of English (L1 Swedish) where their reading time is measured by DMDX softwar
Food insecurity has proven to be a significant problem in many developing countries, which in some cases occurs due to the lack of adequate methods of preserving foods for longer periods of time. Solar drying of foods could be a feasible method for preserving foods in developing countries. To maintain a good product quality, the design of the solar dryer used needs to be considered. A faulty desig
The complexity of climate change creates a need for multifunctional solutions. Urban farming is a tool with potential for adapting and transitioning society. While not a new phenomenon, the incentives have changed and therefore contemporary characteristics for urban farming need to be further examined. This study analyzes how urban farms are valued and central barriers together with drivers. Opera
Den förefintliga uppsatsen ämnar undersöka utvalda paratexter på bokmarknaden i form av för- eller efterord. Samtliga undersökta paratexterna tillhör översatta titlar författade av översättaren. Uppsatsen syftar till att söka utröna paratexternas funktion på bokmarknaden samt deras förhållande till läsaren. I avsikt att uppnå syftet samt besvara frågeställningarna appliceras Gérard Genettes metod
The present study seeks to explore the criminalization of, and punitive responses toward poor and marginalized people, through a case study on street children in Cairo. The specific focus of the study is public perceptions of the street children. Through focus group discussions with Cairo residents of different ages, gender and socioeconomic backgrounds, it explores how members of the public under
Background and purpose: During radiotherapy, rectal cancer patients show inter-fractional internal motion that effects the delivered dose distribution. The purpose of this work is to study I) the inter-fractional bladder volume change, II) the effect of bladder volume change on bowel dose distribution, III) the effect of bladder optimization on the relationship between bladder volume and bowel dos
A next-generation drinking water purification device has been developed which uses UV-LEDs to create high intensity UV light to inactive the bacteria present in the water that flows through the device tube chamber. The capacity of the different setups of the devices to perform water purification was examined by experimental testing. This report investigates using a new flow cytometry approach comp
”Det är för komplicerat för att det bara ska uppstå”– En hermeneutisk fallstudie av spelbranschen Syftet med denna studie är undersöka kreativitet inom tv- och dataspelsbranschen. Detta utförs genom en fallstudie i det som uppsatsen har identifierat som kluster av flera aktörer i en stad. I denna fallstudie har fem personer med olika relationer till spelbranschen intervjuats. Begreppet kreativitet
The new CZT camera has a different technology compared to conventional scintillation gamma cameras. The CZT camera have pinholes instead of parallel hole collimators, a static gantry instead of a rotating one and detection material made of a semiconductor in- stead of a scintillation crystal. The images arising from the CZT camera have a difference in appearance compared to the images produced by
This work presents the first data from a calculation engine for synchrotron Microbeam Radiation Therapy (MRT) implemented in the EclipseTM Treatment Planning System from Varian Medical Services. The calculation engine constitutes a simple pencil beam algorithm estimating ‘peak’ dose and of Monte Carlo simulated Peak Valley Dose Ratios (PVDRs) that are used to obtain ‘valley’ dose. The aim of this
Aim: Renography with 99mTc-MAG3 is one of the most common nuclear medicine examinations. It’s extensive use justifies a thorough investigation of the methods used to accurately determine the split renal function, for instance with regard to background subtraction and correction for renal depth differ- ences. Previous studies on this subject have been made, mainly on patient image data, thus the ”t
Introduction: Calcium is an important ubiquitous second messenger regarding the maintenance of cellular homeostasis, and is therefore tightly regulated. Calcium induces cell death when internalised into cancer cells after permeabilization of the cell membrane by electroporation. It is established that radiation causes damage to the lipids and proteins of the cell membrane; and ionizing radiation a
This Bechelor thesis is written on behalf of Verisure Innovation AB in Mamö, Sweden. The authors were studying Bachelors of Sience in Electrical Engineering with focus on automation at Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Campus Helsingborg. The main goal of the thesis was to develop a prototype of an alarmsystem for domestic swimming pools. The system was supposed to sound an alarm if a human being or animal
Examensarbetet syftar till att ge ett fo¨rslag till ett fo¨retag som vill uto¨ka sin verksamhet i en redan existerande byggnad. Byggnaden, som a¨r ett gammalt stall, a¨r bela¨gen i utkanten av Ba°rslo¨v. En liten del av stallet har redan renoverats om till ett par la¨genheter som kunden, Aplaga°rden B & B och vinga°rd, hyr ut i dagsla¨get. Ba°rslo¨vs omra°det har en va¨ldigt gammal historia oc
Att ersätta vårdgivare baserat på prestation och kvalitet har blivit ett allt vanligare inslag inom vården och ett allt mer beprövat sätt att skapa incitament till förbättrad vårdkvalitet. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka effekten av så kallad målrelaterad ersättning på kvaliteten i den vård av patienter med diabetes typ 1 som bedrivs inom den svenska primärvården. Undersökningen består a
China, with the fast developing financial market, experienced two dramatic stock market crisis in recent ten years under government constrains. Thus, monitoring the systemic risk in China is crucial and meaningful. This paper applies CoVaR methodology to measure the dynamic systemic risk of China’s financial market from 1996 to 2016. The financial market is divided into bank and non-bank sectors.
China’s space economy is highly fragmented with a few mega cities and a large periphery with less advantageous cities lagging behind. While this have been the explicit approach of China’s policymakers to achieve rapid growth, less developed cities have been challenged as the suppliers in the process. The purpose of this paper is with the use of a production function examine the spatial spill overs
