This scientific report has mainly studied the concept of Industry 4.0 and the possibility to send data from a temperature sensor to the cloud, a process which is an example of the term Internet of Things. The study has been conducted for the consultant business Rejlers to give the CEO as well as the Technical Manager a broader view of how they could implement IoT on behalf of costumers in the futu

This thesis work has has been done at Sensative in Lund and the goal has been to build a prototype of a product which the company then may build further upon. The product aims to combine IoT with social responsibility by preventing drowning accidents with the data that is generated and sent via the product. Based of an initial description of the product provided by Sensative, the work then was div

Abstract Title: Early communication of the client's requirements and the end-user's needs in construction projects. Authors: Emmy Göransson & Lisa Åhlin, Lunds Technical University, Campus Helsingborg Supervisors: Henrik Garney & Mathilda Persson, SWECO Management in Malmö. Radhlinah Aulin, Division of Construction Management, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. Examiner: Stef

The aim of this thesis was to develop a general solution for a winder application by examining the possibility to control the spreader axis movement with an electronic cam. The electronic cam synchronizes the spreader axis with the winder axis by determining where the spreader axis should be positioned in relation to the winder axis position. A prototype was built to recreate the application scena

This thesis investigates the relationship between Chinese aid and public expenditure in human development sectors in African nations. This is achieved through analysing the change of public expenditure in the education and health sectors of the top two African recipients of Chinese ODA – Ethiopia and Cote d’Ivoire, with an extended analysis to an additional five nations. Through a comparative anal

Den diskursiva konstitutionen av en kris En diskursiv studie av kriskommunikationen i Volkswagen Sveriges sociala medier i samband med Dieselskandalen 2015 Kriser är i dagens samhälle oundvikligt och sociala medier har kommit att bli en plattform för flera olika aktörer att prata om och påverka krisen. Sociala medier har förmågan att accelerera och trigga händelser och situationer i hög hastighet The discursive constitution of a crisis A discursive study of the crisis communication in Volkswagen´Sweden’s social media during Dieselgate 2015 Crises are unavoidable in today’s society and social media has come to be a platform for multiple actors to discuss and impact the crisis. Social media has the ability to accelerate and trigger events and situations in high speed, which has created a

The theory of optimal currency areas (OCA) states that different regions need to comply to certain criteria in order to benefit from a monetary union (Mundell(1961); McKinnon(1963) and Kenen(1969)). One of the most important OCA properties is similarity between business cycles (Masson and Taylor, 1993, p. 274). In the debate preceding EMU critiques argued that the European countries were subject t

Syftet av denna studie är analysera ett antal tänkbara faktorer och huruvida dessa har en inverkan på den rabatt som sätts vid en nyemission i Sverige. Vidare avser studien även att besvara hur stor rabatten i genomsnitt är. Resultaten visar att faktorerna börsvärde, erbjudandets relativa storlek, rådgivarens ranking, Price to Book samt andelen av erbjudandet som är garanterat eller på annat sätt

In this study an argument analysis was used to examine the public discussions concerning the right-wing radical movements’ freedom of expression. The main purpose is to contribute with academic research to the on-going policy discussions. The study was conducted by analyzing how different debaters in media and the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) discuss freedom of expression and its legal limitat

Problematisation: Previous findings on the use of female sexual objectification in advertising have been mixed and inconsistent. A social shift in society in combination with the presence of sexually objectifying advertisements have created a need to understand consumer attitudes towards brands that make use of these advertisements in the current landscape. Research Aim and Purpose: The purpose o

In today´s supply chains, it often ends by the consumer but as seen with reverse logistics the consumers are the starting point on the reverse flow. Reverse logistics is the opposite route from the usual supply chain and the literature stresses the importance of designing a reverse logistics network, where reverse distribution is essential to reach efficiency. The purpose of this study aims to ela

In 2014, a law intended to make increased use of life sentences in murder convictions was passed by a large margin in parliament. However, during the remittance leading up to its passing, it had taken flak from the referral bodies, criticizing it for being uncalled for and ill-prepared. Two years after its passing, it was in effect invalidated by a supreme court ruling. In response the government

An important factor in pupils’ learning is the teacher’s qualities of being responsive, permissive and structured, and to see, understand and appropriately respond to the pupils’ feelings. This study examined the relation between teacher emotional intelligence, defined as “the ability to use emotions to facilitate thought, perceive, understand and manage one’s own and others emotions”, teacher wor

Syftet med studien var att utforska hur personer med psykisk ohälsa beskriver betydelsen av att blogga om personliga erfarenheter. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med fem personer som lever med psykisk ohälsa och skriver en blogg om det. Materialet analyserades utifrån tolkande fenomenologisk analys (IPA). Analysen av intervjuerna resulterade i fyra huvudteman som skildrar bloggens betydeThe aim of this study was to explore the meaning of blogging about lived experience as described by people living with mental illness. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five people and the content was analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. This resulted in four main themes depicting what blogging meant to the participants in terms of well-being and self-image: The bl

This thesis takes an ethnographic approach in the examination of the phenomenon of digital nomadism. Generally, the term describes people who have rejected the idea of working in a conventional office, but instead, they work and travel without a clear destination. Through the daily life experiences of 15 individuals from different parts of the world living now as digital nomads, the thesis investi

The thesis explores the transformation of everyday spaces into spaces of resistance through “supported action”. It is based on semi-structured interviews with eight organisations fighting for reproductive rights and justice in Ireland. A diffractive analytical method is employed to identify intra-actions of space, bodies and objects in the transformation of politically produced and capitalist spac

Vad händer bakom museimontrar och magasindörrar? Vem bestämmer vilket kulturarv som ska bevaras och vilken del av det ska utställas? Vem driver det osynliga maskineriet av museernas backstage-funktioner och genomför dagliga museirutiner? Museer som modernitetsinstitutioner har en särskild roll i processen för kunskapsproduktion och maktfördelning inom samhällen, först och främst genom att synliggöWhat exactly happens behind museum displays and repository doors? Who decides what heritage has to be preserved and what part of it should be exhibited? Who operates all this invisible machinery of the museums’ backstage functions and executes its daily routines? Museums as institutions of modernity have a specific role in the process of knowledge production and power redistribution within societi

A current topic in today’s China is to find paths for passing the middle income. Although the restoration process has been ongoing for a couple of decades, the complete marketization transition has not yet turned into reality. However, the pace of development is still impressive, partly depending on an increasing private enterprise mobility. This paper provides a panel data analysis of Chinese reg

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur ett teknologikoncept som implementeras genom en mobilapplikation, påverkar organisationskulturen i ett serviceföretag. Arbetet har utgått från följande frågeställningar för att besvara syftet: hur visar sig organisationskulturen hos de anställdas beteende i en organisation med ett appkoncept och hur påverkar teknologin de anställda och deras beteende i denna