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The aim for this thesis is to find out what aspects are important to create a good sound environment at home. In order to do this three different sound environments has been studied in the literature review: hospitals, schools/pre-schools and offices. Important acoustical parameters was picked out and a method for evaluating the sound environment at home was carried out. The main subject was to fi
Soils provide the foundation for human well-being but are increasingly degrading from land use change or types of intensive land use like agriculture. In Europe, soil natural capital is degrading over time and space because of compaction, erosion, and the loss of organic matter. This trend diminishes the soil’s ability to sustain a flow of ecosystem services, which are valuable to human well-being
Arbetet undersöker utvalda råvarufutres möjlighet att genom en cross-hedge prissäkra Dried Distillers Grain with Solubles (DDGS) som är en biprodukt från etanoltillverkning. Processen för att finna den bästa cross-hedgen sker genom OLS, ECM, VECM och MIDAS regressioner med både in sample estimeringar och out of sample prognostiseringar. Regressionerna använder börshandlade råvarufutures och säljpr
Since good cameras are becoming cheaper and embedded systems are getting more powerful, using cameras as the only sensor is getting more popular for visual navigation of robots. By using a robot to explore a flat surface a map can be gradually generated using the images taken by a downward looking camera. The thesis focus lies primarily on offline map building, where complete datasets are first ga
Gram-positive bacteria e.g. Streptomyces coelicolor [8], Bacillus subtilis [43] and Staphylococcus aureus [40] contain a novel sensor for the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) redox balance that functions as a transcriptional repressor called Rex (redox). Rex plays a key role in regulating genes in energy metabolism. It also modulates transcription of important genes for cellular redox homeo
Freezing is a method used to preserve food for long periods of time by reducing the rate of naturally occurring reactions and growth of microorganisms. However, some irreversible quality changes, both physical and chemical, can take place during the freezing step. After being frozen, the products are stored until thawed and consumed. This thesis studies innovative freezing technologies to understa
Food infant composite meals are complex-based products for infants and toddlers (6-36 months of age). There are a wide variety of infant food dishes available in the market based on different technologies with different flavors, tastes and preferences. During the last 40 years the number of obese children have increased and at the same time there is an increase in diabetes in areas where toddlers
This thesis discusses whether wage convergence has taken place between six countries in the Association of the Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) from the time between 2000 and 2014. The countries included are Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Following the approach by Stehrer and Wörz (2003), a fixed-effects model which uses initial wage gap to a reference country (th
The attempts to make use of a compulsory licensing provision under the TRIPS Agreement brought human rights, notably, the right to health, into the foreground of the debate between patents and access to medicines. This whole thesis is about the existing tensions between the two regimes – patents and human rights. The growing scholarship that has been devoted to these tensions can be divided into t
Microfluidic applications nowadays have become of great interest due to their broad compatibility especially in biological applications, and one of them being droplet-based cell encapsulation. Cell encapsulation in droplets is carried out by discretising an aqueous phase (i.e. cell suspension) and including them into a continuous oil phase. This methodology is a potential gateway to high throughpu
The terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum is an important research area allowing insights into fundamental science such as inter-molecular interactions, and with applications in the environmental, medical and security field. Using femtosecond lasers, it is possible to design compact and efficient terahertz generation schemes, resulting in few-cycle broadband pulses. This master thesis i
Den svenska våtmarksarealen har minskat under de senaste 150-200 åren, i takt med förändringar i jordbruket. Som resultat har problem med övergödning ökat och habitat för ovanliga djur- och växtarter försvunnit. Under sent 1900-tal har dock åtgärder vidtagits för att restaurera våtmarker och öka våtmarksarealen i Sverige och inte minst Skåne. I ett examensarbete från 1991 framförde Linda Boström o
Golfbanor och biologisk mångfald, hör dessa ihop? Tidigare studier finns som visar på att golfbanor kan ha hög potential att bidra till biologisk mångfald. Söderåsens Golfklubb i Bjuvs kommun vill öka sin kunskap om den biologiska mångfalden på sin anläggning samt jobba för att gynna denna och önskade därför en kartläggning av vilka skyddsvärda habitat som finns på golfbanan. I mitt projekt unders
En inventering av Ivösjöns bottenfauna (makroevertebrater) genomfördes våren 2016 på tio lokaler runt omkring Ivösjön i nordöstra Skåne. Inventeringen fungerade dessutom som en uppföljning till en liknande inventering år 2008. Sjöar och vattendrags bottenfauna är viktig av många anledningar; makroinvertebraterna fungerar som nedbrytare av dött växtmaterial och som bytesdjur åt rovdjur som fisk och
Idag betraktas lönearbete som någonting självklart och som en naturlig del i livet, men historiskt sett har det inte varit det för alla medborgare. Länge tillskrevs till exempel kvinnor enbart det reproduktiva arbetet. Trots dagens jämställdhetsagenda tar kvinnor fortfarande ut majoriteten av dagarna med föräldrapenning och utför huvudparten av allt hushållsarbete i hemmet jämförelsevis med män, p
