According to Malmö Municipality, every third hour, a new venture is initiated in the region. Malmö and Lund region has been top-rated within innovation and development in one of the most innovative countries in the world. Malmö and Lund region collectively hosts the most R&D personnel in the EU per capita (MalmöLundRegion, 2020). Furthermore, the Greater Copenhagen area makes up for 26% of the

Cow horn has been a craftig material in Europe for 1000s of years. Yet, in the last 100 years the material has disappeard from our pool of commonly used materials. Today it is mostly used for dogfood and gelatine. I believe that horn could again become a commonly used crafting material, especially for modern and sustainable products. Among my many visions for horn, I see it as a beautiful, natu

This thesis examines the theory of headwinds by Robert J Gordon related to Sweden’s economic growth since the 1970s. The specific questions asked are how the two headwinds of income inequality and educational attainment in the USA can be related to a Swedish context. Gordon’s theory is part of a debate on secular stagnation. This thesis aims to broaden that debate by applying one theory of secular

Exploring a prolonged life cycle of materials through an adaptive transformation Take, make and waste. Our society is trapped in a linear economic system where we extract raw materials, process them into products and as they have served their purpose they are reduced to waste. This unsustainable mentality seeps through to all things consumable, from fashion and cellphones to kitchen counters and

This thesis analyzes the link between materiality and brand discursiveness. This study examines how material culture contributes to brand narratives' meaning and symbolic construction. For this purpose, the creation of commodities with metal obtained from molten guns is analyzed through a discursive analysis and anthropological theory. This research describes how the brands analyzed deploy dis

Fermentation is a process that utilizes live microorganisms to produce different biological products such as enzymes. The oxygen mass transfer rate is often the limiting factor in aerobic fermentations and thereby an important process parameter. The initial aim of this MSc thesis was therefore to develop a soft sensor for the volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficient, kLa, in order to monitor it

Environmental standards are an important part of corporate sustainability efforts. According to signalling theory, they provide relevant information about a company’s efforts, while institutional theory assumes that firms use them to mitigate societal pressures by selectively disclosing information. The European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a widely applied example of a voluntary envi

This bachelor thesis examines the relationship between two buildings situated at Universitetsholmen in Malmö: Tornhuset (1910) and its modern extension Urban Hinges (2015). Together, the two buildings form World Maritime University. The modern extension has received a great deal of attention, both positive and negative, in traditional as well as in social media. Several statements suggest that vi

This thesis investigates how an existing multifunctional coworking hub in Stockholm can adapt and improve through functional change to meet new current standards and beyond in our refined digital age. The process is defined by research and insights collected from it, starting with a site analysis of the building and the community in its context followed by a study on adaptive reuse to structurize

Investigating the discourse around development aid and cooperation yields insights into development policy choices and their public legitimisation and justification because of the recognised opinion-forming effect that public information, especially media, has on the public. Hence, public development discourse informs and shapes how ordinary people make sense of development issues and the perceive

Covid-19 pandemin har haft stor inverkan på alla delar av världen och har bidragit till att människor har varit tvungna att ta livsavgörande beslut. Det finns även individer som själva har valt att gå en annan väg i livet och tagit ett livsförändrande beslut. Vetenskapliga artiklar har påvisat resultat av att människor har själva valt att säga upp sig men även ökat ansökningar för organisationer u

AI systems are part of our daily lives and not only science fiction. In the healthcare sector are medical AI systems used to monitor patients, compare x-rays in order to detect diseases, or to even make a diagnosis. These AI systems help healthcare providers to make the work of doctors and nurses more efficient and to ensure the best service for their patients. However, next to these benefits come

Allteftersom stora framsteg görs i datorernas värld och inom artificiell intelligens ser samhället en allt större implementering av artificiell intelligence-teknologi i människors vardag. En sådan implementering är autonoma, självkörande, fordon. Detta är en teknologi som lovar stora framsteg inom fordonssäkerhet, lägre utsläpp till följd av mindre köbildning och en rad andra samhällsvinster. Det As progress is rapidly made in the spheres of computation and artificial intelligence the implementation of new artificial intelligence technologies becomes a more and more significant part of our everyday lives. One application that garners a lot of attention, making promises in the forms of lessened congestion, increased safety and a line of other benefits to society is the autonomous car. While

Publications have recently drawn attention to archaeology’s historically predominant focus on prestige items and the elite, highlighting the need for a greater focus on society’s lower classes. A few studies have discussed how, or even whether poverty can be addressed in historical archaeology. However, the phenomenon has not seen the same attention in Viking Age studies, despite the great deal of

Data inom hälsovården kan användas för att hitta mönster för att exempelvis ta fram hur många som är sjuka, eller hur många som har fått ta blodprov. Det används ofta statistiska modeller för att göra undersökningar, men i detta projektet används artificiell intelligens, och mer specifikt neuronnät. Då tar vi hjälp av artificiell intelligens för att hitta mönster inom datakällor som kan vara svåraOutlier detection in high-dimensional data is a complex task, useful in many fields. One major application is in healthcare, where the high-dimensional healthcare registers can be used to detect patterns related to the medical behaviour and state of the population. In this project, neural network based autoencoders were used to study the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, where it was trained on healt

Speaker verification is the process of verifying the identity of a person based on voice. This process usually encompasses the following steps: The speech signal is mapped into features using a feature extractor, these features are then classified using a post processor. The most common features used in speaker verification today are STFT, MFBs, and MFCCs, that are different spectral representatio

The main theme of this project is inventory control with stochastic demand. In this thesis, we consider a two-echelon inventory system that consists of one central warehouse and N retail stores. Customer demands at the retailers follow independent Poisson demand processes and each customer only demands one unit. Customer demands which are not satisfied directly from stock on hand are assumed to ba

Syftet med studien var att undersöka behandlares subjektiva upplevelse av hur behandling och hjälpsökande kan underlättas för unga män med psykisk ohälsa. Data genererades genom semi-strukturerade intervjuer med elva deltagare. Intervjuerna transkriberades och analyserades genom en kritisk-realistisk och reflexiv tematisk analys. Tre huvudteman identifierades. Det första temat “Har unga män särskiThe aim of this study was to examine counselors’ subjective experience of how to facilitate psychological treatment and help seeking among young men with mental illness. Data was generated through semi-structured interviews with eleven participants. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed using a critical-realist and reflective thematic analysis. Three main themes were identified. The first t

The focus of this study is to explore the relationship between learning and development practices and early-stage employee retention within Capgemini’s Nordic department and, more in general, within the consulting business. Qualitative and partly quantitative research methods were employed, starting from a theoretical review of existing knowledge on the matter, to a survey and interviews. Data wer