This project aims to explore the possibilities of living sustainable lives in urban environments. I focus my project on food waste composting in apartments. I collected interviews about the problems people had with disposing of food waste in their apartments, and by searching the literature to select the most suitable composting ways. I have studied and summarized the problems of current products

The impact of conscription on the willingness to defend one`s country is not clear in previous science. In a number of governmental documents published by the Swedish government, emphasize the need of broad popular support among the people regarding defending Sweden. As we now face an increased need of participation in the total defence and increased recruitment to the Swedish armed forces, there

According to a recent report by “Syria Relief” organisation, 75% of the Syrian Refugees who left Syria in the last six years are suffering from at least seven symptoms of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Youth refugees are not finding the support they need; some of them are not even aware that they need it, which leads to a lack of communication and understanding in the evaluation of t

Since the end of the cold war, Sweden's security policy has shifted from neutrality to a policy of solidarity. The deteriorating security situation in recent years in the Baltic sea region and in Europe has increased the political will in Sweden to implement and develop defence co-operation with other states. Swedish-Finnish defence co-operation is the most developed of Sweden's different

This study aims to identify the factors that influenced and shaped the Swedish defence decisions of 1925 and 2004. In addition, the study examines whether there were mutual factors between the defence decisions. Both defence decisions were made in an era of faith in the future after years of conflict and war. The First World War had ended, and the Cold War had ended a couple of years before the de

Object and context are inseparable. Meaning, interpretation and function are derived from the relation between them. Extrapolate emphasizes the connection between the object and its physical context. The luminaire is the start of a series of objects, which extend their presence by relating closely to the existing context – complementing it instead of working against it. The light source is suspen

En människa gråter av nyhackad lök, hostar av rök och känner en brännande känsla i munnen av att äta wasabi. Det som ligger till grund för detta är Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1), en receptor i cellmembranet av nervceller. Ett stort antal irriterande ämnen, som allylisotiocyanat i wasabi, aktiverar TRPA1. I sin aktiva konformation, sänder TRPA1 ut en signal som omvandlas av nervsysTransient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) is a nonspecific cation channel activated by a wide range of stimuli. The polymodal receptor resides in the cell membrane of sensory neurons and plays a key role in nociceptive pain transmission. Environmental irritants such as allyl isothiocyanate, an electrophile found in wasabi, activate TRPA1. In this work, the goal was to lay the basis for struct

Sammanfattning Markavvattning innebär att en åtgärd som genomförs permanent ändrar markens vattenförhållanden. Detta görs för att marken ska bli lämplig att använda genom att ta bort oönskat vatten genom dränering eller dikning. Det kan också vara genom skydd mot vatten vid invallning. Markavvattning ska uppfylla syftet att varaktigt öka en fastighets lämplighet för ett visst ändamål. Ett markavvDrainage units are measures that permanently modify the water conditions of the land. This is done through drainage or dikes to make the soil more suitable for use by removing unwanted water. Drainage units shall fulfill the purpose of permanently increasing the suitability of a property for a specific purpose. A joint drainage unit is a drainage unit commonly used by several properties. For execu

At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish painter Eugène Jansson created a series of paintings inspired by the city nights of Stockholm. This bachelor thesis examines the paintings in relation to urban gay spaces and sexual meetings in the early nineteen hundreds. The paintings by Jansson, himself a homosexual male, have at a few times vaguely been described as portraying the moments before an

Spain, Portugal, and Greece have experienced a rise of challenger radical left-wing parties alongside an already established radical left-wing in the 2000’s. This prompts the question how the new and established radical left differ in positioning and salience on the economic and cultural policy dimension. Using quantitative empirics from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey and the Manifesto Project Data

The aim of this thesis was to develop a biologically inspired model for unsupervised learning on visual data. A preprocessor inspired by the retina was developed, which generated event-camera like data. This can be used as a low-cost alternative to an event-camera. Further, a neuron model was developed which showed ability to learn useful features from video data in combination with the preprocess

A continuous growth of the world population raises the importance of preserving food resources while maintaining their nutrient value. Leafy vegetables such as spinach are a food category which decay quickly, and a large amount ends up as food waste. Therefore, shelf life extension while keeping a good product quality is of great interest in food processing. In this study, the effect of combining

In recent years, Kate Raworth’s new alternative macroeconomic model, “doughnut economics” (DE) has become increasingly popular within policies on different scales around the world. The doughnut-shaped framework addresses the urgent crises of our time by advocating for a balanced development that considers the planet’s well-being while securing our social needs. Since the introduction of the framew

This thesis set out to map the relation Swedish farmers have to their occupation and production, while also investigating what challenges farmers experience which in turn might affect social sustainability in Swedish agriculture negatively. Agriculture was approached as a case of low social sustainability based on the fact that more than one-third of Swedish farmers are over retiring age, while yo

Preterm birth is a leading cause for birth complications and neonatal mortality in the world. It remains difficult to predict whether a preterm birth will occur, which hinders the possible use of prevention treatments. This thesis investigates the use of machine learning models in the prediction of spontaneous preterm birth. In addition, possible heterogeneous performance of these models among dif

Syftet med undersökningen har varit att genomföra en kvantitativ undersökning av kandidatuppsatser i historia från Lunds universitet skrivna mellan åren 2004 och 2021. Det empiriska underlaget utgjordes av de uppsatser som fanns digitaliserade på Lund Student Papers. Kandidatuppsatserna undersöktes för att ta reda på om det fanns skillnader i val av tematik, källmaterial, metod, teori samt avgräns

This paper aims to examine the relationship between economic growth and gender equality in Africa between 1995 and 2019. The chosen measurement for gender inequality is UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index, GII, which is a well established index with extensive data access. A modification of an endogenous growth model is presented. The modified model attempts to illustrate the expected relationship betwe

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate if reporting on sustainability holds the standard for various frameworks and what factors determine ESG-points. The relationship between companies' total sales and various environmental factors were also investigated in order to understand the driving factors for companies to report on ESG and sustainability. The thesis is limited to nordic countries

A large amount of economic research is reliant upon census, survey, or national accounts as a source of data. For many developing nations, the quality of this data is widely recognised to be unreliable and is rarely available at the sub-national level. By using a new and improved source of night-time satellite imagery data, this study investigates to what extent this data can serve as a proxy to t