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Quantum effects at the nanoscale offer significant potential for future device technologies. A quantum dot heat engine, for instance, is able to convert heat into electrical current. This thesis investigates the transport properties and current fluctuations in a single-level quantum dot heat engine operating in the sequential tunneling regime. Based on the existing experimental data, both the curr

Amid the rapid expansion of the global digital economy, the European Union faces a fundamental tension between promoting digital trade liberalisation and safeguarding its regulatory autonomy. This thesis examines how policy space provisions within the EU's new, standalone Digital Trade Agreements (DTAs) with Singapore and South Korea relate to this strategic challenge. Using a legal doctri-nal

The topic of this study is the phosphorylation dependent interaction between aquaporin 2 (AQP2) and the FERM domain of ezrin. AQP2 is an important water channel for finetuning the water content of the urine based on the needs of the body. The main way of regulating how much water is reabsorbed is by regulating the amount of AQP2 present in the apical membrane. This regulation is controlled throug

In recent decades, organizations have undergone a fundamental shift from selling physical products to offering services and most recently, data-driven offerings. This transition has elevated data to a central organizational resource and given rise to new service models, most notably Data-as-a-Service, DaaS. While the costs associated with developing and maintaining data infrastructure are often me

In the heart of every physical theory lies measurement theory. While classical measurements are passive probes, QMs can be viewed as active physical processes that shape the available information. Depending on the measurement type, different aspects of the information about a system are retrieved. All possible measurements in quantum physics are described by mathematical objects called Positive Op

Geographers have shown how mobile phones are transforming urban economies in Africa by altering the temporal and spatial nature of commercial transactions. Less well documented is how young people in Africa are using mobile phones to navigate the interplay between personal hopes, social expectations, and financial uncertainty associated with urban life. Drawing on qualitative data from youth in tw

Studies of mining and urbanisation have been primarily conducted independently of one another, with limited consideration of the inter-linkages between the two. This analysis seeks to fill this gap by exploring the links between mining and urbanisation in a Ghanaian context. Ghana is an interesting case as it is both endowed with significant mineral wealth and is highly urbanised, with a long hist

The European land carbon uptake has been heavily impacted by several recent severe droughts, yet quantitative estimates of carbon uptake anomalies are uncertain. Atmospheric CO2 inverse models (AIMs) provide observation-based estimates of the large-scale carbon flux dynamics, but how well they capture drought impacts on the terrestrial carbon uptake is poorly known. Here we assessed the capacity o

Extractivism is a global phenomenon driven by the logic of capitalism that is manifested chiefly in mining, but also in agribusiness. Women around the world have emerged as leaders of resistance movements against extractivism. In this article, we question this recurrent theme in political ecology literature based on ethnographic fieldwork in southern Ecuador, where resistance has been less success

The preterite-present verb (ge)munan, meaning ‘to remember’ or ‘to be mentally active’, is attested throughout the Old English period (450-1150). Deriving from the Proto-Germanic preterite-present lexical verb munan, it belongs to a class of verbs many of which grammaticalised into modal auxiliaries during Old and Middle English. (Ge)munan itself appears to have undergone grammaticalisation, as su

Tourism is often being viewed as one of the worlds largest sectors and a great contribution to growth and development. There is a large motivation amongst developing countries to promote themselves as a tourist destination, since they expect the tourism to generate economic growth. The government of Thailand has been promoting tourism since 1960, and the number of foreign visitors has increased fr

Ett företagsförvärv är en mycket omfattande process och innebär ofta stor risk för båda parter. Det är av stor betydelse för parterna vem som ska bära ansvar och hur risken ska fördelas för de olika förhållandena i förvärvet. Det är därför naturligt att en köpare företar en omsorgsfull undersökning av det tilltänkta köpobjektet. En undersökning av det slaget kan påverka köparens möjligheter att gö

The CARIFORUM and the EU agreed in December 2007 on an EPA which replaced the preferential trade treatment granted by the EU under the Lomé convention and Cotonou agreement. In the EPA the EU agreed to open up their markets to 100% for goods coming from the CARIFORUM (rice and sugar have shorter transition periods) and the CARIFORUM has 25 years to liberalize 86,9% of imports coming from the EU. T

The cotton industry is facing new competition due to changing comparative advantages on the world market. Egypt is one of the countries in which we have seen a reform in order to make the cotton sector more efficient and competitive. To be able to reach that goal, it is of great importance that the liberalization involves a good balance between competition and coordination. The purpose of this the

This is a thesis in the field of mechanism design theory, a field of economic theory closely related to game theory. Instead of determine equilibriums of various games as in game theory, mechanism design tries to design a mechanism with respect to a desirable outcome of the game induced by the mechanism. The thesis can be viewed as an introduction to mechanism design theory in general, via a particu