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GIS Section of Street and Park department of Malmö Municipality continuously receives new spatial data from different contractors that need to be saved to the GIS section traffic database. Due to spatial relationships and daily updates of traffic database, it is evident that the traffic database requires more consistency and integration in an automatic way. Since there is a spatial and conceptual

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between U.S. interest rates and real GDP per capita growth in emerging markets. The analysis of the paper seeks to determine if the relationship is negative and non-linear in nature as postulated by the paper’s two hypotheses. Three panel data regressions using the same dependent variable, real GDP per capita growth rate, but different explanatory var

This report summarizes the methodology, development and results of a master thesis regarding the design of an adaptable acoustic panel. When a room gets acoustic treatment it’s usually fitted with one activity in mind, such as a conference room or an office space. Multipurpose rooms tend to perform good for a few set of situations and underperform for the vast majority. For example, in a classroom

Eftersom jag har stammat större delen av livet vill jag ta reda på hur det kommer sig att stamningen inte uppkommer när jag ska sjunga. Syftet är att ta reda om det finns något i sångtekniken som kan appliceras på det vanliga talet. Skulle sången kunna fungera som en metod för att minska och hantera sin stamning? Med hjälp av att studera och analysera min egna stamning har jag kunnat hittat skillnBecause I have stuttered for the most part of my life, I want to find out why it is that I don’t stutter when I sing. The purpose of the study is to find out if there is something within singing technique that can be applied to the common speech. Could singing work as a method for reducing stuttering? By studying and analyzing my own stutter I have found both differences and similarities in what i

The purpose of this study was to get a better understanding of how social workers at family centres perceive psychosocial support for new mothers and how social workers can contribute to a healthy transition to parenthood. To fulfil the purpose semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with four social workers working at family centres in different municipalities in Sweden. Bowlby’s att

Vår värld blir alltmer digital samtidigt som kunder blir alltmer kräsna. Mjukvaruföretag idag jobbar agilt och kämpar för att fokusera på kundvärde i en konkurrensintensiv bransch. Detta examensarbete presenterar aktiviteter som är viktiga för att effektivt samla in och integrera kundåterkoppling i SaaS-företag som arbetar B2B. Nuvarande företagsprocesser har kartlagts och analyserats utifrån exis

Jordens invånarantal ökar med rasande fart vilket också leder till ett ökat behov av mat. Detta har resulterat i ett intensivt jordbruk som bland annat kan orsaka skada på de livsviktiga organismerna som lever i marken. Organismer som lever i marken kan bland annat vara bakterier, svampar och även större organismer såsom daggmaskar. Tillsammans utför dessa viktiga funktioner i marken som är avgöra

Flera studier har gjorts om hur cognitive load theory kan vara användbar för att urskilja lögner, där forskare ofta har använt externa distraktioner för att öka den kognitiva belastningen för att se effekterna på deltagares förmåga att framgångsrikt fabricera en berättelse. För att vidareutveckla den tidigare forskningen har denna studie ämnat att fortsätta utforska hur metoder som utgår från prinSeveral studies have been made about how cognitive load theory might be useful to discern lies, in which researchers have used external distractions to increase the cognitive load to observe how this impacts participants’ ability to successfully fabricate a story. To further the previous research, this study aimed to study the difference between telling the truth and telling a lie may be related t

Thesis purpose: The purpose is to explore ambush marketing by reconceptualizing the phenomenon from the ambusher’s perspective in the context of mega sports events. Methodology: This study conducted a relativist ontology and a constructionist epistemology to allow for the most relevant interpretations of the empirical data. This qualitative research adopts an inductive approach which reflects ove

Denna rapport är resultatet av ett examensarbete för institutionen Trafik och samhälle på Lunds tekniska högskola. Syftet med rapporten är att skapa förståelse för hur det ser ut när det kommer till cykling utanför tätort, även kallat landsbygdsmiljö, och vad som behövs för att fler ska välja cykel som färdmedel även utanför tätort. Tätorter och småorter har sedan många år tillbaka varit utformaThis Thesis is a result of a study on cycling on rural area. The purpose of this thesis is to find what possibilities and obstacles there are to get a higher percentage of people using bicycle as a choice of transportation when living in a rural area. Historically, the cities have been built for the car. Today and the past decade this has changed, and the bicycle has been given a higher priority

The purpose of this study is to create an understanding of how the increased influence of the radical right party the Sweden democrats in Swedish politics may change how the democratic role of the public libraries is understood. The research questions asked are which discourses concerning cultural politics and library politics that can be discerned in cultural policy statements from the Sweden dem

The purpose of this thesis was to study the correspondence of occupant load factors determined by the guidance document of Finnish National Building code and the real occupant loads measured from shopping malls. The correspondence of occupant load factors determined according to Finnish National Building Code were compared with the occupant load factors determined in other national and internat

Issue of study: The Swedish dairy company Vattnadahl is currently going through extensive changes, battling new market demands and internal reorganizations. As a consequence, the organization is facing challenges related to its organizational identity. From a theoretical perspective, organizational identity consists of an internal and an external part that together dynamically construct the identi

The culture proposal "Time for culture" emphasizes that the financial responsibility should not only be dependent on public funding, but private funders and non profit agencies should also take increased financial responsibility. The increasing demand for financial independency, has created a new position for cultural institutions. This has led to this study that wants to find out how th

Denna C-uppsats syftar till att öka förståelsen för hur SFI föreskrivna deltagare som är villkorade försörjningsstöd, upplever sin studiemotivation samt vilka förväntningar de har på utbildningen. Det har även varit av intresse att lyfta fram lärares, socialsekreterares, rektors, regeringens samt en SFI experts åsikter kring dessa teman. Urvalet har avgränsats till arabisk talande SFI föreskrivna This C-level thesis aims at increasing the understanding of how SFI prescribed participants, Who are on conditional income support, experience their study motivation and what they expect from the education. It has also been of interest to give attention to the opinions of teachers, social secretaries, principals, the Government and an SFI expert on these topics. The selection has been limited to A

The law that banned doping substances in Sweden was founded in 1991 and was strengthened in 1999 and 2011. The use of anabolic androgen steroids (AAS) however, is still increasing. Research about AAS is limited and the approximation of the number of AAS users is uncertain. On the gyms there are warnings about punishments risked if one is caught using AAS. But those warnings are without any informa

"It´s difficult, there is a big grey zone”. A qualitative study of preschool teachers’ thoughts on the obligation to report There are several professionals in Sweden who are obligated by law to report when they suspect a possible case of a child being maltreated. The aim of this study was to capture preschool teachers’ thoughts on what that obligation means. How does it work in the field? D

The purpose of this Bachelor thesis is to investigate and explain an ongoing process on the Swedish book- and publishing-market as a result of the new alternative ways of publishing. The investigation concerns questions about what need the electronic publishing fills for the authors compared to traditional publishing, and what happens to the writer’s role when published digitally on self-publishin

The aim of this master thesis is to examine service meetings in high-touch businesses from the perspective of the service provider. One of the purposes is to explore on what way emotional labour appears in the funeral directors everyday labour. The other purpose is to analyze how the funeral directors provide comfort to the bereaved customers. As a framework I rely mostly on the theory of emotiona