The goal of this project was to gain a broader understanding of the process of developing design ideas into commercial products by producing a low volume production run of 100-1000 units based upon a set budget of 40.000 SEK. Appropriate manufacturing processes was selected and evaluated regarding costs and suitable volumes. Design ideas was developed by meeting with Swedish producers carrying ou

Recent advances in reinforcement learning research has achieved human level performance in playing video games (Mnih et al., 2015). This inspired me to understand the methods of reinforcement learning (RL) and investigate whether there is any basis for those methods in neurobiology and animal learning theories. The current study shows how RL is based on theories of animal conditioning and that the

Abstract This study is about how Swedish politics discuss gender inequality in Sweden and how gender inequality is conceived trough this debate. The focus of the study is to see how the perception of the male gender is formed throughout this debate and how the Swedish gender inequality debate relates to the conception of masculinity. I draw on the political parties’ official programs to gain insig

Uppkomsten av läkemedelsproteiner har haft betydelsefull påverkan på läkemedelsindustrin. Så kallad PEGylering är en vanlig efterbehandling av dessa proteiner. Idag kännetecknas PEGylering av en stillastående process som är tidsödande med stora förluster. Kan man med nytänk ämnas lösa dessa problem? Tillverkningsprocessen och användningen av terapeutiska (läkande) proteiner har varit relativt fraSince the rise of therapeutical proteins, there has been a growing interest in biopharmaceuticals over the years. Research was made to combat various protein weaknesses like fast degradation and low solubility. A discovery in the 1970s suggested that an attachment of polyethylene glycol (PEG) on protein surfaces would solve the specific problems. Today this process is known as PEGylation and is wi

In recent years, the market for mobile applications has continuously grown in size, and appears to continue to grow. This means greater competition among app developing companies as the users expect applications with high usability and a great user experience. To assess these properties the companies can perform usability evaluations. However, practicing traditional usability evaluation methods ca

This thesis presents a design that approximates the fractional part of the based two logarithm function by using Improved Parabolic Synthesis including its CMOS VLSI implementations. Improved Parabolic Synthesis is a novel methodology in favor of implementing unary functions e.g. trigonometric, logarithm, square root etc. in hardware. It is an evolved approach from Parabolic Synthesis by combining

Det har aldrig varit så viktigt att minska kostnader och vara effektiv för att vara konkurrenskraftig på marknaden som det är idag. IKEA står inför stora utmaningar gällande produktionsökning på grund av ökad efterfrågan från marknaden och mål inför 2020. Denna massiva ökning kommer att påverka leverantörer, hjärtat i varuflödet. Den nödvändiga produktionsökningen kommer även att innebära att samaThe importance to cut costs and to be as efficient as possible has never been as important as it is today in order to stay competitive in the market. IKEA are currently facing increasing challenges with the production growth due to a high demand from the market and goals for 2020. This large growth will affect the bottom line of the supply chain, the suppliers. The necessary production growth also

Diabetes mellitus, especially type 2 diabetes, continuously becomes a global concern as this chronic metabolic disease which leasds over time to serious damage to heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves. It causes 1.5 million deaths each year according to a report by the World Health Organisation. It is a very complex disease that requires diverse treatment depending on patients and their h

This master thesis in Sociology of Law explored the persistency of low-level corruption in post-communist Hungary. By adopting an anthropological approach 20 unstructured in-depth interviews were conducted in Hungarian language. The main focus of the research was on how law actually works. The collected material suggested that inadequate legislation supports informal economic transactions (“bad re

Snow and permafrost are significant climatic factors affecting the climate in high latitudes and especially in arctic regions. Moreover, results of conducted scientific studies have shown that snow is crucial for photosynthetic activity and therefore vegetation vigor and growing season in arctic environments. This master thesis aims to investigate the changes in photosynthetic activity in Zackenbe

Begging has been one of the oldest coping mechanisms for the poor people in Bangladesh. However, social attitudes towards begging changed along the notion of modernization, with the changes in modes of production in which the productive potential of individuals was emphasized and begging became a direct threat to the prominent values such as work initiatives, stable social relations, and beauty an

Det är i princip omöjligt att överskatta vikten av begreppet symmetri för modern fysik. Redan när Maxwell på 1800-talet förenade elektricitet och magnetism till en enda kraft fanns en underlig egenskap i hans teori. Hans fysikaliska system kännetecknas av potentialer, som är relaterade till de elektriska och magnetiska fälten. Det visade sig att om man förändrar dessa potentialer enligt specifikaWe have studied left-right-symmetric (LR) model building in two specific instances: the Minimal Left-Right-Symmetric Model (MLRM), with gauge group SU(3)_C × SU(2)_L × SU(2)_R × U(1)_{B-L} and parity as the LR symmetry; and a non-supersymmetric, trinified theory, with gauge structure SU(3)_L × SU(3)_R × SU(3)_C × Z_3 and an additional, novel, SU(3) family symmetry. For the MLRM, we have rederive

Current cancer treatments are associated with high mortality because anticancer drugs are highly toxic and have numerous side effects. Human α-lactalbumin Made Lethal to Tumour cells (HAMLET) is protein-lipid complex that kills tumor cells and spares healthy differentiated cells. HAMLET interacts with a broad range of cellular targets. Our group has shown that the cell death induced by HAMLET can

Denna uppsats undersöker en radikal och aktivistisk del av funktionshinderrörelsen. Den beskriver hur de gör motstånd, mot vad de gör motstånd och hur de ser på sin rörelse. Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ intervjustudie med fem funkisaktivister och har en motstånds- och cripteoretisk ansats. Intervjupersonerna riktar kritik mot stora delar av funktionshinderrörelsen som de menar är för individfokusera

Efficient use of energy becomes increasingly important in the modern society, with climate change as a driving factor. Short term production planning for district heating networks is motivated by a customer demand that varies according to a daily cycle, but which is directly dependent on changes in temperature and customer behaviour. The planning involves challenges in modeling of production unit

This report investigates why more people are killed in house fires in Finland than in Sweden. The report is divided into five different steps, which are comparison of building regulations for fire protection, statistics for fatal fires in both Finland and Sweden, identification of risk factors in fatal fires, existence and development for each identified risk factor in both Finland and Sweden. The

When designing and implementing a prototype supporting inter-destination media synchronization – synchronized playback between multiple devices receiving the same stream – there are a lot of aspects that need to be considered, especially when working with unmanaged networks. Not only is a proper streaming protocol essential, but also a way to obtain and maintain the synchronization of the clocks o

In the years prior to what became known as the Arab Spring, regional public opinion strongly favored Hezbollah due to its principled commitment to the liberation of Palestine. As popular upheavals swept through the Arab Middle East in 2011, this sentiment continued as the movement gave its support to the initial uprisings. However, as the protests reached Syria the image of Hezbollah as a champion