The economic potential of East Germany still severely lags behind that of the West. A scarcity of urban agglomerations is associated with this disparity. The origins of this disparity are insufficiently explored with regards to the spatial inequalities of urban growth induced by the two major shocks of central planning and reunification. By creating long-term time series for city growth and popula

This master thesis aims at improving vehicle positioning in high-speed movement scenarios where global navigation satellite system (GNSS) does not work well. The standard 802.11p, as one of the WiFi family members, it can support to share vehicle information between vehicle and vehicle or between vehicle and infrastructure in a high-speed movement environment. Without the help of GNSS, the vehicle

In view of its complex demographic composition and the lingering controversies on recent civil war historiography, Lebanon provides a unique case of education in a post-conflict context. The absence of a common Lebanese national history curriculum puts individual history teachers under significant pressure. In lieu of an engagement with recent national history, avoided because of its controversy,

The city of Chennai evolved around the river, Cooum. The river supports irrigation to agricultural fields in the north and supplies water to the city of Chennai. It also acts as a major flood carrier for the city. Before the 1960s, the river was clean and used for activities such as bathing, boating and fishing. During the colonial rule, the city was initially planned to sustain a much lesser popu

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka att räkna pinnar - ett informellt uttryck med betydelsen att vara ålagd krav att ta emot ett visst antal patienter per vecka; hur detta påverkar och hanteras av psykologer, och hur påverkan och hantering kan förstås och förklaras. Data insamlades genom sex semistrukturerade intervjuer med psykologer i Skåne, där merparten var anställda vid allmänpsykiatri

Originally from chaos theory, “the butterfly effect” as a concept indicates the verisimilitude of how the most insignificant thing can have a significant ripple effect in a certain process. By analogy, courts are not immune to the “butterfly effect”. Due to the rapid proliferation of legal regimes and bodies, courts are confronted with unorthodox situations requiring that they interface one-anothe

Natural disasters are distressing and destructive for all who are exposed to them; however, certain populations are more vulnerable to their devastating effects than others. In the wake of the 2017 Northern California wildfire, scores of undocumented immigrants were significantly affected. Although the conflagration spread indiscriminately, the subsequent impacts were disproportionately felt by th

With regards to Sweden receiving criticism from the UN about not properly treating children according to the UN convention on the rights of the child, this study aims to further explore this criticism on the subject compulsory care of children and its related investigative work. Children are the pillar stones of society which means authority decisions of compulsory care should always be regarded a

There is a continued need for reliable and convenient nonintrusive thermometric techniques for better understanding and effective control of combustion related processes. In this thesis, three spectroscopic thermometric methods were studied to evaluate the hot flue gas temperatures provided by a multi-jet burner. These methods include the two-line atomic fluorescence (TLAF) thermometry, the Na/K t

Uppsala University building was built in the 19th century. A larger renovation was conducted in 2016, when the buildings fire protection systems was improved. This report investigates and evaluates the existing fire protection with consideration to both human safety and economic damage. After conducting a risk scenario analysis, two scenarios where determined to be more crucial to investigate than

The building industry has a negative effect on the environment by contributing greatly to the greenhouse effect, wastage and the depletion of materials. This project explores through the design of a house how architects can battle some of these problems and contribute to a more sustainable future. To accomplish that we should design for reuse and recycling to use our resources more effectively and

Ultrasound Optical Tomography (UOT) is a proposed technique, which combines ultrasound imaging and optical imaging in a new way to detect, e.g., blood oxygenation and tumors deep inside biological tissue, where the ultrasound provides an excellent spatial resolution, and the optical imaging gives a high contrast of different tissues according to optical properties. However, the challenges of this

Syftet med denna studie var att i ett lokalt elnät undersöka hur laddningen av elbilar påverkar lastmönster i elnätet, både i nuläget och i framtida simulerade situationer. Samt undersöka vilken potential det finns att flytta laddningen över tid i testområdet i Hyllie, Malmö. Detta genom att simulera en del av elnätet i Hyllie och styra elbilsladdningen för att kapa effekttoppar. Därefter kartlägg

Syfte: Syftet är att få en förståelse för hur chefer och medarbetare ser på värde vid ett hälsofrämjande arbete och en förbättrad hälsa. Vidare är syftet att få en förståelse för hur chefer och medarbetare ser på resultatet av det hälsofrämjande arbetet. Följande frågeställningar behandlas i studien: • Hur ser chefer och medarbetare på värde vid en förbättrad hälsa? • Hur ser chefer och medarbeta

För att se vilken inverkan regnets intensitet har på avrinningskoefficienten gjordes en litteraturstudie samt beräkningar i Excel. Litteraturstudien visar att de tabellerade värdena på avrinningskoefficienten är framtagna genom en undersökning där ett formulär sändes ut till privata och offentliga kontor i USA där de angav vilka värden på avrinningskoefficienten de brukar använda. Resultatet är prIn order to increase the knowledge regarding how the runoff coefficient varies with increased rainfall intensity, a literature study and calculations in Excel were conducted. The background to how the tabled values of the runoff coefficient have been determined was found to be a book based on an assembly of answers to a survey collected from different companies in USA. The book is called Design an

Since the purchasing expenditure of many companies is such a large part of the total cost and 99,8 % of companies are classified as Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME), one might expect that theories on purchasing strategy would not only be conducted for large companies but also SMEs. In order to fill this gap in theory, this thesis aims to create a purchasing strategy framework for SMEs in t

I detta examensarbete undersöks svensklärares uppfattningar om och användning av svenskämnets estetiska dimensioner. Svensklärarnas uppfattningar jämförs sedan med teaterlärares ämnestraditioner och undervisning. Syftet har varit att synliggöra och problematisera beröringspunkterna mellan ämnena svenska och teater samt att undersöka om och hur teaterlärares ämnestradition kan komplettera svensklär

Det har förekommit situationer där en byggnadsnämnd har tolkat att PBL 9 kap. 30 § 1 st. p. 1 a innebär att bygglov inte kan beviljas för en fastighet som består dels av kvartersmark, dels av allmän platsmark. En sådan fastighet ansågs planstridig oavsett aktuellt huvudmannaskap i detaljplanen. Följaktligen har byggnadsnämnden för att bygglovet ska kunna beviljas, hänvisat bygglovssökande till lanThere have been several occurrences where the Building committee has not granted a building permit due to the fact that a real property unit contains partly development district and partly public space. Such a real property unit has been regarded as not corresponding with the detailed development plan. Consequently, the Building committee has referred the person who applied for the building permit

This thesis opens up the “black box” of business incubation and analyses how this process works in an incubator for cultural and creative ventures in Northern Sweden. The theoretical framework of the rites of passage by Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner was adopted to guide the analysis. This theory indicates that one can move from one status to the next in a society through the means of differe