My diploma project is a design proposal for a Rudolf Steiner School in Sirende, a village 12 km outside Kitale Town, Kenya. On Initiative taken by the anthroposophical association Föreningen Sofia in Sweden, a Steiner school opened in Sirende in year 2008. Today the school is in a very bad condition with over crowded classrooms and poor sanitary conditions. The need for a new school building is ur

Does treating high blood pressure improve neurodegeneration High blood pressure, also called hypertension could damage the brain. Our research tries to understand how lowering blood pressure affects the hypertensive brain. Hypertension is the disease that people have abnormally high blood pressure. Nowadays, 1 in 5 people worldwide have hypertension, accounting for 1.13 billion people. This cause

Previous research into variation in sex allocation strategies in birds has provided evidence for sex ratio adjustments by parents to maximize fitness, based on differences in the costs of producing males and females. Additionally, studies of melanin-based color polymorphism indicate that life history strategies, physiology, and behavior may vary among color variants of the same species. This study

The purpose of this report was to develop and evaluate new solutions to improve the perception of fire threat in virtual reality experiments. Thermal heat have been identified as a stimulus that modern day virtual reality experiments don’t take into account that would likely affect a person in a real life fire evacuation scenario. The objective of this report was to successfully implement thermal

This thesis examines the debate that followed the 2019 exhibition The Thin Line at Dunkers kulturhus, when it became known that one of the photographs had been digitally altered. The aim of the study is to contribute to an understanding of our norms and attitudes to- wards the photographic image and it’s genres. The questions asked are: What views on photo- graphic truth are represented in the deb

Tupí-guaraníspråken omagua [omg] och kokama [cod] utgör intressanta exempel på omfattande språkkontakt i Amazonas. Detta framgår av språkens lexikon, som till största delen består av ord från tupí-guaraníspråk, men med en hög andel ord från obesläktade språk. Det framgår också av grammatiken, som skiljer sig mycket från andra tupí-guaraníspråk. Det språk som var huvudsaklig lexifierare i kontaktsiThe Tupí–Guaraní languages Omagua [omg] and Kokama [cod] constitute interesting examples of heavy language contact in Amazonia. This is evident from their lexicon, which is mostly Tupí–Guaraní, but with a high percentage of non-Tupí–Guaraní forms, and the grammar, which is very distinct from other Tupí–Guaraní languages. The lexifying Tupí–Guaraní language in this contact situation is believed to

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to analyze Artificial Intelligence in the music industry in order to provide an indication of how Artificial Intelligence is expected to continue impacting the connection between the consumer and the brand. Design/methodology/approach - The study is based on a qualitative single case study method and it discusses how Spotify has incorporated Artificial Intellige

This study aims to examine the experiences of adult children to parents with drug and/or alcohol addiction, and how they narrate how this affected their childhood, and adult life. The method used was a narrative analysis of four life stories, taken from four podcast episodes. The empirical data was structured into themes found in the life stories. The themes that were found in the life stories wer

Utländska studier på militära veteraner visar på att psykiska sjukdomar, såsom Posttraumatiskt stressyndrom (PTSD) till följd av missionen förekommer. Samtidigt som studier på svenska militära utlandsveteraner uppvisat en lägre frekvens av PTSD. Den här studien undersökte kvantitativt hur det psykologiska stödet ser ut och hur det påverkar förekomsten av PTSD hos de svenska militära veteranerna. SInternational studies of military veterans display that psychological illnesses, like Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), exists as a result of the missions. Studies of Swedish military veterans indicates a lower frequency of PTSD, than foreign military veterans. This study used a quantitative method to investigate how the psychological supportive functions by the Swedish armed forces affect the

Today, Artificial Intelligence is one of the most important technologies, ubiquitous in our daily lives. Deep Neural Networks (DNN's) have come up as state of art for various machine intelligence applications such as object detection, image classification, face recognition and performs myriad of activities with exceptional prediction accuracy. AI in this contemporary world is moving towards em

Syftet med studien var att undersöka förhållandet mellan självförverkligande, socialt jämförande och motivation. För socialt jämförande mättes både en generell benägenhet och benägenhet att jämföra i olika riktningar (uppåt eller nedåt). Den operationella definitionen för motivation utgick ifrån de kausalitetsorienteringar som återfinns inom self-determination theory. Datainsamling skedde i form aThe purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self actualization, social comparison, including upward and downward comparison, and different types of motivation as defined by the proposed causality orientations within self determination theory. Data was acquired through a survey distribution. The sample consisted of a convenience sample (N=131). The results, from a correlat

The case company endeavors to be fossil free by 2030. In order to achieve that objective, the current packaging solution for kitchen and laundry appliances containing EPS plastic must be replaced with a packaging built on only fiber-based materials. This master thesis is focusing on identifying the packaging requirements for a replacement and how these requirements influence the packaging material

Kustnära ledningsnät under klimatförändringar I takt med en ökad urbanisering och ett förändrat klimat växer behovet av att utvärdera och ompröva funktionsdugligheten av befintliga ledningsnät för att säkerställa en god dagvattenavledning i framtiden. Den här typen av utredning är extra viktig för kustnära ledningsnät, då klimatförändringar förväntas bidra till havsnivåhöjningar. Ledningsnät som The emerging effects of man-induced climate change lead to difficulties in the planning of urban development. This study seeks to investigate how the stormwater pipe system in Trelleborg, Sweden, responds to climate change in terms of sea level rise and rainfall. The timeframe of this study extends to the year 2100 and the emission scenario RCP8.5 was employed. Twelve scenarios were formulated to

In today's data driven society the world is at a point of information overload. As people rely on Google for information and other platforms such as Netflix and Spotify for entertainment, the need for relevant filtering of content has never been higher. As a result, recommendation systems have seen a great surge in demand. One can divide the space of recommendation algorithms into primarily tw

De bästa bildklassificeringsmodellerna, så kallade deep learning-modeller, är bra men i stort behov av data för att prestera. För att förbättra sådana modellers prestation kan man utöka redan existerande dataset som används för träning av dessa modeller. Vi har använt oss av en modell som kallas GAN för att producera konstgjord träningsdata och visat att det kan förbättra en blodcellsklassificerarIn this thesis we aim to improve classification performance on blood cell imagesby using deep learning techniques to augment data. The thesis was conductedat CellaVision, a company providing digital solutions for medical microscopy inthe field of hematology. The goal of CellaVision’s technology is to replace man-ual microscopes used for cell differentials in blood tests with digital microscopestha

Due to society’s modernization and climate changes, transboundary crisis is becoming more severe. This means that communication in many cases needs to be virtual, especially via radio, instead of face-to-face. At the same time, there is a willingness to co-locate in a greater extent. The aim of this paper is to increase the understanding of how the means of communication affects the outcome of a

The aim of this project is to design and develop a traffic interceptor for the Anybus protocol. This protocol is owned by HMS Industrial networks and its use is intended to enable industrial devices to communicate with any fieldbus or industrial Ethernet network. The traffic interceptor developed in this master thesis was introduced so the host can observe the data flow before it is translated in

This essay aims to perform a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of select passages from Sister Carrie. The purpose of this is to identify and explain how discourse (language use) affects the intercharacter positions of power at various points of the story. These findings will be presented in the form of rhetorical devices and will be used to propose methods and exercises intended to teach skills re