Long time series of satellite remotely sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as an indicator of vegetation greenness can be used in a broad range of research topics such as climate change, vegetation dynamics and desertification monitoring. The first phase of this study tests a practical method using Hyperion imagery onboard on Earth Observing-1 (EO1) spacecraft for simulation of MO

Climate change has emerged as the most prominent of the global environment issues and there is a need to evaluate its impact on the agriculture. General Circulation Models (GCMs) which are considered as the most advance tools for estimating future climate change scenarios operate on coarse resolutions. It is for this reason the climate change model MAGICC coupled to SCENGEN developed by the IPCC w

45 % av Sveriges energi produceras av vattenkraft. Forskning har visat att det finns en positiv korrelation mellan den naturlig förekommande klimatvariationen Nord Atlantiska Oscillationen (NAO) och vattenkraftproduktionen i Norge och norra Sverige under vintertid. Sambandet är dock svagare i södra Sverige, vilket visar på att skulle kunna finnas andra storskaliga klimatvariationer som påverkar va45 % of the Swedish energy is produced by hydropower. Previous researches have shown a positive correlation between the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the hydropower production in Norway and northern Sweden during winter time. The correlation is weak in southern Sweden, which indicates that there might be other climate patterns affecting this area. A Spearman correlation was made between the

This paper analyzes if there exist a statistical relationship between liquidity on stock, listed at NASDAQ OMX Nordic Stockholm, and financial stress. Liquidity is approximated by volume turnover, and financial stress is represented by SIXVX implied volatility index. To find out if stock liquidity responds differently to financial stress, depending on capitalization value, the stocks were divided

In this thesis, we use CasADi to implement a new optimization algorithm in the open-source platform JModelica.org. CasADi is a tool for computing derivatives using automatic differentiation, which is tailored for optimal control. JModelica.org is a platform for simulation and optimization of physical systems created using the Modelica modeling language. The implemented optimization algorithm is ba

Att mobbning leder till negativa konsekvenser för de som utsätts är sedan länge känt. Skolan är den plats där mobbning ofta sker men även där den bekämpas. Ett stort ansvar ligger hos lärarna när det gäller detta arbete och därför är deras attityder till mobbning av stort intresse. Syftet är att belysa samt jämföra yrkesverksamma lärare och lärarstudenter gällande deras attityder, upplevda kunskap

För att se om brand regimerna i Sverige före större antropogena påverkningar skett år jämförbara med nutida Kanadensiska brand regimer jämförde jag två datasets av brand storlek och antal bränder. Man kan se likheter när Kanada och Sveriges brand regimer jämfördes, men eftersom sökarean varierade mycket (Kanada: hela landet, Sverige: 608km2) och den temporala upplösningen (Kanada: 41 år, Sverige: To assess if the fire regimes in Sweden before the strong human intervention are comparable to the recent Canadian fire regime I compared two datasets of fire numbers. A likeness could be found when comparing the Swedish and Canadian fire regimes, but due to the differences in study area (Canada: the whole state; Sweden 608km2) and time span (Canada: 41 years, Sweden: 800 years), no significant re

Good faith har beskrivits som en av de mest omdebatterade principerna i CISG och är också det ämne som denna uppsats behandlar. Eftersom artikel 7 är det enda stället i CISG där good faith uttryckligen omnämns har uppsatsen tagit sin utgångspunkt i denna artikel. En studie av fyra olika länder har bekräftat att det dilemma som är förknippat med good faith härrör från det faktum att principen tilThe principle of good faith has been described as one of the most debated concepts of the CISG and is also the main subject of this thesis. Since Article 7 is the only article of the CISG expressly mentioning good faith it has served as the base for this study. An examination of four different countries confirms that the dilemma of good faith originates from the fact that it is a concept known a

With the idea of the governance, the model of social service delivery changed from government produces to purchases of services from Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs). Thus, cooperation was established between public sector and NPOs. The cooperation can be achieved by defrayed directly or using competitive contract outsourcing. The former one was commonly used while the latter one asked more for man

Popular science: Public transport plays an important role in enabling people to move from one place to another. The provision of information related to public transportation enables travelers to pre-plan their journeys and even save time that would have been spent asking around or looking for this information from other sources. The city of Nairobi has a population of about four million people, mo

This study investigates the cross-linguistic interference between speakers of Russian (as a first language or L1), Danish (as a second language, or L2) and English (as a third language, or L3) in terms of rising intonation patterns in tag questions in read speech. The subjects of the investigation are ten adults with an additive bilingualism between the ages of twenty to twenty-three, who immigrat

This small-scale experiment was a first attempt at testing the theoretical framework of Processability Theory (PT), a well-established theory of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), against data from online brain imaging technology (Electroencephalography – EEG). Event Related Potentials (ERPs) were extracted for 15 advanced beginners/intermediate-level learners of Swedish who were presented with gr

Under artonhundratalet samlades hundratals studenter från de olika nordiska universiteten till så kallade studentmöten, under vilka de tillsammans manifesterade sin tro på ett enat Skandinavien, i samma anda som de nationella rörelserna i exempelvis Tyskland vid samma tid. Förvånansvärt nog har dessa studentmöten inte blivit lika uppmärksammade inom den svenska historieskrivningen som exempelvis d

Tidigare forskning visar på att organisationer blir allt plattare och att mer ansvar lämnas åt individen. Ett begrepp som växer fram är delat ledarskap vilket också har visat sig effektivisera teamarbete. Denna studien syftar till att undersöka hur teamarbete upplevs bland undersköterskor och vårdbiträden. En kvalitativ ansats har varit grunden. Sex undersköterskor/vårdbiträden samt en verksamhets

Författare: Sofia Klackenberg Titel: Ungdomars självvalda sysslolöshet: En ny livsstil eller en strategisk paus? Kandidatuppsats: SOCK01, 15 hp Handledare: Anders Järnegren Sociologiska institutionen, Vårterminen 2011 Problem/Bakgrund: Min förförståelse grundar sig i att jag på hösten efter att jag tog studenten hade en period då jag varken studerade eller arbetade. Trots att jag i viss mån själv

Uppsatsen handlar om styvförälders rättsliga ställning i förhållande till barnet ur ett svenskt och norskt perspektiv. I och med att levnads- och familjeförhållanden har förändrats markant under det senaste seklet har uppkomsten av andra familjekonstellationer blivit en vanlig företeelse i vårt samhälle. Ombildade familjer utgör numera en enhet vid sidan av den traditionella kärnfamiljen. UppkomstThis essay is about a stepparent’s legal relationship to a child from a Swedish and a Norwegian perspective. As the living and family situation has changed markedly over the past century, the emergence of other family groups have become a common occurrence in our society. Reconstituted families constitute nowadays a unit apart from the traditional nuclear family. The emergence of other family grou

This report studies Swedens national preparedness regarding wildland fires. The study is done by studying literature and interviewing people with experience from larger wildland fires. The opinions from the respondents together with the findings from the literature form the basis for the analysis to conclude if the preparedness is enough in case of a climate change. The conclusion of this report i

Stone's theorem establishes a bijection between self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space and one-parameter groups of strongly continuous, unitary operators via a functional calculus. We will rst introduce the necessary terminology and then prove this result. We will study many of the numerous applications of Stone's theorem, especially those in quantum mechanics. We will also consider non