This study relates to the transcription of foreign personal names into kanji in Japanese. The study is based upon a paper where Tokimoto & d’Arcais (2000) confirmed three working principles when natives transcribe place names written in hiragana: that jukugo reading will be preferred over juubako reading, that as few kanji segmentations as possible will be used, and that the names will be segm

The main goal of this project was to investigate how the thermal stability of two different types of polyhydroxyalkanoates; poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) were affected when washing them with acid solution. Initially, four different acids were used: citric acid, hydrochloric acid, formic acid and acetic acid. Citric acid gave the best results for both biop

Syftet med studien är att undersöka debatten om sex timmars arbetsdag mellan 2010-2017. Genom att använda diskursanalys undersöker jag hur debatten ser ut idag genom att analysera debattartiklar i svenska dagstidningar för att försöka förstå varför ingen vidare utveckling har skett vad det gäller arbetstidsförkortning i Sverige sedan 1973. Bourdieus teori om det politiska fältet erbjuder ett analy

This paper investigates empirical determinants of current account positions worldwide with a focus on the countries that started out as the European Monetary Union (including Greece that joined in 2001). Specifically, it addresses the question whether current accounts inside the Eurozone have reacted more sensitively to changes in macroeconomic fundamentals due to the facilitation of inter-country

Under 2016 sade ett stort antal barnmorskor upp sig kollektivt inom Region Skåne. Uppsägningarna var en protesthandling och del i en arbetsplatskonflikt som kretsade kring ökad återhämtning för att garantera barnmorskornas hälsa och patientsäkerheten. Uppsatsens syfte är att förstå hur och varför protesterna resulterade i kollektiva uppsägningar. Materialet består av kvalitativa intervjuer med bar

Marknaden för brobyggnad i Sverige är idag så god att företagen tvingas tacka nej till förfrågningar på grund av tidsbrist. Det är svårt att rekrytera nya konsulter eftersom det råder brist på arbetskraft med rätt kompetens, för att undvika att tacka nej till arbete är en potentiell lösning på tidsbristen att effektivisera arbetet. I samarbete med Skanska Tekniks brogrupp i Malmö utreder därför deThe bridge construction industry in Sweden is prospering. The situation is such that companies are forced to decline work due to lack of time. In addition, the recruitment of new consultants has been difficult owing to a shortage of labour with the right competency. To avoid the situation where companies are forced to decline new projects due to lack of resources, focus should be on improving the

Naturvårdsverket uppger att antalet potentiellt och bekräftat förorenade områden i Sverige under 2016 uppgick till 85 000. Siffran visar på att problemet med kontaminerad mark är tämligen omfattande. En grundsten i den svenska miljörätten är principen om att förorenaren, i detta fall verksamhetsutövaren, betalar. Vad händer om den som orsakat en föroreningsskada inte finns tillgänglig och kan stäl

Aktivering av arbetslösa har diskuterats brett inom såväl akademin som politiken under de senaste decennierna. Fokus har ofta varit på förändrade kontraktsrelationer mellan arbetslösa och samhället där rättigheter kontra krav på motprestationer har varit i fokus. Tidigare forskning kring erfarenheter av arbetslöshet har ofta framhävt dess negativa aspekter av stigmatisering, skam och social exklud

This thesis intends to explain the change of strategies to address coca plantation in Colombia before and after the 2016 Peace agreement. To do so, I build a theoretical model that draws on securitization/de-securitization theory and ripeness/readiness theories. The former theory is used to explain what kind of change was there between the different strategies. In this sense, I claim that policies

The purpose of this thesis was to provide Uniti Sweden AB with a solution proposal regarding which motors, sensors, control units and other electrical components needed for a steer-by-wire system of a test car. The thesis resulted in new motors, sensors and electrical components for the steer-by-wire system of the test car. The solution proposal made it possible to laterally steer the test car by

The purpose of this project is to study the read performance of transparent database-backed file systems, a meld between two technologies with seemingly similar purposes, in relation to conventional file systems. Systems such as the ARC middleware relies on reading several millions of files every day, and as the number of files increases, the performance suffers. To study the capabilities of a dat

Many companies today have a security system containing of devices such as cameras and other devices with some trigger functionality built in. It’s essential to be able to control all existing triggers in a security system for it to work flawlessly. As the number of triggers increases, the security system in question becomes more complicated to configure. Therefore, making configuration from an eas

Due to computation-intensive nature of LDPC decoders, a lot of research is going towards efficient implementation of their original algorithm (SPA). As "Min-Sum" approximation is basically an overestimation of SPA, this thesis investigates more accurate, yet area efficient, approximations of SPA, to select an optimum one. In a general comparison between main approximation methods (e.g. LUT,

Populism has become a political catchphrase across the world, spanning across the entire political spectrum in various forms. In Spain, the left-wing populist party Podemos is the most significant case, adopting a post-marxist perspective less focused on the economy than orthodox marxism. In light of this, this thesis examines their main economic program through use of Fairclough’s Critical Discou

The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the home care services quality work, and to what extent the quality work actually safeguards the quality aspects formulated as important by the municipality, the home care services and the users. The purpose was further to investigate in which way the presence of private home care providers has influenced quality work and the view on quality. T

Syftet med studien är att undersöka huruvida stora byggprojekt alltid går över planerad budget. Frågeställningen lyder: Håller sig stora infrastrukturprojekt och konstruktionsprojekt till sina budgetar? Slutsatsen är att det finns belägg för att många stora byggprojekt går över budget, det är flera orsaker att så sker. En del av orsakerna är lättare att undvika än andra. Det finns orsaker som är

The concept of a smart-sustainable city (SSC) has recently come to dominate urban sustainability political agendas and academic discourses in Europe. This thesis investigates (1) the origination of the SSC concept, (2) how it is being framed as an approach to sustainable urban development, and (3) how it can be contextualized in concrete projects and urban planning initiatives in the city of Malmö

The study aims to shed more light on the relationship between Internet penetration and labor productivity by analyzing the aggregate cross-country panel data available for a wide range of countries in the period of 2001-2015. An overview of hypothetical mechanisms behind the communication technologies’ impact on productivity is provided, while the Augmented Solow model is used as a theoretic frame