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Globally, 500 million smallholder farmers require finance to secure a more productive, efficient, sustainable, and inclusive food system. Thus far, traditional financial services have been unsuccessful in reaching these farmers. Yet, mobile money services are proposed as a potential tool for enabling smallholder farmers access to financial services. Nonetheless, this proposed impact of mobile mone
Supply chain management (SCM) has become more challenging than ever, considering the effect of globalization on organizations as operating through transnational business networks. Conventional supply chains have been facing struggles such as lack of advanced technologies and traceability in operation, which then leads to operational inefficiencies. Blockchain (BC) technology offers a set of featur
The vehicle industry is making great strides in electric and hybrid technologies, representing a significant step towards reducing emissions from personal vehicles. In order to make the transition to new hybrid technologies as convincing as possible, well-functioning and smooth transitions between traditional combustion engines and electric motors are required. So-called mild hybrids enable a cos
Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka huruvida asylsökande uppfattas som rättighetssubjekt i den svenska Riksdagens diskurs om Lagen om eget boende (EBO-lagen), för att därigenom uppmärksamma vilka möjligheter icke-medborgare har att få sina mänskliga rättigheter tillgodosedda i ett nationalstatligt system. För att studera detta använder jag mig av ett teoretiskt perspektiv som har sin utg
Nyckelord: Agentteori, Motivation, Studentnationer, Ideellt arbete, Hierarki. Syfte: Syftet är att undersöka vilka motivationsfaktorer som ligger bakom ideellt arbete på studentnationer. Studien ämnar därmed att utveckla det område inom agentteorin som berör icke-monetära incitament, det vill säga hur man kan skapa motivation till att följa direktiv och riktlinjer mot principalens mål när monetär
Sea ice is strongly impacted by global warming, and its decline further alters the global climate. Climate models are important tools for examining those future sea ice changes and the interaction of sea ice with other Earth system components such as the atmosphere and the ocean. Typically, these components are simulated with separate codes. The interaction between these components is typically mo
Ever since the end of the second world war, Europe has been lagging behind the United States in rocket development. In particular in the last 10 years, the technological gap and American competitive advantage have grown thanks to SpaceX’s development of reusable launch vehicles. A key enabler for the reusability of booster stages is precise rocket engine control. This thesis addresses the objectiv
This thesis investigates probing antennas within a small shielded test enclosure for IoT, Internet of Things, products for the detection of manufacturing deviations. The small enclosure forces the transmitter and receiver to be in the near-field. Shielding of the enclosure additionally generates a multipath environment, which becomes sensitive to displacements of objects such as wires or metallic
The aim of this master's thesis is to establish material models for three rubber materials using macroscopic data collected using Digital Image Correlation, DIC. DIC is a non-contact optical technique for measuring strain and displacement in a material by tracking points on a material during the deformation process.\\ The rubber materials are tested in both uniaxial tension and compression, fr
Solubility phenomena in supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) mixtures have been studied in situ using Raman spectroscopy. A Raman spectroscopy instrumentation has been linked to a high-pressure optical cell. The set-up was tested in the system SC-CO2/alkyl ketene dimer (AKD) under pressures up to 300 bars and temperatures up to 80 degrees C. As a proof of concept, the possibility to study solubil
Day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities need to be evaluated for effectiveness in order to provide the best possible support. This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of a tailor-made intervention to improve day centre services for people with psychiatric disabilities.
Positron emission tomography (PET) with (18)F-FDG is a valuable tool for staging, planning treatment, and evaluating the treatment response for many different types of tumours. The correct volume estimation is of utmost importance in these situations. To date, the most common types of phantoms used in volume quantification in PET utilize fillable, hollow spheres placed in a circular or elliptical
This Letter presents a search for magnetic monopoles with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider using an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb(-1) of pp collisions recorded at a center-of-mass energy root s = 7 TeV. No event is found in the signal region, leading to an upper limit on the production cross section at 95% confidence level of 1.6/epsilon fb for Dirac magnetic monopoles with t
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) sheds light on the dimmer side of production and consumption patterns in modern societies. The rapid increase in its quantity and complexity contribute to the challenges it poses to solid waste management systems. Several members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have relied on the principle of extended producer re
The aim of this study was to test the diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) beta-amyloid (Aβ1-42), phosphorylated tau, and total tau (tau) to discriminate Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia from other forms of dementia.
We present a new software framework for Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling for simulation, prediction, and inference of protein structure. The software package contains implementations of recent advances in Monte Carlo methodology, such as efficient local updates and sampling from probabilistic models of local protein structure. These models form a probabilistic alternative to the widely used fragm
This article examines the foundation of β-cell failure in type 2 diabetes (T2D) and suggests areas for future research on the underlying mechanisms that may lead to improved prevention and treatment.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A group of experts participated in a conference on 14-16 October 2013 cosponsored by the Endocrine Society and the American Diabetes Association. A writing group prepared t
To provide practical guidelines for the cytopathologic diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma.
