This report evaluates the personal safety issues in the event of fire in the Swedish shopping mall “Galleria Flanaden” in Värnamo. The building and its businesses’ compliance with Swedish fire safety legislation is verified (most importantly BBR 2008 and SFS 2003:778). Weaknesses in personal safety (means of evacuation) in the event of fire are verified through an exhaustive on-site inspection and

The report is a part of the course Fire Safety Evaluation given by the Department of Fire Safety Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden. The report is a fire safety evaluation of Veddesta Shopping Center in Järfälla, northeast of Stockholm. It focuses on personal safety and takes no consideration to environmental or economical damages. Four fire scenarios have been chosen and analyz

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the current fire hazard and evacuation safety in one of Staffanstorps elementary schools, Hagalidskolan. The report is written as a part of the educational program in Fire and Safety Engineering at Lund University. Evacuation and human safety is the main focus and therefore damage that affects structural stability and property damage is not evaluated in th

This report is a fire safety evaluation of Folkets Hus in Svedala, Sweden. The human safety is considered sufficient if the time required to complete evacuation is shorter than the time for critical conditions to emerge (available safe egress time). Based on the likelihood of occurrence and potential consequences, two representative fire scenarios were identified to verify if the human fire safety

This report is the final result of a project in the course Brandteknisk riskvärdering VBR054 at Lunds University, Faculty of engineering, spring term of 2010. The aim has been to practise problem solving and to apply knowledge from previous courses with the purpose of evaluating the public safety in case of a fire, on an existing object. The object is a building on an area previously belonging to

This report contains an evaluation of the fire safety regarding evacuation at PUB-huset, Stockholm. PUB-huset is a shopping-mall situated in the heart of the Swedish capital and it is a highly visited building. To evaluate the safety of the building a risk analysis determined the three scenarios with the highest likelihood of occurring and the worst consequence if they occur. The time to critical

The thesis deals with the representation of fantasy in modern film with special regards to parallel-world stories. In order to demarcate parallel worlds from other types of magical worlds in fantasy stories, the thesis contains an extensive chapter of definitions. Starting out with Todorov’s and Jackson’s well-known theories on fantasy / the fantastic, the thesis turns to other approaches allowing

Bound by the European Union policy, Poland needs to increase the share of renewable energy by 7,5% by 2010 and 15% by 2020. Biomass was once viewed as the largest potential for expansion of renewable energy in Poland. However, in the light of this thesis work, it appears that recent legislation and the standpoint of the State Forest Company will result in the barely emerging market for biomass fro

Det vanligaste transportsättet idag är bilen och fordonet är uppställt i långt större utsträckning än det är i färd. Detta skapar behov av stora ytor för parkering som idag ofta är avgiftsfria. Uppsatsen behandlar hur detta behov uppstod och hur samhället hanterar de olika parkeringssituationer som uppstår, med koncentration på Lunds kommun. Den väsentliga frågeställningen är vem som betalar parke

In 2004 the report Mission-shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions of Church in a Changing Context was published by Church of England’s Department for Mission and Public Affairs ( Church House Publishing, London). The report was the result of in-depth thinking and reflection, within the Church of England and within the Methodist Church, on new ways of being Church in a changed cultura

Sammanfattning Konkurrenspolitik kan spela en stor roll för ampassningen till EU och övergången till marknadsekonomi i Visegrádländerna. Den här uppsatsen tar upp och undersöker om det finns några skillnader i utfallet av implementering av konkurrenspolitik i dessa länder, det vill säga Ungern, Slovakien, Tjeckien och Polen. Konkurrenspolitik i Visegrádländerna undersöks med avseende på antal kon

This paper looks for evidence of asymmetric effects of monetary policy on the real economy of the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan. In order to do this, a “new Keynesian” model is used as a basis with the regressions performed in a VAR setting. The results indicate that there is no empirical support for asymmetric effects of monetary policy shocks on the real economy. In fact, there is

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the changes that the Circusfactions underwent in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D and what underlying factors contributed to it. Basically, the intention with this thesis is to investigate how the circusfactions come to advance from mere cheering-associations, with a single interest, horseracing and the games, to a state employed claque with crucial civic

Wallby, Karin (2010) Möt blicken – En studie av gatutidningen Alumas arbete för social förändring och en ny syn på hemlöshet. Författad vid Institutionen för kommunikation och medier, Lunds universitet, hösten 2010. Gatutidningen Aluma startades i Malmö 2001. Syftet var, likt hos redan existerande gatutidningar, att genom försäljning av tidningen ge hemlösa och socialt exkluderade personer möjlig

Den finanskris som drabbat världens de senaste åren har många olika orsaker varav ersättningssystemen i finansiella företag har varit en, eftersom de ofta har gett incitament till, och belönat ett mycket högt risktagande, utan att spegla motsvarande nersida i dåliga tider. Situationen har inte sett sådan ut överallt i världen, men den reglering som har följt efter krisen har fått fäste på många hå

This paper empirically examines the effect of emigration on unemployment in the CEE coun-tries of the EU during 2000-2007. It is argued that the enlargement of the EU in 2004 can serve as a natural experiment which helps to prevent the endogeneity of emigration to unem-ployment, since the drastic increase in the East-West migration after the enlargement was mainly driven by political events rather

The study is titled ”It’s in their hands” in order to show the responsibility various stakeholders have both in causing intimate partner violence (IPV) and its perpetuation as well as their importance for prevention efforts. IPV is a global issue affecting millions of women worldwide. The aim of this case study was to explore the causes of physical and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) in Dar

Information system have become exceedingly important in our daily working lives and by that tightly connected with jobs. Job satisfaction is relatively explored research field which has become very popular in the last decades. But how do information systems affect other aspects of work, and how does our perception of our working life affect our acceptance of information systems is relatively unexp

This thesis intends to point out the limits of exclusively formalist literary criticism. To locate these limits with precision the thesis contrasts the formalist criticism of Monroe C. Beardsley with the critical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The idea for this thesis is based in an experience that strictly rule-governed formalist criticism does not seem to correspond to the fullness of its object,