With most applications where recommender systems are used, it is impor- tant that they produce a better result than a system with no recommender, or one with a previous recommender. Deploying an untested system, even to a smaller user sample can be very costly if the system produces negative results. It is often in a developer’s interest to create several candidate systems. They need some way of c

Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is a stunningly complex work, blending elements of the traditional haunted house tale, postmodernism, and film analysis with innovative approaches to textuality and to the format of the novel. This thesis explores House of Leaves with regard to many of these elements, presenting a reading which unifies its various modes of discourse by relating them back t

Eternity and time are central concepts within the Prophetic Works. In the Prophetic universe, eternity is defined as a positive state of infinite potentiality, whereas time is depicted as a state founded on the exclusion of possibilities; hence, the existence of the human mind in time rather than in eternity severely limits the sum of his existence. Viewed as a whole, the Prophetic cycle can be se

Alma Engstedt En våtmark i Skåne under november Många våtmarker har anlagts de sista 20 åren för att försöka fånga upp de mängder kväve och fosfor som sköljs ut från åkermark och tar sig vidare ut i Östersjön där de orsakar övergödning och andra miljöproblem. Det är intressant att ta reda på hur väl de fungerar och hur det kan variera under olika årstider. Vintern är inte den bästa tiden för aA small pond situated south of Helsingborg was studied between November 7th and December 1st 2003, in order to determine the transport and retention of nitrogen and phosphorus during the autumn-winter conditions of high water discharge. Two methods of water sampling were used. One based on random sampling and the other using an automatic sampler i.e. a pump with continuous sampling. Mass balance c

Model Predictive control (MPC) has been studied extensively because of its ability to handle constraints and its great properties in terms of stability and performance [Mayne et al., 2000]. We have in this thesis focused on MPC of Hybrid Systems, i.e. systems with both continuous and discrete dynamics. More specifically, we look at problems that can be cast as Mixed Integer Quadratic Programming (

The object of this essay is to analyze how the great male renunciation have influenced men’s fashion wear, as well as the way men express their interest in fashion. This was achieved by studying the dandy as phenomenon in relation to the contemporary male fashion blogger. Analytical methods such as semiotic analysis has been applied, as well as a qualitative text analysis inspired by discourse ana

Public transport affects people on a daily basis and therefore it is important for the public transport sector to improve the user experience for travellers. Simplicity is a keyword in the improved user experience where mobile solutions play an important role for the experience. The aim in this master thesis is to explore ways how to use a smartphone to make it easier for travellers and how to pre

Despite the recent upsurge of interest in emotional non-speech sounds, very little naturalistic material is available. In this project a corpus of non-acted emotional vocalizations from Youtube videos is introduced, analyzed acoustically and tested experimentally. A rating experiment combined with acoustic analysis in Study 1 confirms that these sounds can be correctly classified by both human rat

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the development of the legislation in the field of ethnic discrimination in the working life and the current legal position in Sweden, to see if Sweden has effective legal protection against discrimination. The development of international instruments concerning human rights has mainly happened after World War II. Sweden signed many of these instruments, b

What are the effects of being familiar with a supermarket? Many of us do most of our shopping in one supermarket. By doing so we memorize the location of products and different categories in the supermarket. By memorizing we are able to reduce the amount of time and effort needed to go grocery shopping. Participants’ eye movements are recorded when shopping three products (pasta, yoghurt and cerea

Many recognize the phrase Smart Home, but few have actually experienced it. The world of Internet of Things (IoT) is all over the IT industry. The hardware already exists. So, why do we not see these kinds of solutions in reality? A simple Smart Home experience could be a system that consists of a motion sensor and a coffee machine. The motion sensor is placed above your apartment door. When it se

The Swiss franc has had a reputation as a safe haven investment for decades, due to stable economic and political conditions in Switzerland. As a result, capital inflow has been high during times of financial stress around the world, in turn causing appreciating pressure on the real exchange rate. The financial crisis of 2008 was such a period, forcing the Swiss National Bank to peg the Swiss fran

The objective of this Master Thesis is to investigate the homogeneity level of the Partially Premixed Combustion using different injection strategies, for low load engine conditions. In order to achieve this aim, it is necessary to understand the Partially Premixed Combustion process of an engine through the performance of optical measurements in an optical setup. Partially Premixed Combustion (PP

In this thesis a Moving Horizon Estimator (MHE) has been implemented for the JModelica.org platform. JModelica.org is an open-source software platform for simulation and optimization of systems described in the modeling language Modelica. MHE is an optimization-based strategy for state estimation where, at each time step, a finite horizon optimization problem is solved to generate an estimate of t

En undersökning av Selma Lagerlöfs Löwensköldstrilogi ur ett feministiskt perspektiv för att visa hur berättelsen gestaltar en förändring av kvinnans plats i familjen och i samhället. Frågeställningar: Hur förändras kvinnorollen i trilogin? Hur går förändringen till? Vilken är Lagerlöfs vision om den nya kvinnorollen?

Var och hur en fysisk person väljer att bo kan bero på många olika saker. Lagstiftarens ambition är att beskattningen av bostaden inte ska vara en faktor som avgör valet av bostad, utan att beskattning av boendet ska vara neutralt, oavsett vilken boendeform man väljer. Utredningar om, och förslag på, hur detta ska kunna bli verklighet har avlöst varandra under de senaste decennierna. BeskattningWhere and how an individual chooses to live, can be caused by many different things. The legislator´s ambition is that taxation of the dwelling is not a factor that determines the choice of residence. Taxation of the accommodation shall be neutral, no matter what accommodation you choose. Investigations and proposals on how this can become a reality had followed, one after the other, over the past

The purpose of this thesis was to study language transfer from the majority language Swedish to the minority language Arabic (the Syrian-Palestinian dialect). The problem negative language transfer causes is that dominant languages affect minority languages in a society in a negative way. The result is that the speakers of these languages never learn how to speak these languages properly. If we kn

Studien visar vikten av lojala kunder och att varumärkeslojalitet inom banksektorn handlar om att samla alla tillgångar på samma ställe. Det har blivit svårare att skapa lojala kunder då de fysiska kundmötena, som en konsekvens av digitaliseringen, sker i allt mindre utsträckning. Följden blir att frontpersonalen idag har högre krav på sig att leva upp till kundernas förväntningar och att bankerna