Some colors might have different connotations depending on people’s cultural backgrounds. When talking about evacuation, the color employed for exit signs and flashing lights plays a significant role because it is in charge of transmitting a message to the evacuees, either danger or safety. The aims of this study are to evaluate the influence of red and green emergency wayfinding systems on people

This report focuses the use of egress models to study the airport evacuation with special focus on security doors in case of total evacuation in airport terminal buildings. Case studies are made in arrival hall and departure hall of the airport terminal based on the scenarios identified in a preliminary risk analysis carried out in the terminal. Evacuation strategies are employed in the two differ

The cost of fires caused by arson on a global-scale is estimated between 0.1 and 0.4% of a country's GDP. If arsonist uses liquid accelerants is the potential for growth much greater and the risk for loss of live is increased. It is desirable to reduce this risk by anticipating the accelerant in the design phase. In this thesis the possibility of predicting components behaviour when accelerant

Sjöfart är ett av de största framtida miljöhoten mot Östersjön. Samtidigt är det den marina aktivitet som är minst reglerad inom känsliga skyddsområden. Det beror till stor del på svårigheten att överföra information om skyddsvärden till sjökort. Även bristen på kunskap och forskning inom dessa områden är stor. Processen att kartlägga alla marina aktiviteter som pågår inom olika geografiska områdIn April 2014, the European Parliament endorsed a new Directive on Maritime Spatial Planning, a way to analyse and organize marine areas in an economically efficient and sustainable way. The Spatial planning includes mapping of all marine activities, such as aquaculture, shipping, nature conservation, military and wind turbines. Many interests are competing for the same geographical areas, and the

Background: Migrant health remains a rather under researched topic, particularly within the migration from and to countries within West Africa. For Cabo Verde, a ten-island archipelago, approximately 500 kilometers off the coast of Senegal, immigration is a fairly recent phenomenon and has caught the country off guard. The aim of this study was to explore how West African immigrants living in Cabo

There is a bright future for friggeboden. So far it has been a success, by allowing the villa owner to take responsibility for his/her own plot and be able to build as they want. Until now has the maximum size been 15m2, which is big enough for a guest cottage, shed or as hobby house. Now the government will change the law the 1st of July 2014 to 25m². This allows permanent housing in friggeboden.

Detta projekt tar avstamp i uttrycket social matlagning. Ordet social matlagning är en sammansättning av två ord som var och en för sig kan betyda många saker. Matlagning kan vara att ta det man har och kombinerar detta för att få mat på bordet. Ordet social kan var att man bry om sina medmänniskor. Vi tror att kombinationen av dessa två ord kan leda till något större än vad orden gör var och en f

Arable land is a valuable natural resource. In Iceland the total size of potential arable land has not been determined but preliminary estimates vary from 420 ha to 15000 ha. These have been based on different definitions of potential arable land and assumptions for minimum continuous land area. In 2010 the Farmers Association of Iceland concluded that there was a need for a standard for evaluatin

The purpose of this essay is to investigate if small physical retailers within the beauty industry encounter any problems due to consumers’ increased access to information through the use of the Internet. The conclusion from this study is that small physical retailers face three main problems due to consumers’ increased access to information. In addition, a new model of the consumer buying process

Examensarbetets titel: Lojalitetsprogram i flygbranschen - Hur SAS skapar värde med EuroBonus Seminariedatum: 4/6 2014 Ämne/kurs: FEKH19, Examensarbete i Strategic Management på kandidatnivå, 15hp Författare: Sophia Andersson, Maida Bejtula och Pernilla Johansson Handledare: Merle Jacob Fem nyckelord: Lojalitetsprogram, värdeskapande, VRIO, EuroBonus, SAS Syfte: Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka

Akut hjärtsjukdom, som bland annat innefattar hjärtinfarkt och vissa typer av kärlkramp, utgör idag en ledande orsak till lidande och död i världen. På svenska akutmottagningar söker varje år cirka 180 000 patienter för bröstsmärta, vilket kan vara ett symtom på någon av ovanstående sjukdomar. För att snabbt komma fram till rätt diagnos ska ansvarig läkare väga samman patientens sjukdomshistoria, Introduction: There is a need for risk stratification of emergency department (ED) chest pain patients. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events risk score (GRACE RS) predicts adverse events in patients with confirmed acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and has been validated on unselected ED patients with chest pain. Clinical gestalt is the unstructured overall clinical assessment, based on the ph

Accessibility is something that many take for granted. For people with disabilities is, more often than not, the case not so. This in particular becomes a problem if the ability to reside in a community’s streetscape becomes a problem. It is mainly these people that society must adapt to. Public transport is an important part of society. Buses are a large part of the public transport. Public trans

In the modern times of industry where hydraulic are of use, all the motors run on their nominal workload, where the pumps are constant. The given flow is regulated with the help of valves which chokes the flow. From an energy perspective this contributes to a great amount of energy losses, where the demand can be much lower than the supply. We can observe from today’s society that the energy costs

Mobile applications have become really important in today’s technological society. To be able to meet the customers’ demands, these applications must undergo a constant alteration and improvement. Many companies must therefore make their mobile applications support different platforms effectively. The purpose and goal of this thesis is to find a way to create a native iOS application from an Andro

Building information modelling, BIM, is a well-known and established conception within the construction business. In the building industry BIM technology is used as a tool and a work method by different occupational groups within planning, production and facility management. Due to the usage of BIM differs between the fields, so does the software’s as well. The software’s are using different types

Abstract To build airtight buildings is something that is becoming increasingly important for operators in the construction industry. As stricter demands on airtightness and lower energy consumption are required This airtight project addresses two aspects of the construction for the success of air sealing. Partly which methods to use to get a building airtight but also what utilities have been dev

This report is dealing with the question whether or not it’s possible to choose components, for an automated system, in a way that allows the system itself to act as flawless as possible and to be able to inform the operator when service is due and therefore minimize the overall downtime of the system. It was soon established that this cannot be done simply by choosing components but has to be don

Vi ska kolla på hur leverantörerna ser på hur de kan göra bättre redovisningar/beredningar på plats på det som de levererar, ex fönster. Vad de tycker entreprenören kan göra bättre för att de ska göra bättre beredningar och göra de på plats. Detta gör vi genom att granska exempelvis 5 av Skanskas stora leverantörer, som de vet gör bra leveranser. Samt 5 mindre leverantörer. Det resultat vi får fra

Seminar date: 2nd June 2014 Purpose: The study's purpose is to investigate accountability in social enterprises. This is to answer the main thesis question of whether social enterprises and their accountability could provide the world with an alternative form of capitalism where humanitarian crises are better addressed. Methodology: The study applies a qualitative approach based on inductive

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a term increasingly used in academic discussions, political debates, media, corporate reports, Non-Governmental Organizations’ (NGOs) reports, and even by civil society and the public. But what does CSR actually mean? What do CSR practices actually constitute? Another increasingly debated issue is the growing power of the business sector and its direct effe