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Klimatförändringar medför ökad risk för översvämningar och kustnära Göteborg är särskilt utsatt. Aktörerna som arbetar med att hantera översvämningsrisker bildar ett socialt nätverk och hur det ser ut kan få stora effekter för riskhantering i samhällsplaneringsprocessen. Via examensarbetet har det nu gjorts försök att kartlägga och analysera effekterna av detta nätverk. Förändringar i klimatet orDue to today’s climate changes, the risk of flooding is increasing, both caused by rising sea levels and as a consequence of heavy rainfall. Urban environments are largely consisting of impermeable surfaces, unable to permeate large amounts of water in the event of a flooding. In the scope of this work, the aim has been to map the social network of actors involved in flood management in Gothenburg

Fruits and leafy vegetables are the major target of pathogenic E.coli outbreaks. Usually soil and other contaminants present in the land provides easy pathway for pathogenic bacteria to enter the plant body. Later upon consumption of such infected food lead to various health problems. To overcome such outbreaks, during our study one of the leafy vegetable spinach was used as a medium to understand

This report describes the design and development of new concepts for pan, tilt and rotate functionality in fixed domes at Axis Communications. The aim of the master’s thesis was to generate a concept that are smaller and less expensive compared to the solutions today. Remote pan, tilt and rotate is a unique feature which makes it possible to remotely control a camera during installation and redire

The term “phoenix man” is often used by the Internet users to describe the man who grew up in the rural areas but later studied or worked in the cities. The purpose of this research is to analyze how the “phoenix man” is understood by the online public and what social facts or implications reflected by this term. The research employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative method: online obs

Amadeus IT Group provide revenue management systems for the airline industry. The concept of overbooking has been known and applied within the industry since the middle of the 20th century, thus playing a large role in a revenue management prospect. The passengers booking data is something that could improve the forecasting of the rate at which passengers don’t show up or cancel their respective fl

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the relationship between Free Trade Agreement and the Environment. To do so, the thesis uses a case study on the Asean China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) and the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) to analyse how free trade agreements can produce negative externalities on the environment. It will enquire on how free trade agreements exacerbate levels of re

The aim of this study is to unveil and present different notions of ideals of motherhood in Denmark during the first half of the 20th century which appear in medical guidelines for parents and parents to be, emphasizing on the way motherhood has been idealized and regulated and how power has been exerted over mothers and women’s lives and bodies. The study takes a look at earlier existing ideas ab

This text aims at describing an archaeology of relations. Methodologically many approaches are being tested, through a multiple-angled discourse analysis. Relational archaeology studies the interactive middlegrounds in between two actors, or between smaller components that exist within one single actor. What is of relevance here is then how to define and outline the »actor«. This thesis demands th

Increased population and living standards promotes an unsustainable usage of natural resources. In recent years, increased focus has been put on the bio-refinery industry which shows promising attributes where 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) is a prominent platform chemical. In this project, production of HMF from fructose using primarily acid silica under benign reaction conditions was investigate

Prebiotics are non-digestible carbohydrates that selectively stimulate the growth and activity of health promoting bacteria in the colon, resulting in homeostasis to the gut environment. It is considered to be the solution of many health-related diseases such as type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Arabinoxylooligosaccharides, the hydrolysis product of arabinoxylan from plant cell w

The current Syrian crisis has pushed over 4.8 million people to seek asylum abroad, mainly in the neighbouring countries. In Jordan urban refugees, who represent 82% of registered refugees, lack visibility and help. Women are in a particularly difficult situation due to their multiple burdens as caregivers and homemakers. Yet, Syrian forced migrant women settled in the capital city of Amman demons

This thesis explores the right to access employment for persons with disabilities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It seeks to ascertain what entitlements and for whom this right entails. Given the central conceptual role disability and equality play in the Convention, this thesis explores the prevailing models of understanding of both disability and equality. Af

After having received criticism during previous inter-governmental conferences the European union decided to arrange a convention on the future of europe during 2002 in order to draft a European constitution. This was done to foremost to improve the transparency, participation and decision-making in the preparatory phase of inter-governmental conferences. At first, it received little attention, bu

Återfall i brottslighet har under alla tider varit ett vanligt förekommande problem. Unga personer, dömda till sluten ungdomsvård, löper på grund av sin låga ålder extra stor risk att återfalla i brott. Svensk statistik uppvisar att så många som 60 procent återfaller i brottslighet redan inom ett års tid. Uppsatsens syfte är att utreda vilka orsaker som kan hänföras till återfall i brottslighet efRecidivism has always been a common problem. Young people, who are convicted and subjected to closed institutional youth care detention (LSU) runs, due to their young age, a particularly high risk to reoffend. Swedish criminal statistics shows that as many as 60 percent relapse into crime within a year. The purpose of this essay is to investigate the causes that can be attributed to relapse into c

Facebook is a global phenomenon with only a few previous studies. This study has therefore with the help from Robert A. Dahl’s five criterions for democracy studied if Facebook is violating the Swedish democratic standards. A sixth criteria has also been created for this purpose. Some of the previous studies about Facebook and technique based websites have been the main source for information. How

This study examines whether the new EU enlargement strategy has brought expected results and led to the changes that go beyond adoption of formal rules and institutions in Montenegro. It establishes whether improvement in the sphere of judicial independence occurred since the introduction of the new EU approach to enlargement, in the next most likely candidate, by analysing the impact of each comp

The European Union (EU) is a gender equality actor growing in importance. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of gender equality in the EU context by examining the EU enlargement process. The study takes a discursive approach to gender equality and is guided by the question: What is the meaning of gender equality in the EU enlargement context? Using critical frame analysis, the key

This thesis analyses how social policy in the form of benefit sanctions targeted at the long-term unemployed is made by case workers within the Swedish Public Employment Agency (Arbetsförmedlingen). Since the 1990s, rising unemployment and fiscal pressures on the welfare states made countries more oriented towards policies of “activation”. In 2007, the Job and Development Programme (JOB), was init