Hur skapar man en en Reggio Emilia skola med en god utemiljö? Vad är en ens Reggio Emilia? Varför är en god utemiljö viktig? Hur fungerar dagens förskolor? Vad är bra och vad behövs förbättras? Det här examensarbetet har väckt många frågor som jag fått många givande svar på genom intervjuer, studiebesök och litteratur. Kunniga pedagoger, förskolechefer, ateljéristas, verksamma arkitekter och Natur

This thesis is evaluating the German development projects in Kenya in the Green Economy area. The focus is lying on the time period after the Green Economy Strategy and Implementation plan was introduced from the Kenyan government in 2016. Previous studies to this topic explored four main possible challenges for this type of projects: legal framework, absorptive capacity, willingness of the civil

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att beskriva och analysera vilka resurser olika typer av nya företag efterfrågar i startprocessen, samt vilka av dessa resurser en universitetsinkubator erbjuder dessa företag. Studien ämnar således att utforska och beskriva matchningsprocessen mellan utbud och efterfrågan av resurser. Metod: Forskningsstrategin som använts är en kvalitativ fallstudie, där den empiriskPurpose: The purpose of the study is to describe and analyze which resources different types of new companies demand in the start-up process, and which of these resources a university incubator offers these companies. The study thus aims to explore and describe the matching process between supply and demand for resources. Methodology: The research strategy used is a qualitative case study, where t

This thesis aims to evaluate MathWorks HDL (Hardware Descriptive Language) Coder and compare the results with designs produced by its vendor dependent counterparts. The focus is mainly on evaluate the design effort needed to close timing and to get optimal resource mapping for a selected design. Different tests were carried out with the designs made in HDL Coder ranging from a small design to a co

The purpose of the project has been to investigate how people dwell and furnish in recently build apartments. The project consists of a dwelling survey where 14 tenants in four different types of apartments, architects, realtors and an availability expert are interviewed to give their view on how Swedish regulations regarding housing corresponds to how people live, and want to live. The project co

Costa Rica is a developing country that has been the first to produce electricity form 100% renewable sources for 300 days and its representatives advise other countries to “follow Costa Rica’s example”. The aim of this study is to inspect this phenomenon from the points of factors that contributed to it, the country’s national innovation system capabilities, and technology transfer issues. The te

The aim of this thesis is to examine how archival institutions perceive their role in managing archives that contain witness testimonies from Holocaust survivors. Choices made by the archival institutions in regards of preservation, digization, ethics and availability to users are analyzed. Three archives are the focus of this research. The Polish Research Institute archive contains witness testim

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the intra-organizational process during the implementation of evidence-based working methods in a Swedish municipality. The case study was conducted in the municipality of Malmö Stad, and the empirical material comprises documents and interviews with one program coordinator and four development leaders. Content analysis was used to analyze the docu

Biotech companies on the stock market follow a rigorous clinical process for their product development. The implications of this for investors is an alternative approach to stock valuation that incorporates the uncertainty to the potential future cash flows will be realized. The 3- step clinical process prior to regulatory approval each increase the probability of having drug candidates approved.

In today’s competitive market landscape, companies in an early phase with a business model that in the long term is expected to generate revenues from a global customer base, are facing increasing challenges to realise their growth targets. At the same time, global economical, technological, and societal megatrends forces incumbents and new challengers alike to adapt their modus operandi. The purp

Urban inequalities are one of the most important questions in contemporary times. One urban area that is struggling with inequalities is Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden. The new comprehensive plan for Malmö from 2018, states that a socially balanced city is necessary for further development of Malmö, to tackle inequalities the plan states that all citizens need to be able to shape society

Sammanfattning Titel: Byggsektorns syn på hållbar utveckling. Författare: Rebecca Kulneff Handledare: Moohammed Wasim Yahia, arkitekt och lärare vid boende och bostadsutveckling på Lunds Universitet och Mattias Ryckert, arkitekt. Examinator: Erik Johansson, lärare vid boende och bostadsutveckling på Lunds Universitet. Bakgrund: Bakgrunden till arbetet grundar sig i den problematik som uppdagAbstract Background: The background for this essay takes its place in the problem that has been detected due to the human activity on the planet. An interest took place for the perception of sustainability which led to the study on how the building sector relates to a sustainable society. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain comprehension about how the building sector is working for a

The increasingly interwoven landscape of development and security (often referred to as the ‘development-security nexus’) has become a salient feature of contemporary international relations. This thesis will investigate what this nexus entails and how it impacts the reality of developmental projects ‘on the ground’. From a theoretical perspective, this thesis will utilize the Foucauldian inspired

Child institutionalization is a common and growing phenomenon embedded in today’s Ugandan society, with a variety of socio-economic factors contributing to it. The increase of child institutionalization has coincided with an increase of research into the developmental effects of growing up in institutional care, which proved to have negative impacts on a child’s cognitive, physical and social-emot

Abstract Title: Developing an Inventory Control Policy and Forecasting Model for an E- Commerce Company Authors: Patrik Lorentsson & Nilan Nabavieh Supervisor: Johan Marklund, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics Background: Increasingly competitive business environments forces companies to develop better control of the material flows in their supply chain. Inventories are oft

In this thesis we apply deep reinforcement learning to the problem of recom- mending music. A content-based approach is taken, and features from music is extracted with a pretrained deep learning music-tagger. For training, user- interactions are simulated.

By making a descriptive comparison, this paper examines how the prevention against hate crime works in Sweden and Germany. The aim is to compare both the work in general, and also the work against hate crime that takes place on the Internet and in social media. A number of concepts, such as democracy, human dignity and freedom of speech, serve as the theoretical foundation. From the results, it ap

There is an increasing need for companies to showcase and communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives to stakeholders, yet the majority of former research on CSR communication provides little insight into how CSR is communicated to internal stakeholders. This thesis aims to understand from an employee and managerial perspective how a Swedish CSR frontrunner communicates its