Sveriges vattenledningsnät kräver kontinuerliga och stora in- vesteringar och måste underhållas på ett effektivt sätt; syftet med den här studien var därför att utröna vilka ledningsattribut som är viktigast för att i en ANN-modell identifiera ledningar med hög risk för läckage. Detta gjordes genom att först använda attri- buturvalsmetoderna ReliefF och Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) tillsammanSweden’s water pipe network demands continuous and large investments and must be maintained in an effective way; the aim with this study was therefore to investigate which pipe features are most important to identify pipes with a high risk of leakage in an ANN-model. This was done by first utilizing the feature selection methods ReliefF and Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) with Random Forest Clas

Efterfrågan inom hälso- och sjukvården ökar på grund av en växande population med allt fler äldre och kroniskt sjuka personer. Dessutom förväntar sig dagens patienter en lättillgänglig vård. För att möta den tilltagande efterfrågan spelar digitalisering en viktig roll. För att digitaliseringen ska lyckas är en god integrationen mellan nya digitala verktyg och befintliga system av stor betydelse. DThe demand in health care is increasing due to a growing population with more elderly and chronically ill people. In addition, the patients expect easy access to health care. To be able to meet the growing demand in the health care, digitization plays an essential role. For the digitization to be successful, a good integration of new digital tools in existing systems is of great importance. Also,

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka huruvida asylsökande uppfattas som rättighetssubjekt i den svenska Riksdagens diskurs om Lagen om eget boende (EBO-lagen), för att därigenom uppmärksamma vilka möjligheter icke-medborgare har att få sina mänskliga rättigheter tillgodosedda i ett nationalstatligt system. För att studera detta använder jag mig av ett teoretiskt perspektiv som har sin utg

Att lämna missbruk kan innebära en rad sociala problem med bland annat ensamhet som följd. Syftet med denna studie är dels att få en ökad förståelse för bakgrunden till uppbrott från missbruk, dels att undersöka vikten av kvinnlig gemenskap i samband med att kvinnor bryter med missbruk samt hur de har det under tiden som följer i nykterheten. Den empiriska grunden bygger på intervjuer med åtta k

Poverty is a common phenomenon among rural smallholder farmer households in developing countries. A large corpus of literature suggests that contract farming -a pre-harvest agreement between farmers and buyers- can improve smallholder farmers' welfare through improved access to markets and thereby promote rural development. These findings have shaped policy recommendations. Existing studies us

Mussels, like other intertidal organisms, depend on the motion of water throughout their entire life cycle. Hydrodynamic forces are essential for the transportation and settlement of mussel larvae, as well as feeding and growth for adult mussels. In this study physical factors, such as local water velocities and wave characteristics, were measured over an eight-week period in Port Alfred Marina, o

The Paris agreement was the first time all 196 member states agreed to find solutions to fight global warming and keep temperatures 2 degree Celsius. Under the umbrella of the agreement, the Paris Declaration on Electro-Mobility and Climate Change called for action towards electric mobility. India is one country attempting to implement Electric vehicles and has set an ambitious target of reaching

In this paper I will set out to show what effect the intended audience of a text has on how one approaches the translation of word play as it appears in comic strips, and how one should analyze those translation. I will do this by analyzing a set of comic strips, all featuring an instance of wordplay which combines the visual and textual elements of the text, which I translated according to metric

The project’s main goal was to develop an understanding of how to gain a higher deep cure of UV-curable waterborne polyurethane dispersions for pigmented systems. Specifically, the project studied and concluded that radicals from oxidation of 1.3-4 wt-% of unsaturated fatty acids in the dry film can initiate radical polymerisation of acrylate groups. Polyester polyols containing 0, 5, 10 and 15 wt

BIM, byggnadsinformationsmodellering, är ett arbetssätt som blir allt vanligare. Det innebär att olika objekt bygger upp en övergripande 3D-modell där man kan finna mängder av information om dessa objekt. Ett objekt kan vara allt ifrån en bropelare till en elstolpe. Syftet med denna rapport är att utifrån Trafikverkets roll som beställare undersöka vilka för- och nackdelar det skulle innebära med BIM, Building Information Modeling, is an increasingly common way of working. This means that different objects build up an overall 3D-model where you can find lots of information about these objects. An object can be anything from a bridge pillar to an electric pole. The purpose of this report is to, based on the Swedish Transport Administrations’ as a client, investigate the advantages and disad

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att utifrån turismens aktörers perspektiv undersöka relationen mellan säsongsturism och hållbarhet. Genom exemplet Sydöstra Skåne med Österlen (hädanefter benämnt som Österlen) illustreras komplexiteten i denna relation. Frågeställningar: Hur förhåller sig och resonerar turismens aktörer kring säsongsturism? Vilka möjligheter och utmaningar till en hållbar utveckling

When attention is divided across vision and hearing, participants typically respond faster when a visual and an auditory target are presented together as compared to when only one of the visual or auditory targets is presented alone. Coactive models of divided attention account for this so-called bimodal advantage by positing a brain architecture whereby the neural activity inspired independently

This study investigates the relationship between women’s empowerment and son preference. Development and women’s empowerment indicators were utilized to explore their effects on son preference, using an ordered logistic model. Data for this study were obtained from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in Azerbaijan in 2006. The results show that women in Azerbaijan have a lower son pr

Studien ämnade att undersöka hur väl personlighet respektive könsidentifiering, var för sig respektive tillsammans, kan predicera ideologisk orientering. För att undersöka detta användes personlighetstestet HEXACO och könsidentifieringstestet BSRI. Syftet med uppsatsen var att öka väljarförståelsen. Studien utgick ifrån ett bekvämlighetsurval (N=272), med 171 kvinnor och 101 män. Samtliga var svenThis aim of this thesis was to examine how well personality and gender-identification, by themselves and combined, were able to predict ideological orientation. This through the personality test HEXACO and gender-identification test BSRI. The purpose of the study was to help improve the understanding of Swedish voters. The sample was a convenience sample (N=272), with 171 women and 101 men, all Sw

Knowledge transfer and learning in strategic alliances is mentioned in the literature as a business instrument to gain new knowledge in order to innovate and improve the competitive advantage. Most of the existing literature has been focusing on large organisations. Therefore, a better understanding about small and medium enterprises (hereafter referred to as SMEs) is necessary. By using a qualita

Introduction: This study is focused on the development and comparison of different extraction methods for vitamin D (VD) analysis in liver samples. Background: VD deficiency is related to several diseases, so it is crucial to correctly detect and quantify its concentration in the human body. Despite the existing methodologies for VD analysis, the selectivity and the sensitivity of the methods for

Denna rapport behandlar väg E6 mellan Helsingborg-Vellinge med avseende på omkörningsförbudet för tung trafik som infördes den 18e mars år 2019. Väg E6 genom hela Skåne har under en lång tid präglats av trafiksäkerhets- och framkomlighetsproblem. Denna rapport skrevs i syfte att utreda på vilka sätt omkörningsförbudet påverkat just dessa faktorerna, d.v.s. framkomlighet och trafiksäkerhet. För attThis report deals with road E6 between Helsingborg-Vellinge and regards the overtaking prohibition for heavy traffic which was introduced on the 18th of March 2019. Road E6 through Skåne has during a long period been affected by traffic safety and availability issues. This report was written with the purpose of examining in what ways the overtaking prohibition has affected these factors, meaning a

This paper aims to answer the following research question: “To what degree do informal institutions influence the business strategy of developed multinational enterprises in China?” By using the comparison of existing literature and two primary interviews from strategic professionals, we were able to discover the most important factors for DMNEs to consider when entering China. The Uppsala Mode