This thesis explores the connection between climate change and human rights from a legal perspective. Its starting point is the consideration of the plight of small island developing states (SIDS) in light of the adverse impacts of climate change on their territories and populations, such as the exacerbation of resource scarcity by climate change. In light of this, the thesis focuses on how water

Titel: Ett effektivare inköpsarbete genom produktkategorisering Författare: Martin Lundgren & Henrik Sjöstrand Handledare: Anne Landin Professor, avdelningen för Byggproduktion, Lunds Tekniska Högskola Annika Pålsson Projektchef, Midroc Construction Problem: Det har gjorts lite forskning inom inköp i byggbranschen. Byggföretagen själva anser att det finns stor potential inom inköpsarbete saTitle: More efficient purchasing with product classification Authors: Martin Lundgren & Henrik Sjöstrand Supervisors: Anne Landin Professor, Department of Construction Management, Lund University Annika Pålsson Project Manager, Midroc Construction Problem: Small amount of research regarding purchasing in the construction industry even though the construction companies see a large potential

Sensorer för elektriska mätningar i mikrofluida system Behandling av neurodegenerativa sjukdomar, så som Alzheimers och Parkinsons, är en av vår tids största utmaningar. Med en växande åldrade befolkning förväntas antalet patienter öka, och att hitta effektiva behandlingsmetoder blir alltmer brådskande. Den stora utmaningen ligger i att få läkemedel att nå centrala nervsystemet. På grund av blod-Transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) measurements are used to quantitatively monitor cell barrier formation in in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier. TEER measurements in microfluidic in vitro systems are technically problematic and have suffered from poor measurement reproducibility. The aim of this Master’s thesis project was to develop fully integrated electrodes for measuring TE

Due to the tendency among managers to focus on operational performance at the cost of strategic long-term objectives, the purpose of this study has been to shed light on how a company can, by focusing on its people and taking a step forward from “customer first” focus to “people first” as a strategy, ensure sustainable performance. There are different theoretical viewpoints of how companies view t

inSIGHT began as an exploration of the future relationsip between virtual world and physical archiecture. It ended up being a proposal of an augmented reality platfrom for digital manipulation of physical transparency. Augmented reality (AR) is a fairly recent development in technology and not everyone is very well aquainted with it. Therefore research of the evolution of parralel realities as we

Kvinnans förhållande till sitt eget mytiska arv är ett komplicerat sådant, som Beauvoir förklarar: ”representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.” Alienation från sin egen historia har lett till en lång tradition av kvinnliga författare som tacklas med sitt mytiska arv för att försöka hitta

Liposomala drug delivery system för effektivisering av Gemcitabin-baserad behandling i pankreascancer Cancer i bukspottkörteln, även kallat pankreascancer, är en av de mer dödliga cancerformerna. Behandlingsmöjligheterna för patienter med paknreascancer är begränsade och endast 5 % av de drabbade lever i mer än 5 år. Gemcitabin är standardbehandlingen för pankreascancer, men har visat på brister.Gemcitabine is the first line treatment of pancreatic cancer, a treatment that is relying on the expression of human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1 for cellular uptake. Combined with its short blood half-life and intracellular activation steps, Gemcitabine treatment has many limitations. In this project we tried to circumvent the need for cellular uptake as one step towards increasing the

Prostate cancer was in 2012 the second most common type of cancer for males globally. To be able to treat prostate cancer in the most effective way it is important to know how aggressive the cancer is. This aggressiveness is graded using the Gleason score. The diagnosis is done by pathologists inspecting prostate biopsies, but the advancement of pattern recognition using Convolutional Neural Netwo

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka erfarenheterna av att vara ungdom och leva i bostads-området Seved i Sofielund, Malmö. Vilka är de sociala normer och band som finns hos ung-domar i ett geografiskt väl avgränsat bostadsområde? Undersökningen gjordes utifrån en kva-litativ metod baserad på semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju stycken ungdomar boende i Se-ved. Fem teman trädde fram efterhand i

This report details the collaborative project between the Author, Zenit Design AB which is performed on behalf of the bluetooth speaker manufacturer, Orlo AB. The Project is divided in two parts, where the first aims to identify a new market where Orlo’s technical expertise will benefit the user in a unique way and the secondary part is about designing a speaker for the said market. Several poten

The present thesis is a quantitative study investigating the attitudes of Swedish learners of Japanese towards Japanese dialects. Current or previous Swedish students of Japanese completed a survey in which they listened to recordings of five different dialects of Japanese, and evaluated these dialects in terms of various personality traits. Furthermore, their ability to identify the dialects was

Grafdatabaser blir allt vanligare, samtidigt som antalet processorer i moderna datorer ökar mer och mer. Vi tittar i detta arbete på hur parallelliserad sökning kan leda till prestandavinster i den populära grafdatabashanteraren Neo4j. För att ta reda på om det går att parallellisera en enskild sökning i en grafdatabas och hur stor påverkan detta då har på svarstider, skapade vi vår egen modifieIn this report we investigate parallel execution of queries in graph databases. We analyse different methods of parallelization, how to introduce query parallelization to a graph database, which query operations that are suitable for parallelization and if we can improve the execution time of a single query. We do this by designing and implementing a parallel runtime for the Cypher query language

The research problem of this thesis stems from the current legal practices on the humanitarian exception in relation to human smuggling. These practices have been identified as problematic, as family relationships have become the basis for applying the exception. Arguably, this undermines the principle idea of the exception, inasmuch as humanitarian assistance should not be based on kinship. Build

Modern embedded development flows often depend on FPGA board usage for pre-ASIC system verification. The purpose of this project is to instead explore the usage of Electronic System Level (ESL) hardware-software co-simulation through the usage of ARM SoC Designer tool to create a virtual prototype of a cellular IoT modem and thereafter compare the benefits of including such a methodology into the

This thesis will investigate how Erik Hobsbawm’s theory of ‘social banditry’ can be applied to a contemporary setting to explain the strength and workings of ethnic Albanian organised crime groups. The paper will delve into a pre-existing debate surrounding the effectiveness of this theoretical lens as a method to account for the global phenomenon of banditry (particularly in the feudalist age).

Arbetet behandlar värdegrundsarbete på en gymnasieskola i Lund ur ett elevperspektiv men förklarat med stöd av Pierre Bourdieus begrepp. Syftet är att med utgångspunkt från Bourdieus begrepp om kapital, habitus och fält nå fördjupad förståelse av elevernas uppfattning om det värdegrundsarbete som bedrivs vid den gymnasieskola de alla är elever på. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer av såväl enskilda ele

Fossila bränslen är mycket viktiga för dagens samhälle och transportsektorn är nästan helt beroende av dem. Tyvärr påverkar de miljön negativt och bidrar till att växthusgasnivå ökar. Jordens medeltemperatur har ökat med 0.8°C sedan början av industrialiseringen. Den globala uppvärmningen är ett naturligt förlopp, men har under de senaste åren varit en stor del av människors bidrag. Idag har atmosOil is very important for today’s society and the transportation sector is almost completely dependent on this material. Unfortunately, it affects the level of greenhouse gases negatively which in turn contribute to global warming. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially in the sectors that emit the most, as transportation sector. The European Parliament has decid

Current consumption and production cannot rely any longer on traditional linear approach to satisfy increasing needs of the growing population. Instead, the principles of circularity should be applied. One way to do is to adopt industrial symbiosis approach, which entails physical exchange of materials, energy, water and/or by-products between traditionally separate industries. However, the uptake

Cleantech—technologies with a reduced environmental impact—has emerged as an important set of solutions for addressing pollution and its impacts in China. The goal of this study is to map out wherein Chinese actors with first-hand knowledge of cleantech investments think the largest domestic investment opportunities are found, understand the underlying reasons, and then evaluate how consistently t