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Region of Interest Prediction in Football Using Artificial Neural Networks

Traditional broadcasting of sport events, such as football or icehockey games, require continuos attention of a camera operator in order to capture the area which is of interest to a viewer. In many cases, however, this is not a practical solution, due to e.g. costs, and an automated solution is preferable. The first step of such an automated algorithm is to determine what part of the scene, calle

En fallstudie om kvalitén på matavfall i flerfamiljshus

Matavfall, hur svårt är det egentligen att sortera rätt? Under de senaste åren i Sverige har det blivit allt viktigare att vi källsorterar vårt matavfall. Ett initiativ som har genomförts i syfte att minska den miljöpåverkan som orsakas av livsmedelsproduktionen. För att detta ska fungera krävs att vi sorterar vårt avfall rätt. Idag gör vi inte detta, utan vi slänger allt från plast, kattsand, tOne of the top priorities today in Sweden is to minimize the environmental impact caused from the food production. Swedish municipalities are therefor currently working to influence households to reduce their amount of food waste and increase the source separation. Relatively new statistics from municipalities has shown that the recycling ratio and the quality is significantly higher in single hou

Exploring Needs and Possibilities of mHealth Services for Persons with Chronic Disease

Antalet personer som lever med en kronisk sjukdom ökar, detta som en konsekvens av bland annat en snabbt ökande äldre befolkning. Kroniska sjukdomar orsakar inte bara mänskligt lidande, utan är också en ekonomisk börda för samhället. För att lindra lidandet och minska kostnaderna kopplade till kroniska sjukdomar kan användandet av digitala hälsotjänster vara en möjlighet. För närvarande är förväntThe amount of people living with chronic diseases is increasing. Chronic diseases do not only induce human suffering, it is also an economic burden on society. To ease the suffering and reduce the costs connected to chronic diseases, the usage of digital health services might be a possibility. Currently, the expectations on such services are high, but not met. To better meet the expectations, this

Daylighting in environmentally certified buildings. Subjective and objective assessment of MKB Greenhouse, Malmö, Sweden

What could be considered an adequate level of daylight in buildings has become a debated question in the Swedish building industry. The current daylight requirements are often found difficult to meet in practice, especially in combination with other requirements regarding energy use. Outdated daylight requirements in the national building code combined with limited knowledge about the subjective i

The role of foreign ownership on open innovation in emerging economies.

This paper addresses a gap in the open innovation in the emerging countries. The main purpose was to describe the open innovation in Russian better and contribute to academic literature. The study researches the effect of foreign ownership on open innovation in Russia. The study aims to better describe how foreign owned organizations build their open innovation network in Russia. It uses qualitati

”Poppa upp och poppa bort” - en kvalitativ intervjustudie om att arbeta förebyggande mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck.

Projektformen som länge varit en utbredd verksamhetsform inom exempelvis byggindustrin har kommit att bli allt vanligare även i arbetet med sociala frågor. Resursteam Heder är ett ettårigt projekt som arbetar förebyggande mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Projektets syfte är både att vara ett metodstöd till yrkesverksamma som i sitt yrke möter ungdomar i en hederskontext samt att utgöra en fl

Ambidextrous product development - An investigation into the tension between exploration and exploitation

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate what drives the tension between exploration and exploitation in a product development process (PDP) as well as trying to understand if and how it can be managed. Research questions: What drives the tension between exploration and exploitation in a product development process? How can the tension between exploration and exploitation be managed in

Removing Dry Particles From Gas

Alfdex is the market leader for high efficient solutions for removing particles from crankcase gases in diesel engines. Alfdex aims to expand to new markets by exploring the possibility to adapt their technology to clean the intake air of diesel engines. When designing and developing air cleaning systems, the two most critical parameters are the pressure drop and the cleaning efficiency. A Computa

The Pursuit of Happiness - Satisfaction from Employment and Entrepreneurship

On average, entrepreneurs have lower incomes than employed individuals, work longer hour, and endure more stress. In spite of the grim reality, research has consistently shown entrepreneurs are more satisfied with their lives than employees. Through interviews with three former employees who have all undergone a transition to entrepreneurship, this study brings an in-depth understanding of how a s

Mobile Money Adoption in East Africa: A cross-country study of best- and least-performing countries

Mobile money is a digital financial innovation enabling electronic payments and transfers through mobile phones. It has proven to be a convenient, safe and cheap way for money exchange in developing countries where access to traditional banking services is limited. This thesis aims to explore why Small and Medium Enterprises in Zambia do not adopt mobile money in an otherwise well-developed region

Swimming against the current : the journey of Canadian Transition initiatives in their quest for transformative change

Humanity's current resource use patterns are unsustainable, and corrective action is required at all levels. Grassroots social innovation groups have great potential to contribute to solutions. The Transition movement has taken hold in Canada, but little is known about its successes and challenges in creating conditions for transformative change. Aimed at social innovation practitioners as w

[Em]powering communities? : explaining the changing role and nature of Costa Rica’s cooperatives from successful community-led rural electrification to failing community-led electricity generation

Concerns about energy-related emissions and energy dependence and security while also achieving the SDGs are fuelling the rising interest in socio-technical transitions towards more sustainable energy systems. Community energy projects have been proposed as a tool for this transition to renewable energy, but little is known about its potential to foster the wider transformation of the energy syste

”Detta är bara vårt, här hänger vi och vi får snacka om vad fan vi vill” : En kvalitativ undersökning av personers upplevelser av att vara en del av feministiska nätverksgemenskaper, fria från män

The aim with this bachelor thesis is to to create an understanding for how people who primary do not define themselves as men experience the community in digital networks that is separatist for them, as well as examine what significance separatism has for people's perceived sense of community. The informants’ experiences of being a part of digital feminist communities that are free from men, a

Prototyp av resurshanteringssystem

Pixelant AB is a web development company developing solution for customers in need of web applications. To keep track of the servers hosting their customer’s sites they needed a prototype solving this issue. Pixelant AB wanted to know whether they could solve this issue by building an Angular application to keep track of their inventory such as the server data whilst being able to extend the funct

Undersökning och framtagning av hårdvara för ONE Demand

This thesis was done in collaboration with, and on behalf of, One Nordic AB. The purpose was to examine the system One Demand, a system used for sampling measurement data, to begin the development of a new version of the system. The new system is comprised of two parts, a central unit and a graphical user interface. The first step was to find a single board computer, on which the computer program

The Role of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC) in Lund in the Broader Context of the Integration of Ethiopian and/or Eritrean Immigrants in Sweden

The study focused on the role of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC) in Lund in helping its congregants integrate into the larger Swedish society. It is an empirical study conducted in two different parishes of the EOTC in Lund. The study identified social capital and its various forms development among immigrants as the driving force of their integration into Swedish society. In additio

Moth and Birch

The goal of this thesis is to build a near-real time defoliation detector that could be used, early in the spring, to find out which areas of a birch forest are being affected by an insect outbreak. The importance of a reliable detection at the beginning of the spring lies on the possibility for an early intervention. The data on which the study is based is the Normalized Difference Vegetation Ind

Brandskydd i behovsprövade särskilda boenden - En studie av det organisatoriska brandskyddet

This thesis aims to evaluate the fire safety in special accommodations in Sweden. A survey was carried out along with interviews involving the regular staff of the special accommodations. It was found that special accommodations for the elderly suffering from dementia have the lowest share of personnel during the night that can help with evacuation in relation to individuals in need of physical he

Understanding Information Based Processes in Traffic Modeling

This thesis covers the automatic update of the model parameters in traffic modelling using two mathematical tools, the Relative Entropy Rate and the path-wise Fisher Information Matrix. The traffic model used is based on a lattice of cells, representing the road, that can be either occupied or empty that is updated with a kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm. Because of fluctuating traffic density during