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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Collective country-of-origin (COO) branding has been a previous research focus concentrating on beneficial aspects of this strategy. Regarding this focus, this thesis both lays open and refutes two major existing assumptions in collective branding research through its abductive approach: that collective COO brands are deliberately created and controlled by a brand manager and that a willingness to

For the last decades, the wind energy industry has been growing rapidly. More of the production is moving offshore, and in the Baltic Sea some key areas have been identified as particularly suitable for wind power plants. The European Commission have initiated the Baltic Integrid project to assess the potential of building meshed HVDC grids between the Baltic countries and use these areas for wind

Syfte: Studiens syfte är att beskriva och analysera hur stora svenska företag i tillverkningsindustrin använder sig av styrsystem för att implementera CSR-strategi. Metod: En komparativ forskningsdesign som bygger på en kvalitativ flerfallsstudie innefattande tre stycken företag har valts för att uppfylla studiens syfte. Datainsamlingen har främst skett via semistrukturerade intervjuer. Teoretis

This Master’s Thesis contributes with a rich description of normative control as a social process, through the illustration and interpretation of the practical efforts and sense-making that surround it. These contributions are made possible through an ethnographic case study at a medium-sized, fast-growing dotcom company with a distinct and salient corporate culture and normative control efforts.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur lärare jobbar med att motivera sina elever och vad eleverna uppfattar som motiverande. Detta är gjort genom att intervjua fyra personer som har haft en musiklärare som har varit en betydelsefull motivationskälla för dem. Studien är gjord med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer, där jag har utgått ifrån kategorier inom motivation som är tydliga i tidigare fThe purpose of the thesis is to study how teachers work to motivate their students and what the students perceive as motivating. This is done by interviewing students who have had a music teacher who has been a significant motivation source for them. The study is done using semi-structured interviews, and is based on motivation categories that were clear in previous research. Through the method, t

Since the 1980s, fertility rates in OECD countries stayed almost stable at levels below replacement (2.1 children on average per woman), which can have significant feedback effects on the social welfare system. While females still have the desire to form a family, this wish competes with career ambitions, leading to persistently low fertility rates due to the potential incompatibility of family an

Antalet produkter som använder sig av fingeravtryckssensorer för systemåtkomst har under de senaste åren ökat. Denna typ av teknik är nu i princip standard hos flera olika mobiltelefontillverkare. Fingeravtryckssensorer i mobiltelefoner är ofta så små att de inte kan läsa av ett helt fingeravtryck på en och samma gång. Två avläsningar kan därför ha liten likhet även om de kommer från samma finger.Fingerprint software is widely used in applications such as smartphones. There has to be some overlap between two fingerprint samples in order for them to be considered as belonging to the same finger. Determining if this overlap exists is normally not a problem if a fingerprint sensor is big enough to capture a sample from the whole finger at once. However, if the sensor is small it might capture

The Swedish construction and real estate sector has a significant impact on the total national carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption. Thus, energy efficient and environmentally friendly renovation measures of existing buildings in Sweden plays an important role in the attempt to mitigate the climate changes. By applying the methodology developed by the IEA EBC Annex 56, this study focuse

År 2017 anger 255 av 290 kommuner i Sverige att de har bostadsbrist. Detta innebär att utbudet av bostäder inte möter det behov och den efterfrågan som finns i kommunen. Den nationella prognosen för antalet bostäder som ska byggas fram till år 2025 är 710 000 och grundas på den förväntade befolkningsutvecklingen. Något som inte förklaras av siffran är vilken typ av bostäder som ska byggas. De finnThe lack of housing in Sweden is a problematic question of big importance. Based on the clarification of the Swedish law related to municipal housing responsibility, this study has been conducted with the purpose of investigating whether a statutory housing supply liability is of importance to municipal housing planning. To clarify its importance, interviews have been held with 21 representatives