The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an agile methodology that aligns collaboration between multiple teams in agile software development. SAFe is commonly being applied to global environments where team members are sitting distributed, through so-called virtual teams. The aim of this study is to investigate how the Scaled Agile Framework is perceived by employees working within a virtual team sett

Vägar är en onekligen central del i vårt globala samhälle. De betyder kontakt och förflyttning för oss, men för djuren är dem ofta hinder vilket kan leda till att habitat fragmenteras och att djur isoleras. När djuren isoleras kan de inte nå nya resurser eller nya habitat, eller hitta en partner. Detta kan innebära att djuren får sämre överlevnadschanser och svårare att fortplanta sig. I värsta faHabitat fragmentation is a common problem in relation with road infrastructure which leads to mortality, isolation of animal populations, and has a negative effect on biodiversity. Animal crossings have been implemented in many countries and are a useful tool to mitigate these problems but they are expensive to build. This thesis explores the methodological approaches used to evaluate how wildlife

This thesis aims to gain a better understanding of the modern subjugation of nature and women in the United States, by looking at the recent history of the Environmental Justice Movement (nature) and Reproductive Justice Movement (women). Through examining the history of these movements and relevant politics from 1970 to present day, events can be analyzed to shed light on the current political si

This study aimed to investigate the value of HEXACO personality traits in predicting job crafting, as well as the relationship between the proactive dimensions of HEXACO (extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness) and job crafting, work engagement and employment types. Based on previous literature findings, this study proposed that job crafting will mediate the relationship between personality

Detta arbete syftar till att undersöka hur lärare och elever förhåller sig till de uppgifter och den bedömning som förekommer i samband med skönlitterär läsning i ämnet svenska på gymnasiet. Studien inriktade sig mer specifikt på en elevstrategi, som getts begreppet genvägsläsning, där elever inte själva läser föreskrivna verk utan istället läser sekundärkällor om verket. Som teoretiskt ramverk an

The Swedish national syllabi for the subject of English challenges upper secondary students to not only produce text, but to interact with and through it; students should actively engage with the learning process through reading, writing, and speaking. Previous research within this field has investigated the relationship between reading and writing, as well as how to use writing to complement the

Har ergonomi fler funktioner än att förebygga skador? Denna studie undersöker hur fyra gitarrister kan gynnas av att spela mer ergonomiskt. Gitarristerna har fått instruktioner av mig hur de ska öva med ett ergonomiskt arbetssätt. Det studien syftar på är att undersöka hur det hjälper deras uthållighet, teknik, fokus och avslappning under gitarrspelandet. Studien är utformad som aktionsforskning dDo ergonomics have more functions than preventing injuries? This study examines how four guitarists can benefit from playing with ergonomics in focus. The study examines how it helps their endurance, technique, focus and relaxation while playing guitar. The guitarists have been given instructions on how to practice more ergonomically. The study is designed as action research in which the guitarist

Today’s working life is becoming increasingly flexible, which is a consequence of and enabled by the technological development that is constantly affecting organizations around the world. According to a Swedish study from 2013 almost half (47 %) of the jobs on the Swedish labor market can be described as partly or even completely unregulated. But the question is whether this flexibility affects th

The impressive growth of smart city initiatives can be widely witnessed worldwide. These cities are launched at the effort to improve quality of citizens’ life and help city planners optimize and operationalize management of urban infrastructures. Smart cities are characterized by technologies and systems that are sources of high-volume and high-variety data sources which can be gathered, stored a

Servitut är ett rättsförhållande mellan fastigheter där den ena fastigheten har rätt att nyttja den andra fastigheten för att komplettera fastighetens behov så att den kan användas funktionellt och ändamålsenligt. En grundregel för servitut är att rättigheten ska gälla tillsvidare. I vissa situationer är det dock möjligt att upphäva servitutet. Ett servitut som upphävs är i de flesta fall berättigThe master thesis aims to examine which profit-sharing principle that is appropriate for repeal of easement for the release of development rights and if recent court deci-sions on the matter has had any impact on these situations. Easement is a legal relationship between real properties where one property is enti-tled to use the other property to complement the property's needs, so it can be

An alternative energy and chemicals must be found to meet the future demand. A possible source of renewable energy is plant oil since it has a close chemical structure to fossil oil with less refining requirement. However, vegetable oil has not made a significant contribution to replace fossil oil as an energy source because of high demand of fossil oil. It is possible to substitute fossil-based c

Lignin is found in nature as one of the most abundant biopolymers. The large amounts of lignin generated as a by-product or waste from mainly pulp and paper industry have great potential as a source of renewable (aromatic) carbon and could be applied for production of platform chemicals in the proposed circular economy/biorefinery concept. Due to the heterogenous lignin polymer structure, its degr

Smart city is a phenomenon here to stay, constantly evolving and expanding and is fast becoming a paradigm for the transformation of connected cities. More and more parts of cities are being connected and with it, the risks and issues are on the rise. However, smart city projects often overlook the pervasive cyber security risks and threats that permeates these initiatives. The endeavour of this r

The technical department usually own the Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) systems. However, due to the need for faster decision-making, the business users started to demand using BI&A in their daily work as well. The traditional training for BI&I focused more on the technical people, who have proficient technical background while the business users lack technical backgrounds.

The increasing globalization of innovation activities has generated “globally organized web of complex interactions” for innovation, which are called global innovation networks (GINs). The current study on GINs has extended our understanding of network participants to the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from emerging economy, and enlightened us on the drivers behind the participation of

The real space behavior of the GW self-energy in the electron gas model was investigated in this thesis work. The self-energy is naturally decomposed into the screened-exchange and the Coulomb-hole components. The self-energy calculated with different electron densities as function of frequency and position was compared with the static approximation. At low frequency, the screened-exchange self-en