Bakgrund: Dagens logistik måste aktivt arbeta med att minska på mängden matsvinn som uppstår i försörjningskedjor. Denna studie visar hur livsmedelsindustrin kan använda sig av innovativa lösningar så som intelligenta förpackningar för att förbättra kvalitetssäkringen av logistiktjänsterna. Under tempererade transporter exponeras förpackningar för varierande temperatur, luftfuktighet samt vibratio

Vid kusten får man ofta vända kappan efter vinden på grund av det oberäkneliga vädret. Vind, temperatur och molnighet kan variera mycket på kort tid och på korta avstånd. Ett speciellt igenkännbart fenomen under molnfria sommardagar i havsnära områden är den svalkande vinden från havet, som friskar i under morgonen och mojnar mot kvällen. Vinden kallas sjöbris, eller havsbris, och den är orsakenSea breezes are widespread mesoscale phenomena that occur in coastal areas all over the world. This phenomenon affects the coastal weather and can give rise to strong convection and thunderstorms, and is therefore of importance for operational weather prediction, leisure activities and studies in pollution dispersion and wind power production. This study aims at analyzing a possible sea-breeze ca

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become an increasingly popular policy approach in the fight against poverty. In addition to their main goal of reducing poverty, CCT programs are also often claimed to have positive short-term impacts on beneficiary women. This is an interesting claim to examine further since gender equality and female empowerment are generally seen as key issues in gl

A condition for patient choice in health care to promote quality is that patients act in accordance with information about quality and change to better care providers. In this paper I examine the relation between quality information and patient choice of care provider in the primary care of the county Scania in Sweden. As a natural experiment I use a quality-related award given to the best health

The term ‘violence affirming extremism’ has become the dominating way of describing political violence in Sweden. This thesis aims to analyze the construction of the discourse that centers at this term, how it affects the social context in Sweden and what possible purposes could found for this discourse for the Swedish state. The material of this thesis is therefore primarily governmental reports,

After the global financial crisis erupted in the fall of 2008 the Icelandic economy was thrown into recession. It has been suggested that Iceland would have been better off had it been a part of the EU and the European Monetary Union (EMU) and this essay aim at investigating that claim. Entering the EMU entails losing the ability to carry out an independent monetary policy. Therefore I have estima

Syfte: Författarnas syfte med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur konsumenters uppfattning för varumärken förändras när ett varumärke använder sig av provocerande marknadsföring. Ett ytterligare steg är att se de olika varumärkena som testas, som representanter för de varumärkespersonlighet som beskrivs ovan. Därigenom kan mer än bara varumärke studeras. Metod: Kvalitativ undersökning med fyra fokPurpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how consumers’ idea of brands differ when provocative marketing is used. One step further is to see the brands used in the study as representatives for the different categories of Brand Personality. Therefore, a group of brands can be studied, rather than just the one. Methodology: Qualitativ research with four focus groups. Theoretical perspective

Villa homes are designed to be able to tackle many injured leading factors. Today's villa homes are planned and projected by many years of experience in villa construction. No matter how well you planned the project planning and execute it, an injury can occur. Moisture and water damage can occur from a variety of factors, both from the outer- and inner factors. The external factors may be in

Steel structures in an offshore processing environment must be designed for an accidental explosion event. The current verification procedure implemented at Aker Solutions (AKSO) enforces an elastic single degree of freedom (SDOF) analogy to implicitly account for dynamic effects in linear static FE analyses. The implication of this approach is that structures are designed to remain within their e

This paper estimates labor supply effects for informal caregivers in Sweden using four waves of the SHARE data panel. To give daily or weekly care to a parent, step parent or parent in law is found to be more common among women than among men and is associated with lower employment probability for daily caregivers although the causal direction of the relationship is unclear. No negative effect of

This master thesis is a part of a larger interwork between SP, KTH and Alfa Laval funded by the SIO graphene programme, which end goal is to formulate an anti-corrosion coating based on graphene or graphene related materials (GRMs). The investigation is partly based on an article “Novel anticorrosion coatings prepared from polyaniline/graphene composites” from 2012 by Chang et al in combination of

Credibility assessment of testimony is a very important part in the asylum adjudication procedure. The credibility assessment is intended to tell decision-makers whether they should accept the facts as supported by the applicant’s statement. Only those parts of the statement which are recognized as credible will then be considered in determining the validity of the asylum claim. This thesis exam

In this empirical essay, I explore how the distribution of pharmacies has altered for the Swedish population since the re-regulation of the pharmacy market in 2009. I first review the current situation on the pharmacy market in Sweden and the conditions regarding the change in market structure from a previous state-run monopoly to a less regulated market. Further, I describe outcomes in other coun

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Examensarbetet har genomförts på Institutionen för Maskinteknologi Industriell Produktion LTH vid Lunds universitet. Examensarbetet påbörjades som en del av ett uppdrag med utgångspunkt i att söka nya materialkonstanter för beräkning av skärmotstånd och specifik skärkraft i ett system för rekommendation av skärdata. Examensarbetet utvecklades att inkludera en vidare vy av skärbarheten i totalt 16

The thesis presents a basic validation study on the use of evacuation models for the simulation of ascending stair evacuation. The validation of the evacuation models is performed against a benchmark experiment consisting of a 50-floor ascending evacuation. The aim is to find which models – depending on the input calibration effort -can provide conforming results against the benchmark experiment r

Youth unemployment in Georgia is severe. In order to bring young people closer to the labour market, the strategy of building vocational education and training (VET) system is actively pursued. However, business engagement in this process is low, impeding the system to provide the skills and knowledge tailored to labour market needs. The purpose of the thesis is to find out the reasons behind the

This study investigates how the usage of a Kenyan mobile banking service called M-pesa affects women empowerment and if different forms of usage have a significant effect. This is done through the distribution of a questionnaire in Nairobi, Kenya. Through both a OLS and a 2SLS model the answers about a person’s usage of M-pesa is then run against a constructed a women empowerment index and against

Samordnade varuleveranser Tack vare urbanisering blir våra städer förtätade. Fler ska samsas på mindre ytor samtidigt som behovet av leveranser till städerna ökar. Genom att samordna leveranserna som ska köras in till stadskärnan i en stad kan man undvika den negativa miljöpåverkan som tunga fordon belastar en stad och dess invånare med. Att leverera den sista biten fram till butik är ofta den sDue to the fact that urbanization increases cities are getting denser. With increasing population comes increased demand for goods and services. However, the more transportation of goods within urban areas the more greenhouse gases is emitted and particular matter spread. In addition to this, an increasing amount of heavy vehicles lead to noise pollution and congestion, which could limit a city’s