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As populations and cities grow, spatial planning is crucial. As the planned environment becomes more and more complex, so does managing risk and experts within the field are still debating how this is best done. To asses this undefined area of practice, a case study of the land use plan Kristinebergs Slott 11 was conducted. The main feature of the plan was a crisis management centre which was to b

Visual response to dolphin echolocation It is well known that dolphins use echolocation but how about watching what actually happens? A device that shows the audience some of the information contained within the emitted ultrasonic waves. It is a small fish look-alike device that is created to simulate how the dolphins behave while hunting. By picking up the echolocation signals sent out from the

Efter avgöranden från både Europadomstolen och Högsta domstolen, där staten ålagts skadeståndsansvar för ideell skada för kränkningar av fri- och rättigheter enligt Europakonventionen, har en diskussion uppstått kring huruvida ett ansvar för det allmänna bör gälla även vid kränkningar av fri- och rättigheter enligt 2 kap. regeringsformen. Genom rättsfallet NJA 2014 s. 323 ålade Högsta domstolen utAfter rulings from both the European Court of Human Rights and the Swe-dish Supreme Court, where the Government was imposed liability for non-pecuniary damage for the violations of rights and freedoms guaranteed un-der the European Convention on Human Rights, a discussion has arisen about whether the responsibility for the Government for such damage should also apply to violations of rights and fr

This paper aims to answer how well affective commitment and leadership efficacy can be predicted by leadership style and gender expression in a voluntary setting. It is expected that invitational leadership, transformational leadership and gender expression predict the two dependent variables. It is also expected that there is a difference within affective commitment and leadership efficacy by sex

This paper has examined whether men and women, charged with physical assault in 2019, have been treated equally by the Swedish district court in their sanction assessment. By doing a quantitative content analysis the content of judgements, handed down by the district courts of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, have been categorized and quantified. The information was categorized by the variables th

In this thesis, a generic object tracker was constructed that was applied to both a commonly used tracking dataset using a regular computer as well as a robot powered by a small NVIDIA computer. The architecture of the tracker consisted of two parallel convolutional neural networks convolving to a single output. The input consisted of two separate cropped images that were fed into the networks sep

This paper takes a performance-based approach to corporate governance and investigates whether compliance with the corporate governance code in Sweden equates to a lower cost of capital, measured as cost of equity, cost of debt and the weighted average of these, the WACC. The premonition is that adherence to governance codes should lower the risk profile of the firm, leading investors and creditor

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Barsebäcksmossen, som är belägen vid kusten i sydvästra Skåne, är i dag en kärrmark, men den har tidigare varit en brackvattenlagun av Littorina-havet (ett tidigare stadium i Östersjöns utveckling, som kännetecknas av en betydlig högre salthalt än i nutid). Jag har studerat Barebäcksmossens utveckling genom att analysera pollen, frukter och frön, samt skal av The past Littorina lagoon at Barsebäck, SW Skåne, has earlier been studied by Nilsson (1935) and Digerfeldt (1972, 1975). The objective of the present study was to find complementary sedimentary evidence of the minor transgressions and regressions during the lagoon development, which were reconstructed by Digerfeldt (1975). The study was based on pollen and macrofossil analyses of some sediment c

This master’s degree project, carried out within 20 weeks of the spring term 2012 within Lund University’s School of Industrial Design was started with an unconventional topic of sexual health and design which quickly specified itself into Sexual health and Adolescence. The view point of the research was focused on Finnish society and its youth. Trough professional literature, interviews and discu

The main objective of this paper is to empirically assess debt-relief as a mechanism of aggregate poverty reduction in severely indebted and middle-income countries. The empirical analysis focuses on the channels connecting growth to investment and social spending that are believed to fuel the resource development gap of the heavily indebted countries that have suffered from the debt crisis. In or

The invention of computers revolutionized the way of doing science and in particular the field of mathematics. Computers were faster than any human mind in doing calculations and they did not make mistakes opening a wide range of possibilities that earlier where in practice uncomputable. Scientists observe the behavior of nature and find mathematical equations that model the different phenomena. IThe efficient simulation of thermal interaction between fluids and structures is crucial in the design of many industrial products, e.g. turbine blades or rocket nozzles. The main goal of this work is to present a high order time adaptive multirate parallel partitioned coupled method for the efficient numerical solution of two parabolic problems with strong jumps in the material coefficients that

Popular Abstract in English Insects, birds, bats and pterosaurs have all evolved the ability to fly, even though it requires a lot of energy. The advantage is obvious: one can move about vertically, to go where others cannot, find and access distant food sources or escape your predators. But flying is also a very fast mode of transportation, and when you count the amount of energy required to get Flight is an expensive form of locomotion, but also offers the ability to travel great distances at relatively low cost. Birds have developed various adaptations for optimizing flight performance. The main aim of this thesis is to identify how morphological variables in birds affect aerodynamic drag and flight performance. To this end I studied the aerodynamic performance of a jackdaw (Corvus mone

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are increasingly seeing use in breast imaging, particularly to assist in or automate the reading of mammograms. Another novel technique is mechanical imaging (MI) which estimates the relative stiffness of suspicious breast abnormalities by measuring the distribution of pressure on the compressed breast. This study investigates the feasibility of combining