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PurposeEmpirical studies show that 96% of the city logistics projects failed to become permanent, mainly due to the lack of sustainable business models (Quak et al., 2014; Malhene et al., 2012). Accordingly, it was concluded that the need of business model specifically designed for city logistics is high (Benjelloun, 2010). However, researchers have yet to describe the components and their interre

The precise characterization of femtosecond laser pulses is as challenging as their generation and a topic of intense research. Dispersion-scan (d-scan) [1] is a recently established technique where the spectrum of a nonlinear signal, e.g., second-harmonic generation (SHG), is measured as a function of dispersion applied to the pulse. The spectral phase of the pulse can then be retrieved from the

Objective: To investigate how many women wish to have a caesarean section when asked in early pregnancy, and to identify background variables associated with such a wish. Design: National survey. Setting: Swedish antenatal clinics. Population: 3283 Swedish-speaking women booked for antenatal care, at approximately 600 Swedish antenatal clinics, during three weeks spread over one year (1999-2000).

Today embedded system development is a complex task. To aid the engineers new methodologies and languages are emerging. During the development the system is modelled using different tools and languages. Transformations between the models are traditionally done manually. We investigate the automation of this process, specifically we are looking at automatic UML to SystemC transformation. In this pa

Researchers in academic disciplines, including but not limited to information systems, have long been aware of, but have not linked, two research issues: one issue is the lack of relevance, despite the plethora of rigor, in their research, the other issue is the distinction between statistical significance and practical significance, where the latter is no less important than the former. In this e

We report on the study of six similar buildings built in an area of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1971, which are now in urgent need of renovation. However, the owner of the buildings - a municipal housing company did not achieve a financially viable renovation of the pilot project. This meant that renovation on a similar basis for the remaining five buildings would not be possible. For this reason the h

In the last years, cloud computing received an increasing attention both from academia and industry. Most of the solutions proposed in the literature strive to limit the effect of uncertain and unpredictable behaviors that may occur in cloud environments, like for example flash crowds or hardware failures. However, managing uncertainty in a cloud environment is still an open problem. In such a pan

“You are not a real man” A study about how masculinity and honour violence is described in biographies and youth novels. The aim with this study is to examine and investigate how honour violence is described in youth novels and biographies about honour violence. The evaluated question formulations in this study were how masculinity is expressed in these biographies and youth novels, how honour vi

Urbana grönområden – Ungdomars uppfattning och upplevelser? Att bo i ett vacker och varierat område med mycket grönska och liv är väl något som de flesta eftersträvar i någon form? Men på grund av ett ökat invånarantal bebyggs allt fler grönområden, alltså obebyggd mark, och minskar i antal. Det inte många vet är att dessa områden har stor betydelse för både biologisk mångfald, men även för folksThe human population steadily increases all over the globe and around half of the world’s inhabitant lives in cities. This allows urban exploitation to increase and the natural habitats to decrease. Urban green areas are important habitats for urban living species and significant for human beings since they contribute with ecosystem services and to people’s health and well-being, especially in you

The aim of this study was to understand how the different parties in court judgments motivate the “best interest of the child” and how the power relations between the parties appear in conjunction with the LVU process. The method chosen for this study was qualitative discourse analysis of six different LVU cases from the administrative court and the administrative court of appeal in Sweden between

A strong employer brand is what determines whether people choose to look for work at the organization or not. Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult for organizations to stay in the labor market as competition increases. There is an abundance of information that makes it difficult to get a good idea of ​​what it is like to work in an organization. The hospitality industry is an industry that

Syftet med denna studien är att utvärdera stadsplaneringskonceptet delad hastighet och hur väl det uppfyller kraven för en bättre stadsmiljö. Vidare ska behovet och möjligheterna till implementering undersökas. Studien är baserad på en litteraturstudie samt intervju- och enkätstudier. Enkäterna besvarades av 18 trafikplanerare verksamma på olika kommuner i Sverige och intervjuerna genomfördes med The purpose of this study is to evaluate the concept of Shared Speed and how well it meets the requirements for a better urban environment and to examine the need and possibilities for implementation. The study was conducted based on a literature study as well as interview and questionnaire studies. The questions at issue were answered by 18 traffic planners from municipalities in Sweden and the i