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Abstract: This paper provides one of the first studies on the role of social media in shaping collective memory in contemporary China. Social media enable the ordinary to participate in creating, interacting, and distributing alternative narratives of the past. Therefore, collective memory has being reconfigured under the influence of social media. Nevertheless, previous collective memory studies

Although the UN concluded, already in 1997, that water would be the most contentious issue of the 21st century, water governance is still confused, nearly everywhere. Even the severe impacts of escalating water bankruptcy and global warming have so far failed to incur a marked improvement in governance systems. The global community has adopted sustainable development as a common vision and guide f

Sweden is often predicted to become the first cash-free society in the world. The digital possibilities for payments are increasing and payments are now made easily using just a mobile phone. One of the possible reasons for this is the way people choose to and want to pay. Another possible reason is that the state is not guaranteeing the possibility to use cash as a payment method. The Swedish par

In the wake of alarming reports from IPCC, policy makers all over the world have recognized offshore wind power to become an essential contributor in the future renewable energy system and battling of climate change. However, many countries including Norway lack extensive areas of shallow water suitable for conventional offshore wind, hence an interest for deep offshore solutions has arisen. One o

Bakgrund: En central del av Axis Communications AB är avdelningen Operations som innefattar de funktioner som arbetar med att tillhandahålla och distribuera Axis produkter. Avdelningen mäter för tillfället prestation genom ett antal indikatorer och mål som mäts för respektive funktion. I dagsläget finns det potential för att utveckla prestationsmätningen då den inte ger någon klar översikt. I taktBackground: A central part of Axis Communications AB is the Operations department, which Axis Operations currently measures performance through a number of indicators or goals that are measured for each function. However, the way performance is measured and presented today does not provide a complete picture and therefore has the potential to be developed further. As the company grows, the need fo

Cancer, samlingsnamnet på ett antal sjukdomar med okontrollerad cellväxt, är idag väldigt vanligt förekommande i vårt samhälle. Det finns olika typer av cancer, som alla uppvisar olika symptom, men som ändå har gemensamma kännetecken. En av dessa är hur cancercellerna skapar sin energi vilket, precis som i friska celler, börjar med att sockermolekylen glukos genomgår ett antal reaktioner för att sCancer, a group of diseases with abnormal cell growth, is today very common in our society. There are different forms of cancer, which all display different symptoms, but still have mutual characteristics. One such is the way cancer cells create energy which, like healthy cells, starts with glycolysis of glucose to pyruvate. In healthy cells, with sufficient oxygen supply, the enzyme pyruvate dehy

The automobiles of today are getting more fuel efficient in order to meet future emission standards. It is also important to have more fuel efficient engines than the competitors. The consequence is that engine development is intensified and more ideas needs to be tested thoroughly. One of the ideas at Volvo cars is a tumble flap. The tumble flap is controlled to close a predefined part of the int

Abstract Title: Public-Private Partnerships on Two-sided Markets Seminar date: 26 May 2015 Course: FEKN90 Authors: Herman Jacobson and Rikard Frangeur Supervisor: Dr. Magnus Johansson Key words: Stakeholder Management, Private Public Partnership, Two-sided Market, Network Effects, Dominant Design Purpose: The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of how a private, stakeholder-orie

Flexilast is a company located in Eslöv that provides trucking and construction services. To order or get help with goods and services from the company today, you would have to call them. The employees at the company spend alot of their time on the phone to help customers with the company's various products and services. To solve these problems Flexilast contacted Daniel Hurtig and Tom Hansson

This study will show what particular elements, by using a digital tool such as Pluttra, in the practice of conducting pedagogical documentation in the Swedish preschools are profound. By conducting an ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation among the preschool teachers at one preschool, and in-depth interviews with two preschool teachers at another preschool, within the same town. The e

Titel: Integrationens tvetydighet: En retorisk analys av trepartsförhandlingarna (2016) om arbetsmarknadsintegration mellan den danska regeringen och arbetsmarknadens parter. Författare: Alexander Stevns Jensen Handledare: Rouzbeh Parsi Denna studie undersöker hur debatten om integration fördes mellan den danska regeringen och arbetsmarknadens parter fram till underskriften av trepartsavtalet om Title: The Ambiguity of Integration: A rhetorical analysis of the three-part negotiations (2016) about labor market integration between the Danish Government and the agents of the Labor Market. Author: Alexander Stevns Jensen Supervisor: Rouzbeh Parsi This study investigates how the debate about integration was negotiated between the Danish Government and the agents of the Labor Market during th

This study analyze how the exploitation of agricultural land affects Sweden's ability to remain self-sufficient in grain, and the consequences that arise when agricultural land with the highest classification is disappearing the fastest. As the population increases the food production must also increase at the same pace. An important crops for Sweden's food supply is grain and it stands fo

Problem definition: Supply chain segmentation is a topic which in later years has received increasing attention from supply chain managers of companies in industrial settings. To members of the supply chain research community the ideas and theoretical contributions underlying the concept of supply chain segmentation are hardly new, but have evolved ever since the beginning of the 1990s. However, a