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Hushållens skuldsättningsgrad i Sverige är hög både internationellt och historiskt sett och förväntas fortsätta växa under många år framöver. Hushållens höga skuldsättning gynnar den ekonomiska tillväxten i landet. Samtidigt kan det innebära en risk för den finansiella stabiliteten och för den svenska ekonomin i stort. Hög skuldsättning och stigande bostadspriser har förvärrat konjunkturnedgångar The Swedish household debts are, both internationally and historically, high and are expected to increase for many years to come. High household debt is beneficial for the economic growth in the country, but may at the same time implicate a risk to the financial stability and for the Swedish economy in general. High household debts and rising housing prices have made economic turndowns worse in se

The aim of this study was to examine if simplified linear analysis can be used to capture the complex and non-elastic behaviour that filled rubber exhibits. Linear analysis includes both linear elastic material models and a linear solving technique. The studied part in this thesis was a hose, connecting the air-inlet and turbo in a Scania truck engine. The studied material was a filled EPDM-rubber

This master thesis address the issue of what it means to be a young Arab Muslim in the context of Australia's “war against terrorism” and ask how these young citizens perceive and experience the impact of the current counter-terrorism machinery. Since the interview results illuminated the role of media in shaping the perceptions of these young Muslims, patterns in and across Australian news me

Den här uppsatsen handlar om de förändringar på bästa tillgängliga teknik, d.v.s. BAT, som implementeringen av industriutsläppsdirektivet (IED) har inneburit. Syftet är att diskutera hur och på vilket sätt BAT har utvecklats i Sverige till följd av IED. BAT tillhör de allmänna hänsynsreglerna vilket gör den central vid all form av yrkesmässig verksamhet. I sammanhanget är principen om BAT tillämpThis thesis regards the changes to Best Available Techniques, BAT, which the implementation of the Industrial Emissions Directive, IED, has brought on. The purpose is to discuss how and in which ways BAT has developed in Sweden as a result of IED. BAT belongs to the general rules of consideration which makes it central in all forms of professional operation. In context the principal of BAT is app

The elderly population within the European Union is growing where as the amount of caregivers is not. The objective of the NavMem project is to make older citizens more self-sufficient and confident specifically while traveling on foot. This could potentially lead to a more active and social life while decreasing the need of senior citizen care. With this objective in mind the NavMem consortium ha

Huntington disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded cytosine–adenine–guanine triplet repeat in the huntingtin gene. The current diagnosis is based on the presence of typical motor signs in combination with a positive gene test. The motor onset of the disease is usually between 30 and 50 years of age, and the disease then progresses over around 20 more years. No

In warm humid tropical climates, the outdoor environment defines the lives of the majority of the population in terms of social and economic aspects. Improvement of the outdoor thermal environment encourages social and economic prosperity of the urbanites. This paper explores urbanites’ thermal comfort in the informal urban fabric of warm humid Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Simultaneously, the study co

Formulating and implementing agricultural policies are important for the development of the agricultural sector and the rural population. The process of policy making is a political bargain between politicians and citizens. The outcome of this process, the policies, cannot be expected to be Pareto efficient resource allocations since altruistic behaviour is not very likely. All participants in the

Context: We present an kinematical analysis of 90 F and G type dwarf, turn-off, and subgiant stars in the Galactic bulge. These stars were observed with high-resolution spectrographs during gravitational microlensing events This allowed for their ages, abundances, and radial velocities to be ascertained while they were significantly brighter. Plotting these stars as [C/O] vs [O/H], it is revealed

This thesis is trying to identify and give solutions for the problems occurring in polyurethane sport surfaces in Iraq where the climate is extremely warm and dusty. One of the most important problems (called the ‘maintenance’ problem) is that the polyurethane sport surface looks very dirty because of the dust, a couple of weeks after installation of the surface the dust particles penetrates the s

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and try to reduce thermal bridges in Skanska's standard building components. Thermal bridges occur when an inferior insulating material breaks through better insulated. You then get an increased energy loss in these areas compared to the rest of the particular building part. In addition to increased energy loss, thermal bridges can also give rise to poo

I januari 2008 trädde två nya lagar ikraft i Sverige. Lagen (2007:978) om hemlig rumsavlyssning gav de brottsbekämpande myndigheterna rätten att använda en ny metod, rumsavlyssning för att utreda redan begångna brott och lagen (2007:979) om åtgärder för att förhindra vissa särskilt allvarliga brott introducerade en möjlighet för myndigheterna att använda hemliga tvångsmedel som teleavlyssning, telIn January 2008 two new legislations entered into force in Sweden. The law (2007:978) on bugging gave the crime fighting authorities the right to use a new method, bugging, to investigate already committed crimes and the law (2007:979) on measures to prevent particularly serious crimes introduced a possibility for the authorities to use secret surveillance as telephone tapping, wire monitoring, fi

Personal assistance - A qualitative study of the significance of the reform In 1994, a new law, Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS) was implemented as a part of the Swedish welfare system. The purpose of the law is to assure safety for people in one of three target groups that are further defined in 1 §, LSS. The law gives people in these targe

For a successful project of urban wind power requires wind as well as attachments, sound level and the requirements and regulations should be taken under consideration. But a lot of experience is still lacking and many projects fail therefore. This report covers the aspects described above and a summary of experiences and knowledge gaps have been made with the aim of facilitating the planning phas

The purpose of the study was to examine how mothers from 30 to 35 years living in a big city felt that stress and status affects their everyday lives and health. My questions was how mothers feel and handling requirements in relation to family life and parenting versus career, the demands on the mothers themselves, and how mothers look at the link between stress and status? I wanted to explore the

Vomb meadows is an area well knows for its rich bird life. During the 19:th century until mid 20:th century, the meadows were flooded annually in order to increase the hay yield. The river Klingavälsån situated along the west side of the meadows, used to be a shallow river, meandering across the landscape. In the 1940’s the river was straightened and made deeper. This was done in purpose of draini

This thesis investigates the applicability and performance of reinforcement learn- ing (RL) for inventory management of spare parts in a single-echelon setting. Traditional inventory control methods, such as (R,Q)-policies, typically decou- ple forecasting and ordering decisions, which may lead to suboptimal system- wide performance, particularly in environments characterized by intermittent and s

Title Improving food preparedness in Swedish municipalities from a supply chain perspective - a multiple case study Authors Ellen Persson & Vera Hansen Contribution This thesis has been a complete collaboration between the two authors. Each author has been involved in every part of the process and contributed equally. Supervisor Andreas Norrman – Division of Engineering Logistics, Facult

This thesis theoretically investigates electronic transport in different low dimensional nanostructures. The miniaturization of electronics means that we reach a limit where quantum effects play a role in electronic devices. To understand and improve electronics at this level it is important to understand the transport properties. Excellent control over the nanostructures also makes them a great p