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The massive rural-urban population flow has been proceeding in China for decades ever since the 1980s. Millions of labor migrants move to industrialized cities for a better future for themselves, as well as their families. The increasing amount of migrants has led to the phenomenon of the “left-behind”. Among the left-behind group, left-behind children seem to be at a relatively vulnerable situati
Danish development policy is increasingly orienting towards the private sector and development through economic growth. Development programs are heavily influenced by a neo-liberal discourse, and they alter power-relations, identities and practices where they intervene in local contexts. The purpose of this thesis is to denaturalize the taken-for-granted truth established in the development discou
Much scholarly work has been devoted to the issue of the identity politics of the EU, often however by attempting to construe limited empirical findings as proof of how the EU generally aims to represent itself and others. This thesis takes a different, more contextual, approach by investigating, via a Laclau and Mouffe inspired discourse analysis, how the EU via representations in its foreign pol
The 21st century has brought significant changes to the market. The ability to deliver the right product at the right time with the right price is no longer just crucial for a company’s competitive success, in the long-term perspective it will decide if the company will survive on the market at all. A warehouse has a major impact on a firm’s service levels, response times and overall cost. To meet
The Telecom industry is facing a paradigm shift, where the industry is converging with Internet technologies and the market is becoming more sophisticated. This results in more demanding customers, and the need for offering more content and services with a focus on usability for the end-users. The operators are starting to loose both their strong position and revenue in the Telecom industry, due t
I syfte att bli mer effektiva och bättre tillgodose kundernas behov växer diverse system och metoder fram. Detta är en genomgående trend inom både handel och serviceindustrin i allmänhet. För att förbättra såväl produktivitet som kvalitet involveras kunderna i allt större utsträckning i serviceprocessen till exempel genom olika former av självbetjäning. Självscanning har utvecklats som ett led i d
Vårt intresse för medarbetarsamtal väcktes vid en gästföreläsning med Jens Ribe som är säljchef för Dell Norden. På denna föreläsning berättade Ribe om sin yrkesroll, sin arbetsvecka osv. och poängterade vikten av att bedriva kontinuerliga medarbetarsamtal för att skapa engagemang, gemensam målbild och skaffa information och skapa en dialog. Han berättade att han genomförde medarbetarsamtal med si
This paper examines the trade and specialization effects of China’s regional integration with South East Asia. Production fragmentation enables a firm or country to specialize in upstream, midstream or downstream activities rather than the whole production chain. A decrease in tariffs and other service link costs justify outsourcing or re-locating production to the country with best location a
Title: Applying Supply Chain Visibility – A study at a company in the paper and pulp industry Authors: Filip Adielsson and Erik Gustavsson
Supervisors: Fredrik Eng Larsson - PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Engineering Logistics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University
Sponsor: Udo Lück
Background: Companies are operating in a more global environm
Title: Information Management in Kockums AB’s Supply Chain regarding Development Products – Driving Forces and Barriers to reach excellence
Authors: Fredrik Arborelius and Henrik Stenvinkel
Supervisors: Anders Jansson, Manager Design Support and Tactical Planning, Kockums AB
Dag Näslund, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Lund Institute of Technolog
Research question: Investigate the maturity of takt implementation in the organization and suggest areas for further improvements to maximize the outcome of the change effort. Deliverables: The project has focused on creating a comprehensive view of the maturity in the takt implementation and the results are delivered in a written report and an oral presentation both to Tetra Pak and Lund Universi
The purpose of this essay was to research and study the accountability of NGOs. The main question dealt with is with what measures and mechanisms NGOs handles critic on legitimacy and accountability deficit. It defines accountability and non-governmental organisations to facilitate an understanding of the concepts and notions of the study and goes on to discuss the criticism faced by NGOs, mainly
Jordförstöring och utbredning av urbana områden är allvarliga hot mot Egyptens jordbruk och ekonomi, samt försvårar försörjningen av den snabbt växande befolkningen. Landsat MSS bilder från tre år; 1972, 1986 och 1992, har använts för att studera försaltning, försandning och urbanisering i Nildalen, mellersta Egypten. 1992 års bild klassades enligt maximum likelihood-metoden och enligt regressionsSoil degradation and expanding urban areas are serious threats to the Egyptian agriculture and economy, and jeopardize the possibility to provide food to the rapidly growing population. Landsat MSS scenes from the years of 1972, 1986 and 1992 have been used to study salinization, sand encroachment and urbanization in the Nile valley in Middle Egypt. The 1992 data set were classified according to t
The main objective of this work was the evaluation of TM (Thematic Mapper) and MSS (Multi Spectral Scanner) data of Landsat 1 and 5 for a large scale forest damage assessment in the black triangle region. The area covers the Krusne Hory and neighboring mountain areas (border area of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. A temporal comparison of land use of 1975 and 1989 of a sub area and a class
The management of the mining sector in Sierra Leone is characterised by numerous integrations of government and donor agency policies, resembling that of global development agendas advocating for improvements of governance, transparency, capacity building and revenue generation. We must view the global policies in their local scales in order to substantiate their actual effects. The central argu
Mätningar av magnetisk hysteresis har genomförts på sedimentborrkärnor med hög tidsupplösning för att studera om sedimentkornstorleken kan relateras till relativ bottenströmshastighet. Mätningarna utfördes på tre borrkärnor, en från Nordatlanten och två från Norska havet. Hysteresismätningar är känsliga för variationer i de magnetiska kornstorlekarna (Day et al. 1977) och anses vara representativaHigh-resolution magnetic hysteresis measurements were carried out on three sediment cores, one from the North Atlantic and two from the Norwegian Sea. These measurements can be used to reconstruct changes in magnetic grain-size. Physical grain-size has been interpreted as a proxy for bottom current intensity (McCave et al. 1995) and this study shows that the hysteresis measurements can contribute
Old Red Sandstones and younger strata overlie a variety of deformed and metamorphosed Early Paleozoic and Precambrian rocks on Svalbard, referred to as the Hecla Hoek Complex. At least three different terranes are recognized, occurring in eastern, northwestern and southwestern areas. The Eastern Terrane is exposed in the northeastern parts of the Svalbard archipelago in Nordaustlandet and Ny Fries
Combustion of methanol is being used widely and the chemistry in the process is therefore important to know. When being mixed with formaldehyde and combusted previous measurements with the heat flux method have shown results not consistent with the theoretical models present today. These experiments are in this paper being repeated. A statistical examination of the burners used for the measurement
