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In the conflict zone of Northern Syria, agriculture is the livelihood of a major part of the population. Nevertheless, the reasons for changes in agricultural land are manyfold. This paper looks at two areas in North Syria which have been under Syrian governance until the Syrian Civil War (2011) and were contested territory until 2016. Since then, the Rojava area has been governed by the PYD, a Ku

In this paper, we investigate the prediction performance of several models across different forecasts horizons for the CNY/SEK and USD/SEK exchange rates, with a focus on incorporating macroeconomic inputs. Over the course of time, the Kalman filter method has been widely applied in the exchange rate forecasting literature, while the predictive ability of the Box-Jenkins Transfer Function (BJ) mod

The shipmaster is the centralised focal point of power on a passenger ship, and upon him/her rests the decision to evacuate the ship if it is deemed to be in a situation that is non-survivable. This thesis set out to explore a societal normative view of the shipmaster in this decision space; a view that can be observed in accident reports and maritime legislation. A case study, of a government acc

Body appreciation-unappreciation and body satisfaction-dissatisfaction are in the literature seen as conceptually different, but construct distinction has only been supported using qualitative methods. Because of limits in using Likert-style questionnaires to measure multidimensional constructs, quantitative research has yet to directly demonstrate that it is possible to appreciate the body withou

FacePrint is a project developed by a consortium that aims to efficiently provide facial prostheses, mainly nose and ear prostheses. One of the companies involved in the project is Purple Scout. Their task was to develop the interface that the clinicians will use to design the prosthesis. The idea is that patient and doctor sit together and decide what the prosthesis should look like using the int

Research Question and Purpose: The research question will investigate what talent attraction looks like in non-core businesses sharing the name of the core business. The purpose of this thesis is to explore talent attraction in the context of non-core businesses sharing the name of the core business. Methodology: The research paradigm is a relativist ontology with a social constructivist epistemol

Even though the relative contribution of neutralizing antibodies (Nab) to prevent progression to AIDS during HIV-1 infection is still unclear, the induction of broadly NAb directed against HIV-1 through vaccination is considered to represent an important goal for the development of HIV-1 vaccines. Factors contributing to the induction of NAb may include the strength and duration of antigenic stimu

Fridell, Ingemar: ”Music, Language and Interpretation — Music in spoken language and its role in the process of interpretation”. Malmö Academy of Music, Sweden, 1997. The aim of this study is to shed more light on the following question: Are there important areas of study which are significant when working with questions of interpretation in classical music, areas which are usually not given enoug

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 report contains an environmental investigation of the automotive and transportat-ion program on Svalöfs gymnasium and an analysis of the environmental communicat-ion between management, teachers and students. The environmental investigation has been based on the methodology of ISO 14001. The various environment aspects on the automotive and transport program has been identi-fied and then eval