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Background Today many organizations convert from being a traditional functional organization to becoming more temporary project-based organizations in order to respond to the changing environment. As a result, project-based organizations have difficulties to learn from within the project and between projects which force project members to “reinvent the wheel” over and over again. If organizations
“Darfur” has come to be a place invoking many different interpretations and is more politically and emotionally charged, than just a territory on the map. The past events of Darfur during the years of 2003-2007 have been understood to constitute genocide, a violent conflict, a story about the struggle of “good vs. evil”. I have employed the theory of Hayden White which asserts that through the use
The aim of this study is to use frame analysis to identify different narratives surrounding the Swedish debate on a so called meat tax. The Swedish ministry of agriculture released a report in January 2013 with the message that the meat consumption needs to decrease to reach more sustainable levels. One way that it could be accomplished is through the implementation of a carbon based tax on meat.
This thesis provides an insight into young men's perceptions of alcohol and drinking norms in Mongolia. The foundation of this case study is qualitative research conducted in Central Mongolia which is set into a theoretical framework of drinking norms and Goffman's concept of 'face-work'. It is argued that drinking norms have to be understood in their specific context. Traditional
Bakgrund: Kvinnors hantering av menstruation har skiftat genom åren. Engångsskydd har stor miljöbelastning och är dyra i inköp. Menskopp är ett till synes miljövänligt och ekonomiskt skydd som ökar i popularitet. Egenmakt eller empowerment är ett yttryck för styrka och att ta ansvar för sin egen kropp och hälsa. Egenmakt kan förstärkas genom att kvinnor upplever kontroll över sin menstruation. Syf
It is a difficult process to create a drinkable food product that is an emulsion. The aim with this project was to create one, containing ingredients on levels described by a customer. A product had been developed before, but resulted in a product that had viscosity that was too high, and the aim with this further development project was to keep the levels of the ingredients on a level according t
Floods are the most frequent hazard that affects around 2.3 billion people each year. This natural disaster can occur in every continent and human activity has been contributing to the increasing adverse impacts of flood events. This urban design proposal explores the possibilities of creating a sustainable area that can work alongside floods. The projects site is located in Morelia, Mexico. The
Compiler optimizations are typically implemented as a sequence of trans- formations, applied to some representation of source code. The problem of ordering these transformations in an optimal way is commonly referred to as the phase-ordering problem. Program Expressions Graphs (PEGs) are a code representation designed to get around this problem, by deferring the decision of which optimizations to
The aim of this thesis is to investigate if a deeper relation between form and movement can be achieved and strengthened with the help of digital tools. The work consists of three phases, starting with a foundation of interdisciplinary research regarding different theories about form and movement. These are then used as a broad toolset for experimenting with a physical proposal. In the second phas
This master thesis concerns the current and future development in the area of intelligent houses and home automation. It also describes a system for home automation developed for this thesis. Key words in the design are dynamic behaviour, flexibility, transparency and adaptability. The prototype has been built with a central, Java based, server. To this server, modules handling different communica
This master's thesis has been performed in cooperation with TAC in Malmö. The TAC group makes commercial buildings smarter by integrating and automating the technical systems required to run them. TAC:s control systems use PID-controllers to control processes such as heating and ventilation. The PID-controllers are often badly tuned, since it is too timeconsuming to calculate good PID-paramete
Using a dataset corresponding to 9 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected with the LHCb detector between 2011 and 2018 in proton-proton collisions, the decay-time distributions of the decay modes Bs 0→J/ψη′ and Bs 0→J/ψπ+π− are studied. The decay-width difference between the light and heavy mass eigenstates of the Bs 0 meson is measured to be ∆Γs = 0.087 ± 0.012 ± 0.009 ps
Certainty equivalence adaptive controllers are analysed using a “data-driven Riccati equation”, corresponding to the model-free Bellman equation used in Q-learning. The equation depends quadratically on data correlation matrices. This makes it possible to derive simple sufficient conditions for stability and robustness to unmodeled dynamics in adaptive systems. The paper is concluded by short rema
Integrated Processors (IP) are meant to supply algorithm-specific cores to a micro-electronic system. They are usually developed separately, and upon success turned into a part, that either by programming or by configuration can be re-used within many systems. This paper looks at architectures for Cellular Neural Networks (CNN) to become realized as IP. First current digital implementations are re
The impossibility results of Bovens and Hartmann (2003) and Olsson (2005) call into question the strength of the connection between coherence and truth. As part of the inquiry into this alleged link, I define a notion of degree of truth-conduciveness, relevant for measuring the usefulness of coherence measures as rules-of-thumb for assigning probabilities in situations of partial knowledge. I use
This essay looks at the tonal change in the European Unions strategic communications after the Brexit referendum 2016, applying narrative and securitisation theory to find how the EU redefined their narrative after the 2016 Bratislava summit. To best get an indication of this material such as the annual EUGS reports, Council resolution etc is analysed for securitization buzzwords.
