Filetype
Flooding in oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia is a common problem. The oil palm’s habitable range is restricted to lowland equatorial areas, and the high rainfall and degraded landscapes associated with oil palm cultivation leaves oil palm prone to flooding. Flooding diminishes yields in mature palms, increases mortality in young palms, and disrupts operational processes. This reduces the ec
On the 19 of October 2004 two people in Linköping, Sweden were murdered. Police secured DNA from the perpetrator, however it could not further the investigation since the DNA was not in the police registry. The case remained cold until 2020 when a new method of ancestral DNA was used, referred to as IGG. The method was previously tested in the USA and solved plenty of cold cases. The double homici
Söndagen den 11:e september 2022 var det återigen dags för riksdagsval i Sverige. Valresultatet som presenterades ett par dagar senare avslöjade att den socialdemokratiska regeringen skulle få avgå efter en period om åtta år, och Sverige skulle komma att få en ny regering. Regeringsskiftet skedde den 18:e oktober 2022, och består idag av en trepartiregering: Moderaterna, Kristdemokraterna och LibParliamentary elections were once again held in Sweden on Sunday the 11th of September 2022. The election results were presented a few days later and revealed that the Social Democratic government would have to resign after a period of eight years, meaning that Sweden soon would become to have a new government. The change of government took place on the 18th of October 2022, and consists today of
In October 2022, the European Commission announced a legislative proposal to make instant payments in euro available to all citizens with a bank account in the EU and EEA countries. When adopting new payment technologies, it can be challenging to balance security and convenience. Consideration must be given to whether compromised security is an unavoidable effect of instant payments or if both obj
Glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are an increasingly documented threat across the Himalayan region, wherein Nepal is situated. GLOFs involve a rapid discharge of water from a lake situated at the side, front, within, beneath, or on the surface of a glacier. Forecasting the impacts associated with such events could facilitate the development of proactive risk management approaches. Impact-based
Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka huruvida verksamma inom gymnasieskolan upplever sig förberedda inför att ta sig an undervisningen i det nya kunskapsområdet Sexualitet, samtycke och relationer (SSR), som är en del av rådande läroplan sedan höstterminen 2022. Med hjälp av policy enactment theory analyserar vi tematiskt kodade kvalitativa intervjuer med lärare och biträdande rektorer oc
I denna studie testades och utvärderades fyra membran mot varandra för användning i högtemperaturprotonutbytesmembranbränslecell (HT-PEMFC) applikationer. En fosforsyra (PA)-dopat polybensimidazol (PBI)-membran användes som en referens som den nuvarande state-of-the-art. Laddningsbäraren i detta membran är PA, och det finns fördelar med att byta från PA till jonisk vätska (IL) som laddningsbärare In this study four membranes were tested and evaluated against each other for use in high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (HT-PEMFC) applications. A phosphoric acid (PA) doped polybenzimidazole (PBI) membrane, was used as a reference as the current state-of-the-art. The charge carrier in this membrane is the PA, and there are advantages in switching from PA to ionic liquid (IL) as t
Vegetation indices derived from remotely sensed optical data are commonly used for crop monitoring in precision agriculture, but their information capability can be hindered by the presence of clouds. Consequently, areas with frequent cloud cover like the southwest of Sweden may have limited access to usable optical data. Nonetheless, the addition of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data can provide
The aim of this study is to investigate how newspaper articles from the Swedish newspaper Expressen have presented cannabis in the years 1992 and 2022. The objective was to compare the coverage between these years. After applying selection criteria and random selection, 70 articles were chosen for analysis. The method on which this work is based is qualitative text analysis. The content from the a
The purpose of this thesis is to study how human mobility in the context of climate and environmental change is governed at a regional level in Southeast Asia, with the regional intergovernmental organisation ASEAN, as a case study. Through a policy review of ASEAN policies on climate, migration, disaster risk reduction and development this study finds that the climate-environment-mobility nexus i
Credit activity is essential for financial institutions, acting as the primary means banks deploy resources and generate revenue. As a key indicator of financial distress, corporate default has severe repercussions on investors, creditors, regulators, and policymakers. Credit risk embodies the uncertainty banks confront prior to lending, accounting for the partial or complete non-recovery of loan
Since August 2021 Swedish social services have had a special responsibility to work for perpetrators of violence to change their behavior, but little research has examined aspiring social workers’ interest in working with the target group. This quantitative study has aimed to understand social work students’ interests, knowledge about, and how comfortable they are in working with perpetrators of v
This study investigated growth of carbon nanofibers (CNF) using hydrogen (H2) gas on a porous titanium substrate. The target is uniform coverage of vertically aligned CNFs on the substrate, with length of a few micrometers, to produce a surface area enhancement – the intended application of this structure is as a catalyst support. CNFs were synthesized in a plasma enhanced chemical vapor depositio
Demokratier nedmonteras i stater runtom i världen. För att undvika och återhämta sig från demokratisk nedmontering är det viktigt att stater kan bibehålla eller förbättra sina nivåer av demokrati. Detta koncept är känt som ’democratic resilience’ eller demokratins motståndskraft. Demokratiers nedmontering har en negativ inverkan på människors möjlighet att åtnjuta mänskliga rättigheter, varför säkDemocracy is declining in several states in all regions of the world. To avoid and recover from democratic backsliding, it is important that states can maintain or improve their levels of democracy. This concept is commonly referred to as ‘democratic resilience’. Democratic backsliding has a negative impact on the ability of people to enjoy their human rights, and therefore, there must be a safety
Collecting enough labeled images to train an artificial neural network (ANN) is a common struggle since the process is tedious, time consuming and expensive. CellaVision, a company that creates analyzers that automate the process of finding and pre-classifying abnormal blood cells using machine learning, runs into this problem regularly. When new generations of analyzers are being produced, the im
A major consequence of climate change will be changes in precipitation. Both amount and distribution will be affected and the changes will vary greatly between different places on the globe. In the inland parts of Pudukottai district, located in southern India, as well as in many other places, the result will likely be increased water scarcity and severe droughts, with dire consequences for food s
The energy demand of the world continues to increase, while world's resources are exploited over its capacity. One way of facing these demands is to extend the use of fuel cells. A fuel cell converts chemical energy into electrical energy through a series of chemical and electrochemical reactions. A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is unique since it only contains solid materials and the cell has
Bakgrund: Varje år utförs sexton biljoner nålrelaterade medicinska åtgärder världen över. Det är vanligt att barn upplever rädsla och smärta vid nämnda procedurer vilket kan leda till att dem undviker sjukvården i framtiden. Syfte: Syftet med litteraturstudien är att undersöka vilka icke-farmakologiska strategier sjuksköterskan kan använda sig av för att lindra oro och smärta hos barn, i åldrarna
In the pharmaceutical industry when proteins are being formed, the solution often consists of different kinds of proteins and these have to be separated to a high degree. A common process for this is chromatography. In this work a system of chromatography columns were coupled in series to separate a mixture of three proteins. The system consisted of three chromatography columns with mixers in betw
Restrictions in the distribution of interventions by the public elderly care have resulted in an increase in care for relatives. Those who have increased their relative care are primarily women, especially women from the working class and women who provide care to a relative who was born outside the Nordic countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate young female second-generation Swede
