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In Sweden as well as in The Netherlands energy policy is increasingly aiming at extending the use of renewable sources. In accordance with the targets of the European Union, both countries have formulated national targets for the year 2020. For wind energy these targets are 30.0 TWh of electricity in Sweden and a total installed capacity of 10.0 GW in The Netherlands. Wind is an inflexible, variab
This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive description on the issues counted in the copyright protection of the Internet Standard. The self-contained mechanism protecting the Internet Standard needs multiple private licenses which make the protection indirect and complicated. Some scholars already recognized the importance of protecting the process under various human rights law contexts, and thi
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning Världens skogar spelar en viktig roll i den globala kolcykeln. Med den ökade nivån av CO2-koncentrationen i atmosfären, orsakad av bränning av fossila bränslen och avskogning, så är det viktigt att analysera skogens roll som global kolsänka. Denna uppsats analyserar den boreala skogen och den tropiska skogen genom att undersöka hur mycket kol som tas upp och var The world’s forest biomes have an important role in the global carbon cycle. With an increasing level of atmospheric CO2 concentration, mainly due to the burning of fossil fuel and deforestation, it is important to analyze the significance of the forests biomes as carbon sinks. This review analyses the boreal forest and the tropical forest by investigating the amount of carbon taken up and where m
År 2009 blev Europeiska Unionens stadga om de grundläggande rättigheterna juridiskt bindande nästan ett decennium efter det att processen att utarbeta en stadga hade påbörjats. Stadgans status som ett juridiskt bindande dokument väcker naturligtvis nya frågor om det framtida skyddet av mänskliga rättigheterna i Europa samt stadgans förhållande till Europakonventionen såväl som medlemsstaternas konIn 2009, the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union became legally binding almost a decade after the process to draft a Charter had begun. Naturally, the Charter’s status as a legally binding document raises new questions about the future protection of human rights in Europe and the Charter’s relation to the European Convention on Human Rights as well as the Member States’ constitutio
Morgondagens hållbarhetsproblem kräver ett kreativt förhållningssätt idag. Denna uppsats undersöker hur social mångfald skapar förutsättningar för att hantera miljömässig hållbarhet i framtiden. Jag utgår främst från social hållbarhet och intersektionalitet för att undersöka nationella strategier för jämställdhet och mångfald inom den svenska skogssektorn och se på hur dessa är relevanta och använThe sustainability problems of tomorrow require a creative approach today. This paper examines how social diversity offers opportunities for dealing with environmental sustainability in the future. It employs the approaches of social sustainability and intersectionality to examine the national strategies for equality and diversity within the Swedish forest sector and how these are relevant and use
The trope solution to the problem of mental causation combines a trope monism, i.e. that properties are tropes and all tropes are physical, with a type dualism, i.e. that although all tropes are of a physical type, there are subsets of tropes that are also of a mental type. It does so in order to reconcile three individually plausible yet seemingly incompatible principles that together would ensur
Productive agricultural soil is an essential ingredient in the agricultural landscape, which further exists in a dialectical relationship between ruality and the broader society. Soil destruction and industrial farming are common place in Scandinavia today, and resultantly, this essay problematises our ambivalent relationship with soil as part of our material base on one hand, and the consumer dri
The extensive studies on D. sechellia have made it a familiar example of chemosen-sory evolution and speciation. This specialist drosphilid species is well-known for its ability to tolerate and actively seek out its toxic host Morinda citrifolia (noni). It was originally thought that this toxic fruit was the exclusive host of D. sechellia because most drosophilids cannot tolerate and are deterred
The occurrence of wildfires is greatly dependent on an ecoregions typical climate and land cover type. To investigate whether climate or land cover primarily lead to wildfires in the conterminous United States, wildfire events from 1999- 2010 are analyzed. Wildfires are divided into years and eco-divisions, a sub-form of ecoregions. To assess whether warmer and dryer divisions are more severely a
Organ segmentation on magnetic resonance (MR) images for dose planning on cancer patients is a time consuming process that can be automatized by using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). MR images vary greatly in characteristics across acquisition sites, which affects CNN segmentation performance. In this master thesis, augmentation methods were tested and implemented to increase the robustness
När man skapar en produkt är det inte ovanligt att olika målgrupper ska använda produkten. Detta medför att målgrupperna kommer att ha olika erfarenheter, och därmed riskera att skapa olika konceptuella modeller av produkten. Men en inkorrekt konceptuell modell kommer skapa inkorrekt beteende, därför behöver man se till de olika erfarenheterna och därifrån skapa en entydig lösning. Syftet med examWhen creating a product, it is not unusual that a wide variety of users from different target groups will use the product. This entails that different target groups bring different experiences, and consequently risks to create different conceptual models of the product. An incorrect conceptual model will create incorrect behavior, therefore one needs to address the wide variety of experience and t
In this essay I attempt to examine corporations through the lens of postcolonial theory in order to investigate whether corporations and their actions can be better understood using a post-colonial analysis. I have investigated if we can understand corporations as transnational power structures rather than as only commercial businesses and what new perspectives that could give us. In my research I
It was a regular Thursday on October 28th in 2021 in the middle of the pandemic where humanity was going about in their everyday lives. However, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg had before witnessed a plethora of negative stories and reviews following the leak of Facebook ́s internal documents which portrayed the issues with the company. All of the negative press and political battles towards Faceboo
In this thesis, the relationship between people and places is investigated through examining how migrants in Vienna create place attachment to food markets in the city. A place attachment is understood as the emotional bond that forms between an individual and a specific space, the theoretical foundation of this thesis lies within emotional geography, a sub-field of human geography which examines
In response to the pressing need to address climate change and reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, this study implemented Gaussian Mixture Models Clustering to detect the levels of GHG emissions and related socio-economic factors in 174 countries. To handle the panel data, Principal Component Analysis was conducted to achieve dimension reduction. Based on the algorithm, countries were gr
This paper investigates the moderating effect of employee skill, as measured by employee productivity and training, on the relationship between R&D spending, measured as R&D intensity, and firm performance, measured as ROA, for the accounting-based standard, and market capitalization, for the market-based standard. The study employs a hierarchical Pooled OLS logistic regression and a Fixed
At Hagforstvätten a dry-cleaning facility operated 1970 – 1993 and leached huge amounts of tetrachloroethene (PCE) to soil and groundwater. This study was conducted at the contaminated site and focused on applying the geophysical methods Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) and Induced Polarization (IP) to investigate if it was possible to locate source zone, degradation zones and groundwater p
60 00 cancerfall rapporteras in varje år till socialstyrelsen men där numera fler än hälften botas. Detta eftersom vi blir skickligare inom området och nya behandlingstekniker utvecklas. Rektalcancer, även kallat ändtarmscancer är en cancerform som ökat under de senaste decennierna. Behandling av patienter med rektalcancer varierar beroende på var och i vilket stadie tumören befinner sig i. Oftast
Abstract Background: Person-centered care is increasingly regarded as being synonymous with best quality care. However, the concept and its precise meaning is a subject of debate, and reliable and valid measurement tools are few. This study is a part of a larger project named KUPA who´s main aim is to improve palliative care and person centeredness for elders living in nursing homes in two souther
This study explores the linguistic aspects of the jihadi culture and highlights the discursive role of classical Arabic within jihadism. It builds on literature on Jihadi culture and contributes to it by empirically analyzing the case of Islamic State linguistic traditions archeologically and genealogically. The study concludes that the use of classical Arabic constitutes one of the pillars of the
