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The objective of this thesis is to give a general account of the MCMC estimation approach dubbed data cloning, specically performing maximum likelihood estimation via Bayesian Monte Carlo methods. An account of the procedure will be given, and it will applied to four dierent maximum likelihood estimation problems: simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, a stochastic dynamical model (

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur uppmärksamhet påverkades av manipulationerna: tyst, vitt brus, en dialog och två parallella dialoger. Deltagarna delades först, med hjälp av självskattning för uppmärksamhet, in i grupper om hög och låg uppmärksamhetsnivå. Genom ett e-Corsi Spatial Span- test, Go/No Go- test och igenkänningstest i olika manipulationer, erhölls uppmärksamhetspoäng för att viThe purpose of the study was to examine how attentiveness was affected by these conditions: quietness, white noise, one dialogue and two parallel dialogues. Participants were first divided into groups of high and low level of attentiveness, by a self-assessment questionnaire. Attention scores were given by an e-Corsi Spatial Span Test, a Go/No-Go Test and a Free Recall Test, in the various conditi

Idag är planering en essentiell komponent i både den offentliga och den privata sektorn. Ett bra planerad projekt har en högre sannolikhet för att lyckas än ett inte så välplanerad projekt. Men ju större ett projekt är, desto mer tidskrävande är planeringsprocessen. I detta examensarbete utvecklades ett planeringsverktyg för att hitta en tillräcklig bra konfiguration mellan personer och deluppgifToday, planning is an essential part in most lines of business. A good planned project has a higher chance of succeeding than a not so well planned project. However, the bigger a project is, the more time consuming the planning phase becomes. This master thesis has been aimed at designing and developing a planning support tool for finding a good match between persons and tasks based on their ski

This report focuses the use of egress models to study the airport evacuation with special focus on security doors in case of total evacuation in airport terminal buildings. Case studies are made in arrival hall and departure hall of the airport terminal based on the scenarios identified in a preliminary risk analysis carried out in the terminal. Evacuation strategies are employed in the two differ

There are only a few construction projects that include a Logistic Manager today. In many cases the profit is hard to see, since the involving tasks in logistics are the same even if there is a Logistic Manager included in the project or not. It may seem like the job is already taken care of and that a Logistic Manager therefore would be unnecessary. Even though the project tasks are the same, the

Collaboration Software is widely used in internal communication in the companies today. Software itself enables the companies to use variety of media with different properties and capabilities to mediate the communication on different corporate tasks. The way companies use the communication media implies the overall company performance. This study empirically examines the general propositions of M

Sammanfattning Titel: Relationen mellan servicelandskap, förälder och barn – Vem styr vem, vad, hur och varför i butiken? Universitet: Campus Helsingborg, Lunds Universitet Nivå: Kandidatuppsats, 15 högskolepoäng Inlämningsdatum: 2014-05-26 Författare: Ronja Norgren och Josefin Åkesson Handledare: Richard Ek Nyckelord: Servicelandskap, konsumtionsprocess, butikskommunikation, barns behov, makt

In Sweden the care of elderly is often criticized. Knowing that the average life expectancy is steadily increasing as well as the population of elderly we wished to examine how society is planning for the future. Thus the purpose of this study was to understand how politicians at municipal level construct future needs of, problems and possible solutions for the care of elderly. Six politicians of

The purpose with this study was to describe and analyze the hospital church function and importance in hospital care and its relation to the hospital counselor work. This study will also present the division of labor between the hospital church and hospital counselors. It will also examine the relationship between the hospital church and hospital curators and if there is a difference in the hospit

Abstract in French Cet article présente le contexte culturel et archéologique des os fossiles humains de la Grotte Muierii que nous datons de 30 150 ± 800 14C ans BP (Before Present) ou 34 810 ± 927 cal. ans BP (ans calibrés Before Present), et de la Grotte Cioclovina, datés de 29 000 ± 700 14C ans BP ou 33 540 ± 832 cal. ans BP, dans les Carpates méridionales.. Ils s’insèrent parmi les plus ancieThis paper presents the cultural and archaeological context of the human fossil bones from Muierii Cave, dated by us to the age of 30 150 ± 800 14C years BP (Before Present) or 34 810 ± 927 cal years BP (calibrated years Before Present), and from Cioclovina Cave, dated to the age of 29 000 ± 700 14C years BP or 33 540 ± 832 cal years BP, in the Southern Carpathians. These are among the most ancien

Popular Abstract in Swedish Interdisciplinära smärtrehabiliteringsprogram har visat bättre resultat än mindre intensiva åtgärder. Det saknas dock kunskap inom flera olika områden. Denna avhandling har bland annat fokuserat vilka aktivitetsproblem som personer som genomgått ett sådant program upplever viktigast att förbättra. Alla deltagarna i programmet hade långvarig muskuloskeltal smärta med komMultidisciplinary pain rehabilitation programmes are found decreasing pain and improve back-to-work rates. There is, however, a lack of knowledge in several respects. The overall aim of this thesis was to study outcomes in terms of occupational performance, satisfaction with performance, psychosocial functioning, disability, and coping profiles at a one-year follow-up after a musculoskeletal pain

Popular Abstract in Swedish Till processindustrin räknar man bland annat fabriker som tillverkar papper, plast och livsmedel. I en enda fabrik kan det finnas tusentals PID-regulatorer som har till uppgift att styra storheter som tryck, flöden och temperaturer till önskade värden. PID-regulatorns roll i processindustrin har därför jämförts med den arbetsmyran har i myrstacken. Huruvida en enskild mA large process industry can have somewhere between five hundred and five thousand control loops, and PID controllers are used in 90–97% of the cases. It is well-known that only 20–30% of the controllers in the process industry are tuned satisfactorily, but with the methods available today it is considered too time-consuming to optimize each single controller. This thesis presents tools for analys

The actors in focus here are the citizens and the politicians. We are studying their opinions on two central issues of health-care policy during the period 1981-1991. The aims of the dissertation can be summarised as follows: - to study the compositions of citizens´attitudes to health-care provision and policy - to examine the value of using different methodical approaches when studying health-car

Ritualer förknippas ofta med religiöst liv och därför har mycket av studier i ämnet utförts av teologer eller religionshistoriker. Men även inom etnografi och antropologi har riter och ritualer kommit att få en central plats i forskningen, eftersom de så tydligt visar upp en kultur. Här blottläggs maktstrukturer, centrala symboler visas upp, könsrollsmönster tydliggörs och utbytessystem skapas. So

This thesis investigates how employment as a concept is used in the discussions about integration policy. With the supposition that employment is regarded as one of the most important factors of integration, it studies the arguments that endorse this supposition in texts on integration policies. Using the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe, I discern three different discourses that can explain

This is a study of the Swedish governments control over pathologicalized bodies. I have carried out a genealogical analysis of Swedish government official reports concerning forced sterilizations. The purpose of the study was to find out in which ways the Swedish government controls and restricts “certain kinds” of bodies when it comes to reproduction. With theoretical influences from Judith Butle

There is information showing that aid workers in developing countries sometimes are forced to bribe officials in order to fulfil their work. The aim of this study is to clarify different ways of arguing both for and against the fact that aid workers use bribes in some situations. This essay, by using a normative method and the logic of appropriateness, concludes there are arguments that justify th

This thesis is the result of a work for Saab Automobile AB in Trollhättan, and more specifically the Department of under hood design. The project has been to Lund University and finishes my education in Technical Design. Supervisor at the company who has assisted me with much help is Andreas Barbunopulos and supervisors at the school have been Ola Carlquist and Karl-Axel Andersson. The purpose