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Byggsektorn har stor miljöpåverkan och det är viktigt att byggentreprenader genomförs på ett sätt som följer de miljömål som finns. Genom offentlig upphandling har myndigheter en stor möjlighet att inverka på miljöpåverkan, genom att ställa krav på att deras byggentreprenader följer vissa miljökriterier. De undersökta miljöcertifieringarna skulle då kunna utgöra utmärkta medel för att på ett strukThe construction sector has great impact on the environment and it is important that the public work contracts are carried out in a way that the environmental objectives requires. Authorities have an opportunity to influence the environment by requiring that all public works contracts obtain certain environmental criteria by means of public procurement. The studied green building certificates coul

Artificial neural networks are machine learning systems based on the neural networks of the human brain. A problem that has to be overcome for neural networks is overtraining, which means that the network performs well on data that has been used for training the network, but does not make good predictions on new data. One branch of artificial neural networks, called deep neural networks, uses a lo

Emission from road vehicles is a massive problem and contributes to climate change on our planet. One solution that people are turning to is electrical propulsion instead of fossil fuel. There are, however, problems with putting big batteries on road vehicles. They are expensive to build, they require rare minerals, and the process of creating batteries emits plenty of greenhouse gas. To reduce th

Crowdfunding has rapidly gained popularity over the last decade and now accounts for tens of billions of dollars annually. Although the general public mainly perceives crowdfunding as an alternative means of getting funding, it has been demonstrated that there is a number of motives that entrepreneurs may have when launching a campaign on a crowdfunding platform. Despite that, little scholarly res

Reclaim the Streets is a study of exploitation and parametrically driven urban planning. The land I propose to be exploited are the buffer zones that since the 1950s started being reserved along major roads, and since mostly have been left untouched. The wide passages have created barriers in the city that affect pedestrians by increasing travel times and creating unsafe places. My intention is to

In this essay I study the democracy enhancing projects on the municipal level in four different cities. The purpose is to determine how the local governments respond to the outer pressure to supplement the traditional democratic forms with new ones that will allow the citizens to participate more extensively in the democratic process. The ideas of increased public participatory have become trendy

This study investigates how premium clothing brands use digital narratives on Instagram to foster meaningful consumer engagement, explicitly focusing on Scandinavian cultural contexts. The study used a combination of survey data and expert interviews to examine how branded content could mediate consumers' emotional and cognitive responses based on the structures of Instagram. The findings indi

This study aims to explore social workers' perceptions of their own capacity to work with children exposed to violence, focusing on maintaining the child's well-being and safety. The study examines the opportunities and limitations within their area of work, considering factors like consent, national laws and professional experience. The study employed qualitative methods to explore social

Bakgrund: Ambulanspersonal och akutvårdssjuksköterskor arbetar under pressande förhållanden, där de ofta utsätts för stressfaktorer som dödsfall, våld och traumatiska händelser. Studier visar att en stor del av ambulanspersonalen anser att deras arbete är psykiskt påfrestande, och problem som akut och kronisk stress, sömnsvårigheter och PTSD är vanliga bland dem. Det har blivit tydligt att detta a

Domens rättskraft hindrar att en sak som redan avgjorts får prövas igen. Att rättskraften begränsas till "saken" brukar benämnas som rättskraftens objektiva utsträckning. Vad "saken" är och följaktligen vad som är samma sak som något annat är emellertid inte en enkel fråga att besvara. Trots en rikhaltig praxis från Högsta domstolen som behandlar ämnet och en långvarig diskussiThe legal force of a judgement prohibits the same subject matter from being tried twice. The fact that the legal force of a judgement is limited to the subject matter is referred to as the objective scope of the legal force. How to decide what constitutes the "subject matter" and consequently what is to be considered the same subject matter as something else is a complex question. Despit

What can monuments do as communicative and imaginative media? This thesis exemplifies how counter-monuments present an entry point for Media and Communication scholars to re- conceptualise traditional monuments, shifting the focus from a noun to a processual verb based on conviviality. Accordingly, using a case-study methodology informed by Flyvbjerg’s (2001) and Dewey’s (1934) pragmatic understan

Patients suffering from the deadly progressive neurodegenerative disease Friedreich's ataxia have reduced levels of expression of the protein frataxin. Yeast frataxin has been extensively studied in vitro, and has been shown to deliver iron to heme and iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis, as well as to oligomerize in the presence of iron. In this dissertation metal-dependent oligomerization of fratax

This paper presents a theoretically and methodologically grounded GIS-based model for the measurement and mapping of an index of living conditions in urban residential areas across Sweden. Further, the model is compared and evaluated using the Swedish Police’s assessment of crime-exposed areas. The results indicate that the geographically measured vulnerable living conditions overlap to a large ex

Spectral aerosol light absorption is an important parameter for the assessment of the radiation budget of the atmosphere. Although on-line measurement techniques for aerosol light absorption, such as the Aethalometer and the Particle Soot Absorption Photometer (PSAP), have been available for two decades, they are limited in accuracy and spectral resolution because of the need to deposit the aeroso

BackgroundThere are limited data on the treatment outcomes of adolescents living with HIV. Our objective was to compare mortality and loss to follow up (LTFU) rates between adolescent and younger age groups at enrollment in care.MethodsThis was a retrospective cohort study carried out in eight health facilities in two regions of Ethiopia. Adolescents (age 10–14 and 15–19 year) and children (age 0–

Circular building design could significantly reduce the environmental impact of buildings and the pressure on natural resources. However, most buildings today are not designed according to the principles of the circular economy. Most literature has focused on either methods for quantifying the lifecycle analysis of buildings and materials, or on innovative circular building materials, but not muchCircular building design could significantly reduce the environmental impact of buildings and the pressure on natural resources. However, most buildings today are not designed according to the principles of the circular economy. Most literature has focused on either methods for quantifying the lifecycle analysis of buildings and materials, or on innovative circular building materials, but not much