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Mexico has experienced the dramatic escalation of crime and violence in an organized form since the 1990s, and have also witnessed the highest number of homicides in the last ten years. It has adversely affected the national security, economic growth and social development with an especially detrimental effect on youth in Mexico. This study examines the direct and indirect impacts of drug trade-re
The purpose of this report is to provide knowledge about what factors that contribute to the recruitment and retention of people among volunteer firefighters in small rural communities. The report also aims to provide ideas of how to promote a sustainable retention of volunteers in rural rescue services. The factors have been identified through various study methods with data obtained from a liter
This master thesis investigates the Service Design concept in connection to the Employee-driven Innovation (EDI) field. The Service Design concept entails both a mindset and a toolbox, involving principles such as human-centricity, collaboration and holistic understanding. Previous research has called for more structured approaches to the bottom-up innovation and the EDI process. Furthermore, rese
Titel:“Ett överflöd av data men ett underskott av insikter” - En fallstudie om hur Business Intelligence påverkar tjänsteleveransen i ett Professionellt tjänsteföretag Seminariedatum: 2018-06-05 Kurs: FEKH19, Examensarbete i Strategic Management Författare: Måns Claeson, William Persson, Emma Sundgren och Oscar Wachtmeister Handledare: Niklas Lars Hallberg Nyckelord: Public Relations (PR), Profess
A comparison between three different types of particle sizing instruments (fast mobility particle sizer, FMPS; electrical low pressure impactor, ELPI; and scanning mobility particle sizer, SMPS) and one condensation particle counter (CPC) was made to compare instrument response in terms of size distributions and number concentration. Spherical oil droplets in 39 different sizes, with geometric mea
The purpose of this master’s thesis is to gain in-depth knowledge about how the provision of digital books via the e-book service Biblio functions in Swedish public libraries and how this activity can be understood through the library's mission of promoting the development of a democratic society. To gather the empirical material for this study, we have conducted semi-structured interviews wit
Syftet är att identifiera, beskriva och analysera viktiga aspekter för management av kreativitet i upplevelseföretag. Frågeställningar: Hur används kreativitet i upplevelseföretag? Vilka aspekter främjar organisatorisk kreativitet i upplevelseföretag? Hur hanterar ledare i upplevelseföretag kreativitet? Slutsatser: En organisations kreativitet skapas genom dess samspel mellan individer, grupp och
Two probiotic products containing either live Lactobacillus plantarum strain DSM 15313 or bilberries fermented by the same bacterial strain were tested for their antihypertensive potentials and their impact on the oral and the faecal microbiota in hypertensive adults. The results showed that consumption of the tested products for three months did not reduce the blood pressure in adults with hypert
A method for evaluating chloride binding capacity of concrete was proposed based on the adsorption from solution and chloride binding isotherms of OPC pastes and mortars with water-cement ratio 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8. The experimental results show that the chloride binding capacity of concrete strongly depends on the content of CSH gel in the concrete, regardless of the water-cement radio and the additi
Something has happened in the field of Service Studies. With the introduction of what has been called Service Dominant Logic a large proportion of the established theories related to service as a phenomenon has been challenged. From previously having been defined as something different from the tangible things we buy (goods); i.e. a residual, service defined out of what service is not, the new lin
This paper argues that there is reason to be skeptical about the idea that the transition to a service economy will bring about dematerialization of production and consequent environmental improvement. This is because the shift to a service economy is an illusion in terms of real production, but is instead generated by the fall in the price of manufacturing goods relative to services, which is in
Particle size distributions and hygroscopic growth were studied in a town in Sweden with extensive emissions from wood combustion. The average deposited fraction of particle number, surface area and volume dose in the human respiratory tract was estimated using the data set, as well as the typical deposition pattern of the two dominant particle source types: wood combustion and traffic exhaust. As
The ability of particles to activate and form cloud droplets influences the functioning of the Earth's hydrological cycle. This work links the particle water uptake at subsaturation to the critical supersaturation ratio needed for particles to become cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Five models using the particle hygroscopic growth at subsaturation for predicting the critical supersaturation neede
Cloud computing technology provides the means to share physical resources among multiple users and data center ten- ants by exposing them as virtual resources. There is a strong industrial drive to use similar technology and concepts to provide timing sensitive services. One such is virtual net- working services, so called services chains, which consist of several interconnected virtual network fu
Climate change increases the risks of heat stress, especially in urban areas where urban heat islands can develop. This literature review aims to describe how severe heat can occur and be identified in urban indoor environments, and what actions can be taken on the local scale. There is a connection between the outdoor and the indoor climate in buildings without air conditioning, but the pathways
Popular Abstract in Swedish Skogar är av stor betydelse ur klimatsynpunkt på grund av deras stora förmåga att binda kol. Skogar på de nordligare breddgraderna spelar en viktig roll med sitt stora kolupptag, men eftersom dessa nordliga skogar troligen kommer att påverkas av klimatförändringarna i hög grad är det osäkert hur framtida kolupptag kommer att utvecklas. Ett varmare klimat kommer sannolikForests are of major importance to climate change mitigation due to their strong capacity to sequester carbon. Nearly half of the terrestrial carbon is stored in forests, and forests contribute to half of the terrestrial primary productivity, with forests in the mid- and high latitude ecosystems as major contributors. These high latitude forests are, however, projected to be strongly influenced by
Microscopy and particle-based simulations are both powerful techniques to study aggregated particulate matter such as colloidal gels. The data provided by these techniques often contains information on a wide array of length scales, but structural analysis methods typically focus on the local particle arrangement, even though the data also contains information about the particle network on the mes
STUDY QUESTION: Is it possible to identify by mass spectrometry a wider range of proteins and key proteins involved in folliculogenesis and oocyte growth and development by studying follicular fluid (FF) from human small antral follicles (hSAF)?SUMMARY ANSWER: The largest number of proteins currently reported in human FF was identified in this study analysing hSAF where several proteins showed a s
