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The built environment is still, to a large extent, not accessible and usable for all. The awareness of people's different conditions and abilities sometimes seems to be far from the agenda for planning and architecture. Universal Desing (UD) is pointed out as a strategy to achieve a built environment for all people regardless of age and abilities. UD has a radical potential to bring about change a
We study the possibility that the Milky Ways' cool stellar disk includes mergers with ancient stars. Galaxies are understood to form in a hierarchical manner, where smaller (proto-)galaxies merge into larger ones. Stars in galaxies, like the Milky Way, contain in their motions and elemental abundance tracers of past events and can be used to disentangle merger remnants from stars that formed in th
Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated gender ideologies and with country-level indices of
In all planning processes, including those we label participatory, there are neglected parties. Even when co-produced decisions, equity objectives, or common initiatives are at hand, some actors are likely to be less listened to, or they are never even recognised, hence, ‘perfect’ participation does not exist. Nevertheless, participatory objectives continue to be an important resilience factor in
Experiments have shown that the time is now ripe for a new generation of interactive learning tools for control. The tools are based on objects which admit direct graphical manipulation. During manipulations, objects are updated instantaneously, so that relations between objects are maintained all the time. The tools are natural complements to traditional education, and allow students to quickly g
Location management in cellular networks have been in focus for the research community for a number of years. The current static method of determining location or paging areas has been shown to be sub- optimal and costly for operators. Therefore, much research has been focussed on dynamic schemes, which show great promise in cost optimisation. However, the research has still been focussed on aggre
The use of public space is an important part of women’s and men’s daily lives in cities and an important arena to promote social inclusion in cities. Public space consists of places for social encounter and exchange, places for political action and participation in public life and plays an important role as places for economic activities. This paper presents a case study of a neighbourhood in San
Malignant glioma is a tumor that spreads rapidly throughout brain and is almost impossible to remove completely by surgery. It is resistant to chemo- and radiotherapy and the prognosis is very poor. As a result, there is a desperate need for development of novel therapies against this devastating disease. Because of the heterogeneity in this cancer success has been limited, but a recent concept in
We propose a method for estimating the 3D position of a target point, given multiple measurements of it, using mm-wave radar data. Given azimuth headings and range estimates from posed radar positions, we find the 3D position, using an approximate, but geometrically and statistically meaningful cost. The 3D position is found in an optimal way, using this approximate cost. By deriving the Lagrangia
During this bachelor thesis a first version of a digital tool has been formed. The tool is uniquely developed for the company Tirawa Solutions AB whose main task is to plan inspections of different railway track parts all across Sweden. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate what functionalities are interesting to achieve a system that can display information about railway switches and
Passenger transport services constitute public utilities, exactly like all the other similar public networks e.g. energy & water distribution, TV broadcasting or postal services. The Member States in the EU have a keen interest in the development of passenger transport and therefore the financing of public transport is such an important economic, political and social issue. In its ideal form,
Den (o)kontrollerade delningen I år gick Facebook ut med att deras användare har slutat att dela, vilket är pro-blematiskt då delningar är ett sätt för organisationer att effektivt, enkelt och eko-nomiskt nå ut med marknadsföringsinnehåll på sociala medier. Vi argumenterar att tidigare forskning främst har fokuserat på vad organisationer får för värde av att användare delar, snarare än vad användaThe (un)restrained share This year Facebook announced that their users have stopped sharing content, which is problematic since this is a way for organisations to effectively and easy target their audience on social media. We argue that previous research mainly has focused on how organisations benefits from users sharing their content, ra-ther than what users generates from it. Therefore, we aim t
ompT - a challenging gene to disrupt in Escherichia coli Our goal in all its simplicity was to delete a gene in two strains of E.coli. ompT is a gene encoding a protease, which is a protein that break down other proteins. We wanted to disrupt ompT and see what effect it could have on recombinant protein production. A method for achieving this is homologous recombination via a system called λ Red
A novel material composition has been investigated in terms of thermal, mechanical, economical and sustainable aspects to be compared to neoprene wetsuits. It is believed that a sandwich structure produced by a dipping method with rubber layers containing an insulating textile can insulate better than foamed neoprene. The hypothesis is also that this sandwich structure can increase durability and
This project explores improvements of breaching procedure to the benefit of fire-fighter for security doors of a security class RC3 and higher. The background of the project is based in an interview with experienced fire-fighters about taxing tasks in their profession. Breaching was identified as an issue due to its physically though requirements, stressful environment and necessity when accessing
This qualitative study explores whether antithesis, as a didactic rhetorical tool, may enhance the likelihood of understanding complex biology-related information. Research shows that students lack the ability of communicating expert knowledge to laymen since they do not understand subject matter well enough themselves due to scientific language. Hence, scientific language use should be studied in
Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning ”Byggnader och anläggningar ska lokaliseras och utformas på ett miljöanpassat sätt…”, så lyder riksdagens defintion av miljökvalitetsmålet God bebyggd miljö (Miljömål, 2016a). Företag som Boklok är en viktig del av utvecklingen mot en god bebyggd miljö i Sverige. En god vardagsmiljö utgör en av delarna i miljökvalitetsmålet vilket bland annat innefattar ett variHousing today stands for 40 % of Swedens total energy use and therefore the industry has a big environmental impact (Miljömål, 2016a). This is not only an important issue due to the environmental impact, it also has a high importance for the society due to the current housing shortage that is prevailing in Sweden. It is important to find a way to be able to industrialize house building with the lo
I have conducted a survey about the number of horse farms in Lomma municipality, how they take care of their manure, their waste and what type of waste they generate. The survey aims to identify horse farms in the municipality and how they handle their manure and waste. According to the questionaires the most common place of storage for the manure is on a concrete base, which prevents nutrient lea
