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This study investigated how the outdoor environments at nursing homes for older persons were experienced and used to gain knowledge with implications for design. Focus group methodology was used to explore staff's view of how the residents experienced and used the outdoors. Two main themes and ten sub-themes were the result when the focus group interviews were analyzed. Theme one, being comfortabl

Rational Unified Process (RUP) är en systemutvecklingsmetod som tillhandahåller ett modifierbart tillvägagångssätt för hur man skall fördela uppgifter och ansvar inom ett systemutvecklingsprojekt. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka om RUP verkligen bidrar till framgångsrik systemutveckling, och i så fall även till att identifiera de vitalaste faktorer som lett till denna framgång. Fok

Every year immigrants send home billions of dollars to their countries of origin. This so-called remittance flow is constantly increasing, both in scale and in importance to the economy of many developing countries. In this thesis remittance payments are discussed and analyzed in a development context. The development impact of the increasing flow of remittances is contrasted to the impacts of the

The study shows how core values affect the innovation process by creating an innovation culture. Core values also create an alignment which leads to conformity and lack of new ideas. Demonstrated is also that core values function as high impact areas of innovation, meaning that employees are encouraged to generate ideas within the fields of core values. Core values are also proved to be used as a

Bangladesh became an independent country in 1971 and enforced a democratic governance system in 1991. The country has been witnessing a fairly steady economic and social growth processes during the past two decades. However, the political system in the country has not been seeing the same type of development. During four out of eight years in the time period 2001-08 Bangladesh was considered to be

Problem Definition: The Swedish foresight division, SFD, of Bramble AB is charged with developing concepts for new products and innovations. At the time, this process is generally disjointed from external input from customers about the needs of the target group. Ideas are generated based on hypotheses, proposed by the employees at SFD, after which concepts are developed and tested internally. Howe

Due to the progressing environmental problems related to global warming, the chemical industry is transitioning from fossil to renewable feedstocks. For added environmental benefits, surplus biomass from the agricultural industry which currently does not have any high-value applications can be used for production of chemicals. This master thesis is written as a part of the tech-no-economic analysi

Background One of Alfa Laval’s factories in Lund, LA, has noticed that up to 50% of all order proposals suggested by their ERP system JEEVES is considered to be irrelevant and are subsequently disregarded by the purchasers. Consequently, many purchasers disregard the parameters in JEEVES that control what proposals get suggested and instead order on “gut-feeling” and personal experience. Not only

The terms “gender” and “sex” are central to feminist concerns. In English scholarship “gender” is disputed within and outside of feminism, despite its seemingly political correctness as an alternative to “sex” (Olson 2012; Gunnarsson 2011). This thesis aims to describe how “gender”, multi-word expressions with “gender”, and the derivative “gendered” are translated into Arabic target texts (TTs) by

Kan spelardetektion på en plan förbättras genom att öka antalet kameror som används för detektionen? Med utvecklingen av artificiell intelligens (AI) och maskininlärning har möjligheterna inom en rad områden ökat markant, exempelvis sportteknologi. Där används AI för att automatiskt detektera spelare på en plan med hjälp av kamerabilder. I det här arbetet undersöks hur en AI-modell kan förbättra dAccurate detection of player positions is essential for sports analysis. Traditional single-camera methods generally suffer from occlusion and diminishing resolution far away. This work proposes using multi-camera Bird's Eye View (BEV) detection to overcome these issues. Synthetically generated data was used to train and test the detection model, which uses images from six cameras placed aroun

Background Lifecycles of electronics are decreasing, whereas companies with long life product such as the automotive and defence industry is increasing electrification in their products. Consequently, the mismatch in lifecycles between the electronics industry and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), with long life products, requires a solid obsolescence management process, to mitigate and res

Alla har vi någon gång behövt använda oss av GPS för att hitta vägen eller se var vi är. Då har man antagligen också upptäckt att GPS inte alltid fungerar som den ska. I detta examensarbete undersöker vi ett alternativ till GPS som använder mobilnätet för att positionera med hjälp av maskininlärning. GPS-positionering kan ha en precision på mindre än 5 meter i öppna miljöer, men som tidigare nämnGNSS is currently the most prominent method for outdoor positioning, providing an accuracy of approximately 5 metres in good conditions. However, for environments such as dense city areas or indoors, a GNSS signal reception might not be possible. An alternative method of positioning is the fingerprint-based method, which has been widely adopted for indoor positioning by sampling the signal strengt

The course of this thesis takes its starting point from a question inspired by the work of architect and artist Allan Wexler; How can one create a building that emanates from one’s subconscious? Wexler states that he aims to create buildings in the same manner as a potter throws a pot on a wheel, without hesitation, in a kind of stream of consciousness fashion. The question about the subconscious

Conditionality clauses in EU trade agreements are widely criticised for their inefficacy in influencing companies’ production processes. While it is usually customary that companies that fail to comply to said clauses may still continue to export to the single market, the new 2016 trade agreement between the EU and Jordan has imposed stricter restrictions and forbids non-compliant companies to exp

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to find the influencing factors, which might hinder or facilitate the normalization process of product-service systems in the clothing industry. Hereby, the researchers tried to understand the influence of established norms and their affect on the normalization process. Methodology: The researchers took a position as social constructionists by following n

Much has been written about why a woman stays in a relationship with a man who exposes her to violence, while less has been written about what causes the woman to one day pack a bag and actually leave the man. Interviews with six persons, who either has personal experience from intimate partner violence or possesses knowledge of the subject through their profession, has been conducted in order to

Web Development and the way it’s been applied nowadays has been remarkably affected by the trend of harnessing user’s output through the implementation of Web Analytics. Under-standing the degree in which the process of web development is driven by data demands a detailed examination on topics within the area of Web Analytics and its correlations with Web Development. Accordingly, the strategicall

From literature review a theoretical research model was developed describing the process for designing a performance measurement system fit for the company culture, strategic direction, and stakeholder perspective. Following the model, the definition of high performance for the department was investigated and success factors were formulated from interview results. These success factors were accord

Purpose: This study aims to examine changes in the acquired company’s MCS post-M&A and how the employees perceive this change. Further, the purpose is to investigate how employees' perceptions affect the employees’ motivation and identity. Methodology: This study follows a qualitative research approach by analyzing an acquired company in the logistic industry. Data was collected through s