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Information on the spatial distribution of past vegetation on local, regional and global scales is increasingly used within climate modelling, nature conservancy and archaeology. It is possible to obtain such information from fossil pollen records in lakes and bogs using the landscape reconstruction algorithm (LRA) and its two models, REVEALS and LOVE. These models assume that reliable pollen prod

There is a documented gap between academic and practitioner views on software testing. This paper tries to close the gap by investigating both views regarding the benefits and limits of test automation. The academic views are studied with a systematic literature review while the practitioners views are assessed with a survey, where we received responses from 115 software professionals. The results

The selection of flight speed (airspeed) in migrating birds depends on multiple internal and external factors, such as wing morphology, weight and winds. Adjustment with respect to side winds to maintain an intended track direction may include a shift in heading direction and/or an increase in airspeed. Compensation for cross-winds cannot always be achieved if visual references are lacking or may

A case study is presented that evaluates the impact of partial automation strategies on productivity and ergonomics. A company partly automated its assembly and transportation functions while moving from a parallel-batch to a serial line-based production system. Data obtained from company records and key informants were combined with detailed video analysis, biomechanical modelling data and field

To probe the W tb vertex structure, top-quark and W -boson polarisation observables are measured from t-channel single-top-quark events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb−1, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Selected events contain one isolated electron or muon, large missing transverse

Exploring the potential of biotechnological Tools Protein production has always been a vital part in many studies, which has enabled us to produce proteins that are e.g. used for medicinal purposes, such as insulin. In order to achieve this, one must first obtain an adequate amount of protein. The production of proteins is achieved by utilizing bacteria, which can produce foreign proteins from in

Våld i nära relationer har under många år varit och är än idag ett stort samhällsproblem. Det är ett problematiskt område som troligtvis har ett stort mörkertal och därmed är svårt att upptäcka. I vissa fall kanske våld i nära relationer inte upptäcks förrän det är för sent. Vilka möjligheter har brottsoffer för våld i nära relationer att freda sig själv och sin familj? Syftet med denna uppsats ärDomestic violence has always been a major social problem and still is. This kind of crime is often characterized by hidden statistics which makes it difficult to detect in many cases. What possibilities do victims of domestic violence have to protect themselves and their families? The purpose of this thesis is to examine the possibility to use preventive self-defense in cases of domestic violence.

Title: NPD Project Evaluation in the Manufacturing Industry Seminar date: 26 May 2015 Course: FEKN90 Authors: Carl Ekbom and Alexander Wrange Supervisor: Ph.D. Christian Koch Key words: NPD projects, evaluation methods, evaluation criteria, portfolio management, manufacturing industry Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to increase the understanding of how new project de-velopment (NPD) project

I barnkonventionens artikel 34 stadgas ett krav på att konventionsstaterna ska skydda barn mot alla former av sexuellt utnyttjande och sexuella övergrepp. Uppsatsens syfte är att utreda vad detta krav på skydd innebär. Till uppsatsens syfte hör också att utreda om det finns någonting Sverige, som konventionsstat, kan göra för att i större grad anses leva upp till kravet på skydd för barn mellan 15Article 34 in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child stipulates that the State Parties undertake to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. The purpose of this essay is to examine what the requirements of protection means. Furthermore, it will be examined if there is anything Sweden, as a State Party, can do to improve its compliance with the requ

Intimate partner violence is the most common type of violence against women, and is a problem for women of all ages, backgrounds, social classes, religions and preconditions. This study analyses the language and discourses used in a selection of Swedish educational material and guides for social workers regarding intimate partner violence against women in substance abuse or addiction. Through a cr

Nödvärnsrätten regleras i 24 Kap. 1 § BrB. Den typen som är relevant för uppsatsen är nödvärn i förhållande till ”ett påbörjat eller överhängande brottsligt angrepp på person eller egendom,” vilken regleras i punk 1. Nödvärn är en objektiv ansvarsfrihetsgrund som kräver att brukaren gör avvägningar mellan angrepp och försvar för att handlingen inte skall anses som uppenbart oförsvarlig. Detta krävThe right to self-defence is regulated in chapter 24 § 1 of the swedish Penal Code. The type which is relevant to this paper is the one concerned with current or imminent criminal attack on a person or property which is found in the first point of the paragraph. Self-defence is an objective ground for discharge of liability. For the act of self-defence to not be considered obviously unjustified th

Sveriges vattenledningsnät kräver kontinuerliga och stora in- vesteringar och måste underhållas på ett effektivt sätt; syftet med den här studien var därför att utröna vilka ledningsattribut som är viktigast för att i en ANN-modell identifiera ledningar med hög risk för läckage. Detta gjordes genom att först använda attri- buturvalsmetoderna ReliefF och Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) tillsammanSweden’s water pipe network demands continuous and large investments and must be maintained in an effective way; the aim with this study was therefore to investigate which pipe features are most important to identify pipes with a high risk of leakage in an ANN-model. This was done by first utilizing the feature selection methods ReliefF and Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) with Random Forest Clas

Newly constructed building stocks have been decreasing in last decades; thus, renovation and retrofitting represent a large amount of opportunities to upgrade the building performance and energy efficiency of building assets in their life span, as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. An overall assessment of a lighting retrofit project can support to judge the quality of a retrofit as good

Title: Adaptation of shipment consolidation and distribution network design to omni-channel retailing Authors: Johan Deniz, Martin Månsson Supervisor: Joakim Kembro, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University Problem description: Global retailers tend to have complex distribution networks. A part of the complexity stems from trade-offs in deciding

Purpose The purpose of the study has been to estimate the size of the market segment, identify strategically important customers and interesting parts of the segment as well as create an understanding of customer needs when buying furniture for their businesses where care and healthcare is practised. Method The study has been of an exploratory nature with a case study approach since the purpose of

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSITY OF PLANT ASSOCIATED BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES ARCTIC TUNDRA Global warming is predicted to affect the Polar Regions most rapidly due to glacial retreat, snow cover reduction, melting of ice sheets and thawing of permafrost soils. Increase in temperature will further influence the native species to shift northerly by invasive pressure of species well adapted to warm temperat

Abstract Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer in women worldwide. Inherited or acquired aberrations of genes in DNA damage repair, cell cycle checkpoint, apoptosis, and growth signaling pathways are responsible for the generation of breast cancer. Recently, increasing evidence shows that signaling pathways can be highly interconnected and are interacting with each other rat

A novel search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into pairs of long-lived neutral particles, each decaying into a bottom quark pair, is performed using 139 fb−1 of s = 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the production of a Higgs boson in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson are analysed. Long-lived particle (LLP)

Plant transpiration links physiological responses of vegetation to water supply and demand with hydrological, energy, and carbon budgets at the land-atmosphere interface. However, despite being the main land evaporative flux at the global scale, transpiration and its response to environmental drivers are currently not well constrained by observations. Here we introduce the first global compilation