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Background TitanX Engine Cooling is a global supplier of powertrain cooling solutions to commercial vehicles, both for OEMs and the independent aftermarket. The company with annual sales of over 1.6 billion SEK (US$ 192 million) has some 800 employees worldwide. TitanX is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden and has manufacturing sites in Sweden, USA, Brazil, China and Mexico. Its manufacturing fac
Sammanfattning Denna uppsats behandlar fenomenet modebloggar och konsumtionskulturen i dagens samhälle. De tre modebloggar som denna studie behandlar är bland de mest populära bloggarna i Sverige idag och personerna bakom bloggarna har kommit att bli en slags kändisar och opinionsbildare inom området för livsstil, mode och skönhet. Anledningen till varför just dessa tre bloggar har valts som empir
Sverige har under mer än 20 års tid fått motta kritik från olika internationella organ på grund av den omfattande användningen av restriktioner för häktade. Restriktionerna innebär att den häktade begränsas i sina möjligheter att till exempel ta emot besök eller vistas i gemensamhet med andra intagna, vilket leder till att den häktade i hög grad isoleras. Syftet med uppsatsen är att bidra till disOver the last 20 years, Sweden has received criticism from a number of international organs for its extensive use of restrictions on remand prisoners. Restrictions mean that the detained person is limited, for example, in his or her possibilities to receive visits or to spend time with other inmates. This leads to a high degree of isolation of the detained person. The purpose of this thesis is to
Detaljhandeln var från början koncentrerad till citylägen och det var det främst handeln med skrymmande varor som var förlagd till de externa lägena. Under 1990-talet genomgick dock detaljhandeln en omfattande strukturomvandling i Sverige. Det bildades en ny typ av handelsområden utanför städerna med flertalet stora butikerna, ofta i fristående byggnader. Detta fenomen sk. Retail parks, har sitt u
Malmö beskrivs ofta som den mest segregerade och mångkulturella staden i Sverige. Stadens skolor får i och med detta ett än större ansvar att genomföra ett fungerande likabehandlingsarbete och arbete mot diskriminering, vilket de dessutom är skyldiga att göra enligt både skollagen och diskrimineringslagen. Syftet med uppsatsen är således att, genom kvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer få en
Fire at the dry southern margin of the Amazon rainforest could have major consequences for regional soil carbon (C) storage and ecosystem carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, but relatively little information exists about impacts of fire on soil C cycling within this sensitive ecotone. We measured CO2 effluxes from different soil components (ground surface litter, roots, mycorrhizae, soil organic matte
Forest degradation, forest fires, and wildlife poaching have devastated biodiversity in Indonesia. To assess the impact of forest degradation and the potential for recovery, we used birds as a proxy for biodiversity and assessed density estimates (hereafter density) in the degraded lowland forest of Harapan Rainforest Ecosystem Restoration Concession (HRF) in Sumatra. In this study, a total of 149
I varje samhälle har konsumenter en avgörande roll för att klimatanpassade varor och tjänster köps, används och till sist källsorteras. En alldeles övervägande andel svenskar har under flera decennier visat sig vara i hög grad miljömedvetna. Klimatförändringar såsom global uppvärmning och ett växande ozonhål har varit bland de aspekter på klimatförändringar man oroat sig mest för. Kunskap om miljö
Popular Abstract in Swedish Utgångspunkten för den här avhandlingen har varit det stora antalet bilder som motsäger den vanliga trenden i konst att avbilda flickor som oskyldiga, romantiska och sexualiserade. Målet med avhandlingen är att för första gången presentera forskning om den svenska konstnären Lena Cronqvists (född 1938) flickbilder och att skapa kunskap om bilder av flickor i konst i allThe starting point for this PhD, is the large number of girls that opposed the common trend in which girls are represented as innocent, romantic and sexual. The aim of this study has been to provide the first piece of research ever on this body of work by the Swedish artist Lena Cronqvist (b. 1938) and to cast new light on representations of girls in art in general. Cronqvist is one of Sweden's ma
The Indonesian archipelago, Borneo, Sumatra and West New Guinea (Papua), hosts half of the world's known tropical peat swamps, which support a significant proportion of the estimated biodiversity on Earth. However, several species groups that inhabit peat swamp environments remain poorly characterised and their biology, particularly during early life stages, is not well understood. In the present
Why do some forests produce biomass more efficiently than others? Variations in Carbon Use Efficiency (CUE: total Net Primary Production (NPP)/ Gross Primary Production (GPP)) may be due to changes in wood residence time (Biomass/NPPwood), temperature, or soil nutrient status. We tested these hypotheses in 14, one ha plots across Amazonian and Andean forests where we measured most key components o
Many time-series smoothing methods can be used for reducing noise and extracting plant phenological parameters from remotely-sensed data, but there is still no conclusive evidence in favor of one method over others. Here we use moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to investigate five smoothing methods: Savitzky-Golay fitting (S
Africa is a sink of carbon, but there are large gaps in our knowledge regarding the CO2 exchange fluxes for many African ecosystems. Here, we analyse multi-annual eddy covariance data of CO2 exchange fluxes for a grazed Sahelian semi-arid savanna ecosystem in Senegal, West Africa. The aim of the study is to investigate the high CO2 exchange fluxes measured at the peak of the rainy season at the Da
A new genus and species of emperor butterfly (Nymphalidae, Apaturinae) is described based on an exceptionally well-preserved specimen from the "Calcaire de Campagne Calavon" limestone of southern France (early Oligocene age, approximately 34–28 Mya). Most parts of the right wings and upper parts of the left wings are visible, with complete venation and even wing patterns. The head and thorax are c
Climate change is primarily driven by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Reducing these emissions globally requires a massive effort at the individual, city, and national scales. Urban areas are hotspots of anthropogenic emissions, given the high density of human-based activities, and clarity on the variations of emissions in these areas will enable effective targeted reduction plans. Ho
Våtmarker bidrar med många ekosystemtjänster såsom kolinlagring och förbättrad vattenkvalitet och tillgänglighet. Historisk dränering har dock lett till en massiv förlust av våtmarker världen över, vilket resulterat i förlorade ekosystemfunktioner och ökade utsläpp av växthusgaser. Idag finns ett ökat intresse för återställning av våtmarker för att nå beslutade klimat- och miljömål. Det finns dockPeatlands provide several ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and improved water quality and availability. However, historical drainage has led to a massive loss of peatlands worldwide, resulting in lost ecosystem functions and increased greenhouse gas emissions. Today, environmental goals have led to a renewed interest in the restoration of peatlands. However, knowledge gaps regarding
Climate change is generally expected to have a positive effect on weathering rates, due to the strong temperature dependence of the weathering process. Important feedback mechanisms such as changes in soil moisture, tree growth and organic matter decomposition can affect the response of weathering rates to climate change. In this study, the dynamic forest ecosystem model ForSAFE, with mechanistic
Dramatic declines of some arthropod populations have recently received a lot of attention. Identified declines have mainly been attributed to changes in agriculture, climate, pathogen prevalence and light pollution, as well as cross-regional effects of, e.g., drifting pesticides. However, the overall picture is complex and debated, and there is a need for systematically collected long-term data, n
Although small rural settlements are only minor individual sources of greenhouse gases and air pollution, their high overall occurrence can significantly contribute to the total emissions of a region or country. Emissions from a rural lifestyle may be remarkably different than those of urban and industrialized regions, but nevertheless they have hardly been studied so far. Here, flux measurements
Climate change is expected to alter precipitation regimes, resulting in longer periods of drought and heavier precipitation events. Even though the direct effect of water availability on soil microbial processes is well documented, the influence of precipitation legacy on microbial resistance and resilience to drought remains unclear. Using soils from a natural mean annual precipitation (MAP) grad
