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The polar ice cap in the Arctic is receding, which has led to an increase in activity in the region. As the Arctic is becoming more accessible, economic opportunities are opening, making territorial claims in the region increasingly interesting to the Arctic Coastal States. This thesis focuses on the legal regime governing a future division of the Arctic Ocean. Given certain provisions are met, th

BACKGROUND: One of the major environmental threats to human health is air pollution. It contributes to premature deaths of millions of people worldwide. Air quality issues are growing exponentially in developing countries (West et al. 2016). More specifically, household air pollution that results from indoor cooking with solid fuels is damaging to the human health in LMIC. About 54% of global popu

Momentvektorering uppnås genom att manipulera bilens hjulhastigheter, i syfte att öka kurvhastigheterna och förbättra trafiksäkerheten. En dubbelkoppling på bakaxeln är en möjlig vektoreringsmetod för en bakhjulsdriven Formula Student-bil. Dubbelkopplingen gör att det inre hjulet kan glida och därmed skapa ett vridmoment kring bilens kropp i kurvans färdriktning. Målet med examensarbetet var att Torque vectoring for automobiles is used to increase cornering speeds and improve road safety by manipulating the car's wheel-speeds. One method of torque vectoring for a rear-wheel-drive Formula Student race car is using a dual-clutch to slip the inner wheel thus create a yaw moment during cornering. The goal of this thesis was to develop and design an electronic control unit to automaticall

Kings of the Wyld av Nicholas Eames är en fantasyroman som blandar mörka teman med humor och som väver in allusioner till såväl nördkultur såväl som 70-talsrock. I den här magisteruppsatsen diskuterar jag översättning av namn, allusioner och alluderande namn i fantasy, med utgångspunkt i min översättning av två utdrag ur romanen. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys av hela romanen, med specifik

Pålning är en typ av grundläggning lämplig för att grundlägga broar vid svaga markförhållanden. Att manuellt utforma en pålgrupp är en iterativ, tidskrävande process där snittkrafterna i pålarna måste verifieras för ett stort antal lastfall. Efter installationen kan pålarna dessutom ha nya positioner och kapaciteten måste verifieras igen. I detta projekt utvecklades en mjukvara för att automatiserFor bridges in weak ground conditions, piling is an appropriate type of foundation. To manually arrange the piles in a pile group is an iterative, time consuming process where the section forces in the piles must be verified for a large number of load cases. In addition, after installation, piles may have new positions and the capacity must be re-verified. In this thesis, a software was developed

Today, one of the main economic engines is construction field. A few periods of history showed that in Lithuania, the main goal for the companies were to build fast, cheap dwellings on the empty lots. The capital of Lithuania, Vilnius city is not an exception. City is built ineffectively. Functions, neighbourhoods are far apart from each other and the transportation ineffectiveness leads to the lo

How should we deal with city planning in a world that is rapidly turning urban, without destroying valuable nature assets along the way? The last decades are proof that the system we are using today is not up to the challenge. Therefore this thesis is showing a new approach to how comprehensive city planning can grow from nature based values and a deeper understanding of a city’s foundation. Toda

I takt med den globala urbaniseringen växer städerna. I storstäderna finns en stor brist på obebyggd mark vilket leder till att städerna förtätas, något som medför nya risker när en större mängd människor befinner sig på en mindre yta. Att inkludera riskhantering i stadsbyggnadsprocessen är därför en av flera viktiga delar i utvecklingen av städerna. Processen för stadsbyggnad kan ses som en proceThe global urbanisation is causing cities to grow. A shortage of unused land in the metropolises, cause a concentration of the cities, presenting new risks as a bigger population occupy a small area. For this reason, including risk management in the urban planning process is one of many important factors in the development of cities. In order to ease the process of risk management and improve tra

Nutrient recovered faecal sludge is a novel alternative fertilizer product, and is proposed to be promoted in places where improvement in sanitation management is needed, for example in Uganda’s capital Kampala. However, Uganda and most of Africa is perceived as a faecofobic area, i.e. where faeces are stigmatized and guarded by taboos, and there is lacking information regarding Ugandan farmers’ p

The following dissertation examines the relationship between the actual control of insurgent groups, FARC and AUC, in municipalities of Colombia and the subsequent performance of public services. By resorting to a novel semi-parametric, group-based-trajectory model, this paper manages to discern the de facto presence of such groups at the municipality level, which allows carrying out such examinat

Agriculture is necessary for providing nutrition to a growing global population. However, many unsustainable agricultural practices contribute to climate change, cause local pollution and disrupt natural biological and nutrient cycles. Conservation agriculture (CA) is one of the many practices that have been proposed to meet the challenge of sustainable agricultural production. CA aims to restore

With the aim of widening the picture of a Late Iron Age warrior society in central Blekinge by studying the social role of its women, female cremation burials have been identified and their material studied. Artefacts and their combinations have been interpreted and their suggested meanings compared with contemporary iconography as well as with Anglo-Saxon and Norse literary sources. The grave mat

När jag hade flöjtlektioner på kulturskola värderades inte musiken efter genrer. Min upplevelse var att flera olika genrer förekom lika ofta på lektionerna. När jag senare sökte in till musikhögskolan och var tvungen att välja genre rubbades denna bild och jag frågade mig vad min roll som flöjtpedagog kommer vara. Ska jag nischa mig inom en genre, eller ska jag kunna lära ut lite av varje? SyftetWhen I had flute lessons at the community school of music and art, music was not valued according to genres. My experience was that several different genres were equally common in the lessons. When I later applied to Malmö Academy of Music, and had to choose a genre, this idea was disrupted and I asked myself what my role as a flute teacher would be. Should I specialize myself within a genre, or s

The purpose of this work was to contribute to the creation of a prototype of a new type of robot called Agile Parallel Kinematic Manipulator or AgilePKM for short. Designing, building and controlling a new type of robot is a task which goes beyond the scope of any master thesis project, but there are subtasks which are more suitable to handle within the available time frame. A principle design wil

Biological tissues are strongly light-scattering and absorbing media that limit the depth of optical-based imaging. Even though, optical imaging provides good optical contrast information of biological content that is beneficial for clinical diagnostics application. Ultrasound was used to assist the optical-based imaging technique in overcoming the poor spatial resolution and shallow imaging depth

The focus in this thesis is on how medical patient records have developed and changed due to the modernization processes in the Swedish health care system during the period 1900– 1986. The processes are followed and analyzed by the written means of communication in use. These are: handwritten text by the physician; type written text produced by a new profession (the medical secretary), and lastly

This research seeks to raise awareness of the wide range of constitutional issues engaged by the British referendum decision to withdraw from the European Union. Through the conducting of an empirical macro study, engaging experts from every major political party in the United Kingdom, it aims to provide an overarching view of the many substantive constitutional issues raised by Brexit and draw at

I denna kandidatuppsats behandlas David Foster Wallaces författarskap och hur han reflekterade kring skrivandet. Syftet att undersöka en författares synpunkt på relationen mellan litteraturen och filosofin, samt det privata och det offentliga. Detta görs genom att utforska Wallaces uttalanden kring ämnet i olika skeden utav hans författarskap. Då vissa filosofiska teorier framträder i detta samman

2016 förlorade Yahya Jammeh -- Gambias andra president sedan självständigheten 1965 -- sitt första presidentval efter att han tog makten i en statskupp 1994. Dagen efter valet gratulerade han sin motståndare Adama Barrow till vinsten men mindre än en vecka senare tog han tillbaka sitt godkännande och meddelade att han inte tänker avgå som president. Det här resulterade i ett den västafrikanska sam

Det råder en global kontinuerlig teknikutveckling som präglar internet med nya innovationer. Många onlinetjänster på internet bedriver sina verksamheter med hjälp av datainsamling av de digitala konsumenterna. Teknikutveckling kräver en insats från både onlinetjänster som behöver vara fortsatt anpassningsbara och digitala konsumenter som behöver begripa vilka konsekvenser utveckling har. Datainsam