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Dependence on imported fossil fuels is a major issue in contemporary Japan, as this creates economic vulnerabilities and contributes to climate change. The reliance on imports has been increasing, despite efforts to diversify and conserve energy, and today imports supply over 90 percent of energy consumed in Japan. The aim of this study is to understand the context that contributed to the creation

As the boundaries between different communication disciplines blur, PR experts are forced to operate in increasingly competitive business environments. They are pressured to prove the usefulness of their activities in measurable terms. Evaluation techniques are key to this challenge as they have the potential to win over organisational decision makers and to help steer communication programmes ef

Surveillance has throughout history been a widely discussed phenomenon and the debate over the delicate balancing of state power vis-à-vis privacy in the pursuit of national security equally so. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had been conducting digital surveillance globally and it represents a tipping point in the history of surveillance. By applying the normative logics deontology

This paper endeavours to study whether Brexit could be Britain’s way to find its national role in the international arena by analysing three levels of theory analysis from foreign policy analysis operating discourse analysis in its different forms. Initially, individual decision-makers are scrutinised by operating psychological discourse analysis on three Prime Minister’s speeches to learn the pri

It is critical for the durability of power modules to maintain low enough temperature in their components (IGBTs and diodes). The goal of this project was to examine methods to estimate the junction temperature of components in an IGBT module in real-time. After studying literature on the subject, a model was developed using Fostercircuits and feedback from the NTC-thermistor in the IGBT-module. T

This thesis presented an in-depth qualitative case study of the peace process between the Colombian state and the FARC guerrilla from 2012 and onwards. The purpose of it was to problematize the peace process by investigating the prospects and pitfalls of negotiating peace within a neoliberal development model, by asking what reasons there are to believe that the process will lead to peace, contras

A Geographic Information System (GIS) based multi-criteria site suitability evaluation provides the means to locate potential beekeeping areas in rural Kenya. The criteria considers specific environmental and socio-economic variables. The resulting suitability maps analyse several locations where environmental variables aim to favour the location of beekeepers close to protected areas and forests,

Diel Vertical Migration (DVM) in the aquatic environment is of great ecological importance. In order to better understand and predict this fabulous orchestra of migrating biomass, the underlying behaviors behind each individual’s swimming tactics need to be better understood. While vertical migrating behaviors in animals such as zooplankton and fish have been deeply investigated, phytoplankton beh

Titel: ”Minskat matsvinn – lättare sagt än gjort?” Seminariedatum: 14 januari 2016 Kurs: FEKH29, Examensarbete på marknadsföring på kandidatnivå, 15 hp Författare: Sara Berg (900724), Emma Forssman (910816) och Shazia Khawri (910202) Handledare: Annette Cerne Nyckelord: Matsvinn, Consumer Social Responsibility, attityder, beteenden, the Theroy of Reasoned Action, the Attitude-Behavior Gap Syfte: D

This work is focused on a system which aims at estimating and attenuating side wind acting on a vehicle. The side wind disturbance is estimated using a disturbance observer. This thesis investigates the robustness towards sensor offset and parameter error. A few possibilities for reducing the effects of sensor offset are presented. A large part of the thesis is dedicated to on line identification

Social media have come to influence the way we interact, both on an individual level and an organisational level. Businesses in all industries are quickly realising that if you are not on social media you do not exist. This thesis aim to investigate how social media influence the aid market and how/if the individual consumer has changed their participatory behaviour towards aid organisations. A c

This is an analysis of all the planets at exoplanets.org, with the goal of finding out how many of these that could possibly have moons supporting life. I have first calculated the ranges of the habitable zones (HZ:s) for the stars in the archive, using the Runaway Greenhouse model for the inner limit, and the Maximum Greenhouse model for the outer limit, as presented by Kopparapu et al. (2013A).

Innovation has been identified as one of the key factors for economic growth long ago. However, the emergence of “knowledge century” further strengthened the role of the concept since proper management of the knowledge is essential to make the best out of the innovative capacity of the companies as well as the countries. This necessitates a balanced intellectual property rights (IPR) systems, sinc

We have decided to conduct a case study of German and Swedish mid-level managers within the automobile industry. Primarily we used a qualitative method of investigation and a phenomenographical methodological approach in order to conduct an in depth analysis. We conducted semi-structured interviews with six mid-level managers each in Germany and Sweden. The semi-structured interviews allowed us to

The Atankwidi River Basin is situated in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The Basin has an area of around 275 km2. The semiarid climate in which the Atankwidi is situated is characterized by one rainy season spanning from April to September and one dry season spanning from September to April. All of the year’s precipitation falls during the rainy season – roughly 1000mm – with a peak downfall in Au

Although Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is considered to be one of the best known homoerotic novels ever written, the novel does not contain any explicit statements of homoeroticism which leaves the novel to be more of a suggestive work of such a theme. The aim of this essay is to examine some of the different codes used by Wilde to show a homoerotic theme in The Picture of Do