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This study examines Poland’s adhesion to the EU and the structural effects this has had on Polish exports which has grown significantly during the last two decades. The purpose is to analyze whether this growth has been the result of intensified or diversified Polish exports. In order to seize the structural effects this study decomposes the Polish trade flows into an extensive margin (new flows)
Summary: Purpose: The aim of this Master’s Thesis is to create a procedure for internal project audits. This involves the creation of an instrument for measurement and a prescription for how to transfer learnings to other projects. The end goal is to enhance organisational learning and through that create Total Quality in the management of projects. Methodology: Deductive, qualitative case study w
Problem: Branding has developed from focusing on particular products, or organizations, to now currently on how to brand countries. When the brand is to represent a whole country, the organization needs to create conditions for employees to be able to “live the brand”. The study takes a new approach by, focusing on communication and sense making, bringing together research on nation branding with
Bardawil Lagoon, a natural lagoon located on the northern coast of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, there are three inlets of which two are man-made connecting the lagoon with the Mediterranean Sea. The inlets are subjected to changes in morphology, due to sediment transport, over time and this may lead to degrees of closure of either inlet. The sediment transport is governed by longshore currents and
The aim of this collaboration, between the division of Thermal Power Engineering and Lunds Energi AB, is to investigate the possibilities of training artificial neural networks (ANNs) with power plant operational data. For this purpose operational data from Lunds Energi's gas turbine GT10B with heat recovery unit (HRU) will be used. Furthermore a model with user interface is created to dem
In this thesis we are evaluating Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) v5.1 in combination with Direction Of Arrival (DOA) algorithms and receiving antenna arrays for indoor positioning systems. The thesis is divided in two parts. The first part is the core of the thesis and is composed by the evaluation of DOA algorithms in a direction finding system. A campaign of measurements is carried out in an active i
The following thesis examines two responses to processes of social change within the small town of Vellinge in the province of Scania, Sweden. The experiences of change within the town appear in the guise of two contradicting narratives – one of the town’s progress and the other of its decline – which I aim to approximate from nine in-depth interviews with eight inhabitants conducted in two cycles
One of the main challenge’s society faces today is climate change caused by CO2 due to the de-pendence on fossil fuels. To combat the increasing CO2 levels there is a need to develop renewable fuels. One such fuel could potentially be derived from lignin. In this thesis, lignin derived from a pulp and paper mill was first treated and cleaned. The lignin was then processed by catalytic hydroproces
During the 20th century the Nile River has been reason for political tensions and low intensity conflicts among the Nile Basin states such as Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) was established in 1999 with the primary aim to “[...] achieve sustainable socio-economic development through the equitable utilization of, and benefit from, the common Nile Basin water resources.” T
Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria 2011, nearly 11 million people have been displaced from their homes and an estimated 1,4 million Syrian refugees have fled to Jordan. The host country has not only been obliged to meet humanitarian needs, but is now facing big integration challenges with this demographic boom. Efforts have been made to provide formal jobs to Syrian refugees in order to
Den aktuella studien undersökte hur barn omkring perioden för ordförrådsspurten uppmärksammar generell form samt signifikanta detaljer vid visuell objektigenkänning, både avseende nya bild-ordpar samt för redan etablerade bild-ordpar. Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) registrerades i syfte att analysera hur barn på en neural nivå reagerar på kongruenta och inkongruenta presentationer av bild-ordpar,The present study investigated how children around the time of the vocabulary spurt attend to overall shape and significant detail in visual object recognition, regarding both novel picture-word pairs as well as already established picture-word pairs. Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded in order to analyze how children on a neural level respond to congruent and incongruent presentations
This thesis examines cluster and innovation system theory’s answer to why some firms, and not others, based in particular nations achieve international success in distinct segments, and the European Union’s recent policy efforts based on such theories. On this background a discussion on the changes needed in national economic policymaking among EU Member States when the EU starts taking a cluster
If human rights are to be enjoyed by every person regardless of origin or nationality; if human rights are the rights of the human being under any circumstances, then the best way to gauge the quality and depth of our systems of protection of human rights will be to examine the extent to which these are enjoyed by their most genuine recipients: those deprived of wealth and citizenship, a home and
As Muslim communities have become more permanently established in Western European societies, debates around the public practice of Islam in these societies have become more prevalent, while the “global war on terror” rhetoric has aided the construction of Muslim minorities into “Others” along lines of religious and cultural differences. Based on theories of minority participation in the public sp
För att uppnå de nationella klimatmålen har energieffektivisering vid renovering av flerbostadshus uppmärksammats som ett strategiskt område. Dock väljer många fastighetsägare bort investeringar i energieffektiviserande åtgärder till förmån för projekt som anses vara mer lönsamma. Därmed är det av intresse att undersöka hur fastighetsägarna motiverar sina val vid investeringar i energieffektiviserIn order to achieve the national climate goals in Sweden, energy-efficiency has been noticed as a strategic area. Despite of the possibility, investments in sustainable retrofit of building blocks are not prioritized among property owners. Instead, projects with a higher profit are chosen. Therefore, it is essential to scrutinize the decision-makers motivation during this investments and how the p
Food policies have become increasingly relevant for the federal and municipal planning in the recent decades. Poor quality diets are associated with a number of diseases, such as obesity, heart diseases, diabetes, and some cancers. I have done a case study of food policy in San Francisco. I focus on the three dimensions of the city food planning, such as access to healthy food, sustainable and loc
Den europeiska flygmarknaden har under nästan hela 1900-talet dominerats av nationella flygbolag som har subventionerats för att kunna upprätthålla stora linjenät och en hög servicenivå. Flygbolagen var länge undantagna från Europeiska unionens konkurrens- och statsstödsregler men kraven på en avreglering ökade under 1980-talet. Efter en liberaliseringsprocess mellan 1987 och 1993 öppnades marknadUp until the 1990’s, the European aviation market was dominated by state owned national airlines that were subsidized by their respective states in order to maintain large networks and a high level of service. The airline industry was excluded from EU regulations of competition and state aid. However, higher demands for a deregulation of the market were raised in the 1980’s. After a liberalization
Title: ESG procurement analysis - identification and prioritization of improvement opportunities Author: Tabea Sonnleitner Supervisor: Louise Bildsten, Division of Engineering Logistics, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the ESG requirements of the case company, Company A, in order to create a prioritized improvement plan for the global p
The current refugee crisis can be said to have affected not only actual borders, but also borders within subjectivities. With a poststructuralist and deconstructive approach, subjectivities are recognized as constructed through language and within discourse, and in turn, induced through policy. Thus, in order to examine the discursive construction of subjectivities, this thesis critically engage w
