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Disaster loss accounting is an essential tool for assessing the effects of disasters and creating policies for disaster risk reduction that are supported by data. This study compares disaster data for two of the most used disaster loss accounting databases, EM-DAT and DesInventar in the context of six Latin American countries, namely, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Venezuela.

In Lund, a club culture has been evolving among the city's university students, which has had a great importance on the university life. It is not uncommon for students to go out to a nightclub several times a week, particularly to Student Nations clubs. I have therefore chosen to investigate clubculture in Lund university, through participant observation and interviews. I have also decided to

Syftet med den här studien har varit att förbättra LOGEs semidetaljerade katalysatormodel Cu-ZSM-5 på dem delarna där modellen missar viktiga effekter. Det är viktigt att ha en riktigt och CPU-effektiv kinetisk modell för katalysatorn i arbetet mot att minska förorenande NOx i avgaserna från en dieselmotor. Undersökningen av den kinetiska modellen utfördes genom transienta experiment som NO oxidaThe aim of this study has been to enhance LOGE's semi-detailed Cu-ZSM-5 SCR catalyst model in areas where it lacks to catch important effects. It is important to have an accurate and CPU efficient kinetic model for the catalysis in the work towards minimizing polluting NOx in the exhaust gas from diesel engines. Investigations were done on the kinetic model through a few transient experiment

Summary This master thesis evaluates the benefits of using multi-echelon control instead of single-echelon control of a multi-echelon inventory system. The multi-echelon inventory system studied in this thesis is a one-warehousemultiple- retailer inventory system. Multi-echelon inventory control is defined as a method to optimize the inventory system by taking the interdependencies between differe

The objective of this study is to get new experimental data regarding to the burning velocities of ethanol, acetaldehyde and their mixture which has been performed by the heat flux method. It is known that the heat flux method for determination of laminar burning velocities is an efficient technique since the burning velocity can be determined directly, without applying extrapolations. These lamin

This thesis aims to clarify the three fundamental concepts of purpose, vision and mission. Although seen as very important concepts, they are often confused and not clearly defined and used in practice. With an extensive literature review and interviews with managers from different companies, this paper shows the interdependence of these concepts as well as its practical implications in regards to

Plants require sunlight to be able to perform photosynthesis but an excess of intense sunlight is harmful to the organism and therefore needs a method to protect itself. Violaxanthin De-Epoxidase (VDE) is located inside the thylakoid lumen and catalyzes the de-epoxidation of violaxanthin to zeaxanthin. Zeaxanthin absorbs the harmful light and dissipates the energy by emitting heat. How this enzyma

The aim of this thesis was to develop a model for flame propagation, to implement in a zero-dimensional engine simulation tool (DARS 0d-SRM) which previously only used fitted Wiebe-functions to describe the flame propagation. The idea was to create a model which could replace or complement the Wiebe function, but with predictive capabilities, avoiding the need to perform curve-fitting when certain

Nuclear physics research is focused upon determining the structure of the atomic nucleus and nuclei, and understanding the interactions both within it and between them. To accomplish this, various probes of the nucleus are used - two types are 'electromagnetic' and 'hadronic'. An example of an electromagnetic probe is the photon, which has the advantage of interacting with the nu

When capturing digital video there is always some amount of noise in the resulting signal. This is more pronounced in low-light conditions. In this thesis we have evaluated five algorithms for motion detection and noise reduction. All algorithms produce a filtered image and a motion mask. One of the algorithms is based on block-matching, one on fuzzy logic and one on low-rank matrix completion. Th

Despite energy efficiency is considered as being the most cost-effective measure to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in the Swedish residential sector, few barriers still exist that hamper the development of a reliable and effective policy able to shift consumption patterns towards a more sustainable growth. Although the potential energy savings in the Swedish residential stock are c

This thesis examines fund and manager characteristics and the effect on mutual fund performance. We have separated funds investing in emerging and mature markets to examine whether or not characteristics affect performance differently depending on what type of market funds invest in. The Sharpe ratio has been used as the main performance measure. Using survey data from equity funds available in th

To allow the user interface in a mobile phone more space, slide modules are implemented. The usage of slide modules introduces many new challenges when designing a mobile phone. New solutions to these challenges is the main scope for this thesis. Nokia currently has several different slide phones out on the market implementing some sort of slide module. The slide module provides extra space for th

The purpose of this Master’s Thesis was to examine different usage applications for animations and to develop one or several animated products for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. The overall objective was to develop an animated tool for information purposes and to investigate different interesting fields of application for the animated products. The goal was also to show the procedure of c

The migration of people worldwide has an impact on many nations. Denmark, not being the exclusion of this phenomenon has struggled to distance itself from recognizing the need of many persons who seek asylum and a better life quality which they will not achieve in their home land. On the right wing there is the Danish People’s Party which has a strong standing point away from immigration as they

The importance of migrants' remittance transfers in global capital flows is steadily growing. A large body of literature has been dedicated to the study of remittances, its underlying causes, and its effects on development in receiving countries. Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, experienced massive emigration in its post-communist transition era, and remittances have since cons

In this paper, we delve into the evolutionary foundation of both probability weighting and hyperbolic discounting. It is argued that it is evolution which selects between various kinds of people those who have the optimal preference profile. As such, utility functions and behavioural biases can be explained from an evolutionary perspective. It is also argued that there may be an intimate connectio