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While machines are getting better at simulating human behavior it has become more common with the use of avatars and conversational text in mobile applications. These are used in order to induce a reflectively positive experience for the user, possibly making the user choose that application in favor of another. The balance between developing a too playful application and an uninteresting one is h
The use of sensors in the automotive industry is increasing, improving performance and safety of the vehicles. The ambition at BorgWarner TorqTransfer Systems AB is to increase torque accuracy to optimize their powertrain solutions. Different methods to measure torque on a rotating shaft is presented and evaluated. The method that was selected was the magnetoelastic method. This method utilizes th
Care workers KASAM (sense of coherence) and abuse in elder care The aim of this study has been to examine and illuminate managers and care workers descriptions of abuse against elderly in eldercare. The study has been conducted with qualitative semi-structured interviews with two managers and three care workers (a total of seven respondents) in elder care. The empirical findings have been analyze
With today’s focus on the world’s environmental issues, it is important for organizations and companies to find a way to give their commitment credibility. By certification according to ISO 14001 you get an internationally acknowledged brand that is recognized by organizations and companies worldwide. But the road to certification isn’t just easy, to be able to certify your environmental managemen
This study examines the impact of sky-bridges, as an egress component, on total evacuation of a high-rise building by using an evacuation model named Pathfinder. Five scenarios, with different combination of aspects such as height of the building, number of sky-bridges (and the subsequent inter-distance between them), and people allocation have been simulated. The comparison between the results fr
This study parts from comparing two different kinds of readings of two short stories publicized under the literary gender fantastic feminism, and written by one of the most well-known authors in this genre, the Puerto-Rican Rosario Ferré. The stories analyzed are “El hombre dormido” (1976) (Man asleep, mi traducción) and “El sueño y su eco” (1976) (Sleep and its echo, mi traducción) given the simi
A common problem in geocoding is that the postal addresses as requested by the user differ from the addresses as described in the database. The online, open source geocoder called Nominatim is one of the most used geocoders nowadays. However, this geocoder lacks the interactivity that most of the online geocoders already offer. The Nominatim geocoder provides no feedback to the user while typing a
Svenska elitidrottares mentala träningsvanor undersöktes genom en webbaserad enkätundersökning som besvarades av 47 aktiva idrottare (28 män, 19 kvinnor, ålder 16-37, M=25) inom fotboll, friidrott, handboll, ishockey och tennis. Studien visade att svenska elitidrottare i genomsnitt ägnar 41 minuter i veckan åt olika mentala träningsformer, dock med stor individuell spridning. Mängden mental träninThis paper aimed to study to what extent Swedish elite athletes engage themselves in psychological skills training (PST). The study was conducted through a web-based survey with 47 respondents (28 men, 19 women, age 16-37, M=25) from five sports; handball, ice hockey, soccer, tennis and track and field. The results showed that the athletes spend on average 41 minutes a week on different types of m
It has become theoretical orthodoxy to point to and problematise a rise in surveillance. This article contributes to this debate. Following a still marginal yet budding number of studies that focus on the practical, quotidian level of surveillance systems, the article ethnographically examines the daily surveillance work of a number of Danish detectives. What is demonstrated is that whilst the Dan
The public health agency of Sweden has shown an increasing prevalence of mental illness among college students. At the same time studies show that students choose to not seek any help, and often don’t know where they would even find the help they might need. The aim of this study was therefore to map the prevalence of mental illness among students of Social Work at Campus Helsingborg, and examine
The main purpose of this study was to investigate how social services work to reduce criminality among the youth, with children and adolescents that have already developed a criminal behaviour. We have also examined if and, in such cases, how social workers experience that their discretion is restricted by factors such as the law, routines and guidelines. The study is a qualitative one, based on t
The digital era has mercilessly affected the media landscape by changing the way information and news are disseminated and consumed. This has led to an increased need to move activities online and an outdated business model among newspapers. The Swedish newspaper industry has so far struggled to do business in the digital world. Hence, the need for business model innovation is greater than ever. I
In China, strict goal-oriented population control has been the reality for Chinese citizens since 1979. According to the Chinese population policy, Chinese citizens are only allowed to give birth to one child, with a few exceptions. The population policy has been strictly monitored by the government and implemented with highly questionable means clearly violating human rights. Ideological educatio
Bakgrund: Reumatoid artrit (RA) är en av de vanligaste reumatiska sjukdomarna i Sverige och är vanligast förekommande bland kvinnor. Många personer med RA drabbas av den kroniska tröttheten fatigue, vilket på sistone har uppmärksammats som ett av de mest besvärliga symtomen vid RA. Att det idag inte finns tillräckligt med forskning kring hur RA-relaterad fatigue påverkar vardagen anser författarnaBackground: Reumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most common rheumatic diseases in Sweden and is most frequent among women. Many people with RA get affected by the chronic tiredness fatigue, which lately has been noted as one of the most difficult symptoms along with RA. Since there is a lack of research regarding how RA-related fatigue affects everyday life, the authors consider this as a knowl
The novels Lady Audley’s Secret and The Picture of Dorian Gray both feature a beautiful but corrupted character as protagonist, the corruption of whom only gets revealed slowly to the reader while the fascination for the characters’ beauty is vanishing. This essay is investigating how this beauty is used in the two novels respectively and gives a general overview of contemporary readers’ perceptio
This research touches upon the influence of the museum as a media and the scepticist political framing of climate change in a U.S. context. By use of a two-step methodological approach, the thesis attempts to create a framework by which to understand the inner workings of the scepticist framing from a qualitative perspective. The thesis approaches the case from the onset that the case is the resul
