Public transport affects people on a daily basis and therefore it is important for the public transport sector to improve the user experience for travellers. Simplicity is a keyword in the improved user experience where mobile solutions play an important role for the experience. The aim in this master thesis is to explore ways how to use a smartphone to make it easier for travellers and how to pre

Despite the recent upsurge of interest in emotional non-speech sounds, very little naturalistic material is available. In this project a corpus of non-acted emotional vocalizations from Youtube videos is introduced, analyzed acoustically and tested experimentally. A rating experiment combined with acoustic analysis in Study 1 confirms that these sounds can be correctly classified by both human rat

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the development of the legislation in the field of ethnic discrimination in the working life and the current legal position in Sweden, to see if Sweden has effective legal protection against discrimination. The development of international instruments concerning human rights has mainly happened after World War II. Sweden signed many of these instruments, b

What are the effects of being familiar with a supermarket? Many of us do most of our shopping in one supermarket. By doing so we memorize the location of products and different categories in the supermarket. By memorizing we are able to reduce the amount of time and effort needed to go grocery shopping. Participants’ eye movements are recorded when shopping three products (pasta, yoghurt and cerea

Many recognize the phrase Smart Home, but few have actually experienced it. The world of Internet of Things (IoT) is all over the IT industry. The hardware already exists. So, why do we not see these kinds of solutions in reality? A simple Smart Home experience could be a system that consists of a motion sensor and a coffee machine. The motion sensor is placed above your apartment door. When it se

The Swiss franc has had a reputation as a safe haven investment for decades, due to stable economic and political conditions in Switzerland. As a result, capital inflow has been high during times of financial stress around the world, in turn causing appreciating pressure on the real exchange rate. The financial crisis of 2008 was such a period, forcing the Swiss National Bank to peg the Swiss fran

The objective of this Master Thesis is to investigate the homogeneity level of the Partially Premixed Combustion using different injection strategies, for low load engine conditions. In order to achieve this aim, it is necessary to understand the Partially Premixed Combustion process of an engine through the performance of optical measurements in an optical setup. Partially Premixed Combustion (PP

In this thesis a Moving Horizon Estimator (MHE) has been implemented for the JModelica.org platform. JModelica.org is an open-source software platform for simulation and optimization of systems described in the modeling language Modelica. MHE is an optimization-based strategy for state estimation where, at each time step, a finite horizon optimization problem is solved to generate an estimate of t

En undersökning av Selma Lagerlöfs Löwensköldstrilogi ur ett feministiskt perspektiv för att visa hur berättelsen gestaltar en förändring av kvinnans plats i familjen och i samhället. Frågeställningar: Hur förändras kvinnorollen i trilogin? Hur går förändringen till? Vilken är Lagerlöfs vision om den nya kvinnorollen?

Var och hur en fysisk person väljer att bo kan bero på många olika saker. Lagstiftarens ambition är att beskattningen av bostaden inte ska vara en faktor som avgör valet av bostad, utan att beskattning av boendet ska vara neutralt, oavsett vilken boendeform man väljer. Utredningar om, och förslag på, hur detta ska kunna bli verklighet har avlöst varandra under de senaste decennierna. BeskattningWhere and how an individual chooses to live, can be caused by many different things. The legislator´s ambition is that taxation of the dwelling is not a factor that determines the choice of residence. Taxation of the accommodation shall be neutral, no matter what accommodation you choose. Investigations and proposals on how this can become a reality had followed, one after the other, over the past

The purpose of this thesis was to study language transfer from the majority language Swedish to the minority language Arabic (the Syrian-Palestinian dialect). The problem negative language transfer causes is that dominant languages affect minority languages in a society in a negative way. The result is that the speakers of these languages never learn how to speak these languages properly. If we kn

Studien visar vikten av lojala kunder och att varumärkeslojalitet inom banksektorn handlar om att samla alla tillgångar på samma ställe. Det har blivit svårare att skapa lojala kunder då de fysiska kundmötena, som en konsekvens av digitaliseringen, sker i allt mindre utsträckning. Följden blir att frontpersonalen idag har högre krav på sig att leva upp till kundernas förväntningar och att bankerna

Det svenska nämndemannasystemet har en nästan tusenårig tradition, men har samtidigt varit ett institut i ständig förändring, vars roll förändrats väsentligt från när det först infördes i Sveriges rättskipning, till dagens moderna system. I början fungerade nämnden endast som en form av bevismedel, men fick sedan en ren domarroll för att senare reduceras till en rådgivande funktion. Efter att nämnThe Swedish lay judge system is a nearly thousand year old tradition, but has during that time been an institution in constant change, whose role has changed significantly from when it was first introduced into Sweden’s administration of justice until today’s modern system. The lay judges were originally used as a means of proof, thereafter functioned as ordinary judges, to later be reduced to adv

Den tekniska utvecklingen och framförallt internet har haft stor påverkan på den internationella handeln. Möjligheten att överföra data inom företag men också mellan företag och länder är en grundläggande del av denna utveckling och möjligheten att överföra data är idag en central del i företagens vardagliga verksamhet. I praktiken kan ett företag inte göra affärer, eller delta i handel, utan att The technological development and above all the internet has had a major impact on international trade. The ability to transfer data within companies, but also between companies and countries is an essential part of this development and the ability to transfer data today is a central component of companies’ everyday activities. In practice, a company cannot do business, or engage in trade, without

Over the past years the southern beach of Nha Trang, located in the south central of Vietnam, has started to indicate signs of erosion in the northern part. As the beach plays an important role for this touristic hotspot, the fear that the erosion will become severe has been raised. The limited knowledge and previous performed studies of the general coastal processes affecting the shoreline evolut

Abonnemangsbaserad försäljning och distribution har blivit allt vanligare inom musik, film och tv-serier och trenden verkar vara på uppgång även för digitala böcker. På den svenska marknaden finns i dag fyra företag som erbjuder obegränsad läsning av e-böcker mot en fast månadskostnad. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka och kartlägga dessa abonne-mangstjänster och utifrån resultatet ana

Den territoriellt förankrade politiken har sin grund i suveränitetsprincipen som idag alltmer får stå tillbaka för de globala förändringsprocesser som har präglat vår omvärld de senaste decennierna. Judikaliseringen är en av dessa processer där allt fler politiskt viktiga frågor avgörs av domstolar och andra judiciella organ istället för av politiska instanser. När normer som demokrati och mänskliThe foundation of territorially legitimated politics lies in the principle of sovereignty. These have been forced to retreat/stand back to the global processes of change, which have been shaping the world around us during recent decades. One of these processes is judicalization where an increasing number of politically important questions are determined by courts and other judicial organs rather t

I Sverige har avtal om hyra och nyttjanderätt traditionellt ansetts ha en särställning jämfört med andra obligationsrättsliga avtal. Starka sociala, nationalekonomiska och företagsekonomiska skäl har präglat lagstiftningen i syfte att skydda hyrestagaren, genom olika former av besittningsskydd och metoder för hyresreglering. Uppsatsen behandlar reglering, syften och motiv kring det indirekta besThe rental contract is a different form of contract compared to other contracts in Sweden. There are strong motives of social and economic character for protecting tenant, and rent regulation combined with tenancy protection has existed since 1942. The essay discuss the regulation and its purposes as they are described in the preparatory works. The essay also discuss whether they are expedient or

Despite longstanding and far-reaching recognition of the need for social change towards environmental sustainability, the delivery of this transition is proving problematic. Dominant strategies for sustainable development in western countries focus on uncoupling economic development from ecological harm. Scandinavia epitomises this approach to green economy, especially in the transition to a low-c