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Science fiction is a genre in which anything is possible. It therefore comprises the perfect litmus test of any given culture’s prevailing hopes and fears about the future. One such source of anxiety that has been particularly conspicuous in works of fiction since the Industrial Revolution is the development of automata and other machines – specifically, whether they might eventually become strong
The aim of this project was to answer the question “Which proteins are responsible for cold tolerance in crown samples from oat?” Proteins were extracted from cold treated oat crown samples, purified with gel electrophoresis, trypsinated through in-gel digestion and identified in LTQ orbitrap mass spectrometer. Data interpretation involved analysis of found proteins according to functional annotat
Rapid economic growth and rising income levels have driven private vehicle sales in China. Within just three decades, China has developed to the world’s largest automobile market. This thesis aims at determining the factors which affect passenger vehicle populations in Chinese cities. An OLS regression using cross-sectional data reveals that large variations exist across cities in eastern, central
Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur patienter upplevde deltagandet i en gruppbaserad behandling kallad RAINBOW. RAINBOW är en psykosocial behandlingsmodell för ungdomar med bipolär sjukdom och deras föräldrar. Halvstrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med fyra ungdomar som tidigare deltagit i behandling enligt RAINBOW-modellen. Intervjumaterialet analyserades med hjälp av grundad teori viThe aim of this study was to explore patients’ experiences of having participated in a group treatment called RAINBOW. RAINBOW is a psychosocial treatment for adolescents with bipolar disorder and their parents. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four adolescents who previously had participated in RAINBOW. Grounded theory was used to analyze the data and six main themes were identified
The working environment on top of an 80 - 120 meters high horizontal-axis wind turbine isn’t like an average working environment. The high wind speeds, the slippery rain, the limited mobility and the pure height makes it a very dangerous and difficult place to work at. To make sure the service team can feel safe and at ease while working outside on the top of a wind turbine, all the equipment use
Den digitala utvecklingen har skapat nya förutsättningar för hur individer och or-ganisationer kan interagera, där ett exempel är samskapande (eng. co-creation). Syftet med studien är att undersöka de drivkrafter och känslor som ligger bakom individens beslut till att delta i den specifika samskapandeformen rotation curation tillsammans med organisationer och hur detta skapar mening för individen.
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to increase the understanding of collaboration among local government, business, and NGOs in a sustainable city. This includes identification of prominent driving forces and success factors of such collaborative arrangements. Method: Qualitative case study conducted in San Francisco, with a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning. Firstly, a theoreti
Sammanfattning Titel Strategisk prissättning inom mjukvarubranschen Handledare Per Magnus Andersson Författare Robin Wingne och Johan Ågren Nivå Magisteruppsats 30 hp Problem Arbetet med prissättning har under lång tid präglats av ett synsätt som utgår från kostnader. Utvecklingen inom framförallt mjukvarubranschen har lett till nya typer av erbjudanden som innehåller nya värderingselement vi
Employer branding är ett expanderande fenomen på dagens arbetsmarknad. Begreppet myntades av Ambler och Barrowunder mitten av 1990-talet. Det syftar till att synliggöra hur företag och organisationer kan marknadsföra sig som arbetsgivare genom sina medarbetare, för att attrahera potentiella anställda. I begreppet ingår tre typer av fördelar; monetära, funktionella samt psykologiska, vilka en organ
The aim of this work was to investigate the phase behavior of attractive model colloid particles. The attractions is imposed by having a layer of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) polymers grafted to the surface which provides steric stabilization in water. Raising the temperature decreases the solvency of the PEG layer, and combined with addition of a salt containing a divalent anion, causing particles
In earlier studies it was revealed that thylakoid membranes inhibit activity of pancreatic lipase/colipase. More studies have shown that these membranes induce satiety hormone CCK and reduce hunger hormone of rats and human. Appethyl® used in this project is processed from spinach leaves in such a way that it reserves most amounts of thylakoid membranes. The results, in this project, shows that Ap
Microalgal feedstock are gaining more and more attention due to a wide range of potential and emerging commercial and industrial applications, from biofuel production to nutrition, cosmetics and pigment extraction among others. The presence and roles of mannans and endomannanases in three industrially relevant microalgaes were studied in this project. Chlorella vulgaris has seven putative endomann
Cellulose textile fibers may be an alternative to cotton if the cellulose is first dissolved in a suitable solvent followed by regeneration through spinning. Ionic liquids have been highlighted for this purpose, and in this project, an aqueous solution of tetrabutyl ammonium hydroxide (TBAH, 40 wt%) is used for the dissolution process. The resulting mixtures have been analyzed with scattering meth
An algorithm for point group determination using moments of inertia equivalence set partitioning and geometrical properties is described. The algorithm does not generate any symmetry operation through testing, but through deduction based on geometrical properties of an equivalence set tree, and the reduction of compatible operations of this tree. The approach can handle point group determination o
The Swedish Institution of Education has recently been under debate. This is partly due to the matter that Swedish pupils’ performances have dramatically worsened. In an international study conducted through the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), scholastic performance scores have dropped from being substantially above average to being below average compared to the 65 other cou
The ability of microgels to adsorb to the interface of emulsion oil droplets has previously beenn reported in the literature.1 The resulting emulsions carry the thermoresponsiveness of the adsorbed microgels, and can be destabilized on demand by increasing the temperature above the volume phase transition temperature of the microgels. This thesis describes the synthesis and characterization of cro
Denna uppsats är en kvantitativ studie om 60 vuxna andraspråksinlärares förmåga till inversion i överordnade påståendesatser. Syftet med undersökningen är att se hur den språkliga kontexten samt utbildningstiden i svenska som andraspråk påverkar förmågan till inversion. Eliciteringsmetoden utgörs av ett grammatikalitetsbedömningstest som konstrueras med olika fundamentsinnehåll, finita verb och su
