The RADASS (Remote Access Dual Automatic Switch Spray) system is thought to be the future solution for frozen rail switches. Frozen switches are a yearly reoccurring issue and cause long delays in rail traffic, which require a vast amount of personnel and resources to fix. Spraying chemicals manually by railway workers is the most common method to deal with the issue; the system intends to automat

Minskning av barnfattigdom har de senaste decennierna varit ett hett ämne på den politiska dagordningen i rika länder. Trots att Sveriges barnfattigdom är låg, relativt till andra länder, innebär den enorma samhälleliga förluster i form av minskat humankapital. I denna uppsats har barnfattigdomen i Sveriges kommuner undersökts och analyserats för åren 2007 till 2012. Infallsvinkeln är ny och ger e

Multi-atlas segmentation is a widely used method that has proved to work well for the problem of segmenting organs in medical images. But standard methods are time consuming and the amount of data quickly grows to a point making use of these methods intractable. In this work we present a fully automatic method for segmentation of the pericardium in 3D CTA-images. We use a multi-atlas approach base

Arbetet är en examensuppsats på termin sex vid Ekonomiska Högskolan Lund, systemvetenskapligt kandidatprogram. Arbetet skall skänka ett mindre kunskapsbidrag inom Informatik och behandla kritiska framgångsfaktorer för ERP-implementationer. Vi har utgått ifrån en förundersökning på rådande empiri inom ämnet för att avgränsa oss till ett urval nyckelfaktorer, som sedan undersökts med datainsamling i

Chemiluminescent emission from OH*, CH* and C2* radicals and its dependence on the equivalence ratio is being investigated in the current study. The aim of this project is to use the results for combustion control on marine vessels and safety checks. The study was conducted in collaboration with Kockumation, a leading company in developing control systems for running boilers and steam turbines on

Inom den Svenska byggindustrin har Betonghandboken Material länge tjänat som ett naturligt val av hjälpmedel för ingenjörer som har stött på ett betongtekniskt problem. Den senaste utgåvan av Betonghandboken material publicerades 1994. Detta gör att många av de kunskaper vi har idag inom betongområdet går outnyttjade då man använder sig av Betonghandboken. Det finns ett behov att sammanfatta de ku

Antivirals for HPV infection Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are present in more than 99% of all cervical cancers and HPV-16 is one of the predominant types of HPV infections and account almost for 50% of cervical cancer cases. Although two vaccines are available on the market and showed notable promising in HPV prevention, there are still no available antiviral drugs for HPV infections. In this stu

As part of the development of the European electricity grid, the EU has decided that ‘Smart Meters’ should be installed in 80% of the households of the EU by 2020. It is expected that this will lead to a reduction of energy use in the residential sector in the order of 10%. Driven by the so-called ‘Information-Deficit’ model, a critical assumption in this policy development is that provision of in

This report describes a bachelor thesis project realized as the final exercise in the Computer Science program at Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Campus Helsingborg. The thesis work was done as an Android app-development project at Telavox in Malmö, a company active in the IP-Telephony business. The purpose of the project was to develop an Android application to be used by the sellers at the company. The

Inter-governmental climate talks have, over a twenty-year period, had little success in implementing measures to mitigate human-induced climate change. Their fundamental perspective, one of economic rationality, has not provided a compelling or effective basis for achieving their desired goals. Over the same interval, at the local scale, various constituencies have come together to address climate

Abstract Title: Should Cost Reviews and Supply Chain Integration: A Case Study at ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems Author: Andrew Cardinali Supervisors: Henrik Wallström - Ph. D., Candidate Packaging Logistics, Department of Design Sciences Faculty of Engineering LTH, Lund University Mats Johnsson - Ph.D., Associate Professor Packaging Logistics, Department of Design Sciences Faculty of Engineeri

This research draws attention to the way undocumented Albanian immigrant women experience their everyday life in Greece. Which are the structural factors experienced by Albanian undocumented immigrant women that defines their everyday life in Greece and what strategies are used by these women in order to resist these macro-structural factors. Qualitative interviews were held with 11 undocumented A

Bakgrund: Företag Green som är en svensk detaljhandelskedja har beslutat sig för att etablera ett centrallager. Enligt Abrahamsson et al. (2011) blir centrallager och distributionscenter allt vanligare bland företag inom detaljhandeln. I och med etableringen av centrallagret är Företag Green intresserade av att få djupare kunskap i hur en inköpsorganisation påverkas. Områden som de är intresseradeBackground: Company Green, a retail chain company in Sweden, has decided to establish a central warehouse. According to Abrahamsson et al.(2011) centralised warehouses and distribution centres are becoming more common among retailers. With the establishment of the central warehouse Company Green is interested in getting deeper knowledge of how a retail buying organisation is affected. Areas that t

Hypotesen som här undersöks innebär i korthet att den religiösa praktik som skyddas av religionsfriheten måste vara tilldelad en särskild statusfunktion i en given religiös kontext i enlighet med John Searles allmänna teori om institutionella fakta.

Syfte: Studiens ändamål är att utreda de externa värderarnas syfte för användarna av fastighetsbolagens finansiella rapporter. Vi ämnar även undersöka till vilken grad de externa värderarna är oberoende i sina värderingar och analysera den informationsasymmetri som råder i branschen. Metod: Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ intervjustudie av explorativ karaktär och ämnar undersöka externa värderares syfPurpose: The study's purpose is to investigate the external appraisers purpose for the users of real estate companies' financial statements. We also intend to investigate to what extent the external appraisers are independent in their valuations and analyze the information asymmetry that exists in the industry. Methodology: The thesis is a qualitative interview study of a comparative natu

Tendons connect muscles to bone and consist of a complex structure of almost parallel collagen fibres embedded in a hydrated matrix. The mechanical behaviour of tendons is viscoelastic and highly non-linear. The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the body and it is essential for walking and jumping. It is the most frequently ruptured tendon in humans and today there is no consensus on what i

The aim of this study is to analyse the sociopoethic construction of four authorships in the Swedish literary field during 2001-2012 from a postcolonial perspective. The analysis address questions as of how non-white authors are presented and packaged by the publishing houses through choice of 7 book covers, and how their debutes are reviewed in daily press. The results from the 58 reviews showcas

Neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain is well studied, in the two main regions subventricular zone (SVZ) and subgranular zone (SGZ), under different physiological and pathological condition. Recent studies also revealed newly formed neurons in other parts of the brain including the hypothalamus. However, how robust neurogensis in this area is, is still unclear. In this study we used a novel re

Funktionell analys av HPV16 E5 mRNAn Humant papillomvirus (HPV) är ett litet DNA virus som infekterar hudens stamceller. De utgör den vanligaste sexuellt överförbara virusinfektionen ibland människor. HPV är också den bakomliggande orsaken till mer 99 % av alla livmoderhalscancer, speciellt typ 16. Denna cancerform skördar flest kvinnoliv efter bröstcancer varje år. I de flesta fall fullbordar HPThe E5 protein of Human Papillomavirus type 16 has been described as an oncoprotein, interacting with several cellular pathways to evade immune- and stress responses, enhancing E6- and E7- driven cell proliferation. However, it is not known when during the infection E5 is expressed. Although present on the majority of alternatively spliced mRNAs produced during the viral life cycle, E5 is never th