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Artificial Neural Networks Modelling for Monitoring and Performance Analysis of a Heat and Power Plant

Öresundskraft AB has a number of plants that produces mainly electricity and district heat to the city of Helsingborg and its surroundings. Västhamnsverket is the main plant of the company, with an installed capacity of 126 MW electricity and 186 MW heat. Västhamnsverket is a hybrid combined heat and power plant. In order to demonstrate an efficient control-monitoring model, several ANN models ha

ST-läkares identitetsarbete: En studie av läkare under specialiseringstjänstgöring

The results from 13 interviews and one opinion poll answered by resident physicians were interpreted as stories about identity as primary material for this thesis. The resident physicians stress the importance of considering whether their work primarily concerns curing people from diseases or if the process of working with sick people also includes how to handle the pressure of work, either by ada

Att vara eller icke vara? En studie om hur unga med två olika etniska kulturer skapar sin identitet

Det finns idag många i Sverige som bär på mer än ett kulturellt och etniskt ursprung. Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på hur unga med två olika etniska kulturer skapar sin identitet. För uppsatsen har fem kvinnor respektive fem män vars föräldrar kommer från olika kulturer intervjuats. Alla intervjupersonerna är uppvuxna i Sverige och har starka band till landet. De teoretiska utgångspunkt

Ambiguity comprehension in the English language

This study focuses on the psycholinguistic problems that people may encounter when it comes to ambiguity. The most common words in English are ambiguous. An example is deck, which can both mean the deck of a ship or a deck of cards. To be able to distinguish the meaning of an ambiguous word, people naturally look at the context in which the word appears. So a sentence like ?The farmer filled the

Hijaz College : Students of Islamic Religious Sciences in Contemporary British society

Islam manifests itself in various forms and contexts. It is not merely to be understood as a static religion of theology, beliefs and practices but also as dynamic religion, implemented daily by Muslims in different contexts and frames. Since the rise of Islam in 610 C.E., Muslims have moved from the Arabic Peninsula throughout the world. On British soil, early settlements and the presence of Mus

Retrieveal-Induced Forgetting in a Cross-Language Design

Retrieval-induced forgetting refers to the notion that remembering may sometimes cause forgetting of related but currently irrelevant items. This thesis aimed at investigating if this phenomenon generalizes to a cross-language design. The hypothesis was that retrieval-induced forgetting is induced also when performing retrieval-practice in a second language. Results confirmed the hypothesis but al

Underifrånperspektiv - en analys av utvärderingen av demokrati och delaktighetsmålet i storstadssatsningen i Malmö

The Swedish metropolitan politics have had the bottom-up perspective as a major principle to evolve the democratic participation in segregated areas. My objective was to investigate if a bottom-up perspective has been used as a method of evaluation in a sample of 10 evaluation reports made about democratic participation in Malmö. The key questions were; In the evaluations: - How was the bottom-u

Visual fixations, attentional detection, and syntactic perspective an expreimental investigation of the theoretical foundations of Russel S. Tomlin's fish film design

In the so-called fish film-experiment designed by the linguist Russell S. Tomlin it is tested whether the assignment of grammatical subject in on-line descriptive discourse production can be controlled by controlling the visual attentional detection of participants in a scene. It is an implicit assumption in the fish film framework that the point of optical focus is a good indicator of focal atten

IICap ? A New Environment for Eye Tracking Data Analysis

IICap is an environment for analysing eye tracking data on the Windows platform. Interviews with personnel were conducted to identify problems in the current process of eye tracking data analysis at the University of Lund eye tracking lab. A review of previous research on visualisation of eye tracking data and important eye tracking statistics was conducted. An IICap design proposal with suggeste

Behaviour in online news reading

Traditional publishers of journalistic material have found a new channel through which they can reach the readers namely the Internet. The material is often the same in the online version as in the paper based version, but not enough thought has been paid to how the different media influence the way of reading. The Internet as medium imposes new criteria as to how the content should be published.

Subtitling or dubbing? An investigation of the effects from reading subtitles on understanding audiovisual material.

The world of today is characterized by enormous flows of various kinds of information. People are engaged in vast interactions, irrespective of nationality, culture or mother tongue. On the political scene an increased openness and extended international co-operation are obvious signs of the times. In Europe the co-operation within the EU, which soon is about to comprise more nations and thereby

Medborgarna och demokratin. En fallstudie om medborgardeltagande och medborgarinflytande i Helsingborg utifrån ett deltagardemokratiskt perspektiv

People are given better opportunities to participate in polity today. Democratic equality entails that all individuals are equal and therefore they should be included in the process of making the decisions. How can participation be defined and does it mean that having the possibility to participate means that people can influence the process of making the decisions in polity process? This paper f

Industriell produktion av loggia - en studie om loggiarum som alternativ till inglasad balkong

Abstract Intense competition in the building industry has forced building companies to develop highly efficient and optimised building solutions. This project, with a loggia that works both as an extended living room and a glazed balcony offers a highly economic viable alternative to standard balconies. This alternative is likely to attract build master since the area of the loggia will be part o

Review of methods used for lowering groundwater levels at archeological sites, Egypt

Seven or eight thousand years ago, as the farthest the human memory can reach, the Egyptians established a great civilization that was considered as the origin of civilization on the Earth. There is no place in Egypt where man cannot find evidence that enlighten this civilization and tell about Egypt's role in most of the world's historic events from the beginning of mankind until the pres

Extreme water levels and wave run-up in Falsterbo peninsula, Sweden - Future scenarios by extreme value analyses

Located in the Baltic Sea coast, the study area, Falsterbo peninsula is in the south-west corner of Sweden and a very low-lying area, which makes it very vulnerable to a future sea-level rise phenomenon and wave action. High water levels and large waves and run-up heights in connection with the global warming can cause serious damages within the area, which is a very prestigious place regarding it

Cortical Plasticity : A Model of Somatosensory Cortex

After nerve injuries, e.g. following a reimplantation of an accidentally cut hand, nerve fibres grows together again but will be misconnected. This implies an incorrectly mapping of the hand in somatosensory cortex. However, the brain is plastic and thus a natural question is if there is a way to stimulate the hand of such a patient so that the recovery will be optimal. To come up with suggestions

Learning by computer based teaching - A case study with the teachable agent Betty

The purpose with this case study was to see if the teaching element in the teachable agent Betty increases the understanding for the students. To do this I let one group of students learn by creating a dynamic model of the content and one group learn by teaching the computer agent Betty. To measure the knowledge of the students I had a pre- and posttest. The results from the tests showed that bot

Beyond Accuracy: How Models of Decision Making Compare to Human Decision Making

Decision aids are becoming more popular and more accessible thanks to the internet and hand held computers. The question remains, however, if decision aids can be used beyond just aiding the human decision process. Can we use computers to make decisions without loosing out on some of the aspects of decision making that are important to us? The aspects that will be dealt with are; transparency, c

Nationella identiteter i det återförenade Tyskland En studie om hur fyrtio års separation av den tyska nationen i BRD och DDR har påverkat den tyska identiteten

Abstract (magisteruppsats, 61-80p) This paper is concerned with the national sentiments in the Federal State of Germany, regarding the east- and west-German cleavages, since the unification of the country in 1990. The point of departure is the nationalistic theory crafted together by the scholar Anthony David Smith, which implies an ethno-symbolistic perspective on the dynamics of nations. Th