Finding missing people in need of rescue is an important but difficult job for the search and rescue services. They could be looking for someone who is lost at sea or lying hurt in the mountains. The company ResQU has developed a device to help the rescue personnel in their job. It detects the signal from the cell phone of the person searched for and can lead the way there. This master thesis aime

Various strategies may be used to promote biodiversity conservation on private land and support conservation at the landscape level. Brazil has had a law that addresses this issue to some extent since 1934. It is called Forest Code (FC), and has been revised twice, in 1965 and 2012. One of the reasons that led to its most recent revision was insufficient compliance among landowners. Another argume

This thesis treats the problem of positioning in WiFi networks and proposes a solution using hidden Markov models and particle lters based on sequential importance sampling with resampling. Hidden Markov models prove to be a powerful framework for this type of problem exhibiting both an intuitive and adaptive model structure. One of the diculties encountered when ltering this model is that it is i

Abstract Title: Makt och försörjningsstöd - en observationsstudie om hur makt utspelas i mötet och konfigureras i relationen mellan socialsekreterare och klient vid ekonomiskt bistånd inom socialtjänsten Author: Rebecka Karlsson Supervisor: Lars Harrysson The purpose of the study was to examine how power plays out in the meeting, and how power is configured in the relationship between social wor

The estimated number of children who are utilised as child soldiers all over the world is 250,000 today. Based on the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers research children were used in armed conflicts in 20 countries from 2004-2007. One of the most prominent nations involving the use of child soldiers is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is estimated, that 40% of them are girls, who

Malmö har som många andra städer behövt förändra sig när industrierna har flyttat från staden. Stadsomvandlingen från industristad till något nytt brukar innebära en upprustning av innerstaden och uppförandet av profilbyggnader (till exempel Turning Torso). Det har uppstått en konkurrens mellan städer i västvärlden om invånare (rätt sorts invånare), företagsetableringar, turister och besökare. Den

I uppsatsen utgår jag från några av de termer och tankar som används vid kreativitetsutveckling för organisationer och individer, för att undersöka eventuella paralleller till de problem som kan uppstå under skrivprocessen. Resultatet visar på stora likheter med den skrivandes vardag och de negativa känslor som dyker upp när skribenten drabbas av skrivkramp. Genom att illustrera med exempel från e

This is a study about sustainability in higher education, its benefits and employment potentials for sustainability graduates, as well as, contributions to sustainability through professions. The aim was to identify sustainability in higher education and the importance of interdisciplinarity on it through theory and a study sample of five master programs and find out benefits of such programs, car

Not many people know that there exists a custody center for illegal immigrants in Sweden. Here immigrants live unwillingly until they get sent home to their country. They get put in custody because they haven’t got the right to stay in the country and the state is afraid they will go “under ground”. The staff consists of different types of people working every day with these immigrants. There work

Bakgrund: Synen på kunden har förändrats där det skett en förskjutning från produkt- till kundfokus där kunden numera står i centrum. Nära och starka relationer till sina kunder är avgörande för företagets framtida konkurrenskraft. Bra kundrelationer bygger på att företag lyckas leverera tjänster med hög servicekvalitet som uppfyller och överträffar kundens behov. Många företag saknar förmågan ellIntroduction: The view of the customer has changed, since focus has shifted from product oriented to service oriented. It is vital for a company to have close and strong relationships to their customers to be able to maintain future competitiveness. Companies need to deliver services with high service quality to meet customer’s needs, which creates good customer relationships. There are companies

This research explores opportunities for a more comprehensive assessment process using the ongoing and contentious Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project in western Canada. Research on EA in Canada has demonstrated considerable challenges in effectively engaging participants throughout the assessment process. Research suggests that the inability to engage w

This Master Thesis describes the product development of a medical laboratory machine. The purpose of the project was to generate and evaluate different concepts of a device that is to be included in a bigger process named Dried Blood Spot testing (DBS) in which dried blood samples are collected and analyzed. The device developed here shall relocate the blood samples from a paper slip, mounted on a

This paper is about the debate on child poverty in Sweden. The study is designed as a discourse analysis of editorials written after an audit program on Swedish TV, Uppdrag Granskning (Mission Review). The program was a critic for statistics and campaigns that child rights organizations have come out with current poor children in Sweden. The review was whether these data were incorrect or not and

The thesis questions whether it is possible to justify an elevated railway solution instead of using cut and fill techniques. The report describes the construction techniques followed by different socio-economic effects such as maintenance, barrier effect and land claims. Construction time and construction costs for a number of traditional railway and elevated railway projects are presented in the

Vi ska undersöka möjligheten att använda ett fasadsystem för att energieffektivisera miljonprogramhus.TES Energy Facade är ett prisvinnande fasadsystem som använts i övriga Europa. Fasaden har även används inom E2Rebuild-projektet som är ett samarbetsprojekt mellan 8 EU-länder. Ett problem som identifieras inom E2Rebuild är att fasadsystemet kanske inte uppfyller de svenska kraven för fukt och ene

Caregiving is emerging as a global issue, as countries around the world are facing aging populations, including China. The intent of this study is: (1) to explore what needs Chinese urban family caregivers express, and in what way they may differ depending on certain background variables; (2) to explore what support, both formal and informal, is available for them; and (3) what changes to existing

Patients who are in need of a new kidney and who have a living donor may not be able to receive a kidney from the donor because of blood- or tissue-type incompatibilities. If patient-donor pairs exchange kidneys, more kidney transplants can be performed. In Sweden, no system for kidney exchange exists. This thesis investigates how many more Swedish kidney patients could receive a new kidney if a s