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The road construction industry is associated with high energy consumption and significant greenhouse gas emissions due to the extensive use of petroleum-based bitumen. To support a more sustainable society, bio-based alternatives such as tall oil pitch (TOP), a by-product from the pulp industry, have gained increasing interest as partial substitutes for conventional bitumen. However, the long-term
In prediction markets actors trade contracts whose payout is linked to the occurrence of real-world events. Markets based on questions of the type "Will event A occur before time T?" are particularly interesting in geopolitical contexts, but are understudied in comparison to standard election-style contracts. I present, to the best of my knowledge, the first pricing model for this type o
This thesis has researched how analytical tools can be used to assist in balancing supply and demand at the global telecommunications company Ericsson. The project stems from a need to manage demand uncertainty in Sales and Operations Planning in order to make scenario analysis both standardized and data-driven. Consequently, the purpose was to develop a practical scenario planning framework and t
Current structural fire engineering practice generally assumes that the pre-flashover fire (growth) stage has a negligible influence on structural response and therefore considers only post-flashover conditions. The Eurocode parametric fire, widely used for structural fire design, follows this approach. This thesis investigates the influence of incorporating pre-flashover temperature on the therma
Children’s and adolescents’ sexuality is closely linked to identity, relationships, mental health, and social development. Despite sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) being highlighted as central public health issues, previous research indicates that sexuality is often given limited attention within psychiatric care. The present study aims to explore how health social workers within C
Title: Design and Development of a Digital RAM Tool for AUVs Authors: Oscar Cedell and Jacob Persson Supervisors: Johan Marklund (LTH), Gustav Rehnborg (Saab Naval), and Niklas Blomgren (Saab Naval) Problem description: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are longlife, mission-critical systems for which life cycle cost is strongly affected by Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RA
The textile industry is one of the world’s most polluting industries and generates large amounts of waste due to increasing consumption and short product lifetimes. At the same time, a significant fraction of textile waste consists of cellulose-based materials such as viscose, making textile waste a potential renewable carbon source for the production of bio-based chemicals. In this study, a multi
This study examines how self-tracking technologies are repurposed within the creative practice of GPS art, focusing on how meaning is produced when tools designed for optimization and behavioral regulation are redirected toward expressive and communicative ends. The motivation for this inquiry lies in the need to understand the relationship between humans and machines beyond deterministic accounts
Global plastic waste production has more than doubled in the past two decades, with plastic packaging accounting for 40% in 2019. Due to low recycling rates, pollution and limited fossil resources, increasing circularity in the plastic industry has become increasingly important. Chemical recycling through pyrolysis, unlike mechanical recycling, can treat contaminated, mixed plastic waste and incre
The Thesis examines how political news satire functions within Armenia's hybrid political regime by analysing ArmComedy, a well-known satirical show. Current scholarship on political satire mostly focuses on Western, developed democracies and examines effect-based questions of knowledge, mobilisation, engagement, and participation, leaving a gap in understanding how political satire functions
What can monuments do as communicative and imaginative media? This thesis exemplifies how counter-monuments present an entry point for Media and Communication scholars to re- conceptualise traditional monuments, shifting the focus from a noun to a processual verb based on conviviality. Accordingly, using a case-study methodology informed by Flyvbjerg’s (2001) and Dewey’s (1934) pragmatic understan
The number and complexity of modern software systems have increased substantially since their inception. This unrelenting growth is making manual code review more difficult year by year, and the gap between the amount of code and security verification creates a critical need for automated tools that can assist developers in detecting vulnerabilities. A possible solution to this is large language m
Background: The shift from product based to service oriented economies has transformed business strategies, particularily in B2B contexts, where value creation increasingly relies on integrated service offerings. Digitalization, especially through cloud based infrastructure models such as CPaaS, has accelerated this transition, by enabling scalable real time solutions. As a result, companies face
On Rednote, a social media platform for lifestyle and interests in China, users often describe some public comment sections as having 活人感 (huó rén gǎn, liveliness), a feeling that someone has personally invested effort and left perceivable traces in what is said. Voice comments have become a visible component of this interactional environment. I explored how asynchronous voice comments are used in
The focus of this thesis is to examine how the civic identity of the second-generation migrants in Italy is constructed through media representations of migration, citizenship, and national belonging. Previous studies focused on migrants’ integration, which was based on their socio-economic situation, mobility, and assimilation process. I argue that these approaches are insufficient to explain how
Despite its rapid growth within sustainable finance, ESG has faced criticism for functioning primarily as a risk management tool, failing to capture holistic conceptions of value beyond those that are financially material. This paper explores the Holistic Value Addition (HVA) framework as an alternative to ESG in Australia, paying attention to First Nations perspectives and intergenerational respo
Efforts to criminalize ecocide have gained renewed political momentum amid escalating environmental crisis. A key development in this context is the 2024 reform of the Belgian Penal Code, which introduced the crime of ecocide in Article 94. This thesis examines the legal and political process leading to this reform through key informant interviews and library research. It identifies key moments du
The task of matching fixed-order event generation with the parton shower is physically non-trivial and closely related to an efficiency bottleneck of event generators. In this thesis, we examine and implement two novel matching schemes in KrkNLO and MAcNLOPS for the LHC process p p > Z Z. As both schemes generate positive-definite event samples, they can be interesting alternatives to MC@NLO. The
Economics education continues to reproduce an economics paradigm divorced from the material reality of climate change and environmental degradation. This thesis investigated the inclusion of ecological economics as an alternative paradigm in the Czech undergraduate economics curricula by employing a mixed methods approach. The content analysis revealed that the chosen programmes do not integrate e
