The concept of &ldquo / climate change&rdquo / is, nowadays, seen as a global problem of the whole world. It has impacts on the economic, social, and environmental life of human beings, and also on the local life. As one of the sectors that are important for the local economies, &ldquo / tourism&rdquo / is vulnerable to climate change due to being sensitive to the factors of climate and weather. Therefore, to discuss the relation between the climate change and tourism is the aim of this thesis. In this regard, the context of &ldquo / the awareness of the actors&rdquo / about the impacts of the climate change becomes important. To evaluate the awareness of the actors, the research is focused on &ldquo / the response mechanisms&rdquo / that they develop. The hypothesis is that although the expected impact of climate change is very important, the level of awareness of the actors on this sector is rather limited and this leads to limited action to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on tourism. In this regard, in this research, the main purpose is identified as to discuss the impacts of climate change on tourism, and to evaluate the awareness of the actors and the response mechanisms. It is researched that whether the actors are aware of the current condition about climate change and tourism and whether the response mechanisms that actors develop are effective on the impacts of climate change on tourism. As a sample in Turkey, Antalya is defined as the case study area, and the impacts of climate change on tourism are examined, and the awareness of the actors is analyzed. It is displayed, by the results of the analysis, that which type of mechanisms the actors in Antalya have trend to develop about climate change impacts.

Earthquakes in Turkey, among all natural disasters claim the highest losses in terms of human lives, material and economic assets. Most of the lives are lost within the collapsed buildings, and most of the material and economic losses are again directly related to the functional capacities of the building stock. The method of risk assessment in the existing building stock is therefore an essential step in the maintenance of safer urban environments. Analysis of risks in the building stock is usually claimed to demand surveys of engineering studies. Yet risk determination studies by planners could prove not only a more comprehensive approach, but less time consuming and cheaper. As carried out by engineers, most of safety studies in the building stock are directly related with estimating the probability of collapse and damage in individual buildings. It is necessary to recognize the need for analysis of the building stock not only in terms of structural robustness, but as part of a mitigation plan, taking into consideration all sources of hazards and the urban pattern, densities, landuse, forms of ownership, social features, management capacities, and local opportunities. Risky buildings determined by a simple set of criteria within a comprehensive planning context are comparatively explored in this study to observe the level of fit with those determined by engineering surveys. The case of Fatih District in Istanbul provides an opportunity to carry out comparative analyses. It indicates that a &lsquo / perfect fit&rsquo / can not be achieved if for nothing but due to the disregard of multi-hazard areas, hazardous activities and other vulnerabilities like timber buildings other than reinforced concrete in the district by the engineering survey. Several trials indicated that there is a trade-off between ratio of fit and the total volume of relative vulnerability assumed. Ratios like 70% or more could make the planning approach a preferable method owing to its nature of least time-consuming and costly alternative in the determination of what constitutes risk in any urban area. Ultimate assessment could be made with the occurance of the earthquake itself.

Anaerobic digestion process which has long been known to successfully reduce the organic content of sludge is one of the most common alternatives to meet pathogen reduction requirements for particular classes of biosolids. However, it has recently been reported that, significantly higher densities of indicator bacteria have been measured in dewatered cake samples compared to samples collected right after anaerobic digestion. In addition, this increase in bacterial population has been commonly observed after centrifugation but not after belt filter dewatering. Even though several theories have emerged to explain this occurrence, with the use of molecular tools such as Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (Q

The difficulty of gathering information on field and coarse resolution of Landsat images forced to use ancillary data in vegetation mapping. The aim of this study is to increase the accuracy of species level vegetation classification incorporating environmental variables in the Amanos region. In the first part of the study, coarse vegetation classification is attained by using maximum likelihood method with the help of forest management maps. Canonical Correspondence analysis is used to explore the relationships among the environmental variables and vegetation classes. Discriminant Analysis is used in the second part of the study in two different stages. Firstly Fisher&rsquo / s linear equations for each of the previously defined nine groups calculated and the pixels are included in one of these groups by looking at the probability of that pixel being in that group. In the second stage Distance raster value of maximum likelihood classification is used. Distance raster pixels having a value less than one is accepted as misclassified and replaced with a value of first stage result of that pixel. As a result of this study 19.6 % increase in the overall accuracy is obtained by using the relationships between environmental variables and vegetation distribution.

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In the thesis the advantages with Text over IP (ToIP) is explained and it is motivated why it is a good idea to integrate this in Asterisk. It also presents an implementation of a ToIP extension in Asterisk. ToIP means communicating over a network based on Internet protocols with real-time text. Real-time text means a character is sent to the receiving terminal as soon the sender has typed it or with a small delay. In the thesis IM and ToIP is compared in a survey. The result point at IM is not better than ToIP even though it is much more commonly used. VoIP can not replace ToIP either because there are occasions when ToIP is better for instance if the person using it is deaf or if a person want to make a private conversation in a noisy room. Asterisk is an IP-PBX. PBX stands for Private Branch Exchange which means a private telephone system which is part of a larger network system that exchange information. An IP-PBX is a PBX based on the Internet. Asterisk and many other IP-PBX can also exchange calls between the PSTN ant the Internet. By including ToIP in Asterisk it will be possible to exchange ToIP calls. The implementation described is not only including ToIP in Asterisk but also a translation function between the text format called t140 and another text format called t140 with redundancy. The idea is to extend the translation function in the future to more text formats.

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Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att ta reda på hur utvalda tidningar, både morgon- och kvällstidningar, valt att förhålla sig mot proposition 2008/09:140 – Ett användbart försvar. Den proposition som innebar att vi idag har ett yrkesförsvar och inte värnplikt. Arbetet har utgått från en kvalitativ textanalys. Tidningarna har analyserats utefter sökkriterierna: kostnad, tillgänglighet – användbarhet, hög beredskap, rekryteringssvårigheter och folkförankring. Teorin som använts är en gestaltningsteori som hämtats från forskning inom medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap. Uppsatsen visar att det finns stora skillnader mellan hur de olika tidningarna är representerade inom journalistik som rör försvarsfrågor. I uppsatsen framkommer att de flesta tidningarna har en borgerlig politiks hållning. Detta leder i sin tur till att det är dessa som rapporterar om ämnet. Beroende på om det är en morgon- eller kvällstidning finns det stora skillnader i hur de gestaltar sin rapportering eller ledare. I uppsatsen framkommer även att tidningarnas ledare innehar en stor sanningshalt med väl underbyggda fakta och källor. Ledarna visar på en större objektivitet än förväntat. Även kring mediernas makt framkommer att den riktiga makten nog inte ligger i nyhetsrapporteringen utan i ledarna. För krigsvetenskapen kan uppsatsen förhoppningsvis åskådliggöra vikten av att förstärka Försvarsmakten i samhället och således även trygga den framtida folkförankringen. / The purpose with this examination essay was to find out how newspapers, both morning- and evening, did chose to relate to the government bill 2008/09:140 – A useable defence. This governmental bill implied a new Swedish military reformation. The reformation relies on voluntary military service and no longer conscription. The method used in the essay is a qualitative text analysis. The search criteria’s during the analysis of the newspapers contained: Cost, availability and usability, state of readiness, recruitment difficulties and civil-anchoring. The theory used for this essay is a framing theory. The approach to concerned newspapers conforms to general, regarding media- and communication, science. The essay elucidates that there are big differences between the newspapers regarding questions about the Swedish defence. It appears that most newspapers have a bourgeois approach. The newspapers with this approach tend to write more about topics concerning the Swedish armed forces. There is a big difference between the newspapers due to how they use the interpretation theory in stories or leaders. The difference becomes noticeable between morning- and evening newspapers. The essay also elucidates that the newspaper leaders prove to be more truthful than expected. The leaders tend to strengthen their thoughts with reliable sources. Regarding the power of the media the essay indicate that the real power exists among the leaders and not among the news stories.