Intresset för den personliga hälsan ökar inom samtliga sociala grupper. Människor vill få utökad kontroll över hur sin hälsosituation och de tar till allt fler hjälpmedel för att kunna få bättre svar. Med det digitala samhället nära till hands dyker det upp allt fler tjänster och produkter som agerar hjälpmedel för att produktens användare ska kunna få en större och bättre kontroll över sin hälsa. Produkter och tjänster som gör detta ingår i området Internet of Sports. I samband med att fler användare ansluter sig till dessa tjänster och produkter ökar därmed också datamängden de samlar in. Skyddas denna data i överföringen mellan användaren och företagen och skyddar de som samlar in datan användarens personliga integritet? Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka detta genom att granska utvalda företag som verkar inom Internet of Sports och se om det går att komma över användarnas personliga data genom man in the middle-attacker. / The interest for personal health is growing in all demographic groups. People want better control regarding their personal health and they are using more aids to get better answers. With the digital society close to hand new products and services are appearing to aid users to get a better knowledge and control of their personal health. The products and services that aim to do this are categorized as Internet of Sports. As more users are signing up for and using these products and services the gathering of data is growing. Is the data that these companies gather safely transfered from the user to the companies and are the companies protecting the user’s privacy? The thesis’ purpose is to examine chosen companies within Internet of Sports and to see if it is possible to access the user’s personal data through man in the middle attacks.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how support systems enable human control within normal flight operations. The thesis focuses on the use of memory supports during flight, such as a handheld computing device, memory strategies and checklists. The support systems are studied from the theoretical perspective of Human Factors. In particular, decision making theories have contributed to the thesis. From previous research it is found that feedback to the operator in case of a human error is essential to keep him or her in a safe sequence of decisions and actions. To facilitate the pilots’ tasks in cockpit, computing devices are out on the market. Several of the technical aids are computers installed in cockpit whereas others are smaller, portable devices with hardware not specifically designed for use in cockpit. Jump-seat observations have been performed at an airline company to explore the pilots’ work process in cockpit where a handheld computing device, with hardware not specifically designed for cockpit, is in use. Subsequent semi-structured interviews were conducted to receive the pilots’ experiences of findings from the observations and to receive descriptions of decisions and support systems. The thesis includes a description of flight operations from a pilot perspective. The main focus is on operations in the preflight phase where the new computing device is used. Identified characteristics in flight operations are factors such as cooperation, communication, interruptions. Furthermore, identified factors in the decision making were such as routine, environmental constraints, discrete alternatives and dependency between decisions. Feedback points during the sequence of tasks performed with the handheld computing device were distinguished. These points are moments when feedback is possible. For example, when the pilots cross-check tasks they receive feedback from each other. It was found that the pilots did not use every opportunity to receive feedback on their performance. The reason of the non-used feedback point was that it was not required by the Standard Operating Procedures or by any functions or design of the device. Within flight operations in general, it was found that the most important techniques to detect a human error such as a memory lapse were by pilots’ earlier experiences, the use of checklists and by receiving feedback from the other pilot. / QC 20101109

Once a year over the week leading up to and including Labor Day, tens of thousands of people drive hours into Nevada’s barren Black Rock Desert to build an ephemeral city equal to “the size of downtown San Francisco.” This place, Black Rock City, home of the annual Burning Man event, only exists for a fraction of the year. For one week, participants gather together at Burning Man and operate under its ten guiding principles, including “radical self-reliance,” “communal effort,” “radical self-expression,” and “participation.” Everything, with the exception of porta-potties and ice, must be brought in and packed out by individuals. The decommodified, volunteer-run city is what its inhabitants make of it. At Burning Man, attendants are their own event planners, food providers, structure builders, gift givers, and activity coordinators. On the penultimate night of the event, an effigy of a forty-foot man is set aflame, a ritual left open for interpretation by participants. Two days later, the entirety of Black Rock City is torn down, leaving scarcely any trace that it ever even existed. Burning Man has gained social traction exponentially since its launch in 1986, leading to the formation of dozens of individually organized regional burns across the United States of America and internationally. Scholars from many disciplines have flocked to the event attempting to unpack its distinct subculture. While publications have analyzed Burning Man’s ethos, logistics, business organization, community, art, rituals, fire, and performances, only two have considered sound worthy of focus and few have addressed the regional burn network. “Aural Substance: An Ethnographic Exploration of Regional Burn Soundscapes” analyzes Burning Man’s regional network, expanding on sound artists Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood’s brief initial study of the national event's sound by way of ethnography and field recording. From June 2016 through February 2017, I conducted fieldwork and collected fifty-five hours of field recordings at seven different regional burns. I employ ethnomusicologist Steven Feld’s concept of “acoustemology,” or “sound as a way of knowing.” Through my observation, analysis of recordings, and interviews, I consider how the sounds at regional burns can signify the time, date, and location to burn participants. Sound-studies scholar David Novak writes that “noise is a crucial element of communicational and cultural networks.” In this study, I analyze how noise at a burn is not solely a by-product of participants’ “anarchistic freedom,” but a key part of the burn that relays information about regional burn values, public and private spaces, and burners’ lived experience. / Music History / Accompanied by one compressed .zip file: Archive.zip

Bakgrund: Idag råder en brist på sjuksköterskor och arbetsbelastningen är hög. Manliga sjuksköterskestudenter och sjuksköterskor har i många år utgjort en minoritet inom yrket och de får inte sällan stå ut med fördomar och förväntningar från samhället vilket i vissa fall kan leda till vantrivsel på arbetsplatsen. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva manliga sjuksköterskestudenter och sjuksköterskors upplevelser av att arbeta inom ett kvinnodominerande yrke. Metod: En allmän litteraturstudie med en induktiv ansats. Arbetet utgjordes av åtta resultatartiklar efter sökningar i databaserna CINAHL, PubMed och Science Direct. Resultat: Fyra huvudkategorier identifierades: Negativa upplevelser med underkategorierna oönskad uppmärksamhet samt fördomar och sociala förväntningar. Positiva upplevelser med underkategorierna anställningsmöjligheter och ekonomisk trygghet samt stolthet. Upplevelser ur ett omvårdnadsperspektiv med underkategorierna försiktighet i samband med omvårdnad och sexuella trakasserier. I den sista kategorin presenterades deltagarnas förslag till ökad manlig rekrytering till sjuksköterskeyrket. Konklusion: De flesta känner sig stolta över sitt arbete och möjligheten att göra skillnad. Trots det möter dem olika fördomar och förväntas leva upp till flera sociala förväntningar. Deltagarna i studierna ifrågasattes ofta över deras yrkesval och deltagarna önskar fler manliga förebilder, vilket hade kunnat resultera i högre rekrytering av män. / Background: Today, there is a shortage of nurses and the workload is high. Male nursing students and nurses have for many years constituted a minority within the profession and they often have to deal with prejudices and societal expectations. Purpose: The purpose was to describe the experiences of male nursing students and nurses working within a female-dominated profession. Method: A general literature study with an inductive approach was conducted. The work consisted of eight result articles in the databases CINAHL, PubMed, and Science Direct. Results: Four main categories were identified: Negative experiences with the subcategories unwanted attention, and prejudices and social expectations. Positive experiences with the subcategories employment opportunities and financial security and pride. Experiences from a nursing perspective with the subcategories caution in nursing and sexual accusations. In the last category, the participants' suggestions for increasing male recruitment in to the nursing profession were presented. Conclusion: Most feel proud of their work and the opportunity to make a difference. Despite this, they face various prejudices and are expected to live up to several social expectations. The participants were often questioned about their career, and their wishes for more male role models, which could result in higher recruitment of men.

Form, space, rhythm, order, symmetry, balance, repetition, proportion and scale are few from a long checklist of principles that, if followed carefully by the designer, will result in "beautiful" architecture, or so I was told. However, what exactly is "beautiful"? In his book "The beautiful necessity" (1910, p.34) Claude Fayette Bragdon suggests that "Beauty is the name we give to truth we cannot understand". This statement implies that there is a hidden quality within each building, or even within each space, a quality that we can sense but cannot make sense of, a quality very similar to having a soul. The soul seems to linger on the threshold that divides two opposite worlds, it is always in-between. Between the dream and the awake, between the physical and the imaginary, between the conscious and the subconscious and between the real and the unreal. In this thesis, the "real" world consists of an animation studio (the program), the studio's staff and visitors, the selected site located in Alexandria, and it is bound by the building methods, materials and codes. The "unreal" world consists of four fictional characters that, assumingly, emerged from my subconscious and who live in a fictional dimension that overlaps ours.   The different encounters within the "real" world and within the "unreal" world, and also the interactions between the "real" and the "unreal" worlds are translated into an architectural language as an attempt to investigate the soul. / Master of Architecture

This thesis is an evaluation and proposal for development for an alternative health care center in West Virginia. The Gesundheit Institute is based on the work of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams and his desire to create an alternative to the current model of health care. The Institute would not charge for services and will offer non-traditional as well as traditional methods of healing. By evaluating what is currently happening at the center and what the resources are, I propose to use an incremental approach to growth. The ideas would result in a series of smaller buildings developed over time as opposed to a single larger building. The thesis includes the design for the next major building, a community center/dining hall and a basic design for a series of sleeping quarters. It also includes the reworking of the master plan to better include issues integrating incremental growth and sustainable development. / Master of Architecture

2025 / The purpose of this Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study was to explore the lived experience of five Black Rock Philharmonic orchestra members during the creation of collective effervescence in a group of more than 3,000 people at their 2019 performance of Bohemian Rhapsody at the Folly art installation at Burning Man. According to Collins (2004), collective effervescence can result from a mutual focus of attention and a shared mood, with feedback intensification through rhythmic entrainment building the shared mood. If collective effervescence is achieved, the group experiences solidarity, the individuals experience emotional energy, and social relationship symbols are created. Those outcomes can enhance subsequent interaction rituals, creating interaction ritual chains.I conducted three interviews with each of the five participants, using three focus areas: the 2019 Folly performance of Bohemian Rhapsody, the 2020 virtual encore performance, and the culture of Burning Man along with the persistence of the performances’ effects over the next three years. From the general narratives of each set of interviews, eight themes emerged. I used the data from the eight themes to create a general description of the phenomenon of creating collective effervescence through musicking at Burning Man, using the structures of ritual theory (V. Turner, 1969/2007) and interaction ritual chains (Collins, 2014). The emotional energy from the Folly performance carried over to the Temple performance the next day, the virtual encore performance of Bohemian Rhapsody during the pandemic, and live performances of Bohemian Rhapsody at Burning Man 2022 and 2023, as part of a multi-year interaction ritual chain. The interaction ritual chains experienced by the study participants were influenced by Burning Man’s 10 Principles which St John (2020) called the DNA of the Burning Man culture. Examining the five participants’ lived experiences for aspects of Burning Man’s culture that could be extended to community college music education and community ensembles, I identified five potential subject areas: hospitality, group solidarity and communitas, symbols of social relationship, playfulness, and planned and spontaneous moments. For each subject area, I provided examples of techniques music education ensemble directors could use to bring elements of Burning Man culture, along with playa magic, into their programs.

Building automation systems (BAS) have become more commonplace in personal and commercial environments in recent years. They provide many functions for comfort and ease of use, from automating room temperature and shading, to monitoring equipment data and status. Even though their convenience is beneficial, their security has become an increased concerned in recent years. This research shows an extensive study on building automation systems and identifies vulnerabilities in some of the most common building communication protocols, BACnet and KNX. First, we explore the BACnet protocol, exploring its Standard BACnet objects and properties. An automation tool is designed and implemented to identify BACnet devices using their IP addresses and enumerate both standard and vendor-defined BACnet objects as well as their standard properties. This tool is applied to a testbed real-world BAS system on a university campus and successfully validates the tool's effectiveness. We present a false data injection attack on a KNX system using a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. A BAS is modeled to analyze the impact of false data injections to a system in terms of energy cost. A machine learning (ML) based detection strategy is designed to detect the false data injection attack using a novel feature based on the Jensen Shannon Divergence (JSD), measuring the similarity of the KNX telegram's interarrival time distributions with attack and with no attack. Real-world experiments are performed to validate the presented false data injection attack and the ML detection strategy. Our results show an increase in overall energy cost during a false data injection attack. Of the examined ML models, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier achieved the best results with 100% detection rate using our proposed JSD similarity feature vector compared to more traditional features. Lastly, we introduce a simplified real-world BAS system, consisting of both BACnet and KNX equipment, and spanning over multiple building environments. We analyze the vulnerabilities of the BAS system at each level and component, introducing several attack scenarios which may occur and affect the system.

No / In 1834 in a tumulus at Gristhorpe, North Yorkshire, UK, an intact coffin fashioned from the hollowed-out trunk of an oak tree was found to contain a well-preserved skeleton stained black from the oak tannins, wrapped in an animal skin and buried with a range of grave artefacts, including a bronze dagger, flints and a bark vessel. The remains were deposited in the Rotunda Museum at Scarborough, where closure due to refurbishment in 2005–2008 provided an opportunity for the scientific investigation of the skeletal remains and artefacts using a wide range of techniques. Dendrochronological and radiocarbon dating has established the age of the skeleton as 2140–1940 BC at 95% confidence, in the Early Bronze Age. As part of this project, Raman spectra of several mysterious small spherical objects discovered in the coffin underneath the skeleton and initially believed to be ‘mistletoe berries’ associated with ancient burial customs have been recorded non-destructively. The interpretation of the Raman spectral data, microscopic analysis and comparison with modern specimens has led to the conclusion that the small spheres are phosphatic urinary stones, which reflect the archaeological dietary evidence and stable isotope analysis of bone collagen of Gristhorpe Man.

The tiger (Panthera tigris) was once abundant in many of Asia’s forests. The entire species now hovers dangerously close to extinction. Population declines within the last two centuries are blamed largely on loss of habitat, reductions in prey species, poaching, and human-tiger conflict. Modern tiger conservation efforts focus on reintroducing formerly captive tigers to designated protected wild areas. Re-wilding and reintroduction programs teach survival skills to tiger cubs raised in zoo collections. Merging in situ and ex situ research collaborations is the twenty-first century’s interdisciplinary answer to the tiger’s plight in the wild. The zoo is viewed in terms of its role as an institution that represents societal values that shift in concurrence with shifting paradigms. This thesis studies the human-tiger relationship and analyzes three defining periods that occurred between 1800 and the present. The first period occurred during the nineteenth century, the second took place from the early through the late twentieth century and the third picked up where the second left off and is the one we are presently engaged in. The tiger is investigated in two different ways throughout — for its importance in human history and culture conceptually, and in the biological sense in terms of its importance as umbrella species within its own ecosystem. / Master of Science