The importance of reducing the energy consumption and commit towards sustainability efforts has become increasingly important for organizations to consider. Often, managers rely on technology to reduce the energy consumption within facilities. The importance of the behaviour of people within the facility is often overlooked. This thesis focus on investigating how the retail industry in Australia can reduce its energy consumption by changing the behaviours of employees within the facilities. In order to answer how the retail industry can reduce its consumption the following research questions was established:   -          What processes contributes to the energy consumption at a retail facility?   -          How does occupant behaviour affect the energy consumption at a retail facility?   -          How does internal influence barriers for an organization affect the energy consumption within a retail facility?   The following master thesis of 30 ECTS is a qualitative, explorative case study conducted at one of Scanias facilities in Prestons, Sydney. With roughly 80 employees and 12 workshop bays. Primary data have been collected from semi-structured interviews, observations and survey questions. The results showed that behaviour are influenced by many drivers and personal values are often not a good predictor of behaviour. Internal barriers occurring in the facility are lack of vision, people, communication, resource and management. Furthermore, norms and behavioural practices change along with the change of environment. Conversations about energy and sharing of energy-efficient experiences and knowledge are not occurring in the facility. However, there is a strong willingness and desire to change and to develop more efficient behaviours at the facility in Sydney. Lastly, occupant behaviour such as lack of communication, turning off the lights or AC and not turning off their computers are the biggest contributors to the energy being consumed in a retail facility.

This study is about what happens when you introduce a new digital medium that will be used for internal communication at a small company called Metodicum. Metodicums employees are located in different geographical locations in Sweden and they are therefore prevented from having short informal meetings. By introducing the tool Slack for the company, there is therefore a new level of communication that they have not used before, except for E-mail. The study was conducted with interviews and nethnography as the method, netnography in order to be able to make a more observational analysis that takes place in the medium Slack and interviews to know how the respondents themselves experience about the medium. Part of the conclusion in this study is that it is necessary to introduce a strategic internal communication plan in connection with the use of Slack. This study is therefore beneficial for companies that want to start using Slack and want to know the risks, benefits and disadvantages before it is introduced. The study has been based on established theories that exist within organizational communication, but also models that demonstrate that social interaction is required to increase the motivation among employees. Slack has helped to reduce the distance between offices and made it easier to discuss practical administrative tasks that employees would otherwise not have mailed over. Because the e-mail is perceived as a formal medium where one is communicated about the most important thing with customers and suppliers. More communication has therefore arisen and the employees feel that they can talk in a more easy and informal way through Slack. Slack also offers another level of communication that my respondents do not feel they have previously had. The communication tool provides a quick communication that allows the employees to chat with each other and they feel that it is easy to send away a quick message that they quickly get an answer to. However, there are risks with Slack, the risk is that the employees are interrupted in their duties and that the notification creates stress.

Research on supply reducing drug policy shows so called ‘unintended consequences’,following their implementation. This thesis focuses on such consequences, specifically oferadication programs, which show an increase in application in the period of 2005 and 2011.To link drug policy and conflict studies the aim of this thesis is the policies effects on therebels who control territory, related to the cultivation of drugs. The thesis studies the rebel’sstrength before, during and after the increased efforts in eradication in two cases, Colombiaand Afghanistan. A connection between the effects of eradication programs and the strengthof rebels can be established, although different outcomes in the cases are shown. Additionally,some insight into the underlying mechanism, connecting the means of income for farmers inrebel territory and unintended consequences of eradication programs, is gained.

In this project a model has been created that with an audio sequence as input can classify the language being spoken to be either english or french. The focus of the project has been to experiment with different ways to process audio files and to design a neural network in order to maximize the performance for the task of language classification. The purpose of the project was to investigate the highest reachable accuracy and to examine what sample length that would be appropriate in order to be useful in voice control application. The signal processing part dealt mainly with how enveloping, Mel frequency ceptral coefficients (MFCC) and Mel frequency spectral coefficients (MFSC) could be used to enhance the accuracy of the model. The neural network design focused on how the width and depth of the network and the use of dropouts could be used to increase the performance. The experiments resulted in a model with a maximum accuracy of 92,30 % that could outperform humans for samples of approximately 1,2 seconds of shorter. A suitable sample length to be usable in other applications was concluded to be in the interval of 0,7 to 1,5 seconds.

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