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Less than a decade ago, Swedish law demanded that a person who wanted to change their legal gender had to be without any ability to reproduce. This demand led to many trans people being forcibly sterilized. Even though the demand is now removed from law, lingering effects continues to affect trans people in their reproductive journey. This study examines barriers faced by trans people in three sta

Syfte: Undersöka kapitalstrukturen hos företag inom IT- och teknologibranschen i hela världen samt vilka faktorer som påverkar kapitalstrukturen hos dessa företag. Vidare testas hur väl etablerade teorier förklarar valet av kapitalstruktur samt genomförs en jämförelse med tillverkningsindustrin. Metod: En kvantitativ studie med en deduktiv ansat genomförs. Studien bygger på sekundärdata och analysPurpose: Investigate the capital structure of companies in the IT and technology industry worldwide and determine which factors affect their capital structure. Furthermore, a comparison with the manufacturing industry is conducted. Methodology: A quantitative study using a deductive approach has been conducted. The study is based on secondary data which has been analyzed through a regression analy

Denna studie har utforskat kvällspress (Expressen och Aftonbladet) och myndigheters (Folkhälsomyndigheten och Regeringen) strategiska kommunikation under coronapandemins inledande fas i Sverige och analyserat detta dels baserat på kriskommunikationsteori, dels dagordningsteori med gestaltningsteori och teorin om den retoriska arenan. För att kunna genomföra en Retorisk Arena-analys på materialet iThis study has explored the strategic communication of The Public Health Agency of Sweden and the Swedish Government compared to tabloid press of Sweden (Expressen, Aftonbladet) during the initial phase of the coronapandemic in Sweden and analyzed it based on crisis communications theory, partly agenda-setting-theory including framing theory and the theory of the Rhetorical Arena. In order to comp

Wheat bran is a by-product from the production of wheat flour. Nowadays wheat bran is mostly used as feed for animals, in the food and baking industry or it is simply burned in open air. However, wheat bran could be used in biorefineries for production of value-added products such as bioplastics, biofuels and chemicals as a substitute for fossil feedstocks as petroleum. Since wheat bran is an agri

Over the last few years, there has been a proliferation of different kinds of movements across the globe as citizens agitate for economic, socio-political and environmental change. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the country has been involved in a series of wars, attention has rather been eschewed towards the rape and sexual violence of women and girls. Using post-colonialism and

Vi människor, och djur i allmänhet, lär oss enormt mycket från att bara interagera med våra omgivningingar. Vi samlar ständigt in information om hur våra handlingar påverkar omgivningen, och justerar vårat beteende så att vi bättre uppfyller våra mål. En gren inom maskininlärning, som kallas förstärkningsinlärning, är ett grupp metoder som beskriver en agent som kan lära sig att uppnå mål från erThe success of Reinforcement Learning (RL) has mostly been in artificial domains, with only some successful real-world applications. One of the reasons being that most real-world domains fail to satisfy a set of assumptions of RL theory. In the past years, a popular way to gauge the performance of RL agents has been through a suite of Atari 2600 games. This suite has been used to benchmark the pr

Swedish exophoric demonstratives have often been seen as words that encode distance-based concepts. Based on the studies of demonstrative systems of several other languages the view of demonstratives as distance-oriented has recently been put into question. Thus, this study aims to investigate the spatiality involved in the semantics of demonstratives. Specifically, the study explores Swedish two-

Language contact poses many questions in regards to language change, one of which is the question of whether some features are more easily transferable between languages than others. Previous research has mainly focused on either areal features in so-called Sprachbunds in large quantitative studies, or single language situations. The present study attempts to bridge the gap between these two diffe

Vision is often considered to top the hierarchy of the senses, reflected for example in the high relative frequency of vision verbs, in comparison to other perception verbs. Results from some previous studies, however, have shown that there is greater cross-linguistic variation concerning perception language than previously thought, emphasising other sense modalities than vision. This thesis condu

Constructed wetlands (CWs) have been applied for several years in the removal process pollutants from secondary treatment plants and stormwater. In this paper, the Variable Residence Time (VART) model for solute transport in streams was extended to simulate the BOD removal process in free water surface flow constructed wetlands (FWS CWs). The double layer concept of the basic VART model was extend

Syftet med studien var att kvalitativt undersöka krav och resurser för olika typer av personal som arbetar för internationella biståndsorganisationer. Fokus låg på dynamiken mellan rollerna och de respektive krav, samt resurser till vilka de var kopplade. Detta gjordes med avsikten att identifiera hur samarbete kunde förbättras och därmed ge anställda högre välmående. Lägre grad av stress hos persThis study aimed to qualitatively examine the demands and resources of different kinds of personnel working within humanitarian aid organizations. The purpose was to examine the dynamics between the professional roles and the demands/resources to which they were connected. This was done to see if it was possible to identify what could improve cooperation. If that could be done it might make for a

Previous studies of the Chinese imperative have treated syntax and prosody separately, have not considered gestures, and have looked at sentences in isolation and not in discourse. This study therefore investigated how the relationship between grammatical components, intonation (perceived stress), and gesture are co-organized and interact in the 把 bǎ ‘Ba’ construction (i.e., BA) of Chinese imperat

Kupongskattelagen är en 50 år gammal lag i behov av modernisering på grund av den ökade globaliseringen i världen. Denna uppsats syftar till att granska förslaget till ny lag om källskatt på utdelning. Detta görs bland annat med hjälp av en jämförelse mellan gällande rätt, norsk och dansk rätt, samt EU-rätt. Förslaget innehåller förändringar som innebär att ansvaret för innehållande av källskatt Kupongskattelagen is a 50 years old law in need of modernization due to the increasing globalization in the world. This paper aims to examine the proposal for a new law for withholding tax on dividends. As part of this a minor comparison between current law, Norwegian and Danish law, and EU law will be conducted. The proposal entails changes that place more of the responsibility for withholding

Saltwater intrusion is the most challenging problem in coastal regions. To prevent saltwater intrusion, saltwater pumping from a barrier well is widely applied, which is a direct abstraction of intruded saltwater from a coastal aquifer. Owing to its easy installation, many studies have been carried out. However, quantitative relationships between barrier and inland production well have not been re

Title: Money left on the table - A study about underpricing in Venture Capital-backed initial public offerings in the Nordics Seminar date: 2021-01-15 Course: FEKH89, Corporate Finance Degree Project, Undergraduate level, 15 ECTS Authors: Viktor Källström, Erik Magnusson, Sofia Vögeli Advisor: Maria Gårdängen Key words: Venture Capital, Underpricing, Initial Public Offering, VC-backing Purp

Prosodic cues such as stress and tones can help listeners predict upcoming structures and get a first crack at rapidly unfolding speech. The prosodic feature stød in Danish can distinguish word meanings but also signal imminent structures. For instance, monosyllabic nouns with stød lose stød when followed by the plural indefinite suffix -e. Suffixes invalidly cued by stød or non-stød have been fou

Background The Paris Agreement has forced the European Parliament to set a target of 35% renewable energies by 2030. In Sweden, the adaptation of the electricity supply chain to renewable energy production has created new opportunities for the electricity supply chain member. New business models between prosumers and electricity suppliers are currently being developed while the whole management of

Mot bakgrund av USA:s viktiga roll i världspolitiken och speciellt i Mellanöstern och dess konflikter är uppsatsens syfte att undersöka USA:s flerfaldiga politik rörande Israel-Palestinakonflikten mellan 2000–2020. Syftet uppnås genom att besvara frågorna om hur USA har agerat i förhållande till konflikten mellan 2000–2020, vilka motiveringar USA har för sitt agerande samt hur USA:s politik kring Because of the important role that the United States plays in the politics of the world, especially in the Middle East conflicts, the purpose of this study is to analyze the U.S. multiple policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 2000-2020. The purpose of this study is achieved by answering the questions about how the U.S. has acted in relation to the conflict between 2000–2020, how the U

Examensarbetets titel: Dialekters varumärkespersonlighet i marknadskommunikation Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka eventuella skillnader i mottagares uppfattning av dialekter med stöd i existerande teori om varumärkespersonlighet. Teoretiska perspektiv: Den teoretiska referensramen i studien utgörs av tre större delar. Första delen är en forskningsmetod som är utvecklad inom lingviTitle: The Brand Personality of Dialects in Market Communication Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate possible differences in recipient’s perception of dialects with support from existing theory of brand personality. Theoretical perspectives: The theoretical framework on which this study is based contains three different parts. The first part is a technique developed in linguisti