The sustainable development goals (SDGs) were introduced in 2015 to steer worldwide progress towards a sustainable, inclusive and prosperous path. Since then companies have gradually taken up the goals and are today actively reporting contributions to the goals. However, with this, also a novel concept of SDG-washing has emerged – companies claiming to contribute to the SDGs but in reality not doi

Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa utvecklingen av romance-imprints på den samtida bokmarknaden i Sverige, och hur dessa arbetar med värdeförhandling av romancegenren. Detta görs genom att undersöka två imprints – Lovereads och HarperLove – och deras kurering av författarskap, deras marknadsföring och visuella profil, samt vad som kännetecknar deras relation med sina läsare. Uppsatsens frågeställn

Abstract Titel: Navigating Uncertainty: Exploring mechanisms roles in changing work conditions Seminar date: 1 June 2023 Authors: Lucas Ekedahl, Oscar Steinvik, Johan Ottosson Course: FEKH99, Examensarbete i Entreprenörskap och Innovation, 15 Högskolepoäng. Supervisor: Ziad El-Awad Key word: Mechanisms, Small Business, Remote Work Contingency Theory and Crises. Thesis question: How do small busine

Due to an increasing incidence rate, the need for new effective methods for diagnosing cancer are of high importance. Studies have shown that circulating tumor cells, CTCs, have great potential as a diagnostic biomarker. Acoustophoresis is a label free method, capable of separating CTCs from red blood cells in a blood sample. In theory, this would enable better CTC detection than the gold standard

This paper investigates the correlation between Sweden's municipal equalization system and economic growth and efficiency for the years 2005 to 2022. This paper uses panel data for all 290 municipalities and a fixed effects model to study the two main parts of Sweden's municipal equalization system: the income equalization system and the cost equalization system. This paper examines multip

Sedan införandet av lagen (2010:879) om allmännyttiga kommunala bostadsaktiebolag ska kommunala bolag drivas enligt affärsmässiga principer. Dessutom ändrades reglerna i jordabalken om jämförelse av skäliga hyror enligt bruksvärdessystemet genom att de allmännyttiga bostadsbolagen inte längre är ensamt hyresnormerande. Sedan dessa lagändringar har det inte funnits något regelverk om vad de årliga Since 2011 public municipal housing companies are to be operated according to commercial principles and the comparison of reasonable rents according to the utility value system is based on collective negotiated rents. Since these legal changes, there has been no regulatory framework for what the annual rent adjustments should be based on. Previously, the public housing companies' self-cost cal

This research analyzes expressions of neo-familism among young queer Chinese persons’ narrations of their family relationships. An inductive approach was adopted and a first-round life history interviewing combined with a second-round semi-structured interviewing was conducted to gather in-depth narratives from four key informants. The concepts of neo-familism, power, and agency were applied to an

Equal participation in safe and decent work is a crucial factor for achieving gender equality. Despite this, gender-based obstacles remain as workplaces often fail to ensure the human rights, health, and general wellbeing of their employees, with menstrual health being an especially neglected aspect of the gendered workplace experience. While menstrual health has gained increased attention over th

Jordgubbar som är odlade i Sverige är något som är väldigt eftertraktat under sommarhalvåret. Men det vi inte tänker på är att de ofta är besprutade med någon typ av växtskyddsmedel. Växtskyddsmedsmedel medför en negativ påverkan på pollinatörerna som är viktiga för att få en bra skörd och kvalité på bären. I denna studie undersöktes hur pollinatörer påverkas av växtskyddsmedel som används på de sThis study investigated how pollinators are affected by plant protection products (PPP), what type of PPPs strawberry farmers used and what knowledge they had about these products. To investigate this, a literature review and a survey was conducted. The questionnaire was sent to 70 Swedish strawberry farmers of which 11% participated in the study. The results of the survey shows that all (6) straw

In this thesis, two quantum dynamical system’s of one and two qubits coupled to a field mode confined in an optical cavity have been studied. Within the Jaynes- and Tavis- Cummings model, the dynamics of the corresponding light-matter interaction was defined in terms of the system’s coupling constants. From the setup of the system, the qubits flying through the cavity, the final state of the syste

Bakgrund: Psykisk ohälsa är vanligt förekommande, kan resultera i nedsatt funktionsförmåga och aktivitetsengagemang samt påverka vardagen negativt med minskad mening. I arbetet för att övervinna psykisk ohälsa kan en arbetsteraput ha en viktig roll genom att möjliggöra aktivitetsengagemang och därmed främja den personliga återhämtningen. Forskning tyder på att det behöver undersökas hur ett aktiviBackground: Mental illness is very common, can result in reduced functional capacity and occupational engagement and negatively affect everyday life with reduced meaning. In the work to overcome mental illness, an occupational therapist plays an important role by enabling occupational engagement and thereby promoting personal recovery. Research indicates that it is necessary to investigate how an

Svensk lagstiftning angående barn och ungdom har under de senaste decennierna varit föremål för ett omfattande reformarbete (Singer 2019: 21). Barn och unga saknar emellertid ofta kunskap om sina rättigheter, samt om hur dessa kan utkrävas. Att samhället har en god kännedom om den lagstiftning som angår barn och ungdom är därför av avgörande betydelse för att barnets rättigheter ska tillgodoses oc

Purpose and research question: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether an improved ESG performance leads to a lower cost of debt, proxied by the yield spread of newly issued corporate bonds and if this effect is more pronounced for firms operating in a stronger institutional environment. We therefore ask the following two research questions: Does a higher ESG score lead to a lower cost

This thesis seeks to examine the transition of three Swedish municipal archives from the old general archive classification system (allmänna arkivschemat) to a new process based classification system (verksamhetsbaserad arkivredovisning). Regulations issued by the Swedish National Archives are not binding for local government archives, and it is therefore free for the municipal archives to decide

Incelrörelsen, en gemenskap baserad på internet bestående av män som lever i ofrivilligt celibat, har fått ökad uppmärksamhet de senaste åren mycket på grund av de våldsdåd som har kopplats till rörelsen. Men forskning uppmanar till att se bortom det kvinnohat och de våldsdåd som incelrörelsen till stor del associeras med för att förstå varför män söker sig till denna omdiskuterade gemenskap. Fors

The nexus between environmental degradation and economic growth is becoming of greater importance globally and in order to limit global warming at an increase of 1.5 ° C there needs to be a net zero-transition towards carbon neutrality. The Kingdom of Bhutan has over the last decades experienced continuous economic growth while being carbon negative and adhering to its unique Gross National Happin

This study is about ssu, a potential norm breaking honorific which reportedly can express intimacy and deference concurrently. While expressing intimacy and deference concurrently is incompatible with Brown and Levinson’s (1978 as cited in Hasegawa, 2015) politeness theory, Hasegawa (2015) provides a modification of their theory that allows for it. Yet, an honorific in hyōjungo ‘standard Japanese’

The implementation of the Single-Use Plastics Directive has gained significant attention due to the detrimental impacts of plastic pollution, leading to the transition from plastic straws to paper straws for Tetra Pak’s portion-size carton packages. However, the acceptance of paper straws could be hindered by negative mouthfeel perceptions, which customers find the difficulties to accurately descr