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News as performance: To which extent the Russian-Chinese pipeline’s threat to the sacred Ukok plateau objectively presented in media?

This research has been inspired by my interest in theater. I decided to explore the connection between the disciplines of media studies and anthropology of performance through the particular case study. The case is the Russian-Chinese pipeline construction through the sacred Ukok plateau in Altai. It threatens the environmental and cultural uniqueness of this area and small indigenous population o

Att hänskjuta människovärdet – Scanlons syn på intrinsikalt värde

I denna uppsats undersöker jag Scanlons värdeteori, med fokus på hans syn på intrinsikalt värde, och då framför allt frågan huruvida människolivet kan sägas ha intrinsikalt värde. Genom att först grundligt presentera Scanlons värdeteori – hans hänskjutande redogörelse för värde (eng. Buck-Passing) - och sedan släppa fram kritiska röster, resonerar jag mig fram till en grund att stå på i denna värd

The security of communication protocols used for Internet of Things

The thesis introduces a range of communication protocols used to implementing smart homes currently available on the market. Two protocols are chosen and theoretically analysed in depth. The analysis both describes how the protocols works and describes the measures taken in order to protect it against attacks from third parties. The theoretical evaluation analyses how susceptible the protocols are

What Do Employees Desire in Their Managers? Employees’ Conception of Their Manager and its Effects on Organisational Identification

Is there a discrepancy between what employees desire their managers to be and how they perceive their managers? And if so, does this discrepancy affect their organisational identification? To suggest answers to these questions, using a deductive quantitative approach, we asked employees to firstly, rate the traits they perceived their current managers to have and the traits they desired in their m

Kan klimatanpassning användas som ett ekonomiskt styrmedel?

Tara Mellquist Kan klimatanpassning användas som ett ekonomiskt styrmedel? Effekter av en klimatförändring i Stockholms län kan exemplifieras av ett förändrat nederbördsmönster, mer extrema väderhändelser och av en ökad havsnivå. Dessa effekter påverkar länets infrastruktur och bebyggelse, samtidigt som befolkningsmängden och exploateringstrycket i regionen ökar. Konsekvenser att ett förändratAs a result of climate change the county of Stockholm will experience a change in precipitation patterns, more extreme weather events and a rise in sea level. To learn if the financial sector works with climate change adaptation and if climate change adaptation can be used as a management control measure, a study has been conducted in complement to this thesis. Three subsectors, the insurance sect

Närhet och klarhet : strategier för att skapa närhet och klarhet vid översättning av tysk turistreklam

Denna uppsats utgår från översättningen av texter hämtade från den tyska webbplatsen Gastlandschaften, Rheinland-Pfalz. Del A omfattar avsnitten Rheinland-Pfalz – abwechslungsreich und unvergesslich och Urlaub in Rheinland-Pfalz och utgörs av säljande information om regionen Rheinland-Pfalz. Del B består av bokningsvillkor, Gastaufnahme- und Vermittlungsbedingungen, och sekretesspolicy, Datenschut

Stable increase of organic loading rate in anaerobic membrane bioreactors working at ambient temperature

Anaerobic processes are an interesting alternative to treat wastewaters instead of aerobic treatments as it allows recovery of energy with the produced biogas while removing organic matter. In the industry, lots of low-strength industrial wastewaters are available and unused for biogas production due to their low concentration of organic material and high volumes (slaughterhouse wastewaters, dairi

Internets påverkan på mode : mode som virtuell aktivitet

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the increased use of the communication channels provided by Internet affect production and distribution cycles of the fashion system, and what the consequences this development will have on the fashion concept. It is crucial for all producers in the fashion industry to take this development into consideration in order to anticipate the changes that migh

The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) in the UK.

The so-called “Healthy Immigrant Effect” (HIE) is based on two complementary hypotheses: i) immigrants who recently arrived to a new country present a better health than the native-born population with similar socio-demographic characteristics; ii) immigrant´s health deteriorates faster than that of the native-born and converges towards native-born levels with the years lived in the host country.

Automating Traceability in Agile Software Development

In order for Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools to provide good traceability links there is usually a great deal of manual effort required. The result is that data becomes unreliable, inconsistent and in many cases nonexistent. The main focus in previous research in this area has been to make general tools which can provide traceability between any type of configuration artifact in any

Agentskap hos unga kvinnor med vulvasmärta

Smärta vid samlag är ett problem allt fler unga kvinnor söker för, och många studier visar på en utbredd problematik. Trots att många unga kvinnor söker för vulvasmärta, saknas fortfarande teoretiska modeller för de psykosociala mekanismerna bakom problematiken. Syftet med denna studie var att få ökad kunskap om agentskap hos unga kvinnor med vulvasmärta. Kvalitativa djupintervjuer gjordes med åttMany young women seek help for sexual problems such as pain during sexual intercourse, and several studies notes it as a widespread concern. Although an increasing number of women seek professional help for vulvar pain, there is still a shortage of theoretical models of psychosocial components involved in the mechanisms connected to the problem. The aim of this study was to examine sense of agency

En krokodil med vingar - en kvalitativ studie om mellanchefens upplevelse av sin roll i flexibla organisationer

Syftet med denna studie är att skapa en djupare förståelse för hur mellanchefer i flexibla organisationer upplever sin arbetsroll samt hur de arbetar för att möta de krav som ställs. Studien omfattar mellanchefer i flexibla organisationer, där bemanningsföretag har fått statuera exempel på flexibel organisation. Insamling av empiriskt material har skett via 10 semistrukturerade intervjuer, med t

DERIVATION OF A REWEIGHTING ALGORITHM FOR THE PREDICTION OF THE THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY OF MUTATED SEQUENCES AND EVALUATION OF ITS USABILITY IN A SIMPLE CONTINUOUS PROTEIN MODEL

I denna uppsats härleds och testas en ny omviktningsalgoritm med vars hjälp det nativa tillståndet av aminosyresekvenser, bestående av 16 aminosyror, kan förutspås. Algoritmen används till att kartlägga de neutrala näten av α-helixes och β-sheets inom ett kontinuerligt proteinmodell. För att undersöka omviktningsalgoritmens potential för att förutsäga den termodynamiska stabiliteten av olika aminIn this thesis, a new reweighting algorithm for predicting the native conformations of amino acid sequences, consisting of 16 residues in a reduced representation continuous protein model, is derived and tested to map neutral nets of α-helices and β-sheets. For examining the potential of the reweighting algorithm for predicting the thermodynamic stability of amino acid sequences, it is applied to

Flavour-changing neutral currents in top quark decays to Higgs bosons in a two-Higgs-doublet model

Först lite terminologi: Standardmodellen är en kvantfältteori. Sådana beskriver störningar i fält och dessa kallas för partiklar. Tänk dig svallvågorna som följer på ytan i ett badkar vari en sten släppts, fast i tre dimensioner istället för två, det är ett fält. Varje elementär partikel är en störning i ett sådant tillhörande fält (eller "kvantum" varav namnet kvantfält). Fälten kommer In this thesis top quark decays to a charm quark and a (CP even) Higgs boson are investigated in a general two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) allowing flavour-changing neutral currents. The theory behind 2HDMs is introduced and the specific choice of 2HDM is put to test under theoretical constraints that require the potential in the Lagrangian density of the model to satisfy vacuum stability, tree-lev

Vampire Ethics in the Twilight Saga : A Generic Analysis

Since the Twilight series publication and later the Twilight Saga film adaptions, the vampire romance of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen has turned into a worldwide phenomenon. This One-Year Master’s degree thesis will address the way in which the vampire ethics is depicted in the Twilight Saga by the character of Edward Cullen. My purpose is to analyze the vampire character of Edward in accordance w

Can Green Bonds Help Air Pollution Mitigation in China? Potential and Challenges

This paper aims to examine the potential of green bond implementation in China suited with Chinese air pollution situation. It researched the green bond origination, history, definination and categories and so on. The paper applied literature review, case study and internview methods to purpue a conclusion. Since the financial crisis, many countries are exploring how to re-engineer the financial s

A dynamic Analysis of Social Entrepreneurial Organizations (SEOs)

In the light of economic and financial crises, social innovations have been looked at and analysed from new point of views. This thesis has run an analysis of two social entrepreneurial organizations (SEOs) to shed light on how actors from vulnerable communities, like Rosengård and Persborg from the city of Malmö perceive complexities embedded in social innovations and institutional change. The an

Multidimensional Perfectionism and Depressive Symptoms on Disordered Eating Behaviours among University Students

In the present study, the relationship of multidimensional perfectionism (self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism) and depressive symptoms related to disordered eating behaviours were investigated in a university context. Results from 112 participants showed that both perfectionism and depressive symptoms have a positive relationship with disordered eating behaviours,