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The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the European Union through its cultural program “Creative Europe” is constructing and promoting a transnational European identity. In the context of humanities and European Studies this can be seen as relevant in the sense it is the study of man as a cultural being, as well as it is stated in Merriam-Webster dictionary “humanities plural : the branches

The Tröger’s base molecule has a unique V-shaped cavity and can be fused together in a linear fashion to create either tubular structures or zigzag structures. These structures could be applicable in for example catalysis. The Tröger’s base scaffold is easily functionalised with different side-groups and therefore has a wide range of applications. Previous research in the Wärnmark group had led to

The aim of the study is to research preschool teacher’s understanding and way of talking about ethnicity and diversity in two different municipalities. The design of the methods performed for the study was qualitative and seven interviews have been done to gather empirics. The interview guide was semi-structured in order to be able to keep a flexible approach through the interviews. The result sho

The European credit default swap (CDS) market has experienced noticeable changes and remarkably developed over the last decades. Today, the relation between the CDS and corporate bond market is a prominent topic in the financial literature. According to the arbitrage argument, the CDS spread equals the corresponding credit spread of a corporate bond. However, substantial deviations between the mar

The purpose of this study was to examine the issue of the low number of young males who visit the youth health center called Ungdomsmottagningen. The analysis has focused on the perspective of professional social workers regarding the difference between the number of male and female clients and the work of the organization with young males specifically. I have conducted a qualitative study using f

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to contribute to the knowledge about Generation Z in the consumer society context, through a critical investigation of the possible negative impacts of the internalization of the consumerist mentality within the digital capitalist society. This is relevant since such internalization could interfere with the capacity of individuals to maintain long-term rela

This master’s thesis in Sociology of Law aimed to examine how plural legal orders and discourses work in Myanmar and how they influence the Rohingya Muslims’ legal status and identity. The research of this thesis was conducted by analysing various documents from international and national actors involved in the processes in Rakhine. The objective of this thesis was to reach my set aim by conductin

Kristianstadsslätten breder ut sig i nordöstra Skåne och in i sydvästra Blekinge med sin komplicerade och varierade geologi. De komplexa förhållandena leder till att det finns ett flertal akvifärer i både jordlager och berggrund, där den mest vattenförande formationen är den av glaukonitsand. Syftet med arbetet har varit att undersöka vilket infiltrerat vattenflöde, vid vilket pumptryck, en brunn Kristianstad plain stretches from the northeast of Scania to the southwest of Blekinge with a complicated and varying geology. The complexity has resulted in multiple aquifers in both soil and bedrock, where the highest amount of withdrawable groundwater is in the formation of glauconite sand. The aim of this paper has been to investigate which infiltrated water flow at a certain pumping pressure,

Prisutvecklingen på bostäder i Sverige har under lång tid varit en framgångssaga för säljare. Med låga räntor, stor efterfrågan och begränsat utbud har priserna stigit. Sedan hösten 2017 har en oro utvecklats på bostadsmarknaden. Priserna sjunker, efterfrågan minskar och byggföretag får svårare att sälja sina nyproducerade bostäder, vilket i förlängningen kan leda till minskad bostadsproduktion. DThe price development of housing in Sweden has long been a success story for sellers. With low interest rates, high demand and limited supply the prices have risen. Since the fall of 2017, the market uncertainty has grown. Prices are falling, demand decreases, and housing developers get harder to sell their newly produced homes, which in the long run can lead to reduced housing production. The pot

Postindustrial Malmö relies heavily on stories and images as engines for economic growth. Cities use place marketing strategies to attract capital, investments and affluent residents. The evident focus on economic growth has led to a significantly polarized city in which people with low-incomes, usually ethnic minorities, live in segregated areas such as Rosengård. Segregated and poor areas become

Gruppbehandling, som utgår från KBT teorier, har blivit allt vanligare att erbjuda patienter med allmänpsykiatrisk problematik inom öppenvårdspsykiatrin. Syftet med denna undersökning var att undersöka i vilken grad symtom av ångest och depression, samt patienternas känsla av sammanhang och olika mått på funktionsnivå (t.ex. färdigheter, självomhändertagande etc.), förändrades under gruppbehandlin

The population of the world is growing larger and getting older. This growth is causing an increased load on the current healthcare system, thus lowering the standard of healthcare. One group, specially affected by this, is the elderly and their homecare service and retirement homes. To unburden these services, safety alarms were created. However, these are in much need of design, ergonomic and te

Distance-based accessibility measures are often built using vector representations of origin and destination features, and Euclidean or network-based distances. There are few comparisons of how the choice of feature representations and distance types affects results. Existing comparisons often use Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients. This study seeks to understand the effect of using differen

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka huruvida det föreligger något statistiskt samband mellan CSR och lönsamhet. 183 stycken företag listade på Nasdaq OMX Stockholm har undersökts mellan åren 2013 och 2014. Lönsamhet studeras ur det marknadsbaserade måttet, Tobins Q och CSR mäts ur både mänskliga rättigheter- och miljö genom Folksams Index över ansvarsfullt företagande. Vidare undersöker studi

This thesis explores the ontological assumptions made about the (sexed) nature of humans in four feminist theoretical accounts of sex and gendered power. The four works analysed are: Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Gayle Rubin’s ”The Traffic in Women”, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Elisabeth Grosz’ Time Travels. The ontological assumptions are analyzed with a critical realist approach an

Firms’ stock return volatility varies across countries, and the factors driving the volatility can contribute both positively and negatively to economic growth. We show that across 3,673 firms during the time interval 2001 to 2016, stocks of Swedish firms have on average lower volatility compared to stocks of foreign European firms of similar size, age, and market-to-book value. The lower volatili

How does Donald Trump’s passionate Twitter usage impact consumer confidence? This paper develops a new time series measure of Donald Trump’s Twitter based on a sentiment analysis using data from June 2016 to March 2018. Furthermore, we capture the economic sentiment based on computational text analysis using economic news articles from January 2000 to March 2018, assuming that Trump acts as an ext

This thesis empirically investigates the question if US firm’s capital structures are stable over longer periods of time and which firm characteristics drive optimal leverage. The analysis is based on a Compustat panel data sample consisting of 2,900 US firms between 1985 and 2016. After analyzing the stability of firm’s capital structure via a “narrow band” and a “relative bucket approach” an err