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The emergence of blockchain technology enables entrepreneurs to raise capital in an innovative way, by addressing a crowd of online investors without the need for an intermediary. This phenomenon is known as token sales, and it may have the potential to revolutionize entrepreneurial finance. However, information asymmetry is particularly severe in this context, and the need for entrepreneurs to se

Under 1900-talets andra del växte USA till en supermakt och så småningom, efter Sovjetunionens fall, hegemon inom den internationella politiken. När USA attackerades elfte september 2001 och vid den efterföljande invasionen av Afghanistan, anses ofta det amerikanska inflytandet och makten varit som allra störst. När man tjugo år senare 2021 drog sig ut ur Afghanistan menar många istället att den b

Society faces multiple and interconnected crises that require transformation. Education has long been theorized as key to transformation, yet an important driver of transformation, imagination, is marginalised within pedagogical approaches to sustainability. This thesis examines Beyond the Fossil Era (BFE), a pedagogy that invites learners to become co-creators of a speculative museum looking back

Current food consumption habits in wealthy countries continue to drive biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Food retailers play a key but currently understudied and underleveraged role in shifting consumer habits away from foods with high climate and biodiversity impacts (e.g. beef, lamb, milk) towards lower-impact alternatives. Through partnering with a Swedish food retailer and

The Paradox of Employee Engagement and How Managers are Aiming to Control This. Purpose: The aim of this study is to produce new knowledge of the phenomenon of employee engagement from a managerial perspective. More specifically, the authors want to address how managers are navigating the paradox of employee engagement and control; thus, how they are navigating through the challenges of engaging t

Voting behavior influences the electoral process and voting pattern in every democratic government. When it especially pertains to any multicultural society there is often this global applicability of similar tendency to have similar historical reality when it comes to voting behavior. The Africa societies specifically have these similar tendencies mostly. In Nigeria, the country's political a

Security lighting plays a vital role for safe evacuation during an emergency such as power outage or a fire related incidence. Installing a security lighting system properly is more crucial for a horse riding facility for two reasons. Firstly, if a sports activity is ongoing at the exact moment of an emergency, the activity needs to be ended safely with the help of security lights to avoid injurie

The aim of this study was to explore how healthcare professionals within addiction care frame and explains how they identify, respond to, and organize intervention for women who experienced violence in close relationships. By using a qualitative basis this study collected its empirical material by conducting three semi-structured interviews and one focus group interview of six people with professi

The European Union released an Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation proposal in April 2021 aimed at laying down harmonised rules for AI circulating the Union market. The purpose of this study is to critically examine how accountability and individual, collective, and social harm was approached and framed by the proposal. Previous research has shown that AI and algorithmic bias and discriminatio

Under de senaste åren har våld och hot ökat i Sverige. Det har skapat en ökad rädsla för att lämna vittnesmål och erfarenheter från bl.a. Polismyndigheten visar att hot och trakasserier mot vittnen påverkar utredningar och lagföring av brott. Det har resulterat i en debatt kring lösningar, däribland förslaget om införande av anonyma vittnen. Syftet med uppsatsen är att utreda och analysera varför In recent years, violence and threats have increased in Sweden. It has created an increased fear of testifying and experiences from e.g. the Police Authority shows that threats and harassments impact investigations and legal proceedings against crime. This has resulted in a debate regarding solutions, therein the proposal of anonymous witnesses. The purpose with this essay is to investigate and an

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing apps have been used as a means to curb the spread of the virus worldwide. If well adopted, these apps can aid in subduing the spread of the virus. However, the introduced contact tracing app needs to be accepted and adopted by the majority of the public in order for it to be beneficial. The Danish government has made available a local c

In food production facilities, packagings are quality inspected to ensure proper sealing and correct atmo- sphere within. The project was done in collaboration with Gasporox AB (publ), a company developing and producing quality inspection instruments. The goal of the project was to develop a new version of an exiting instrument of theirs. In addition to that, develop a portable inspection de

The relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality has previously been established to be procyclical, which means that mortality has decreased during recessions and vice versa. This has been shown for various settings. However, more recent findings suggests that the procyclicality between mortality and macroeconomic conditions have undergone a secular shift from being procyclical to b

Sverige blir allt varmare på grund av klimatförändringarna och det innebär ökade hälsorisker för den äldre befolkningen. Den här undersökningen har därför studerat hur kommunerna arbetar för att skydda äldre invånare från den potentiellt dödliga värmen. Detta gjordes genom en webbenkät som skickades till alla Sveriges kommuner. Enkäten innehöll frågor om exempelvis fysisk planering, krisberedskap,Extreme temperatures are increasing in frequency as well as intensity due to human induced climate change. Heat waves now pose a very high risk to the public health in Sweden and the elderly are particularly vulnerable. This study therefore aimed to investigate how Swedish municipalities are working to strategically manage these health risks. An analytical framework, based on recommendations from

Bakgrund: Postoperativa infektioner är näst vanligast bland de vårdrelaterade infektionerna och leder till lidande för patienterna. Preoperativ helkroppstvätt med klorhexidinbaserad tvål används i stor utsträckning i förebyggande syfte inför alla typer av kirurgiska ingrepp. Vårdhandboken rekommenderar preoperativ klorhexidintvätt inför särskilt infektionskänsliga ingrepp. Syfte: Att granska ocBackground: Surgical site infections (SSI) are the second most common healthcare associated infection and causes patient suffering. Presurgical showering with chlorhexidine soap is widely used to prevent SSI amongst all types of surgery. The national guidelines in Sweden promotes the use of chlorhexidine soap prior to surgery classed as perceptive to infections. Aim: To review published researc

Over the last decades, the adverse effects of increased international trade and the rapid rate of globalization have been widely discussed - with labor markets in focus. This study examines the effect of increasing imports from China on manufacturing employment in Nordic countries. I analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition over the years 1995 to 2020 by employing a two-stage least

Niche pro-environmental innovations in death practices are gaining attention from sector and public stakeholders but can be sidelined due to lack of ritual and practice to support their implementation. The way death practices are conducted in Sweden is examined using transdisciplinary research methods and the multi-level perspective to understand which niche innovations have and have not been inco

Syftet med detta masterarbete är att undersöka hur skotska dialektmarkörer och skotska kulturspecifika element hanterats och överförts från Diana Gabaldons roman Outlander (1991) till Sven Christer Swahns svenska översättning Främlingen (1992). Två kapitel ur originalromanen och motsvarande kapitel ur översättningen analyseras. I en dels kvantitativ, dels kvalitativ analys behandlas kategorierna l

Honour-based violence and oppression is usually studied through a perspective that views girls and young women as victims whilst boys and men are seen as the natural oppressors. The aim of this study was to explore social workers' views on working with boys as victims and as oppressors in an honour-based context. A qualitative method was used and six social workers were interviewed on their pe

The aim of this study was to examine social service workers’ experiences of the relationship between their work-sphere and their private-sphere, as well as understand how they discuss this relationship. We conducted eight qualitative semi-structured interviews with social service workers who work with child welfare, in five different social services in Skåne. The material we obtained from the inte