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Everybody is a nation brand ambassador/citizen diplomat of his/her country of citizenship or residence or both. This phenomenon is receiving more presence in modern public diplomacy. Sweden is an epitomized example in this regard as a single state in the world that allowed its citizens to run the official Twitter account of the state. This thesis explores Sweden as a case study to illuminate the c
I analyse the effect of risk aversion on the share of wealth investment on risky tradable financial assets at individual level by exploiting the results of a laboratory experiment on a sample of over 700 Dutch respondents. The estimates of an econometric model show that for different wealth levels, risk aversion has heterogeneous effects on the share of wealth invested in risky tradable financial
År 2045 har Sverige som mål att ha netto-noll utsläpp av växthusgaser. Från och med år 2019 betyder det att utsläppen måste minska med 6–10 % per år. År 2018 stod bygg- och fastighetssektorn i Sverige för 21 % av landets utsläpp av växthusgaser, vilket motsvarade 11,8 miljoner ton koldioxidekvivalenter. Om de utsläpp på 5,8 miljoner ton koldioxidekvivalenter som genererades på grund av import av sIn 2018 the Swedish construction and real estate industry accounted for 21 % of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. In 2045, Sweden aims to reach net zero emissions of greenhouse gases. This study aimed to analyse the possibilities and the potential of reuse of construction products in new residences based on the aspects climate, cost and feasibility. Two products were selected, one due to bei
The aim of this study was to increase knowledge about the way social workers at women's shelters describe abused women's contact with financial aid services within the social welfare system. The study was based on four semi-structured qualitative interviews with social workers working at women's shelters, who in their professional role had contact with the financial aid services. The s
Åldrandet hos oss människor är individuellt och sker gradvis under en lång tid. Vissa funktioner i kroppen försämras och äldre människor har ofta av olika anledningar svårigheter att få i sig den mängd näring som de har ett behov utav, därför behöver de oftast dela upp sin kost i fler måltider fördelat under dagen. I denna uppsats jämförs kosten som serveras i ett ålderdomshem i en mindre kommun iThe aging of us humans is individual and occurs gradually over a long period of time. Some functions in the body deteriorate and older people often have difficulty for various reasons to get the amount of nutrition they need, so they usually need to divide their diet into more meals distributed during the day. In this essay, the diet served in a retirement home in a small municipality in northwest
This thesis explores the emerging strategy of nation sub-branding and critically argues for the domestic implications it has on national identities and the falsely promoted tradition of social justice. The study situates itself within the critical cultural stream of nation branding research, rejecting, however, prior scholarly presumption that a segmented nation brand could mean less marginalizati
Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om och hur repetitivt negativt tänkande (RNT) påverkar nivån av upplevt obehag under återkallning av neutralt och negativt laddade bilder, samt hur blickbeteenden modulerar sådana effekter. Ett annat syfte var att studera huruvida RNT och bildinnehåll påverkar deltagarnas blickbeteende. Datan som analyserades i denna studie hade sedan tidigare blivit insamThe purpose of the present study was to investigate if and how repetitive negative thinking (RNT) influences the level of experienced distress during recall of images of neutral and negative content, and how such effects might be modulated by gaze behavior. Another aim was to study whether RNT and image content influences participants’ gaze behavior. The data that was analyzed in this thesis was p
Studien utförs ur en kommunikativ kontext och ämnar till att skapa en bredare förståelse för medias kommunikation om subkulturen incels samt en problematisering av digital medias gestaltning. Denna studie har som syfte att belysa och problematisera hur subkulturen incels gestaltas i digitala medier. Studien använder ett feministiskt perspektiv för att belysa den problematik som incels medför gällaThe study is carried out from a communicative context and aims to create a broader understanding of the media's communication about the subculture incels as well as a problematization of the framing digital media is portraying. This study aims to shed light on, and problematize, how the subculture incels are framed in digital media. The study uses a feminist perspective to shed light on the pr
The aim of this study was to explore women’s experiences as relatives to one or more individuals with substance abuse (codependency). The method chosen for this study was qualitative interviews with seven different women with experiences of being close to someone with substance abuse. Our empirical material was analysed using both Yvonne Hirdman’s gender theory as well as Arlie Russell Hochschild’
As society becomes more ecologically conscious there is a push toward the use of materials with a smaller environmental burden, one of these materials is glulam (GLT), which has gained a lot of traction in recent years not only for ecological reasons but for its ease in manufacture, transport, noise dampening, etc. The focus of this project was to evaluate the influence of different joint configu
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck Sweden elderly became particularly targeted by news media, as early studies indicated a higher risk of death among elderly. The aim of this study was to investigate existing and emerging discourses concerning elderly during the pandemic. The method used was a qualitative study of documents. The empirical data analyzed in this study were 48 articles published on-li
This paper examines the sufficiency of a trading method based on singular value decomposition (SVD) of past stock prices. The SVD method is frequently used as a tool to reduce data noise, compress big-data, and analyse data components. Hence, the method is well suited to form a ground for a predictive tool of price developments. From the predicted pattern, a strategy was formed by construction of
Contributing 3% of global annual carbon emissions, the shipping sector has to do its part to keep the global temperature under the maximum increase of 2°C. To fulfil this target, the Netherlands conceived the ‘Green Deal on Maritime and Inland Shipping and Ports’ in 2019. This thesis aims to make a preliminary assessment on the policy’s effectiveness by applying Weber et al.’s environmental pol
Globalisation has expanded investors’ financial reach and while most investments occur without much attention, some lead to disagreements and divergent responses from consumers. Therefore, this paper aims at providing a comprehensive picture of consumers’ responses following investments that become a matter of controversy. This research problem was addressed through the case of Oatly’s consumers’
Studien syftar till att undersöka hur rytmikpedagoger beskriver och förhåller sig till utforskande i sin undervisning och hur utforskande tas i uttryck i deras rytmikundervisning. Studien syftar också till att undersöka hur rytmikpedagogerna relaterar lärande till utforskande och vilka faktorer som kan påverkar detta. För studien genomfördes fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med rytmikpedagoger, viThis study aims to examine how teachers of eurythmics describe and relate to the concept of exploration in their teaching, as well as examine how this exploration takes place in their teaching. The study also examines how teachers relate learning to exploration and what factors may have an impact on this. For the study, five semi-structured interviews were done with eurythmic teachers, who teach a
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) har till viss del ändrat synen på processautomation genom introduktionen av en digital medarbetare som arbetar tillsammans med medarbetarna i verksamheten. Då processautomation ofta har en tendens att uppfattas som något negativt med en stark koppling till effektivisering och nedskärningar tilltar behovet av en strategi för att öka verksamhetens acceptans av implem
Bakgrund: För att en organdonation ska vara möjlig, ska donatorns önskemål vara väldokumenterat eller framfört till närstående om de ställs inför förfrågan. Organ Donor Advocacy är ett fenomen som innefattar att skydda donatorns och dess närståendes vilja och önskemål, samt att de lagar och dokument som gäller följs av alla inblandade. Syfte: Att belysa operationssjuksköterskors erfarenheter av d
Wavelettransformen är ett verktyg inom dataanalys för att analysera signaler såsom EKG:er, ljudinspelningar, temperaturavläsningar eller aktiekurser. Transformen bygger på att man låter en funktion som kallas en wavelet bygga upp ett bibliotek av förflyttningar och utdragningar av sig själv vilket är illustrerat i bilden till höger. Sedan beskrivs signalen som summan av element ur detta bibliotek.In this thesis we consider two notions of mother wavelet uncertainty for the one-dimensional wavelet transform based on a new localization framework recently introduced by Levie and Sochen. It is shown that minimizers of these uncertainties in the space of linear splines with compact support approximate the minimizers in $L^2$ in an appropriate sense, validating numerical schemes for searching for
Astronomernas främsta verktyg har alltid varit ljus. I många tusen år har vi observerat ljuset från stjärnorna med blotta ögat och noterat deras positioner på himlavalvet. Ett av de största genombrotten i astronomi var upptäckten att när ljuset bryts ner i ett spektrum med ett prisma eller ett gitter, och alla färger syns separat, syns det mörka linjer i spektrumet. Varje grundämne har sitt egna kObserving in the infrared has many benefits, such as seeing through the interstellar dust in the galaxy, easier use of adaptive optics, and better flux ratios for direct observations of exoplanets. Before the infrared spectral range can be utilised for highly accurate stellar spectroscopy there is a need for a better understanding of both stellar modelling and the atomic physics that go into formi
Advancements in today's technology has motivated invention of faster mobile communication systems. The fifth generation mobile network, 5G, is the latest version made by the third generation partnership project (3GPP) and expects to both increase connection speed and reduce latency, which eventually will make it applicable in supporting state-of-the art technologies such as virtual reality and
