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What is in the picture: Do target ratings reveal insecurities after being primed with attachment related pictures

Implicit measures have started to gain attention in the attachment literature, as they offer a way to offer insight into information processing patterns, which may not be open to investigation otherwise. The aim of the current study was to investigate the role of supraliminal priming on ambiguous stimuli in individuals who reported high levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance, with a speci

Pharmacological strategies to enhance mitochondrial activity and their potential use in genetic mitochondrial disorders

Mitochondria are the main organelles in eukaryotic cells involved in energy production together with their role in other mechanisms including intermediate metabolism, calcium signaling and apoptosis. Due to their importance in the correct function of the cell, genetic mitochondrial disorders can present a wide variability of symptoms, such as epilepsy, skeletal and cardiac myopathy and intellectua

Do students understand inflation?

Money illusion was for a long time believed by most economists to be non-existent, despite previous large support for it, because it did not fit the neo-classical model of the rational individual. Using a survey to test students’ understanding of inflation as proxy for money illusion, this thesis aims to establish the existence of money illusion and develop an understanding of why some students ex

TOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SILVER AND GOLD NANOPARTICLES IN THE RETINA (in vivo)

Abstract The retina is the inner most layer of the eye. It is responsible for conversion of light into an electrical signal that pass through the fibers of the optic nerve to the visual centers in the brain. Most of the neo-vascular retinal diseases lead to legal vision loss. Silver and gold nanoparticles have got a great interest in ocular research due to their anti-bacterial effects and their ab

Kontakttrådens ledningsförmåga – Studie inför Sveriges höghastighetsbanor.

På höghastighetslinjerna som planeras byggas i Sverige är det satt som mål att köra i 320 km/h. Att köra så pass mycket snabbare än det görs i dagsläget kräver ett kontaktledningssystem vars kontakttråd klarar av att vara stabilt och rakt uppspänt så att strömavtagaren kan gå jämt och inte orsaka att kontakttråden börjar svaja. Det resulterar i krav på att kontakttråden spänns upp med ett högre mo

The Transcription of Foreign Personal Names into Kanji

This study relates to the transcription of foreign personal names into kanji in Japanese. The study is based upon a paper where Tokimoto & d’Arcais (2000) confirmed three working principles when natives transcribe place names written in hiragana: that jukugo reading will be preferred over juubako reading, that as few kanji segmentations as possible will be used, and that the names will be segm

Thermal Stabilization of Polyhydroxyalkanoates by Washing with Acid

The main goal of this project was to investigate how the thermal stability of two different types of polyhydroxyalkanoates; poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) were affected when washing them with acid solution. Initially, four different acids were used: citric acid, hydrochloric acid, formic acid and acetic acid. Citric acid gave the best results for both biop

Vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha sex timmars arbetsdag! -En diskursanalys av debatten om sex timmars arbetsdag i svenska dagstidningar mellan 2010-2017

Syftet med studien är att undersöka debatten om sex timmars arbetsdag mellan 2010-2017. Genom att använda diskursanalys undersöker jag hur debatten ser ut idag genom att analysera debattartiklar i svenska dagstidningar för att försöka förstå varför ingen vidare utveckling har skett vad det gäller arbetstidsförkortning i Sverige sedan 1973. Bourdieus teori om det politiska fältet erbjuder ett analy

Current Account Imbalances in the European Monetary Union

This paper investigates empirical determinants of current account positions worldwide with a focus on the countries that started out as the European Monetary Union (including Greece that joined in 2001). Specifically, it addresses the question whether current accounts inside the Eurozone have reacted more sensitively to changes in macroeconomic fundamentals due to the facilitation of inter-country

Vi har ju gått för att vi älskar det här jobbet - En kvalitativ studie av barnmorskors kollektiva uppsägningar

Under 2016 sade ett stort antal barnmorskor upp sig kollektivt inom Region Skåne. Uppsägningarna var en protesthandling och del i en arbetsplatskonflikt som kretsade kring ökad återhämtning för att garantera barnmorskornas hälsa och patientsäkerheten. Uppsatsens syfte är att förstå hur och varför protesterna resulterade i kollektiva uppsägningar. Materialet består av kvalitativa intervjuer med bar

Effektiv projektering av broar

Marknaden för brobyggnad i Sverige är idag så god att företagen tvingas tacka nej till förfrågningar på grund av tidsbrist. Det är svårt att rekrytera nya konsulter eftersom det råder brist på arbetskraft med rätt kompetens, för att undvika att tacka nej till arbete är en potentiell lösning på tidsbristen att effektivisera arbetet. I samarbete med Skanska Tekniks brogrupp i Malmö utreder därför deThe bridge construction industry in Sweden is prospering. The situation is such that companies are forced to decline work due to lack of time. In addition, the recruitment of new consultants has been difficult owing to a shortage of labour with the right competency. To avoid the situation where companies are forced to decline new projects due to lack of resources, focus should be on improving the

Fastighetsägarens subsidiära avhjälpandeansvar - Hur ansvarsfrågan hanteras vid kommersiella fastighetsförvärv

Naturvårdsverket uppger att antalet potentiellt och bekräftat förorenade områden i Sverige under 2016 uppgick till 85 000. Siffran visar på att problemet med kontaminerad mark är tämligen omfattande. En grundsten i den svenska miljörätten är principen om att förorenaren, i detta fall verksamhetsutövaren, betalar. Vad händer om den som orsakat en föroreningsskada inte finns tillgänglig och kan stäl

Aktiva emotioner. Om emotionell styrning hos arbetslösa ungdomar

Aktivering av arbetslösa har diskuterats brett inom såväl akademin som politiken under de senaste decennierna. Fokus har ofta varit på förändrade kontraktsrelationer mellan arbetslösa och samhället där rättigheter kontra krav på motprestationer har varit i fokus. Tidigare forskning kring erfarenheter av arbetslöshet har ofta framhävt dess negativa aspekter av stigmatisering, skam och social exklud

De-securitization of coca plantation in Colombia in a ‘war on drugs’ context- A possibility opened by peace negotiations with a former enemy

This thesis intends to explain the change of strategies to address coca plantation in Colombia before and after the 2016 Peace agreement. To do so, I build a theoretical model that draws on securitization/de-securitization theory and ripeness/readiness theories. The former theory is used to explain what kind of change was there between the different strategies. In this sense, I claim that policies

Dimensionering och integration av elektronisk kommunikation i drive-by-wire system

The purpose of this thesis was to provide Uniti Sweden AB with a solution proposal regarding which motors, sensors, control units and other electrical components needed for a steer-by-wire system of a test car. The thesis resulted in new motors, sensors and electrical components for the steer-by-wire system of the test car. The solution proposal made it possible to laterally steer the test car by

Scalability study of database-backed file systems for High Throughput Computing

The purpose of this project is to study the read performance of transparent database-backed file systems, a meld between two technologies with seemingly similar purposes, in relation to conventional file systems. Systems such as the ARC middleware relies on reading several millions of files every day, and as the number of files increases, the performance suffers. To study the capabilities of a dat

User Interface for Event Configuration

Many companies today have a security system containing of devices such as cameras and other devices with some trigger functionality built in. It’s essential to be able to control all existing triggers in a security system for it to work flawlessly. As the number of triggers increases, the security system in question becomes more complicated to configure. Therefore, making configuration from an eas

Evaluation of flexible SPA based LPDC decoder using hardware friendly approximation methods

Due to computation-intensive nature of LDPC decoders, a lot of research is going towards efficient implementation of their original algorithm (SPA). As "Min-Sum" approximation is basically an overestimation of SPA, this thesis investigates more accurate, yet area efficient, approximations of SPA, to select an optimum one. In a general comparison between main approximation methods (e.g. LUT,

The Political Economy of Left-Wing Populism - social relations and the economic imaginary of Podemos

Populism has become a political catchphrase across the world, spanning across the entire political spectrum in various forms. In Spain, the left-wing populist party Podemos is the most significant case, adopting a post-marxist perspective less focused on the economy than orthodox marxism. In light of this, this thesis examines their main economic program through use of Fairclough’s Critical Discou