An inclusive democracy is of essence to combat the changes that the world is going through seen in the trend of increasing female participation. However, attitudes towards women in the public sphere seems not as progressive as one might believe which is an understudied topic. The aim of this thesis is to examine this development through the phenomena violence against women in politics in the conte

Organized crime is generally associated with men. Women in organized crime have long lived under the radar, and it is only in recent years that their participation has begun to be noticed. The aim of this qualitative study (based on feminist IR theory) is to provide understanding on how women in Sweden are involved in organized crime, what roles they play, and how they are discursively represented

Although the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of easily accessible medicines, a reactive pharmaceutical industry and the effects of how the same industry sector is regulated, the EU’s pharmaceutical regulations still have apparent flaws. Therefore, this WPR study intends to visualize how EC, EFPIA, and CEO have tried to maintain or undermine these regulations over time. To enabl

Background: Whole-body skeletal radiography has traditionally been used in the management of multiple myeloma for defining treatment strategies. For several reasons, radiography has been replaced by computed tomography (CT) covering the same regions. Purpose: To evaluate the body mass index (BMI) adjusted effective radiation dose from two different methods of whole-body radiologic imaging for mult

The purpose of the study was to evaluate whether students with intellectual disabilities (ID) can improve their arithmetic skills by participating in an arithmetic intervention programme, theoretically founded on explicit instruction (EI) and administered via an application developed for tablet computers. The intervention study used a randomised controlled trial design (RCT) (n = 30, aged 10-16, 1

This study exams the governmental press conferences between 1993 and 2019. It aims to understand the fluctuations and increase of press conferences over the whole period as well as during term of office and discusses possible explanations for these changes. For the analytical discussion, tools like coalition theory and more recent theoretical frameworks such as Sagarzazu and Klüvers research are u

The rise of radical right-wing populism in Western Europe has severely altered the political landscape during the last decade, and mainstream parties, from left to right, are struggling to employ strategies preventing voters from deserting to the radical right. In this thesis, I examine two mainstream parties in the context of Sweden, the Social Democratic party (S), and the Moderate party (M), to

Semiquantitative PET measures such as SUV ratio (SUVr) have several advantages over quantitative measures, such as practical applicability and relative computational simplicity. However, SUVr may potentially be affected by changes in blood flow, whereas quantitative measures such as nondisplaceable binding potential (BPND) are not. For 18F-flortaucipir PET, the sensitivity of SUVr for changes in b

Using oil, gas, and coal to create platform chemicals on an enormous scale, the petrochemical industry constitutes a core part of the global energy order. Given prospects for demand growth for petrochemicals, the sector is set to become increasingly important to the fossil fuel interests. Starting from the perspective that internationalised networks are important to understand prospects for transf

Background: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease with structural changes in the lungs defined as airway remodelling. Mast cell responses are important in asthma as they, upon activation, release mediators inducing bronchoconstriction, inflammatory cell recruitment, and often remodelling of the airways. As guinea pigs exhibit anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological features resembling hu

Afrikas horn består av två de facto stater – Somalia, synonymt med anarki, och Somaliland, som är ett av Afrikas mest välfungerande länder. Utifrån teorier om spårberoende argumenterar vi för att skillnaden beror på den olikartade kolonisationen som de två länderna genomgick som italiensk respektive brittisk koloni. Skillnaderna i kolonialadministrationen gav upphov till skilda mängder socialt kap

Abstract The right-wing populist party The Sweden Democrats became the second largest party in the Swedish election of 2022. Their electoral success can be traced to populistic discursive methods. There are several political strategies commonly used by right-wing populist parties. This paper aims to analyze such strategies in the Sweden Democrats rethorics but also in other right-wing parties not

Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a highly adapted, human-specific pathogen that is known to manipulate the immune system through various mechanisms. GAS’ M protein constitutes a primary target of the immune system due to its spatial configuration and dominance on the bacterial surface. Antibody responses targeting the M protein have been shown to favor the conserved C region. Such antibodies (Abs) c

This article critically reconstructs militant democracy’s ‘institutional conservatism’, a theoretical preference for institutions that restrain transformation. It offers two arguments, one historical and one normative. Firstly, it traces a historical development from a substantive to a procedural version of institutional conservatism from the traditional militant democratic thought of Schmitt, Loe

Prostitution, a policy issue outside of European Union (EU) competence, has in recent years made its way onto the agenda of the European Parliament (EP). In 2014, the resolution on sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality was published in which the EP stated that prostitution is incompatible with human rights. However, the other EU institutions remain reluctant to men

Den här uppsatsen handlar om stokastiska optimerings metoder. Inom områdena Artificiell intelligens och Maskininlärning är det vanligt att man vill skatta parametrar i en statistisk modell för att kunna göra prediktioner. Man använder sig då av en kostnadsfunktion som bestraffar prediktioner som ligger långt ifrån det riktiga värdet och minimerar denna med avseende på de statistiska parametrarna. This thesis is concerned with stochastic optimization methods. The pioneering work in the field is the article “A stochastic approximation algorithm” by Robbins and Monro [1], in which they proposed the stochastic gradient descent; a stochastic version of the classical gradient descent algorithm. Since then, many improvements and extensions of the theory have been published, as well as new version

The Swedish law enforcement agencies have a wide variety of secret coercive measures in their asset to investigate and counteract criminal activities. But due to the technological development on the communication field some of these measures are becoming obsolete, which results in easier communication between criminals outside the surveillance of these agencies. This stemmed in the development of

While climate change adaptation research has increasingly focused on aspects of culture, a systematic treatment of the role of legal culture in how communities respond to climate risk has yet to be produced. This is despite the fact that law and legal authority are implicated in most, if not all, of the ways in which actors seek to reduce the risks posed to communities by climate change. Using a s

Background: No definite consensus has been reached yet on the best treatment strategy for the large group of infants hospitalised with bronchiolitis or pneumonia. Minimal handling is often recommended, although not evaluated scientifically. There is a need to evaluate the management, as the infants often are critically affected, and the costs for society are high. The aim of this RCT was to evalua