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The essay aims to examine alternative forms of housing, especially collective solutions and to design a cohousing project. The idea is to broaden our perception of housing and further study the possibilities of cohousing in relation to the more complex needs and different lifestyle of today. The housing market of today is still based upon the idea of an autonomous nuclear family with a lot of priv

This paper explores the process of transitioning to a rural, self-sustainable lifestyle in terms of ecological sustainability and geographical place, while focusing on how these concepts serve to motivate change and create a sense of purpose. It further analyzes how aspects of structural power may facilitate or impede the transition into self-sufficiency. The study consists of ethnographically ga

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att utveckla förståelsen för den påverkan som skiftande styrning har på anställda inom en organisation. Metod: Abduktivt tillvägagångssätt. Totalt 13 semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer på ett fallföretag. Teoretiska perspektiv: Det huvudsakliga perspektivet för analysen är social identitetsteori. En litteraturgenomgång av traditionell och nutida forskning angPurpose: The purpose of the thesis is to develop an understanding of the impact that varied organizational control has on employees within an organization. Methodology: Abductive approach. A total of 13 semi-structured qualitative interviews at a case company. Theoretical perspectives: The main perspective is through the social identity theory. A literature review of traditional and contemporary

Bakgrund: De individer som drabbas av ett venöst bensår kommer troligen att leva med det under en lång tid. Det är även ett välkänt problem att dessa individer upplever svårigheter i sin vardag samt det är ett komplext problem som inte endast kan lösas genom såromläggningar. Syfte: Att beskriva personers upplevelser av att leva med ett venöst bensår. Metod: 12 kvalitativa studier valdes ut och en

The recent addition of Modern Standard Chinese (MSC) as an elective language in Swedish elementary and high school ('Moderna Språk') has brought the teaching of MSC particle le to the fore. Le occurs either affixed to a verb (le1) or as a sentence-final particle (le2) and is a frequently used grammatical device in MSC with a great number of various functions. At the same time, coexistent a

This thesis is concerned with history within Nick Clegg’s and Nigel Farage’s political discourse during the six months leading up to the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union. Using Thematic Analysis combined with Klas-Göran Karlsson’s typology of the use of history, Jörn Rüsen’s typology of historical narrative and drawing on the theoretical framework of histori

Images hide the meaning that words cannot convey. With increased interest in addressing place branding in social media setting, the importance of photographs in image making of the place beforehand from consumers point of view seem to lack interest. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore Instagram photography in image formation of the place. We love Lithuania serves as a case where ZMET te

The project started with the question “why wouldn’t a disabled or old person want it to look nice at home?” Many assistive products on the market are designed in a way that doesn’t fit the interior trends, which is an issue for several reasons. By the aesthetics assistive products possess, the users get labeled as people who are sick and abnormal. The brief was then created and the goal was to des

Producing small, bispecific antibodies Proteins are molecules which come in all shapes and sizes, found in every living being. They are translated from the DNA found in the cells of every organism, and every single protein has different characteristics, which allow them to carry out a number of varied functions. Some proteins emit colors, some proteins move ions in the cell, some proteins receive

My diploma project is a design proposal for a Rudolf Steiner School in Sirende, a village 12 km outside Kitale Town, Kenya. On Initiative taken by the anthroposophical association Föreningen Sofia in Sweden, a Steiner school opened in Sirende in year 2008. Today the school is in a very bad condition with over crowded classrooms and poor sanitary conditions. The need for a new school building is ur

Does treating high blood pressure improve neurodegeneration High blood pressure, also called hypertension could damage the brain. Our research tries to understand how lowering blood pressure affects the hypertensive brain. Hypertension is the disease that people have abnormally high blood pressure. Nowadays, 1 in 5 people worldwide have hypertension, accounting for 1.13 billion people. This cause

Previous research into variation in sex allocation strategies in birds has provided evidence for sex ratio adjustments by parents to maximize fitness, based on differences in the costs of producing males and females. Additionally, studies of melanin-based color polymorphism indicate that life history strategies, physiology, and behavior may vary among color variants of the same species. This study

The purpose of this report was to develop and evaluate new solutions to improve the perception of fire threat in virtual reality experiments. Thermal heat have been identified as a stimulus that modern day virtual reality experiments don’t take into account that would likely affect a person in a real life fire evacuation scenario. The objective of this report was to successfully implement thermal

This thesis examines the debate that followed the 2019 exhibition The Thin Line at Dunkers kulturhus, when it became known that one of the photographs had been digitally altered. The aim of the study is to contribute to an understanding of our norms and attitudes to- wards the photographic image and it’s genres. The questions asked are: What views on photo- graphic truth are represented in the deb

This bachelor thesis aims to explore human activities in marine environments, and further reflect on how they are connected to sustainable development from an ecological standpoint. It will do so through a case study of the Danish-Swedish channel Öresund, also known as the shortest shipping route from the North Sea and the Atlantic and to the Baltic Sea. Together with the Great and Little Belt cha

This paper estimates the relationship between political instability and economic growth at the regional level. A panel of Swedish regions over the time frame 1994-2018 is used to conduct the empirical analysis. The empirical analysis consists of regressing regional growth rates in GDP per worker on a measure of political instability and a set of control variables. Growth rates are measured over a

This research is dedicated to a problem of discrimination of women in local politics in Ukraine. It explores what are the forms of discrimination that women engaged in local politics face, how they perceive and handle discrimination and what kind of impact it has on their political careers. This thesis employs socio-psychological theories of discrimination, the ambivalent sexism theory and the con

This study concerns hegemonic claims of knowing and how they manifest as discourses on interconnecting infrastructure planning on the Faroe Islands. The archipelago can be considered a substantial infrastructural project, with several sub-sea tunnels in the construction and planning-stages. Following the increasing attention to the gendered nature of infrastructure planning, this study travels to