Over recent decades, use of insecticides to protect plants from pests and harmful insects have increased manyfold. Neonicotinoid insecticides, such as Imidacloprid (IMI) acts as partial agonists on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors which are widely present in both the central and peripheral nervous system of insects. Pollinators like Eristalis tenax are frequently exposed to these pesticides but h

Background: Sweden has a long-standing tradition of youth-friendly services focusing on sexual, reproductive and mental health. Currently, they are mainly targeting and being used by girls and young women. Little is known about what motivates and prevents boys and young men from seeking out and utilising health services, including the youth clinics. This study therefore aimed to investigate factor

Detta arbete är en översättningsvetenskaplig analys som baseras på översättningen av ett utdrag ur Simon Winchesters Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, utgiven 2010. Första delen utgörs av en inledning, där boken och författaren presenteras översiktligt. Andra delen består av en källtextanalys efter analysmodellen i Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledins Vägar genom texten (1997). Tredje delen

This thesis aims to understand copula theory and its application in measuring dependence, particularly in the context of the paper "Multivariate conditional versions of Spearman’s rho and related measures of tail dependence" by Schmid and Schmidt. We clarify certain statements and formulas in Schmid and Schmidt's work, explore the potential of the conditional version of Spearman'

We develop a deep learning model that uses financial news articles and historical exchange rates to predict the rate for the Euro/US Dollar currency pair one hour ahead. From the articles’ titles and bodies we extract sentiment scores using two different transformer based classifiers – one for short text and one for long text. The long-text classifier is built and trained by us. These sentiment sc

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed form of cancer worldwide. 2 260 000 people were diagnosed with breast cancer year 2020, and 685 000 people deceased from it. In low income countries, breast cancer is commonly detected at a later stage when it is harder to treat, thus entailing a higher mortality rate. This is primarily due to the lack of knowledge and diagnostic tools available. A lo

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka patienters upplevelse av psykologisk behandling för depression, med betoning på mening, motivation och förändring. Studien använde kvalitativ metodik, specifikt tematisk analys med en kritisk-realistisk epistemologisk grund. Fem vuxna deltagare rekryterades och intervjuades semi-strukturerat. Materialet transkriberades, kodades och tematiserades. Det förstThe purpose of this study was to examine patients’ experiences of psychological treatment for depression, with an emphasis on motivation, meaning, and change. The study used qualitative methods, specifically thematic analysis with a critical realist epistemological foundation. Five adult participants were recruited and interviewed with semi-structured interviewing techniques. The material was tran

Syftet med studien är att utreda huruvida det går att härleda valet av ett kollektivt respektive ett individuellt belöningssystem till i vilken grad uppgiftsosäkerhet och uppgiftsberoende förekommer inom branschen. Syftet är med andra ord att undersöka om contingencyteorin kan användas för att bättre förstå i vilka kontexter ett visst belöningssystem används.Studien har utförts med en kvantitativ

The discourse on Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber has primarily been focused on the feminist undertones of her neogothic fairy tale retellings. In this essay, I apply the male and female gaze to Carter’s collection, which are perspectives I believe previous research on Carter’s works has overlooked. The incorporation of the male gaze allows for a further nuancing of Soloway’s female gaze, and my

Alfa Laval believes Supply Chain Control towers have the potential to harvest the power of digitalization in industrial manufacturing supply chains more efficiently than the alternative of applying those same digital technologies in a context without a control tower. One of the most common supply chain control tower applications is in the inventory management field. In this area, it is relevant to

This paper examines how negative supply shocks in the form of the oil price and disruptions in the global value chains have affected Swedish consumer price inflation in two periods: 1998Q1- 2022Q3 and 1998Q1-2019Q4. The results from the time series regressions supports the two hypotheses that both the oil price and disruptions in the global value chains have a positive impact on consumer price

The aim of our study is to investigate how the decision-making of the reasons for financial assistance goes and what factors affect the decisions the most. We want to do this based on the social worker's experience of the capacity of action inside their organization and how it then affects the decision-making. When the laws are diffuse and not that easy to interpret the more critical it become

Följande studie syftade att undersöka vilka faktorer som patienter med paniksyndrom med eller utan agorafobi (PS/A) beskriver som hjälpsamma i Panic Control Treatment (PCT) och Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PFPP). PCT och PFPP har i RCT-studier visat sig ha god behandlingseffekt vid PS/A. I denna studie användes en kritisk realistisk tematisk analys för att besvara studiens frågeställThe present study examined which factors patients with panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (PD/A) describe as helpful in Panic Control Treatment (PCT) and Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PFPP). RCT-studies have indicated that PCT and PFPP are effective treatments for PD/A. This study applied a critical realistic thematic analysis to answer the research question. The 32 participan

Denna uppsats studerar fallet Benny Fredriksson, en kulturprofil i Stockholm, som utsattes för ett kraftigt mediedrev, vilket i sin tur ledde till ett uppmärksammat självmord. Detta utspelade sig i ljuset av #metoo-rörelsen. Fokuset i uppsatsen kommer att ligga på frågan om ansvar. Med dagens digitaliserade nyhetsmedia utvecklas händelser snabbt till större mediedrev med många inblandade. Detta re

The purpose of the study has been to investigate young adults’ experiences of being unemployed in more than six months, which in a national context is being accounted as long- term unemployment. To answer the purpose of the study two questions have been asked: ’In what way are the young adults affected by not having a job?’ and ’What feeling are related to the young adult’s situation as unemployed

This paper argues that Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a valuable pedagogical resource that can address the Swedish National Agency for Education’s mandate on the coverage of “older” literature in Swedish EFL courses at upper secondary school in a flexible and thorough way. Presupposing that the novel comprises various literary genres and forms, the paper provides a close reading through a propo

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur personlighet med utgångspunkt från Femfaktorsmodellen förhåller sig till hur en hypotetisk idealpartner uppfattas utifrån Attraction Similarity Theory och Complementary Needs Theory. I tillägg till detta gjordes en jämförelse mellan olika sexuella läggningar för att undersöka eventuella skillnader. Metoden som valdes var en kvantitativ survey-studie som förThe purpose of the study was to investigate how personality based on the The Big Five Model relates to how a hypothetical ideal partner is perceived based on Attraction Similarity Theory and Complementary Needs Theory. In addition to this, a comparison was made between different sexual orientations to investigate possible differences. The method chosen was a quantitative survey study that was dist

Since coming into force the International Criminal Court, has been challenged with a series of issues. Criticism, especially, from African states has forwarded the underlying anxieties that riddles this relatively new institution of international criminal justice. More specifically, African states and the regional organ, the African Union, have denounced the Courts functioning on the continent - s

This paper aims to determine if central banks have been monetizing the government debt. That is the case if a higher government debt is associated with low short-term interest rate. The goal for central banks monetizing debt is to increase inflation, therefore decreasing the size of government debt. Three hypotheses are constructed. Firstly, higher government debt leads to lower short-term interes