Thesis Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain an understanding of how consumers build their individual identities through everyday political acts of consumption. Methodology & Empirical Data: This study is conducted based on a social constructionist worldview with a qualitative research design, adopting an inductive approach. The literature review and 19 semi-structured interviews joi

This thesis examines the long-run relationship among government bond total return indexes for the G-7 nations using weekly observations from 1993 to 2022. Using cointegration and error correction models, this study finds long-run relationships for the G-7 government bond markets as a group and evidence for pairwise cointegration between the US government bond market and many of the other G-7 gover

This study focuses on both the institutional violence against women and women’s (facing direct forms of extreme violence) resistance by highlighting their voices and experiences, from a decolonial feminist approach. It examines the tension between oppression and active subjectivity, concluding that women experiencing extreme forms of feminicidal violence, through the resignifications of themselves

Visibility in smoke has since the 1970s gained some attention, mostly after Tadahisa Jin ran the experiments which helped him develop todays widely used visibility equation. By showing that visibility can be assumed to be inversely proportional to the extinction coefficient by a visibility constant (equal to 8 for light emitting sign and 3 for light reflecting), Jin opened up new doors for researc

The term “Young-Old” was introduced in 1974 by Bernice Neugarten, who further subdivided the elderly population. This term also corresponds to the third stage of the life cycle of childhood, adulthood, “Young-Old” and “Old-Old”. According to this quadripartite division, “Young-Old” can be called the “Third Age.” This group is the new and rapidly expanding elderly population of healthy and independ

When we refer to the countryside, we associate it with the city. In the path of urbanization, the countryside developed in the direction of eventually becoming a city. In 2017, China began to implement the rural revitalization policy to avoid the erasure of the characteristics of the Chinese countryside. The rural revitalization policy involves many aspects, such as politics, economy, and culture,

Assumptions about humankind’s separation from the rest of life on Earth have fuelled worldwide environmental destruction and a subsequent widespread loss of abundance and biodiversity amongst insects. As insects are vital to the health of the biosphere, a reconciliation of humans with the natural world is in due season. Drawing on eco-phenomenological ideas of the Flesh, embodied perception, and b

This thesis examines the phenomena of personal branding. Empirically, it uses two different commercial podcasts made by influencers as comparative case study examples. To explore and contrast how these two cases use collaborative storytelling as a strategy to establish authenticity in the sponsored advertisement segments, empirical data was collected from the audio-material of the podcasts and fro

There is an increasing demand for responsible business conduct. Different mechanisms have been developed to promote and ensure such responsibility within corporate operations. Two of such mechanisms are the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These two UN mechanisms have been widely implemented into corporate operations with t

Marine debris is a major threat to wildlife and human health. This study examines the socioeconomic vulnerability of informal housing as arguably one of the main drivers of the abundance of marine debris in the aftermath of a tropical cyclone. Using the Abaco Islands, Bahamas, as a case, the study applies the capabilities approach to assess the societal impact of Hurricane Dorian. Findings indicat

This study presents a mesoscopic model that predicts pedestrian evacuation in large gatherings with probabilistic methods. The model is based on a coarse network representation of buildings, where occupants are treated at a different scale according to their location. A microscopic approach is used to represent people in the initial enclosure: here individual characteristics and behaviours are att

During the enrolment year of 2019 and 2020, some Swedish universities were presented with the opportunity to participate in an admission policy trial. The universities could choose to weigh SweSAT scores based programme specific requisites. The paper examines the policy implementation of weighted SweSAT admission in engineering programmes at Swedish universities. The question explored in the paper

The aim of this study was to explore the professional experiences and views on psychoeducation with adult patients with ADHD. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with nine members of one interprofessional team in a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Region Skåne. The empirical data was analyzed through theoretical frameworks of empowerment and Antonovsky’s salutogenesis and sense o

Syftet med den aktuella studien har varit att undersöka vilka arbetsområden som upplevs bidra till eller motverka arbetsmotivationen hos stödpedagoger i Malmö stad samt vilka åtgärder som kan vara nödvändiga för att bibehålla eller förbättra arbetsmotivationen. Studien har genomförts via en tematisk analys av N=10 semistrukturerade intervjuer med stödpedagoger som arbetar för funktionsstödsförvaltThe aim of the present study was to examine what work-related matters are perceived as either strengthening or limiting to work motivation among “stödpedagoger” (“support pedagogues”) in Malmö city, as well as what measures may be necessary to maintain or improve work motivation. The study was conducted using a thematic analysis of N=10 semi-structured interviews with support pedagogues working fo

This bachelor’s thesis concerns the Swedish housing market and how the publicly and privately owned firms may differ in goals, costs, and actions. Building upon a theoretical foundation of different models of competition and the Lerner Index’s measurement of monopoly power, an empirical investigation is made into whether competition on the Swedish housing market mainly expresses itself in price, q

Recent events such as the covid-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war have led to a tremendous increase in volatility, making financial markets riskier for investors. To see whether investors can counteract or profit from such risk, we develop a volatility timed trading strategy. To do so, a volatility forecast is used, in our case, the direction of the VIX. We predict the one week ahead movem

Uppsatsen handlar om kvalitén på den nya skattelagstiftningen om omvänd skattskyldighet på mobiltelefoner som tillkommit i syfte att stävja karusellhandel, vilket är en typ av mervärdesskattebedrägeri. Den nya skattelagstiftningen om omvänd skattskyldighet på mobiltelefoner trädde i kraft den 1 april 2021 och har stöd i mervärdesskattedirektivets artikel 199a. För att analysera kvalitén på den nysThe thesis is about the quality of the new tax legislation on reverse tax liability on mobile phones that has been added for the purpose of curbing carousel trading (Sw: karusellhandel), which is a type of VAT fraud. The new tax legislation on reverse charge on mobile phones entered into force on 1 April 2021 and is supported by Article 199a of the VAT Directive. To analyze the quality of the tax

Research shows that various aspects of environmental injustice can be found even on a local level in Sweden. Still, the topic of environmental justice is often disregarded in local planning processes and ecological and social concerns are often treated as two separate issues. To achieve just and sustainable planning, previous research emphasizes the importance of actively including and considering