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With a growing global population, the demand for food increases, and the development of more sustainable food production becomes increasingly important. One way to improve sustainability within food production is to repurpose nutritious by-products to new food ingredients. Oat drink by-product (ODBP), generated during the production of oat-based beverages, is one such stream. ODBP contains signifi
As Thailand swiftly transitions into a super-aged society, the government has implemented aged care policies rooted in neoliberal principles, emphasising "active ageing" and reliance on family support. However, this governance approach is not exclusive to the region but is recognised as a global phenomenon. Thus, this thesis explores how global neoliberal frameworks are discursively embe
Renewable forecast errors must be absorbed somewhere in the sequence of electricity markets. This paper examines where they are priced in Sweden, using an hourly panel of the four bidding zones SE1-SE4 from December 2021 to March 2025 under the single-price imbalance settlement regime. Day-ahead-to-intraday and intraday-to-balance spreads are regressed on the combined wind and solar forecast error
This study aimed to examine how male and female students construct gender and gender norms in conversations about dating, as well as whether these conversations give rise to ideas about how dating should take place and whether there are dating norms to which women and men rely and act on. Using a qualitative research approach, focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 7 male and 7 fema
This thesis examines the suitability of analytical infrastructure for decision support in organizations with limited dedicated analytics capacity. The study uses an integrated mixed-methods design combining semi-structured interviews with a controlled TPC-H benchmark. The interviews identify organizational requirements, infrastructure and data flows, resource constraints, and priorities shaping ar
Urinary tract infections are among the most common bacterial infections worldwide and require rapid and accurate diagnosis to ensure appropriate treatment. Conventional urine culture methods remain the gold standard in the diagnosis of a UTI but require 1-5 days to produce a result and delays specific antibiotic treatment. This thesis investigates the feasibility of using acoustofluidics as a high
Fertility in France has been rapidly declining in the last years, moving far from replacement levels despite the country’s historically high fertility and family-support policies. Using data from the second round Wave 1 of the French Generations and Gender Survey and building on the Second Demographic Transition theory (Lesthaeghe and van de Kaa, 1986), according to which population decline needs
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the European Union uses strategic autonomy to construct its identity as an international actor and whether this identity has shifted in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is based on the hypothesis that a gradual reconstruction of identity toward a more geopolitical dimension does not replace the EU’s normative identity. Drawing on con
This study aimed to increase the understanding of the professional strategies used by healthcare social workers or counsellors in paediatric habilitation to identify existential challenges among parents of children with disabilities and to support them in their parenting and life situation. The study was conducted using a qualitative design based on semi-structured interviews with seven counsellor
This thesis examines which institutional dimensions, capital-market integration, regulatory density, single-market incompleteness, and regional decentralization, are most strongly associated with European productivity and firm-dynamism performance over 2000–2020. Using panel data for 17–31 European countries and a multi-protocol fixed-effects framework robust to cross-sectional dependence and smal
Effective cooling is critical for high-performance electric vehicle traction motors, where high temperatures can reduce efficiency and limit power capability. While oil spray cooling pro- vides effective heat removal from the end-winding region, its system complexity, cost, and integration requirements motivate the development of alternative cooling solutions that re- tain water as the working flu
Since the sensory turn in the 1980s and 90s, increasing focus has been put upon the non-visual senses within spatial theory and research. One analytical lens that has emerged is that of the soundscape, through which sounds are understood as a natural and inherent part of space and place-making within the urban. Intertwined in this understanding of sound is the tension between sound and noise and t
This study focuses on Xiaohongshu, a popular social media and e-commerce platform in China today, to explore how feminists engage in digital political participation on this platform and how they build affective solidarity through their online interactions. With its high proportion of female users, Xiaohongshu is gradually evolving into an emerging field for contemporary Chinese feminist political
This study examines the construction of Swedish state identity through official national statements from international climate and environmental conferences in 1972 and 1992, as well as statements delivered between 1995 and 2025. It builds on the understanding that states construct their state identity through autobiographical narratives. The material is analysed through a positioning method to ca
The European Union has experienced significant changes related to migration over the past decade, affecting both migration policy and how migration is discussed on a European level. This thesis aims to examine how the European Commission's discourse on migration has evolved between 2015 and 2025. The study analyses the annual State of the Union speeches delivered by the President of the Europe
Abstract Independent European feature films are financed project by project from many sources at once, each with its own conditions, payment schedule and claim on the film. This thesis asks how Plattform Produktion, an independent Swedish production company, should structure the financing of a film project so that the liquidity and budget it obtains are not bought at an unacceptable cost in retain
Industrial data from a packaging production process are explored in order to investigate which inter-variable relationships can be derived. In examining the possibility of using data-driven methods to gain further insights into the production process, a number of methodologies were used. Among these were graph-based representations of conditional dependency structures. The framework of mixed graph
The city can be understood as a series of processes: it is ever-changing and its spaces are under constant (re-)negotiation. It is defined by meetings, gestures and exchange. Between people and surfaces. It consists of tens of thousands of parallel, sequential, simultaneous events that overlap and move through shared time and space. This thesis is rooted in a fascination for the infra-ordinary o
Quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are important low-dimensional semiconductor systems because of their strong excitonic response, tunable emission properties, and improved structural stability compared with conventional three-dimensional (3D) perovskites. In these materials, the inorganic layer thickness and the molecular structure of the organic spacer can modulate
