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This thesis studies the causes of rising household and particularly mortgage debt in Sweden between 1995 and 2020. It aims to contribute to the understanding of institutional factors behind increasing debt, such as policy regulating lending. It undertakes a qualitative analysis of previous literature on household debt, and the Financial Accelerator framework. The Financial Accelerator (Bernanke &a

I syfte att förstå lösningar för nutida optimeringsproblem, ska vi se på det matematiska ramverket för den moderna teorin om variationskalkyl. Variationskalkyl är en gren av matematiken som utvecklades under 1700-talet för att lösa problem gällande fastställning av optimala trajektoria, former och strukturer, givet vissa begränsningar. Dess utveckling pågick parallellt med framsteg inom matematiskCalculus of variations is a branch of mathematics that was developed in the 18th century to solve problems of determining optimal trajectories, shapes and structures subject to constraints. It deals with the minimization of a certain type of integral functional. In the early days of the theory, the smoothness of the functions involved was assumed but, during the following centuries, advances in an

Small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have recently been identified as high contributors to social and environmental issues globally. Due to this, there has been a high demand for SMEs to become more sustainable, and as such many studies have researched the benefits that accrue to SMEs that implement sustainable practices: serving as a motivation for most SMEs. However, it has not been easy f

Modern consumerism and overconsumption in e-commerce have profound ecological ramifications, necessitating the adoption of pro-environmental behavior. Imagine a world where sustainable choices are seamlessly integrated into our online shopping experience. Nudging is a powerful tool that holds the key to transforming consumer behavior and promoting sustainable online shopping. However, there is a c

The thesis discusses how visual artists negotiate the boundaries between their own creative work and AI-aided work, how they establish boundaries with other artists who use AI, and How the relationship between visual artists and clients is mediated in the market with the rising popularity of AI tools. The study found that most artists negotiate meanings to take a stance and, more often than not, a

Sanctions, as a foreign policy tool, are increasing in popularity and frequency. This study empirically assesses how different types of sanctions imposed by the European Union, United Nations, and the United States affect the sanctioned states’ GDP growth and degree of openness. Moreover, this study aims to address whether the economic costs of sanctions have undergone any notable changes in the c

H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. One, Morlocks, have been read as representations of Victorian workers and poor, and the other, the Elois, as representations of the aristocracy. The Time Traveller represents the middle class. The novella is often seen as

This thesis aimed at examining the effects of file and disk cache for certain writing patterns and file sizes for Beijer Electronic's human machine interface (HMI) panels with the focus on write amplification factor (WAF). The goal was to determine optimal configurations to reduce WAF for different use cases to prolong the lifetime of Beijer Electronic's HMI panels. A test application and

The study offers a prescriptive definition of a sustainable corporation from a human-rights-based approach. It defines a sustainable corporation as any business created with or that has human rights and the environment as its fundamental values, and integrates as well as implements such values into all aspects of its operations. This definition implies that all companies their sizes or sector notwThis study finds that the concept of a sustainable corporation is better created as a construct of corporate law rather than international human rights law. The study proposes that a sustainable corporation should be defined by an international framework to ensure consistency, and to promote its effectiveness, States should amend their existing corporate legislation and/or enact due diligence legi

Despite economic sanctions generally failing to achieve their intended goals, the global use of sanctions has increased dramatically since the end of the Cold war. A recent example of a sanctions regime unsuccessful in realizing its ostensible goal is that of the U.S. ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Venezuela between 2017 – 2022, which did not succeed in removing the incrementally authoritaria

The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to push the limits of 3D X-ray imaging by studying the minimum number of projections required to retrieve high-quality reconstructions for additive manufacturing processes. This project first focuses on understanding how X-ray tomography works, by reconstructing additive manufacturing data already obtained (from PSI, TOMCAT beamline) using two standard recon

This thesis presents a case study of an indoor Green Wall (GW) installed in an office building in Malmö, Sweden. The study analyzed the effect of the GW on air humidity during low temperature and dry moisture outdoor conditions. The objective was to determine the green wall's indoor humidity contribution while enabling an adequate comparison before and after the GW installation, which requires

In the Shadow of Monumentum... the War on Statues explores the last decade's violent protests on colonisation and institutional racism leading to the vandalisation, defacing and in some cases removal or toppling of public monuments. The study explores the chronological events surrounding 4 monuments depicting Edward Colston, Cecil Rhodes and Mary Thomas - “Queen” Mary. Including the persons de

Samtida forskning om psykisk hälsa och välbefinnande har tagit upp behovet av att fördjupa vår förståelse om ungdomslivets beskaffenhet och sammanhang. Vårt forskningssyfte är att undersöka positiva och negativa erfarenheter gällande skola, familj, vänner och fritid hos ett urval av svenska 13–19-åringar. Vi använder ramverksanalys för att organisera data och närmar oss analysen genom att använda Contemporary research on mental health and well-being has addressed the need to deepen our understanding about the nature of adolescent life and contexts. Our research aim is to examine positive and negative experiences concerning school, family, friends, and leisure time in a sample of Swedish 13–19-year- olds. We use the framework method to organize data and approach the analysis by following An

In this thesis, several current and former trends of Japanese youth language are examined through the perspective of age-appropriate speakers, following previous scholarly arguments that youth language research is fraught with judgements made by non-members of the relevant age group. By the means of a quantitative online questionnaire, the study seeks to find examples of expressions that Japanese

Sveriges geologiska undersökning (SGU) har ägnat flera år åt att undersöka den svenska berggrunden för att utreda möjligheterna för geologisk lagring av koldioxid. Djupt liggande akviferer anses ha störst potential och den kambriska Faluddensandstenen, som finns i Östersjön öster om Gotland, visar stor potential som lagringsakvifer. I denna studie har borrkärnan St. Sutarve-2018 från södra GotlandThe Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) has spent several years investigating the Swedish bedrock to find suitable bedrock for geological storage of carbon dioxide. Deep saline aquifers are considered to have the greatest potential, and the Cambrian Faludden Sandstone subcropping in the Baltic Sea east of Gotland, shows great potential as a storage aquifer. In this study, the drill core St. Sutarve

This paper examines the phenomenon of gender-based violence and sexual harassment against women and girls in the world of entertainment from the perspective of international human rights law, and attempts to prove that ILO C190 benefits women in the industry, from the aspect of providing a more inclusive, extended and efficient legal framework. The research is focused on the Republic of Korea, it

The European union has been aggressively pushing forward with policies favoring renewable sources of energy. As a result, the share of intermittent renewables in the European power grid is rising and is expected to grow even more in the coming decade. The Swedish energy agency also forecast huge growth in wind power. This creates a parallel growing demand for electricity storage solutions for both

Det moderna samhället karaktäriseras av globalisering, extern och intern konkurrens samt ny informationsteknik, vilket har förändrat villkoren för individen på arbetsmarknaden. Denna studie undersöker upplevelsen av organisationskultur och arbetsprestation på ett företag inom rekrytering och bemanningsbranschen i södra Sverige. Utifrån deltagande observation och semistrukturerade intervjuer med ti