This thesis focuses on how environmental information concerning food issues is situated and communicated on Swedish environmental blogs. Social media as a form of communication is a current society phenomenon and the Internet is a dominating source of information. A total of 11 Swedish environmental blogs were studied. Five of them function as main objects of information and the six remaining func

This paper’s purpose is to investigate the discourse in the Swedish media about sexism in the gaming world. A social issue that is highlighted is the constitution of gender in relation to online games. The goal is to gain knowledge about how women are represented in news articles. Producers of news articles seem to take gender constructions for granted. Through Norman Fairclough critical discourse

Engaging with stakeholders became more important for companies and brands throughout the years, especially through the rise of Social Media. TV shows do not only need to survive and convince offline through their compelling narrative – they need to transform their passive spectators into active participants in order to increase their reach, their economic success and to strengthen their fanbase. D

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a membrane protein group of central importance in the immune system. It is divided into two main classes, class I and class II. The MHCs are highly polymorphic which is believed to be indication of trans-species polymorphism (TSP). There is TSP when an allele is maintained in two species through a speciation event. The songbirds that I study here belon

The price volatility is an important property to monitor in financial trading. A volatile period implies threats of large losses, but at the same time opportunities of higher gains. This makes accurate volatility prediction models an important part of an algorithmic trading system. This thesis work investigates the extreme value dependence between the Foreign Exchange rate volatility and the rate

En inventering har genomförts av perfluorerade ämnen som misstänkts ha släppts ut på en brandövningsplats i Lambohov, Linköpings kommun. Inventeringen har genomförts i samarbete med miljökontoret på Linköpings kommun. Målet var att klargöra om denna brandövningsplats utgör en fara för människor och miljö med störst vikt vid den kemiska föroreningen PFOS, perfluoroktansulfonat. PFOS användes under A survey on a fire drill site in the municipality of Linköping, has been made in cooperation with the environmental office at the municipality of Linköping. The goal with the survey was to clarify if the fire drill site is a risk to humans and the environment with emphasis on PFOS, perfluorooctane sulfonate. PFOS was used during the second half of the 20th century at fire drill sites as additive i

Antalet människor i världen med tillgång till elektroniska produkter som datorer och smartphones ökar kraftigt. I takt med att antalet produkter går upp så ökar även deras prestanda. Men är det bara att fortsätta bygga mindre och bättre komponenter för alltid? I den här artikeln beskrivs ett bekymmer som uppstår då elektroniska komponenter blir mindre, och några resultat från ett arbete som utförtWith the constant downscaling of transistors, silicon as a production material is falling out of favour because of increasing power consumption when the size of devices becomes smaller. Compound materials from group III-V in the table of elements are promising candidates to replace silicon. The aim of this work was to study current-voltage characteristics of a MOS capacitor made of the III-V compo

Bakgrund: Studier har visat att psykisk ohälsa är utbrett bland ensamboende äldre. Syfte: Att ta del av forskning som undersöker vad äldre ensamboende personer upplever främjar deras psykiska hälsa och känsla av mening i tillvaron. Metod: Denna litteraturstudie innefattar nio artiklar i resultatanalysen. Dataanalys genomfördes med integrerad analys. Resultat: Tre huvudteman som var och ett hade t

This master essay examines whether regional political institutions affect the imperative of firms to invest in innovation. It uses multilevel modelling techniques to explicitly test the spatial dimension of regional institutional embeddedness of the innovation process using micro-data on manufacturing firms in Sweden. The main argument of this essay is that firms are embedded in a region and that

This paper investigates the impact of political risk on financial performance. In order to assess the quantitative measure of political risk principal component analysis is performed referring to six indicators, which measure different areas of political environment. We employ several macroeconomic factors as control variables to strenghten the explanatory power of estimation. Panel data methods a

Studiens syfte var att undersöka konstituering av mening kring äldredepression bland självidentifierade äldre och primärvårdsläkare i Sverige. Ett ytterligare syfte var att urskilja möjliga skärningspunkter mellan deras livsvärldar. Frågeställningen var följande: Hur konstituerar primärvårdsläkare och självidentifierade äldre mening kring begreppet äldredepression? Hur förhåller sig dessa perspektThe aim for this study was to examine the meaning constitution of elderly depression among self-identified elders and general practitioners (GP’s) in Sweden. An additional aim was to investigate possible juxtapositions of their life-worlds. The research question was stated as follows: How is meaning constituted around the concept of elderly depression among self-identified elders and GP’s in prima

Title Portfolio Management - The key to successful business A case study of a construction company Authors Britta Ek Thomas - Master of Science in Technology Management Filip Eliasson - Master of Science in Biotechnology Engineering with Technology Management Elin Skoghagen - Master of Science in Technology Management Advisors Charlotta Johnsson, Associate Professor Department of Automatic C

Avoiding consumer skepticism of corporate social responsibility programs has become an important factor in CSR communication. Literature points towards a need for a more consumer-focused, symmetrical approach to CSR communication, especially in the case of cause-related marketing. The Estee Lauder 2014 Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign uses a co-creational approach to CSR, centered on user-generate

Politicians and public relations practitioners need to consciously and strategically communicate on Twitter not only during elections, but also during incumbency. However; previous approaches to PR failed to offer candidates successful long-term strategies. In addition, political PR research underestimated the influence of the characteristics of Twitter on the tone and the rhetoric of political co

Mongolia, known as the Land of the Nomads is one of the last few countries where a significant portion of the population lives as nomadic herders. Since the Soviet Era and past the democratization of the country, the once nomadic herders are seen moving from the steppes to the major urban centers. This study examines if the influx of mining operations have a major hand in the changing of the nomad

The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine how national archival legislation affects the archival profession in the practical work regarding digital archive solutions. In addition to this aim, we also explore to which extent the archival professionals have the ability to influence the digital archive solutions at their workplace. The subjects for our research have been the Swedish and Danish na

The aim of this master’s thesis is to investigate the effect of copyright on the selection of pictorial material for digital access at cultural heritage institutions. We also look into the attitudes of cultural heritage workers towards copyright. We want to show what different attitudes exist among them and we hope to contribute to a changed view on copyright. What is made accessible on the intern

Two thousand and fourteen saw a drastic increase in asylum seekers knocking on Europe’s door. A great many arrived at Europe’s southern borders, with Italy as the main entrance gate, after having embarked on the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. Due to the limited number of EU entrance countries and the growing pressure on these southern European countries, the Dublin Regulation, as the

In this work we aim to develop a video-based face verification algorithm suitable for real-time use in an embedded environment with limited space and restricted computational resources. We investigate face verification based solutions to envisioned real-time video applications that require open-set face identification. In particular, we create a prototype system for keeping track of the identities