Insect pollinators, such as bees, provides us with important ecosystem services. Unfortunately, a decline in key pollinators has been seen globally. Habitat loss and fragmentation, e.g, caused by urbanization, have been pointed out as important driving factors of pollinator declines. However, studies have also shown that species richness of pollinators can be greater in urban than in rural habitat

Language anxiety is one of the most difficult issues teachers face in the English classroom today. The area is vast and complex and not much research has been done with a practical focus. This study investigates how the Fogg behavior model can be used to identify foreign language anxiety, and how anxiety affects English learners in a Swedish context. I noticed that there was an inadequate amount o

In today’s car industry more and more focus is put on autonomous driving and driving assistance. There are functions being developed that are supposed to assist the driver as well as functions that will be fully autonomous. Parking is an area where car companies are developing a lot of functions related to driver assistance and autonomous driving. One of the main reasons for this is that a lot of

Uppsatsen behandlar hur barn i slukaråldern (9–12 år) möter, hittar och väljer litteratur. I uppsatsen analyseras genrebegreppet, och barns val av genre har undersökts genom en enkätundersökning. Barnens förutsättningar för att kunna hitta litteratur och samhällets förväntningar på barn, samt deras kulturella kontext tas också upp. Uppsatsens primära syfte är att se vad som tilltalar barn och hur

Den här studien syftar till att skapa en djupare förståelse för det digitaliserade servicemötet genomattundersökahurdetupplevsurettkundperspektiv. Vivillgenomdettaökaförståelsen för hur kunder upplever kvalitet och om upplevelsen av kvalitet förändras när det interpersonella servicemötet blir föremål för ökad digitalisering. Vi studerade även huruvida upplevelsen av kvalitet skiljer sig mellan två

Den här uppsatsen undersöker representation av veganism och vegetarianism i amerikanska filmer och TV-serier, samt hur gestaltningen ser ut ur ett genusperspektiv och hur köttnormativet syns. Studien fungerar som en överblickande kvalitativ kulturstudie över det valda ämnet. Det teoretiska ramverket grundar sig i representation, stereotyper och genus. Med denna metod och dessa teorier ämnar studie

Idéen med ett elektroniskt journalsystem som kan arbeta med patientdata började under mitten av 1980-talet. Att gå över från pappersjournalen till elektroniska patientjournaler var ett nytt moment inom vården. Det har skett förändringar sedan dess, men det har aldrig varit så att de elektroniska journalsystemen har fungerat på ett sätt som användarna har kunnat vara nöjda med. Ansträngningar har g

Fast mapping as a way for adults to learn new lexical items is a hot topic and only a limited number of studies have connected fast mapping to brain imaging (see Merhav, Karni, & Gilboa, 2015). The present study aims to compare and contrast explicit encoding with fast mapping of new vocabulary items in adult healthy Swedish native speakers (N=17, NFEMALE=7) as well as connect these behavioural

This study aimed at generating psychological knowledge regarding how the middle manager experiences his/her communicative role during an organizational change. For this purpose, qualitative interviews with several middle managers were conducted at a company located in the south of Sweden. This company had recently gone through an organizational change in which they had merged two different busines

Business cycles and changes in macroeconomic variables can have a huge influence on the profitability and credit exposure of an individual bank. Consequently, they affect the risk profile of a given bank. This study uses multifactor time series regressions to examine the influence of global macroeconomic variables on the probability of default for Nordic banks, both on industry level and on indivi

With the goal of making object tracking neural networks more suitable for phones and tablets, a quantisation process demonstrates considerable reductions in hardware requirements at surprisingly minimal accuracy losses.

This is a project in product development made for ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems which is a manufacturer of sliding doors among other products. The objective of this project is to come up with a solution which offers an improved air sealing capability for a set of sliding doors all while the friction remains either the same or lower compared to before. The development process began with collecting in

The phenomenon of gender-based violence (GBV) and the magnitude it takes in Argentina is raising great concerns within the country, intergovernmental organisations and women’s movements. Since 2015 a women’s movement named Ni Una Menos was established to create visibility and fight for the eradication of gender-based violence in the country. Building upon the Integrative Ecological Framework, usin

I denna uppsats undersöks svenska regeringens retoriska bruk av ”mänskliga rättigheter” i deras klimatförändringsdiskurs, 1 november 2015 – 1 november 2016. Det undersökta materialet är hämtat från regeringen.se och analyseras med hjälp av retorisk analys för att avgöra på vilket sätt begreppet ”mänskliga rättigheter” används. Ett människorätts-perspektiv används för att förstå människorättsspråk

Forskning har visat att den största delen av allt plastskräp i haven kommer från förpackningsindustrin. Då plasten inte bryts ner på flera decennier görs nu stora försök med att försöka få fram bionedbrytbara alternativ. I det här arbetet undersöks om nanocellulosa kan fungera som ett alternativ till de plastbarriärer som används för att hålla livsmedel fräscha.In this report, hybrid films of carboxymethylated cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) and graphene nanosheets (GNs) have been prepared to evaluate if the GNs can enhance the barrier properties of the CNF films. CNF already possess great barrier properties at low relative humidity (RH) but it is drastically lowered when the RH reaches above 50% due to its strong hydrophilicity of CNF. This report shows tha

China has ever since the 1990s emerged as a manufacturing superpower, following its liberalized trade reforms and its entrance to the World Trade Organization. This has caused China to expand their exports substantially, in particular to the OECD countries. This has lead to an increasing debate on whether, or to what extent, increasing manufacturing exports from China to the OECD countries has con

Undersökning av en ny metod att söka efter inhibitorer Vad görs när immunsystemet, systemet byggt för att skydda oss, attackerar oss istället? I dagsläget finns inte så mycket man kan göra. Jag har därför undersökt en ny metod för att hitta ämnen som ska kunna hindra det trasiga immunsystemet från att skada! Framsteg inom medicinen är bland de viktigaste som kan göras för mänsklighetens fortlevnaThe main purpose of this master thesis was to test a novel approach of finding leads for new pharmaceuticals, by using Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis (SPPS) in combination with Weak Affinity Chromatography (WAC). Put in a more concrete way, the objective was to find a lead for a better human neutrophil elastase inhibitor. The plan was to take advantage of the fact that the tripeptide Valine-Proline

The investigation of children's and young people’s need for protection and safety is carried out by social services and is regulated by Socialtjänstlagen chapter 1, § 2. In a case where a child is granted outpatient care, the necessity of follow-ups to ensure that progress is being made is specified in the law. The law does not however define the frequency of these follow-ups. The aim was ther

Social work carried through in an international projects-based context is common world-wide. This essay focuses on in what way the project beneficiaries are being portrayed in project evaluations with focus on women’s empowerment. The essay uses a critical discourse analysis based on a specific module in order to examine in what way the project beneficiaries are being presented in the project anal

Denna uppsats utreder hur finansiella produkter klassificeras i inkomstslaget kapital, och vilka skatterättsliga skillnader som finns mellan de olika kategorierna i inkomstslaget. Utifrån praxis och inkomstskattelagens systematik redogörs för hur en avyttring av kryptovalutan Bitcoin ska klassificeras och beskattas. Gällande rätt analyseras sedan mot bakgrund av principen om likformighet och skattThis paper examines how financial products are classified within the capital gains bracket and which tax differences follow from such classification. Based on practice and the methodology of the Income tax act, the paper describes how a divestment of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin should be classified and taxed. The result is thereafter analyzed from the perspective of the principle of uniformity and