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Conflict-related sexual violence should not be regarded just a symptom of war or evidence of its violent excess. It is criminalised as a violation of international law, as a war crime, a crime against humanity and, in some cases, as a component of genocide. It brings overwhelming social, psychological and economic consequences to survivors, families, communities and nation states. Conflict-related
Paleoekologiska studier har visat sig vara ett bra verktyg för att studera trädetablering, samt dess relation till klimatpåverkan och mänsklig påverkan. Utbredningen av Picea i Sverige under Holocen är väldokumenterad, men kunskapsluckor kring dess spridningsdynamik kvarstår. Denna studie ämnar tydliggöra Piceas etablering i en lokal i sydvästra Sverige, och därpå även bidra till kunskapsbasen om Paleoecological studies have shown to be a good tool for studying the establishment of trees, as well as their relation to climate and human influence. The spread of Picea in Sweden during the Holocene is well documented, but knowledge gaps concerning the spread dynamics still remains. This study aims to clarify the establishment of Picea in a locality in southwestern Sweden, and thereby also cont
Given a pollen data set from Europe over a time period, the aim is to reconstruct the past land cover by interpolating from the pollen data values to a continuous map. The data is on compositional form with three vegetation categories; coniferous forest, broadleaved forest and open land. Reconstruction will be based on a Gaussian Markov random field with separable spatio-temporal structure for the
This thesis describes attempts at estimating the uncertainty of the 2-metre temperature forecast error from a probabilistic point of view, utilizing Bayesian neural networks. Bayesian neural networks are a type of machine-learning algorithms used to find patterns in data and make probabilistic predictions. Multiple fields of output data from the ECMWF IFS global model, along with temperature measu
Integrering av historia i fysikundervisningen har undersökts länge och i stor omfattning internationellt. Det finns ett brett stöd för att det kan ha många önskvärda effekter på elevers lärande och motivation. Denna positiva bild verkar inte delas helt av fysiklärare och det framkommer att det finns många utmaningar med att integrera fysikhistoria i undervisningen. Syftet med denna uppsats var attIntegration of history of physics (HOP) in the teaching of physics has been studied for a long time and to a great extent. There is a widespread support of the fact that history of physics can have many desirable effects on students learning and motivation. This positive picture is seemingly not shared completely among physic teachers and to implement history to the physics classroom has been show
The following thesis examines two responses to processes of social change within the small town of Vellinge in the province of Scania, Sweden. The experiences of change within the town appear in the guise of two contradicting narratives – one of the town’s progress and the other of its decline – which I aim to approximate from nine in-depth interviews with eight inhabitants conducted in two cycles
Målet är att undersöka hur en ökad installation av solceller kommer att påverka lågspänningsnätet. Öresundskraft efterfrågade en rapport som undersöker framtida problem i deras nät när solcellssystem installeras i större omfattning. Scenarion där olika procentantal kunder i lågspänningsnätet installerar solceller har analyserats och simulerats. Två olika lågspänningsnät har används, ett område på
This ethnographic study investigates the functions of BestFighter Muay Thai and Mixed Martial Arts training camp in Koh Samui, Thailand, as a successful actor in a booming self-improvement economy. In this thesis I explore the entanglements with locality and power which enable what satisfied participants refer to as augmented experiences of self-improvement. Combining theoretical concepts such as
My research thesis is a search for a place to be, a place that would make the city an easier place to live and experience, when we are either constantly surrounded by a tumultuous public or isolated at home. My search has led me to define a place that could provide simultaneously Space and Time to bridge what is missing in both the public and the private. What is there left, not linked to commerc
Since carbon-emitting energy sources are the largest contributor to global warming and climate change, this present paper attempts to contribute to the current debate in energy-growth nexus in the literature. Focusing on the case of Turkey, it seeks to find out whether or not switching to a low-carbon path will be beneficial for this fastest-growing OECD economy by investigating the relationship b
YouTube is today one of the most popular video hosting services on the Internet. With over a billion users all over the world it is an immensely active website. It is also a major platform for video content creators also referred to as YouTubers. These YouTubers, through their practice of content creating, can be said to be the heart and soul of this website. However, very little seems to be known
Although there is a well-researched theoretical tradition to explain institutional trust, very little research has been done in authoritarian countries in general, and MENA countries more specifically. This study aims to fill this gap in the literature by identifying the factors that explain institutional trust in Algeria, focused more specifically on Algeria’s armed forces as one of the powerbrok
This pre- and post-measure interventional study attempted to create a positive attitude shift in environmental attitudes of 80 students using the choice blindness (CB) manipulation. It is a novel approach that first manipulates the participants’ answers and secondly asks the subjects to justify the answer they did not choose, to elicit attitude change. The second condition utilised a persuasive te
Denna magisteruppsats inom översättarutbildningen bygger på min översättning till svenska av en skönlitterär text skriven av den italienske författaren Giorgio Bassani. Uppsatsen inleds med en presentation av författaren och hans verk och följs av en källtextanalys som följer valda delar av Hellspong och Ledin, Vägar genom texten (1997). Därefter kommer mina överväganden inför översättningen och k
