The Swedish needle exchange debate was revived when regulations for opening new needle exchange facilities were lightened 2017. Needle exchange has been debated over ever since it was introduced in the mid 80’s. With the contemporary debate as a premise the aim of this study was to see if the arguments for and against needle exchange has changed. The chosen method for the study was a qualitative c

Human trafficking, also known as modern day slavery, is a grave violation of the human rights. Approximately 40,5 million people are every year being trafficked around the world. But trafficking is not only a violation of the human rights – it is also a criminal and security concern. Trafficking can, among other things, urge conflict by enabeling extremist and armed groups to increase their capabi

Our globalized world has caused many cultures to merge which has led to a society in which a lot of individuals are part of more than one culture. The aim of this study is to examine what difficulties that come with having multiple cultural belongings. The study is based on individual narratives, uploaded on different podcast platforms, that have different cultural backgrounds but are a part of th

The aim of this study was to investigate how suicide prevention is socially constructed in the news media discourse of Swedish newspapers. A total of 14 articles published in Swedish newspapers concerning suicide prevention were analyzed. The method used for this study was a qualitative text analysis. This study has a social constructivist approach and the theoretical framework is composed of fram

Skogsbränder – mångfaldens röda riddare? Skogsbränder är ett återkommande och viktigt fenomen i naturen som har påverkat de flesta ekosystem i både tid och rum. Många organismer har anpassat sig till detta, vilket kan ses i olika anpassningar och det är allmänt vedertaget att bränder har spelat en evolutionärt avgörande roll hos många arter. I boreala ekosystem som utgör större delen av Skandinav

The baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) was studied and genetically engineered. This was to enhance the transamination step of the biochemical reaction cascade towards the production of capsaicin. Inherent reductases were identified and twelve of them knocked out via homologous recombination. Using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology, the Green Fluorescence Protein (GFP) gene was introd

Förmågan att återskapa förvrängda bilder på ett effektivt sätt har länge varit ett mål inom datorgrafik och bildanalys. I vårt examensarbete, i samarbete med NVIDIA, har vi tittat på ett nytt tillvägagångsätt för detta problem inom maskininlärning och jämfört detta med redan existerande metoder.Loss functions are a crucial part of image processing when using modern neural networks, trained with stochastic gradient descent. There exist multiple loss functions today, some claiming to be perceptual. Researchers at NVIDIA recently published a proposal of such a metric called FLIP. This led to our work on this thesis where we present a comparison between multiple loss functions, both establis

The aim of this study was to explore how treatment assistants at a treatment home perceived the identity of the women cared for at the treatment home. The aim was also to explore how treatment assistants perceived the women’s approach to social rules. The method chosen for this study was qualitative interviews with five treatment assistants. The treatment assistants worked with compulsive care at

Winston Churchill once said “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”. Can this sentence be related to economic growth and development? This thesis analyzes the economic outcomes of the two main political regimes (Democracy and Dictatorship) in the developing world and discovers that Churchill’s words cannot be applied for l

We develop a program to perform a principal component analysis of flow fluctuations using simulations of nuclear collisions produced by the PYTHIA/Angantyr event generator. We consider both p+p and p+Pb collision events and study the leading and subleading modes of the second flow harmonic. The analysis is carried out using two different definitions of the flow matrix which differ in their sensiti

This study aims to examine how women, between the ages 18-30, experience the safety during the usage of the dating apps Tinder/Badoo. The study also aims to examine which possible factors that can comprise the experience of safety during the usage. The reason behind this is based on the wide range that this type of dating has gotten over the past several years. Previous studies have mainly been fo

Syftet med uppsatsen är att ta reda på hur de tre största bokförlagen i Sverige arbetar med miljöfrågor kring produktion av tryckta böcker. Uppsatsens underlag är hämtad från Bonnierförlagens, Norstedts och Natur & Kulturs hemsidor. Denna information kompletteras med intervjuer med representanter från förlagen samt ett antal personer med kunskap inom miljöfrågor. De teorier som används är legi

Sweden has in recent years seen an uprising in gun-use within socioeconomically weak areas and within gangs. Currently, political discourse circle around dissecting the matter of illegal weaponry attempting to find a way in which to curb deadly violence. This study aims to create an understanding of the mechanics between the law and the criminal sub-world with the help of looking at the effects of

Background: The more varied and new challenges that the healthcare sector faces every day, calls for modernization and reorganization. However, the healthcare sector is commonly understood to be slow to adapt to change. It is therefore important to understand and identify the enabling factors for the implementation of innovation, by giving voice to healthcare practitioners concerns, considering th

This study aims to, from a sensemaking perspective, increase knowledge about under what conditions customers of a well-known high-involvement brand remain loyal to said brand post-crisis. It also aims to further contribute an understanding of how the level of brand loyalty affect the conditions under which customers remain loyal to a brand post-crisis. The empirical material is collected through 1

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur unga kvinnor, eller tjejer som jag valt att kalla dem, som studerar på gymnasiets estetiska program upplever sin vardag inom musiken. Musikbranschen är en ojämställd värld och syftet med denna studie är att identifiera skillnader och orättvisor för att musiklärare ska få större möjligheter att arbeta jämställt. Detta jämställdhetsarbete kan bidra till attThe aim of this study is to investigate how young females, or girls as I have choosen to call them, who study at the aesthetic program of high school, experience their everyday lives. The music industry is not equal and the purpose of this study is to identify the differences and injustice, in order to give the music teachers possibilities to work with equality. The work with equality can contribu

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute an important part of the national economies. In order to be able to survive and compete with large businesses, SMEs have to actively plan their future. This research qualitatively examines strategic planning practises in SMEs in Sweden, a yet unexplored country in this matter, in order to identify their extent and understand their nature. For th

Haematopoietic stem cells are the source of all blood components including T-cells. When the T-cell programme is initiated in these cells, the expression of T-cell associated genes such as TCF7 is up-regulated, while genes opposing this fate are turned off. Subsequently, epigenetic marks on the gene BCL11B and its regulatory elements, disabling the expression of the gene, are removed and the trans

In this work a simultaneous localisation and mapping system, SLAM, has been constructed which can incorporate inertial measurement unit, IMU, data such as accelerometer and gyroscope data to estimate the metric scale and the relationship to the gravity vector of the SLAM solution. The system can perform accurate pose predictions at 100Hz based on IMU data and previous camera poses. An improved KLT

Studien undersökte sambanden mellan självkänsla, perfektionism, missnöje med utseende och kropp, upplevelsen av en inre eller yttre trygg plats samt psykisk ohälsa hos unga vuxna. Deltagarna var 122 unga vuxna (85% kvinnor, 12% män och 3% ej definierat kön) i åldrarna 18 till 23 år (median 20 år) som sökte de tre ungdomsmottagningarna i Malmö under två veckor i oktober, 2017. Deltagarna fick besvaThis study examined the correlations between self-esteem, perfectionism, dissatisfaction with physical appearance and body image, the experience of an inner and outer safe place, as well as mental illness among young adults. The study population consisted of 122 young adults (85 % women , 12 % men and 3 % of undefined gender) aged 18 -23 years old (median 20 years) seeking treatment at the Youth G