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Title: "What are your thoughts on the activities they offer where you live?" - A study of individualized activities in nursing homes Supervisor: Yvonne Johansson Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed The aim of this study is to find out what elderly people themselves think about the activities offered at their nursing homes and how much they consider them being adapted for them. The stud

Background and objectives: Type 2 diabetes has been increasing all over the world. A healthy diet, including particular functional foods is an effective strategy to prevent this form of diabetes. Nopal (Oputia ficus) is a cactus plant that, according to traditional medicine, has antidiabetic properties. The objective of this research was to examine the effects of different fractions of nopal clado

This thesis explores how the production of identity happens on a small islet community in Denmark’s South Funen Archipelagos. Furthermore, it investigates in what way the residents make use of this islet identity, through memory, imaginings and collective action, in order to provide ground for raison d’être. Through a qualitative approach, a three months fieldwork was conducted in the summer of 20

Due to the Japan’s decision in early July 2019 to sanction the trade of hi-tech materials with South Korea, No-Japan movement that discourages South Koreans to purchase Japanese products and travel to Japan has been widespread in South Korean society. In particular, this movement seems to be highly associated with South Korean’s strong collectivist culture, which might result in limiting individua

Due to the social revolution, social issues such as racism, human justice and cultural appropriation have evolved rapidly and included in many aspects of life. Brands are taking advantage of cultural values and/ or artifacts to promote for their equities yet acknowledging the possible backfire that would damage their reputation. Most existing research regards the practice of cultural appropriation

”I believe that our traditional gender roles do matter”. An interview study with social workers and police officers about the meeting with boys where suspicion of sexual abuse is found. Lately, media and several famous people have claimed attention to the issue of sexually assaulted boys. It has been argued that these boys are being failed by society. The purpose of this study was to explore how

In this study, I have investigated “the elephant in the room”, namely the tension surrounding discussions and interactions regarding ethnicity and race in Sweden. Specifically, my aim has been to unveil the dominant ideas that “whites” and “non-whites” use to morally navigate through tensions in this multicultural society. Methodologically, I have conducted four focus group interviews with student

Researchers in the field of Galactic Archaeology have entered the era of industrial revolution. Upcoming surveys are planning on observing tens of millions of stars and high precision and accuracy must be ensured when deriving their stellar parameters and elemental abundances. Unconventional data-driven techniques hold the promise of efficiently dealing with these vast collections of data while st

Collection and delivery points have become increasingly important due to the current e-commerce trend. In addition to the general rise within e- commerce the extraordinary situation with an ongoing SARS-CoV-2- pandemic has further increased the demand for sufficient parcel deliveries. The purpose of this master thesis has been to investigate how different stakeholders connected to e-commerce measu

This master thesis aims to investigate downlink positioning techniques and improve fifth-generation (5G) cellular positioning performance in the indoor office scenario. In the thesis work, we target in the indoor office scenario because it is a typical deployment scenario standardized in 3GPP release 16. To analyze the positioning techniques, we develop a simulator in MATLAB. In the simulator, t

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the factors, circumstances and insights influencing Swedish organizations in their own transitioning process towards AI. The work conducted within this thesis results in a qualitative report where a number of focus areas are reviewed in an attempt to first provide a holistic picture surrounding the definitions, contexts, activities and mindsets involved in

Maskininlärning är ett område inom artificiell intelligens som handlar om metoder för att träna datorer att lära sig regler för att lösa en uppgift. Dessa regler har inte programmerats av en människa, utan datorerna måste upptäcka dem genom att lösa optimeringsproblem. De här optimeringsproblemen kan också ses som gradientflödesproblem, en typ av differentialekvationer, vilka kan lösas med hjälp In supervised machine learning, training neural networks requires solving optimization problems. These problems can be restated as gradient flow problems and solved numerically using time-stepping methods. In order to study the behavior of these time-stepping methods, in the context of solving the aforementioned optimization problems, a framework in Python was developed. This framework is based o

Mekanismerna bakom LL-37 inducerad celldöd Varje år dör det cirka 700 000 människor globalt till följd av infektioner orsakade av multiresistenta bakterier. Sedan upptäckten av penicillin har vi människor överkonsumerat antibiotika. Läkare världen över har skrivit ut antibiotika för att behandla banala infektioner som kroppens eget immunförsvar egentligen hade kunnat klara av på egen hand. Dessut

Introduction: The world has witnessed a global trend of increasing obesity, which is directly linked to non-communicable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). The epidemic of obesity is largely associated with consumption of high calorie diets and low physical activity. Food choice and exercise have a big impact to prevent obesity and T2D making these diseases highly related to personal lifesty

The recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis has resulted in great uncertainty and potential losses to the financial market. Investors must find the safe haven and hedge currencies in the current crisis to manage portfolios. In this paper, I demonstrate how to use the dynamic conditional correlations (DCC) model with student-t error distribution to assess the role of foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, and

The prevalence of algorithms and machine learning technologies in society opens up a vast sociological territory. In this thesis, I investigate interactions that transpire between users and recommender systems which statistically predicts and suggests specific items based on their and similar profiles’ data traces in the context of social media platforms in everyday life. Fusing several data colle

Efter att Greta Thunberg i augusti 2018 satte sig utanför riksdagen med ett plakat med texten: “Skolstrejk för klimatet”, har en snabbt växande rörelse av unga klimataktivister startat, med budskapet att äldre generationer och politiker har svikit dem när de ignorerat klimathotet. Studien vill undersöka vad som fick ungdomar som tidigare inte deltagit i protester att agera och vilken roll Greta Th

Vocational education and training (VET) is generally believed to be a tool for the promotion of youth employability ('VET for work') and economic productivity ('VET for growth'). This rather narrow understanding has been challenged by a growing number of development scholars, who argue that it fails both theoretically (to capture the complex nature of human beings), and practically

Stor risk för mjölkallergiker att äta på restaurang i Malmö Vågar allergiker äta på restaurang? Går det att lita på att maten innehåller det som restaurangpersonalen säger att den gör? Innehåller grädde, ost och yoghurt mjölk? Att äta på restaurang kan vara utmanande för en allergiker eftersom restauranger är bland de vanligaste platserna där allergiska reaktioner inträffar. Omkring 15 procentFoodallergy is on the rise in Sweden and the rest of the world and is a global health issue. Milk protein is the allergen that causes the most allergic reactions in Sweden and those who are highly allergic to milk risk going into an anaphylactic shock which in worst case can be fatal. Eating at a restaurant can be a challenge for a person with food allergy since this is where the majority of aller