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This study aimed to examine how language use in specialist psychiatric care within Region Skåne constructs and influences attitudes toward and treatment of patients with personality disorders. From a critical discourse analytical perspective, the study sought to highlight how healthcare professionals use and understand various terms, how this language shapes patients’ experiences, and how language
This thesis investigates how Italy’s Piantedosi Decree and Distant Ports practice have reshaped the operations of Search and Rescue (SAR) NGOs in the Central Mediterranean. While existing literature discusses the securitization of migration and criminalization of humanitarian actors,less attention has been paid to the concrete impacts of recent legal and administrative measures on SAR operational
Purpose: To investigate the financial firm characteristics determining investment decisions alongside value creation differences across different investment types and whether private equity investors have a treatment effect on operating firm performance. Theoretical perspectives: The theoretical perspectives of this paper consist of contracting related theories applicable in the private equity env
Nowadays, the complex global political and economic situation have made geopolitical risks increasingly prominent, this has become a driving force for studying the impact of geopolitics on the economy. With the development of the global economy, international economic and trade cooperation organizations such as the OECD play an important role in the global integrated economy, focusing on OECD coun
This thesis investigates the spatial governance challenges arising from the interaction of two policy fields: nature-based solutions (NbS) and urban densification in Lund, Sweden. The study explores multiple areas of interest, these areas are; (1) how actors collaborate within the planning process, (2) which actors pursue NbS and densification, and (3) what challenges and possibilities that exist
Background: Change is something all organizations experience, and in the fast-paced business-world that is today, the ability to change needs to be higher than ever. The problem is, individuals hate change, it is in our genes to resist it, which complicates how organizations can navigate the change-landscape. To solve this, new ways to work with change arise every day and the latest trend: change
The transition to a circular economy is increasingly recognized as a strategic pathway toward sustainability and resilience. However, implementation remains complex due to geopolitical uncertainty and conflicting institutional logics. This thesis explores how European companies that supply sustainable packaging solutions to the hotels, restaurants, and catering sector navigate the tensions between
This Master’s Thesis showcases two new time dependent calibration methods for the mean reversion parameter in the one-factor Hull-White model and evaluates their performance by hedging of a Bermudan swaption. The model is calibrated to market-implied swaption volatilities using a time-varying volatility approach. Particular emphasis is placed on a rigorous mathematical derivation of the model and
This thesis aims to create a personalised recommendation system for tourist attractions based on users’ individual preferences. Using a TripAdvisor dataset filtered down to ten European capital cities, two deep learning models are compared: neural collabora- tive filtering and its extended transformer-based architecture. To address the imbalance encountered in the dataset (where ratings of four an
Detta arbete syftar till att redogöra för skillnader i olika sätt att öva in dubbeltunga vid fagottspel, att testa dessa metoder, och att bedöma och reflektera kring vilken av metoderna som är den lämpligaste avseende jämnhet, flexibilitet och lämplighet i förhållande till musikalisk kontext. Metoderna har flera inbördes likheter men också vissa avgörande skillnader. I resultatdelen konstateras atThis work aims to present differences in various ways of learning double-tonguing on the bassoon, to try the presented methods, and to discuss and reflect in order to determine which of the presented methods is the best regarding evenness, flexibility, and suitability in a musical context. All of the methods have some common similarities but also defining differences. The conclusion is that the Ma
Art funds are gaining traction as an alternative asset class, yet investors must often weigh financial returns against ethical objectives such as promoting diversity in the art market. This bachelor’s thesis investigates how these two motives interact by asking: How do ethical and financial drivers shape individual investors’ willingness to allocate capital to art funds? A two-part online survey
This thesis examines how the European Union’s recent development towards binding regulations on Human Rights Due Diligence and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure, particularly the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive have impact on Chinese companies and China’s regulatory framework. These laws require companies to ide
The rise of manipulated visual content on digital platforms (whether through artificial intelligence, photo editing software, or simple filters) has led to growing concerns around misinformation. This thesis investigates the use of deep learning models, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), to detect fake images. Several architectures derived from pretrained models (in which we added
This thesis investigates whether incorporating the Christoffersen independence test into regulatory backtesting frameworks can enhance financial stability by improving the detection of systemic risk. Using daily Value-at-Risk and profit-and-loss data from 13 major international banks over 2018–2022, the study distinguishes between clustered and isolated VaR exceptions, applying event studies and p
In recent decades, international human rights law has encountered growing challenges and opportunities at the same time, posed by regimes that, while maintaining democratic appearances such as free and fair elections, adopt authoritarian practices questionable with liberal rule-of-law stand-ards. This phenomenon, has being referred to as "illiberalism," reflecting a ris-ing tension betw
IPH, specifically men's lethal violence against females, persists as a persuasive issue, both internationally and nationally. This is despite political reforms such as the 2020 legal amendment addressing such violence. In response to contemporary concerns and to analyse the phenomena deeper, this thesis focuses on the narratives, dynamics, and motives presented in court rulings concerning IPH
This thesis explores a central question in the macroeconomic debate today: Why has Europe`s economic growth lagged behind the United States in recent decades? The study specifically examines if this divergence in part can be explained by differences in digitalization and energy prices. By employing an OLS panel data model with country specific effects – modelling the two samples of EU15 countries
This thesis examines the legal conformity of Special Tax Zones (STZs) with the principle of non-discrimination under European Union (EU) law, especially when these zones are exempt from State aid rules. STZs are most of the time geographic tax regimes that provide advantages to companies according to their location or their needs in the context of regional development difficulties. Although freque
Social sustainability remains the most diffuse and least developed of the three pillars of-sustainability, often overshadowed by its environmental and economic counterparts. As-Geographic Information System (GIS) continues to emerge as a powerful tool in urban-planning and policy-making, its potential to address social dimensions of sustainability-is increasingly recognized but still underexplored
Vi har under vår ämneslärarutbildning i musik på Musikhögskolan i Malmö upplevt och blivit intresserade av projektbaserat lärande som ett arbetssätt för att skapa inkluderande, meningsfull och kreativ musikundervisning. Frågeställningarna i studien är: (i) Hur förhåller sig informanterna till projektbaserat lärande? (ii) Hur arbetar informanterna med projektbaserat lärande utifrån sin förståelse aDuring our teacher training program in music at the Malmö Academy of Music, we have experienced and become interested in project-based learning as an approach to creating inclusive, meaningful and creative music education. The questions this thesis poses are: (i) How do the informants relate to project-based learning? (ii) How do informants implement project-based learning in accordance with their
