On the 18th of January 2022, Microsoft presented big news for one certain industry. They were about to make an acquisition, bigger than any previous ones, that would help them compete against other brands in the battle of the upcoming metaverse. The question is whether Microsoft is biting off more than one can chew or if they are actually making an investment that can support their future growth.

Most people are somehow dependent on digital devices to make their everyday life work. Ever since the advent of the Internet, the digital world has become larger and more complex with each passing decade. This study examines whether it is possible to apply Henri Lefebvre's theory "Production of Space" to a Metaverse under construction. All the people who have been interviewed in the

På senare år har korruption i internationella affärstransaktioner blivit till ett växande problem. Den internationella viljan att förebygga korruption har ökat i takt med att kunskapen om korruptionens skadliga verkningar blivit större. Detta har resulterat i en rad mellanstatliga instrument som Sverige anslutit sig till. Instrumenten ålägger medlemsstaterna att enskilt inrätta effektiva system geIn recent years, corruption in international business transactions has become a growing problem. Internationally, the will to prevent corruption has grown as knowledge about the harmful effects of corruption has increased. This has resulted in a number of intergovernmental instruments to which Sweden has acceded. These instruments require Member States to individually set up effective systems in w

Det får anses vedertaget att barn är en särskilt utsatt grupp världen över. Gifta barn, som dessutom är asylsökande, är alldeles särskilt sårbara. Insikten om detta bör genomsyra all lagstiftning som avser barn, där barnets bästa ska sättas i främsta rummet. Uppsatsens övergripande syfte har varit att undersöka ett i utlandet gift barns rätt att i Sverige återförenas med sina föräldrar. Syftet haIt may be considered accepted that children are a particularly vulnerable group worldwide. Married children, who are also asylum seekers, are particularly vulnerable. The realization of this should permeate all legislation concerning children, where the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. The overall purpose of the essay has been to investigate a child married abroad righ

Syftet med denna explorativa tvärsnittsstudie var att undersöka huruvida ålderism skiljer sig mellan rekryterare och icke-rekryterare samt undersöka om det finns en korrelation mellan olika maktmotiv, personlighetsdrag samt arbetsmotivation och negativa attityder mot äldre. Data insamlades genom en enkät med totalt 123 respondenter av vilka 44 arbetade med rekrytering. Respondenterna rekryterades The purpose of this exploratory cross-sectional study was to examine whether ageism differs between recruiters and non-recruiters and to investigate if there exists a correlation between different power motives, personality traits and workmotivation and negative attitudes towards the elderly. The data was collected through a questionnaire with a total of 123 respondents of which 44 worked with rec

This is a case belonging to the master case series of the course Corporate Brand Management and Reputation. In this case we present the rebranding of University of Warwick. Upon its 50th birthday, the administration decided to launch a new logo which faced backlash from the students resulting in a petition to stop it.

The aim of the study was to examine the insight and understanding that treatment professionals built around the relatively new drug pattern with tramadol use among adolescents. The research approach was social constructivist and the research method semi-structured interviews. Five clinics and a total of eight professionals in social work and psychiatry were selected for the research. The professi

Bakgrund Anorexia nervosa (AN) är en av de psykiatriska sjukdomarna med högst dödlighet. Trots att första fallet upptäcktes redan år 1689 så finns det idag ännu inte någon tillräckligt effektiv behandling, i alla fall inte för vuxna. Viktfobi och en överdriven kroppsfixering utmärker sjukdomen. AN är vanligast bland flickor i tonåren och nästan 3% av alla tonåringar är drabbade. En ökning i antal Background/Aim: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious psychiatric disorder with one of the highest mortality rates of all psychiatric diagnoses. Today there is no approved pharmacological treatment of Anorexia Nervosa. The aim of this study is to investigate if there is some effective and safe pharmacological treatment of the core symptoms of Anorexia nervosa (AN) by conducting a systematic review. T

Several physiological changes in the speech production process in old age have been documented, yet studies of cognitive changes are few and inconclusive. The current study investigates changes in rates of disfluencies, rates of speech errors and speech rate to examine if speech fluency changes throughout the adult lifespan, as well as whether the influence of task complexity on fluency remains co

Palsa mires are typical wetland landscapes of the Arctic regions, consisting of mosaics of palsas (raised formations of peat and permafrost) and shallow ponds, all embedded in wet mires. These heterogeneous habitats support rich and abundant wader populations, which breed there during the short Arctic summer. Although being threatened by climate change, relatively little is known about the ecologi

Det finns idag ett växande intresse för psykologisk forskning för att se hur skamkänslan påverkar individer som befinner sig i en utsatt situation i vårt välfärdssamhälle. I ett försök att belysa hur den enskilde tjänstetagaren upplever bemötandet från myndighetspersoner har ett kvalitativt synsätt använts i denna studie. Med hjälp av ett hermeneutiskt förhållningssätt genomfördes sju semistrukturThere is today a growing interest in psychological research to see how the feeling of shame affects individuals who are in vulnerable situation in our welfare society. In an attempt to shed light on how the individual servicerecipient experiences the treatment from government officials, a qualitative approach was adopted in this study. Using a hermeneutic approach, seven semi-structured interviews

Behovet av mer miljövänliga lösningar har aldrig varit större än idag. Mängden koldioxidutsläpp ökar ständigt, vilket leder till ökad mängd koldioxid i atmosfären. Vid tillverkning av plast används idag vanligtvis olja som råmaterial, men man kan använda biobaserat råmaterial i stället såsom socker. I Sverige produceras socker av sockerbetor. En restprodukt är då melass en tjock sirapsliknande socMolasses is a low value by-product from sugar production that is usually used for animal feed, bioethanol fermentation, and yeast growth substrate. Even though it is a by-product and most of the sugar have been taken out the molasses still contains a fair amount of sugar that can be used for production of HMF, a biobased platform chemical with many areas of application, for example as a feedstock

In recent years, experimental studies on gender assignment to borrowings in languages such as German and Dutch have observed variation in gender assignment in relation to dialectal areas, among other factors. However, many issues related to gender assignment have yet to be fully understood, and the sociolinguistic variation has not been properly investigated. The objective of the present study is

Alfa Laval has a wide product range for plate heat exchangers that can be applied in most industries. The constant development of new and old heat exchangers drive the need for new and efficient methods that can reliably be used in the development process. In this thesis, a new turbulence model within a computational fluid dynamics-program has been tested and evaluated for one of Alfa Lavals comme

This report details a project I undertook with Lument AB, a company developing a new oral contrast agent that patients drink before CT-scans. The new formula has multiple benefits over current contrasts agents on the market for both patients and radiologists, however, it is harder for nurses to prepare. In the project, I research the feasibility of a medical device capable of preparing the contra

In this study a module for calculating the solar exposure of individual fluid cells was developed to more accurately represent the effect of photolysis on the pollutant dispersion in an urban street canyon. The module was tested and validated on 12 different cases, each with a different geographical location, time of year and/or time of day. It was used for four parallel simulations performed on a