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Liminal life at railway stations: An ethnographic investigation of commuters' everyday rituals

Building functional and effective railway station infrastructures has become a strategy to encourage sustainable mobility. Addressing on commuters, this thesis aims to investigate how station infrastructures frame commuters' commuting experience. Departing from the theory of rites of passage by Victor Turner, this thesis draws on autoethnography, interviews with six Øresund commuters and obser

The Business Case for Board Gender Diversity: Evidence from Swedish Firms

Gender diversity has gained a lot of attention in the corporate governance literature, reaching conflicting results whether board gender diversity has an impact on financial performance. As a consequence, we set out to investigate how board gender diversity affects financial performance through innovation using a mediation technique. We constructed three hypotheses grounded in the resource depende

NIB - A visualization tool for feature-level multi-omic data based on global metrics

NIB - Visualisering av biologins många ansikten. Livsvetenskaperna är ett samlingsnamn för forskningsgrenar som studerar biologiskt liv och dess förutsättningar. Området har vuxit snabbt de senaste åren och stora landvinningar har gjorts med ny teknisk utveckling. Teknikerna är dock behäftade med viss osäkerhet, då det kan vara svårt att skilja biologiska fynd från tekniska störelement. Jag har dLife-sciences have developed at a rapid pace during recent years. From experiments investigating single molecules such as proteins or single genes to large scale projects mapping entire organisms in one single experiment. However, data generated from this kind of large scale projects need to be interpreted and integrated with the base of prior knowledge in an efficient, reliable and correct way. T

"Man kan inte leva utan bibblan"

This paper is about our relation to the physical book in our homes, the use and how we choose to store it, and the use of it in libraries with focus both on the visitors and the libraries itself. For a closer loook about the physical books status, the theoretic aspects is used for at look at the physical books as a product for our way to preciate the book, booth by economy and personal relations.

Annebergsskolan - en undersökning av normkritiska pedagogiska rum

The thesis investigates how a norm-critical perspective on learning can impact the architectural design, and the aim is not to challenge the school as a form but to mediate a more supportive learning environment. The norm-critical, feminist and public pedagogy highlights the necessity of change towards collective learning with the individual in mind that includes introvert and extrovert personalit

Metal binding in eumelanin- A study on coordination of copper and zinc in modern eumelanin from Sepia officinalis and in Jurassic eumelanin from Loligosepia

Melaniner är en grupp pigment som förekommer hos en rad olika organismer tillhörande växter, djur och bakterier. Människor har melanin i huden, vilket skyddar mot solens farliga UV-strålning, men även i ögonen, hjärnan, inneröronen, håret, och i vissa organ. Melaniner kan delas upp i eumelanin, som har en brun till svart färg, och feomelanin, med en gul till röd färg. Det är bland annat andelen avMelanin is a group of pigments present in almost all kingdoms of life. It has many interesting properties such as high fossilizing potential and the ability to chelate metals. The binding of metal ions is believed to have two major functions within biological systems: metal reservoir and metal scavenger. However, eumelanin’s chemical structure is still unknown and there is a knowledge gap regardin

Local and regional drivers of fish metacommunities in a temperate river catchment

Vad händer bakom stängda luckor? Människan har sedan urminnestider försökt förstå hur naturen fungerar. Länge har vi anat varför en fiskart, eller flera fiskarter, återfinns i en specifik miljö. Nog måste ni hört ”gäddan lurar i vassen”? Miljöfaktorerna fungerar då som ett filter, där enbart de arter som är anpassade och konkurrenskraftiga för den specifika platsen tar sig genom filtret och överlIn the last couple of decades, it has become apparent in ecology that community structure can be governed by both local (e.g. abiotic and biotic filtering) and regional processes (e.g. dispersal) – known as Metacommunity theory. However, management and restoration projects have lagged, still mostly focusing on the local environment for the benefit of certain species or communities – leading to fai

Den lilla parken i den stora staden

Små parker med vatteninslag och blandad struktur är bäst för Malmöbor Den rådande stadsplaneringstrenden är att förtäta städer. Detta har många fördelar, men städer med mycket hårdgjord yta är också känsligare för klimatförändringar. Genom att planera för gröna ytor på platser som inte är lämpade att bygga hus på kan man hjälpa till att klimatsäkra staden. Målet med detta arbete var att identifieThis study aimed to examine how pocket parks should be designed in order to promote visits from the inhabitants in Malmö, as well as which of six design is the best from an ecological perspective. By examining these two aspects the goal was to identify how a pocket park can be designed to work as a multifunctional place in the city. Firstly, a literature study was carried out in order to identify

Re-thinking green roof design : The prospect of a carbon sink structure investigated through a life cycle cost-benefit analysis

Green Roofs (GRs) have been used worldwide as a solution for greening cities, while providing useful services to society such as storm water management, improved air quality, energy savings, and increased biodiversity, to name a few. However, the environmental impact of their structure has been understudied, and more importantly, the carbon cost related to the use of materials that have a high car

Hur bekämpar vi klimatpåverkan tillsammans?

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om företag inom besöksnäringen använder sig av mitigation policyer och CSR vid utveckling av sina hållbarhetsstrategier. Undersökningen behandlar vilken betydelse samverkan har på en lokal nivå vid implementering av företags inom besöksnäringens hållbarhetsstrategier, som CSR och mitigation policyer, och hur detta kan bidra till företags hållbarhetsarbete. För

The role of education technologies in Colombia

According to the UNESCO, the COVID-19 outbreak has forced millions of students to take virtual classes. For that reason, more than 80% of Higher Education institutions expect a big disruption in the sector in the next five years and 60% of them in the next 24 months (Holon IQ,2020). In Colombia, the big disruption is much needed. Currently, Physical Higher Education holds the lead regarding the pe

Friends with Emotions: Cross-cultural and friendship habit differences in the recognition of facial emotions between two individualistic cultures

Cultural differences in emotion recognition have been found numerous times in the literature, especially when emotions are presented in social context (Masuda, 2017). However, we need to find a socioecological difference that explains such differences as current theoretical viewpoints fail to explain why these differences only arise later in life. This study aims to see if friendship habits, how w

Förekomsten av historia i Moderna språk: en jämförande analys ur ett bildningsperspektiv

Många läroböcker i Moderna språk innehåller stora delar historia, vilket tycks svara mot en idé om att eleverna ska lära sig om t.ex. Frankrikes historia när de studerar franska, trots att ingenting sägs om detta i Skolverkets läroplan. Denna uppsats undersöker utifrån ett bildningsperspektiv klyftan mellan styrdokument och den verklighet som läroböckerna utgör. Syftet är att, genom en jämförande

Transformation of the Developmental State: A Comparative Case Study on South Korea and Taiwan

This thesis has attempted to show the process of transformation from the developmental state in South Korea and Taiwan since the 1990s on the perspective of the four main elements of the developmental state in strong capacity of state, coherent bureaucracy, government-business coalition and industrial policy. Based on these four dimensions, the thesis investigated the evolved process from the deve

Determination of depositional environment and luminescence dating of Pleistocene deposits in the Biely Váh valley, southern foothills of the Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

Tatrabergen, som ligger i västra delen av Karpaterna, har upplevt flera nedisningar under kvartärtiden. Avsättningarna i sluttningarna längs bergens södra sida har klassificerats som glacifluviala, baserat på geomorfologi, men har inte undersökts i detalj tidigare. Det här projektet fokuserar därför på att etablera avsättningshistoria och -processer samt avlagringarnas ålder i ett grustag i Biely The Tatra Mountains have had several glaciations during the Quaternary. The deposits located in the southern foothills were classified as glacifluvial, based on geomorphology, but its sediments have not been studied in detail. Therefore, this project focused on establishing the depositional history, processes, and age of the deposits in a gravel pit, located in the Biely Váh valley in these foothi

Molecular structures and market potential of functionalized and chemically modified wood fibers

En av de allra största utmaningarna världen står inför idag är beroendet av fossila bränslen. För att möjliggöra en hållbar framtid för kommande generationer måste vi minska beroendet av fossila råvaror och utveckla användningen av förnyelsebara resurser. Utvecklingen av förnyelsebara material är ett område som kan göra en stor skillnad i vägen mot en mer hållbar framtid. Med det enorma behovet avWith a mission to reduce the dependency of fossil-based plastics, the collaboration company to this master thesis project has developed and patented a technology that enables plastic production from wood fibers. The fibers of the company have been chemically treated in order to be more “plastic like” and thereby easier to mix and disperse with conventional or biobased plastics, to create a granula

Making sense of distance. Mobility in staycation as a case of proximity tourism

Purpose: The aim of this dissertation is to explore mobility in a proximity tourism context. Mobilities are being widely discussed in connection to society, everyday life, and tourism as a whole. Thus, it focuses on the staycation phenomenon as a case of proximity tourism. In particular on its representations in the digital media and as a local travel practice in Sweden. Considering that tourism i

Klimat & Konsumtion – En diskursanalys av offentliga texter om bilar och utsläpp

Sverige har satt upp mål om att bli fossilfritt till år 2030. Detta mål avses uppnås genom politisk styrning och riskhantering, bland annat genom en nära 90 procentig förnyelse av den svenska fordonsflottan. Denna reglering påverkar både individen och samhället. Becks (2000) begrepp risksamhället beskriver ett samhälle vars främsta syfte är att hantera abstrakta risker till följd av industrialiser

Determinants of distributed PV systems in Brazil

In this thesis determinants of distributed PV uptake in Brazil are estimated over a period from 2012 to 2019. To provide a deeper inside into the distributed PV market, a municipality-based panel regression is used to estimate determinants of PV consumer units and installed potential. The results indicate that most PV systems are located in the South and Southeast of the country, where PV potentia