This essay will, essentially, analyse gender roles and the possible liberation from them in the novel Dare Me by Megan Abbott. In the novel, this possible emancipation has its starting point in cheerleading. The sport has since its birth been a symbol for certain gender roles. In the beginning it stood for masculine sportsmanship (strength) and later, for feminine showmanship (beauty). When cheerl

I den här studien undersöks behärskningen av relativsatser hos vuxna inlärare av svenska som andraspråk. Huvudsyftet är att se hur väl inlärarnas behärskning av olika typer av relativsatser stämmer överens med tre centrala hypoteser, Keenan & Comries Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy, Kunos Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis och Hamiltons SO Hierarchy Hypothesis. 17 informanter med engelska re

This paper investigates whether increasing the amount of control a learner has in his/ her learning increases his/her willingness to pay for that learning, or his/her reservation wage for a topic related task. Using a small scale online experiment, separating participants into two groups, each corresponding to a different treatment; one with control and one without, this paper found no significant

Genom att studera ett tv-spel med hjälp av en kvalitativ metod vill jag vissa på hur genus skapas inom spelets dramaturgi. Genom att beskriva min emperi och testa denna mot genusteorier vill jag vissa på en skev framställning av könen där mannen är centrerad och kvinnan lämnad till pereferin.

MiRNA molecules have the ability to regulate hundreds of gene expressions and play a central role in a wide range of biological processes. MiR-7 may be a potential tool and promising target to improve and optimize the growth characteristic and antibody productivity in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells which represent the most commonly used mammalian cell line for therapeutic recombinant protein pr

Ett hållbart samhälle är en fras som blir allt mer aktuell i dagens samhälle. I arbetet mot en hållbar utveckling innefattar det att människan bör lära sig att hantera begränsade resurser, så som olja eller fosfor, på ett sådant sätt att framtida generationer inte blir lidande av dagens användning. En av många viktiga åtgärder mot ett hållbart samhälle är minska användandet av energi. Denna studieThe oil crisis in the 1970’s made countries realize their dependence on oil; and with it a dependence of other countries. To be self-sufficient and to be able to decrease the impact of economic crises, such as the oil crisis, some countries have started searching for renewable alternatives for fossil fuels. In the same process the importance of saving energy has become another vital action towards

In Sweden, household waste is separated at the source, making the success of the recycling system largely depending on the active participation of households. In a well-established recycling system with functioning recycling infrastructure and information, the conditions for ‘recyclers’ and ‘non-recyclers’ are akin, indicating the external conditions, recycling infrastructure and information, not

Objective: Inflammation is associated with higher incidence of perinatal brain injury. To better understand the mechanisms behind these injuries, we have studied the immune cell trafficking into the central nervous system (CNS) through the choroid plexus (CP) in the newborn. Meth-ods: Inflammation was induced in newborn mice using two different toll-like receptor ago-nists: PAM3CSK4 (PAM) and lipo

This thesis aims to shed light on the impact of the so-called Pay as You Save® (PAYS ®) or on-bill programmes for energy efficiency improvements in the building sector. These programmes are based on an innovative financing model that was developed to overcome several barriers to the up-take of energy efficiency measures by households and businesses. From the consumer’s side, these barriers include

The fluctuations of the price in the energy market affect the households, firms and the government intuitions. We can perceive the information of the energy market from daily economic news. The entire society is concerned for the events that affect the energy market and the changing prices of the energy resources. It is thus meaningful and interesting to study the risk of the energy market. This p

Millenniemålen och Parisdeklarationen har kommit att dominera den internationella biståndspolitiken under 2000-talet. EU, världens största biståndsgivare, har åtagit sig att gå längre än deklarationerna i kampen för ökad biståndseffektivitet och minskad fattigdom. Uppsatsens övergripande syfte är att undersöka EU:s mål och medel för större och bättre bistånd. Med andra ord studeras unionens bistå

In this thesis three different methodologies to convert Point-in-Time (PIT) probability of default (PD) to Through-the-Cycle (TTC) PD are applied on a sample of large Danish firms for the period 2005-2014. These kind of methodologies are important for preventing pro-cyclicality in the capital requirement, i.e. how much capital banks need to hold in order to cope with unexpected losses. The methods

Denmark is the least corrupt country in the world, meaning that the country’s political system is characterized by openness and transparency. Danish politicians distance themselves from backroom deals and secret negotiations. The mediatization of politics has put pressure on the appearance of politicians and the need for employing spin doctors who can cope with the media is increasing in Western d

Social Mobile Apps: A Case Study of Carlsberg’s CrowdIt Purpose/Originality/Value: Through an analysis of the Carlsberg’s CrowdIt-App, the case study whishes to draw attention to three conceptual areas, which have received scant attention,namely social mobile application (app), culture, and strategic mobile campaigning. While some prominent Public Relations and Communication Management scholars ha

This report evaluates the consequences of fire in a cable shaft at one of SSAB's facilities. Available models of cable fire behavior and the state of knowledge of cable fires in various configurations have been evaluated. Furthermore, an assessment has been made of which areas that is in need of more research. The applicability of the cable fire models to the configurations in the cable shaft

This study analyses the situation of information and communication technologies in Turkey with making a comparison by applying social capability and catch up theory between Turkey and EU-27 countries ICT production, export, diffusion, and usage among individuals and households, between 2007 and 2013. However, development of ICT industry has started after the industrialization; production and techn

In this work, lipid nanoparticles were used as pseudostationary phase, PSP, for protein separation in capillary electrochromatography, CEC. The aim of the work was to use a new analytical separation technique for future analysis of protein drugs by using lipid nanoparticles as a pseudo-stationary phase with conventional UV-detection. PSP-CEC was combined with UV-detection to study proteins elution