Several governments recently adopted strategies to facilitate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), one of the reasons being the pursuit of sustainability – a claim with little scientific grounding so far. In this thesis, I strived to outline the scope of AI’s potentials by showing i) the limits of its theoretical and practical usefulness and ii) the political barriers to using it for s

This thesis regards a research to the implementation of the GAAR in the Netherlands. It focuses on the PPT and the ATAD GAAR. According to the Dutch government, there is no need for implementing a GAAR, since it is covered by the fraus legis doctrine. According to this research, there are however some differences between the doctrine and the GAARs. The PPT has a focus on the subjective test, whil

Studien syftar till att undersöka hur musiklärarstudenter talar om sina upplevelser av självmedkänsla och hur deras upplevelse påverkar deras musicerande. Detta undersöks efter att begreppet självmedkänsla introducerats för informanterna (musiklärarstudenterna). Vidare undersöks i studien hur musiklärarstudenter talar kring begreppet i relation till sin kommande lärarroll. Studien bygger på kvalitThe purpose of the study is to examine how music-teacher students talk about their experience of self-compassion and how their experiences affect their playing. This is examined after the term is introduced to the informants (the music-teacher students). The study also examines how music-teacher students talk about the term in relation to their future profession as music teachers. The method used

This is a qualitative interview study, which aims to examine what encounters between transgender people and social workers may look like. We also wanted to understand the mistrust that transgender people may experience towards social services. The study encompasses four semi-structured interviews, three of which are with social workers, and one is with a transgender woman who has been in contact w

This thesis problematizes the consumption of meat and animal-derived foods in the age of climate change. Despite vast empirical data showing the detrimental effects related to animal agriculture, there is a general reluctance to stop consuming animal-based foods. In order to investigate the reasons for this reluctance, qualitative interviews were chosen as a research method. Using Norway as a case

From a reputation of an industrial and trading city, Aalborg has changed into a contemporary university city, with a strong development of creative clusters in knowledge-based industries. Nowadays the Vækstaksen, an urban growth axis set by the municipality, has become the driving force in the city’s development to avoid further sprawl. A great part of East Aalborg belongs to this axis and is curr

Semiconductors composed of group III and group V elements have a variety of promising applications, such as topological insulators and quantum computers. Among this category of semiconductors, bismuth (Bi)-containing III-V compounds are able to make these applications possible. However, the difficulty was found to alloy Bi atoms into the host lattice. To solve the problem of material fabrication,

In recent decades, digitalisation has been a catalyst for economic growth, along which a vital need emerged for contemporary organisations to rapidly anticipate and react to changes. Organisational change is thus a recognised and widely researched topic within the literature. As we study a software implementation, executed as planned change project, we take on a process perspective on change, part

Dance as an art form is strongly connected to the experience of movement. Dance is also connected to the experience that occur in the relation between the audience and the performers on stage. Therefore, information is based on subjective impressions. It’s something limited and framed in a certain time and space that arises, lives and dissolves in the body and in the now. To add the archival funct

Under-five mortality in rural and urban areas in Tanzania is of critical national concern as is also the case in other developing countries. Within Tanzania, mortality rates vary greatly by region, with some regions having much higher mortality rates than others. The government of Tanzania has made substantial progress in reducing the under-five mortality rate. Despite the strategies introduced by

The mechanisms behind the positive first day market-adjusted return of IPOs on the American and Canadian markets is examined from 2000 through 2018. A set of financial variables is tested as well as the industry-specific effect and the effect of being venture capital backed. Interaction terms between industry and venture capital backing are created to identify the effect of being venture capital i

The number of drug prescriptions has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, benzodiazepine prescriptions being a prime example with an increase of 67 percent between 1996 and 2013. Benzodiazepines are usually prescribed for anxiety; a disease marijuana has been proven to have a small yet observed effect on. Simultaneously with the increase in benzodiazepine prescriptions, mental health has

För att ett land ska ha ett fullt fungerande civilt försvar måste alla aktörer utföra sina arbetsuppgifter på ett bra och effektivt sätt. Syftet med examensarbetet är att få en djupare inblick och förståelse om hur dagens civila försvar ser ut, främst med fokus på den kommunala räddningstjänsten. Målet med arbetet är att kartlägga hur den kommunala räddningstjänsten ser på den hotbild som finns ocFor a country to be able to have a fully functional civil defense must every involved actor perform their tasks in a good and efficient way. The purpose with this report is to get a deeper insight and understanding about the structure of today’s civil defense, with focus on the municipal rescue service. The aim of the report is to map how the municipal rescue service looks at the threat scenario a

Governance of environmental resources plays a key role in enhancing or hindering progress towards peace in post-conflict societies. Two years after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government of Colombia, new dynamics on natural resource and land-use are leading to environmental harm in some regions. Highlands and páramo (high-ele

Denna studie tittar på hur användandet av molntjänster påverkar komplexiteten i IT-miljön. Studien tittar både på konsumenter av molntjänster och leverantörer av molntjänster. Genom intervjuer hittas flera områden hos respondenterna där komplexiteten i IT-miljön både ökat och minskat genom användandet av molntjänster. Områden där komplexiteten ökar är genom att fler system introduceras i IT-miljön

The aim of this study were to explore how social workers experience their autonomy and discretion, related to their responsibilities. Social workers are challenged to meet the client’s needs, while responding to the organization’s resources and the law in the society. This results in a stressful work environment, with overwhelming work pressures. Furthermore, the study aimed to explore how the soc

This thesis aimed to identify what arguments are made and who is dominating the discourse about climate engineering in German newspapers. Climate engineering refers to methods that deliberately change the environment as a means to combat climate change. To answer these questions, the author conducted a Critical Discourse Analysis of articles about climate engineering published in German newspapers

This study investigated whether change communication can be related to employees’ attitude towards a transition to an Activity based workplace (ABW). A quantitative study was conducted in collaboration with a company and the participants of the survey were the employees at the company. This study’s results have in several ways presented that there is a relationship between change communication and

The EU has a normative character in its foreign policy. While dealing with its relationship with the neighbours, the EU pays attention to exporting its norms. The enlargement policy is evidence of the EU’s normative power. However, from ENP to EaP, the EU seems not so effective in promoting normative changes in the target states. The existing researches lack a deep and comprehensive analysis of th