This research explores the promotional discourses the neoliberal experts and politicians use to legitimise the stipend shortages to the students, whose interests this policy contradicts. The thesis argues that the proponents of the reform established the dialogue with the opposition in order to avoid the large-scale protests against the policy. The study suggests that the policy promotion opens up

Heltäckande riskbedömning av kontaktallergiframkallande ämnen med cellbaserade metoden GARD®skin Metoden GARD®skin identifierar kontaktallergiframkallande ämnen med hög noggrannhet. Genom att sätta koncentrationen mot svarsvärdet av GARD®skin i en dos-responskurva kan metoden potentiellt utvecklas för att även klassificera styrkan och effektiviteten av ämnens förmåga att orsaka kontaktallergi. Allergic contacts dermatitis is a major health problem in the world and the disease is caused by a type IV hypersensitivity to a small chemical called a hapten. These substances are common in cosmetics, perfumes, pharmaceuticals and house-hold products, and risk factors include both inherent factors and frequent or high exposure. Hazard assessment and potency classification of sensitizers are ther

Structural transformation is a broad concept that has been widely argued to be of great importance for long-run economic growth. A common historical pattern highlights the labour shift out of agriculture towards manufacturing and industry sectors as the main characteristic of structural transformation. Today, large parts of the world are industrialized, as a result of a successful structural chang

Det är ofta arkitekter får frågan “Varför ritar ni så fula hus nuförtiden?”. Majoriteten lekmän tycks föredra estetiken hos äldre hus framför det som byggs idag. Ämnet är aktuellt i olika medier, men problemet är att det sällan bedrivs en konstruktiv diskussion mellan de två sidorna. Förespråkarna för en mer traditionell arkitektur smutskastar arkitekterna och arkitekterna hånar kritikerna. I mittArchitects are often asked the question ”Why do you design such ugly buildings nowadays?”. The majority of laymen seem to prefer the aesthetics of, what might be referred to as period or traditional houses, to what we build today. The issue is being much discussed in the media, but in general, the discussions are not constructive. People that advocate a traditional architecture excoriate architect

Trots att det idag är krav på vägledande markeringar finns det i dagsläget lite kunskap om i vilken utsträckning de faktiskt gör nytta. Det är därför av intresse att studera om människor verkligen tittar på dessa i en utrymningssituation. Denna studie undersöker huruvida människor observerar vägledande markeringar där tre olika skylttyper testats för att se om det finns skillnader. De tre skylttyThe use of exit signage is legally regulated even thought there is a lack of knowledge regarding the extent to which they help. It’s therefore of interest to study if people actually look at them in an evacuation situation. This thesis examines whether people observe exit signage, whereas three different sign types are tested to conclude differences. The three tested types were normal, illuminate

During the last few years the Swedish currency has depreciated against the Euro and the US-dollar, despite the Swedish economy growing faster than expected. Disagreement in prior research regarding exchange rate fluctuations among with the situation in Sweden, is the motivation behind this report. This paper examines the factors responsible for the depreciation of the Swedish Krona in 2018, based

Då tidigare forskning visar en brist på överensstämmelse hos konsumenters attityder och beteende i förhållande till hållbar konsumtion (se Picket-Baker & Ozaki 2008), syftar denna studie till att undersöka existensen av detta påstådda attityd- och beteendegap, även kallat konsumtionshyckleri, på konsumenter i Sverige. Vidare bidrar studien till ytterligare kunskap kring detta konsumtionshyckle

In this Master Thesis we aim to evaluate the Robust Header Compression protocol in cel- lular IoT. The initial results show that RoHC may decrease the energy consumption signif- icantly due to its reduction of the header size. The reduction in the header size decreases the required transmission window which in turn decreases the energy consumption. The result also show that Robust Header Compress

Leaving a sustainable society for our children is considered an arbitrary goal for the environmental work that is currently taking place in Sweden. Today, 140 million tonnes of non-hazardous waste is generated in Sweden, which is unsustainable. 31% of the non-hazardous waste is traced to the construction industry, the mining industry excluded. Today, the waste is an unused resource that is purchas

Bakgrund: Magnetisk resonanstomografi har blivit allt vanligare när det kommer till diagnostisering av sjukdomar. Det är inte ovanligt att patienter upplever obehag, ångest och oro i samband med MRT. Detta kan leda till att patienterna rör på sig under undersökningen vilket kan leda till rörelseartefakter och sämre bildkvalitet. I röntgensjuksköterskans kompetensbeskrivning står det att röntgensju

Det här examensarbetet har till avsikt att fördjupa och aktualisera kunskapen om vilka skolvägsutredningsmetoder som är bäst lämpade för att klarlägga en förbättrad trafikmiljö för barn. Arbetet består av två huvuddelar: den ena är en litteraturstudie som granskar tidigare kunskap inom området kring skolvägsutredningar och den andra delen består av skolvägsutredning via en digital respektive tradiThe aim of this master thesis is to study differences and similarities between two methods of investigation regarding children’s travel to school; a digital survey and a paper-based survey. This study subsequently collects information from children via these surveys regarding their travel habits, the reason for their modes of transport and how they perceive different factors in the transport envir

A study on the online process of producing idioms in writing and how second language learners manage the production and comprehension of idioms may provide a useful and comprehensive investigation of the production, comprehension and acquisition of language. The study in this paper investigated how Swedish (L1) second language learners of English (L2) produce and comprehend written idioms in the L

This study seeks to examine what experiences former unaccompanied children describe of social services in Sweden based on empowerment theory and narrative analysis. The population constitutes of six young males in the age of 18 to 25. All respondents have experiences of social services in Sweden as unaccompanied children, but none were in the process of seeking asylum during the time the study was

Lean is a concept and methodology created and developed in the automobile industry. Today it has become widely used in public service organizations in Sweden. The aim of this study was to examine how the Swedish Migration Agency communicates about why and how they have adapted Lean. Furthermore, it investigates how the Swedish Migration Agency in this process try to make their organization legitim

Tjänster från naturen - viktiga att värna vid planering av städer Vare sig vi vet det eller ej gynnas vi människor av funktioner som naturen fyller, vilka kan kallas för ekosystemtjänster. Medvetenheten om detta verkar förhållandevis hög i ett antal skånska kommuner. Av sex undersökta kommuner omnämner fem uttryckligen dessa tjänster i sina strategiska planeringsdokument och samtliga ger på ett eEcosystem services (ES) is an up-and-coming concept which refers to benefits humanity gets from functions provided by natural systems. Investigating how cities have embraced the ES concept within their urban planning is important in order to be able to assess the awareness of human dependence of nature’s functions and the potential of the ES concept to increase this awareness. In this study, plann

A Tale of Two Houses The Mazovian Plain is a geographic region in central Poland. The nothern stretch of the Plain consists of predominantly flat terrain cut by the rivers Bug and Narew, that flow into Vistula in the south. Unlike other parts of the historical district of Mazovia, the lands around the system of rivers remained a primeval woodland well into the first half of the 20th century. Nowad

En ny metod påstås kunna analysera störningar i elnätet i realtid med hjälp av befintliga mätinstrument. Genom att beräkna flöden av svängningsenergi kan olika generatorers roller i störningen visualiseras. Från kontrollrum kan störningskällor kopplas bort och generatorers bidrag till dämpning kontinuerligt utvärderas. Men bakgrunden till metoden är grumlig och tolkningen av svängningsenergin är oElectromechanical oscillations is a power system phenomenon where generator rotors oscillate, leading to oscillatory power flows. Damping of such oscillations is important for system stability. Forced oscillations is a special case where one faulty component is the source of the oscillation. This report concerns the Dissipating Energy Flow (DEF), which is an energy-based method for analysing dampi

László Krasznahorkai (b. 1954) is a Hungarian novelist known for his melancholic-dystopic themes and post-modern prose. He has received considerable critical acclaim, notably winning the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. He initially became famous, to a wider audience outside Hungary, through director Béla Tarrs adoption of his novels. Satantango is his debut novel and chronicles the miserab

Considering the fact that many people are oppressed because of their gender and race, whilst others are privileged because of theirs, we should reflect on the concept of intersectionality. This paper aims at reading Willa Cather’s My Ántonia from an intersectional perspective with the purpose of opening up for certain themes. In addition, it also sought to explore how reading the novel from an int