In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a scientific interest in how certain measures of disease control, such as lockdowns, affects different individuals and different communities. Through a queer-phenomenological approach, the purpose of the study is to offer queer insights of lockdown as a measure of disease control by exploring how queer people in London orientate and experienc

Denna uppsats undersöker den svenska tidningen Then Swänska Argus som gavs ut under åren 1732-1734. Tidningen undersöks med kontexten av en uppkomst av nationell identitet i Sverige under samma era. Uppsatsen undersöker hur Argus talar om Sverige och svenskarna, även samspelet mellan Argus och läsarna undersöks och Argus tilltal till läsarna undersöks. Uppsatsen undersöker om Argus bidrog till skaThis thesis examines the Swedish newspaper Then Swänska Argus published between the years 1732-1734 in the context of the emergence of a national identity during the same era. The thesis investigate how Argus talks about Sweden and the Swedes, as well as the interaction between the newspaper and the readers. Part of Benedict Anderson theory of the importance of the newspaper for a imagined communi

This thesis examines the effect of cognates on codeswitching in planned speech production in trilinguals, which has previously been unexplored. Previous studies on cognates and codeswitching have primarily focused on cognate facilitation effects in spontaneous speech in bilinguals. While experimental studies have gradually acknowledged the importance of investigating codeswitching in a sentence co

The present study aimed to further investigate the current state of gender stereotypes and their function in Swedish population in a two-fold way: Primarily by investigating the content of prescriptive stereotypes (how people should be) in relation to people’s self-views in gendered traits, and secondarily by investigating how people who behave stereotypically and counter-stereotypically are perce

This thesis analyses the effect of corruption on Kenya's low and fluctuant FDI inflows. Institutions have increasingly been crucial for all economic aspects, including FDI. As a component of institutions, corruption has been found to 'sand the wheels' of FDI and economic prosperity. To confirm this hypothesis, this paper employed an ARDL model and found that corruption had a negative a

Due to climate change, the average global sea level is rising. Consequently, flood protection is being discussed by cities all over the world. Out of all the proposed solutions for this, those that can offer something beyond the construction of high walls are the ones with the most value. We should create coastal protections that offer added value, for us humans as well as for the ecosystem we liv

This work aimed to optimize a multiclass reverse-phase HPLC-DAD chromatographic method and SPE method for the quantification of eight antibiotics in wastewater. Cefalexin, Levofloxacin, Nitrofurantoin, Doxycycline, Nalidixic Acid, Oxacillin sodium salt, and Cloxacillin sodium salt were separated with a C6-Phenyl (100 x 2 mm, 3.00 μm particle size) column within 10 minutes. Gradient elution was per

The aim of the thesis is to examine the change that the professional role of dental nurses has undergone and to see how a feminization of the profession maintain linguistic notions of gender, power structures and performativity. Since I started working as a dental nurse, I have taken an interest in its professional role and the beliefs that exist. Different power structures and beliefs how dental

Unsustainable use of natural resources has been the basis for economic growth since the industrial revolution. The linear model of extraction, processing, consumption and disposal has brought significant environmental consequences such as resource scarcity, pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change. The use of plastics is one example of unsustainable human behaviour. The use of them has offe

Implications: The study provides practical implications for brand managers at fashion companies that wish to improve their branding and sustainable strategy while aligning with consumers’ value. The proposed framework recommends several strategies for handling image-vision gap.Original/Value: This paper contributes to the narrow body of research on a complex phenomenon: brand activism and customers’ perception. It presents a new framework for analysing the relationship between the brand vision and brand image. Furthermore, it compares and contrasts the brand activism of two different fashion companies.

In 1993, Per Bak and Kim Sneppen proposed a model of co-evolution between species, where survival of a particular species affects the survival of its neighbouring species. In the discrete case of the model, each species, or an entry in a set with periodic boundary conditions, is an element x_i ∈ {0, 1}, in the set of size N, where x_i represents the fitness. An entry of the least fitness is chosen

Working from home, previously framed as the same concept as teleworking, is a practice that had already increased in the past decades, but the current health crisis (SARS-2 COVID19) exacerbated the number of home workers all of a sudden (Popovici & Lavinia, 2020). Thus, many workers were forced to manage the boundaries between work and home without experience nor the physical boundary that is

A Tale of Two Proteins: SepF2 and SepF3 You might have heard of antibiotic resistance, which is one of the biggest public health issues of our time. In addition to the measures that should be taken at all levels of society to combat this issue, research to identify new antimicrobial targets to alleviate the rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance has become crucial. Cell division proteins in bac

What does Candida have in common with vaginal microbiota? We share our body with millions of microbes, which share a common space and interact tightly. All the interactions between them are important for keeping a good microenvironment. However, there is always a disruption of what should be otherwise a comfortable place to live. Such changes can be subtle or can affect entire communities of micr

Research Problem and Objectives: Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Over the last years, scholars have discussed that climate change has disproportionate impacts on people as the result of their social, political and economic conditions. Such an argument has led to the inclusion of gender in the climate change debate. However, gender in the climate c

Källsortering är en viktig process för att kunna spara på jordens resurser. Genom källsortering kan våra naturresurser komma in i ett kretslopp där de återvinns eller återanvänds. Syftet med denna studie är att genom kvantitativ enkätundersökning ta reda på hur man kan motivera villahushållen i Helsingborg Stad till bättre källsortering och minskade avfallsmängder genom en mobilapp. Som framtida i

This thesis used Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis to study femvertisements communicated by Social Media Influencers on Instagram. A critical perspective was adopted to study the convergence of advertising and feminism in the context of social media. The aim of the study was to explore the prevalent discourses of female empowerment, the main component in femvertising, and how existing discourse

Vad är det minsta ni någonsin har mätt? Vad är den snabbaste händelsen ni någonsin observerat? Kanske har ni haft turen att studera naturen omkring er med hjälp av ett mikroskop, kanske har ni sett en "slow motion" film av explosioner som sker på endast en bråkdel av en sekund. Finns det någon begränsning på hur små objekt vi kan mäta, på hur snabba händelseförlopp vi kan observera? På In the search for a better understanding of the fundamental nature of the atom, the development of femtosecond pulsed laser sources has opened up for many applications, in particular in time-resolved physics. For many of those, like the generation of attosecond pulses through high-order harmonic generation, high intensity is needed and the quality of the beam is a critical factor. Most commonly,

Due to the industry 4.0 paradigm shift, manufacturing and pro-duction industries are focusing on Predictive maintenance (PdM) to increase production efficiency and maintenance strategies. Also, adopting data-driven approaches to implement PdM as a result of increased data usage and exchange. However, facing technical and non-technical challenges. Previous studies majorly concentrated on technologi

A Jacobian free multigrid preconditioner for linear problems arising from Implicit Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations is implemented. The preconditioner is based on a multigrid method for a low order Finite volume (FV) discretization on a subcellgrid. L2-projections are introduced as a strategy to translate between the discretizations. Numerical tests on advection dominated linear advecti