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Text analysis recently became a popular method to analyze the labor market in the field of research economics. This thesis uses an online Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to extract skills from two selected sectors of the Danish labor market between 2018 and 2021. The method uses topic modeling, where the keywords in the resulting topics are associated with skills, tasks or occupations. The resul

E-health services are critical for improving the quality of life and accessibility of healthcare. There have been multiple developments within e-health services, but the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant increase in the use of these services, which led to faster diffusion of e-health services. A qualitative study was conducted to examine how the Swedish public healthcare syste

This study scrutinizes the underlying factors of honor-related violence (HRV) and examines how women break away from honor-related violence. Four autobiographical stories written by vulnerable women who have been victims to honor-related violence have been analyzed. A qualitative narrative method has been used as an analysis method. The results of this study shows that factors such as honornorms,

This paper examines the remunicipalisation of elderly care in Lomma kommun in the context of previous remunicipalisation theory and with the background of New Public Management. In 2020 the municipality of Lomma kommun decided not to extend any contracts with external providers of elderly care, thus taking back all service in the hands of the municipality after the initial privatization in 2005. A

Present master thesis investigates the role of 4 chosen place-based educational initiatives in Austria which are actively engaged in local short food supply chains (SFSCs). Those supply chains are defined by close geographical and social relations between supply chain actors and a limited number of intermediaries. It aims to scrutinize to what extend such initiatives (can) foster consumer-producer

Den 24 februari 2022 invaderade Ryssland Ukraina vilket förändrade världshistorien. Syftet med studien är att genomföra en jämförande analys av hur den svenska och finska försvarsmakten kommunicerar kring kriget i Ukraina och vidare presenterar sin organisation på Instagram sedan kriget i Ukraina. Studien är avsedd att ge en förståelse för hur användningen av text och bild presenterar en militär oOn February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, changing world history. The aim of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of how the Swedish and Finnish armed forces communicate regarding the war in Ukraine and further present their organization on Instagram since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This study is intended to provide an understanding of how the use of text and image presents a

The paper's broader purpose is to explore how conspiracy narratives are used for influence operations. This is accomplished by comparing conspiracy narratives regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, being disseminated by the Swedish group Frihet Sverige in Eskilstuna, with narrative strategies being used toward Sweden, and narratives occurring in Russia. My first aim is to contribute with a local pers

Studien syftar till att undersöka medarbetares uppfattningar om intern kriskommunikation. I fallstudien studeras den svenska Försvarsmakten under de två första månaderna av kriget i Ukraina. Då tidigare forskning främst har fokuserat på det externa perspektivet av Försvarsmaktens kommunikation, avser denna studie att fylla det identifierade gapet gällande det interna perspektivet inom forskningsfäThe study aims to examine employees’ perceptions of internal crisis communication. The case study examines the Swedish Armed Forces during the first two months of the war in Ukraine. As previous research has focused on the external perspective of the Armed Forces’ communication, this study intends to fill the identified gap regarding the internal perspective. Through qualitative interviews, the re

In 2013, China became observer for the Arctic Council, and in 2018, its first official Arctic Policy Paper was published. In view of the Arctic’s fragile ecosystems and climate change, this thesis conducts a corpus-based discourse analysis on China’s narrative on the environment and sustainability between 2013 and 2021. Oran B. Young's framework, the 'Arctic Governance Mosaic' detangle

The scope of this analysis is to evaluate what may affect the percentage markup on new and used cars sold by dealerships across the United States. The essay will also take into account shocks to market demand and supply as relevant factors that may affect markup. Vertical pricing theory is applied to study what kind of relationship exists between the upstream firm (manufacturer) and the downstream

The top European football leagues are generating billions of euros in revenues each season and the selling of broadcasting rights is their primary source of income. The selling arrangements for these rights have been under investigation by competition authorities and the European Commission has ruled some of the practices to be in breach with European competition law. In the case of English Premie

The norm critical perspective aims to make visible the norms that influence the planning of snow removal in Sweden. Norms are everywhere around us and can only be challenged if first they are made visible. As previous research has focused on the technical implications of snow removal this essay aims to bridge the gap between the technical and the social aspects of snow removal. By conducting a cas

With climate change as our current greatest threat, it is necessary to reduce carbon emissions by decreasing fossil fuels. Indigenous movements have played a crucial role in combating climate change, especially with their resistance to pipelines. Their movements have had both successes and failures, meaning that more research is needed to examine what strategies are effective. This thesis applies

Syftet med denna studien var att undersöka hur kommunikation som sägs vara icke-stereotypisk framställer genus och utmanar eller reproducerar traditionella stereotyper i reklam. För att studera detta fenomen valdes det svenska företaget Estrid ut, som säger sig kommunicera till alla människor. Genom att studera detta fenomen har studien bidragit med kunskap kring hur visuell kommunikation kan bådeThis paper aimed to investigate how advertising stereotypes can be challenged or reproduced and how gender is performed, in the context of an allegedly non-stereotypical company. In order to investigate this matter, we conducted a multimodal social semiotic analysis of the Swedish company Estrid, whose razor blades are communicated to all humans. By analyzing various semiotic resources, the paper

Nik-related kinase: A New IL-10 Regulator Our body is constantly exposed to microscopic organisms called microbes. Some of these organisms are harmless while others are able to cause infection and damage. Thus, our body has defense mechanisms that include the immune system. Macrophages are cells that belong to the immune system and have key roles in defense against infection, wound healing, and r

E-handel och dess tillhörande system möjliggör affärstransaktioner över internet och populariteten att handla via e-handel i Sverige fortsätter att öka. När konkurrensen och antalet kedjor ökar är det viktigt för småföretag att utnyttja digitaliseringen och e-handelns möjligheter för att vara konkurrenskraftiga. Det finns begränsat med litteratur kring vilka utmaningar SMEs möter när de ska implem

Uncovering the role of PUS10 and RNA pseudouridylation in somatic cell reprogramming and cell fate determination RNA modifications are emerging as dynamic regulators of gene expression programmes in development and disease. The isomerisation of uridine to pseudouridine (Ψ) is the most widespread modification in living organisms. Previously thought to be a static RNA mark, Ψ is currently known to

This work is a qualitative comparative case study of popularizing activities at the Louvre in Paris (2015-2019) and the Historiska Museet in Stockholm (1999-2005). Throughout a press content analysis, the two museums’ take and initiative to promote the intelligibility of cultural knowledge is decrypted and then compared. This thesis shows how different standards and conceptions lead to a more cons

Background & Problems formulation: Johnson and Johnson (JnJ) is a world-famous pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The packaging team of JnJ spent too much time and money on current laboratory transportation testing, which is at the ending stage of the packaging development process. Currently, JnJ is doing its packaging transportation test fully in a laboratory, which means that they need to

Världen har fått röd flagg i klimatfrågan och måste akut sänka sina koldioxidutsläpp för att nå målen som sattes i Parisavtalet. Trots detta står IKT-sektorn för 2-6 % av världens växthusgasutsläpp och andelen förväntas växa kommande år. IKT behöver ta sitt ansvar för att bygga gröna applikationer. Det finns mycket forskning om grön mjukvaruutveckling, men knappt någon om man faktiskt använder pri