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Checking in on the Free Markets Personality Tests Evaluating the HumanGuide Test - Psychometric Challenges and Its Alignment With the Big Five Model

The expanding market for psychometric tests faces challenges due to the spread of unvalidated tools. The adoption of popular but scientifically unsupported assessment tools can lead to ineffective hiring and misinformed decisions. This thesis aimed to evaluate and conduct a psychometric analysis of a commercially accessible forced-choice personality test - HumanGuide. Archival data (supplied by Hu

Estimation of the fake background for the doubly charged Higgs boson production in the ATLAS experiment

The existence of doubly charged Higgs bosons (H±±) is predicted by several theories beyond the Standard Model that aim to explain the origin of neutrino masses. These particles are expected to decay into same-sign lepton pairs H±± → ℓ±ℓ±. At the LHC, they are produced predominantly via the Drell–Yan process, resulting in four-lepton final states. Due to the rarity of events involving doubly charge

Soft tissue microscopy with X-ray grating interferometry

Grating-based X-ray interferometry is a promising imaging technique for visualizing soft biological tissues such as muscles or lungs, which are often difficult to distinguish using conventional absorption-based X-ray imaging. It enables the retrieval of absorption, 2 directional differential phase and dark field signal from a single shot measurement. In this work a single grating imaging experimen

Den sen- och postglaciala landskapsutvecklingen i Tvååker, Halland

I Tvååker, Halland drivs ett projekt som heter Naturplats Tvååkers Mosse. I denna naturplats ska ett antal informationsskyltar sättas upp för att informera besökare om landskapets utveckling sedan den senaste istiden. Detta arbete utgör grunden för den information som berör bildningen av ett antal ryggformer: en serie ändmoräner och en strandvall belägna kring projektplatsen. Frågorna på när och hIn Tvååker, Halland a project by the name of Naturplats Tvååkers Mosse is under development. The project is a nature area to be opened to the public, and is aimed to inform visitors of how the landscape has developed since the latest ice age. To do this, a number of signs are to be put up, including information for which this report serves as a basis. The report focuses on a number of landforms in

Robotic Free-Form Timber

This thesis investigates the potential of manufacturing load-bearing free-form timber using a six-axis industrial robot. Free-form timber curvature in this context refers to timber planes that can rotate freely along x, y, and z axes, resulting in non-planar curvature forms. The motivation behind this thesis is to explore how renewable materials can be integrated with robotic fabrication to produc

Kill Bill: Does the EU AI Act actually kill innovation?

As a solution to the problem of AI systems failing to detect critical health issues, the “Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations”, later referred as “the AI Act”, was enacted. This study aims to gain a better understanding of the impact of the EU AI Act on medical compa

Enhancing PhenoCam Annotation Efficiency via Transfer Learning: Focus on Snow and Image Quality

Globally, automated ecological cameras (PhenoCam) are widely used to monitor vegetation and seasonal changes. Snow is usually easy to identify, but image quality flags (like haze, glare) can make it hard to detect in large datasets. Manual quality control becomes prohibitively time-intensive for large-scale phenological studies, creating a critical need for robust automated snow detection methods.

An Exploration of Siderophore Production in Bacterial Isolates from Icelandic Hot Springs

Thermophilic microorganisms represent a promising but underexplored source of thermostable siderophores — iron-chelating metabolites with potential applications in bioremediation, agriculture, and medicine. This study investigated three thermophilic bacterial strains isolated from Icelandic hot springs for their ability to produce siderophores under iron-limited conditions. Fermentations were carr

Development of cell assays for exploration of novel immunotherapeutic drugs for cancer treatment

Bladder cancer remains a prevalent and deadly cancer form worldwide. While immunotherapy has yielded significant progress, additional therapeutic strategies are needed to improve the response in bladder cancer patients. A novel immune cell target, referred to as “protein X”, has previously been identified in Lundberg’s lab. Antibodies developed against protein X were provided to us, with the aim o

The Effect of IFRS Adoption on Financial Reporting Quality: A study of the Nordic Countries

The global adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), aims to enhance financial reporting transparency, comparability, and reliability by standardizing accounting practices and limiting managerial discretion. While IFRS has improved accounting quality in many regions, its impact depends on prior local GAAP quali

Correlating the effects of evapotranspiration changes to Lake Mead reservoir water inflow during the period 2000-2020

Warming due to global climate change has led to various natural anomalies, such as increases in forest fires, water level rise and droughts. A region being affected heavily by climate change is the Colorado River Basin, having an arid, semi-arid climate with the Colorado Mountain snowmelt supplying Colorado river, which flows throughout the basin, accumulating water in Lake Mead Reservoir. The Bas

Kinase Activity Mapping from Proteome Phosphorylation Data in a Breast Cancer Cohort

Phosphorylation is one of the main post-translational modifications (PTMs) regulating protein function, where kinases reversibly add phosphate groups to specific amino acid residues (phosphosites). Kinase activity is altered in breast cancer (BC), resulting in loss of regulation of several cellular processes. Phosphoproteomics emerges as a powerful approach for profiling samples at phosphosite lev

"Det kanske låter jättetydligt men i praktiken är det inte det" - En kvalitativ intervjustudie om socialsekreterares upplevelser utav och förberedelser inför den nya socialtjänstlagen

The current Swedish Social Services Act is based on the law that entered into force in 1982. The society has since then extensively changed, and new social issues have arisen. Therefore, the Swedish government handed over a proposition on the 23rd of January 2025, suggesting the implementation of a new law for social services. The purpose of this study has been to investigate perceptions of and pr

"Det är inte bra att vara kär i en ung ålder" - En kvalitativ fokusgruppsstudie om ungas hälsosamma och destruktiva parrelationer

This study aimed to explore young people's perceptions of healthy and destructive romantic relationships, how they perceive the influence of different sources of knowledge, and how they construct and normalize violence regarding their relationships. The method chosen for this study was qualitative focus group interviews with students in grades one and three at a high school in Scania, involvin

”kulturen talar till något annat i en” Gemenskap, resonans och kravlöshet i Kultur på recept

This study aims to deepen the understanding of how different aspects of Arts on Prescription Finsam Mittskåne lead to improved well-being among the participants. The method is qualitative interviews with previous participants in Arts on Prescription and observations of a current group during their activities. The group aspect, lack of pressure, and resonance in Arts on Prescription were analysed u

An Evaluation of the Ability of Wind Power to Provide Synthetic Inertia in the Nordic Power System

This thesis investigates the concept of synthetic inertia, especially in relation to wind power. Further, the ability of wind power to contribute with frequency regulating ancillary services, through synthetic inertia, to the power system is examined. Synthetic inertia is defined as a concept that encompasses a variety of techniques, production methods, and control strategies that provide the grid

Sparking the Flame: Electrifying Fossil Capital for Green Petroleum Production in Norway

The bulk of Norwegian offshore oil and gas platforms are self-sustained with energy, burning a portion of the extracted gas in turbines to power production. Replacing this energy with electricity from renewables – electrifying – has been put forward as a way to quickly slash domestic emissions. This, all while retaining and expanding fossil fuel production, whose lion’s share of emissions stem not

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Process Optimization

Unsupervised learning techniques are gaining traction in industrial applications due to the increasing volume of unlabeled data in manufacturing environments. This study explores whether such methods can help address two inefficiencies identified in a cheese production process: Uncovering hidden operational modes related to machine performance through clustering and detecting one-off anomalies tha

Legacy Branding through the Olympics: A Comparative Study using the Brand Identity Matrix

This study explores how Olympic legacy is leveraged as a branding tool by the International Olympic Committee and host nations, applying Mats Urde's Brand Identity Matrix to the Opening Ceremonies of Paris 2024, Rio 2016, and Beijing 2008. We conduct a qualitative analysis of secondary data to uncover key alignments and misalignments in legacy communication. We develop a Dual Mission Framework