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This study investigates patterns of set fires and vandalism in Malmö. An aim to understand spatial, temporal, and social patterns of such phenomena underpins the study. The research questions are: “How are vandalism and set fires distributed geographically in Malmö?”, “How does the geographical distribution of crimes correlate with school holidays and vacation?” and “To what extent does socioecono
The increasing demand for electric vehicle charging stations creates new challenges for electric grid planning. This thesis proposes a framework for forecasting realistic 24-hour peak load profiles for new direct current fast-charging stations without historical observations. The method combines $K$-means clustering of existing stations’ hourly load patterns and random forest models that predict b
This paper examines whether Global Environment Facility (GEF) financing systematically disadvantages climate-vulnerable and low-capacity countries, and whether this operates through GEF's own grant allocation or co-financiers' independent decisions. By using 3,581 single-country GEF projects approved between 1996 and 2026, it estimates OLS regressions examining how governance quality and c
Fingerprint recognition has become a popular authentication method in modern smartphones, replacing traditional passwords and PINs. However, smartphone fingerprint sensors are small and capture only partial fingerprints with limited resolution. Combined with varying image quality and inconsistent finger placement, multiple images must be stored per user to ensure reliable authentication. During ve
In recent years, the future of Bromma Airport in Stockholm has become a recurring and contested issue in Swedish public debate, shaped by shifting political priorities, climate ambitions and urban development needs. This thesis examines how Bromma Airport is problematized in Swedish public documents, which competing actors and discourses can be identified and how are arguments for and against clos
This study explores how knowledge, communication, and influence are organized within the consultation reports of the Swedish urban planning practice. The study is based on collaborative planning theory and analyses the extent to which the consultative process is grounded in collaborative or performance- or criteria-driven planning logic. Through a qualitative content analysis of consultation repor
This thesis explores how immersive virtual reality can be designed to support emotional engagement, relaxation, and a sense of connection to nature. Based on experience design and gesture interaction theory, this project developed a VR experience titled "Night Journey". In this experience, users can explore a virtual nature and interact with a responsive ecosystem through natural body ge
This study examines how transportation justice is expressed and materialized in the urban district of Brunnshög in Lund, Sweden. The study is situated within contemporary debates on sustainable mobility, reduced car dependency, and socially just urban planning. Its aim is to analyze Brunnshög’s transportation system from a justice perspective in order to examine both how justice ideals are express
The current crime debate in Sweden surrounds the overarching issue of criminal networks and children’s exploitation by them. In Sweden, younger children are getting involved in serious criminality, carrying out offences for criminal gangs such as murder and aggravated weapons crimes, which has sparked the government’s interest in possible changes to the youth criminal justice system. One of those
This study investigates how varying hyperparameters of the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) affects the stability of model explanations produced by SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and Local Interpretable Modelagnostic Explanations (LIME). By using an eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) classifier trained on 11 medical datasets with varying imbalance ratios, four SMOTE parame
Introduction: Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a process that occurs often in biological environments, and elastin is a protein that utilizes it to form elastic fibres. Understanding elastin’s LLPS is very helpful for creating new biomaterials and researching diseases, where LLPS occurs. Background: The coacervation of elastin is widely researched, but the combination effects of salt, hea
In 2025, the unauthorized release of four lynx in Scotland sparked widespread media speculation about “guerrilla” rewilding. Drawing on political ecology and environmental justice, this thesis applies a critical discourse analysis to investigate how media outlets framed lynx reintroduction following the unauthorized release. The findings show that media coverage constructs rewilding as contentious
This study examines how tourism affects and reshapes residents’ identities and sense of place in the Sanno-chiku of Takayama City in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. This study focuses on residents’ lived experiences and discusses tourism through the ideas and concepts of place, sense of place, identity, mobility, and commodification. This study asks two research questions: 1) How does tourism shape local
Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthases (PhaC) are the pivotal biocatalysts governing the biosynthesis of biodegradable polyesters. Current research on their structure and mechanisms remains limited, and the chemical mechanisms of all PHA synthases are still under debate. Despite some speculation, further physicochemical studies are needed to understand their structure and function. The primary obje
Purpose: To examine whether generative AI adoption influences analyst forecast error and bias, and whether the relationship differs across firms with different characteristics. Methodology: The study applies a quantitative panel-data approach using pooled OLS and firm fixed effects regressions. Interaction models are used to examine whether firm size, segment complexity, intangible intensity an
The ongoing urban transformation in Kiruna is one of the most extensive relocation projects in modern history. While the type of great challenges, filled with uncertainties both for planners and the local community exist within most urban planning situations, the Kiruna example provides an extreme, and a particularly obvious case that makes it interesting to illustrate the reinvention of a town ca
This master’s thesis explores the ethnic self-identification of young Russian speakers from Estonia, as well as their sense of belonging to Estonia and the Estonian society. The research focuses on an understudied group of younger people who did not experience the life under the Soviet Union, which leads to them not sharing the identification of a “Soviet citizen” that was common for the older gen
Ring voltage-controlled oscillators (Ring VCOs) are widely used in clock generation because of their compact area and wide tuning range, but their high inherent phase noise limits their application in high-performance systems. To address this, this thesis presents a low-power dual-path sub-sampling PLL (SSPLL) covering a wide frequency range from 2GHz to 4GHz. To effectively suppress the phase noi
