Female genital mutilation is a convention that is mainly practiced in about thirty African countries and in some countries in the Middle East and Asia. The topic has become more relevant in Sweden due to increased migration. While female genital mutilation is often referred to as a foreign phenomenon mass media is a main source of information. The purpose of this study was to explore how the conve

Under flyktingsituationen 2015 genomförde Socialdemokraterna i regeringsställning en hastig omläggning från en generös till en restriktiv flyktingpolitik. Omläggningen i denna värdeladdade fråga skapade debatt inom partiet men etablerades likafullt som partiets nya hållning. Vad händer hos en organisations medlemmar när något som traditionellt varit en central del i organisationens identitet förän

This research is concerned with Romani media activists’ use of different online platforms in order to counter the stereotypical representation of Roma in dominant discourses, such as in mass media and state policies. Links are made between these platforms and the cultural context of Sweden that they are set in. Additionally, the following explores these platforms in connection to collective identi

Green marketing communication in the tour operating business is an emerging field of research. In recognition of green marketing communication researchers’ and practitioners’ within the tour operating business need to achieve a more profound understanding of legitimate green marketing communication. This is because of societies and especially millennials increasing sensitivity and scepticism towar

Enhanced antibiotic tolerance occurred in multi-species biofilms Multi-species biofilms existing in Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) are likely to influence the property of each species, owing to high-density biomass and constant sub-lethal concentration of antibiotics. Research on biofilms had gathered an understanding that biofilms contribute to antibiotic tolerance among bacteria that hinder

Snakebite envenomations has for a long time been an overlooked problem, despite the hundreds of thousands of deaths and disabilities caused by this disease each year. However, since snakebite envenoming predominantly affects the rural areas of third-world countries, there was an absence of research funding and drive to address this profound concern. Consequently, costly and often highly immunogeni

Obesity and diabetes are known to impact brain function and alter metabolism. Studies in rodents show that consumption of high fat and high sugar diets lead to brain dysfunction affecting memory and cognition, and increases risk of cerebro-vascular and neurodegenerative disorders. Striatum, which is involved in reward-based behaviour and motor control, undergoes changes on exposure to such diets l

This paper reviews the literature on R&D and productivity to provide a guideline to readers by combining all the findings in one title. According to the results, empirical studies analyse R&D spending from different angles by considering the characteristic of such spending. The results show that return to basic research is higher than return to applied R&D. Furthermore, in order to est

The process of globalisation, accompanied by sustainable development considerations, has turned the spotlight on ties between states’ trade interests and their commitment to upholding labour rights. With negotiations on connecting the existent multilateral trading framework to the labour rights perspective at an impasse, major world economies have introduced alternative ways of linking labour conc

This essay examines 15 news articles published in the Swedish magazine Svensk Bokhandel during the year of 2019. Qualitative linguistic analysis is used to examine what and how the magazine writes about publishing and the book market. The questions asked are: Which themes, messages, ulterior ideas and attitudes are mediated through the articles? And is there a crisis discourse in publishing? The r

Oavsett om du andas genom näsan eller munnen behöver luften färdas en lång väg genom luftstrupen ned till lungorna för att kunna försörja kroppen med syre. I luften finns inte bara det livsviktiga syret och andra gaser, utan även massor av partiklar. En stor del av dessa partiklar kommer att deponeras längs luftens väg mot slutmålet, men små partiklar kan ta sig hela vägen ned till lungan. Just deInhaled pharmaceuticals are commonly used in the treatment of respiratory disease. This method of administration has many advantages but also poses a problem with particles being lost before reaching the target site. Particle deposition in airways is mainly an effect of inertial impaction, gravitational settling and diffusion. What mechanism influences a particle the most depends on the particle a

Uppsatsen behandlar asymmetrisk kryptering över ändliga kropper och elliptiska kurver. Elliptiska kurver införs med hjälp av affint och projektivt rum. Uppsaten också ger en introduction till algoritmer som kan knäcka diskret logaritm problemet över kropper och elliptiska kurver.In this thesis, an introduction to public key cryptography over finite fields and elliptic curves is given. Elliptic curves are introduced using affine and projective spaces. The thesis also gives an introduction to algorithms that are able to break the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields and elliptic curves faster than an exhaustive search.

Uppsatsen kommer att undersöka processen om hur nyanlända flyktingar med uppehållstillstånd, etablerar sig i Sverige. Enligt Arbetsförmedlingen räknas de nyanlända som etablerad när de erhåller en anställning. Undersökningen kommer bestå av en kvalitativ analys och fem intervjuer kommer att göras på Arbetsförmedlingens etableringsavdelning med handläggarna som arbetar där. För att de nyanlända ska

This thesis explores the possibility for (re)defining the relationship between humans and robots with conversational interfaces. It does so by looking at the creation process of a voice and text-based virtual assistant for tourists from the perspective of critical posthumanism and posthuman performativity. In a reflexive fashion, I analyze my involvement in a tech start-up, in order to argue that,

Topology optimization is a powerful method for finding optimized designs for a variety of problems. In this work, thermo-mechanical problems are studied in particular and solved under transient conductive heat transfer using 2 materials plus void in the optimization. In the first part of the thesis, the theoretical background for a generic transient thermo-mechanical topology optimization problem

STEM-EDS is a common technique used for compositional mapping in materials. The vasts amounts of raw data produced by STEM EDS is suitable for advanced analysis using methods in unsupervised machine learning. One powerful method is Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which can automatically discover significant chemical correlations in a sample. Although more powerful than classical analysis, there

The global underrepresentation of women in the workplace is an ongoing issue. As a connection between self-confidence and career development has emerged, the topic of self-confidence has received growing attention over previous years. A gap between male and female self-confidence has been discovered and is consequently a likely cause and impact for the global gender gap, especially in high positio

I "Jakten på harmoni" diskuteras Thorild först och främst som polemisk debattör, senare som filosof. Uppsatsen utvecklas till en mikrohistorisk närgranskning av de personer som för minneskulten kring Thorild kom att bli viktiga. Namn som Erik Gustaf Geijer, Lorenzo Hammarskjöld och Göran Silfverhjelm nämns ofta.This paper discusses the literary and philosophic reception of the Swedish 18-th century philosopher Thomas Thorild in the romantic era. It will be shown how three Swedish authors discussed this polemic and controversial philosopher, and how their way to discuss, and their thoughts about Thorild would in a way set the frames of a memory culture. The paper will show how the writer Erik Gustaf Geij

För mig är naturen och vandring i ett kulturhistoriskt landskap en plats för att drömma sig bort till en svunnen tid, en koppling till historiken som har utspelats sig på platsen och de avtryck som än idag förekommer. Kulturreservatet Komministerbostället Råshult i Småland är en av platserna i Sverige där vi kan drömma oss iväg till en tid där 1700-tals människan levde i samklang med naturen och

En genomgående trend i alla företag och industrier är att deras förmåga att producera data växer fortare än deras förmåga att lagra den, och detta gäller även hos CellaVision som producerar mikroskopiska blodcellsbilder. Lösningen är att komprimera bilderna med konsekvensen att viss information förloras. Vi har använt oss av djupinlärnings-metoder för att rekonstruera den försvunna datan i bildernThis thesis investigates the use of convolutional neural networks as a reconstruction or JPEG- deblocking model for JPEG-compressed blood cell images, needed due to the well known block artifacts caused by JPEG-compression. CellaVision develops automated microscopy for blood analysis that detects and classifies blood cells from images. The automated analysis is carried out on high resolu- tion mic