In contemporary society, one is exposed to a myriad of visual outlets. Agreeing with scholars such as Mitchell, Mirzoeffand Belting,arguing that Visual Culture is not solely visual, my thesis is delving into the atmosphere of the phenomenon of live music performance. In live music performance, more than one aspect occurs. Live music performance is architecture, music/sounds, lights/visuals intertw

The Seed in the Reed was created in the bachelor studio Architecture in the Contemporary. This course is mainly focused on “developing novel spatial and structural typologies through the use of surface modeling, simulation and digital fabrication”. We explored this with the help of digital tools such as Rhinoceros, Grasshopper and Blender. Getting familiar with these programmes was a big part of t

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka reliabiliteten och validiteten hos Rösttrötthetsindex (RTI). RTI är den svenska översättningen av självskattningsformuläret Vocal Fatigue Index som är framtaget för att identifiera individer med och utan rösttrötthet, samt utvärdera effekterna av rösttrötthetsbehandling. RTI:s påståenden är indelade i tre faktorer som mäter olika aspekter av rösttrötthet

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to describe vocabulary development in children with cochlear implants (CI) and compare vocabulary development during a period of two to three years after CI activation to that in children with normal hearing. The association between expressive and receptive vocabulary development and object shape recognition is explored. Method: The study included 15 participa

Syfte. Syftet med studien var att undersöka och beskriva talrösten hos vuxna och äldre ungdomar med utvecklingsstamning, samt identifiera vad kliniker och forskare behöver vara uppmärksamma på gällande röstens och stamningens samverkan. Metod. En enkätstudie och tre fallstudier genomfördes. I enkätstudien deltog 20 logopeder, vars uppgift var att skatta det totala antalet patienter med utvecklings

Bakgrund. Prioriteringar är nödvändiga inom hälso- och sjukvården eftersom samhällets resurser är begränsade. Hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal har alltid behövt prioritera mellan olika behandlingar och patientgrupper. Logopeder är också en av de professioner som dagligen ställs införa svåra prioriteringsval mellan patienter. Trots detta finns det inom logopedi få exempel på systematiskt organiserade p

The aim of this study is to uncover a neoplatonic discourse in the Swedish writer Birgitta Trotzigs novel Dykungens dotter (1985) (The Mud King's Daughter). This discourse is often interpreted as being an expression of Trotzigs catholic mysticism, but few of the earlier researchers have mentioned the strictly platonic influences in her work. Firstly; by analyzing the system of metaphors and th

The usage of computers in classrooms is becoming increasingly common in the US. Digital devices are gaining more and more relevance for teachers and their students. This study uses the TIMSS 2015 data to examine the impact of using digital tools in classrooms. To capture these effects, we use a fixed effect model and exploit the variation between the subjects maths and science. While we find only

Freeze damage is a common issue in many food items. The cellular dehydration caused by freezing can be prevented through addition of a cryoprotectant. Research has shown that it is possible to improve the freezing tolerance of plant materials by addition of cryoprotectants, which forms hydrogen bonds with water molecules. However, the cryoprotect needs to be in the cell to function. Which is where

Cykeln som färdmedel är bra för miljön och ökar folkhälsan. I syfte att öka cyklandet har ett antal prioriterande insatsområden tagits fram av Trafikverket och Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner (Trafikverket, 2018). Bland dem finns säker infrastruktur och beteendepåverkande insatser. Genom att studera användningen av den befintliga cykelinfrastrukturen ämnar detta examensarbete att ta reda på om det When aiming for increased bicycle traffic there is a need to evaluate the current bike paths in use in order to improve infrastructure. Knowing how people behave in traffic is a key to successful planning. Cyclists don’t behave like car drivers, nor like pedestrians. The goal is to allow bicyclists to have a high speed without decreasing safety. That is why this thesis aims to study the speed beha

Varje år sker det tusentals olyckor i trafiken i Sverige till följd av det stora transportbehovet i samhället. Transportstyrelsen har ett mål, Nollvisionen, som innebär att ingen ska dödas eller skadas allvarligt i trafiken. För att nå målet är en åtgärd att hastigheten sänks där gång- och cykeltrafik behöver interagera med motorfordon. Det kan man göra i form av sidoförskjutningar, avsmalning av Every year, thousands of traffic accidents occur in Sweden as a result of the transportation need in society. The Swedish Transport Agency has a goal, Vision Zero, which means that no one should die or be severely injured in traffic. To reach the goal one measure is to reduce the speed where pedestrians and cyclists need to interact with motor vehicles. This can be done by chicanes, narrowing of t

Snö. Vid en första anblick upplevs ett snötäckt landskap som kallt, livlöst och förödande. Varje år förbereder sig landskapet för vintern genom att tappa löv, gå i ide eller förflytta sig söderut. Tyvärr är det dock få som vet hur viktig snön är för vår existens. En snörik eller en torr vinter formar sommaren. Snötäcket hjälper till att bevara fukten i jorden och kan förebygga de kraftiga skogsbräSnow. At first sight a snow-covered landscape is considered cold, lifeless and destructive. Each year the landscape prepares for the winter by losing its leaves, going into hibernating or moving to a warmer climate. Snow is far from being just a lifeless white powder covering the ground. Unfortunately, only a few people know how important snow is for our existence. The previous winter season molds

The world’s population is increasing every year and the need for housing to keep up with the demand is evident. The building industry as a whole, including the discipline of fire protection are responsible to supply the housing. To achieve this, the industry must look for more effective ways to design and build, and the use of BIM could be useful to make necessary improvements in the industry. T

At the turn of the century the Commission announced its intention to introduce a ‘more economic approach’ to EU competition law. Beyond incorporating modern economic theory into its enforcement practices, such a modernised approach to competition law was also to entail bringing the Union’s competition policy objectives in line with such modern economic theory. In particular, as expressed by Mario

Vinklas information på olika sätt beroende på om den kommer från företagets egen PR-avdelning eller från journalister från en dagstidning. Med hjälp av Media Framing theory och Agenda Setting theory har detta undersökts och det tyder på att det förekommer vinklingar.

Bushfires in Australia have long been rhetorically painted in dark overtones, representing nature’s onslaught on the human realm. Yet they are a phenomenon juxtaposing both darkness and light – chiaroscuro; using the unprecedented 2019/20 bushfire season as a case study, this thesis demonstrates how exploring the political ecology of disaster can open windows into the nature of our world extending

Streptococcus pyogenes covered by a human plasma protein shell Streptococcus pyogenes is a bacterium found mainly on human skin. It can cause a number of diseases ranging from uncritical to life threatening sepsis by entering the bloodstream. Infections such as sepsis can have high mortality rates, making it essential to identify how this bacterium causes infections. It is equally important to de

Current land use change and habitat fragmentation have caused severe decline in bumble bee populations. In order to address this issue and plan future conservation measures and strategies for plant pollinator networks, it is important to understand their foraging behaviour. A few studies in the past have tried to understand foraging constancy in bumble bees. However, there is no clear information