The concept of governmentality and the concept of banal nationalism are applied in the study to critically analyze how a European identity is articulated and legitimized within the energy policy presented by the European Commission. Furthermore, the articulated identity is related to the construction of insecurity. In the analyzed material the identity of the EU is portrayed as an effective and in

A study was performed to investigate whether the risk- and vulnerability assessments of Swedish central authorities fulfill its purposes stated in the legislation. This was made by investigating and categorizing the characteristic ways the authorities communicate risks in their RVA:s. A content analysis of ten risk- and vulnerability assessments was performed as well as a participating observation

Mammografiscreening är i dagsläget det främsta sättet att minska dödligheten i bröstcancer. Vid oklara förändringar i bilderna sker en vidare utredning för att säkerställa eller utesluta patologi. Återkallelse kan skapa oro och ångest hos kvinnor eftersom risken för att utredningen kan tyda på bröstcancer. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att belysa bakomliggande faktorer som kan ge ökad oro

In this thesis the problem of Structure from Motion (SfM) for uncalibrated and unordered image collections is considered. The proposed framework is an adaptation of the framework for calibrated SfM proposed by Olsson-Enqvist (2011) to the uncalibrated case. Olsson-Enqvist's framework consists of three main steps; pairwise relative rotation estimation, rotation averaging, and geometry estimati

De digitala infödingarna tillhör den population som föddes under den digitala utvecklingen, en population som ständigt är uppkopplad, och som inte skiljer på livet av och på internet. Teknologiska verktyg har blivit en så inkorporerad del av vardagen, att många digitala infödingar förmodligen har svårt att föreställa sig en tillvaro utan tillgång till internet. Tekniska medel är vår ständiga följe

This thesis arises from recent evidence of corporate non-compliance in the German two-tier system. This evidence has raised the question of accountability; what it is and to whom one should be accountable. Therefore this thesis starts out by examining the German system, how it evolved over time and how it functions. It is a system with a long and fascinating history and although it has changed ove

By using Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory, the debate about military spending and the state of the Swedish national defence is examined. The material used is newspapers in Sweden and the period of interest is December 2012-May 2013. The discourse that is discernible in the debate is deconstructed by exposing the chain of equivalence that establishes meaning within it. The concl

This thesis concerns the patterns of organization visible within the context that is the Scanian runestones in relation to roads, organized clustering and energy-conservativity. As well as the digital methods increasingly used to analyze such patterns. Using FMIS databases and LIDAR-elevation data it analyses the long, spread out lines of runestones visible in the landscape through GIS spatial-sta

In this thesis we present a method for the calculation of finite volume corrections to the sunset diagram, for arbitrary masses and powers of the propagators. We also present numerical results showing the dependence of these corrections on the volume, which is an exponential decay for large volumes. The results are of high relevance since they can be used in Chiral Perturbation Theory to asses the

This paper has adopted a discursive approach in examining and analyzing discursive formation of Palestinian national identity under the circumstances of conflict and through the impact and channels of politics. Through the methodology of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis and Daniel Bar-Tal’s theory about societal beliefs, two political and public speeches are analyzed. The speeches h

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The aim of this paper is to provide more insight of nonviolence into the field of Peace and Conflict studies. In an effort to reach this aim three acknowledged thinkers of nonviolence and their ideas have been analyzed, consequently Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Gene Sharp. The theories of pacifism/nonviolence and realism, in combination with an analysis of ideas were utilized to foun

Uppsatsen utforskar hur hen används av dagstidningar efter det att boken Kivi & Monsterhund populariserade pronomet i början av 2012. Studien använder sig av kvantitativ innehållsanalys av Aftonbladet och Svenska Dagbladets artiklar innehållande hen. Det statistiska materialet analyseras med stöd av teorierna om medielogik och diffusion av innovation. Fokus ligger på i vilken kontext ordet anv

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka huruvida förvärv av publika företag inom energiindustrin på den europeiska marknaden skapar värde för köpande och uppköpta företags aktieägare, och hur detta värde i så fall fördelas mellan dessa. Målet är att testa om det finns ett signifikant samband mellan företagsförvärv och onormal avkastning inom ovan angiven marknad. Vi undersöker även fem olika va

Kvinnor och män behandlas olika i arbetslivet. Kvinnor har svårare att göra karriär och få lika hög ekonomisk ersättning som män för samma arbete. Syftet med uppsatsen är att se hur olika könen behandlas i organisationer. De frågor som ska försöka besvaras är vilken betydelse har organisationsstruktur och organisationskultur för kvinnors deltagande i arbetslivet? Och kan sociologiska teorier förkl

The construction industry is known to hold a quite low innovation level compared to many other industries. Along with the technical development, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has entered the industry in some of today’s large and complex construction projects. BIM is an intelligent 3D-model based process used for creating and managing building projects. The purpose of this bachelor thesis is

As China modernizes, its waste management capacities are put to a test. Faced by significant pressures to find a solution for growing municipal solid waste, China’s authorities have embraced waste incineration technology as a seemingly cost-efficient alternative to landfills. Against this push, significant societal opposition against the construction of waste incinerators has been mounting. Yet wh

The purpose of this thesis was to explore gender norms, beauty ideals and social practices and the way these become ‘visible’ on the Japanese female body as (re)producing the ideal Japanese femininity and skin color in particular. In order to achieve that, I investigate and identify these norms, the mechanisms that implement them on the body and the attitudes and expression of resistance against t

Over the past decades, the notion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been renowned and identified as being able to significantly contribute to poverty alleviation and development. Yet, research on CSR in developing countries remains rather scarce. This thesis presents a preliminary empirical assessment of the nature of CSR in Senegal. Through an embedded mixed method design, both broad n