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The aim of this study is to map and investigate the embodied experiences of LGBTQIA people in work-related spaces. The study analyses stories of emotions and experiences based on gender, sexual orientation, and other social categories and how these intersect with normative workspaces. As such, I use spatial terms of norms to approach the questions of which bodies can move and inhabit what spaces w

This research paper is a mixed-methods single case study that contributes to filling a gap within the literature surrounding the implementation of the National Village Development Program (PNDS-Programa Nasional Dezenvolvimentu Suku) in the village of Fahilebo, Timor-Leste. The research goals were to first identify the major differences between PNDS’ effects and Community-Driven-Development theory

This thesis analyzes how the German news media depicted the terrorist attack in Hanau, which killed 10 people on 19th February 2020. This is done by conducting a thematic analysis in two major German newspapers, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine. The coverage of the attack and the perpetrator is found to be focused on the perpetrator as an individual and centering his alleged mental i

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

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