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Women’s political representation in Zimbabwe has been low since independence in 1980. Studies on women’s access to political decision-making, representation and agency in Africa, including Zimbabwe, is limited. Therefore, this dissertation aims to contribute to localized and contextualized knowledge on the barriers for women’s political representation through a case study of the 2018 harmonised el

ndia ranges among the countries experiencing most water stress in recent years, while being a major virtual water net exporter. The country’s position relative to its water sources exacerbated since its trade liberalization in the early 1990’s, which calls for a future national water crisis. To comprehend India’s water stress, this study aims to examine the country’s agricultural water use at thre

Peptider är mindre versioner av protein. Det som man vanligtvis kan läsa på innehållsförteckningen på de flesta matvaror i dagen samhälle. Peptiderna i sig består av aminosyror som kan anses vara de minsta byggstenarna för peptider och proteiner. Peptider och proteiner spelar en stor roll i våra biologiska system. Proteiner och peptider bidrar till flera viktiga processer. Proteiner hjälper till mUnderstanding of the self-assembly behaviour of peptides is of great interest within several different areas such as neurodegenerative diseases, biotechnology, and peptide pharmaceuticals. In this work we have compared the impact on the self-assembly behaviour derived from systematic changes of the primary structure of A8K, where A denotes alanine and K lysine. Model peptides derived from A8K incl

The intersectional analysis was applied in a sociological study on the arguments of the legalization of prostitution in Ukraine and the characteristics of the main actors of media discourse. The theoretical rationale for the discourse on the phenomenon of prostitution was the application of Margaret Archer's structural-activity approach and the concept of intersectionality, to describe and exp

Yearly thousands travel from around the globe to Peru to participate in the ceremonial consumption of ayahuasca under the guidance of a shaman. The brew stimulates a psychedelic state in users that triggers hallucinations, powerful emotional responses,and severe physical reactions, all of which are codified into ritual practice. Drawing from ethnographic material gathered from one month of field w

This paper aims to investigate the causal relationship between maternal education and preventive behaviour. For this purpose, I consider the education reform implemented in Zimbabwe in 1980 that enabled students at age 15 and below to participate in secondary education. By using this age cutoff as an exogenous exposure to the education policy, I obtain causal estimates of schooling on health outco

The thesis aims to explore the role of movements in elaborating alternative development. Through the qualitative approach, the study investigates the Development Justice movement in the Asia Pacific region as a case study. The document analysis and semi-structured interview reveal how the movement had built and formulated its demands in relation to mainstream development. The study is theoreticall

Forced air convection systems are the most preferred design of choice in many of the industrial-scale convection ovens. In this study, experimental investigation on convective heat transfer and mass transfer within a forced air convection oven was performed at different oven temperatures (100℃, 110℃ and 120℃) and at flow velocity (2 m/s, 3 m/s and 4 m/s) using potato slices (10*10*60 mm) as model

Då samband mellan derivata och integral är ett viktigt koncept inom avancerad matematik är det avgörande att gymnasieelever får goda möjligheter att lära sig detta. Faktumet att läroböcker ofta intar en central roll i den svenska matematikundervisningen har lett fram till ämnesvalet för min studie, vilket utgörs av en undersökning av hur detta samband presenteras i tre läroböcker i matematik. Fors

The objective of this study is twofold. First, the research tries to address whether the selected 13 African countries have gained a comparative advantage on labour-intensive industry (i.e. textile and apparel sector) for the period 1995-2017. The study employs Balassa’s Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) indices to address this objective. Second, it attempts to investigate whether there is an e

Central to the field of agrarian political economy, is rural development and capitalism’s advancement in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry, ‘the agrarian question’. With the present case study, I examine the interplay between social relations of production and agrarian change in eastern Bolivia. Using the case study of Ramada, a small indigenous community, this dissertation in

It is a huge challenge for any strategic communicator to reach its audience as they are constantly overwhelmed with information. A current trend is to create so-called deepfakes, where a photo, audio, or video can be manipulated while making it feel authentic. Although it is an effective way to engage and entertain that has become increasingly popular, it has also received a lot of criticism as it

Research regarding episodic memory and emotion shows that emotion has a modulatory effect on memory. The aim of the present study is to investigate if exposure to emotionally loaded images could potentially change the way future neutral images are encoded, and if this exposure also modulates the memory experience of these images. In addition to this, data resulting from questionnaires regarding pa

Over the last decade, the use of green marketing strategies has increased. Especially the use of environmental cues in an advertisement. While there have been a variety of studies on environmental cues and how this influences purchase behavior and corporate image, there is less research on how individual traits and environmental cues influences Millennials’ attitudes towards environmental advertis

Reproductive rights are an immanent part of human rights. In this thesis, I have conducted seven semi-structured interviews with Polish pro-choice and pro-abortion activists. Through the lens of multiple methods including interviews, participant observation, reflexivity, analysis of online and offline data I addressed questions on the activists’ perception of their roles and their assessment of th

The purpose of this dissertation was to examine and analyse previous employees' and volunteers’ views of the problems that may arise within a social enterprise as a result of its competing institutional logics. The studied social enterprise was chosen mainly due to personal contacts but proved to be an interesting example of an organisation with contradictory aims and operations. Qualitative i

The main objective of this paper is to assess the impact of migration on exports as well as imports, and more specifically, the effect of the Iranian diaspora on trade between their home and host countries. The lifting of the economic sanctions, which was followed after the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”, on Iran throughout 2016 and 2017 is used as a natural experiment to analyse if there is

The purpose of this study was to investigate senior citizens’ experiences of the isolation during the Coronavirus pandemic and their perspectives on their own role and identity during the same periodof time. The empirical data consisted of 15 articles which all expressed seniors’ viewpoints, published between 2020-03-16 and 2020-05-11 in ten different Swedish newspapers. The study’s methodological

I denna studie ser vi närmare på varför människor som ägnat sig åt brottslighet har lämnat den kriminella karriären bakom sig. Studien avser även att undersöka vilka svårigheter som kan ha uppkommit för dessa människor efter de har haft en fängelsevistelse. Syftet är att urskilja vilka omständigheter som kan ha påverkat före detta kriminellas karriärer och sedan undersöka vad som hänt efteråt.

This master's thesis presents a qualitative analysis of the activity played out by the users in the physical library room. The study focuses users different activities and therefor also some of the activities made by librarians. The aim of this study is to put light on the activity played out by the user of the physical room at the local library. More precisely two smaller library rooms locat