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Since the end of the cold war, Sweden's security policy has shifted from neutrality to a policy of solidarity. The deteriorating security situation in recent years in the Baltic sea region and in Europe has increased the political will in Sweden to implement and develop defence co-operation with other states. Swedish-Finnish defence co-operation is the most developed of Sweden's different
This study aims to identify the factors that influenced and shaped the Swedish defence decisions of 1925 and 2004. In addition, the study examines whether there were mutual factors between the defence decisions. Both defence decisions were made in an era of faith in the future after years of conflict and war. The First World War had ended, and the Cold War had ended a couple of years before the de
Object and context are inseparable. Meaning, interpretation and function are derived from the relation between them. Extrapolate emphasizes the connection between the object and its physical context. The luminaire is the start of a series of objects, which extend their presence by relating closely to the existing context – complementing it instead of working against it. The light source is suspen
En människa gråter av nyhackad lök, hostar av rök och känner en brännande känsla i munnen av att äta wasabi. Det som ligger till grund för detta är Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1), en receptor i cellmembranet av nervceller. Ett stort antal irriterande ämnen, som allylisotiocyanat i wasabi, aktiverar TRPA1. I sin aktiva konformation, sänder TRPA1 ut en signal som omvandlas av nervsysTransient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) is a nonspecific cation channel activated by a wide range of stimuli. The polymodal receptor resides in the cell membrane of sensory neurons and plays a key role in nociceptive pain transmission. Environmental irritants such as allyl isothiocyanate, an electrophile found in wasabi, activate TRPA1. In this work, the goal was to lay the basis for struct
Sammanfattning Markavvattning innebär att en åtgärd som genomförs permanent ändrar markens vattenförhållanden. Detta görs för att marken ska bli lämplig att använda genom att ta bort oönskat vatten genom dränering eller dikning. Det kan också vara genom skydd mot vatten vid invallning. Markavvattning ska uppfylla syftet att varaktigt öka en fastighets lämplighet för ett visst ändamål. Ett markavvDrainage units are measures that permanently modify the water conditions of the land. This is done through drainage or dikes to make the soil more suitable for use by removing unwanted water. Drainage units shall fulfill the purpose of permanently increasing the suitability of a property for a specific purpose. A joint drainage unit is a drainage unit commonly used by several properties. For execu
At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish painter Eugène Jansson created a series of paintings inspired by the city nights of Stockholm. This bachelor thesis examines the paintings in relation to urban gay spaces and sexual meetings in the early nineteen hundreds. The paintings by Jansson, himself a homosexual male, have at a few times vaguely been described as portraying the moments before an
Spain, Portugal, and Greece have experienced a rise of challenger radical left-wing parties alongside an already established radical left-wing in the 2000’s. This prompts the question how the new and established radical left differ in positioning and salience on the economic and cultural policy dimension. Using quantitative empirics from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey and the Manifesto Project Data
The aim of this thesis was to develop a biologically inspired model for unsupervised learning on visual data. A preprocessor inspired by the retina was developed, which generated event-camera like data. This can be used as a low-cost alternative to an event-camera. Further, a neuron model was developed which showed ability to learn useful features from video data in combination with the preprocess
A continuous growth of the world population raises the importance of preserving food resources while maintaining their nutrient value. Leafy vegetables such as spinach are a food category which decay quickly, and a large amount ends up as food waste. Therefore, shelf life extension while keeping a good product quality is of great interest in food processing. In this study, the effect of combining
Duplikationen av långvåglängdkänsliga opsiner i fjärilar Människor och många andra djur upplever världen omkring de i färg, och för att kunna ha ett färgseende krävs det att man kan detektera ljus av olika våglängder. Människor, och många andra djur, kan uppfatta ljus inom det synliga spektrumet, vilket sträcker sig från blått ljus som är av kortare våglängder till rött ljus som är av längre våglBackground: Color vision is enabled by visual opsins, a class of G-protein coupled receptors expressed in the eye. How well an organism discriminates color depends notably on the number of opsins, and their spectral sensitivity when bound to a light-sensitive chromophore (retinal). Spectral phenotypes have evolved convergently multiple times owing to opsin gene losses and duplications, both in ver
Syftet med undersökningen har varit att genomföra en kvantitativ undersökning av kandidatuppsatser i historia från Lunds universitet skrivna mellan åren 2004 och 2021. Det empiriska underlaget utgjordes av de uppsatser som fanns digitaliserade på Lund Student Papers. Kandidatuppsatserna undersöktes för att ta reda på om det fanns skillnader i val av tematik, källmaterial, metod, teori samt avgräns
This paper aims to examine the relationship between economic growth and gender equality in Africa between 1995 and 2019. The chosen measurement for gender inequality is UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index, GII, which is a well established index with extensive data access. A modification of an endogenous growth model is presented. The modified model attempts to illustrate the expected relationship betwe
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate if reporting on sustainability holds the standard for various frameworks and what factors determine ESG-points. The relationship between companies' total sales and various environmental factors were also investigated in order to understand the driving factors for companies to report on ESG and sustainability. The thesis is limited to nordic countries
A large amount of economic research is reliant upon census, survey, or national accounts as a source of data. For many developing nations, the quality of this data is widely recognised to be unreliable and is rarely available at the sub-national level. By using a new and improved source of night-time satellite imagery data, this study investigates to what extent this data can serve as a proxy to t
This bachelor's thesis seeks to investigate how the physical working environments of Born Global firms affect innovation, and more specifically analyze which physical attributes in the working environment nudge towards innovation. Born Globals are characterized as young firms with the ambition to gain global presence near founding. Since Born Global firms are at the beginning of their developm
Title: Motivations and barriers to purchasing a circular offering in the private and public sectors Seminar date: 2 June 2022 Course: BUSN29 Degree Project in Global Marketing Authors: Léna Stoz & Nadine Vogt Supervisor: Annette Cerne Keywords: Circular economy, circularity, circular companies, circular offerings, sustainable buying, organizational buying, public procurement, buying motivatio
The formation of the Economic and Monetary Union, combined with the introduction of the euro, further deepened a long-going European economic integration. Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1995 but has not yet given up its independent currency. In this study, we estimate the trade flows that would have occurred between Sweden and its major trading partners if Sweden had joined t
Syftet med uppsatsen utgår ifrån att studera om det finns en påverkan på koldioxidutsläpp i ett antal industriella sektorer utifrån industrins totala exponering i handeln vid ökad handelsliberalisering. Studien utgår även ifrån att undersöka ifall det finns tecken på förflyttningar av utsläpp till följd av handel. Genom att studera EU:s medlemsländers koldioxidintensitet i relation till grad av im
Bakgrund: Genom teamarbete sammanförs färdigheter och erfarenheter som överträffar varje teammedlems specifika kunskap. Därför är team och ett effektivt teamarbete viktigt inom den perioperativa vården. Vad som bidrar till ett effektivt team är komplext där flertalet faktorer spelar in. Operationssjuksköterskan, som fyller en viktig roll som medlem i operationsteamet, betonar vikten av ett välfung
