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This thesis examines the emerging visual culture surrounding carnivore diet influencers on Instagram, with particular attention to female content creators who publicly perform a carnivore lifestyle. It analyses how food practices are visually staged in carnivore lifestyle images on Instagram, which rhetorical strategies are utilised in these representations, and what these images seek to elicit fr
The rapid expansion of cloud computing and AI-driven digital services is reshaping global digital infrastructure, while simultaneously intensifying concerns surrounding the energy use, carbon emission, and broader environmental impacts of data centres. Although hyperscale Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) increasingly position cloud computing as sustainable and energy-efficient, it remains unclear wh
Since the introduction of the European Green Deal (EGD) in late 2019, a range of crises have significantly altered the European and global socio-economic-political landscape. From this turbulent period, a new EU policy narrative that focuses primarly on the pursuit of Competitiveness, Resilience and Security (CRS) has taken centre stage. Whereas the new CRS narrative does include environmental obj
The Dengue virus (DENV) is a significant global health threat, with increasing infection rates and confined therapeutic options. This project focuses on the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of Dengue virus, which plays its role in viral replication, as a target for fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD). Using the FragMAX facility at the MAX IV Laboratory, a crystallographic fragment screen was c
Anti-corruption reform is foundational for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. Although accession conditionality has become a key driver of reform, formal requirements alone provide only a partial insight into how anti-corruption reform is advanced in practice. This thesis examines how EU-promoted anti-corruption norms acquire meaning and practical significance through their interaction wit
This thesis examines how exceptional security measures are discursively constructed and legitimised in El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele during the ongoing state of exception introduced in March 2022. While the suspension of constitutional guarantees and implementation of mass detention policies have generated extensive criticism from human rights organisations and international actors, th
This thesis will examine the development of lesbian assisted reproduction (LAR) in the Nordic region by looking at the different advertisements made by fertility clinics in the Swedish magazine QX over a period of 9 years. After examining how much of QX is advertisements through content analysis and reading through the 5893 relevant pages, the thesis will look at ads from private fertility clinics
Do Transitional Justice policies aimed at repairing systematic human rights violations effectively repair the harm done by states? This study seeks to answer this question by understanding the experiences and perceptions that the recipients of these policies have of Transitional Justice broadly and reparations specifically. The answers reveal the multiple layers of complexity of Transitional Justi
To monitor the donor heart after transplantation, endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs) are taken to detect acute cellular rejection (ACR) and guide immunosuppressive medication prescription. This thesis evaluates a machine learning (ML) framework designed to analyze whole slide images (WSIs) for both ACR detection and five-year survival analysis. Following the evaluation of different pretrained image en
Sheep wool is a renewable biological material with diverse potential applications. Despite its continuous availability and growing interest in circular bioeconomy approaches, it is increasingly regarded as a low-value by-product or waste in most European countries. This thesis aims to identify the systemic conditions that shape the valorisation of sheep wool in Slovakia and to assess how the curre
A problem we face today is that the cinema seems to be losing its significance as a venue. Media and film consumption are increasingly shifting towards private, individual experiences at home or on a smartphone. As a result of this trend, the traditional cinema finds itself in crisis, as its classic role as a social space for shared film viewing is being undermined. This thesis examines th
Agri-food systems are facing increasing environmental, social, and economic crises that have exposed their vulnerability and industrial agriculture’s dependence on fossil fuels and synthetic fertilizers. In response, resilience has emerged as a central concept in agri-food system governance, and both scholars and policymakers are calling for a transformation of agri-food systems. Community-Support
Purpose Prostate motion during radiation therapy (ie, intrafraction motion) can cause unwanted loss of radiation dose to the prostate and increased dose to the surrounding organs at risk. A compact but general statistical description of this motion could be useful for simulation of radiation therapy delivery or margin calculations. We investigated whether prostate motion could be modeled with a ra
Purpose The purpose of this study was to estimate the uncertainty in voluntary deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) radiotherapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Methods Perpendicular fluoroscopic movies were acquired in free breathing (FB) and DIBH during a course of visually guided DIBH radiotherapy of nine patients with NSCLC. Patients had liquid markers injected
Introduction:The breath-hold technique inter alia has been suggested to mitigate the detrimental effect of motion on pencil beam scanned (PBS) proton therapy dose distributions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the robustness of incident proton beam angles to day-to-day anatomical variations in breath-hold.Materials and methods: Single field PBS plans at five degrees increments in the trans
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine visual outcome, endocrine function and tumor control in a prospective cohort of craniopharyngioma patients, treated with fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy (FSRT). Material and methods: Sixteen adult patients with craniopharyngiomas were eligible for analysis. They were treated with linear accelerator-based FSRT during 1999–2015. In all
Background and purpose To evaluate the patterns of failure following clinical introduction of amino-acid O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (FET)-PET-guided target definition for radiotherapy (RT) of glioblastoma patients. Materials and methods The first 66 consecutive patients with confirmed histology, scanned using FET-PET/CT and MRI were selected for evaluation. Chemo-radiotherapy was delivered
Background and purpose We investigated the clinical applicability of a novel liquid fiducial marker (LFM) for image-guided pencil beam scanned (PBS) proton therapy (PBSPT) of locally advanced lung cancer (LALC). Materials and methods The relative proton stopping power (RSP) of the LFM was calculated and measured. Dose perturbations of the LFM and three solid markers, in a phantom, were measured. P
