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This thesis analyses the spatio-temporal patterns of inequality and income growth in Sweden during the time-period 1990–2016. It aims at answering the question of whether there has been increasing inequalities, if so where and why. The study is motivated by the ongoing debate on regional development in research, public policy and media which frequently raise questions on the ongoing patterns of in

A critical issue for brand fan page marketing is to drive consumer engagement and to or- chestrate enjoyable engagement experiences that consumers desire. Despite the growing amount of research on how various characteristics of brand posts would influence different levels of consumer engagement on the brand fan page in the Western context, the study of consumers’ intrinsic motivations for engageme

I mitt examensarbete har jag arbetat med att transformera om en gammal spårvagnsverkstad till en högstadieskola - en idé som kanske inte är särskilt unik då byggnaden redan har byggts om till skola. Jag försöker på nytt ge byggnaden en mer relevant funktion i hopp om att avsaknaden av stram budget och krav på ett snabbt genomförande ska resultera i ett mer inspirerande projekt. Målet är ett proj

Author: Ebba Eiroff Title: Students narratives of loneliness Supervisor: Kristina Göransson Assessor: Mats Hilte The aim for this qualitative study was to examine university students experiences of loneliness based on Erving Goffman’s dramaturgy theory, together with the conceptions of normality, shame and guilt. How students describe feelings of loneliness and how they relate their experiences t

Syftet med studien var att utvidga förståelsen av livskvalitet hos ungdomar med bipolär sjukdom genom att undersöka deras uppfattningar rörande begreppet livskvalitet, hur de uppfattar sin egen livskvalitet och deras upplevelse av att skatta sin livskvalitet med livskvalitetsformuläret LkBS. Detta undersöktes genom semi-strukturerade intervjuer med sju ungdomar (12–18 år), som analyserades med temThe aim of this study was to further understand quality of life (QoL) among adolescents with pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD) by investigating what they regard of the concept of QoL, their own QoL, as well as the QoL-instrument LkBS. This was done using semi-structured interviews with seven adolescents (12-18 years), which were analyzed with thematic analysis. From the analysis four main themes we

Datainsamling och tillämpning av data av detaljister inom e-handel är ett aktuellt ämne och integrerat i konsumenters vardag. Utveckling av Big Data och digital teknologi har inneburit problematik rörande personlig integritet och säkerhet. Utifrån det empiriska material framkom det att intervjupersonerna delgav personlig information till detaljisterna inom svensk e-handel av följande anledningar;

The Energiewende is seen as the infrastructure project of the century. An energy transition that effects every sector in German society. While the expansion of renewable energy source technologies, such as solar photovoltaics and wind turbines has been rapid in Germany the country will miss both its national greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target and the lower target set by the EU. Using t

In 2015, the European Union experienced the arrival of more than 1.25 million refugees at its borders, many of whom were looking for international protection from war, violence, and persecution. The number of asylum seekers in Finland rose almost tenfold in 2015 compared to years prior to 2015. While a vast majority of asylum seekers came from Muslim dominant countries from the wider MENA region,

We are currently witnessing an age of migration and globalisation. The growing hybridisation of societies creates continuous discussion and debate concerning who belongs and who does not. The media are traditionally seen to play an important role in this dispute through representational and discursive practices that contribute to our ideas about ‘us’ and ‘them’, simultaneously affecting the constr

Mental illness has increasingly become a problem throughout the world and is believed to cost the global economy $16 trillion by 2030. Consequently, a growing body of literature investigates the possible causes of mental illness and more specifically, possible early life circumstances which may affect adult mental health. Limited research exists though in terms of exposure to recessions in utero a

The event of the Hambantota port, Sri Lanka’s major port, raised concerns about the Belt Road Initiative. The Sri Lankan government had to hand over the country’s most important port to the Chinese government due to the inability to pay back its loans owed to China. Similar cases have been noticed in other participating countries of the Belt Road Initiative. However, the Chinese government does no

Abstract The world has seen three industrial revolutions and now it embraces the fourth. The fourth industrial revolution, (globalisation 4.0) or as this study uses industry 4.0, follows onto the third industrial revolution by connecting digital, material and living spheres. The narrative of Africa rising, and the related expansion of mobile phone motivated the thesis interest. As past development

The upgrade of transport infrastructure may stimulate regional economic growth and reshape the industrial structure. It may also increase economic gaps between regional giants and peripheral areas through “siphon effect”. This paper uses the Difference-in-Differences (DID) model to examine the correlation between the operation of China high-speed railway (HSR) and changes in real per capita GDP, r

The effect of temporal context in the encoding and retrieval of facial stimuli was examined based on behavioural and EEG data collection during a cued recall memory task. Participants were found to have greater accuracy in their recollection of serial list items encoded before a correctly retrieved facial stimulus in comparison to those encoded after a correctly retrieved facial stimulus. Addition

Designing for the best combination of channel codes and the decoding algorithm has always been a popular topic in channel coding. As a decoding algorithm for convolutional codes, Viterbi algorithm provides the most reliable performance with high complexity. List Viterbi algorithm(LVA) is an alternative solution to provide a good tradeoff between performance and complexity, and is widely used for h

The robustness of anchoring effects underlines the importance of investigating its repercussions in various situations, including personnel selection. Additionally, technological developments and the planned implementation of artificially intelligent (AI) systems in personnel selection create a new decision-making process offering another possibility for anchoring effects to occur. This study inve

This paper investigates the lexical immigration of “arabismos” (Arabic loanwords) in the Spanish language. It compares the differences between old arabismos (integrated during the Middle Ages) and modern arabismos (integrated in contemporary time) in terms of their adaptation to the Spanish norms of spelling, phonetics, semantics and morphosyntactic. It also analyses the use of the arabismos and t

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a serious human rights issue that demands urgent action. Current standard practices increasingly focus on primary prevention; that is, to prevent violence before it occurs. The aim of this study was to enhance the knowledge on VAWG primary prevention within the social work field in a local Argentinian context - Lanús Municipality - through the model of pr

Kultivationsteorin är en väletablerad teori inom forskningsfältet för masskommunikation. Teorin strävar efter att förklara huruvida Tv-tittande kan påverka sina mottagares verklighetsbild och därmed den kultur de lever i. Nya medier, såsom sociala medier, har tagit över Tv-tittandets roll i den bemärkelsen att den numera har blivit den huvudsakliga dagliga informationskällan för många i västvärldeCultivation theory is a well-established theory within the field of mass communication. Its initial objective was to explain if and how television viewing, could influence its viewers perspective of reality and thereby also the culture in which they live. New media and more specifically social media has taken over the role of television in that it has become the main everyday source of information