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Although a substantial body of theoretical as well as empirical work emphasizes the role of the mass media in constructing what could serve as a political public sphere at the European level, strikingly little is known, in qualitative terms, about opinion-making journalists’ underlying views and orientations on the European integration process. The point of departure in the present paper is that o

Denna uppsats består av en språksociologisk undersökning av namngivning och namntrender. Hur tänker vi när vi namnger våra barn? Är det viktigt att låta namn gå arv? Är det viktigt att vara originell? Hur mycket styr trender oss i våra namnval? Detta är några av de frågor jag har undersökt.

Denna studie behandlar ämnesintegrering utifrån olika svensk- och musiklärares perspektiv. Tre lärare med ämneskombinationen har intervjuats. I denna studie har jag valt att undersöka vilka metoder som används i ämnesintegrerad undervisning för musik och svenska. Jag har även valt att undersöka vilka möjligheter och hinder som finns med ett sådant arbetssätt. För att undersöka ämnesintegrering äve

Problem: Among the few studies within the field of organizational communication that deals with technology, it is unusual to reflect upon the complex relation between ICT and organization and still connect it with social practice. Purpose: To elucidate and problematize the constitution of ICT and organization, through the concepts of power relations and sense making processes. Methodology: To crit

The interaction between two colloids with grafted polyelectrolytes in aqueous solution is studied within the primitive model by Monte Carlo simulations. For neutral colloids with grafted polyelectrolytes and in absence of salt the interaction is strongly repulsive in absence of salt. The interaction depends on the extension of the polyelectrolytes from the surfaces and the interaction is derived a

Artikeln diskuterar utfrån ett förslag av Eide (2007) hur finithet kodas i verbmofologin i ett västerbottniskt dialketområde (Lycksele lappmark). Eides förslag gäller engelskan, och hon lyfter fram finithet som ett eget särdrag som kan kodas i verbmorfologin. Hon menar att engelskan har slutat koda finithet och att det därför finns sammanfall mellan infinitiv och presens respektive mellan preterit

The academic discourse on the need for a shared political public sphere at the level of the European Union has in recent years produced the conventional wisdom that such an emerging transnational community of communication is already observable in the mass media. However, the empirical indicators on which this notion is based tend to accommodate parallel national public spheres rather than a genui

Industrial robots play a key role in manufacturing systems. Robots are distinguished from other types of machinery mainly on the basis of their programmability and ability to be adaptable to different tasks. The use of computer control to achieve desired flexibility implies that software issues for embedded control systems are central for the applicability and utilization of the equipment. The str

Archaeology is about human beings – in the present and in the past. When we concern ourselves with archaeology we have to imagine prehistoric human beings thinking, feeling and acting. This imagining is the very precondition for the creation of meaning from the fragments and traces of human lives that we choose as our data. What kind of images of human beings do we create through the writing and r

This thesis consists of five empirical essays dealing with different issues related to financial markets. Chapter 2 studies a new multivariate technique, Orthogonal GARCH, of forecasting large covariance matrices based on GARCH models. Orthogonal GARCH is built on principal component analysis and makes the creation of positive definite covariance matrices of arbitrary size possible. An important d