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The historical dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) is generally regarded as having come to an end around the turn of the century. Some have attributed this dominance to hyper-targeted clientelism enabled by incumbency resource advantages, as K. F Greene’s (2007) resource-theory of single party dominance suggests. As such, the fall of the LDP would be explained by the loss of a

This essay is an investigation of labour and of exhaustion disorder (utmattningssyndrom). Through autoethnography in combination with testimonies from others with exhaustion disorder, and writing as research method, I explore the experience of labour – how it feels and its consequences. Using Donna Haraway’s concept of figuration, I investigate three themes connected to labour and exhaustion disor

Vi som bor och jobbar i byggnader har en stor inverkan på hur mycket energi som de förbrukar. Genom att tydligt förmedla engagerande information till oss kan vi påverkas och göra energimedvetna val i våra hem genom förändringar i ventilationssystem. Att spara energi blir allt viktigare i vårt samhälle. Byggnader och fastigheter står för en betydande del av energiförbrukningen i Sverige, så det är

Sjösås nya kyrka stod färdig 1865: mitt i socknen, mitt i människors vardagsliv. En nyklassicistisk kyrka, byggd under en tid då den svenska landsbygden fortfarande ökade sin befolkning. Tiderna förändrades och människor lämnade landsbygden för staden. Kvar stod kyrkan, byggd för 400 besökare. De sista åren användes den i snitt åtta gånger per år. Efter en brand 2022 står endast murväggarna efter

2019 infördes förändringar i MBL som inskränkte rätten att vidta stridsåtgärder mot kollektivavtalsbunden arbetsgivare och vid rättstvist. I den här uppsatsen beskrivs konsekvenserna för arbetstagarorganisationers rättsliga ställning, konsekvenserna för maktbalansen på arbetsmarknaden utvärderas och också hur reformen påverkar demokratin i arbetslivet. Övergripande är slutsatserna att reformen h

Detta examensarbete beskriver processen att utveckla en ny typ av bikupa som syftar till att förbättra tillgängligheten för biodling i urbana områden och förbättra överlevnadsmöjligheterna för bipopulationen. Genom att i större utsträckning efterlikna binas naturliga levnadsvillkor hoppas Allemanskupa minska behovet av skadliga bekämpningsmedel och syror för att hålla bikupan sjukdomsfri. Detta pThis master thesis describes the process of developing a new kind of beehive that aims to improve the accessibility of urban beekeeping and improve the survival chances of the bee population. By emulating bees' natural living conditions to a greater extent, the Allemanskupa hopes to decrease the need of harmful pesticides and acids to keep the beehive disease free. This project is done in col

Ett vanligt problem på cykelvägar är kantsprickor, vilka påverkar trafiksäkerheten och framkomligheten för cyklister negativt och bidrar till ökade underhållskostnader. Cykelvägarna är extra känsliga för den här problematiken då de både är tunnare och smalare än bilvägar. Ett par passager av tunga fordon vid ogynnsamma tidpunkter kan räcka för att cykelvägens kant ska knäckas. Bärförmågan hos åttaA recurrent challenge on cycle paths are edge cracks, which affect the traffic safety and accessibility of cyclists and produce high maintenance costs. Being both structurally thinner and narrower structures than roads, the cycle paths are extra prone to this problem. A few passages of heavy vehicles in unfavourable conditions might be enough to break the edge. The load-bearing capacity of eight m

This interview-based study seeks to gain insight into the varying motivations behind car usage across different societal groups, alongside their attitudes towards travel behavior and transportation options. Its overarching goal is to delve deeper into the factors and constraints that influences individuals’ car use and mode choice. The research methodology involves collecting one-month travel data

Background In this study we examine whether the association between internet use and drinking could be different for different types of internet activities among adolescents. We also adjust for a number of theoretically relevant factors such as peer influence, unstructured activities, impulsivity and parental monitoring. Method The data are drawn from four cross-sectional surveys from the years 20

Economic crimes are – often – abstract crimes. Even for a somewhat well-trained accounting expert, these crimes are ambiguous, hard to detect and difficult to interpret. The abstract character of economic crimes is a problem in need of a solution. The abstractness needs to be reduced in order to make the court case judicially manageable, i.e. possible to work with during the process of trial and l

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a leading cause of heart failure and cardiac transplantation. We report a genome-wide association study and multi-trait analysis of DCM (14,256 cases) and three left ventricular traits (36,203 UK Biobank participants). We identified 80 genomic risk loci and prioritized 62 putative effector genes, including several with rare variant DCM associations (MAP3K7, NEDD4L a

Research on early postwar documentation efforts related to the Second World War and the Holocaust conducted by survivors of Nazi persecution has expanded over the past two decades. Yet, research on how knowledge circulatedtween these efforts – especially across various “borders” – is still nascent. This chapter seeks to gain a better understanding of the role of women’s informalworks during the ea

We assessed if fasting plasma insulin levels in pregnant women with obesity are associated with newborns’ abdominal fat deposition (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) and with cord blood DNA methylation (450k array) in 232 mother–child pairs from the Treatment of Obese Pregnant women (TOP) study. Fasting maternal insulin at 18-20gw was associated with abdominal/total fat mass ratio in newborns inde

Thirty years on, gender mainstreaming is still a dominant strategy for working with gender equality, even though its effectiveness is debated. This is also the case in Sweden. This study focuses on how organisations in public administration, particularly municipalities and regions, are introduced to and approach gender mainstreaming. It aims to contribute with in-depth knowledge of how organisatio