The purpose of this study is to analyse what journalism educations in Sweden teaches to their students and how they keep the education updated in relation to the current media landscape. The thesis focuses on the use of social media in journalism. As social media is becoming more popular, it is starting to become an attractive platform for companies in the news field. The analysis is based on five

This paper focuses on the relationship between PTAs and political uncertainty. Further, it analyses if the AMU has managed to create a dampening effect and thereby maintain the intratrade flows during the Arab Spring. This can be interpreted as the cushion effect. Previous literature has not addressed this unique approach. This could be due to the belief of AMU being an inefficient trade agreement

För att undvika onödigt lidande för patienten och minska risken för postoperativa komplikationer, är det av stor vikt att postoperativ smärta behandlas på ett adekvat sätt. Syftet med studien var att, med fokus på smärtbedömning, belysa sjuksköterskors kunskap och attityder vid postoperativ smärthantering samt dess betydelse för behandling av postoperativ smärta. Studien genomfördes i form av en l

Collapse of the Soviet Union and abolishment of the state atheism policy has led to an increase of Protestant organizations and their parishes in Ukraine. Some of them (at least fifteen) allow and practice women ordination. Women priests, thus, find themselves performing non-traditional gender roles in Ukraine, where the majority of the population is affiliated with Orthodox or Greek Catholic Chur

Self-control can be explained as the power to resist what is usually hard to resist, which is essentially what individuals do when they deny themselves to satisfy impulses. This ability is suggested to be a necessity for more cognitively advanced behaviours in animals. A recent study compared 36 species across several taxa in their ability to elicit self-control and found that primates performed b

Though there are numerous studies attempting to describe and analyse the internal dynamics of academic economics, the results of these studies are often contradictory. In order to assess the potential usefulness of certain theoretical tools to the sociology of economics, this study presents and analyses an in-depth interview study of behavioural economists at Swedish universities. The theoretical

The purpose with this study is to examine if a higher level of natural resources hinders export diversification in less developed countries. This is important as low export diversification might affect a country negatively in several aspects that might lead to lower economic growth. Successful management of natural resources is of principle interest for an economist since it affects the direction

Public diplomacy activities and initiatives are adapting to new ways of strategic communication as the society and technology continues to evolve, the need of the organizations to spread information globally has made the public activities adapt to the new ways of communicating. The thesis is a critical discourse analysis of celebrity diplomats and how they are used to spread awareness about issues

Title: Interest Rate Sensitivity of Real Estate Companies’ Income Statements - A Study on the Swedish Market in a Low Rate Environment Seminar date: 11th of January 2018 Course: FEKH89, Bachelor Degree Project in Financial Management, Undergraduate Level Authors: Karl Ågren, Samuel Hammarling and Sebastian Lindeborg Advisor: Anamaria Cociorva Key words: Real estate companies, repo rate,

Cities have a crucial importance from the sustainability point of view. More than 50% of the global population lives in cities, therefore urban dwellers’ environmental knowledge can be of critical importance. Many argue that an important part of environmental knowledge is acquired outside of a formal school setting, therefore in this thesis I explore learning processes connected to community garde

The essay explored two young adult novels with LGBT+ content. This was done through two research questions. The first research question explored how the male homosexual identities were constructed by examining representations of gender binaries and homophobia. Secondly, the essay examined in what ways the novels might be used to inform Swedish students about the issues that face the LGBT+ communit

The purpose of this study is to explore what previous research suggests about how thematic variations in sexual depictions in young adult novels with lesbian characters can affect readers. Furthermore, it explores how different kinds of sexual depictions in lesbian young adult novels can be utilized in a classroom setting. Through close readings of four lesbian sexual depictions in young adult nov

Bakgrund: Andelen patienter med demenssjukdom är hög och förväntas stiga. Demenssymtom kan leda till problematiskt beteende, vilket påverkar interaktionen mellan patient och vårdpersonal negativt. Patientens förståelse vid röntgenundersökningen påverkas av den snabba tekniken. Personcentrerad vård är den omvårdnadsmodell som enligt Socialstyrelsens riktlinjer skapar bästa förutsättningar för välbe

This thesis is a qualitative interview study about Norwegian and Danish news consumer's views and perceptions about Sweden. The interviews have been conducted in Oslo, Norway and Copenhagen, Denmark, where the aim was to gain understanding about how the representation of Sweden, throughout Norwegian and Danish news media, affects the interviewee's image of Sweden. One of the studie's m

Misstron mot etablerade medier och politiska makthavare ökar i samhället. Internet skapar en arena som gör det möjligt att organisera misstron och ge nya aktörer en röst i den offentliga debatten – vilket har förändrat villkoren för det demokratiska samtalet. Syftet med denna fallstudie är att förstå det demokratiska samtalets tillstånd och undersöka de misstroende aktörer som anser att samhället

In the field of thermal-neutron imaging, the Multi-Blade detector concept and design, being developed for the upcoming European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, is unique. The current report presents, for the first time, the neutron-imaging capabilities of a boron-10-based Multi-Blade thermal-neutron detector, measured at a reflectometry instrument at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshir

Huvudsyftet med studien är att konstruera en modell över risker kopplade till crowdfunding i fastighetsbranschen. Under skapandet av denna modell är ambitionen även att formulera hypoteser som sedan kan testas i andra studier. Ett delsyfte blir att först identifiera och förstå riskerna kopplade till crowdfunding i fastighetsbranschen ur ett investerarperspektiv. Studien har genomförts med en kval

Previous findings on the subject of Class Biased Economic Voting (CBEV) suggests that voters who are not among the wealthiest elite respond positively, in terms of probability of voting for the incumbent party or president, to income growth among the wealthiest 5% of households, and more so than to mean income growth. The aim of this paper is to explore if this type of bias voting is due to voters

Det har gått 50 år sedan svenska romer fick rätt att gå i skolan. 2011 har romska barn hög frånvaro och svårt att hänga med. Ju högre upp i utbildningssystemet, desto färre romer finns det. Varför ser det ut så och vad måste göras för att bryta den onda cirkeln?