In this article, the effects of conflict on the economic growth of neighboring countries (referred to as economic spillover effects of conflict) are studied for Asia, Africa and Latin America during 1990-2019. Compared to previous studies on the subject, this study accounts for the changing conflict climate over the years by starting the sample period 30 years later than other authors. The overall

Under sen darriwil-tid i mellanordovicium var Baltica täckt av ett grundhav med relativt rikt och varierat djurliv. Under årmiljoner avsattes här sediment som kom att omvandlas till kompakta kallvattens-karbonater. Baserat på fältstudier och punkträkning av sex stycken tunnslip har den omkring 10 meter mäktiga ”furudalkalkstenen” vid Kårgärdeprofilen (Dalarna, Sverige) analyserats med avseende på During the late Darriwilian age (Middle Ordovician) Baltica was covered by a shallow, epeiric sea with a fairly rich and varied fauna. Over millions of years, carbonate sediment was deposited that later transformed into compact cool-water limestone. Based on field studies and point-counting of six thin sections, the ca 10 meter thick ‘Furudal Limestone’ at the locality Kårgärde (Dalarna, Sweden) h

Training Generative Adversial Networks (GANs) for image synthesis problems is a largely heuristical process that is known to be fickle and difficult to set up reliably. To avoid common failure modes and succeed with GAN training, one needs to find very specific hyperparameter settings carefully tuned to the model architectures and datasets at hand. Standard GAN training optimization methods such a

The field of computer vision is growing larger and larger every day, fuelled by lower cost, higher computational power, and more sophisticated cameras. This trend, in tandem with the ongoing rise of Industry 4.0, provides new and exciting opportunities to innovate in areas where this technology has not yet been widely adopted or explored. This thesis aims to investigate the ways in which real-time

The purpose of this study was to try to understand what sort of impact Swedish rap-music and rap-artists have on youth behavior and identity from the Swedish suburbs Seved and Rosengård. Also, whether it influences subcultural youth groups. The hip hop-culture in Sweden has in recent years had lots of media coverage since the artists have been involved in gang activity and a lot of them have been

The efficiency of retail organizations has been improved with the help of internet technology, using big data, cloud computing, and other technologies to upgrade the supply chain, marketing, and logistics of goods and other models. Among these areas, intelligent logistics has played a significant role in the development of retail organizations. This article studies the benefits and challenges of t

Much has been written on dialogue within academic literature. It has been situated as one of the most ethical forms of communication, and it is becoming one of the most prominent theories in public relations. However, the concept remains ambiguous, and a link between theory and practice is still lacking. Against this background, this study investigates dialogue initiatives that have been taken wit

Denna studie ämnar undersöka hur kommunikatörer i svenska organisationer uppfattar organisationskultur i förhållande till den nya digitala arbetsmiljö som organisationer befinner sig i med anledning av Covid-19-pandemin, samt vad de anser är av störst vikt att fokusera på och arbeta med i denna situation. Med en vetenskaplig utgångspunkt i socialkonstruktivism, meningsskapande, hermeneutik och fenThis study aims to explore how communicators in Swedish organizations experience organizational culture in relation to the new digital working environment which came as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and what they consider is of utmost importance to focus on and work with in this situation. With a scientific framework taking its base in social constructivism, sense-making, hermeneutics and phe

This thesis examines how forced digitized work has affected politicians in a regional board. Through interviews with elected politicians and observations of council meetings we have studied and analyzed the politicians’ attitudes towards the forced digitized changeover. The digitalization that was forced due to the corona pandemic has been perceived differently and can be linked to the idea of dig

Studien undersöker effekter av social distansering och distansundervisning under COVID-19-pandemin bland universitetsstudenter och gymnasieelever i Sverige och Norge. Studier som genomförts under det senaste året visar att studenter har påverkats negativt av pandemin men det finns ingen jämförande forskning mellan de två till synes liknande länderna. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om det fanThe study investigates the effects of social distancing and online education during the COVID-19 pandemic on university students and high school students in Sweden and Norway. Through studies conducted in the last year it appears that students have been negatively affected by the pandemic but there is no comparative research between the two nations. The purpose of the study was to discern if there

By studying the process behind two examples of Swedish theatre architecture - Malmö City Theater and the Gothenburg Opera, the defining cultural and political developments of the 20th century can be explored. In the wake of the first world war, processes of democratization and totalitarianism spread throughout Europe. The volksbühne (people’s theater) would quickly find its home in Sweden, manifes

For many years, the United States’ inability to provide basic universal healthcare has been a mystery. Why does the richest country in the world not have the best healthcare and the best health outcomes? This study examines the disposition of US opposition to publicly funded healthcare. It is a qualitative case study comprised of articles from the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News during the

Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskor inom palliativ vård arbetar utifrån ett holistiskt perspektiv som beaktar patientens fysiska, psykiska, sociala samt existentiella behov. Etiska dilemman uppstår då sjuksköterskor ställs inför ett svårt val där alla alternativ utmanar sjuksköterskans moraliska principer. Syfte: Att belysa och sammanställa vilka etiska dilemman som förekommer inom palliativ vård för vuxna p

What drives change and continuity in welfare states? This master thesis contributes to the debate by examining the German cash-benefit “Kosten der Unterkunft und Heizung”. This cash-benefit is a component of the means-tested unemployment benefit II in Germany which was introduced by the Hartz-IV-Reform in 2005. 16 years later the case “Kosten der Unterkunft und Heizung” has undergone no major refo

This study investigates how regional unemployment rates affect two self-reported measures of health: psychological distress and health satisfaction. Employing a panel data fixed effects design, we identify countercyclicality in psychological distress and unclear effects for health satisfaction. The countercyclicality of psychological distress appears to be primarily driven by effects experienced b

I denna abduktiva kvalitativa studie har tolv medarbetare från två sydsvenska kommuner intervjuas för att förstå upplevelser av omställningen från fysiskt kontorsarbete till hemarbete under Coronapandemin, samt hur det har påverkat upplevelsen av medarbetarengagemang i och med den digitaliserade informella kommunikationen. Genom tidigare forskning och teorier kopplade till organisationsförändring,In this abductive qualitative study, twelve co-workers from two Swedish public organizations are interviewed to understand their experiences of shifting from office based work to working from home, and how this shift enforce the experience of engagement through digitalized informal communication. Through previous research and theories on organizational change, change communication and sensemaking,