The following essay aims to explore and analyse Niccoló Machiavelli’s, primarily, political and ideological use of history in his two most well known pieces of writing: The Prince and Discourses. The essay's theoretical framework is that of Klas-Göran Karlssons theory, namely use of history. In using this theory one analyse the, most often written or verbal, intermediation of historical knowle

With socio-economic hardships arising and dramatically worsening as a cause of the present-day financial crisis, The World Bank has warned against severe cases of brain drain as emigration becomes increasingly desirable to the Lebanese population. Lebanon, already possessing one of the world’s largest diaspora, can be characterized as being one of the largest remittance-receiving countries, where

The objective of this thesis is to understand how a retail space could facilitate a broader adoption of a novel technology. I aim to respond to the following questions, (i) ‘What characterises the practice of operating a smart technology for the home?’, (ii) ‘Which are the main barriers to reaching out to a broader range of customers, as opposed to only the technology interested customers?’, and (

The thesis sets out to explore how surveillance technology is affecting modern parental practices. Based on 12 in-depth interviews with parents of children aged 10-17, technological surveillance and parenting are studied. The data is analyzed though a combination of both preexisting concepts of Baumrind on child development and independent constructs. The concept of remote parenting has been deriv

Since the 1930s, a dance permit regulation has been in effect in Sweden. The dance permit is required for public dance events in Sweden, and police may take photographic evidence of patrons moving in sync with the music in a dance-like fashion if they believe that ‘illegal’ dancing has transpired in an establishment that may not have filed for a dance permit. If such is the case, then this evidenc

Kan en enskild lag underlätta planläggningsarbetet ute i kommunerna? Hur arbetar din kommun för att bygga och bevara befintliga hyresrätter? I dagsläget uppfinner varje kommun hjulet själva, men det kan snart vara över. Ett nytt lagförslag är på ingång! Lagstiftaren vill att PBL och byggnadsbranschen blir mer förutsägbar, effektiv och smidig. Bostadskrisen har länge varit på tapeten och röster hörThe Swedish housing market faces a number of concerns. There are too few rental units with cheap rent available and the capital input to buy your own freehold title or tenant-ownership is skyrocketing. The threshold for entering the housing market is getting higher and groups such as young adults, new arrivals, disabled people, and the elderly are the ones who are the most exposed. Developers get

Migration is a globally studied social issue, that can cause changes in the demographic composition of the population and the structure of society. Azerbaijan has been experiencing different waves of migration in the country since gaining its independence. One of the largest waves is the emigration from rural to urban areas. Although there are studies focusing on why people leave the villages, th

Cellen är den fundamentala byggstenen för allt liv vi idag känner till. Inuti celler kompartmentaliseras viktiga funktioner till organeller, vilket är cellernas motsvarighet till organ. Klassiska organeller kan kontrollera sin biokemiska miljö med hjälp av ett membran som avgränsar organellens inre från cytoplasman. Under de senaste åren har forskare dock funnit att membran inte är universell för Biomolecular condensates are aggregates formed from liquid-liquid phase separation through the interactions between nucleic acids and multivalent proteins. These condensates are essential for many biochemical processes inside the cell. Therefore, there has been a large effort during the last decade to create models and methods to describe these systems. Mixtures of RNA and proteins are very common

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of how the perception of stress for HR-professionals within staffing- and recruitment, might differentiate when working more or less from home. An additional ambition was to develop an understanding of how the work characteristics, job-demand, control and support, could have an impact on the above association. To examine this, an explorator

Syftet med studien är att bidra med ökad förståelse för orsakerna varför butiker inom den svenska dagligvaruhandeln väljer att implementera snabbkassor eller inte. Från ett företagsperspektiv vill vi därför kvalitativt undersöka vilka för- och nackdelar livsmedelsbutiker ser med snabbkassor samt hur företagen resonerar kring sin målgrupp i beslut om snabbkassor.

How do emotions influence our memory? While emotionally salient memories are typically found to be remembered better and more vividly than mundane events, emotion- memory interactions can also be maladaptive. Though ample research has emphasized the modulatory role of emotion in memory, much remains to be understood about the way in which emotions may modulate neural mechanisms underlying memory p

I takt med den globala uppvärmningen, Covid-19-pandemin och kriget i Ukraina står den svenska nötköttsbranschen inför fler utmaningar än någonsin för att framgångsrikt och långsiktigt arbeta med hållbar utveckling. I studien appliceras Triple Bottom Line vilket inkluderar social, miljövänlig och ekonomisk hållbarhet. Tidigare forskning har en avsaknad kring hur Triple Bottom Line kan appliceras fö

Samhället genomgår ett omfattande paradigmskifte för att bekämpa de utmaningar som är förenade med de antropogena utsläppen av koldioxid (CO2) och andra växthusgaser som bidrar till den globala uppvärmningen. Fordonsindustrin som står för en femtedel av de globala utsläppen, varav tre fjärdedelar är kopplade till vägfordon, ser en omvälvande ökning i efterfrågan på icke-fossildrivna fordon så som The societal integration of electric vehicles (EVs) imposes several challenges on the electrical grid, where congestion and overcurrents through related components are of focus for this thesis. Active network management through control systems is one flexible solution to this problem, and in the project Active Network Management for All (ANM4L), a congestion management algorithm utilizing PI contr

In a world where the problem of energy resources, pollution and all aspects related to these issues becomes more and more dominant, a greater commitment is needed in the search for solutions. The goal of this project is to make a contribution to the research and development of new materials to reduce the environmental impact in some fields. First of all, we tried to synthesize and prepare an isati

År 2019 slår svensk media rekord i antal rapporteringar om klimakteriet. Men när det gäller hur klimakteriet ska definieras eller hur länge det pågår, går experternas åsikter isär. Enligt WHO och Socialstyrelsen är klimakteriebesvär en diagnos, som graderas utifrån 11 olika symptom av psykisk och fysisk karaktär. Symptomen är dock ganska vaga och liknar diagnoskriterierna för depression och utmatt

This study investigated whether integrative encoding in an associative inference paradigm (AIP) using naturalisitc narrative videos to present the stimuli, comes at cost of memory specificity by testing source- and details-memory of the presented videos and measuring electroencephalography (EEG). Based on earlier work (e.g. Carpenter et al., 2017), it was expected that integrative encoding in the

2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is a promising bio-based chemical that may serve as a green alternative to polyethylene terephthalate as a raw material in manufacturing plastics. A novel method to produce FDCA from the oxidation of 2-formyl-2-furancarboxylic acid (FFCA) using resting cells of Gluconobacter oxydans was tested in this project. The different subspecies of G. oxydans including DSM 2