This study aims to investigate why the US and Sweden's welfare states differ to the extent that they do today. The essay has used a comparative analysis between the US and Sweden's political tools and conditions over the years to examine why welfare has developed different pronunciations with each other. Sweden is today one of the most used welfare states in the world while the US is the d

The original human form. Neutrality. Adam, created from dust, become his own, and Eve, created from one of Adam’s ribs, and ad-on to the original human. Or so the creation myth states, in cultures based on Abrahamic religions. Masculinity is a social construction, shaped by history and traditions, and varying across different cultures and time periods. Just like femininity masculinity h

This thesis investigates to what extent Swedish students of Japanese can understand wasei-eigo, as well as their thoughts and attitudes toward it. It further investigates if some word categories are more incomprehensible than others and what aspects can determine their comprehension. The survey consisted of a questionnaire with 30 words, divided into 4 different categories, which the participants

Preservation of digital records is still very much an open issue within large parts of the Swedish public sector. An ongoing work of coordinating the digital preservation in the public sector is carried out by the Swedish National Archives, but, as of yet, the results are limited, and much remains to be done. The issue of digital preservation is also inherently one that will require a lot of diffe

Abstract Title Inventory management in a customer landscape with diverse requirements on flexibility - A case study at Atria Sweden AB. Course Degree Project in Production Management – MIOM01. Authors Annika Fredriksson and Andreas Pettersson. Supervisor Johan Marklund. Background and Research Question Atria Sweden AB manufactures meat products towards both the Swedish and Danish markets. As a re

The aim of this project was to construct a measurement setup to be able to measure the decoherence time of optical phonons. Optical phonons lose coherence by decaying to intermediate phonons and eventually to acoustic phonons which can carry heat, which is why measuring the coherence time of optical phonons is important to characterizing heat flow on short time scales. Ultrashort laser pulses wer

Since the financial crisis of 2007-2008, unconventional monetary policy methods have been widely used by central banks around the world. In 2015, Sweden initiated a program of quantitative easing with the aim of regaining economic stability. The purpose of this essay is to study how Sweden’s monetary policy with quantitative easing, has effected Swedish government bonds. Using an event study, this

The aim of this project was to investigate the effect of fermentation on physicochemical and rheological properties of a plant-based beverage. The starter cultures used for the inoculation of the plant-based beverage were LAB1, LAB2 as well as LAB3. Samples were taken from the inoculated mixtures as well as the control before and after fermentation to measure pH, moisture content, ash, lipid, colo

This study is set to provide quantitative evidence on the effect of China’s growing economic presence on democracy in Africa, with a special focus on the role of trade and FDI, because most of the literature has focused on the role of aid, even though the increase in trade and FDI has been much more prominent in the 2000s. On the basis of a quantitative cross-country analysis, the study attempts t

The refugee crisis in 2015 challenged Sweden’s asylum policy. The high number of refugees put pressure on the Migration Agency to register all asylum applica-tions and for municipalities to provide them with ontological security in terms of housing, education, and healthcare. The discourse in parliamentary debates and newspaper articles was on internal security, the ability to provide housing, edu

Gaming as a Service is not defined in existing research. The lack of a formal definition leads to an ambiguity between its function as a business model and the long-term strategy of the firm. The purpose and aim of this study is to investigate the definition of GaaS business model, distinguishing its function from the strategy. Furthermore, the key components of the model are established based on

I många däggdjurs hjärnor pågår en process som kallas "synaptic pruning", som går ut på att göra sig av med hjärnans mindre använda kopplingar. Likt detta kallar man processer för ta bort överflödiga objekt från neuronnätverk för "pruning". Ett av de ursprungliga sätten att åstadkomma detta var det så kallade "optimal brain damage", som definierade ett sätt att sorterIn this study, the efficiency of various pruning algorithms were investigated, with an emphasis on regularization methods. Pruning is a method which aims to remove excess objects from a neural network. In particular, this included the LASSO (Least Asbolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator) and the extensions derived from it, which were compared with other methods, including optimal brain damage an

Currently, a series of events initiated by globalization and its effects have interfered on how people live and how they face the “other,” the “outsider.” Through a series of theories and concepts, countries are analyzed, and their reactions towards these occurrences scrutinized. Recently in Denmark and Sweden, high-developed nations where everything functions almost flawlessly, episodes have some

Indigenous women suffer wide discrimination, exploitation and victimization in their societies. This study focuses on the experiences a group of Aymara women have of violence and discrimination, and what strategies they use to cope with these oppressive acts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 Aymara women living in the city of El Alto in the country of Bolivia. The theoretical fram

The goal of this Master's Thesis is to successfully detect and classify humans in a LiDAR data stream. The focus of the Thesis is on the detection and classification, not on the LiDAR technology. To classify humans machine learning was used and to train the machine learning model we collected our own data and annotated it. A custom software was made for speeding up the annotation process.

The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of newly educated social workers having spent their first time working in the Swedish social services. The method chosen for this study was qualitative. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five professional social workers, who had spent three to nine months working with social assistance in Malmö Stad. When analysing the results, Mich

I rapporten utvärderas the Waste Management Planning System (WAMPS), som är ett förenklat LCA-baserat verktyg för att jämföra avfallsscenarion utifrån miljömässiga aspekter. Syftet med studien var att hitta bristfälliga områden i modellen som behöver förbättras/uppdateras. Utvärderingen genomfördes genom att jämföra modellens struktur med liknande modeller samt genom att jämföra de resultat som beThis report evaluates the model Waste Management Planning System (WAMPS), which is an LCA-based tool used to compare different waste management scenarios from an environmental perspective. The aim of the study was to find deficient areas in the model that needed to be updated or improved. The evaluation was conducted by comparing the structure of the model to the structure of similar models and by

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka Damallsvenskans varumärke utifrån ett legitimitetsperspektiv för att få djupare förståelse av hur legitimitet kan påverka ett varumärke. Metod: En kvalitativ undersökning har genomförts med ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv. Studiens forskningsansats är abduktiv och rör sig därför mellan empiri och teori för att få förståelsen att växa fram successivt. TeorPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate Damallsvenskan's brand from a legitimacy perspective in order to gain a deeper understanding of how legitimacy can affect a brand. Methodology: A qualitative study has been conducted with a hermeneutic perspective. The study's research approach is abductive and thus alternates between empirical theory and theory in order to gain underst

Title: Drug overdose strategies. A qualitative study about the significance of the Naloxone Take Home Programme. Supervisor: Mats Hilte Assessor: Alexandru Panican The purpose of this study was to depict and analyze how patients in Swedish methadone maintenance clinics deal with overdose. The aim of the study was also to depict and analyze how the newly implemented Naloxone Take Home Programme i

High staff turnover and difficulties in recruiting and retaining experienced social workers is an ongoing dilemma in the social service child welfare. The unions request the social service offices to review the pay system and consider what social workers with long experience should reasonably earn, since the difference between the lowest and highest salaries today is small. In the public sector, i