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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major long-term complication and the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D), with a substantially higher prevalence compared to the general population and driven by multiple interrelated risk factors—underscoring the urgent need for accurate risk assessment. To support more tailored approaches to CVD prevention, recen

This study investigates the doing of research from the standpoint of communication. The ambition is to offer a historically specific critical interpretation of how to conceptualize the scientific article and its relation to contemporary sociological research. The interpretation is made in light of a synthesized theoretical framework, consisting of insights from Kuhn, Adorno, and Postone. To enable

Public opinion can be shaped as well as transformed in a number of ways. Government authorities occasionally make use of public information campaigns to educate and steer the public. In this thesis the balance between public and private, the individual and the society is analysed in terms of dimensions of individualism and communitarianism. These dissimilar theories on how the society ought to be

Syftet med denna studie var att öka kunskapen om hur skolkuratorer beskriver skolans arbete med mobbning, samt vad som kan leda till svårigheter och möjligheter i detta arbete. Studien baserades på kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra skolkuratorer från fyra olika kommuner i Sverige. Yeheskel Hasenfelds beskrivning av människobehandlande organisationer och Michael Lipskys teori om grä

The increased prevalence of remote work, particularly quickened by the COVID-19 pandemic, has impacted employers' responsibilities regarding workplace safety within employees' homes. This thesis explores how the shift to remote work has redefined the legal and practical boundaries of a secure work environment. Special focus is given to the role of safety representatives in ensuring a safe

This study aimed to deepen and refine the understanding of the responsibility burden that children may need to navigate in a family where a parent is grappling with alcohol abuse. Our research questions included “How is the responsibility that a child may need to assume for a parent with alcohol abuse portrayed in the autobiographies of adult children?” and “How is the responsibility one may need

The Hawkes process, also referred to as a self-exciting point process, is a class of point processes where the intensity is conditioned on previous events. More specifically, an event occurrence excites the process, temporarily increasing the probability of more events occurring. One application of Hawkes processes is to model occurrences of crimes, such as burglaries or shootings. The present the

This thesis investigates the application of sentiment analysis in predicting stock returns for the companies listed in the OMXS30 index. The recent development of large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, has substantially advanced the field of sentiment analysis. This thesis utilizes Meta’s LlaMA 2 LLM for sentiment analysis, while a random forest model is employed to predict monthly stock retu

Carbon-14 (14C) is one of the most important contributors to the collective effective dose of the public due to radioactive releases from nuclear power plants. However, the discharge of 14C from nuclear power plants (NPPs) into water has not been measured previously. The aim of this project was to the develop a method for retrospectively analysing the annual discharge of dissolved inorganic 14C. A