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The Syrian civil war began in 2011 after wide-spread protests were met with violence from the government, and since then both Russia and the U.S. have gotten involved in the conflict. Strategic narratives regarding the conflict and the involved nation’s actions and motives have been told, constructed to benefit the interests of these states. The purpose of this paper is to answer to what extent CN
Som ett led i att homogenisera den kinesiska befolkningen, har den kinesiska regeringen under längre tid bedrivit en kampanj för att avskaffa Xinjiang-provinsens inhemska folkgrupp Uigurer. Massiva konverteringsläger har inrättats där Uigurerna tvingas avsäga sig sin kultur, etnicitet och religion. Situationen beskrivs av journalister och politiker som ett kulturellt folkmord, men trots begreppetsSince 2017, the Chinese government has conducted an internment campaign against the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang, China, with the goal of total assimilation into the majority population. Cultural genocide has emerged as a powerful rhetorical tool to describe the treatment of the Uighurs. Despite its conceptual relevance, it does not carry any legal authority as the current understanding of g
Combined U-Pb and REE trace element LA-ICPMS analyses were performed on zircons, from the scheelite-bearing Wigström skarn, associated micro-granitic dykes and the highly evolved parental Högberget (sensu stricto) granite. Combined systematic of zircon typology and microtextures, trace elements and isotopic chemistry suggest the presence of several diverse zircon types, spanning from early- to lat
“The voice of unheard: Chai Khana and the importance of independent media in encouraging diversity and inclusion” is a master thesis focusing on the case study of Chai Khana, an independent media platform located in the South Caucasus and covering the gender-related stories from the region, and how it represents the voices of gender oppression and marginalisation. Through adopting a methods triang
This research analyzes the political engagement of Turkish citizens on Twitter, in which underrepresented groups and individuals search for democratic public space to mobilize against injustice. With this in mind, the study focuses on the civic engagement of Turkish citizens on Twitter with the hashtag #istanbulsözleşmesiyaşatır, which translates to‘istanbulconventionsaveslives’. The hashtag is a
Antibiotics commonly used against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms are believed to elicit the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as part of their bactericidal mechanism. Depending on their concentration, ROS can either induce cell death by damaging proteins, lipids, and DNA or cause mutations that can lead to antibiotic resistance. Hence, antioxidant defenses, including catalase enzymes, a
Gesture has been acknowledged as a pivotal part of delivery in political rhetoric for millennia. Typically, politicians are seen as adhering to a style of gesturing encouraging pragmatic gestures, namely those that operate on the level of discourse such as providing emphasis, while being discouraged from using representational gestures, namely those depicting the content of speech iconically, as t
In Sweden, nursing is strongly gender segregated. Additionally, there is a national nursing shortage. To target these issues simultaneously, the current study attempted to make nursing more appealing to men (and as a secondary aim, also to women) by making agency salient in a job advertisement in a sample of Swedish high school students (N = 242, 75 men). Agency salience was manipulated through re
Chile has been benefited from a commodity boom in the copper industry during the first decade of the 21st century. Does a mineral boom increase local labour opportunities? Can women get benefit from a resource boom? Can the mineral boom have indirect effects in non-mining sectors? The present paper attempts to explore and measure the impact of an exogenous increase in copper global prices between
Restidskvot används som ett mått över kollektivtrafikens attraktivitet, många kommuner delar viljan att göra kollektivtrafiken just attraktivare för att öka andelen resenärer. Stockholms län visade i en rapport för över 25 år sedan ett samband mellan restidskvot och kollektivtrafikandel. Den här rapporten undersöker huruvida ett liknande förhållande existerar för medelstora kommuner och hur det saTravel time ratios are a popular way to measure the attractiveness of public transport. There is a demand within the Swedish municipalities for ways to make public transport more popular and increase the number of passengers. This study investigates if a connection between the ratio of travel time and the share of passengers travelling by public transport can be shown for medium sized municipaliti
This thesis investigates the open stormwater system in Augustenborg, Malmö, and aims to understand the past political goals and compare them with the present day structures, their current condition and how people interact with them. Drawing on planning documents and related sources from the time of the system’s development, the study explores the political and ecological goals that underpinned its
To be able to meet the global energy demands, a steady supply of green energy is required, even during sun- or windless hours. Concentrated solar power is a useful alternative, which can produce and store green energy by heating a heat transfer fluid (HTF) and extracting its energy via a heat exchanger. One such category of HTF is molten salts, and to understand and be able to model the behaviour
The rapid expansion of intermittent renewable energy sources has introduced substantial challenges to both the stability of the electrical grid and the economic viability of incumbent wind farms. In light of recent regulatory amendments within the energy market, stakeholders are compelled to adjust their operational strategies. Concurrently, the expansion of wind power has exacerbated price cannib
In an increasingly digital and hyperconnected world, traditional advertising strategies are losing traction as consumers rely on social media for inspiration, information search and purchase decisions. This thesis investigates the influence that social media-based viral marketing, conceptualized as the strategic and synergic union of user-generated content, influencer marketing and brand-generated
In the ocean, carbon export is driven by the biological carbon pump where organic matter is transported from the surface layer to the deep sea. The sinking particulate organic matter is mainly a product of phytoplankton aggregates and faecal pellets from zooplankton & fish, together also known as “marine snow”. Marine snow is continuously being degraded by microbial and zooplankton activities
This thesis explores the beginning of the opioid crisis and the ways in which the liberal welfare system and its principles have led to the lack of regulation of prescription opioids from both Health Canada and the FDA of the United States. The focus of this research is on the impetus to the overprescription of opioids, which started with the creation of Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin. The thesis focus
Forests are vital carbon sinks, yet agricultural expansion remains a leading driver of global deforestation. In response, the European Union Deforestation Regulation mandates new sustainability and traceability requirements for forest-risk commodities such as cocoa. This study examines how Ghana’s cocoa sector is adapting to these demands through the Ghana Cocoa Traceability System, focusing on sy
