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Electricity finds itself different from other fresh-ware commodities, it cannot easily be stored. This characteristic trait of electricity results in traditional pricing methods not working for electricity pricing. Thus different pricing schemes are needed, such as Price Forward Curves (PFC) or pricing against a price level. The price forward curves are constructed through a mix of historical mark

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”) provide targets with an alternative route to the public markets and have grown significantly in popularity in recent years. The existing literature on SPAC performance, which predominantly examines the previous generation of SPACs (pre-2010), reveals that the market tends to react positively to acquisition announcement, while post-merger performance

Under the capitalist growth imperative, mainstream housing is connected to high social and ecological consequences. In light of the need for an alternative approach to housing, my thesis adopts a degrowth perspective to critically explore an alternative housing model: the Swedish kollektivhus (‘collective house’; co-housing). In the kollektivhus, residents have their own private apartment which is

Syftet med detta arbete är att kritiskt diskutera beviskrav och bevisbörda i dispositiva tvistemål i svensk rätt de lege feranda. Det nu rådande beviskravet i tvistemål anses vara styrkt eller visat, vilket innebär ett relativt högt sannolikhetskrav. Gällande vad som är den rådande huvudregeln för bevisbörda råder, oenighet inom doktrinen där många olika teorier florerar. I arbetet föreslås en ny

The aim of this study is to hermeneutically understand and critically assess manifestations and impacts of certain aspects of the phenomenon of patriarchal gender norms. Seeing that gender norms are the sustaining component of the greater and oppressing gender system of patriarchy, this study is relevant in relation to the broader analysis and understanding of patriarchy and its influences. By usi

I denna uppsats har jag intervjuat sex akademiker för att förstå hur akademin kan förstås ur ett dekolonialt perspektiv samt vilka möjligheter det finns för att arbeta dekolonialt inom akademin. Till hjälp har jag tagit teorier om bankundervisning, nollpunktens hybris, avlänkning, epistemisk våld samt dekoloniala pedagogier. Studien visar att akademin setts som en neutral och fristående institutio

De årliga koldioxidutsläppen har under de senaste 50 åren ökat med nästan 200% som påföljd av människans användning av fossila bränslen och råvaror. De negativa konsekvenserna av denna ökning syns idag världen över i land- och havsbaserade ekosystem, samt inom den biologiska mångfalden. Forskningens rön visar lovande lösningar genom bioteknisk ingenjörskonst av fotosyntetiska organismer med förmågThe increased human dependence on fossil-based fuels, industrial chemicals, and structural materials has caused a drastic increase in atmospheric CO2 levels during the past 50 years. Consequences of this have been observed in the disruption of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Bioengineering of photosynthetic organisms capable of converting CO2 into biomass and value-added organic molecules prov

I Sverige trädde sexköpslagen i kraft år 1999 vilket kriminaliserade sexköp i syftet att stoppa mäns våld mot kvinnor. Ett år senare hävdes bordellförbudet i Nederländerna och prostitution sågs som en form av företag som blev lagligt – både när det gällde att sälja och köpa sex. Trots de olika regleringarna i två olika kulturer utsätts prostituerade för våld, stigmatisering och hamnar i utanförskaThe sex purchase law, which made sex purchases a criminal offence, took effect in 1999 in Sweden to stop men’s violence against women. A year later, the brothel prohibition in the Netherlands was lift-ed, and prostitution was considered a legal form of business – both in regard of selling and buying sex. Despite the different regulations in these two different cultures, prostitutes are subject to

In this thesis, I investigate the concept of love in relation to feminist epistemology. Through a theoretical analysis and assessment, the aim has been to first of all examine ontological tensions between feminist works theorizing on love; secondly, to analyse which role the concept of love has in the works; and thirdly to contextualize the different ontological assumptions made within the basic t

The search for prior art documents is an important, but time-consuming task for the patent attorney. Today, these searches are carried out using keywords, which is problematic since inventions often are described using abstract and general terms in the patent applications. In addition, synonyms must be taken into account and formulated manually. This means a risk of relevant documents being overlo

The object of this thesis is to analyze and discuss normcore and its discursive relationship to subculture and mainstream. The urban district Williamsburg and the French fashion brand Céline will respectively be used as cases to exemplify these two different aspects. Normcore is an attitude that the trend agency K-HOLE mapped out in their report Youth mode: A Report on Freedom. The attitude turned

Departing from the question of how linguistic representations of sexual crime are connected to social practices around sexuality, this discourse analysis looks into 30 news articles on sexual crime to identify discourses around male and female sexuality. As most sexual crimes are committed by men and against women, the analysis focuses on connecting discursive descriptions of men and women in rela

Våld i nära relationer, och då främst mäns våld mot kvinnor, utgör ett erkänt samhällsproblem. En särskilt utsatt grupp är våldsutsatta kvinnor med osäker uppehållsrätt som kommit till Sverige på anknytning till en svensk man. Kvinnorna får tidsbegränsade uppehållstillstånd och om anknytningen bryts föreligger inte längre förutsättningar för uppehållstillståndet, och kvinnan utvisas. Om kvinnan kaDomestic violence, and primarily men's violence against women, is a well-recognized social problem. A particularly vulnerable group is abused women with uncertain right of residence. Their migration status depends on that of their spouse, and they receive only a temporary residence permit. If the relationship is broken, the conditions for the residence permit are no longer present and the woma

Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are differentially regulated in tumor cells. While the current paradigm supports post-translational regulation of the HIF-α subunits, we recently showed that hypoxic HIF-2α is also transcriptionally regulated via insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-II in the childhood tumor neuroblastoma. Here, we demonstrate that transcriptional regulation of HIF-2α seems to be restr

Bladder exstrophy, a severe congenital urological malformation when a child is born with an open urinary bladder, is the most common form of bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex (BEEC) with an incidence of 1:30.000 children of Caucasian descent. Recent studies suggest that WNT genes may contribute to the etiology of bladder exstrophy. Here, we evaluated WNT pathway genes in 20 bladder exstrophy pa

Range shifts can rapidly create new areas of geographic overlap between formerly allopatric taxa and evidence is accumulating that this can affect species persistence. We review the emerging literature on the short- and long-term consequences of these geographic range shifts. Specifically, we focus on the evolutionary consequences of novel species interactions in newly created sympatric areas by d

Abstract in UndeterminedThe sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) technique offers a potentially invaluable means of investigating species evolution and extinction dynamics in high-latitude environments. An implicit assumption of the sedaDNA approach is that the extracted DNA is autochthonous with the host deposit and that it has not been physically transported from older source deposits or reworked w

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a devastating inherited disorder characterized by episodic syncope and/or sudden cardiac arrest during exercise or acute emotion in individuals without structural cardiac abnormalities. Although rare, CPVT is suspected to cause a substantial part of sudden cardiac deaths in young individuals. Mutations in RYR2, encoding the cardiac sa