The queer experience has only become relatively recently a topic of study within migration scholarship. Despite it being seen as a ‘special interest’ field, a lot can be learned about processes of migration decision-making overall, by applying queer theory to it. Furthermore, the concept of place image, which is most often applied to research concerning tourist destinations and the ‘country of ori

Nowadays new tools became available for global actors for achieving their goals, which are not only traditional military means (hard power) and/or the means of seduction (soft power). Instead, the new tools, which are more sophisticated and effective in implementing the power by the actor, are currently being applied in order for an actor to effectively influence its counterparts (from individuals

För att ett land ska ha ett fullt fungerande civilt försvar måste alla aktörer utföra sina arbetsuppgifter på ett bra och effektivt sätt. Syftet med examensarbetet är att få en djupare inblick och förståelse om hur dagens civila försvar ser ut, främst med fokus på den kommunala räddningstjänsten. Målet med arbetet är att kartlägga hur den kommunala räddningstjänsten ser på den hotbild som finns ocFor a country to be able to have a fully functional civil defense must every involved actor perform their tasks in a good and efficient way. The purpose with this report is to get a deeper insight and understanding about the structure of today’s civil defense, with focus on the municipal rescue service. The aim of the report is to map how the municipal rescue service looks at the threat scenario a

Background: Today, plastic packages can be found from the nature all around the world, hence it is a topic which is widely discussed among consumers, the media and politics, to name a few. Furthermore, solutions to the waste issue are pondered upon these different groups. The packaging industry constitutes for a large share of the total plastic waste, which is why the study was narrowed down to th

This study aims to perform stress-testing of the Russian banking sector with a focus on credit risk measures derived by using contingent claims analysis, an extension of Black-Scholes and Merton option pricing theory. Risk exposure indicators are linked to a number of macroeconomic variables that describe global and domestic economic and financial development. To reduce the dimension of the datase

Governance of environmental resources plays a key role in enhancing or hindering progress towards peace in post-conflict societies. Two years after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government of Colombia, new dynamics on natural resource and land-use are leading to environmental harm in some regions. Highlands and páramo (high-ele

The thriving far-right has been transforming social and political space in Western Democracies for decades. Yet despite the contemporary ecological crisis and other environmental problems, there is a considerable lack of research on the far-right’s positions on nature. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to filling the research gap and to investigate the ideological relations between the far-r

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and shed light on the critical success factors for investors, management and academia for listed European football clubs. This paper is the first of its kind in that it analyses the Key Performance Indicators and their respective impact on the stock price for 23 listed European football clubs. The quantitative methodology approach utilised the FGLS regre

Alla celler i samma kropp har samma genetiska information lagrad i DNA. Olika delar av den genetiska informationen är lagrade i en otillgänglig form. Vilken del av cellens DNA som är tillgänglig avgör sedan vilken specialisering cellen har. Genom att kontrollera vilken information som används kan man omprogrammera celler, till exempel kan en hudcell bli en hjärncell. En metod för att åstadkomma deAstrocytes are one of the most common types of cells found in the central nervous system, and they play an important supportive role for neurons and other brain cells. In order to obtain astrocytes for medical or experimental purposes, some protocols enable the production of astrocytes from stem cells, but it is of interest to be able to produce astrocytes from fibroblasts, a cell type found in th

Skatteverket uppmärksammade i en promemoria 2008 att det i stor utsträckning förekom skatteplanering med ränteupplägg. Skatteflyktlagen var inte tillämplig i dessa fall enligt regeringsrätten och Sverige valde att införa ränteavdragsbegränsningsregler 2009. Reglerna utvidgades 2013 för att den svenska bolagsskattebasen inte skulle urholkas. Till följd av Sveriges internationella åtaganden ändradesSwedish tax authorities discovered in a memo in 2008 that tax planning with deduction of interest were used in significant extent. The swedish tax avoidance law “Skatteflyktlagen” wasn’t applicable to these cases according to the supreme administrative court and Sweden choose to introduce interest limitation rules in 2009. The interest limitation rules were expand in 2013 in purpose to protect the

Den brandtekniska riskvärdering som presenteras i detta arbete har genomförts i utbildningssyfte i kursen Brandteknisk riskvärdering på brandingenjörsprogrammet vid Lunds Tekniska Högskola. Fokus för riskvärderingen är personsäkerhet på köpcentret Skärholmen Centrum, ingen hänsyn har tagits till andra konsekvenser som en brand kan medföra. Skärholmen Centrum är ett stort köpcenter beläget i sydväsThis report is a part of the course Fire Safety Evaluation at LTH and written in educational purposes. The intent of the report is to evaluate the fire safety and assess the risks of Skärholmen Centrum, located at Skärholmen, Stockholm. The risk assessment focuses mainly on occupant safety and does not regard any other protection values connected to fire incidents. Skärholmen Centrum is a shopping

Bakgrund: 2018 publicerades nya riktlinjer för vård vid stroke i Sverige. Riktlinjerna har ökat prioriteringen av rehabiliteringsmetoden Tidig understödd utskrivning, även kallat Early Supported Discharge (ESD). ESD innebär att samma multidisciplinära team, där arbetsterapeuter utgör en väsentlig roll, både koordinerar utskrivning och utför hemrehabilitering. Tidigare studier har undersökt effekt Background: The rehabilitation method Early Supported Discharge (ESD) has gained in priority according to the new Swedish stroke-care guidelines that were published year 2018. ESD implies that the same multidisciplinary team, where occupational therapists constitutes an important role, both coordinates discharge and performs the home rehabilitation. Even though there are earlier studies examining

Today, investors look for more than just the potential return a company can bring when making investment decisions. An increased demand to invest sustainably has created a demand for investors to screen companies via ESG scores. In this thesis, we therefore aim to examine if Bloomberg’s ESG disclosure scores can be used as screening tools and proxies for the most common risk and return measures, v

De första idéerna om hur planeterna i solsystemet bildades härstammar från den franske filosifen René Descartes på 1600-talet. Vad räknas solsystemet som - är denna teori bara kring planeterna eller hela solsystemet och dess komponenter?) Den teori som forskare tror på idag kan spåra sitt ursprung till mitten av 1700-talet, från den svenske forskaren Emanuel Swedenborg och den tyske filosofen ImmaA star forms with a surrounding protoplanetary disk after the collapse of a molecular cloud core. Subsequently, over a period of several Myr this protoplanetary disk of dust and gas is accreted onto the host star. We model the formation and evolution of such a protoplanetary disk using a one-dimensional numerical model. We find that disks form on a time scale of less than 1 Myr and that the size a

Denna uppsats undersöker vad praktiker, det vill säga utvecklare, konsulter och användare som arbetar med Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI), anser är SSBI. Praktikers beskrivning av SSBI diskuteras i förhållande till litteraturens beskrivning. Både praktiker och litteratur diskuterar SSBI som ett visualiseringsverktyg, men praktiker beskriver vidare att det inte är begränsat till en viss t

Bakgrund: Handen är människans viktigaste redskap. Efter en nervavskärning i handledsnivå skadas både rörelse- och känselförmåga i handen vilket påverkar individens aktiviteter i vardagen. Arbetsterapeuter genomför tidig känselträning som är viktigt för att återfå känselförmåga i handen. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att jämföra och utvärdera olika bilder för användning i tidig känselträning. MetoBackground: The hand is humans’ most important tool. After a nerve injury at wrist level, both movement and sensory abilities of the hand are damaged, affecting the individual´s everyday activities. Occupational therapists conduct early sensory relearning which is important to regain sensory abilities. Aim: The aim was to compare and evaluate different images for use in early sensory relearning. M

Bakgrund: Arbetsterapeuter och deras arbete i skolor i Sverige efterfrågas mer och mer men kunskapen kring hur arbetet upplevs och beskrivs är ett förhållandevis outforskat område. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva arbetsterapeuters arbete i skola samt hur detta upplevdes av arbetsterapeuter och andra yrkesverksamma i skola. Metod: Studien var en kvalitativ tvärsnittsstudie. Nio semistruBackground: Occupational therapists and their work in schools are being inquired for more and more in Sweden but the knowledge around how their work are perceived and described are a relatively unexplored area. Aim: The aim of the study was to describe the work of occupational therapists in school, as well how this is experienced by occupational therapists and other professions in schools. Method:

Urban bosättning är vanligt i dagens samhälle och en övervägande andel av befolkningen bor i lägenheter, där ljudisolering är en viktig aspekt rörande trivseln i bostaden. Användning av smartmobiler för akustiska mätningar blir allt vanligare, men inget enkelt verktyg finns idag för att mäta och räkna ut reduktionstalet. För att räkna ut reduktionstalet behövs ljudtrycksnivå, bakgrundsljud och efUrban dwelling is common in our society today and a considerable portion of the population reside in apartment buildings, making sound insulation an important aspect regarding the comfort of urban living. While using smartphones for acoustic measurements is becoming more and more common, there is an absence of a simple tool for measuring sound reduction index. Sound reduction index is a measuremen

Tissue-mimicking phantoms are of great interest in the development of bio-medical applications. Instead of applying to biological tissues directly, phantoms enable stable and easy accessibility to validate spectroscopy systems and measuring processes. This thesis project is centered on the development and characterization of phantoms. The interaction between light and biological tissue is mainly

From a reputation of an industrial and trading city, Aalborg has changed into a contemporary university city, with a strong development of creative clusters in knowledge-based industries. Nowadays the Vækstaksen, an urban growth axis set by the municipality, has become the driving force in the city’s development to avoid further sprawl. A great part of East Aalborg belongs to this axis and is curr