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The aim of this master’s thesis is to investigate the role and assignment of public libraries in Sweden and Denmark, with a focus on digital competence and digital participation. This is a comparative study, where a more general intention is to analyze how cultural initiatives on digital competence are motivated and described, and how they are able to contribute to higher digital competence of the

Bakgrund: Den högteknologiska miljön på en intensivvårdsavdelning (IVA) kan upplevas som obehaglig och skrämmande. En del patienter får påfrestande minnen som kan kvarstå i upp till fem år efter vårdtillfället. Att uppleva påfrestande minnen orsakar lidande samt innebär en försämrad livskvalitet för patienten. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva vilka påfrestande minnen som är mest förekommande hos pa

This comparative thesis investigates in what ways municipal detailed planning of three train station areas considered perceived safety. It further examines how strengths and weaknesses in each case’s perceived safety methodology can be understood through established planning models/concepts and existing academic research on Swedish perceived safety planning. Finally, the study concludes how future

Denna studie har syftet att få ökad kunskap om min personliga skapandeprocess bakom ett musikaliskt album. Hur ser förhållandet ut mellan mig som musicerande kompositör och mina medmusiker? Hur balanseras mina intentioner med deras kreativitet? Hur kan detta samspel formuleras och karaktäriseras? Hur ser det kompositoriska samspelet ut mellan förutbestämda musikaliska strukturer och mera intuitivaThe purpose of this study is to increase my knowledge of my personal creation process behind a musical album. What does the relationship between me as a music composer and my fellow musicians look like? How are my intentions balanced with their creativity? How can this interaction be formulated and characterized? What does the compositional interaction look like between predetermined musical struc

In recent years, the green bond market has grown rapidly, and yet it remains an area of academia that has received little exploration. This paper furthers the understanding of green bond issue announcements through investigating their impact on equity prices in general, across the issuing firms’ regions and sectors, and on firms’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) score. Using a sample of

Compassion fatigue is often used interchangeably with burnout and secondary traumatic stress in literature. There is, however, theoretical support for considering compassion fatigue as a separate condition. The aim of this pilot study was to create a compassion fatigue scale and examine its relation to burnout and secondary traumatic stress as well as to explore how descriptive variables affect le

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to explore and create additional and immersed knowledge concerning how archives work with social media, how that affects archivist’s profession and what structures and forces that may lie behind this. The primary theoretical tool used in this study is neo-institutional theory. A model for studying posts on Instagram, by Russmann and Svensson (2016), and acad

In 2018, several European nations celebrated their centennial anniversaries of independence. Two of them, Estonia and Latvia, had never been independent before 1918, and for these nations, the events surrounding independence therefore have a special meaning. This is not least made evident by the historical development that they have gone through over the course of the past century, having been inc

The study was carried out to assess the energy performance of the buildings in a cluster located in Lund. The buildings were the projects of million homes program, built in the 1960s, and are in great need of renovation. Five retrofit techniques were proposed in the study. Improving the building envelope with insulation and windows, adding an exhaust air heat pump, combining exhaust air heat pump,

In the initial stage of planning, considering the solar impact of urban layout on the building can effectively avoid some irreversible design issues, improve the indoor environment, and reduce energy demand. The typical architectural models of three representative cities (Copenhagen, Berlin and Hong Kong) were selected as the analysis cases in this study. By analysing several sunlight and solar me

Bakgrund: Arbetet på en operationsavdelning är avancerat och högteknologiskt. Dagligen ställs stora krav på operationspersonalen för att utföra säker vård. Vid de flesta operationsingrepp bildas kirurgisk rök. Exponering för röken utgör en hälsofara för operationspersonal eftersom den innehåller en rad toxiska ämnen. Att ha rätt kunskaper om riskfaktorer och befintliga riktlinjer för kirurgisk rök

Continuous organisational changes worldwide have led to a considerable amount of research on this topic within various fields. Managers have generally been acknowledged as the most crucial stakeholders in organisational changes, leading to a majority of studies being from their perspective. This has led to an unbalanced view on organisational changes. This study therefore aims to explore the emplo

The process of organizational change will inevitably have an impact on the employees within when converting from its status quo to a hoped-for future state. Strategic goals are often coming to the fore while creating a workforce that helps evolve the change is easily forgotten or deprioritized. Moreover, the frequency of change tends to aggravate feelings of fatigue or organizational change cynici

This thesis examines how learning is depicted in policy documents for public libraries on municipal and national level in Sweden. The documents analyzed are library plans from five Swedish cities, as well as the proposal for a national strategy presented in 2019 by the National Library of Sweden. The method used is Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be-approach. Pierre Bourdieu’s the

In this thesis we introduce some basic concepts in representation theory such as Schur’s Lemma, induced representations and M-groups. These concepts are then used in particular on a group G_96 of order 96, in order to determine its irreducible representations and its character table. Furthermore, we show that G_96 is an M-group and contains a subgroup which is not an M-group itself.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged to cover the company’s responsibility in their participation in solving social problems. Research has shown that CSR planning and implementation vary significantly between developed and developing countries. Previous literature on CSR were mainly dominated by Western nuances, and they overlooked the implication of socio-cultural aspects in the deve

This dissertation intends to examine how the Swedish art world is responding to the exposure of artwork which has been produced using artificial intelligence as a tool. Based on qualitative interviews with curators, who have developed and formed exhibitions of AI-art, this study aims to investigate if an acceptance of such art could occur. In 2019 two of Sweden’s most reputable art institutions,

Background: In today’s dynamic market environment, change and entrepreneurship are considered important for organizations to keep gaining a competitive advantage. Previous literature on change management primarily focuses on the importance of top management and employees during change, while underexposing the potential key role of middle managers in driving and implementing change. Furthermore, th

The speed of growth for startups has never been faster, and this growth comes with ethical challenges for society as the startups bring their innovation to the masses without considering the full implications of their business. With the aim to better understand the ethical decision making process of the entrepreneur and how to improve it, we identified two gaps in entrepreneurial ethics research t