Unfriending someone on Facebook is a phenomena which can be seen in many different contexts and unfriending someone for political reasons can create obstacles for political conversations as it can increase polarization in society. In recent years there has been a tendency of unfriending individuals that express sympathies for the political party Swedish Democrats (SD) which can be perceived as sti

The contribution of greenhouse gas emissions in the production of construction materials has sparked a new interest and recent changes in building regulations regarding the use of renewables like wood as the main component in load-bearing elements. Recent regulation changes focus on allowing taller timber structures which bides the question of how to adequately maintain an acceptable level of f

Less than a decade ago, Swedish law demanded that a person who wanted to change their legal gender had to be without any ability to reproduce. This demand led to many trans people being forcibly sterilized. Even though the demand is now removed from law, lingering effects continues to affect trans people in their reproductive journey. This study examines barriers faced by trans people in three sta

Syfte: Undersöka kapitalstrukturen hos företag inom IT- och teknologibranschen i hela världen samt vilka faktorer som påverkar kapitalstrukturen hos dessa företag. Vidare testas hur väl etablerade teorier förklarar valet av kapitalstruktur samt genomförs en jämförelse med tillverkningsindustrin. Metod: En kvantitativ studie med en deduktiv ansat genomförs. Studien bygger på sekundärdata och analysPurpose: Investigate the capital structure of companies in the IT and technology industry worldwide and determine which factors affect their capital structure. Furthermore, a comparison with the manufacturing industry is conducted. Methodology: A quantitative study using a deductive approach has been conducted. The study is based on secondary data which has been analyzed through a regression analy

Denna studie har utforskat kvällspress (Expressen och Aftonbladet) och myndigheters (Folkhälsomyndigheten och Regeringen) strategiska kommunikation under coronapandemins inledande fas i Sverige och analyserat detta dels baserat på kriskommunikationsteori, dels dagordningsteori med gestaltningsteori och teorin om den retoriska arenan. För att kunna genomföra en Retorisk Arena-analys på materialet iThis study has explored the strategic communication of The Public Health Agency of Sweden and the Swedish Government compared to tabloid press of Sweden (Expressen, Aftonbladet) during the initial phase of the coronapandemic in Sweden and analyzed it based on crisis communications theory, partly agenda-setting-theory including framing theory and the theory of the Rhetorical Arena. In order to comp

Wheat bran is a by-product from the production of wheat flour. Nowadays wheat bran is mostly used as feed for animals, in the food and baking industry or it is simply burned in open air. However, wheat bran could be used in biorefineries for production of value-added products such as bioplastics, biofuels and chemicals as a substitute for fossil feedstocks as petroleum. Since wheat bran is an agri

Over the last few years, there has been a proliferation of different kinds of movements across the globe as citizens agitate for economic, socio-political and environmental change. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the country has been involved in a series of wars, attention has rather been eschewed towards the rape and sexual violence of women and girls. Using post-colonialism and

Vi människor, och djur i allmänhet, lär oss enormt mycket från att bara interagera med våra omgivningingar. Vi samlar ständigt in information om hur våra handlingar påverkar omgivningen, och justerar vårat beteende så att vi bättre uppfyller våra mål. En gren inom maskininlärning, som kallas förstärkningsinlärning, är ett grupp metoder som beskriver en agent som kan lära sig att uppnå mål från erThe success of Reinforcement Learning (RL) has mostly been in artificial domains, with only some successful real-world applications. One of the reasons being that most real-world domains fail to satisfy a set of assumptions of RL theory. In the past years, a popular way to gauge the performance of RL agents has been through a suite of Atari 2600 games. This suite has been used to benchmark the pr

Swedish exophoric demonstratives have often been seen as words that encode distance-based concepts. Based on the studies of demonstrative systems of several other languages the view of demonstratives as distance-oriented has recently been put into question. Thus, this study aims to investigate the spatiality involved in the semantics of demonstratives. Specifically, the study explores Swedish two-

Language contact poses many questions in regards to language change, one of which is the question of whether some features are more easily transferable between languages than others. Previous research has mainly focused on either areal features in so-called Sprachbunds in large quantitative studies, or single language situations. The present study attempts to bridge the gap between these two diffe

Vision is often considered to top the hierarchy of the senses, reflected for example in the high relative frequency of vision verbs, in comparison to other perception verbs. Results from some previous studies, however, have shown that there is greater cross-linguistic variation concerning perception language than previously thought, emphasising other sense modalities than vision. This thesis condu

Constructed wetlands (CWs) have been applied for several years in the removal process pollutants from secondary treatment plants and stormwater. In this paper, the Variable Residence Time (VART) model for solute transport in streams was extended to simulate the BOD removal process in free water surface flow constructed wetlands (FWS CWs). The double layer concept of the basic VART model was extend

Syftet med studien var att kvalitativt undersöka krav och resurser för olika typer av personal som arbetar för internationella biståndsorganisationer. Fokus låg på dynamiken mellan rollerna och de respektive krav, samt resurser till vilka de var kopplade. Detta gjordes med avsikten att identifiera hur samarbete kunde förbättras och därmed ge anställda högre välmående. Lägre grad av stress hos persThis study aimed to qualitatively examine the demands and resources of different kinds of personnel working within humanitarian aid organizations. The purpose was to examine the dynamics between the professional roles and the demands/resources to which they were connected. This was done to see if it was possible to identify what could improve cooperation. If that could be done it might make for a

Previous studies of the Chinese imperative have treated syntax and prosody separately, have not considered gestures, and have looked at sentences in isolation and not in discourse. This study therefore investigated how the relationship between grammatical components, intonation (perceived stress), and gesture are co-organized and interact in the 把 bǎ ‘Ba’ construction (i.e., BA) of Chinese imperat

The purpose of this thesis is to identify potential factors that affect the patient's experience regarding the care and treatment they have received at the Swedish Red Cross' Treatment Center. The treatment center help people who are suffering from trauma linked to war, torture and/or severe migration journeys. In 2019, 454 of their patients answered a survey about how they experienced the

Climate change has become an all-encompassing problem as CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere sets the pace of temperature increases in our rapidly warming world. In attempting to make society ‘green,’ environmental movements have pursued different strategies through different political constellations. Shedding light on the movement’s ability to influence, I analyze the Danish environmental movement

Syftet med studien är att undersöka instrumentallärares tillvägagångssätt och förhållningssätt till den första lektionen med en ny elev eller grupp. Målet är att fördjupa kunskapen om vilka undervisningsstrategier som används och vad som värderas som viktiga inslag i en elevs första instrumentlektion. I studien intervjuas fem instrumentallärare kring ämnet och med hjälp av litteratur och tidigare

Sverige är ett av få länder som har tagit fram en nationell handlingsplan för att omsätta FN:s vägledande principer för företag och mänskliga rättigheter på nationell nivå. FN:s vägledande principer skapar inga nya folkrättsliga förpliktelser, utan uppmuntrar endast stater att ta fram nationella handlingsplaner för att omsätta principerna på nationell nivå. Sveriges framtagande av planen kan såled

Ögonrörelsemätning är en populär metod inom matematikforskning för att undersöka underliggande kognitiva processer. Individer med matematiksvårigheter har svårt att bemästra matematiska färdigheter och är ofta i behov av extra hjälp. Denna systematiska litteraturöversikt syftade till att granska elva studier (nio urval) publicerade mellan 2002 och 2020 för att ta reda på huruvida ögonrörelsemätninEye tracking is a popular method used in mathematics research for investigating underlying cognitive processes. Individuals with mathematical difficulties have problems with mastering mathematical skills and are often in need of extra help. This systematic review aimed to review eleven studies (nine samples) published between 2002 and 2020 to assess whether eye tracking is a useful method for rese

En kortare skönhetssömn för drottningar genom tiden Humlor, av släktet Bombus, är livsviktiga pollinerare med en årlig livscykel som påbörjas när de övervintrande drottningarna vaknar på vårkanten. Dessa humledrottningar lägger grunden för den kommande vår- och sommarsäsongen, då de på egen hand startar upp hela samhällen av hårt arbetande humlor samt föder upp nya generationens drottningar. DockBumblebees (Bombus spp.) are important wild bee pollinators in colder climates, making them one of the main pollinators in Scandinavia. In Sweden, the composition and abundance of bumblebee species has shifted dramatically since the 1940s, putting the ecological stability and productivity of crops and wild plants at risk. It has been proposed that the change in bumblebee abundance is linked to the