In this study, the use of prefabricated language in academic abstracts is investigated, as well as the functions of prefabricated expressions (prefabs) in this type of text. By analysing ten abstracts taken from peer-reviewed articles in the field of Linguistics, the amount of prefabs is calculated, and their pragmatic roles investigated. The results are then compared to previous research within t

There is an acute need to combat global warming, of which carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are the key driver. Climate policy makers so far have assumed that CO2-emissions and gender equality are closely related. However, despite a rapidly growing literature on women and CO2-emissions, no link between gender equality and CO2-emissions has yet been established in economic research. To bridge this gap

Euler diagrams are common and intuitive visualizations for data involving sets and relationships thereof. Compared to Venn diagrams, Euler diagrams do not require all set relationships to be present and may therefore be area-proportional also with subset or disjoint relationships in the input. Most Euler diagrams use circles, but circles do not always support accurate diagrams. A promising alterna

Det finns i vårt arkitekturhistoriska arv en generell idé om byggnader och städer som beständiga. I japansk tradition finns däremot ett mer flyktigt förhållnings­sätt till arkitektur. Detta syns i bland annat Ise Jingu: en shintoistisk helgedom i Japan som var tjugonde år återuppbyggs. Idéerna om föränderlighet syns även i Tokyos ständigt skiftande stadslandskap. Tomrum i staden – voids – uppstår

One of the hot topics at the LHC is the double ridge observed in small systems. Originally it was found in p-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02 TeV when subtracting low multiplicity from high multiplicity events. This thesis attempts to isolate a double ridge in pp collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 13 TeV by utilizing multiplicity and transverse spherocity. While the double ridge was not successfully isola

The present study investigated the retrieval induced forgetting phenomenon (RIF) (Anderson, Bjork & Bjork, 1994) and the relation to task evoked pupillary responses (TEPR) (Beatty, 1982). Previous studies suggests that the pupil diameter increases as a result of cognitive demands such as memory retrieval (Kahneman & Beatty, 1966). RIF is forgetting caused by managing of interference from c

Increasing demand for metals might lead to extraction of metals from materials, previously, thought of as waste. A letter by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and Geological Survey of Sweden from 2017 encouraged new and innovative waste treatments as well as recycling of waste produced in association with mining. The conventional treatment of acid mine wastewater creates large volumes of

Mat, kockarna som lagar den och restaurangerna som serverar den har sedan början av 2000-talet upptagit mer av utrymmet i flertalet medier, inte minst tv-medier. Matens fält har blivit ett populärkulturellt fenomen värt att undersökas vetenskapligt. Mycket av den forskningen på ämnet som idag görs är fokuserade på internets användargenererade recensioner. Sydsvenskans recensioner signerade Bong ha

Vad krävs för att människor ska säga att en individ har utsatts för diskriminering? Tidigare forskning har framhävt främst två sätt att förklara vad som påverkar människor när de säger att diskriminering skett. Dessa är att människor baserar sin attribution på sin förförståelse om situationen och de som drabbas s.k. prototyper (“kvinnor har historiskt sett blivit mer diskriminerade”), samt att mänWhat is required for people to say that an individual has been discriminated against? Previous research has primarily focused on two ways of explaining what factors are at play when someone says discrimination has occurred. These claim that people base their attribution on their perceptions about the situation and victim, so called prototypes ("women have historically been more discriminated

This study took place in an Indonesian village in Aras Napal, North Sumatra, which previously has been involved in an elephant patrolling conservation program to mitigate human-elephant conflicts and protect the neighboring Leuser National Park. The study examines the villager’s individual and social time preferences, particularly comparing those who were actively involved in the elephant patrolli

Bakgrund: Personer som har genomgått en infertilitetsbehandling upplever att livet förändras både fysiskt och känslomässigt. Relationer påverkas och risken för social isolering ökar. Att vara ofrivilligt barnlös kan beskrivas som en transition. Gemensamt för alla individer, i en transitionsprocess, är att de genomgår tre faser: separations-, liminal- och inkorporeringsfasen. Syfte: Att beskriva pe

Direct coupling analysis (DCA) models correlations in sets of related (homologous) protein sequences using a Potts-like spin model ansatz. From the couplings of the Potts model, derived by inverse statistical mechanics, residue-pair contacts in the 3D structure of the protein are predicted. In this thesis, this approach is applied to structures from the HP model on a square lattice. All HP sequenc

Närheten till vatten är viktigt för många av oss människor. Vatten som i sjöar och hav kan ge både avkoppling och ro, något att titta på i stillsamhet, något att uppleva i storm, något att åka på. Men ligger inte den starkaste upplevelsen av vatten i den fysiska kontakten? Att vara i vattnet, det är något som saknas i en stad som byggts vid, närt sig på och formats av vatten. I en stad som GöteborÄlvstranden City Bath is located in the center of Gothenburg, by the river running through the city. The project is about studying the possibilities for bathing in the center of Gothenburg by designing recreational public spaces encouraging social activity. It is also about designing for all and making the water available for all people in an including environment. The project proposes a city park

Bakgrund: Många barn känner obehag och rädsla inför medicinska åtgärder inom sjukvården. Studier har visat att nålrelaterade moment är det som upplevs mest skrämmande. Barn kommer till en röntgenavdelning för att undersökas och ofta behöver kontrastmedel injiceras. Stickrädsla hos barn är ett vanligt förekommande problem och det är därför viktigt att åtgärda det. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att unde

Den här uppsatsen undersöker landsbygdens kulturella betydelser genom en kritisk diskursanalys av journalistiska texter. Fokus ligger på hur olika landsbygdsidentiteter konstrueras och hur de förhåller sig till varandra utifrån ett klassperspektiv och Bergs och Lysgårds teori om ruralitet. För att fånga upp en stor bredd av betydelser har källmaterial från vitt skilda genrer valts för analys. Det

In this thesis radical adsorption onto Ir(111) supported graphene at room temperature is studied using scanning tunneling microscopy. The radicals were formed in by thermal cleavage of C2H4 molecules. First of all, the analysis of the location of the adsorbed radicals reveals that the radicals prefer to adsorb in so-called HCP/FCC areas of the graphene film where the graphene film is located close

The concept of women’s empowerment is subject to much debate within the development field. This thesis seeks to uncover the meaning of the concept by examining the prevailing discourse of women’s empowerment within UN Women. Several historical and contemporary theorists within the empowerment debate, such as Naila Kabeer, Srilatha Batliwala and Amartya Sen, are touched upon and applied in the anal

The purpose of this study is to put focus at the most relevant areas of a business model for power distribution to real estates in a context of technology, electricity market and customer input. By taking a closer look at new energy technology and the electricity market in Sweden – complemented with insights from a number of interviews with potential customers in the form of real estate companies

Vi har n=3 insekter: S1, S2 och S3 placerade i ett plan. Insekterna kommer då, oavsett hur de placeras i planet, kunna ses som hörnen i en triangel. Vi låter sedan insekterna jaga varandra cykliskt. Hur ser vägen ut som insekterna tar? Redan 1877 formulerade Edouard Lucas denna fråga och sedan dess har problemet studerats och även kompletterats med nya frågor av flera forskare. Till exempel kan maLet n bugs constitute the corners of an n-sided polygon. If the bugs cyclically pursue each other, the positions of the bugs will satisfy a system of ordinary differential equations, which we study. We examine the system for different n, but focus on the case n=3. When n=3, the bugs form a triangle. In this case, the solution will converge to some point. We study how the convergence occur. Ignori

A proof of concept permissioned blockchain system that holds data from the Transport Data Logger, TDL, was developed. Transport chain actors who hand off TDL-equipped goods between one another use the TDL app to upload a digital handoff containing their identities and log data from and signed by the TDL to a Hyperledger Fabric blockchain network. The current Transport Data Logger system consists