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This thesis examines the relationship between spatial accessibility, institutional delivery and timely initiation of breastfeeding in Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia. It uses recent DHS data combined with OpenStreetMap data on health facilities and roads to construct spatial accessibility measures, including distance to the nearest health facility, distance to major roads and combined accessib
Single rare-earth ions in crystals are promising systems for quantum information experiments, but detecting the fluorescence from a single ion remains challenging. An open-access fibre Fabry–Pérot microcavity can enhance the ion–light interaction and improve photon collection, but useful operation requires the cavity length to be stabilized at the picometer scale. This thesis studies both passive
Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are widespread environmental pollutants capable of crossing biological barriers. Nanoplastic tyre wear particles (NTWP) are of particular concern because tyre abrasion is a major source of nanoplastic pollution. This study investigated whether NTWP affects monocyte-derived dendritic cell (moDC) activation and subsequent T cell responses, both without antigen and in t
This thesis explores the emotional potential of a naturum in the abandoned Limhamn quarry, reflecting on how nature and built environment can harmonize through architectural intervention, in order to facilitate a space that can envoke different kinds of emotions, whilst still providing form that harmonizes with the surrounding landscape, and functional exhibition spaces for visitors.
This thesis investigates the collected surface assemblage from Shubayqa 3, an unexcavated prehistoric site in the Qa’ Shubayqa region of north-eastern Jordan. It examines what surface-collected lithic material can reveal about chronology, spatial organisation, and repeated activity, while also considering the limitations of a mixed assemblage without secure stratigraphic context. The study combine
Sammanfattning Den här studien undersöker hur tävlings- och spelbaserad gamification påverkar konsumenters köpbeteende på den svenska marknaden, med fokus på två dimensioner: benägenheten att genomföra ett första köp och utvecklingen av kundlojalitet. Trots att gamification har blivit ett allt vanligare marknadsföringsverktyg är forskningsfältet splittrat och kunskapen om hur spelbaserade kampanj
Studien undersöker hur surfkultur används och representeras i platsmarknadsföringen av Varberg i relation till den ökade användningen av lokala kulturer inom platsmarknadsföring. Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur surfkultur omvandlas från en lokal praktik till en strategisk resurs, samt hur omvandlingen påverkar hur destinationen framställs och uppfattas. En kvalitativ fallstudie har genomförts
The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of the social worker’s professional role and practice in relation to public debate and politics, with a focus on three distinct themes: The influence of public debate on the professional role and its consequences, Political unawareness and its consequences for the professional role, and the influence of public debate on service users. In ord
This study examined how social workers in Swedish social services described their work with communicative accessibility for children with communication difficulties or children who do not use verbal communication. The study also examined the professional and organizational conditions that affected this work and the consequences that limited communicative accessibility could have for children's
Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur unga arbetssökande tolkar kommunikation i rekryteringsprocesser och hur dessa tolkningar formar deras uppfattning om organisationers employer branding. Tidigare forskning har i stor utsträckning studerat employer branding ur ett organisatoriskt perspektiv, medan arbetssökandes egna upplevelser och tolkningar fått mindre uppmärksamhet. Studien bidrar därför m
Denna studie undersöker hur organisationer arbetar med internal branding för att kommunicera och förankra sina värderingar hos medarbetarna, samt hur detta formar medarbetarnas identitet och självbild. Studien utgår från att internal branding kan förstås som en form av identitetsreglering, där organisationer genom kultur, normer och organisatoriska ideal påverkar hur medarbetare förväntas tänka, k
Detta examensarbete undersöker hur industriella kulturmiljöer i rurala landskap kan transformeras till nya offentliga miljöer utan att förlora sin rumsliga identitet, materiella närvaro eller historiska tyngd. Projektet tar sin utgångspunkt i Borgeby Tegelbruk vid Lödde å, där det öppna jordbrukslandskapet möter en storskalig industristruktur präglad av repetitiva trästommar, långa rumsliga sekvenThis thesis investigates how industrial heritage in rural landscapes can be transformed into new public environments without losing their spatial identity, material presence, or historical depth. Situated along the Lödde River in the open agricultural landscape of southern Sweden, the project takes Borgeby Tegelbruk as its point of departure, a former brickworks whose large-scale timber structures
Uppsatsen undersöker hur hållbarhet och ansvar konstrueras och förändras i Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) kommunikation kring Conscious-kampanjerna under åren 2011-2021. Studien genomförs som en kvalitativ och tolkande fallstudie med en multimodal semiotisk analys av tio videor. Videorna kompletteras med officiella press- och reklamtexter från H&M. Analysen tar sin huvudsakliga teoretiska utgå
Hydrofoner används inom en rad olika industrier och är essentiella för informationsinsamling under vatten. Syftet med detta arbete var att designa och bygga en hydrofon speciellt framtagen för att fånga upp lågfrekvent undervattensljud. Ett huvudfokus var att undersöka automatisk förstärkningskontroll i kombination med den mycket låga gränsfrekvensen på \SI{1}{\Hz}. Arbetet kombinerar litteratursHydrophones are utilized across a wide range of industries and are critical in underwater intelligence. This project aimed to design a hydrophone purpose-built for capturing low-frequency underwater audio. A key focus was the exploration of automatic gain control, particularly in combination with an exceptionally low cutoff frequency of \SI{1}{\Hz}. The work combined literature studies, simulati
This thesis asks whether the increase in weight of housing costs on disposable income impacts femicide rates in 4 major European nations, in a similar fashion to what has been recorded in the Americas, and how policies implemented during the Covid crisis have mediated these effects, given their twofold scope of restricting movement and compensating for income loss. In a fixed effects panel from 4
A lighthouse, a guiding star in the night for fishermen and sea- farers. A safe harbor, a home, a warning. A memorial to souls lost in treacherous waters. A technological achievement in both architecture and physics. A structure composed of thousands upon thousands of parts that together form a whole. An analog machine that, night after night, fulfills its duty to every sailor. A workplace so isol
China’s declining fertility rate and the introduction of the three-child policy have brought increasing public and academic attention to women’s reproductive attitudes. Existing studies mainly focus on women’s dissatisfaction with reproduction or the construction of childfree identities, while less attention has been paid to how they resist pronatalist discourse and how anti-pronatalist meanings a
During the last few years, we have seen an increase of extreme weather events because of climate change in many municipalities in Sweden. These weather events have had a destructive effect on both municipal and private properties. According to past research the climate adaptation has mainly come from the public sector, but to increase society’s resilience to the effects of climate change we need a
This study examines how contentious knowledge surrounding the moon landing is expressed, negotiated, and organized on digital platforms. It develops “Digital Claims” as a potential meso-level analytical framework for examining how meanings, interactions, and visibility become observable and accumulative in digital spaces. Moving beyond approaches centered on users’ beliefs, intentions, or undiffer
