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Art funds are gaining traction as an alternative asset class, yet investors must often weigh financial returns against ethical objectives such as promoting diversity in the art market. This bachelor’s thesis investigates how these two motives interact by asking: How do ethical and financial drivers shape individual investors’ willingness to allocate capital to art funds? A two-part online survey
Urban greening is increasingly promoted as a strategy for sustainable city development, yet it often carries hidden social costs. This thesis explores the green rehabilitation of Budapest’s 8th district, Józsefváros, a historically diverse neighbourhood undergoing significant change. Using critical urban theory, the right to the city, and feminist urbanism, this study examines how sustainable urba
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is seeing an accelerated rate of ice melt, which increasingly contributes to global sea-level rise. Studies have reported a growing mass imbalance coinciding with a widespread retreat of the island’s glacial termini. The associated discharge of ice is driven by submarine melting and ice breaking off glacial fronts, a process known as calving. The rate at which calvin
This thesis presents the design and schematic-level simulation of a highly linear mixer-first receiver front-end implemented in CMOS, targeting improved robustness against strong input signals. The proposed architecture employs a current-mode passive mixer directly loaded by a low-impedance transimpedance amplifier (TIA) in order to minimize the voltage swing at the mixer output and thereby enhanc
Distillation is the primary separation technique in the petrochemical industries, but it operates with extremely low thermodynamic efficiency. It represents the largest share of industrial energy consumption, making its decarbonization a global priority. While advanced process technologies, such as Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) and the Heat-Integrated Distillation Column (HIDiC), offer a pa
Direct-to-Device (D2D) communication in Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) enables smartphones to connect directly to satellites, extending wireless coverage beyond terrestrial networks. This thesis presents the design of a smartphone antenna optimized for NTN operation, followed by a link budget analysis and Electromagnetic Field (EMF) exposure assessment. The proposed solution is a dual-band circu
Spiral galaxies host elongated filamentary structures of dense gas and dust, known as feathers, which branch off the main spiral arms into the interarm regions and are associated with star formation. The physical mechanisms governing their formation remain debated, with magnetic fields proposed as one of the contributing factors. This thesis investigates the role of magnetic fields in feather form
The modern human being is exposed to different kinds of light during a normal day, both natural light and adjusted lighting. The idea that light affects us is uncontested, and so affecting the light in turn becomes a question of well-being. It is often thought that abundant and strong lighting is good lighting, but this is far from always accurate. Moreover, the light from a regular lightbulb is i
Ecological compensation builds on the idea of substitutability, meaning that destroyed values can be replaced or substituted with new values that are equal to the ones lost. Through this equivalence between “lost” and “gained” values compensation is meant to allow dynamic economic development without causing irreversible biodiversity loss. Compensation is increasingly used as a means to reduce the
In microfluidic systems, resonant acoustic fields enable controlled particle manipulation, a phenomena known as acoustophoresis. These contactless and low-cost processes have successfully been applied to manipulate bulk particle populations, however robust single-cell manipulation for single-cell analysis remains a challenge. This work presents an experimental investigation into optimising the con
Genom en rättsdogmatisk och rättsanalytisk metod undersöker denna uppsats hur undantaget för text- och datautvinning (TDM) i 15 a § lag (1960:729) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk (upphovsrättslagen, URL) ska tolkas i relation till träning av generativ artificiell intelligens. Uppsatsen behandlar även huruvida den nuvarande regleringen ger en balanserad avvägning mellan upphovsr
This study examines the Swedish church election and why the electoral participation is low while the Swedish parliamentary election has one of the best electoral participation in the world. The study was conducted partly through a statistical analysis based on data from the national SOM-survey and partly through interviews with five young individuals, two of whom had voted and three who had not. T
The wind energy industry is growing rapidly and as offshore wind expands in the Baltic sea, more and more clusters will be observed. The purpose of this work is to better understand the impact that wakes have on the electricity production for wind farm clusters in the Southern Middle Bank region. This report aims to answer the following research questions; 1) How big of an impact do wakes have on
Darfurkonflikten är en av de mest våldsamma och brutala konflikter som har präglat 2000-talet. Vad som har orsakat konflikten är en fråga som har delat den akademiska världen i två tydliga läger, ett som argumenterar för att klimatförändringarna är den primära orsaken till konflikten. Medan andra hävdar att politiska beslut ligger bakom det hatt och splittringar som har präglat konflikten. Samtidi
Research on the effects of climate change in the marine environment continues to accelerate, yet we know little about the effects of multiple climate drivers in more complex, ecologically relevant settings - especially in sub-tropical and tropical systems. In marine ecosystems, climate change (warming and freshening from land run-off) will increase water column stratification which is favorable fo
Kärleken är en grundnorm inom kristendomen. För att som kristen kunna bygga en etik och värdegrund baserad på kärlek, måste kärleken diskuteras på ett teologiskt plan. Traditionellt sett har synen på kärleken inom kristendomen varit delad. Man har talat om mänsklig kärlek och Guds kärlek. Teorier kring skillnaden mellan dessa har legat som grund för många människors syn på kärleken ur en kristen aLove is one of the cornerstones of Christianity. In order for Christians to build ethics and values based on love, love must be discussed on a theological level. Traditionally, the Christian perspective on love has been a split one, distinguishing between human love and the love of God. Theories relating to the differences between these have made up the foundation upon which many people base their
Klimatförändringar är ett av de mest akuta problem som världen står inför idag. De snabba klimatförändringar som sker påverkar inte bara människors mentala och fysiska hälsa, för många är flykt över internationella gränser det enda alternativet. Med hopp om en framtid där mänskliga rättigheter tillgodoses har antalet klimatflyktingar drastiskt ökat och migration har blivit en form av anpassning tiClimate change is one of the current most pressing threats to human rights. The adverse impacts of climate change affect peoples’ mental and physical health and forces many to leave their countries. With hopes of a future where basic human rights are provided for, climate induced migration has become an adaptation form for those who suffer from climate change. Climate refugees are however yet to b
Purpose: The objective of this study is to determine whether or not board gender diversity influences the capital structures of S&P 500 firms. This is done based on the premise of female risk aversion and conventional capital structure and agency issues theories. With this foundation, we intend to close the knowledge gap regarding the effects of gender diversity on corporate boards. Methodol
MOOC-presentation AI Lund MARIA HEDLUND & ERIK PERSSON LUNDS UNIVERSITET AI: Ethical and Societal Challenges – and a MOOC AI: Ethical and Societal Challenges – and a MOOC This is a short presentation about some ethical and societal challenges in AI – and a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) where you can learn more. AI: Ethical and Societal Challenges – and a MOOC Let us start with the MOOC • Commi
