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This essay examines representations of extinction in a selection of Anthropocene fiction. The Anthropocene is a potential new geological epoch, in which the human species capacity for massive ecological transformation is rivalling that of geologic processes. As the Anthropocene has grown into a subject of cultural significance, critical literary scholarship has identified implications for a possib

När städerna växer, ökar risken för fekal kontaminering på våra badplatser. Kontamineringen är oftast kortvarig men utgör en hälsorisk för badarna. Hur kan vi lösa detta? Information kring badvattenkvalité är idag begränsad. Ändå påverkas vårt dagliga liv av kvalitén på vattnet i och med att våra badplatser ofta ligger nära stadsområden. De flesta badplatserna i Sverige idag visar god vattenkvaliBathing water is of great concern as almost all bodies of water in Sweden today are affected by human activities. Usage of models for bathing water quality may give the possibility to assess and evaluate short-term contamination. The main objective of this thesis was to develop and evaluate a script for degradation of the faecal indicator bacteria Escherichia coli, E. coli, in an aquatic environme

Child labour has been an issue which many governments and NGOs has tried to solve through various schemes, projects and acts. There is a universal agreement that education can help child labourers back to school, but there is a disagreement on how to do this. This thesis examines the Indian educational child labour scheme, National Child Labour Project (NCLP) in Kolkata, with a focus on the educat

In this thesis a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is used to evaluate the net social benefits of a congestion charge in Malmö. A novel approach based on information from Google Maps is used to estimate the scope of present congestion issues in Malmö. Likely effects and the number of people affected is estimated using information from the trial in Stockholm, the trial in Gothenburg and a report on the f

Uppsatsen undersöker hur en startup jobbar med relationsbyggande samt vilka resurser dessa relationer ger för företagets fortsatta växande. Uppsatsen tar upp den kritiska fasen i början för en startup där relationsbyggande är viktigt samt vilka resurser företaget får ut av dessa relationer. Relationsbyggandets vikt understryks då de bidrar med resurser för företaget i form av kunskap, relationer o

The aim of this study is to explore the identity work of members of the Faroese diaspora in Copenhagen from a sociological perspective. Building on a symbolic interactionist view of social interaction, I explore the strategies of presentation of self in a diasporic environment, in which members adapt their role performances according to ongoing changes to rules of interaction. Using my own insight

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att studera individens upplevelse av att genomgå en abort. I studien belyses de faktorer och aspekter som påverkar individen under abortprocessen. Metod: Studien är en litteraturstudie med integrerad analys där 9 vetenskapliga artiklar ligger till grund för det framtagna resultatet. Samtliga artiklar som inkluderats i resultatet är kvalitetsgranskade. Resultat: Det fr

During travels, people want to be able to move fast and smooth from point A to point B. Thereby, many people can relate to the struggles which occur when carrying several belongings simultaneously. This master’s thesis was performed in collaboration with Thule Sweden AB and the purpose was to develop a design concept which would make it easier to travel with a wheeled luggage in combination with

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories in the Sherlock Holmes series, yet only two are told from the narrative perspective of Holmes himself. I attempted to compare and contrast Holmes’ narration in The Blanched Soldier and The Lion’sMane withWatson’s narration in A Study in Scarlet. I explored narratological theories and previous research done on Watson’s narration in order to find an expl

Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka på vilka sätt kvällstidningarna Aftonbladet och Expressen valde att gestalta offentliggjorda begravningar av barn som omkommit till följd av mord eller våldsbrott under tidsperioden 2005-2015. Vi har även analyserat vilka metoder och grepp tidningarna använt sig av för att styra läsaren mot ett visst sätt att sörja, samt om det finns outtalade normer el

The overall aim of the thesis is to explore unofficial rules and norms as well as status markers in the graffiti scene in Malmö. The aim is also to investigate how these shape the practice and give recognition in the graffiti culture and opportunity to take place in public space. Already in the 1970s, Malmö opened its first legal graffiti wall. The work of the municipality is characterized by an i

The purpose of this study is to analyse what journalism educations in Sweden teaches to their students and how they keep the education updated in relation to the current media landscape. The thesis focuses on the use of social media in journalism. As social media is becoming more popular, it is starting to become an attractive platform for companies in the news field. The analysis is based on five

This paper focuses on the relationship between PTAs and political uncertainty. Further, it analyses if the AMU has managed to create a dampening effect and thereby maintain the intratrade flows during the Arab Spring. This can be interpreted as the cushion effect. Previous literature has not addressed this unique approach. This could be due to the belief of AMU being an inefficient trade agreement

För att undvika onödigt lidande för patienten och minska risken för postoperativa komplikationer, är det av stor vikt att postoperativ smärta behandlas på ett adekvat sätt. Syftet med studien var att, med fokus på smärtbedömning, belysa sjuksköterskors kunskap och attityder vid postoperativ smärthantering samt dess betydelse för behandling av postoperativ smärta. Studien genomfördes i form av en l

Collapse of the Soviet Union and abolishment of the state atheism policy has led to an increase of Protestant organizations and their parishes in Ukraine. Some of them (at least fifteen) allow and practice women ordination. Women priests, thus, find themselves performing non-traditional gender roles in Ukraine, where the majority of the population is affiliated with Orthodox or Greek Catholic Chur

Self-control can be explained as the power to resist what is usually hard to resist, which is essentially what individuals do when they deny themselves to satisfy impulses. This ability is suggested to be a necessity for more cognitively advanced behaviours in animals. A recent study compared 36 species across several taxa in their ability to elicit self-control and found that primates performed b

Though there are numerous studies attempting to describe and analyse the internal dynamics of academic economics, the results of these studies are often contradictory. In order to assess the potential usefulness of certain theoretical tools to the sociology of economics, this study presents and analyses an in-depth interview study of behavioural economists at Swedish universities. The theoretical

The purpose with this study is to examine if a higher level of natural resources hinders export diversification in less developed countries. This is important as low export diversification might affect a country negatively in several aspects that might lead to lower economic growth. Successful management of natural resources is of principle interest for an economist since it affects the direction

Public diplomacy activities and initiatives are adapting to new ways of strategic communication as the society and technology continues to evolve, the need of the organizations to spread information globally has made the public activities adapt to the new ways of communicating. The thesis is a critical discourse analysis of celebrity diplomats and how they are used to spread awareness about issues