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In the last decades, there is growing concern about increasing delegation of life-and-death decisions to Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS), powered by artificial intelligence (AI), which may undermine compliance with international legal principles and weaken accountability for unlawful harm. In particular, this thesis examines the impact of AWS on the protection of victims under International Human
Mellan praktik och disposition undersöker hur instrumentallärare på gymnasiet förhåller sig till övningsmetodik i sin undervisning. Via våra egna erfarenheter av instrumentundervisning och upplevelser av förhållandet mellan styrdokument och lärarens utformning av instrumentundervisning så har vi sett det som meningsfullt att kartlägga hur gymnasielärare på estetiska programmet förhåller sig till öBetween practice and disposition examines how upper secondary instrumental music teachers in Sweden relate to practice methodology in their teaching. Drawing on our own experiences of instrumental instruction, as well as our perceptions of the relationship between curriculum documents and teachers’ pedagogical design of instrumental education, we found it meaningful to investigate the aforemention
This work investigates image synthesis of two generative models: the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM). One approach for synthesis is to interpolate between real samples within the models' latent spaces. To understand how we can interpolate in the models' latent space, we derive the loss functions of the models. We trained the models on MN
This study investigates the effects of overfishing and sea-surface temperature changes on the distribution of Orcinus Orca in the North-east Atlantic and aims to evaluate which factors contribute the most to these shifts in orca presence. As apex predators, killer whales can have a great impact on ecosystems and food webs, and a migration to polar ecosystems could have big impacts on arctic system
Bakgrund: Suicid är ett globalt folkhälsoproblem där psykisk ohälsa utgör en central riskfaktor. Tidigare forskning visar att upplevelsen av mening i livet och deltagande i meningsfulla aktiviteter kan främja psykiskt välbefinnande, men arbetsterapins perspektiv inom suicidprevention är begränsat. Syfte: Att sammanställa forskning som beskriver sambandet mellan upplevd meningsfullhet och suic
This thesis is motivated by the aim of ascertaining whether the ECtHR is limiting the ECHR’s potential, if any, to contribute to the curbing of child welfare disproportionality rates in CoE MSs. It provides a critical analysis of ECtHR jurisprudence on child protection interventions involving minority children – namely, children belonging to ethnic, religious, or linguistic minority groups or whos
Lignin is a major renewable carbon source that can be depolymerized into a diverse range of aromatic compounds. Efficient microbial conversion of these lignin-derived compounds (LDCs) is an important step toward sustainable biorefinery processes. In this study, the ability of two Azotobacter vinelandii strains to utilize selected LDCs was investigated through dynamic cultivation experiments. Growt
Volcanic crater lakes are important freshwater systems, but their hydrological functioning is often difficult to understand due to limited monitoring data and uncertainty in groundwater contribution. Río Cuarto Lake, located in the north part of Costa Rica, is a volcanic crater lake where the sources and movement of water are not fully known. This master’s thesis aimed to describe the lake’s morph
I uppsatsen användes motor- och perceptions deltesten som tillhör Bender Visual- Motor Gestalt Test andra versionen (BGT-II) med en tillagd tidsvariabel för att utforska kognitiva nedsättningar i kliniska grupper. Skillnader utforskades både mellan vuxna deltagare med Autismspektrumtillstånd (ASD), Attention Deficits Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), komorbid ASD och ADHD (AuDHD) och friska kontrolleIn the present thesis the motor and perceptual subtests of the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test second edition (BGT-II) with added exploratory time variables were utilized to explore cognitive deficits in clinical samples. Differences were explored both between adult participants with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), comorbid ASD and ADHD (AuDHD) and
In recent years, the demand for psychiatric services aimed at children and adolescents has increased in Sweden. Subsequently, the leave of absence due to mental health issues has increased among those who are employed in the field of social work. Social workers working in psychiatric services have a history of being a high-risk group for burnout due to high expectations on emotional labour and a r
This study investigates the spatiotemporal development of the Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) in Malta, and compares it with Zaragoza, Spain, as an inland reference site of the same Köppen climate classification. High-resolution summer Land Surface Temperature (LST) data from 2013 to 2025, along with Impervious Surface Area (ISA), Land Use/Land Cover (LULC), and NDVI data were used to analyse the
Titel: Från Siluett till Veteran Seminariedatum: 2026-06-04 Kurs: FEKH49 Examensarbete i organisation på kandidatnivå, 15 HP Författare: Albin Bauer, Erik Lihagen & Eddie Saari Handledare: Johan Jönsson Nyckelord: Poliskultur, organisationskultur, social identitet, socialisering, normer Forskningsfråga: “Hur formas det interna vi inom polisen?” Syfte: Syftet med studien är att skapa förståelse
Augmented Reality (AR), eller förstärkt verklighet, används för att kombinera digitalt innehåll med den fysiska omgivningen, men utveckling av AR-prototyper kräver ofta teknisk kunskap. Detta examensarbete jämför hur Unity och Snap Lens Studio stödjer snabb prototypframtagning av en reminiscensbaserad AR-upplevelse i en palliativ vårdkontext. Samma AR-koncept implementerades i båda verktygen och jAugmented Reality (AR) combines digital content with the physical environment, but creating AR prototypes often requires programming skills, 3D knowledge and interaction design experience. AR authoring tools can lower these barriers through visual interfaces and low-code workflows. This thesis compares how Unity and Snap Lens Studio support rapid prototyping of a reminiscence-based AR experience i
This thesis explores arguments and styles of argumentation in favour of Scotland gaining independence and rejoining the European Union in the aftermath of the United Kingdom leaving the EU in 2020. Since a majority of Scots did not support Brexit, it has provided Scottish independence supporters with a unique opportunity to bolster their arguments in the political debate. The thesis is built on a
Social cohesion has been defined in multiple ways by the literature, depending on the disciplinary perspective and context. Existing definitions commonly emphasize trust, solidarity, shared values, and social networks, treating social cohesion as a relatively stable condition. However, there remains a limited understanding of how social cohesion is experienced and constructed, specifically within
This thesis explores the design and evaluation of Small Language Models for the Romanian Language. We build a 21.16 GB curated Romanian corpus from web crawls, targeted scrapers, and literary texts, which translates to approximately 5.6 billion tokens. Four 300M-parameter architectural variants based on different attention mechanisms are pretrained from scratch and evaluated on fluency, sentiment
Detta kandidatarbete undersöker hur en keramisk ljusstake kan utformas för att anpassa sig och förbli relevant i hemmet över tid. Utgångspunkten är att hållbarhet inte enbart handlar om materialets fysiska livslängd, utan i lika hög grad om hur länge ett objekt upplevs som värt att behålla. Arbetet inleddes med en förstudie bestående av användarstudie, litteraturstudier och konkurrentanalys. Unde
