Railways have played a significant role in the development of national identity. In the context of the European Union, I argue that it could play a similar role in supranational identity building. Currently, the European railways resemble a patchwork of incompatible standards and working practices. This thesis aims to investigate the roles efforts to harmonize this patchwork play in the cultural l

The following essay aspires to implement securitization and desecuritization theory by the use of discourse analysis on a question related to security politics. This will be done by analyzing speech expressed by the Swedish Social Democratic party regarding security politics during three different years: 1997, 2014 and 2022. The essay will then further analyze how they could motivate a positive or

Bolivia's urbanization rates have accelerated through the latter half of the 20th century, with over 70 percent of the country's population living in urban centers today. Despite having the highest share of indigenous people in Latin America, Bolivia's indigenous population is often wrongfully excluded from popular discourse on the rural-urban migration trend. However, more than half o

Software regression testing is an important activity performed continuously to assure the quality of software. However, it is an activity that is constrained by limited time and budget in Agile environments. Therefore, this study aims to explore the application of visual analytics by quality assurance managers to generate insights from data produced in software regression testing activities and in

Purpose: This study investigates the short-term return around the announcement of domestic and cross-border M&A deals, completed by US firms between 2008 and 2020 and how they are affected by the acquiring firm's CSR performance. Methodology: An event study is conducted to establish the short-term return, using the market model to calculate the cumulative abnormal return (CAR) in relation

Banker har ett stort ansvar att motverka penningtvätt och finansiering av terrorism. Trots det omfattande arbetet för att motverka penningtvätt, sker en stor andel ekonomiska brott där finansiella institut har en bidragande roll. Det kan bero på aktiva beslut hos banker för att bidra till ekonomisk vinning, men i många fall är det ett resultat av okunskap om hur företagen utnyttjas för kriminella Banks have a significant responsibility in counteracting money laundering and terrorist financing. Despite the comprehensive efforts in anti-money laundering activities, financial crimes are still commonplace and financial institutions have a contributing role. This involvement can be explained by banks making an active choice in participating for financial gains, but in many cases, banks are crim

Mediers inflytande över vår världsbild utgör upprinnelsen till denna uppsats, vars syfte har varit att studera hur offerskap, ansvar och hjälteroll konstruerades i det så kallade ‘Fallet Lilla hjärtat’ som var aktuellt 2020. Utöver medierepresentationer i Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter och Expressen har även tingsrätts- och hovrättsdomen fungerat som underlag, samt en bok skriven av fostermamman. Emp

In 2021, the EU announced the introduction of a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) to address the carbon leakage problem, which hampers its efforts to mitigate climate change. One of the CBAM requirements is that if an export party can provide that it paid for used carbon domestically, the corresponding amount will be deducted from the EU importers. After the announcement, Russia, one of th

Development and analysis of a commercial hair mask Our degree project has been to develop and analyse a hair mask. We tried out different “recipes” for the hair mask in the lab, and then used different methods to evaluate our recipes to find out which one is the best. Like many other industries, the hair cosmetic industry is facing a change where customers are asking for a new type of environmenta

Dagens samhälle håller på att elektrifieras och mer förnybar energi behövs, speciellt i södra Sverige där förbrukningen av el är betydligt högre än produktionen. Även elpriserna håller på att förändras och är just nu på väldigt höga nivåer. Sysav är ett avfallsaktiebolag i Skåne med 16 anläggningar, däribland soptippar även kallade deponiner. Sysav vill bidra till den förnybara energiproduktionen Todays society is moving towards electrification. This means that more renewable energy is needed. In the southern parts of Sweden the energy consumption is far greater than the production and the electricity prices are rising. Sysav is a company that takes care of the waste and recycling. They have 16 facilities in the south of Skåne, including landfills. Sysav has a vision to contribute to the r

Den globala medelhavsnivån har stigit till följd av den pågående klimatförändringen, och denna stigning förutspås att fortsätta framöver. Det blir därför allt viktigare att ta klimatförändringen i beaktande vid beslutsfattning, speciellt vid beslut vars konsekvenser kan tänkas påverka eller påverkas av klimatförändringens effekter. Genom klimatkommunikation kan beslutsfattare få kunskap och hjälp The ongoing climate change has caused an increase in the global mean sea level, and this sea level rise is predicted to continue during the 21st century. The importance of including climate change in decision making is becoming more and more recognized and increasingly important for decisions yielding consequences on longer time scales. The field of climate change communication is currently expand

Forskningsfrågor: Vad redovisar företag för mål i hållbarhetsrapporten, och hur redovisas dessa? Varför redovisas just dessa mål? Samt hur har införandet av internationella initiativ, standarder och regleringar för harmonisering och jämförbarhet förändrat redovisningen av hållbarhetsmål över tid? Hur kan förändringarna förklaras? Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att bidra med förståelse kring hur f

Stad och landsbygd beskrivs ofta som raka motsatser och i den framställda dikotomin mellan stad och land skildras ofta större tätorter som vinnare mot en avfolkad landsbygd. Tätorter och landsbygder runt om i landet har olika geografiska, demografiska och sociala förutsättningar. Det går därför inte att säga att det sker en positiv utveckling för alla tätorter eller en negativ utveckling för hela Urban and rural are often seen as each other’s complete opposites, were larger urban settlements are often presented as the winners against depopulating rural areas. While this is not always true, there is in many places an ongoing deterioration of public transport in areas with lower population density where resources are allocated to urban areas with a larger demand. This and other climate measu

T cell lineage development from an early thymic progenitor involves programmed shutoff of progenitor gene expression, upregulation of T cell specification genes, and proliferation. This biological system has been deeply studied and a gene regulatory network (GRN) that can accurately describe the system has been presented. Such a GRN offers an excellent opportunity to study lineage commitment from

Till följd av utbrottet av corona-pandemin våren år 2020 infördes restriktioner som innebar en övergång från en traditionell till en påtvingad hybrid undervisningssituation. Den påtvingade hybrida undervisningssituationen medförde ett utökat användningsområde för digitala undervisningsverktyg för kommunikation. Litteratur har vägt styrkor mot svagheter med en hybrid undervisningssituation samt hur

Contest-based crowdsourcing is a popular method for companies to gather ideas or information in a creative way, and the contestants’ motivations to participate in such competitions are not the same. Different factors influence the willingness of contestants to participate in contests. Yet these motives are not applicable to all types of crowdsourcing. This paper investigates the motivations and fi

Exoplanets are planets found around other stars in the Universe. Although astronomical studies have found and confirmed the existence of exoplanets, they are too far away to be photographed directly, so there are dedicated visualisation scientists who use the data collected on them to create hypothetical visualisation. This thesis project aims to conduct the duality of science and art that exi

The Indian agriculture sector plays a vital role in the country's economy and employs a significant number of individuals. The sector's performance has been plummeting in recent years, and this decrease in growth can be attributed to factors such as the provisions provided to farmers by the government. With the introduction of the Farm Laws in the country, the goal was to provide more free

Enligt det svenska jämställdhetsidealet ska kvinnor och män ha samma skyldigheter, rättigheter och möjligheter i samhället och ekonomisk och social makt ska fördelas jämlikt. Dock är jämställdhetsidealet ännu inte verklighet i det svenska samhället. Detta trots att idealet har en normerande effekt och att jämställdhet ofta förknippas med ett "modernt" Sverige. Kvinnor idag tar exempelvis