Results from previous studies have shown that people with depression tend to have impaired executive functions, although it's not clear whether this is also true for mild depression in young people. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mild depressive symptoms and executive functions in young individuals. 60 participants, between 18-33 years of age, took p

Coastal overwash is the flow of water and sediment over the crest of the beach that does not directly return to the water body, such as the ocean, sea, bay or lake, where it originated. There are two different phases of overwash, runup overwash and inundation overwash. Washover is the sediment transported and deposited inland by overwash process. Coastal overwash may occur either during storm cond

The purpose with this essay is to look at how categories of "us" and "them" are created, reproduced and categorised. The areas of politics and media are in focus, though they are powerful and influential actors in generating discourses. The method is qualitative analyses of current research and analyses of discourses, contexts and resources from an intersectional perspective.

Action games are controversial and discussed, at the same time they fascinate players all over the world. One way to find out what this attraction is about is to use eye tracking to explore them. This method can show explicit eye gaze direction within the game environment and at the same time point out what the mind determine as important in the different interactions in an action game tutorial.

Lack of political interest and will to deal with human rights violations carried out under the civil- military dictatorship, has characterized the transition and post-transition in Uruguay. The systematic use of torture, arbitrary imprisonments and forced disappearances in the relatively small country created a culture of fear that has been present through out the post-transition phase. Human righ

This paper centers on visual imagery and the hypothesis put forward by Laeng & Teodorescu regarding imagery or visualization. The hypothesis states that scanpath done during perception of an object or scene is reenacted during imagery of the same object or scene. In addition it claims that the reenactment has a positive functional role in memory retrieval. This paper cannot confirm nor refute

In this master's thesis, an attempt is made to automatically predict where people will look when watching video sequences. An application in the form of foveation for video compression is discussed. A relatively simple prediction model is built based on eyetracking data from several subjects and low-level features generated from the video frames, using simple image processing algorithms. The p

In this paper it is hypothesized that the spatial locations of objects both in a verbal description and from a complex picture are reflected in the eye movements during a visualization of these objects. In four experiments, eye movements were recorded while test subjects recalled objects that were either previously observed in a complex picture or presented in a verbal description. In both cases,

Readers? eye movements were recorded as they participated in a newspaper reading experiment. The stimuli consisted of newspaper prototypes that were manipulated systematically according to two experimental conditions: (a) utilization of information graphics in conjunction with article text, and (b) variations of article placement on newspaper spreads. Viewing time of target articles was measured a

Eye-tracking methodologies have been used extensively in spoken language research. However, no qualitative account of the relationship between language processing and gaze behavior has been given so far. Such an account is derived from different theories, essentially stating that the observed correspondence between visual and linguistic processing is based on activation spreading between the diff

This study uses eye-tracking equipment to search for effects of linguistic relativity. The study tries to escape the traditional battle between anti-relativistic modularism and pro-relativistic connectionism by testing effects of "distributed" linguistic relativity. It finds that Talmy's manner element has a perception-attracting quality which guides attention in unequal amounts due

This study was performed to investigate how the Japanese sect Aum Shinrikyo was legitimating its violence and killing acts. By analyzing the leader and members of the sect, and applying this information on two theoretical models, this paper tries to give an explanation of both single acts of violence and killing, and two terrorattacks. The result shows that Aum Shinrikyo was able to legitimate vi

This study investigated how banner ads, depending on its quality and placement, can capture a user's attention while searching for editorial content in an online newspaper. Furthermore, the user's search strategy was also studied to see whether it varied depending on the placement of an ad. An experiment was conducted where 20 subjects searched for articles in a Swedish online newspaper w

The intention of the present thesis is to describe Chinese outward direct investment on a macro level both as a global phenomenon and specifically in relation to Thailand. Thailand is considered a ?safe haven? for the Chinese in South East Asia. According to MOFCOM the country is the biggest recipient of Chinese FDI in the region.The motives and investment incentive factors of these investors are

Hur kan B2B-byråer anpassa sina tjänster efter konjunkturläget, utan att kompromissa med kvalitet och genomslag? Vi har genom intervjuer med elva Business-2-Business företag i Skåne, och tre B2B-byråer samlat information till undersök-ningen. Detta i ett försök att kartlägga företagens och byråer-nas arbetssätt. Denna information har sedan legat till grund för den analys som gjorts av den generel

Vi har i detta examensarbete samarbetat med den nordiska koncernen COOP Norden, enheten för Hälsa och Miljö. I rapporten utreder vi Coop's möjligheter att med hjälp av modern information's- och kommunikationsteknik förverkliga sina målsättningar angående transparen's och hållbarhet. Att göra det osynliga synligt är ärendet i aktuella undersökningar som diskutera's i rapporten. När

The aim of this study was primarily to locate, describe and explain the impact of cultural differences on communication between Swedes and Canadians in Swedish-related companies in the Toronto area in Canada. In this we included communication between co-workers within the company, between the Swedish-related company and the Swedish mother company and between the Swedish-related company and other,

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att skapa ett underlag med hållpunkter att använda ledning av kulturprojekt. Frågeställningen lyder: Hur leder man ett kulturprojekt effektivt som möjligt? Den utgår från hur man leder kulturprojekt där deltagarna utvecklas, prestera som bäst och ha kul under tiden. Det teoretiska underlaget utgörs ett antal böcker samt intervjuer med erfarna projektledare. Som me

Universeum är ett upplevelsecentrum för naturvetenskap och teknik, ett så kallat Science Centre.I vårt arbete undersöker vi hur vetenskap bäst kommuniceras till barn och ungdomar via textskyltar på ett Science Centre. Vi analyserar vilket språk som bör användas och hur skyltarnas layout ska utformas för att väcka intresse, ge information och lust att lära mer inomnaturvetenskap och teknik. Baserat

Den här rapporten handlar om skolmaten som är så självklart för alla som går i skolan. I snart 60 år har vi haft fria måltider i Sverige och de har präglat vår syn på måltiden och maten. Skolmåltiderna har blivit normgivande för hur mat ska smaka. Mitt syfte med rapporten har varit att systematiskt studera skolmåltidsverksamheten på två skolor, ge förslag till organisations-förändringar och uta