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Within the cultural imaginary of video games, armed conflicts have always occupied a central space. Their subject material, as well as technologies and visual techniques, are often based on historical and present-day conflicts, often involving US Armed Forces, subcontractors or intelligence agents. US actors and interests disproportionally occupy the privileged position of protagonist, which has c

På senare år har ökad konkurrens och kapitalmigration från aktiv till passiv förvaltning ställt krav på förnyelse inom kapitalförvaltningsbranschen för att behålla lönsamheten. Adaptiv tillgångsallokering (ATA) har presenterats som ett flexibelt och innovativt alternativ till traditionella metoder såsom strategisk tillgångsallokering. Allokeringsmetoden kombinerar en momentumstrategi med portföljv

This study investigates the negative effects generated from the nexus of financial development and economic growth. Through recent years have the financial sector escalated in ‘speed’ due to the high levels of financial integration which have in turn caused an effect of ‘too much finance’. The effect has been notice in the constant increase of property prices and hence private debt. In order to an

This paper studies the relationship between financial development and economic growth. Specifically, the model tests if financial development has a positive effect on capital accumulation and total factor productivity. The study is based on data from 114 countries between 1960 and 2010. The data include a broad variety of countries, ranging from low-income to high-income countries. Following from

Uppsatsen är en case-studie i kommunalt brottspreventivt arbete med fokus på hur kön, ålder och ursprung spelar roll för insatser mot utanförskap. Utgångspunkten är regeringens skrivelse Tillsammans mot brott samt CEMR-deklarationen. Tillsammans mot brott är en regeringsskrivelse som lyfter kommunerna som centrala aktörer inom brottspreventivt arbete och uppmanar kommunerna att samarbeta med polis

This thesis analyses the history and usage of war photography and propaganda according to theories of their utilisation for the establishment of national narratives in times of war. While Western media and nations alike try to establish narratives of just war without loss of innocent people and own soldiers, the newly emerged terrorist group Islamic State indicates a paradigm change in the approac

Human existence depends on a functioning food system; today’s food chain is cracking and alternative foods are being presented to the public. This thesis discusses how future food can be part of a greater discourse of climate change in the Anthropocene. Using three case studies of future food: ‘The Next Menu’, Huel and Project Nourished I investigate how future food is presented and what hidden me

The interdisciplinary field of Comics Studies has developed since the late 20th Century, in response to the increasing, popular reach of comics as a mass phenomenon capable of addressing a wide range of subject matter and approaches, including journalism, (auto)biography, and academical papers. Still, these apparent innovations and, in turn, their scholarly dissemination are predicated upon genre

The project is located in Aden City. Aden is a city in the Yemeni Coastal Plains, on the Gulf of Aden just at the Southern End of the Red Sea. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city has a desert climate. During the year, there is virtually no rainfall in Aden. The hot weather and the humidity is a big challenge in this kind of cities. The project is a kind of research and a design in climate

Livsmedel är någonting som alla individer konsumerar flera gånger om dagen utan att reflektera över om det man äter kan påverka ens mående och välbefinnande. Det som konsumenten förväntar sig av livsmedlet är att det inte är förorenat eller innehåller mikrobiella, kemiska eller fysikaliska faror som göra en sjuk. De frågor som man som konsument kan ställa sig är: Hur vet livsmedelsföretagen att deThe English title of this master thesis project is ”Risk assessment, hazard analysis and HACCP plan during production of fruit- and berry based products”. As the title refers to, this projects is divided into two part. The first one is the risk assessment of a company’s raw material for their production. The second part is a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) method that is used to eva

The current thesis presents the results from a neutron reflectometry analysis performed on data collected at ISIS in Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, England, in October 2017. The CRISP instrument was used and the Multi-Blade incorporated as a detector. This was the first attempt ever to use the Multi-Blade in this type of measurement. The Multi-Blade is a cold and thermal neutron detector curren

This thesis investigates the role of the local ICT-sector in Stockholm’s regional development over the last four decades. The inquiry is motivated, on the one hand, by economic polarization in the region and, on the other hand, by the increasing centrality of technical innovation in the region’s development over the last decades. The theoretical background is based on the literature that covers f

It is easy to see that not everyone belongs in the same social circle as those who regularly engage with art and who visit contemporary art museums. I take this as intuitive. In 2017, Ruben Östlund’s film, The Square, garnered tremendous critical acclaim for satirizing the problems in high-end contemporary art culture. In my research, I take these issues seriously, using The Square as a point from

Personalen är företagets främsta resurs och i butiker där personalen representerar företaget gentemot kunden blir positiva kundmöten en avgörande faktor för att skapa servicekvalitet och goda kundrelationer. Den växande konkurrensen med e-handeln leder även till att kundmötet blir allt viktigare för fysiska butiker för att kunna konkurrera och behålla marknadsandelar. En bransch som möter hårdnand

Massiv stress och behovet av återhämtning i stadens naturmiljöer. 300 miljoner människor lider av stress idag - ännu fler imorgon. Stress för med sig depression, utbrändhet och sjukskrivningar; de sistnämnda ökade med 69% i Sverige mellan 2010 och 2015. På ett av Sveriges största datorspelsföretag, Massive Entertainment i Malmö, verkar stress och världsrekord i spelförsäljning gå hand i hand. AnsMore and more people around the world are feeling stressed, and the consequences have become a global burden. At the same time, cities are growing both spatially and from within, creating competition for land which sometimes comes at the cost to our access to nature. Natural settings provide people with stress relief, and some of the feelings we perceive in nature are more efficient at this than o

Far-right radicalisation and social media are subjects that are increasingly addressed in a joint fashion. However, a nuanced understanding of the features of this relationship remain elusive due to their novelty, research emphasis in large organisations, and the difficulty to access radical groups and individuals. Online media outlets are one of the few channels through which these features can b

This writing assignment is a study about the two fashion collaborations: Balenciaga x Crocs and Gosha Rubchinskiy x Burberry, which were launched during Paris Fashion Week and Goshas SS18-show in Russia, in 2017. These collaborations have been assessed to be created unequally by Vogue Magazine, but the question is if they really are. Vogue believes that the partnerships are not created evenly, sin

This research advances the theoretical knowledge of the entrepreneurial process by investigating opportunity recognition, evaluation and exploitation in the context of prototyping. In particular, this thesis studies if, how and why the phenomenon changes the new venture creation process. Eight in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with founders of startups offering a digital solution

Författare: Robert Lövdahl Titel: Flaskhalsar och omkastningar: En kvalitativ intervjustudie om polischefer. Masteruppsats: SOCM04, 30 hp Handledare: Jan-Olof Nilsson. Sociologiska institutionen, våren 2018 Problem/Bakgrund: Två storskaliga omorganisationer har skett inom svenska Polismyndigheten sedan januari 2015: Dels har en parallell omorganisation skett till bildandet av en enda stor myndighe