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This study examines whether formal state authority determines governance zone placement and whether governance zones shift (“zone migration”) across the ANIME stages, Agenda-Setting, Negotiation, Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement, in Indonesia’s female domestic worker migration to the GCC. Drawing on qualitative interviews with meso-level actors, it combines the ANIME framework with the
State-controlled social media platforms can result in authoritarian soft power assets when the users' mediated communication extends across borders. Especially in times of hostile conflict and narrative divide, these transnational communication networks – without the coordination of the authoritarian state – can promote authoritarian narratives to non-domestic audiences when multilingual users
This work investigates single-sensor localization of acoustic emissions (AEs) along a wind turbine blade with supervised neural networks. We evaluate six architectures: a Dense MLP, a 1D CNN on time-domain inputs, two 2D CNNs on linear spectrograms (LinSpec) and mel-spectrograms (MelSpec), a CRNN (2D CNN + LSTM), and RepVGG (Mini RepVGG in simulation, RepVGG-A0 in experiments). Three experimental
Digitaliseringen har förändrat hur musik skapas, lärs ut och framförs. Inom gymnasieskolans estetiska program har detta lett till införandet av elektroniskt digitalt instrument (EDI) som valbart instrument i ämnet instrument eller sång. Införandet väcker frågor om hur EDI bör förstås och implementeras i undervisningen – särskilt i relation till övrig instrumentalundervisning. Studien syftar till a
Several studies have reported a declining reading rate in school-aged children. Thus, this thesis therefore aimed to evaluate how students in their last semester of high school (gymnasiet) would have their attentive behaviour affected when reading challenging texts, and with the allowance or the prohibition of the use of electronic devices in the classroom. The purpose of the study was to foster a
We explored various methods for inducing quantum dots (QDs) in pure zinc blende (ZB) InAs nanowires. This material exhibits high conductivity due to the presence of an intrinsic accumulation layer of charge carriers, resulting from surface band bending and donor impurities. To create regions that can be depleted by gate potentials (barriers) in the axial direction of the nanowire, we employed both
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how queer students in Danish upper-secondary schools expe- rience and navigate their school environments and how this is influenced by institutional practices. As such, this thesis adopts a dual perspective on queer students by investigating experiences of and agency within school environments, in the form of how they choose to respond to situations of dis-
This study examines whether share buybacks lead to real improvements in operational performance for public companies in the Nordic region. Buybacks are frequently associated with mechanical improvements in financial metrics on paper and market signaling, yet how they affect a company’s operational performance has not been clearly established. This is analyzed by comparing companies that conducted
Abstrakt (Swedish) Titel: Vilka samband finns mellan europeiska industri- och tjänsteföretags lönsamhet och växthusgasutsläpp? En studie av hållbarhetsrelaterade upplysningar under perioden 2019-2024 Seminariedatum: 2025-06-05 Kurs: FEKH89, Examensarbete i finansiering på kandidatnivå, 15 hp Termin: VT 2025 Författare: Ulrica Mölstad, Alexander Tzikas, Maria Vukicevic Handledare: Anamaria Co
The narrative of domestic fiction frequently depicts a woman’s search for domestic bliss, as a mother, wife, and homemaker. Shirley Jackson has often contested this narrative by portraying female characters who, through uncanny manifestations of repressed desires and fears, go against these norms. ‘The Deamon Lover’ (1949) and ‘The Tooth’ (1949) present two female protagonists, who are confronted
In the rush of urban growth, a fractured reality unfolds in Metro Manila, Philippines: one side is a booming, ever-evolving metropolis, while the other is a flood of migrant workers, the unemployed, and the homeless. Slums have even become a luxury few can afford, where even securing a place to live means waiting in line. When slums are a dream out of reach, and space for survival is stretched t
This thesis examines the social integration experiences of talent migrants in Shenzhen, China, within the framework of policy-driven institutional support. Distinct from traditional labor migrants, talent migrants are highly educated professionals who actively choose Shenzhen as their destination, benefiting from preferential measures such as streamlined household registration, subsidized housing,
Since the COVID-19 pandemic the need for mental healthcare has increased globally, which has been causing longer waiting times before treatment becomes a possibility. Many new innovations have been made to improve this, such as internet- and artificial intelligence-based treatments. The current study experimented the influence of TalkToAlba platform’s AI-cognitive behavioural therapy chatbot and i
Over 44 years ago, martial law was introduced in Poland as an attempt to defeat those who dared to take a fight against communist regime with demands for a better life and freedom. Demands that were met with reprisals. Tens of people were killed and hundreds were injured as a result of actions taken by regime. Today, the political debate about martial law is divided with various sides taking their
This thesis investigates how national institutional architectures mediate the effectiveness of government support in shaping the international success of military-industrial firms. Through a comparative case study of SAAB (Sweden) and Rheinmetall AG (Germany), it analyzes firm performance across export capability, profitability, and dual-use innovation. Despite similar product domains, the firms a
Digitaliseringen har omformat bygg- och fastighetssektorn, och digitala tvillingar är ett snabbt framväxande koncept där flera av de nya teknologierna i branschen sammankopplas. Digitala tvillingar representerar nästa steg efter byggnadsinformationsmodellering (BIM). En digital tvilling, en virtuell kopia, med ett bidirektionellt datautbyte med sin fysiska motsvarighet i realtid, har potential attDigitalization has reshaped the AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operation) industry, and digital twins are a rapidly emerging concept where several of the industry's new technologies are gathered. Digital twins represent the next step after Building Information Modeling (BIM). A digital twin, a virtual copy, with a bidirectional data exchange with its physical counterpart in
This thesis examines how societal circumstances and historical references can be included in the construction of narratives with the intention of reaching and influencing listeners in a particular direction. It is based on two historical periods in Italy's history, first, the fascist takeover of the Kingdom of Italy, and then the establishment of the Republic of Italy following the fall of the
The thesis analyzes and explains the current situation for the Russian minority in Estonia. Using Oren Yiftachel’s theoretical framework of Ethnocracy, it examines key documents related to integration, such as the constitution and policy documents, through textual analysis. It briefly covers the integration process from independence in the 1990s to the present. The findings of the study shows that
Transgender individuals in Georgia face persistent stigma, violence, and limited institutional protections, yet little is known about how they cope with such hostility and what supports are available to them. Guided by Minority Stress Theory and coping research that distinguishes adaptive from maladaptive strategies, this study explored coping practices, social support, and mental health among tra
Cameras are an ever growing part of all humans’ everyday life, from smartphones to surveillance cameras. One thing they all have in common is the need for a stable and focused image, even in conditions with camera movement as a result of external factors. To counteract the issue of blurry images from vibration disturbances, a technique called Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) is commonly used. In
