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In December 2001, Martin Creed received the Turner Prize for his artwork Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (2000). A minimalist light installation, simplistic in its effectuation, yet complicated enough to hold questions about what art is and what role the institution plays in valuing and validating art. The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an investigation of critiques in newspaper ar

The rich cultural heritage of China is becoming less relevant and forgotten as a result of rapid urbanization and modern lifestyles. This project aims to preserve the Chinese music heritage by designing an instrument based on the Chinese zither guzheng. Despite the rising interest of traditional instruments, there are factors that are holding people back from practicing them. There have been atte

Heart rate variability as an indicator of increased morbidity has been established in previous studies. It is defined by different frequency bands, corresponding to different biological mechanisms. This thesis aims to study heart rate variability indices in the time-frequency domain through extraction from the UK Biobank dataset. Time-frequency indices for different time intervals during exercis

Questions about institutional stability and change are critically important for any understanding of political institutions. The field of Historical institutionalism in political science has described, studied and theorized institutions for decades. One of the most recurring concepts utilized in the explanation of institutional stability is path dependence, describing theoretical and empirical mec

Vår uppsats behandlar lågt valdeltagande i stora federationer, där vi valt att jämföra presidentvalet i USA med Europaparlamentsvalet i EU under två respektive tjugoårsperioder. Vi utgår från ett teoretiskt ramverk som berör olika valsystems mekaniska och psykologiska effekter, hur väljare och politiker prioriterar val genom att klassificera dem som primära och sekundära samt ett eget teoretiskt a

Whenever you walk into a Victoria’s Secret store, watch the annual runway, or encounter the brand’s angels, you feel like your prayers have been answered and you made it heaven. The brand offers such an exquisite, sexy, and seductive experience to both women and men. It is selling to women the body ideals they aspire to have and to men, the response to their deep desires; however, recently the con

With the purpose of contributing to research on the relation between identity and threat perception, this thesis comparatively examines Estonian and Lithuanian political discourse for the period of 2014-2018. Case selection is based on relatively significant difference in Russian minority population in Estonia and Lithuania. Applying Social Identity Theory, the thesis uses conceptualisations of in

”Investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) bestämmelser är vanligt förekommande i internationella investeringsavtal för att säkerställa det avtalade investeringsskyddet. ISDS systemet innebär att en investerare direkt kan påkalla ett skiljeförfarande mot en EU medlemsstat, baserat på det underliggande investeringsavtalet. Bilaterala investeringsavtal som innehåller en sådan ISDS klausul är vanligtWithin the area of international investment law investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses are commonly used in order to provide investment protection. The ISDS mechanism can be described as a system under which an investor can arbitrate a dispute against a host state, based on an investment agreement concluded between the host state and the national state of the investor. As this system has

The first decades of the 21st century have not been lined with the optimism that surged after the fall of the Soviet Union. Instead of pursuing a path of liberalization, Russia has relapsed to authoritarian rule and its view of the west not as an ally, but as an adversary. The war in Georgia, annexation of Crimea and the invasion of eastern Ukraine shows that Russia is once again willing to use mi

This study employs an approach to policy as discourse and examines the construction of gender equality in the EU Gender Action Plan II. Drawing from the poststructural premise that discourses affect how issues are being thought about and acted upon, the study seeks to scrutinize how gender equality is attributed with meaning by applying Carol Bacchi’s analytical methodology What’s the problem repr

Sveriges sjukvård står inför problem relaterade till hög personalomsättning. Kostnaderna för ny rekrytering är hög, den ökade mängden hyrläkare äventyrar pa-tientsäkerheten och Generation Y verkar ha en högre krav på sin arbetsgivare än tidigare generationer. Syftet med studien har varit att bidra till forskningen om hur internkommunikation kan användas som ett verktyg för att skapa positiva varumThe healthcare sector in Sweden is facing problems related to high personnel turnover. The costs for new recruitment are high, the increase of locum doctors has a negative effect on patient safety, and the Millennial generation seems to have other demands on their employers than the previous generations. The purpose of this study was to contribute to the research about how internal communication c

Denna studie ämnar öka kunskapen om hur kommunikativ likriktning mellan institutioner upprätthåller etablerade föreställningar om hållbar utveckling i samhället. Från ett socialkonstruktionistiskt perspektiv analyseras hur FN konstruerar diskurser kring hållbarhet i Agenda 2030 samt om dessa diskurser reproduceras i Helsingborgs stads hållbarhetskommunikation. Vidare undersöks hur hållbarhetsdiskuThe aim of this study is to increase the knowledge of how communicative standardisation between institutions upholds established notions about sustainable development in society. With a social constructionist approach, we analyse how sustainability discourses are constructed within the Agenda 2030, and if these discourses are reproduced in the sustainability communication of the city of Helsingbor

Sociala medier har blivit en allt viktigare kanal för politiska partier att nå ut med politiska budskap på. Samtidigt tar partiledarna en allt större plats i politiken och blir centralare för partiers valresultat. Denna kvalitativa studie ämnar undersöka hur partiledare personifieras på sociala medier genom en visuell retorisk analys. Vidare ämnar den att undersöka vilka följder politisk personifiSocial media is becoming an increasingly important channel where political parties send out political messages. At the same time, party leader’s role in politics is increasing and they are becoming more important for the parties' election results. This qualitative study aims to investigate how party leaders are personalized on social media through a visual rhetorical analysis. Furthermore, it

Den här studien syftade till att öka förståelsen kring hur motstridiga värden tar sig uttryck i en organisations externa kommunikation med hjälp av en textanalys. Studien fokuserade kring två kommunikationskanaler: pressmeddelanden samt reklamfilmer som analyserades med hjälp av en retorisk analys av text och tal samt en retorisk analys av visuella budskap. För att öka kunskapen kring fenomenet anThis study aimed to increase the knowledge of how conflicting values within an organization are expressed in the external communication with the help of a text analysis. The study focused on two main communication channels: press releases and commercials that were analyzed with a rhetorical analysis of text and speech and a rhetorical analysis of visual messages. To increase the knowledge of the p

Genom att undersöka Skånes Universitetssjukhus, hädanefter Sus, Facebooksida syftar den här studien till att öka förståelsen för det kommunikativa valet att ha en närvaro på sociala medier. Studien avser bidra med kunskap om, och hur, kommunikationen och aktiviteterna på sociala medier bidrar till verksamhetens strategiska kommunikation och mål. Studiens problemformulering utgörs av det kunskapsgaBy examining Skåne University Hospital, hereafter Sus, Facebook page this study aims to increase the understanding of the communicative choice of being present on social media. This study aims to contribute with knowledge about, and how, communication and activities on social media can contribute to the strategic communication and goals of an authority. The problem formulation of this study consis

Venezuela går idag igenom en omfattande humanitär och ekonomisk kris där landets styre saknar både vilja och möjlighet att tillgodose fundamentala rättigheter för befolkningen. I relation till den kris har USA med Donald Trump i spetsen uttalat en vilja att intervenera i landet, något som mött stark kritik. Utifrån doktrinen R2P syftar uppsatsen till att kartlägga ifall Venezuela skulle utgöra en

Kommunikatörer är en yrkesgrupp som både kämpar för sin legitimitet och ett tyd-liggörande av vad rollen innebär. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur kommu-nikatören porträtteras i platsannonser på LinkedIn. Studien utgår från en socialkon-struktivistisk ansats, där rollen antas konstrueras genom hur den beskrivs och talas om. Det empiriska materialet analyseras genom en kvalitativ innehållCommunication professionals are an occupational group who fight for their legiti-macy and a clarification of what their role implies. This study aims to research how the communication professional is portrayed in job advertisements at LinkedIn. The study adopts a social constructivist approach in which the role is assumed to be con-strued through descriptions of it. The empirical material is analy

Kofi Annans six-point peace plan in 2012 was thought to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria, which at thas time was on the verge of civil war. Initially the outcome of the peace plan was thought to be positive, only to result in an escalation of military violence leaving Kofi Annan and his peace plan departing Syria without a successful outcome. How can this failure be explained? Using William I

Objectives. Guatemala exhibits disastrous maternal and child health outcomes, with the rural, indigenous populations disproportionately impacted by high maternal mortality, chronic malnutrition, and low skilled birth attendance. This study investigates maternal care in rural Guatemala through Thaddeus and Maine’s Three Delays Model (1994) to understand delays to maternal health-seeking behaviours