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As the pandemic of Covid-19 evolved during the spring of 2020, so did the discussion of Sweden's degree of self-sufficiency. The Federations of Swedish Farmers and the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation shared the view that Sweden's production of agricultural goods should be expanded to increase the degree of self-sufficiency of food and promote employment in the agricultural sector. Th
The green bond market has grown immensely since 2013 and is projected to continue on this growth path in the future. There is no consensus surrounding the effect of green bonds on the issuing firms share price. The purpose of this study is to analyze and compare the effect the announcement of the issuement of green bonds and conventional bonds have on the issuing firm’s share price in Scandinavia.
The EU is home to uncountable media outlets whose narratives are vastly impacted by their national identity. Yet, in recent years, Europe witnessed a growth in transnational media. While the European public sphere is vastly researched, little attention has been paid to these newly established newsrooms. This master’s thesis seeks to investigate the framing by the pan-European press. Aside from det
Purpose This research focuses on the phenomenon of knowledge-intensive professions undergoing rapid feminization and transforming into a female-dominated profession. To create a deeper understanding of the phenomenon, the purpose of this research is to make sense of how dental students in a male-dominated profession that changes into a female-dominated profession perceive gender stereotypes and th
This paper examines the sufficiency of a trading method based on singular value decomposition (SVD) of past stock prices. The SVD method is frequently used as a tool to reduce data noise, compress big-data, and analyse data components. Hence, the method is well suited to form a ground for a predictive tool of price developments. From the predicted pattern, a strategy was formed by construction of
This thesis examines the effect of income inequality on economic growth within the European Union (EU) during the period 1991–2019. For the empirical investigation, the analysis includes four measures of income inequality. The data points for these measures have been collected from the World Income Inequality Database (WIID). The regression procedure is carried out using panel data with fixed effe
Visual representations can either concretise climate change or make it more abstract and remote. This thesis aims to bring light to how Swedish news imagery of 2019 promotes particular views on climate change. Specifically, it examines the prevalence of five visual themes (people, impacts, causes, landscape and nature, and solutions) and investigates how different geographic regions are depicted i
This thesis considers the problem of applying exploratory factor analysis to data obtained though the Likert scale. It is often the case that this sort of data is treated as an interval level of measurement and used in analyses that require continuous variables, although given the categorization and nature of the scale, it should rather be treated as of ordinal level. Exploratory factor analysis i
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous protagonists in the literary genre of crime, but how he came to be is not often discussed. The stories about Holmes were written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Arthur Conan Doyle during a period when British society was developing in matters of human rights, law, and science. When Doyle wrote about Holmes, he employed methods of forensic scie
Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser (FEL) light is becoming an increasingly sought after tool for almost all scientific research aspects. MAX IV Laboratory introduced the first 4th generation light source that provides the brightest synchrotron light in the world. Since all of the experiments at MAX IV rely only on Insertion Device (ID) radiation, the need for improving ID technology has subsequen
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a medical technique for measuring brain activity through several channels connected to the scalp. Interpreting EEG data is a difficult problem because of the large amount of noise contained in the data. Using spectral methods on EEG data can improve the ability to interpret the data, especially using a time-frequency method called the scaled reassigned spectrogram w
The emergence of social media has changed the power relations and the practices of tourism destination marketing by enabling the co-existence of user generated content and destination marketing organisation’s content, as well as the content co-creation among these actors. Due to the visual nature of tourism the image-focused social media platforms are particularly interesting for the tourism field
During the Zika outbreak in Brazil, the incidences of Zika related congenital microcephaly seemed to be concentrated mainly among women from the lower socioeconomic classes. This study examines the relationship between the inequalities in Brazilian society and the effects they have had on the Zika outbreak. This is a qualitative case study using a comparative literature review of secondary sources
The microstructure in cortical bone greatly affect the toughness of the bone and the crack propagation during fracture. The two main structural features, Haversian canals and osteons, have been previously studied in order to increase the knowledge of the biomechanics of bone. In studies where X-ray microtomography has been the imaging method of choice, the microstructure has been analysed based on
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how individuals perceive a personal brand online on social media, compared to how it is perceived offline in real life, and whether there is a difference in the perception of the personal brand. By using Instagram as an empirical context, this thesis explores similarities and differences in the perceptions of a personal brand from a perspective of ordinary
Purpose This study aims at examining how experiential brand stimuli on Instagram impact consumers’ perception of self-discrepancy in terms of life-achievements and hedonic well-being. Methodology With an experimental design, this study applies a quantitative research method that is deductive by nature, whereby the data was collected through an online questionnaire that enabled the analysis of t
Contemporary Russia is among some of the most unequal countries. After the fall of the Soviet Union, economic inequality has rapidly increased, and social discontent is rising as demonstrated by the continuous protests that culminated in opposition rallies during March 2017. Despite these events, political stability characterizes the current conditions of the Russian regime. What are the forces ma
