Mental health issues are a serious matter with great consequences on livelihoods. Iraqi Kurdistan is situated in one of the most unstable regions and experienced an influx of IDPs over time who are in need of mental health support. However, mental health support is shaped and understood differently according to the culture. The purpose of this research is therefore to investigate the consequences

Since the beginning of 1990s anti-gender movements have been increasing throughout Europe, opposing LGBT rights, abortion, democracy and gender studies. However, in some countries an organized anti-gender movement has not been seen, but still the same words and arguments used to mobilize against gender issues can be found. One such case is Sweden, where academics and editorials have criticized the

In the last couple of years, a conflict between football supporters and police have occurred. This conflict has resulted in many instances of violence between the two parts and protests from the supporters. Some that have been met with even harder legislation around and during football games in Stockholm. The police are actively trying to make a safer envoierment during the games while the support

Många unga vuxna, speciellt unga kvinnor, får idag sin första arbetslivserfarenhet från restaurangbranschen. Snabbmatsrestauranger och caféer utgör en del av arbetsgivarna inom branschen och kan i vissa fall vända sig specifikt till unga i sin rekrytering. Arbete inom restaurangbranschen medför en påfrestande arbetsmiljö med mycket stress, upprepade arbetsmoment och emotionellt arbete. Utförande a

Matters of housing are an often-discussed topic within architecture these days. As a subject, it is often recurring in architectural media, such as books, debates, podcasts, videos, and others. Sweden, like large parts of the developed world, faces right now a multitude of unique issues related to housing. It has become an expensive commodity, especially for younger people. Most of the existing ho

The rise of self-supervised learning has granted a deeper level of generalized machine learning capable of learning semantic representations without any use of labelling. With 700 satellites orbiting Earth and generating terabytes of unlabelled data daily, satellite imagery serves as a particularly enticing data set for self-supervised learning, containing rich information with many applicable dom

Medvetandetillstånd som kraftigt skiljer sig från vanlig vakenhet, och som kan skapa långsiktigt positiva psykologiska konsekvenser har getts många namn. Några exempel är religiösa erfarenheter, peakerfarenheter och mystiska erfarenheter. Begreppet RSME (Religious, Spiritual, Mystical Experience) har använts för att beskriva att flera begrepp används för att beskriva en erfarenhet med gemensam kärMental states which greatly depart from normal wakefulness and have the ability to increase well-being have been given many names in psychology. A few famous examples are religious experiences, peak experiences and mystical experiences. The acronym RSME (Religious, Spiritual, Mystical Experience) was used to show that many names have been given to a phenomenon with a common core. The study of RSME

Abstract Uppsatsens övergripande syfte är att skaffa kunskap om vilka tysta kunskaper poliser lyfter fram att de besitter, vad som gynnar och/eller hindrar den tysta kunskapens utveckling, vilka forum som funnits för dess utveckling, hur deras handlingsutrymme sett ut och eventuellt förändrats samt eventuella upplevelser av New Public Management (NPM). Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer har fem po

This thesis aims at evaluating the Swedish decision not to adopt the euro even though this is thought to bear economic benefits. In particular, my research confronts the question: What would have been Sweden’s economic development if the country would have adopted the euro in 1999? By taking advantage of the synthetic control method, I scrutinize the potential developments of both, Sweden’s bilate

With the dawn of the digital era, software solutions are becoming of increasingly strategic importance for corporations, and due to the complexity of the products and the huge lock-in effects which they often give rise to, software-procurement is growing into a critical activity. However, due to the phenomena of information overload, finding and making use of the right information when making stra

Artificial Intelligence is an expansive topic that is receiving considerable amounts of attention and funding for research, as it has the potential to have a wide-ranging effect on work, business, and society. Following from this, actors of all types, universities, companies, and others are conducting research into AI, and investigating how they can make the best use of the technology and develop

The literature on sustainability transitions analyzes structural shifts towards more sustainable consumption and production patterns. Recently, it has been recognized that structures transcending national boundaries can both hinder and promote sustainability transitions. In this context, multi-scalar transition trajectories have been outlined, suggesting, among other things, that sectoral transfor

With the increased internationalization of conflicts during recent decades and the accompanying clustering of the predatory social conditions of new war economies in vulnerable neighborhoods around the world, studying the impacts of economic spillover effects of conflicts are more pressing than ever. This study seeks to investigate what economic spillover effects one such conflict – the intrastate

Vision and hearing are two dominant senses, and when having a combined impairment of both vision and hearing, the reliability and use of our touch increases. Sentio was designed for the sense of touch, making it possible for the sensory impaired to enjoy music with the help of vibrations. The purpose of this project was to design Sentio, a product based on the technology developed by Paricept

Recently there has been a revision of longstanding ideas in development economics. Studies have shown that it is not so much increases in growth rates which cause long-term economic development, but rather decreases in shrinking rates, alongside a reduced frequency of shrinking. This paper reviews two theories of economic shrinking, one based on 5 social capabilities and the other based on 4 dimen

Investors are constantly searching for ways to protect their wealth, ideally without losing out on long-term returns. To achieve this, some investors choose to diversify their equity portfolios with fixed income assets, believing they can protect their portfolios from drawdowns. However, the current literature is divided on the effectiveness of fixed income assets as a shock-absorber during severe

This thesis explores the possibility of framing the problem of setting prices for consumer loans on loan comparison sites as a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem. The problem is solved by creating a Multi-Armed Bandit environment based on SEB:s expert knowledge of the problem. Different Multi-Armed Bandit algorithms are then compared in a stationary environment after which the best performing algorithm is

The ultimate goal of memory research is to deconstruct how humans form representations of real-life experiences accessible in the future. However, this can be challenging to investigate thoroughly while maintaining both naturalistic exposure and experimental control. To tackle this issue, a platform for cognitive memory assessment in virtual reality (VR) has been constructed. The platform portrays

Humans need water - a fact we have been taught since an early age. The body requires water to function and we through it. We can explicitly say that water is a vital source and element that all living things need. But at the same time, water can be a source of chaos. Stories in the Bible tell of how storms, tempests and floods cause both suffering and death. This paradoxical view of water makes it

Addressing electronic waste is crucial for meeting the environmental needs of the 21st Century, as WEEE is one of the fastest growing waste streams. Spain has emerged as one of the top countries globally for per capita mobile phone consumption. For this reason, this thesis focuses on European and Spanish initiatives that am to improve the circularity of mobile phones through repair. In recent year