This thesis: Culture at any price? A study of how visitors and producers in Malmö think of free culture is about professional free culture in Malmö and how it affects other kinds of culture in the city. My main research questions are: How do people value culture? How much and what are they willing to pay for it? And does free culture change the way people think of other kinds of culture? How do di

Object tracking algorithms and motion triggered alarms are often dis- turbed by shadows. It is challenging to separate between moving objects and shadows since they have similar movement patterns and image prop- erties. In this thesis, three different approaches to detect shadows are developed and evaluated. The identified shadows determine what parts of the image not to track and what alarms to i

Angels, inspirers and shopping clothes on credit” – power and conditional assistance in Swedish reality-TV The aim of this study is to provide a closer look at the nature of help given in selected Swedish reality shows with charity and lifestyle platforms. Descriptive in nature, the study is a content analysis of the influence and power the reality programs may have on participants, focusing on t

The aim of this study was to examine how staff, working in LSS-group homes, through ways of talking, attitudes and approaches construct, form and shape the sexuality among people with learning disabilities. LSS is “the Swedish act concerning support and service for persons with certain functional impairments” (Lag (1993:387) om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade) and implies, inter alia

Abstract Author: Madelene Holmberg & Sara Knutsson Title: Difficult conversations in healthcare - from the counselor’s perspective. Supervisor: Anett Schenk Assessor: Anna Rypi The aim of this study was to investigate the healthcare counselor’s perspective on difficult conversations in their work, through interviews. More specific the aim was to examine how the counselors experience conversat

Denna magisteruppsats grundar sig på två kapitel samt förordet i boken Il Napoli di Maradona. Cronistoria di un sogno: il primo scudetto av Gigi Garanzini och Marco Bellinazzo. Uppsatsen inleds med en analys av källtexten som utgår ifrån Hellspong & Ledins analysmodell (1997). Därefter följer en kortare redogörelse för de överväganden jag gjort inför översättningsarbetet, med utgångspunkt i Li

This paper is about the subsidy system for performing arts and how this system is used as a tool for cultural policy. This seems to be an area in cultural policy that has been overlooked in earlier studies. The subsidy system for performing arts is a question about democracy, and therefore also a question about who has the rights to experiance performing arts. Looking closer at the system and the

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the traditional views on cyberbullying and more specifically how others perceive and describe cyber-bullying and its causes, consequences and solutions. To carry out my investigation, I have used qualitative research methods in the form of text analysis. My empirical material consists of 44 Swedish blogs which 28 were written by young people, and the rema

The purpose of this report is to establish how NCC works in the field of sustainable renovation. I will investigate whether such sustainable renovation is economically viable, energy efficient and environmentally friendly, with additional attention being paid as to how NCC use demonstration projects to achieve these goals. NCC is actively working to their image regarding sustainability, with a ma

E-demokrati är en viktig del i främjandet av demokratin. Att uppnå en hög grad av e-demokrati ställer emellertid många krav på en organisation och dess medarbetare. Med utgångspunkt från en tidigare studie som kartlagt och rankat kommuner efter makrovärden har denna studie utgått från kommuner med hög ranking, där fokus ligger på fyra element: förhållningssätt till e-demokrati, involvering av medb

Den här uppsatsen är en sammanställning av de vanligast förekommande kritiska framgångsfaktorerna för implementering av affärssystem. Utifrån de kategorierna har en intervjuguide skapats som sedan har använts för att intervjua två stycken respondenter på två olika företag, som arbetat med implementeringar av affärssystem. Resultatet visar att de båda företagen har en grundläggande vetskap av de ol

Popular science The eddy-covariance (EC) method is one of the most important methods to measure gas and energy fluxes between biosphere and atmosphere at ecosystem level. This method was applied above the floor of a boreal forest in Norunda, central Sweden, at 1.5 m height. The objective was to measure the energy and carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes from the soil and the understory vegetation to the at

This thesis analyzes the corporate rebalancing behavior of German publicly listed firms subsequent to equity price shocks. The examined period (1990-2012) includes a total sample of 2,154 firm-years. It is found that German firms do not counteract stock induced changes in market-based capital ratios in the short run; whereas managerial rebalancing activity gradually gains importance in the long-te

We study the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT correspondence) and investigate in a scalar model how n point functions can be calculated through functional derivatives and how they can be obtained with the use of Witten diagrams instead. We also study a previous anti-de Sitter/quantum chromodynamics (AdS/QCD) model where the mass of the phi meson has not been considere