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Non-specific abdominal pain (NSAP) is a common somatic pain expression in children and has been associated with later mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, with females consistently showing a higher prevalence compared to males. The present study sought to investigate whether internalization of emotional distress could represent an underlying psychological mechanism of these obse
This thesis is a critical discourse analysis of how money and the economic system are linguistically constructed and maintained in Swedish news journalism. The study focuses on news articles about prices and inflation published during the first quarter of 2025. The material consists partly of articles about inflation statistics, and partly of articles about the boycott of major grocery chains that
This thesis investigates how technology cycle time (TCT) and legacy knowledge accumulation (LKA) jointly shape EV innovation performance and regional catch-up dynamics across automotive clusters in China and Europe. Using PCT patent data (2000–2024) and HDBSCAN clustering to identify 22 Chinese and 57 European innovation clusters, the study employs PPML-HDFE and OLS panel estimators. The results s
Social relationships and group membership shape cognitive functions, including memory. One memory function contributing to knowledge acquisition is the ability to draw novel conclusions by linking overlapping but distinct episodic memories, a process called associative inference. Prior research shows that both general memory and associative inference for arbitrary objects are enhanced when materia
Carbohydrate chemistry has mainly focused on five- and six-membered sugars, while seven-membered sugars remain relatively unexplored despite their potential bioactivity. Synthesis of seven-membered sugars can be performed by a ring expansion from a six-membered sugar. This project focused on synthesizing a precursor for a seven-membered sugar by regioselective protection and oxidation. The target
The modern construction industry is heavily resource-intensive, generating billions of tons of waste annually and contributing significantly to global carbon emissions. While recycling initiatives have grown, low-grade demolition debris such as broken bricks are systematically downcycled rather than reintegrated into structural architectural components due to their inherent heterogeneity and irreg
The need for development of novel drugs towards the treatment of neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Parkinson’s Disease (PD), and cancer is ever-pressing, especially within aging populations. Designing an effective drug towards these normally hard-to-treat conditions requires careful balance between uptake, solubility, and blood-brain-barrier (BBB) permeability, while stil
Falsterbonäset är ett låglänt kustområde med hög sårbarhet för översvämning vid stigande havsnivåer och framtida stormhändelser. Som skydd mot detta anläggs ett 21 kilometer långt översvämningsskydd bestående av skyddsvallar och murar med en krönnivå på +3,0 m i RH2000. Föreliggande studie analyserar skyddsvallens sårbarhet genom att kombinera beräkningar av vågöverspolning med experimentell utvär
Background Supply Chain Management is becoming increasingly more important to organizations in the post Covid-19 era. Managing Supply Chains is also moving towards finding data-oriented ways of working, and companies are making substantial investments in getting digital information systems to integrate with their ways of working. Simultaneously, Artificial Intelligence has become a well-discussed
Arbetet undersöker möjligheterna att använda prefabricerade cut-and-cover-tunnlar i betong med välvda tvärsnitt inom svensk järnvägsinfrastruktur. Cut-and-cover-tunnlar byggs främst som platsgjutna konstruktioner vid grundare anläggningsdjup där jord eller sand är det omgivande materialet. Vid prefabricerade cut-and-cover-tunnlar schaktas en sträckning ut där betongtunneln placeras och monteras ihThis thesis investigates the potential of using prefabricated concrete cut-and-cover tunnels with arched cross sections in Swedish railway infrastructure. Cut-and-cover tunnels are primarily constructed as in-situ structures at shallow installation depths where soil or sand constitutes the surrounding material. In prefabricated cut-and-cover constructions, an excavation is made along the alignment
As environmental demands increase, the requirements for the design and production of aseptic packaging increase as well. To meet these new requirements, an optimisation framework is to be developed, but traditional - gradient based - approaches struggle to handle the non-smooth nature of the problem. Instead, this thesis aims at building a framework where the underlying problem is considered a bla
Generative AI (GenAI) tools have seen rapid adoption in software development teams, yet research has focused almost exclusively on individual-level outcomes such as productivity and task completion speed. The consequences for how teams coordinate expertise remain unexplored. This study examines what the affordances and constraints of GenAI tools are for software development teams and how they inte
This thesis explores how entrepreneurs in service-oriented micro and small enterprises (MSEs) make sense of digital tools and how these interpretations shape digital adoption decisions. While rationalist frameworks such as the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Diffusion of Innovations (DOI), and the Technology-Organisation-Environment (TOE) framework primarily explain adoption through technologic
The purpose of this project is to study the enhancement of diffusion bonding by mainly analyzing the effects of dislocations on atomic migration at the interface in 316L. Therefore, the relationship between dislocation densities and bonding quality was investigated. It was observed that dislocations successfully enhanced bonding quality by reducing porosity, decreasing average pore size, and incr
The consistent mental health disparities between LGBTQ+ and cis-hetero populations are commonly explained by minority stress theory. However, no previous research has investigated the impact of the more subtle, but pervasive influence of perceived societal heteronormativity, signaling non-belonging and otherness. The present study tested a conceptual path model linking perceived societal heteronor
The study examines Swedish news media representations of non-intimate femicide from a feminist perspective. This due to femicide having been a previously overlooked concept within Swedish law, research and policy. Through a narrative analysis where 33 news articles from Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet, Expressen and Dagens Nyheter was retrieved, the study identifies recurring patterns of how gender
Abstract: Influence of Carboxypeptidase B corona on polystyrene nanoparticles on the toxicity for Daphnia Magna Florian Grohmann Introduction: This project investigated the expression, purification and influence on the toxicity, of small polystyrene nanoparticles (53 nm) on Daphnia Magna, of Carboxypeptidase B. Background: Nanoparticles have become increasingly of interest for the science communi
