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The mobility of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) makes the small, toothed whale complicated to study, especially regarding their distribution and foraging over a longer timescale. To overcome this, passive acoustic monitoring, which detects their high-frequency echolocation clicks (ranging from 125-140 kHz), offers a way to track their presence with high temporal resolution (measured as detecte

Harmful algal blooms pose a threat to public health and the economy, affecting tourism, fisheries, and aquaculture. Complex environmental factors influence their occurrence, but current forecasting models often overlook the role of grazers. Chemical cues released by zooplankton, copepodamides, can trigger the production of toxins in harmful algae. Therefore, their presence in bivalves may enhance

Migration does have a time, energy or mortality cost, and the strategy to minimise the costs shapes the migration behaviour. Depending on the relative influence of these costs in shaping the migration, an animal is expected to undertake these journeys in different ways, depending on their morphology and migration ecology. I investigated if five Tringa-type waders minimise their migration time, and

In the ocean, carbon export is driven by the biological carbon pump where organic matter is transported from the surface layer to the deep sea. The sinking particulate organic matter is mainly a product of phytoplankton aggregates and faecal pellets from zooplankton & fish, together also known as “marine snow”. Marine snow is continuously being degraded by microbial and zooplankton activities

According to sexual selection theory, males should benefit more from mating with multiple partners than females do as male investment into offspring production is typically lower. However, male reproductive success might not increase indefinitely with an increasing number of female mating partners. Male ejaculates are limited, and so mating with multiple females over a short period of time may cau

Global rising temperatures is impacting species interactions worldwide including those between host and parasites. A long-term study on a population of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) linked increases in avian malaria parasites to rising temperatures. Understanding the consequences that these increases in avian malaria parasites are causing is vital. Therefore, data from the past 28 years on this

Within organizational families, listening between coworkers plays an essential role in enabling organizational success and the effective enactment of family dynamics. It allows information to circulate, collaboration to take place, and trusting relationships to develop. Yet, coworkers’ listening processes, agency and experiences in an organizational family continue to be overlooked by organization

This thesis explores the Brazilian State logic of criminalization or legitimization of violence through two important cases: the 1992 Carandiru massacre, in which 111 inmates were assassinated by the military police, and the 2013-2014 Black Bloc demonstrations in which 23 activists were criminalized. Aiming to challenge entrenched ideas about violence, the research investigates who benefits from t

This thesis examines how Ellen Nordmark’s Epos (2024) relates to the epic genre. Rather than categorizing the work within a single, fixed genre, I employ close reading to analyze how it comments on, questions, and reformulates conventions on the epic genre. Particular attention is given to how Epos both reveals and reconfigures the epic tradition, and how the text emphasizes oral and aural modes o

Denna studie undersöker skador vid farthinder med syfte att identifiera de bakomliggande orsakerna samt föreslå lämpliga åtgärder för att minska skador. Studien fokuserar på farthinder i Lund och Malmö. Genom att kombinera okulär inventering av skador med bakgrundsdata från kommunerna och multipel regressionsanalys har en mängd data samlats in och analyserats för att hitta samband mellan skador, tThis thesis investigates damage to speed humps with the aim of identifying the underlying causes and proposing appropriate measures to reduce the occurrence of damage. The study focuses on speed humps in Lund and Malmö. By combining visual inspection of damage with background data from municipalities and multiple regression analysis, a large amount of data was collected and analyzed to find correl

Syftet med den aktuella studien var att undersöka behandlares erfarenheter av att leda compassionfokuserad terapi (CFT) i gruppformat i svensk kontext. Studien syftade till att belysa vilka möjligheter och utmaningar behandlarna upplevde i arbetet och hur de beskrev sin roll som gruppledare. Sex terapeuter som har genomfört minst en 12-veckors behandling i CFT intervjuades. Datainsamlingen skedde The aim of this study was to explore therapists’ experiences on facilitating compassion-focused therapy (CFT) in a group format within a Swedish context. The present study sought to examine the opportunities and challenges the therapists experienced in their work, as well as how they described their role as group leaders. Six therapists who had conducted at least one 12-week CFT group treatment we

Cell type deconvolution - the computational estimation of cellular composition in bulk tissue samples - is a valuable tool in cancer research for understanding immune infiltration and tissue heterogeneity. Most deconvolution algorithms infer the composition of cell types in bulk samples by modeling the observed expression data as a linear combination of reference expression profiles from each cell

The purpose of this essay has been to examine how consent, victims and perpetrators are constructed in the Swedish daily press in connection with the introduction of the Consent Act in 2018 and five years later, in 2023. Through a critical discourse analysis, based on Fairclough's three-dimensional model, articles from Aftonbladet, Expressen and Dagens Nyheter have been analyzed. The results s

This thesis investigates whether portfolios constructed from over 8000 recommendations from analyst companies operating in Sweden (2019-2024), outperform their benchmarks and generate abnormal returns in excess of common risk factors. Four of the six analyst-driven portfolios outperformed their respective indices in cumulative returns, but factor model explained most of the excess performance. Not

Mot bakgrund av det konstaterade glappet mellan policy och praktik vid behovsbedömning i svenska som andraspråk undersöker studien hur behovsbegreppet definieras och tillämpas på olika nivåer i skolans styrkedja, samt vilka faktorer som möjliggör respektive försvårar bedömningsprocessen. Utgångspunkten är skolförordningens formulering om det behövs. Tre delstudier genomfördes för att belysa behovs

Since the country’s graduation from the United Nations Least Developed Countries (UNLDC) list in 2015, there has been a sharp drop in foreign aid inflows in Bangladesh, whichforced many NGOs to reconsider their business models in managing organizational operatingfinances. This study identifies that development-NGOs are confronted with multiple internaland external challenges like decreased commitm

The extensive use of neonicotinoids has raised concerns about their impact on pollinators like hoverflies, which are vital for pollination and ecosystem health. This study develops and validates a green extraction method using Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE), coupled with HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) - MS/MS (Mass Spectrometry) for selective analysis. SFE was employed as a m

This study explores how everyday ferry travel in transit spaces create experiences through the interplay of mundane and extraordinary interactions, focusing on the Øresundslinjen ferry between Helsingborg, Sweden, and Helsingør, Denmark. Drawing on the concepts of mundane tourism, the new mobilities paradigm, tourist gaze, and service-scape theories were used to examine the social, spatial, and em

Introduction: A Natural Deep Eutectic Solvent (NaDES) is presumably a green and cost-effective eutectic solvent, capable of extracting many different types of analytes. The analyte, apigenin, is a potential nutraceutical compound with anti-diabetic properties. Background: NaDES compositional variation and unknown properties challenges prediction of their extraction selectivity. Aim(s): Correlate N