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This study aims to expand the research on Finnish mires by bringing humanistic perspectives to the field that has traditionally been dominated by natural sciences. The thesis examines cultural and societal aspects of human-mire relationships. This is done by conducting a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of news media articles published between 2020 and 2025 in three different news media: Helsingi
Abstract Denna uppsats är en komparativ studie av svensk och tysk turordning. Syftet är att ge läsaren en förståelse om annat lands lag samtidigt som den förstärker förståelsen för den egna rättsordningen. Frågeställningen siktar på att undersöka skillnaderna mellan 22 § LAS och § 1 KSchG. Utöver att jämföra turordningen undersöks även både de gamla och de nya bestämmelserna i 22 § samt turordniAbstract This essay is a comparative study of Swedish and German dismissal for economic reasons. The purpose is to give the reader an understanding of another country's law while strengthening the understanding of their own legal system. The research question aims to investigate the differences between 22 § LAS and § 1 KSCHG. In addition to comparing the dismissal for economic reasons, bot
Artificial neural networks are prone to overfitting – the process of learning details specific to a particular training data set. Success in preventing overfitting through combining the L2 and dropout regularisation techniques has led to the combination’s recent popularity. However, with the introduction of each additional regularisation technique to an artificial neural network, there comes new h
The aim of this study was to examine how school counsellors perceived their role within the schools various work against bullying and which impact their work environment had on their role. Because the study aimed to study the school counsellor's role, a role theory was used to analyse the empirical material. This was a qualitative study done through five semistructured interviews with school c
The aim of this study was to explore first line managers experiences with their span of control and how this affected their working environment. The method used for this study was qualitative interviews with five first line managers within service housing. Hans Selyes definition of stress was used to analyze the empirical data and Peter Währborgs more developed and modern definition helped making
Denna studie gjordes för att få en förståelse för vikten av 12 vattenkällor som finns i Vomb biosfärområdet. För att göra det, genomfördes en ekosystemtjänstanalys som inkluderade de fyra följande typerna av ekosystemtjänster: försörjande, stödjande, reglerande och kulturella tjänster. Ekosystemtjänstanalysen gjordes med hjälp av indikatorer för varje tjänst. Ett slutresultat baserat på status förThis study was done to gain an understanding of the importance of 12 water sources that are in the Vomb biosphere reserve. To do so, an ecosystem services analysis that included the four following types of ecosystem services: provisioning, supporting, regulating, and cultural services, was conducted. The ecosystem services analysis was done by using indicators for each service. A final score base
Det första av mina två syften var att undersöka huruvida det finns en könsrelaterad diskrepans gällande operasångares försörjningsmöjligheter. Jag samlade in empiri om antalet arbetstillfällen per röstfack och könsfördelningen vid operautbildningar, samt genomförde en enkätundersökning om hur tidigare studenter vid Sveriges operahögskolor försörjer sig. Slutsatsen kunde dras att det finns en stor
Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) are central place foragers, that have been shown to use path integration based vectors to navigate their environment. They also have remarkable learning and memory abilities, and can readily learn different cues. Recently, a behavioural assay has been developed that allows for rigorous testing of these mechanisms in a laboratory setting. This thesis aimed to use this
Following the Paris agreement of 2015, the latest reports of the IPCC, exacerbated by the lingering impacts of the Covid crisis and the recent war of aggression of Russia on Ukraine, the European Union is proposing an ambitious set of rules and regulations aimed at making Europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050. As a part of this so-called European Green Deal, the Fit for 55 package was
The objective of this thesis is to analyze the predictive power of the cryptocurrency limit order book for return predictions. The analysis is performed for the BTC/USD and ETH/USD directional 10-second returns, using limit order book data from three of the largest cryptocurrency spot exchanges. The analysis employs the Random forest algorithm as a classification problem. The results demonstrate t
Godstransporter är livsviktiga för att en stad och stadslivet ska fungera, men sättet som godstransporter genomförs idag är inte hållbart. Det finns få riktlinjer på hur transporterna ska ske och riskfyllda situationer uppstod. Syftet med examensarbetet var att undersöka problem i bilfria områden i centrumnära stadsmiljö, samt att komma med rekommendationer på hur det kan utvecklas utifrån dagens Urban freight transportation is crucial for the functioning of a city and city life. However, the way urban freight transportation is occurring is unsustainable since there are few regulations and dangerous situations easily arise. The purpose of the thesis was to examine transportation in car-free areas and identify the associated problems, guidelines and explore potential solutions to the identi
This thesis investigates a new type of Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) architecture which combines a phase/frequency detector (PFD) and a digital loop filter. The quantization is done by a time-to-digital converter which continuously shrinks the pulse coming from the PFD and registers how far it propagates. Based on how far into the TDC each pulse propagates, the phase error is determined. The design is f
En kvasi-experimentell studie med mixed design användes för att utforska effekten av en endags utbildningsintervention i Acceptance- and Commitment Therapy (ACT) för personal inom barnpsykiatrisk slutenvård. Variablerna som undersöktes var psykologisk flexibilitet, symtom på generell psykisk ohälsa, självmedkänsla och antal sjukdagar. Vidare undersökte studien hur effekten utvecklades över tid för
This study aims to investigate the perspectives of absent fathers in two different online forums: Flashback Forum and Familjeliv. An absent father is defined in this survey as a parent who is alive but not present in the child's life for some reason. Additionally, by studying the concepts used to characterize them, this study explores the language surrounding absent fathers. The research striv
The occurrence of astragali, knuckle-bones, in the Mediterranean world has been observed for a long time. Despite this, the distribution of astragali in the western Mediterranean has been somewhat overlooked. This paper aims to create an overview of the occurrence of astragali, knuckle-bones, in burial contexts in Magna Graecia. To do so, four places in Calabria and Sicily with different relations
The aim of this study was to understand how foster parents reason in their work to support foster children in their contact and process of reunification with their birth parents. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with six foster parents in Sweden which had at least one completed foster care placement. John Bowlby’s attachment theory and Aaron Antonovsky’s theory on KASAM (sense of
