The global pandemic has initially negatively influenced the financial markets all over the world. As a consequence, the volatility in the stock markets increased and investors have experienced great monetary losses. In addition, the volatility spillover has increased between different markets and assets, which additionally amplifies the negative influence by the pandemic. This motivates the search

The purpose of this work is to map the parameters of residential fires that have the most influence on the consequences. The parameters consist of factors linked to the event and tasks conducted by the rescue service. The reason for this scope is a new law that requires a new way of describing the capability of the Swedish rescue service. A literature study and an interview study were conducted to

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between ESG and portfolio investment. More specifically, we investigate if sustainable portfolios that focus on good ESG performance requires sacrificing profit or if it is possible to maintain a sustainable portfolio with a high financial gain. The thesis focuses on the Swedish financial market and uses 56 different assets to investiga

Att bli förälder är omvälvande på många sätt och kanske första gången man kommer i kontakt med landets välfärdsystem genom föräldraförsäkringen. År 2017 lämnade Utredningen om en modern föräldraförsäkring sitt slutbetänkande till Socialdepartementet gällande en översyn av reglerna för föräldraledighet och föräldraförsäkringen (SOU 2017:101). Hur föräldrar väljer att ta del av föräldraförsäkringen

Revenge is a theme which has fascinated people for thousands of years and which is present in a wide range of genres. Revenge also plays a central role in the nineteenth-century novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. This essay examines the various effects of revenge in this novel by focusing primarily on the vengeful characters Abel Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Dolge Orlick. I will discuss

The market power of digital platforms and ecosystems has probably been the most discussed and concerning topic in competition policy in the last years. Some companies in the area of digital platforms have grown so rapidly that they now dominate entire industries. These firms are particularly Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft (the so-called GAFAM). Besides the dominant position these or

This paper studies how Sylva Plath’s The Bell Jar can be read from a feminist perspective and, in turn, what some possible benefits and potential risks of teaching the novel and feminist literary criticism to upper secondary school students of English in Sweden are. This paper also discusses how the novel can be a means to discuss the fundamental values of upper secondary school, in terms of equal

Syftet med studien var att jämföra förändringsupplevelsen i Panic Control Treatment (PCT) och Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PFPP) hos patienter med paniksyndrom med eller utan agorafobi (PS/A). Flera jämförande RCT studier har visat att både PCT och PFPP har god effekt på paniksyndrom. Denna studie undersöker huruvida det finns kvalitativa skillnader mellan förändringsupplevelser hos The aim of the study was to compare the experience of change among patients with panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (PD/A) in Panic Control Treatment (PCT) and Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PFPP). Results from RCTs support both treatments as effective for patients with PD/A. This study examines qualitative differences in the experiences of change in PCT and PFPP from a patient

The Nuclear Structure Group in Lund, focuses on nuclear spectroscopy of decays of rare isotopes. A new decay station, called LUNDIUM, is currently being built, which will involve silicon and germanium detectors for the study of these nuclei. This thesis focuses on the characterization of one of the new silicon detectors, the implantation one. More specifically, the dead layer is determined over th

Using methods of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) an N -body simulation was set-up to investigate stellar encounters between a 1 solar-mass main sequence (MS) star, modeled after the Sun, and a 0.6 solar-mass white dwarf (WD). This was done primarily to investigate the assumptions made by Mastrobuono-Battisti et al. (2021) in search of the impact of stellar encounters on stellar population in

The fountain of Anna Perenna and her nymphs was discovered in an excavation around twenty years ago in northern Rome and its cistern was found to house both religious votives and magical objects, such as curse tablets (defixiones). Thus, this water shrine constitutes a unique setting for magical practices, magicae artes, in the city of Rome and ancient Italia, which this essay aims to further exam

Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka upplevelsen hos deltagare med spindelrädsla som deltagit i Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) för spindelrädsla. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer genomfördes vid uppföljning en vecka efter behandling med nio deltagare. Det samlade materialet analyserades med tematisk analys vilket ledde till tre huvudteman och fem underteman. De tre huvudtemana var RThe aim of this study was to explore the experiences of participants with fear of spiders who underwent Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) for fear of spiders. Semi-structured interviews were conducted one week after VRET with nine participants. The collected material was analyzed using thematic analysis which led to the identification of three main themes and five subthemes. The themes were:

This essay aims to detect spatial autocorrelation present in the EKC relationship, as well as to find empirical evidence of said relationship. A panel data of 176 countries for the period 1990-2018 is used for the empirical part. Several spatial models are considered in this essay, namely the SDM, SAR model, SAC model and SEM. The main conclusions are: (i) there exists significant spatial autocorr

Självmord är ett stigmatiserat ämne som det inte pratas så mycket om i samhället. Samtidigt är det många som lider av psykisk ohälsa och ser självmord som den enda utvägen. Varje år dör cirka 1500 personer i självmord i Sverige. Förhoppningen med denna studie är att lyfta fram suicidala personers röster för att visa att vi behöver lyssna på deras upplevelser av psykisk ohälsa om vi vill sträva eftSuicide is a stigmatized subject that we, as a society, do not talk much about. Simultaneously, there are many people suffering from mental illness who think of suicide as the only way out. Every year around 1500 people die from suicide in Sweden. The aim of this study is to highlight suicidal people’s voices, in order to demonstrate that we need to listen to them if we want to achieve a decrease

Evacuation flow through connections such as doorways and staircases is a subject that has been studied and documented for decades. Evacuation flow through windows however is a subject that has been studied to a much lesser extent. Swedish regulation allows windows to be used as an evacuation route, but little is known about what flow can be expected through such an opening. Given peoples unfamilia

This study has sought to propose didactical approaches to find a balance between the teaching of classic and contemporary literature in the Swedish EFL classroom by exploring and comparing the attitudes of Swedish upper secondary school teachers and students towards both forms of literature. The study was conducted through two quantitative questionnaires, one researching the attitudes of 44 EFL st

Bakgrund: Kreativa aktiviteter som arbetsterapeutisk intervention kan användas hos patienter som haft stroke med syfte att förbättra deras fysiska förmåga men också för att minska psykisk ohälsa som ofta uppstår i samband med stroke. De vanligaste psykiska sjukdomar som drabbar strokepatienter är depression, ångest, fatigue och kognitiva nedsättningar. Minskad självständighet i dagliga aktiviBackground: Creative activities as an occupational therapy intervention can be used on patients who’ve had a stroke to improve their physical abilities but also to reduce mental illness that often arises with stroke. The most common mental diseases that affect stroke patients are depression, anxiety, fatigue and cognitive impairments. Decreased independence in daily activities that occurs aft

The purpose of this report was to compile the current knowledge regarding design and function of evacuation signage and evacuation lighting in road and railway tunnels. Another purpose was to shed light on any issues in the aforementioned regulations and standards. This was done by conducting two study visits, a literature review, an interview study and an analysis. To ensure that evacuation is i

Predictive archaeological modelling is a complex analytical process that requires the understanding of how complex environmental and anthropogenic spatial phenomena relate to the selection of archaeological site location and knowledge of the requirements and potential biases inherent in the method of modelling and the raw data itself. This paper aims to demonstrate the utility of the weights of ev

This thesis tries to answer how acts of homemaking can manifest with regard to four young adults in an urban environment. The paper takes a closer look at how the material takes form to create meaningful and concrete ways of navigating an uncertain landscape of adulthood in Stockholm, Sweden. Through the understandings of material culture made possible by Daniel Miller, Anat Hecht, Bodil Birkebæk