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The narrative of domestic fiction frequently depicts a woman’s search for domestic bliss, as a mother, wife, and homemaker. Shirley Jackson has often contested this narrative by portraying female characters who, through uncanny manifestations of repressed desires and fears, go against these norms. ‘The Deamon Lover’ (1949) and ‘The Tooth’ (1949) present two female protagonists, who are confronted

This thesis focus on how notions of equality and neo-liberal pursuits for growth are negotiated in policy, discussing the relationship between problem definition at top level and the implemented solution at policy level. The problem is defined in the European Union’s growth strategy Europe 2020 as Europe having to increase productivity, while the implemented solution I focus on is the emerging foc

Based on conversations with young trans and nonbinary people in Sweden, in this paper I will explore how assigning emotional responsibility to gender nonconforming students is a function of cisnormative structures in schools. In the conversations, participants discussed how adults in school could require emotional support in managing their ignorance regarding gender, and how students felt required

Navigating the observational, symbolic, and theoretical knowledge domains of chemistry is crucial for chemistry sensemaking. However, this has been shown to be particularly challenging for students of chemistry. In order to reach government standards for sensemaking in the chemistry subject, it is important to investigate how chemistry teachers can sustain sensemaking practices in their classrooms

This project looks into the perception of the benefits and drawbacks of Internet usage by elderly people, born from the mid 1920s to the early 1940s, also known as the ‘silent generation’ (Lustria et al. in Health Informatics Journal 17(3):224–243, [1]). As governmental services are gradually becoming online, elderly people are required to use the Internet in order to complete the compulsory task(

Transient experiments for the Eemian (128-113 ky BP) were performed with a complex, coupled earth system model, including atmosphere, ocean, terrestrial biosphere and marine biogeochemistry. In order to investigate the effect of land surface parameters (background albedo, vegetation and tree fraction and roughness length) on the simulated changes during the Eemian, simulations with interactive cou

This research departs from two domains within the research field of consumer culture theory (CCT), Consumer Identity Projects and Marketplace Cultures. The goal was to add insights to the field by investigating social distinction through exploration of a context that traditionally has been characterized as being democratic and folksy. This research will study speciality coffee consumers as they di

Kroppslig integritet skrivs in i förskolans och skolans läroplan den 1 juni 2019. Att barn får stöd i att utveckla kroppslig integritet är ett steg mot ett mer jämställt samhälle samt en viktig förebyggande insats mot sexualbrott. Handboken “Stopp! Min kropp!” ämnar stödja vuxna i arbetet med kroppslig integritet. Kunskap om föräldrars tankar och agerande kring främjandet av kroppslig integritet sBodily integrity is becoming a part of the preschool and school's curriculum on June 1, 2019. Children receiving support in developing bodily integrity is one step towards a more equal society and an important preventive effort against sexual abuse. The manual “Respect! My body!” intends to support adults in helping children develop bodily integrity. Knowledge of parents' thoughts and acti

In November 2018, the Danish government passed a bill that introduced the category ‘severe ghetto’ to the law on non-profit housing. Moreover, the bill prescribes extraordinary policy measures in the targeted areas in order to encourage urban regeneration. The non-profit housing associations in ‘severe ghettos’ are forced to reduce the share of non-profit housing stock to 40% through relabelling,

Syftet med studien är att undersöka och jämföra hur tre erfarna körledare beskriver sitt arbete med intonation i sina körer. Avsikten är att ta reda på vilka faktorer de menar påverkar intonationen och vilka arbetsmetoder de anser effektiva för att främja en god intonation i kör. För att uppnå målet med studien utfördes kvalitativa intervjuer med tre körledare i vars körer författaren tidigare sjuThe purpose of the study is to investigate and compare how three experienced choir leaders describe their work with intonation in their choirs. The intention is to find out what factors they mean affect the intonation and what working methods they consider effective to achieve a good intonation in the choir. In order to achieve the goal of the study, qualitative interviews were conducted with thre

Gender and its relation to sex and sexuality are subjects discussed exhaustively within the field of Gender Studies. In this essay, I take on describing experiences of penetrative/enclosing sex for women within a frame of pleasure, masturbation, power and gendered stereotypes. My findings tell us about sexual double standards for women, about what sex and sexuality are and mean to them and sparks

I denna studie har vi undersökt hur individer i långvariga, heterosexuella relationer upplever fördelningen av känslomässigt arbete i sina relationer och eventuella könsskillnader i denna fördelning. Vi har även undersökt om det finns ett samband mellan den upplevda fördelningen och självskattat välmående, samt huruvida individer känner till begreppet känslomässigt arbete. För att besvara frågestäIn this study we have explored how individuals in long-term, heterosexual relationships experience the distribution of emotional labour in their relationship, as well as eventual gender differences of this distribution. We also examined a possible correlation between this experienced distribution and self-evaluated well-being, as well as how familiar individuals are with the concept of emotional l

Using the respective theories of recognition and social justice by Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser, this master thesis explores how public librarians understand the concept of social justice and how this concept relates to their daily work. It also examines to what extent the recognition theory can serve as an analytical tool in order to understand the social function of the public library. The stud

I denna avhandling undersöker vi möjligheten att använda Siamesiska Neurala Nätverk för att detektera röstförändringar bland patienter som lider av återkommande stämbandscancer. I samarbete med VoiceDiagnostic Sweden AB och läkare vid Lunds Universitetssjukhus konstruerades modeller för att mäta avstånd mellan olika röstinspelningar, samt avstånd mellan mindre segment av röstinspelningar. De resulIn this thesis, we investigate the possibility of using Siamese Neural Networks to detect voice changes in the voices of patients su↵ering from a recurrence of their vocal cord cancer. In collaboration with VoiceDiagnostic Sweden AB and physicians at Lunds’s University Hospital, models were trained on audio features in order to learn distance measures between recordings, and segments of recordings

Mitt examensarbete har varit en utforskande process i hur arkitektur förhåller sig till landskap och natur. Arbetet har resulterat i ett exempel på hur mitt förhållningssätt skulle kunna anpassa sig och landa på en plats med vissa givna förutsättningar. Exemplet tar form i ett galleri och café vars arkitektur följer och ställer ut platsens subtila förändringar och övergångar i landskap och natur. My degree project has been an explorative process in how architecture relates to the landscape and its nature. The result of my work is an example in how my approach could adapt to a place with certain given conditions. The example is portrayed as a gallery and café whose architecture follows and exhibit the subtle changes and transitions in the landscape and surrounding nature. The location of

Syftet med denna studie var att genom en kritisk diskursanalys utforska vilka diskurser som tar plats i kommunikationen hos svenska gymkedjor samt vilka sociala strukturer i relation till träning och fysisk aktivitet de bidrar till att skapa och/eller reproducera. Det insamlade materialet bestod av det visuella materialet på hemsidorna hos Sveriges fem största gymkedjor, vilket analyserades med hjThe purpose of this study was that through a critical discourse analysis investigate what discourses take place in the communication among Swedish gym facilities, and what social structures regarding physical activity they are currently creating and/or reproducing. The collected material consisted of the visual mate-rial presented on the webpages of the five larges gym facilities in Sweden. The ma

Predictability is a key function of law. When the application of law goes from being flexible to becoming unpredictable this key function is lost. This article shows how legal application can deviate from formal agreements and law, how legal predictability experiences a setback when other forces or values affect the decision making that is supposed to be strictly legally controlled. Non-legally ac

We study agents situated in partially observable environments, who do not have sufficient resources to create conformant (complete) plans. Instead, they create plans which are conditional and partial, execute or simulate them, and learn from experience to evaluate their quality. Our agents employ an incomplete symbolic deduction system based on Active Logic and Situation Calculus for reasoning abo

In this thesis I examine the connection between female embodiment and subjectivation, technologization of reproduction and rationalities of government in Ukraine, where assisted reproductive technologies (ART) were introduced not so long ago, but have already become part of the lived experience of numerous women and heated a large debate in society about the nature of women, motherhood, national d