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This thesis examines the extent to which EU directives on information and consultation enable employees, through employees’ representatives, to influence employer decision-making before final decisions are adopted, particularly in situations involving restructuring and collective redundancies. The analysis focuses on four central directives within the EU framework: the Information and Consultation
This thesis examines how individuals form and enact political vegan identity through everyday practice, and the role digital media platforms play in mediating that process. Drawing on 12 semi-structured interviews with vegan participants across 4 groups defined by age and length of vegan practice – New Sprouts, Early Roots, Late Bloomers, and The Oakes – the study traces the specific processes thr
Enligt prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979) utvärderas utfall som vinster och förluster i relation till en referenspunkt, vilket ger upphov till systematiska mönster i beslutsfattande under osäkerhet, inklusive certainty effect och reflection effect. Samtidigt kan individuella skillnader i riskbenägenhet också påverka ekonomiska val, eftersom högre finansiell riskbenägenhet är associeradAccording to prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979), outcomes are evaluated as gains and losses relative to a reference point, giving rise to systematic patterns of decision-making under uncertainty, including the certainty effect and reflection effect. Yet, individual differences in risk propensity may also influence economic choice, as higher financial risk propensity is associated with
This article examines why some economies sustain large financial sectors without experiencing the negative effects on economic performance predicted by the finance-threshold literature. It analyzes South Korea and Taiwan during their economic transformations from the 1960s to early 2000s, combining descriptive statistics on financial depth (private credit-to-GDP) and economic shrinking (years of n
This thesis examines how middle managers construct, enact, and navigate organizational values in everyday managerial practice. While organizational values are often presented as stable principles intended to guide behavior and create cohesion, the everyday realities of managerial work are more ambiguous and relational than such representations suggest, particularly for middle managers positioned b
In this paper the characterisation and portrayal of northern europeans in Roman late Republican and Imperial literature is examined. It looks specifically at the employment by Roman authors of animal comparisons and analogies as part of this characterisation and explores the reasons for which they are used, including the choice of vocabulary and imagery. This also involves a broader examination of
This thesis examines transnational adaptations of television crime drama between the United Kingdom and the United States. This is accomplished by looking at the case of Broadchurch (ITV, 2013), a complex crime drama series that was adapted from Britain into America as Gracepoint (FOX, 2014). The research explores the themes of cultural adaptation, characterization, and sense of place in both seri
This master’s thesis examines the digital work performed on video-sharing platform YouTube. This study aims to analyse the business model of Web 2.0 social media platforms, by using the methodologies of interface affordances, Marxist labour theory, and perspectives on participatory culture, along with interpretations of the economic and social value production of the users (i.e. viewers and video
Här studeras konceptet ’zero waste’, ungefär ’inget avfall’, applicerat på livsmedelsindustrin, och hur den miljömässiga påverkan skiljer sig mellan ett förpackningslöst scenario som kan ses i en nischad, dansk livsmedelsbutik, och ett konventionellt scenario, där två typiska produkter i vanliga matbutiker används som referenser. I den danska butiken säljs havregryn i gravitationsmatare (gravity dThis study investigates the zero-waste concept applied to the food industry, and how the environmental impact differs between a package-free scenario found at a specialised Danish retail-store and a conventional scenario, using two reference products typically found in normal retail stores in Sweden. In the Danish store, the oats are sold in gravity dispensers, and the rapeseed oil is sold in glas
In this thesis, the relationship between democracy and biodiversity is examined by conducting a co-variational analysis using the cases of Colombia and Venezuela. Building on the foundation of previous studies, this thesis uses threatened species as a proxy for biodiversity to a greater extent than has been done previously. By analysing the results of the study, this thesis have been able to conc
The purpose of having a high-quality education system is not only to increase the human capital level of the younger population, but also a mechanism to minimize the differences between children’s chances to succeed in life. Children who come from poor backgrounds and have low educated parents will be given a possibility to succeed through a high-quality education system. This thesis will investig
Since the 1980s, the Arctic has experienced an amplified warming of more than twice the rate of the global-mean, leading to large-scale changes in the Arctic hydrologic system, ultimately having cascading feedbacks on the global climate. However, few of today’s distributed models manage to capture the complex processes in Arctic hydrology, and therefore, the aim of this thesis was to evaluate the
The inherited eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) causes the loss of photoreceptors by a still unknown cell death mechanism. During this degeneration, cyclic guanosine-3′,5′-monophosphate (cGMP) levels become elevated, leading to over-activation of the cGMP-binding protein cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG). cGMP analogs selectively modified to have inhibitory actions on PKG have aided in imped
Tropical cloud forests are characterized by abundant and biodiverse mosses which grow epiphytically as well as on the ground. Nitrogen (N)-fixing cyanobacteria live in association with most mosses, and contribute greatly to the N pool via biological nitrogen fixation (BNF). However, the availability of nutrients, especially N and phosphorus (P), can influence BNF rates drastically. To evaluate the
Remote sensing is an effective means for lake water level monitoring on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The purpose of this study is to estimate water levels of lakes on the TP using the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) and Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), evaluate the performance of ICESat-2 and GEDI in estimating water levels, and analyze the differences of water level ob
Pathological disturbance to one's identity is closely linked with mental illness and in particular personality disorders. Current measures of identity pathology within clinical research are nevertheless inconsistently used and present with substantial limitations such as disproportionate focus on adolescence. The Self-Concept and Identity Measure (SCIM) identifies pathological and non-pathological
Open letters are seen as a politicized form of climate communication, and the professional roles of researchers who engage in these communicative events are thereby cast into question. Based on semi-structured interviews with initiators to open letters, this article argues that while communication can be seen as constitutive and influencing new and emergent professional identities, there are also
Using high-resolution extreme ultraviolet resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (EUVRIXS) spectroscopy at the Cu M-edge, we observed doping dependent spectral shifts of interorbital (dd) excitations of YBa2Cu3O7-y and La2-xSrxCuO4. With increasing the hole doping level from undoped to optimally doped superconducting compositions, the leading edge of dd excitations is found to shift towards lower ene
Objectives: The aim is to compare Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway regarding government response to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March–June 2020 using the Oxford Government Response Tracker. Study design: Descriptive longitudinal ecological study. Methods: Descriptive analysis of time series data. Results: Sweden displayed a far lower response index in March. By late April indexes were similar.
The rainfall product derived from the SM2RAIN (Soil Moisture to Rain) algorithm has been widely used. However, there is still a large uncertainty partly due to the soil moisture input and parameters estimation of the SM2RAIN algorithm, which limits the application of the model in alpine regions. Here, the SM2RAIN-BayesOpt algorithm was developed by integrating the SM2RAIN algorithm and Bayesian op
