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We live an increasingly larger part of our lives online. The Internet has fundamentally changed how we find information, buy products, connect with friends and find entertainment such as video streaming and digital distribution of books. The Internet has changed the competitive landscape for many markets. Local sellers suddenly face competition from sellers around the globe, introducing more choic

In the future posts from social media will, without a doubt, be a very important source for researchers who seek to gain knowledge and understanding about human activity and life in the early twenty first-century, the society we live in and the communicative patterns that distinguish the relations between humans ! today. This 2 master thesis aims to examine how Swedish heritage and memory institut

Thesis Purpose: The objective of this study is to research how vocal green companies can use green claims in online marketing advertisement text with the aim to recommend ways in which they can positively impact the purchase intention of environmentally friendly fashion products. Methodology: In this quantitative study, the data is analysed through correlations, after which significant difference

Högre verkningsgrader, stabilitet och minskad toxicitet; så skall framtidens solceller nå verkligheten. Många hoppas att solenergi ska ta över våra energibehov och varje dag närmar vi oss en grönare utvinning av elektricitet. Kommer våra bilar och byggnader täckas av solceller i framtiden? Inte helt omöjligt, om vi kan bemästra det fascinerande materialet perovskit. På EPFL, Ecóle Polytechnique FPerovskite research has quickly gone from non-existent to one of the biggest reseach areas in Photo- voltaics. There are still many questions to be solved regarding the stability, environmental impact, reproducible large area devices, efficiency and module fabrication cost of Perovskite Solar Cells, PSCs, before commercial up-scaling. Scientists all over the world are working towards solutions and

Pillows are an important part of sleeping comfort. The goal of the master thesis was to get a better understanding of pillows for IKEA. To reach that goal, a customer study of 20 customers was performed. Information about and measurements of each customer were collected in order to find a pattern between data and opinions of pillows. Each customer laid on a mattress and tried five different pillow

The aim of this study was to explain how hospital social workers are working with children of seriously ill parents. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with seven hospital social workers working in both somatic and psychiatric wards and clinics in Region Skåne, Sweden. When analyzing the data Aron Antonovsky's theory, KASAM - sense of coherence and Urie Bronfenbrenner's theo

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur restaurangpersonal upplevde stress och psykiskt välbefinnande samt i vilken grad positiv förväntan påverkade dessa faktorer inom loppet av Coronakrisen under april 2020. Vidare undersöktes om det fanns köns- eller åldersrelaterade skillnader avseende stress och välbefinnande. Undersökningen gjordes som en kvantitativ tvärsnittsstudie genom ett webbaserat The objective of this study was to investigate how restaurant staff experienced stress and psychological well-being and to what extent positive expectancies affected these factors during the Corona crisis in April 2020. Furthermore, it was investigated whether there were gender or age-related differences regarding stress and well-being. The survey was conducted as a quantitative cross-sectional st

Fostering entrepreneurship has become fundamental to economic development in cities and countries globally. The emergence of digital tools and services has created novel ways of pursuing entrepreneurship. Sweden ranks as the third most digitalized EU country, so this thesis aims to investigate how digitalization has facilitated the development of one of its most progressive Entrepreneurial Ecosyst

In the Fall of 2023, Sweden’s major autoworkers union (IF Metall) launched a strike against Tesla, a global manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs). Contentions have emerged in the discourses and rhetoric of both parties about the cultural compatibility of work cultures between the Nordic Model and the U.S-based EV multinational manufacturer. The decline of union involvement among the population o

Av allt att döma kommer klimatet i världen och Sverige att bli varmare under överskådlig framtid, med konsekvenser som till stor del inte upplevts tidigare i nordliga länder. Mer intensiva och längre värmeböljor kommer att bli ett vanligare fenomen, och med det behöver svenska kommuner vara förberedda för effekterna. I och med att kommunerna ansvarar för mycket av den byggda miljön och informationBy all accounts, the global climate as well as the Swedish climate will become warmer for the foreseeable future, with consequences that have largely not been experienced before in northern countries. More intense and longer heat waves will become a more common phenomenon, and with that, Swedish municipalities need to be prepared for the effects. As municipalities are responsible for much of the b

The everyday encounter with humans in vulnerable and exposed life situations makes emotions a big part of social work. This part can become overwhelming and stressful with serious consequences such as occupational burnout when professionals lack emotional resilience. Emotional resilience can be trained and used as a preventional personal skill for social workers exposed to emotional labor. Therefo

This Master’s thesis discusses the subject of documenting processes within the archival science, or more accurately the new injunction 2008:4 and the opinions and attitudes Swedish archivists have in regards to it. The national archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet) put out the injunction in 2008 and all the government-owned authorities has to apply it onto their work. They all have to document their

The aim of this study was to find out how girls with anorexia nervosa experienced response from their environment, including health professionals as well as family, friends and the society. The study focuses on the girls stories about the response, their experience from their illness; therefore we used a qualitative content analysis, based on five autobiographies. Our questions which we based our

Today Cape Verde is considered a good example and at the forefront in prosperity development compared to other Sub-Saharan African countries, and since Cape Verde recently made stricter legislation in gender based violence, the aim of this study has been to analyze why reports of domestic violence against women in Cape Verde have increased. I have done research in three key areas: local environmen

Purpose: Create an overall understanding of computers/software and cognitive science. We also want to investigate discrepancies in 4 particular software systems (The discrepancies are between human/computer and NOT between the computer systems). We also want to investigate if eventual discrepancies, or successes, in the programs might have a connection to the human cognition. Meaning; are these sy

Designer fashion items hold a high status within the fashion industry. A designer brands’ culture, aesthetic, and exclusivity give their products a symbolic value that can be used by consumers to build identity or express qualities like success or wealth. Therefore it is natural that counterfeit fashion items emerge as an alternative for consumers who want to emulate these qualities, but for a che