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In 2004, acute labour shortages were first observed in labour-intensive export-processing sectors in China’s coastal provinces. Paired with rising wages in rural and urban areas, many economists have claimed China has reached its Lewis Turning Point of economic development. This dissertation reviews these claims by context-testing Lewisian theory, and finds little evidence to suggest China has met

This essay seeks to address how power asymmetries or structural biases may affect how European Union (EU) law considers market actors and the freedom to conduct a business, combining EU legal methodology with feminist and queer legal and political theory. The research finds that the EU is a purposive order, whose primary objectives inform the EU legal order and the development of EU law. EU functi

The upgrade of transport infrastructure may stimulate regional economic growth and reshape the industrial structure. It may also increase economic gaps between regional giants and peripheral areas through “siphon effect”. This paper uses the Difference-in-Differences (DID) model to examine the correlation between the operation of China high-speed railway (HSR) and changes in real per capita GDP, r

This bachelor thesis studies the process of the culture and arts economic support system in the municipality of Lund. It aims to define problems concerning the current support system, which in the present situation appears in form of a stagnant cultural eco system. To do this participant observation have been used as a method and interviews and communications analysis as complementary methods. The

Revolution. The word makes one think about two things: violence and social change. Is it even possible to achieve change on a large scale without the use of force? This thesis asks the question what a revolution is and whether or not it is dependent on violence to achieve its goals. To answer those questions i have performed an analysis of the violence and revolutionary ideals put forth in Christo

År 2006 började den fredsbevarande FN-instansen UNMIS verka i det område som idag är Sydsudan, och under denna tidsperiod har prostitutionen i landet ökat med nästan 100 %. De fredsbevarande FN-soldaterna drar nytta av sin maktposition som beskyddare genom att utnyttja de sydsudanesiska kvinnorna sexuellt, kvinnorna de ursprungligen är utsända för att beskydda från paramilitära grupper. Detta feno

Under konferensen TED-Global 2009 uppträdde författarinnan Chimamanda Adichie med The Danger of a single story som vill varna för det ensidiga berättandets stigmatiserande konsekvenser. Då talet är uppbyggt av berättelser förenas det litterära och det retoriska. Med analysmetoden Narrative Criticism ville jag undersöka hur några narrativa strategier rörande berättelsens karaktärer, dess sceniska p

With this essay I have examined the view of the saints during different epochs of the Middle Ages and what they considered distinguised a saint. The sources I have used in my examination are three different hagiographies: Dialogi de vita et miraculis patrum Italicorum part 2 by Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century, Vita Ansgarii by Rimbert in the 9th century and Vita Anselmi archiepiscopi Can

Previous studies of Thomas Pynchon’s works have made progress in defining numerous aspects of what could be construed as the Pynchonian worldview. However, they have mainly identified them in general, visual terms, separated from the level of the direct experience of his characters. The process of perception is important in philosophical inquiry, but its role in the worldview of Pynchon’s works ha

This paper examines caryatides in Greek architecture from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic period. The focus of this study is the functions, contexts, and symbolic meanings of the caryatides. Regarding the contexts, the caryatides were first used in the archaic period on the Cnidian treasury and, shortly thereafter on the Siphnian treasury, both in Delphi. In the classical period, the caryati

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate how social and cultural factors influence the decision making behaviour regarding publicly displayed items, using the outdoor space as an example. We want to provide a more dynamic view on decision making concerning publicly displayed products, taking the personalities of the consumers into consideration. By using a qualitative research design we found t

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether the risk attitudes of experts in risk management, i.e. the group of experts participating in the study made by Abrahamsson and Johansson (2006), comply with the preferences of the general public. A major focus of the thesis is the development of the experimental setup, which is based on the trade off method developed by Wakker and Deneffe (1996)

Sequencing of immunoglobulin germline gene loci is a challenging process, e.g. due to their repetitiveness and complexity, hence limiting the insight in the germline gene repertoire of humans and other species. Through next generation sequencing technology, it is possible to generate immunoglobulin transcript data sets large enough to computationally infer the germline genes from which the transcr

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are driving corporate strategy and performance. However, does this mean more ESG reporting is being done? If so, is the quality of ESG reports improving? And what about ESG performance? In this paper, we examine these three trends in ESG reporting—quantity, quality and corporate ESG performance. With a Swedish multinational corporate focus, we anal

This chapter argues for a new listening practice for electroacoustic music (EAM) that I call “deep situated listening”. “Deep situated listening” builds on existing EAM-theories, aesthetics and practices – which I here collectively refer to as the “hearing heads” approach – but extends this approach by adding an explicitly feminist perspective. “Deep situated listening” combines Donna Haraway’s no

Infections due to the opportunistic fungus Candida have been on the rise in the last decades, especially in immunocompromised individuals and hospital settings. Unfortunately, the treatments available today are limited. Thrombin-derived C-terminal peptide (TCP-25) is an antimicrobial peptide (AMP) with antibacterial and immunomodulatory effects. In this work, we, for the first time, demonstrate th

The two-dimensional (2D) affinity between protein molecules across contacting cells is a key parameter regulating and initiating several cellular processes. However, measuring 2D affinity can be challenging, and experimental data are limited. In addition, the obtained 2D affinities are typically averaged over the cell population. We here present a method to measure 2D affinity on single cells bind

This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the in vitro, animal, and clinical studies with the bacterial strain Lactiplantibacillus plantarum 299v (L. plantarum 299v; formerly named Lactobacillus plantarum 299v) published up until June 30, 2020. L. plantarum 299v is the most documented L. plantarum strain in the world, described in over 170 scientific publications out of which more th