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This thesis examines the collective identity negotiation among online community members identifying as Minor-Attracted Persons (MAPs). Through a comprehensive analysis that includes twenty unstructured qualitative interviews and a qualitative survey with ninety-four responses, the research aims to illuminate how MAPs construct, redefine, and sustain identities that counteract the pervasive stigma

In the real world, understanding an antenna's radiation pattern is crucial for its proper utilization. Typically, antennas are tested in the far-field region, where the radiation lobes are fully developed and phase errors are less than pi/8. However, due to some drawbacks like an increase in far-field distance for antenna arrays, researchers have shifted towards near-field measurements. These

Currently, medical social workers are required to conduct psychosocial assessments and are expected to understand the nature of the task. Through the assessment, medical social workers were also expected to make appropriate judgments that should have been scientifically grounded in a patient-safe manner and in accordance with the Patient Safety Act (SFS 2010:659). The psychosocial assessment, with

Att studera upplösning av orala läkemedel är avgörande för att förstå deras biotillgänglighet och terapeutiska effekt. Då dagens metoder för att studera upplösning är tidskrävande och kräver stora mängder av läkemedel och media så finns det ett stort behov av att fram nya metoder. En potentiell metod är UV-Vis imaging som kan användas för att studera upplösning av läkemedel i realtid. Detta projekStudying dissolution of oral drug substances is crucial throughout the drug development process. Current methods are time consuming and require large quantities of both the drug and dissolution media. Thus, exploring new methods is highly desirable. UV imaging, an analytical technique based on real-time absorbance measurements, can be used in early drug discovery to study drug dissolution and has

Sustainable finance plays a crucial role in driving sustainable development forward, and as the market grows more accustomed to ESG measures and targets, novel debt instruments have been emerging as a result. Green bonds and sustainability-linked bonds are two financial instruments that play an important role in supporting sustainable development. In this study, these two bond types are examined t

Problematic school absenteeism and homebound students have over the years become a great problem in society. Research indicates that both causes for absenteeism and the path back to school are complex. Early detection is crucial to enable students to return to school. What do homebound students say about their situation? In this study, we aimed to explore the perspective of homebound students and

För att säkerställa finansiell stabilitet och undvika framtida ekonomiska kriser är det viktigt att banker noggrant hanterar sin kreditrisk. En kritisk komponent i detta är att noggrant modellera sannolikheten för att en låntagare inte kan återbetala sitt lån, även känt som sannolikheten för konkurs (Probability of Default, PD). Mitt examensarbete fokuserar på att förbättra dessa förutsägelser genThis thesis investigates the application of spline regression models to predict the Probability of Default (PD) under varying macroeconomic conditions, exploring whether these models can enhance predictive accuracy over traditional linear models and compare favorably to XGBoost. The study analyses the non-linear dynamics between PD and key macroeconomic indicators within a Swedish small-sized corp

This paper presents a study about whether university student's political and interpersonal trust is affected by gender and educational field. A primary question was also to study whether there was a difference in students’ trust in how social problems are managed and prevented by Sweden's elected politicians. In this study, the theory about social capital is applied where political trust c

Artificiell intelligens (AI) och dess genererande verktyg har funnits ett tag och medför med detta betydande förändringar, utmaningar och möjligheter, särskilt för upphovsrättsskyddat material såsom musik. I takt med att AI-system har blivit mer sofistikerat i att generera nya kreativa verk, har frågor om dessa system och deras potentiella upphovsrättsintrång fått ökad uppmärksamhet. Den här uppsArtificial intelligence (AI) and text and content-generating tools have been around for a while, bringing significant changes, challenges, and opportuni-ties, especially regarding copyrighted materials such as music. As AI sys-tems have become more sophisticated in generating new creative works, questions about these systems' potential copyright infringement have gained prominence. This thesi

The prevailing attitudes regarding diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in patients with polycythaemia vera (PV) among Swedish haematologists were surveyed by way of a mailed questionnaire in August 2002. Among diagnostic procedures frequent use is reported for arterial O-2 saturation, spleen size determination, bone marrow histology, serum erythropoietin, serum cobalamins and leukocyte alkaline

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease characterized by the inability of the organism to autonomously regulate the blood glucose level due to insulin deficiency or resistance, leading to serious health damages. The therapy is essentially based on insulin injections and depends strongly on patient daily decisions, being mainly based upon empirical experience and rules of thumb. The development of a

The terminase motors of bacteriophages have been shown to be among the strongest active machines in the biomolecular world, being able to package several tens of kilobase pairs of viral genome into a capsid within minutes. Yet, these motors are hindered at the end of the packaging process by the progressive buildup of a force-resisting packaging associated with already packaged DNA. In this experi

Language is context free in the sense that it builds well-formed structures like "ideas sleep" and "ghosts live" (NP + VP) without regard to meaning and specific contexts (Chomslcy, 1957). However, it is also context sensitive in the sense that it makes use of linguistic objects such as personal pronouns and other indexical expressions that cannot have any reference unless they are embedded in som

EPR spectroscopy has proven to be an indispensable tool in elucidating the structure of metal sites in proteins. In recent years, experimental EPR data have been complemented by theoretical calculations, which have become a standard tool of many quantum chemical packages. However, there have only been a few attempts to calculate EPR g tensors for exchange-coupled systems with more than two spins.

Why the performance of local value-adding firms supplying to mining MNCs in Zambia’s liberalized economy seems more constrained was the investigated problem. I conducted a multiple case study research involving 15 firms located on Copperbelt Province. Local value-adding firms are cardinal to national industrial development through their backward linkage role to mines. However, their performance is

Uppsatsen redogör för hur den digitala distributionsformen streaming förhåller sig till gällande rätt och vilka rättigheter upphovsmän och utövande artister har till denna distributionsform. Upphovsrättslagen är en skyddslagstiftning som syftar till att ge skydd åt upphovsmän och utövande artisters prestationer. På senare tid har den upphovsrättsliga lagstiftningen som en följd av det digitaliserThis essay illustrates how the digital distribution method “streaming” interrelates with existing law and which rights authors and performing artists have with this form of distribution. The Swedish Copyright Act is a protective legislation aimed at providing protection for authors' and artists' performances. More recently, as a result of the digitized society, Swedish copyright legislati

Regelverket för regionala avtal tillåter tullunioner och frihandelsavtal att göra avsteg från mest gynnade nations-principen förutsatt att ett antal villkor uppfylls; interna rekvisit som säkerställer liberalisering av den inre marknaden och externa rekvisit som syftar dels till harmonisering av yttre handelspolitik och dels till att förebygga att hinder reses mot tredje land. Genom undersökning aThe framework for regional trade agreements permits customs unions and free trade agreements to derogate from the Most Favoured Nation-principle provided that a number of conditions are fulfilled: internal requisites safeguarding internal market liberalization and external requisites, calling for harmonization of external trade policies and preventing the raising of barriers in relation to third c

How can national human rights institutions (NHRIs) socialize international norms of the rights of women migrant workers in a gendered manner? This is the main question of the thesis. With the thesis, I contribute to the theory on human rights norms socialization by shifting the highlight from states and transnational advocacy networks to NHRIs. By integrating a feminist perspective, I enrich the t

Adengi, a system for bridging information between consumer and advertiser exists today as a beta-test. This will be taken to the next level to see how to exchange information on a much more efficient and measurable way. The purpose of the project is to analyze if it’s possible to develop a generic web- portal for applications in mobile units such as Android and iPhone, that in an easy and userfrie