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"Hur hann hon allt och alltid glad?" : Historiekultur, kallelse och profession i minnesteckningar av diakoner
No full textDeacons connected to the Church of Sweden have been trained and ordained since the 1850s, and since then the profession has been through many changes. Even today, there are unanswered questions about the deacon's profession, identity andvocation. The aim of this thesis was to analyze clergy obituaries of deceased deacons to gain new knowledge about the deacon as a minister. The deacons in the chosen obituaries were in service during the years 1936-2013. The thesis works with three theoretical perspectives: uses of history, Lutheranvocation and profession theory. A historical culture of the deacon includes memories of the deacon's former professional role, as well the deacon's training and ordination. It also includes the deacon's tasks and how the deacon is described as a person. The deacon is set to work with many different groups of people, and it is stated that the deacon can do“almost everything”. The deacon is “cheerful”, “serving”, “action-oriented”, “listening”, ‘knowledgeable’ and “reserved”. A historical culture of the deacon also includes that after retirement, the deacon has a voluntary commitment in the parish. This thesis shows that the deacon's vocation changes throughout life, in a process of life interpretation. The deacon's vocation is always directed towards fellow human beings, in work as well as in personal life, often towards children and young people, the elderly, the sick and vulnerable. Another part of the vocation is to be active in the Sunday service liturgy. The deacons described were trained in several different academic fields, which means that they cannot be seen as belonging to one single profession. For several deacons, their former professional role had a larger impact on their tasks in the parish, in comparison to the impact of the education and ordination as deacon.
Cross-sectoral collaboration in implementation of EU-related sustainability directives
No full text The thesis investigates the potential for collaboration between civil society organizations and companies in the implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. While the directives aim to enhance corporate sustainability through increased transparency and accountability, their effective implementation requires significant resources and comprehensive knowledge. Civil society organizations possess valuable expertise relevant to these directives. However, previous research indicates persistent barriers to collaboration between the sectors. To explore the collaborative potential, the thesis has adopted a qualitative research approach. Primary data was collected through semi-structured interviews with representatives from three companies and three civil society organizations. In addition, a semi-systematic literature review was conducted. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis to identify patterns and insights related to the research questions. The findings indicate that both civil society organizations and companies recognize the importance of collaboration and the potential entry points offered by the directives. Civil society organizations can offer contextual knowledge, thematic expertise, stakeholder facilitation opportunities, and a watchdog function, which are aspects aligning with the directives’ requirements. Companies contribute resources and capacity. However, critical obstacles persist, including trust issues, conflicting interests, lack of mutual understanding, resource constraints, and absence of formalized structures for engagement. The directives’ resource-intensive and stakeholder-driven nature makes overcoming these barriers particularly urgent. Key factors supporting successful collaboration include shared objectives, clear roles and responsibilities, transparent communication, mutual trust and recognition, and resource investment
Mänsklig värdighet och den döda kroppen
No full textAbstract The human person has a certain dignity. This is a key understanding of Christian anthropology and a fundamental for The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Created in the image of God, the human person is different from the rest of created life. But like every form of life, human life is finite. Mortality is a defining fact and through her embodiedness, the human person is limited. This, however, does not alter or lessen her dignity; rather, the limitations of the body is an integrated part of what it is to be human and to have dignity. But what does that mean in relation to the dead body? What can be said about human dignity after life ends? And what does it mean to treat a dead body with respect? This study aims to relate a contemporary understanding of human dignity to ethical thought in Christian theology as it appears in two recent documents. One is from the Roman Catholic Church: Dignitas Infinita: On Human Dignity, and the other from Church of Sweden: Livets början och livets slut: Redskap för orientering i etiska vägval. The purpose is to clarify how dignity can be understood in a way that also has relevance for the dead body. Three aspects of dignity will be used to analyze the teaching in the documents. These aspects - dignity as worth, as virtue/character, and dignity as standing - will each help me interpret dignity as it appears in the presented texts. I will also employ an understanding of dignity found in the Catholic ethicist Jean Porter’s article Torture and the Christian Conscience- a Reply to Jeremy Walderon. In the article, the author elaborates a certain understanding of dignity, coming from the reversed perspective of what it means to harm or destroy human dignity through torture. I will then proceed to a discussion of how the found theological understanding of dignity, can inform ethical considerations on what it means to respect the dead body. I will argue that dignity means to honor the Image of God in each person, especially in situations of vulnerability. In my understanding, being dead is to be considered an extreme state of vulnerability for the body. When the image of God is disrespected in the vulnerable, it is also injured in the person not taking responsibility. To safeguard the image of God in the dead person, is to keep it alive in the living. Regarding the dead body, this means a responsibility not to leave the person alone and to treat the body of a deceased person with due respect
A Comparative Study of Fairness Metrics for Modularity-based Community Detection
No full textThis thesis presents the evaluation of fairness metrics applied to modularity-based community detection algorithms. Community detection algorithms are widely used to uncover structural patterns in networks. However, these methods can inadvertently produce communities that reflect or reinforce demographic or structural biases present in the data. Fairness-aware community detection has emerged as a growing research area focused on promoting equitable outcomes across different social groups. We analyze how different fairness notions — those based on balance and those based on modularity — interact with community structure across multiple networks. Using synthetic and real-world networks, we assess the trade-offs between the fairness metrics under varying degrees of demographic skew and network topology. Our results highlight significant differences in the behavior of fairness metrics and reveal conditions in which one family of fairness metrics is better than the other. This work contributes empirical insights and guidance for integrating fairness into network analysis, with implications for social network mining and recommendation systems
Automating Analysis of Biomarkers Ki-67 and PSA Using Deep Learning in Prostate Cancer
No full textEarly detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer play an important role in improving patient outcomes. Two biomarkers, Ki-67 and prostate specific antigen (PSA), can provide insight into tumor aggressiveness. Currently, pathologists manually analyze biopsy scans, which can be time-consuming and subjective, and therefore delay the results. This thesis explores the implementation of an automated pipeline to efficiently scale image preprocessing, generating data suitable for learning-based analysis. Whole-slide images of prostate tissue stained for Ki-67, PSA, and hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) were preprocessed. An automated pipeline was developed using modular scripts to make it reproducible. The pipeline streamlines all preprocessing steps with minimal manual intervention. The work highlights the importance of image preprocessing and workflow automation in order to prepare data for machine learning models. From the results, we can see that the pipeline produces the same results when running on different operating systems. Furthermore, the patches created for each biopsy correspond to the same coordinates, which means that the patches can be used for machine learning inference
"Jag känner mig som en del i gemenskapen och jag vill också bidra till gemenskapen" : En intervjustudie om konsulters upplevelse av organisationskultur på ett konsultföretag
No full textOrganisationskulturen utgör en central faktor för såväl de anställdas som organisationens välmående. Kultur är dock ett brett fenomen som kan undersökas ur olika perspektiv.Tidigare forskning har visat att organisationens struktur, ledarskap, de anställdas individuella drivkrafter och den organisatoriska kommunikationen är viktiga aspekter i att bygga upp en stark och hälsosam organisationskultur. Denna studie bidrar med nya perspektiv och fokuserar på konsulternas upplevelse av kultur. Studiens syfte är att undersöka konsulters upplevelser av organisationskulturen inom ett konsultföretag som hyr ut sin personal till externa organisationer. Fokus i studien är den upplevda organisationskulturens betydelse för konsulternas delaktighet och vilja att stannapå konsultföretaget. För att undersöka detta har sex konsulter intervjuats om deras upplevelser av företagskulturen på sitt konsultföretag. Den teoretiska grunden för denna studie är Scheins modell av organisationskultur samt kompetensförsörjningsprocessen IN-I-UT. Resultatet visar att konsulterna värdesätter aktiviteter som främjar delaktighet, värderingar som är förankrade i praktiken och chefer som är lyhörda och transparenta. Det framkommeräven att den individuella viljan spelar en stor roll i den upplevda kulturen och delaktigheten. Utöver detta betonas vikten av en stark gemenskap, att de anställda upplever en yrkesmässig tillfredsställelse och stöd samt förtroende från ledningen. Dessa faktorer påverkar deanställdas inställning att stanna kvar på företaget. Resultaten från denna studie kan användasför vidare forskning inom fältet, då dessa ger en viktig inblick i både individuella ochorganisatoriska faktorer som påverkar organisationskulturen på ett konsultföretag med uthyrda konsulter.Organizational culture is a fundamental aspect for both employees and the well being of theorganization. However, culture is a broad phenomenon that can be examined from various perspectives. Previous research has shown that organizational structure, leadership, employees’, individual motivators, and organizational communication are important aspectsin building a strong and healthy organizational culture. This study contributes new perspectives and focuses on consultants' experiences of culture. The purpose of this study is to explore consultants' experiences of organizational culture within a consulting firm that assigns its staff to external organizations. The focus of the study is the importance of the perceived organizational culture for the consultants' participation and their willingness to stay at the consulting company. To investigate this, six consultants have been interviewed about their experiences of the organizational culture at their consulting firm. The theoretical foundation of this study is Schein’s model of organizational culture, along with the competence supply process IN-INSIDE-OUT. The results show that the consultants value activities that promote participation, values that are rooted in practice, and managers who are responsive and transparent. It also emerges that individual motivation plays a significant role in the perceived culture and sense of participation. In addition, the importance of a strong sense of community, employees experiencing professional satisfaction, as well as support and trust from management, is emphasized. These factors influence employees' willingness to remain with the company.The findings of this study can be used for further research in the field, as they provide important insights into both individual and organizational factors that affect organizational culture in a consulting firm with contracted consultants
Flyktingfiguren och den nationella självbilden: En affektanalys av retoriska identiteter i svensk migrationsdebatt 1980–2016
No full textThe Evolution of Organizational Decision-Making : Exploring How Generative AI Can Enhance Decision-Making in Multinational Corporations
No full textIn the era of Big Data, organizational decision-making is becoming increasingly challenging due to information overload. This becomes further complicated in multinational corporations (MNCs), where decentralized structures, siloed information, and cross-border operations are common. While generative AI offers new opportunities to support decision-making, its role in such complex environments is not yet fully explored. This thesis investigates how generative AI can enhance decision-making in MNCs. Drawing on the People, Process, Technology model, the study explores generative AI in decision-making from a sociotechnical perspective. Through a qualitative approach combining traditional and AI- conducted interviews with managers and experts, it identifies key obstacles in the organizational decision-making and examines how generative AI can be applied to enhance these. Findings show that decision-making in MNCs is often constrained by fragmented structures, siloed workflows, and limited access to relevant data, factors that reinforce bounded rationality. Generative AI can address these challenges by improving automation and augmenting complex decisions, marking a shift from bounded rationality to bounded trust where users hesitate to rely on AI despite its technical accuracy. However, realizing the potential of generative AI depends on organizational readiness, data governance, and systems designed for trust, transparency, and contextual relevance. To succeed, generative AI must be adapted to decision type and risk level, supported by context-specific data, aligned with existing organizational structures, and designed to balance user acceptance. These insights position generative AI as a promising but context- sensitive tool for decision support in MNCs, offering both practical and theoretical guidance for its implementation in complex organizations. Future research should further explore the concept of bounded trust in human-AI decisions- making, and the role of synthetic data in decisions where real data is limited. It also highlights the need to examine how regulatory frameworks affect implementations of AI in MNCs decision- making processes, and further investigation into the use of AI interview agents as scalable tools for qualitative data collection
From Heaven to the Cloud: Investigating Religious Utopian Legacies in the Digital Vision of Network States
No full textThis thesis explores the concept of the network state, a digital-first community model proposed by Balaji Srinivasan, through a comparative analysis with historical religious utopias. It hypothesises that network states, while technologically novel, inherit structural and ideological features from religious utopian communities. Drawing on scholarship and case studies such as Próspera and CityDAO, projects which share features with network states, the study examines how these experiments mirror earlier religious utopias like the Shakers, Mormons or the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Using rational reconstruction and theories from Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Ernst Bloch, the thesis assesses authority, truth claims, group structures, and collective identities in both domains. It finds that while network states replace sacred cosmology with algorithmic governance, they reconfigure enduring dynamics found in earlier religious utopias, such as charismatic, centralised authority or redemptive visions of social transformation. The thesis concludes that network states are not radical departures, but technological iterations of enduring utopian impulses. Though they trade prophets for protocols, they continue to grapple with age-old issues of legitimacy, community, and power.
Adaptive Genetic Algorithms for Real-Time IoT Workflow Scheduling under uncertain Resource Availability
No full textThis thesis presents a hybrid adaptive genetic scheduler, named HARPS, that orchestrates real-time Internet-of-Things workflows across heterogeneous edge, fog and cloud resources whose availability can fluctuate unpredictably. HARPS blends heuristic seeding, availability-aware evolutionary search and a freeze- and-prune mechanism that preserves progress yet swiftly reallocates unfinished work after node outages. A unified fitness measure balances monetary resource charges with soft-deadline penalties, guiding the algorithm to schedules that re- spect service-level objectives while containing operating costs. Comprehensive simulation studies with diverse benchmark workflows and deterministic fault in- jections show that HARPS persistently outperforms classical list heuristics and a baseline genetic variant, achieving markedly lower combined cost and tardiness without sacrificing convergence speed. The work details the system model, algo- rithmic design and evaluation protocol, and it discusses practical limitations and avenues for future extensions, positioning HARPS as a resilient and economical solution for dynamic edge-to-cloud workflow management