174 research outputs found
Kvinnans sociala status i norrön mytologi : Alternativa tolkningar
No full textIn this paper the author has read and compared The Poetical Edda, and Margaret Clunies-Ross' book, Prolonged echoes: Old norse myth in medieval northern society(1998). The aim of this paper is to offer alternative interpretations to the ones Clunies-Ross has made by drawing on The Poetical Edda and other sources. Margaret Clunies-Ross' interpretations left much unaccounted for by giving one-sided analyses of love, marriage, status and family relations. She simply focused on the female as the one who gets undermined in all of these categories. Modin finds that this is a very narrow perspective of the gender dynamics in Norse mythology, especially after reading The Poetical Edda. She is not alone in her opinion. There is much evidence that contradicts Clunies-Ross' theories which the author of this paper aims to clarify by offering new perspectives on these texts. She also gives the reader examples of parts in Norse mythology that are not only interpreted differently from Clunies-Ross, but also several other authors, such as Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, Peter Andreas Munch, John Lindow et cetera
Vems är det reproduktiva ansvaret? En spegling av genus betydelse vid biståndsbedömning av försörjningsstöd
No full textAbstract Author: Sanne Modin, Matilda Berggren Title: Who has the reproductive responsibility? – A reflection of gender roles in work with financial assistance [translated title] Supervisor: Yvonne Johansson Assessor: With this study our intent were to examine the Swedish social services workers view on financial assistance to contraceptive use. We wanted to look at this subject from a gender perspective. To our help we interviewed seven social workers whom work with financial assistance. These interview persons works in two different municipalities with a various number of inhabitants. To our study we used the qualitative method and semi-structured interviews. The questions were divided into different themes where sexuality, contraceptives and gender were the main issues. With help from gender theories we then analyzed the responses from the social workers and also using relevant research regarding sexual and contraceptive health. Our conclusion is that gender is an influencing factor in the daily work with financial assistance. In questions regarding parental leave and contraceptive use the gender order is still dominant. A reason for this could be the work load for the social workers and also the fact that none of our interview persons had been educated in matters regarding equality between women and men. This study’s result should be considered a guideline rather than a veracity since it is a small study with a minor group of interview persons
Intellektuellt kapital under pandemi och krig : En kvantitativ studie på 90 Large Cap- och Small Cap-företag
No full textTitel: Intellektuellt kapital under pandemi och krig - En kvantitativ studie på 90 Large Cap- och Small Cap-företag Nivå: Examensarbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen) i ämnet företagsekonomi Författare: Emma Modin och Emma Carpman Handledare: Veronika Larsson Datum: 2025 - juni Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att analysera Large Cap- och Small Cap-företags frivilliga redovisning av intellektuellt kapital i samband med Covid-19-pandemin och Rysslands invasion av Ukraina. Metod: Vi har använt en kvantitativ metod i form av innehållsanalys i denna studie där ett index av sökord kopplade till intellektuellt kapital skapats. Därefter, med hjälp av binär kodning, har vi undersökt om orden förekommit i 90 börsnoterade svenska företags engelska årsredovisningar från 2018 och 2023. Med datan har vi genomfört t-test, ANOVA-test och regressionsanalys för att undersöka våra hypoteser och besvara studiens syfte. Resultat och slutsats: Studien visar att den frivilliga redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital i snitt har ökat i de 90 svenska företagen från 2018 till 2023. Dessutom visar resultaten att den kategori av intellektuellt kapital företagen redovisade mest efter kriserna var strukturellt kapital. Vidare visar studien att företag noterade på Large Cap redovisade mer intellektuellt kapital än företag noterade på Small Cap både 2018 och 2023. Arbetets bidrag: Studien bidrar till tidigare forskning genom att undersöka den frivilliga redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital i samband med två kriser som inte har studerats tillsammans tidigare. Dessutom bidrar vårt arbete till forskningen kring signaleringsteorin då vi undersöker huruvida stora företag frivilligt redovisar mer intellektuellt kapital än mindre företag, i samband med de studerade kriserna. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Vi föreslår att genomföra en studie lik vår efter att världsläget har stabiliserat sig, för att kunna säkerställa att den ökade redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital beror på de undersökta globala kriserna. Dessutom hade ett kvalitativt arbete eventuellt tydligare kunna hänföra ökningen av intellektuellt kapital till de studerade kriserna. Nyckelord: intellektuellt kapital, frivillig redovisning, covid-19-pandemin, krig, globala kriserTitle: Intellectual capital during pandemic and war - A quantitative study on 90 Large Cap- and Small Cap-companies Level: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration Author: Emma Modin and Emma Carpman Supervisor: Veronika Larsson Date: 2025 - june Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze Large Cap- and Small Cap-companies' voluntary disclosure of intellectual capital in connection with the COVID-19-pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Method: We have implemented a quantitative method in the form of a content analysis where an index of keywords related to intellectual capital has been created. We have then used binary coding to examine whether the keywords have appeared in 90 Swedish listed companies' English annual reports from 2018 and 2023. Using the data we have conducted t-tests, ANOVA-tests and regression analysis to examine our hypotheses and answer the aim. Results and conclusions: This study shows that the voluntary disclosure level of intellectual capital on average has increased in the 90 Swedish companies from 2018 to 2023. The study also shows that the category of intellectual capital that companies reported the most after the crises was structural capital. Furthermore, the study shows that companies listed on Large Cap reported more intellectual capital than companies listed on Small Cap in both 2018 and 2023. Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes to previous research by examining the voluntary accounting of intellectual capital in connection with two crises that have not been studied together before. Additionally, our work contributes to the research on signaling theory by examining whether large companies voluntarily report more intellectual capital than smaller companies in connection with the studied crises. Suggestions for future research: We propose to conduct a study similar to ours once the global situation has stabilized, to ensure that the increased reporting of intellectual capital is a result of the global crises examined. In addition, qualitative work could possibly more clearly attribute the increase in intellectual capital to the crises studied. Key words: intellectual capital, voluntary disclosure, COVID-19-pandemic, war, global crisi
Intellektuellt kapital under pandemi och krig : En kvantitativ studie på 90 Large Cap- och Small Cap-företag
No full textTitel: Intellektuellt kapital under pandemi och krig - En kvantitativ studie på 90 Large Cap- och Small Cap-företag Nivå: Examensarbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen) i ämnet företagsekonomi Författare: Emma Modin och Emma Carpman Handledare: Veronika Larsson Datum: 2025 - juni Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att analysera Large Cap- och Small Cap-företags frivilliga redovisning av intellektuellt kapital i samband med Covid-19-pandemin och Rysslands invasion av Ukraina. Metod: Vi har använt en kvantitativ metod i form av innehållsanalys i denna studie där ett index av sökord kopplade till intellektuellt kapital skapats. Därefter, med hjälp av binär kodning, har vi undersökt om orden förekommit i 90 börsnoterade svenska företags engelska årsredovisningar från 2018 och 2023. Med datan har vi genomfört t-test, ANOVA-test och regressionsanalys för att undersöka våra hypoteser och besvara studiens syfte. Resultat och slutsats: Studien visar att den frivilliga redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital i snitt har ökat i de 90 svenska företagen från 2018 till 2023. Dessutom visar resultaten att den kategori av intellektuellt kapital företagen redovisade mest efter kriserna var strukturellt kapital. Vidare visar studien att företag noterade på Large Cap redovisade mer intellektuellt kapital än företag noterade på Small Cap både 2018 och 2023. Arbetets bidrag: Studien bidrar till tidigare forskning genom att undersöka den frivilliga redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital i samband med två kriser som inte har studerats tillsammans tidigare. Dessutom bidrar vårt arbete till forskningen kring signaleringsteorin då vi undersöker huruvida stora företag frivilligt redovisar mer intellektuellt kapital än mindre företag, i samband med de studerade kriserna. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Vi föreslår att genomföra en studie lik vår efter att världsläget har stabiliserat sig, för att kunna säkerställa att den ökade redovisningen av intellektuellt kapital beror på de undersökta globala kriserna. Dessutom hade ett kvalitativt arbete eventuellt tydligare kunna hänföra ökningen av intellektuellt kapital till de studerade kriserna. Nyckelord: intellektuellt kapital, frivillig redovisning, covid-19-pandemin, krig, globala kriserTitle: Intellectual capital during pandemic and war - A quantitative study on 90 Large Cap- and Small Cap-companies Level: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration Author: Emma Modin and Emma Carpman Supervisor: Veronika Larsson Date: 2025 - june Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze Large Cap- and Small Cap-companies' voluntary disclosure of intellectual capital in connection with the COVID-19-pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Method: We have implemented a quantitative method in the form of a content analysis where an index of keywords related to intellectual capital has been created. We have then used binary coding to examine whether the keywords have appeared in 90 Swedish listed companies' English annual reports from 2018 and 2023. Using the data we have conducted t-tests, ANOVA-tests and regression analysis to examine our hypotheses and answer the aim. Results and conclusions: This study shows that the voluntary disclosure level of intellectual capital on average has increased in the 90 Swedish companies from 2018 to 2023. The study also shows that the category of intellectual capital that companies reported the most after the crises was structural capital. Furthermore, the study shows that companies listed on Large Cap reported more intellectual capital than companies listed on Small Cap in both 2018 and 2023. Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes to previous research by examining the voluntary accounting of intellectual capital in connection with two crises that have not been studied together before. Additionally, our work contributes to the research on signaling theory by examining whether large companies voluntarily report more intellectual capital than smaller companies in connection with the studied crises. Suggestions for future research: We propose to conduct a study similar to ours once the global situation has stabilized, to ensure that the increased reporting of intellectual capital is a result of the global crises examined. In addition, qualitative work could possibly more clearly attribute the increase in intellectual capital to the crises studied. Key words: intellectual capital, voluntary disclosure, COVID-19-pandemic, war, global crisi
School ethos and the association to upper secondary school students’ school engagement : A multilevel study
No full textAcknowledgement The Author would like to acknowledge Bitte Modin, Professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, who has been the project manager for the research project “Schoolcontextual pathways to psychological symptoms among Swedish youth in the wake of the 1990s school reforms” in which data from this study derives from.Peer reviewe
Dehydration of concrete : Simulations in the software PPB are compared with moisture measurements in concrete samples with Portland fly ash cement
No full textCementproduktion står idag för totalt 5 % av koldioxidutsläppen globalt, vilket t.ex. är mer än dubbelt så mycket som den globala flygindustrin. Nya cement- och betongrecept, med nya egenskaper, utvecklas med målet att minska klimatbelastningen. I produkten Bascement ersätts delar av klimatbelastande cementklinker med mineraltillsatsen flygaska, en restprodukt från andra industrier. Detta ska alltså leda till en minskad klimatbelastning. Betong med Bascement har dock orsakat förseningar och extra kostnader i produktion på grund av långa torktider som inte stämt överens med simuleringar i TorkaS 3.2, en programvara baserad på betong med Byggcement. TorkaS ska ersättas av programvaran Produktionsplanering Betong (PPB) som kan simulera uttorkning i betong med Bascement. Målet med studien är att undersöka hur fuktsimuleringar i PPB skiljer sig jämfört med genomförda fuktmätningar i fyra betongprover med två olika vattencementtal, vct. Genom att förvara proverna i olika miljö är målet att experimentellt mäta hur omgivningen påverkar uttorkningen. Målet är vidare att visa skillnader mellan fuktsimuleringar med inbyggd klimatdata i PPB och med egna uppmätta klimatdata. Resultaten från de experimentella undersökningarna visar att uttorkningen blev större i betongprover med vct 0,40 än för motsvarande prover med vct 0,55 efter 70 dagar. Prover som hade förvarats i en stabil inomhusmiljö hade torkat mer än prover som hade förvarats i en varierande utomhusmiljö, vilket i denna studie inte stämde överens med simuleringar i PPB. Resultatet i denna studie visar att simuleringar i PPB tenderar att visa något större uttorkning jämfört med genomförda fuktmätningar. Denna överskattning blir större vid simuleringar med en varierande utomhusmiljö än med en stabil inomhusmiljö. Överskattningen blir större vid simuleringar med inbyggd klimatdata i PPB än med egna uppmätta klimatdata. Vid justering av betongens maxtemperatur i PPB till verkligt uppmätt maxtemperatur påverkas fuktsimuleringarna positivt så att de närmar sig de experimentellt erhållna resultaten. Betong med låga vct påverkas mer av en sådan justering än höga vct. Slutsatsen i denna studie är baserad på simuleringar och fuktmätningar i ett fåtal betongprover, vilka kan ha utsatts för störningar. Fler studier behövs för att validera reliabiliteten hos programvaran PPB. Val av härdningsmetod samt maxtemperatur under härdning kan påverka uttorkningen och simuleringar i PPB. Experimenten indikerar att simuleringar med PPB tenderar att avvika om betong med höga vct utsätts för vattentillskott kort efter gjutning. Korrekt maxtemperatur i PPB är viktigt för en mer verklig simulering av uttorkning i betong, särskilt vid låga vct. Simuleringar i PPB tenderar att bli mer korrekta med egna klimatdata än med inbyggd klimatdata.Cement production currently accounts for a total of 5 % of carbon dioxide emissions globally, which for example is more than twice as much as the global aviation industry. New cement and concrete recipes, with new properties, are being developed with the aim of reducing the climate load. In the Portland fly ash cement, parts of climate-stressing cement clinkers are replaced with the mineral-added fly ash, a residual product from other industries. This should lead to a reduced climate impact. Concrete with Portland fly ash cement, however, has caused delays and extra costs in production due to long drying times that did not match with simulations in the software TorkaS 3.2, which is based on concrete with Portland-limestone cement. TorkaS will be replaced by the software Production Planning Concrete, PPB, which can simulate dehydration in concrete with Portland fly ash cement. The aim of the study is to investigate how moisture simulations in PPB differ from executed moisture measurements in four concrete samples with two different w/c ratio. By storing the samples in different environments, the goal is to experimentally measure how the environment affects the dehydration. The goal is also to show differences between moisture simulations with the built-in climate data in PPB and with the own measured climate data. The results from the experimental studies show that the dehydration became larger in concrete samples with w/c ratio 0.40 than for samples with w/c ratio 0.55 after 70 days. Samples that had been stored in a stable indoor environment had dried more than samples that had been stored in a varying outdoor environment, which in this study did not correspond to simulations in PPB. The result of this study shows that simulations in PPB tend to show slightly greater dehydration than executed moisture measurements. This overestimation is greater in simulations with a varying outdoor environment than with a stable indoor environment. The overestimation is greater in simulations with the built-in climate data in PPB than with the own measured climate data. When adjusting the maximum temperature of the concrete in PPB to the actual measured maximum temperature, the moisture simulations is positively affected so that they approach the experimentally obtained results. Concrete with low w/c ratio is more affected by such an adjustment than concrete with high w/c ratio. The conclusion in this study is based on simulations and moisture measurements in a few concrete samples, which may have been exposed to disturbances. More studies are needed to validate the reliability of the PPB software. Choice of curing method and maximum temperature during curing can affect the drying and simulations in PPB. The experiments indicate that simulations with the PPB software tend to deviate if concrete with a high w/c ratio is exposed to water shortly after casting. Correct maximum temperature in PPB is important for a more real simulation of dehydration in concrete, especially at high w/c ratio. Simulations in PPB tend to be more accurate when using own climate data than using the built-in climate data
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No full textIduns medarbetarestab. [Namn och bild] 469
Gammal julhymn. Tolkad af C.V. Modin 470
Namnsdagen. Ave 470
Iduns medarbetarestab. En liten interiör. Frithiof Hellberg 471
Sne. Helena Nyblom 472
Qvinnans politiska rösträtt. Rafaël Hertzberg 473
Julafton. Elisabeth Kuylenstierna 473
Hvad damerna talade om. Skiss. Georg Nordensvan 474
Julafton bryter in. Karl Åkermark 475
Månne förgäfves? Ett litet vinterstycke. Mathilda Langlet 475
En solstråle. Hm. 476
Systrar. Johan Nordling 477
Augusti. En naturskildring. Anna Christenson 477
Qvinnovänskap. Adolf Hellander 478
Spinnvisa. Amalia Fahlstedt 479
För att glömma...Skiss. Anna Wahlenberg 479
Julseder. 481
"Ett hem". Elna Tenow 481
Bleuette. Tillegnad H. Maj:t Drottning Isabella II af Spanien. Markisinnan de Güell 482
Stockholm. Daniel Fallström 483
Iduns panoptikon. 484
Aprilmolnet. Skiss. Vilma Lindhé 484
Granen. Eline 485
En glömd författarinna. Birger Schöldström 486
Julbordet. 486
Glöm ej de fattiga! Maria 48
Mechanical properties of friction induced nanocrystalline pearlitic steel
No full textNanocrystalline structured variants of commercially available alloys have shown potential for boosting the mechanical properties of these materials, leading to a reduction in waste and thereby retaining feasible supply chains. One approach towards achieving these nanostructures resides in frictional treatments on manufactured parts, leading to differential refinement of the surface structure as compared to the bulk material. In this work the machining method is considered to be a testing platform for the formation and study of frictional nanostructured steel, assembly of which is stabilized by fast cooling of the produced chip. Analysis of the mechanical properties has shown extraordinary results at the surface, over 2000 MPa of strength on AISI1045 steel, more than three times the strength of the base material, demonstrating at the same time a reduction of 15% in the elastic modulus. The microscopic analysis suggests a reassembly of the elements in a new lattice of carbon supersaturated nano-ferrite
Digital Publishing Habits, Perceptions of Open Access Publishing and Other Access Publishing: Across Continents Survey Study
No full textIn this transformative world, changes are happening in all the fields, including scholarly communications are trending in the academic area of publication and access to the resources, especially emerging the wave of open access, open science and open research. The study aims to investigate the digital publishing behaviour of manuscript authors. This study applied a quantitative approach and survey questionnaire method. The researcher collected the data from 251 authors, editors, and peer-reviewers from 45 countries worldwide. The research mainly focuses on the importance, need, and author preference for open access journals. Everyone cannot use and access subscription-based journals; the critical reason is the cost of purchasing a tremendous amount. As an independent researcher, developing countries and other impoverished countries, researchers can give the utmost importance to open access journals. The author also wishes to publish a journal in open access only. The findings reveal that most authors like to publish digital and print in both formats, with chargeless publications. Open access publishing has a vital role with researchers, scholars, and students because accessing the articles is costless. The researcher publishing the manuscript is more important than the quality of the content also important in scholarly publication. Nowadays, open-access peer-reviewed journals are also equal to the paid journals
Echo and heart failure: when do people need an echo, and when do they need natriuretic peptides?
No full textHeart failure (HF) is a threat to public health. Heterogeneities in aetiology and phenotype complicate the diagnosis and management of HF. This is especially true when considering HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), which makes up 50% of HF cases. Natriuretic peptides may aid in establishing a working diagnosis in patients suspected of HF, but echocardiography remains the optimal choice for diagnosing HF. Echocardiography provides important prognostic information in both HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and HFpEF. Traditionally, emphasis has been put on the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). LVEF is useful for both diagnosis and prognosis in HFrEF. However, echocardiography offers more than this single parameter of systolic function, and for optimal risk assessment in HFrEF, an echocardiogram evaluating systolic, diastolic, left atrial and right ventricular function is beneficial. In this assessment echocardiographic modalities such as global longitudinal strain (GLS) by 2D speckle-tracking may be useful. LVEF offers little value in HFpEF and is neither helpful for diagnosis nor prognosis. Diastolic function quantified by E/e′ and systolic function determined by GLS offer prognostic insight in HFpEF. In HFpEF, other parameters of cardiac performance such as left atrial and right ventricular function evaluated by echocardiography also contribute with prognostic information. Hence, it is important to consider the entire echocardiogram and not focus solely on systolic function. Future research should focus on combining echocardiographic parameters into risk prediction models to adopt a more personalized approach to prognosis instead of identifying yet another echocardiographic biomarker
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