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The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the European Union uses strategic autonomy to construct its identity as an international actor and whether this identity has shifted in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is based on the hypothesis that a gradual reconstruction of identity toward a more geopolitical dimension does not replace the EU’s normative identity. Drawing on con
This study aimed to increase the understanding of the professional strategies used by healthcare social workers or counsellors in paediatric habilitation to identify existential challenges among parents of children with disabilities and to support them in their parenting and life situation. The study was conducted using a qualitative design based on semi-structured interviews with seven counsellor
This thesis examines which institutional dimensions, capital-market integration, regulatory density, single-market incompleteness, and regional decentralization, are most strongly associated with European productivity and firm-dynamism performance over 2000–2020. Using panel data for 17–31 European countries and a multi-protocol fixed-effects framework robust to cross-sectional dependence and smal
Effective cooling is critical for high-performance electric vehicle traction motors, where high temperatures can reduce efficiency and limit power capability. While oil spray cooling pro- vides effective heat removal from the end-winding region, its system complexity, cost, and integration requirements motivate the development of alternative cooling solutions that re- tain water as the working flu
Since the sensory turn in the 1980s and 90s, increasing focus has been put upon the non-visual senses within spatial theory and research. One analytical lens that has emerged is that of the soundscape, through which sounds are understood as a natural and inherent part of space and place-making within the urban. Intertwined in this understanding of sound is the tension between sound and noise and t
This study focuses on Xiaohongshu, a popular social media and e-commerce platform in China today, to explore how feminists engage in digital political participation on this platform and how they build affective solidarity through their online interactions. With its high proportion of female users, Xiaohongshu is gradually evolving into an emerging field for contemporary Chinese feminist political
This study examines the construction of Swedish state identity through official national statements from international climate and environmental conferences in 1972 and 1992, as well as statements delivered between 1995 and 2025. It builds on the understanding that states construct their state identity through autobiographical narratives. The material is analysed through a positioning method to ca
Abstract Independent European feature films are financed project by project from many sources at once, each with its own conditions, payment schedule and claim on the film. This thesis asks how Plattform Produktion, an independent Swedish production company, should structure the financing of a film project so that the liquidity and budget it obtains are not bought at an unacceptable cost in retain
Industrial data from a packaging production process are explored in order to investigate which inter-variable relationships can be derived. In examining the possibility of using data-driven methods to gain further insights into the production process, a number of methodologies were used. Among these were graph-based representations of conditional dependency structures. The framework of mixed graph
The city can be understood as a series of processes: it is ever-changing and its spaces are under constant (re-)negotiation. It is defined by meetings, gestures and exchange. Between people and surfaces. It consists of tens of thousands of parallel, sequential, simultaneous events that overlap and move through shared time and space. This thesis is rooted in a fascination for the infra-ordinary o
Quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are important low-dimensional semiconductor systems because of their strong excitonic response, tunable emission properties, and improved structural stability compared with conventional three-dimensional (3D) perovskites. In these materials, the inorganic layer thickness and the molecular structure of the organic spacer can modulate
This paper explores the self-making process of young Chinese women studying in Sweden who live alone, an aspect which remains rarely explored in international student mobility research. This study is based on semi-structured interviews conducted with 11 young Chinese women, all students between 22 to 27 years old at Lund University, Sweden. This thesis investigates how these women balance student
We consider the Nielsen equivalence classes and Andrews–Curtis equivalence classes for finitely generated groups, specifically for the Grigorchuk–Gupta–Sidki groups which act on rooted trees. We then generalize a result of Myropolska to show that all torsion Grigorchuk– Gupta–Sidki groups have infinitely many Nielsen equivalence classes of generating pairs. Finally we deduce the number of Andrews–
The purpose of this study was to examine how healthcare counsellors, working within the fields of habilitation and psychiatry in Region Skåne, discuss neuropsychiatric diagnoses and the approach to patients within this group. The aim was also to investigate how societal and research-driven shifts in the perception of these diagnoses affect the work of healthcare social workers. The study was condu
This thesis, informed by democratic backsliding theory, neocolonialism, reproductive governance and backlash theory, examines how the Mexico City Policy has become a political instrument through which reproductive rights are regulated within U.S. foreign assistance. The thesis argues that the repeated reinstatements and successive expansions of the policy since its introduction in 1984 do not mere
This study explores how people living and working on fincas in rural Spain live in reciprocity with the more-than-human world through their everyday practices on their finca. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork at two field sites, which include participant observation, interviews and conversations with people who live and work at fincas in Spain. Drawing on fieldwork, this master thes
In order to increase Power Amplifier (PA) linearity and efficiency in the transmission chain wireless communication systems, Digital Front-End (DFE) functions such as Crest Factor Reduction (CFR), Hard Limiter (HL) and Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) are typically built and adjusted independently. Despite the effectiveness of this modular strategy, it does result in a high hardware footprint. The use
