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Was the romance between David and Jonathan more than brotherly affection? There is an erotic tension between David and Jonathan as described in 1 Sam 20:18 to 2 Sam 1:26, and this thesis aims to examine their relationship using an ideology-critical method. With this method, the analysis will notice prominent ideology behind, in and in front of the biblical text. Many times, the two men's stor

There is an increasing shift of hope from international negotiations to local actors for promoting sustainability by ‘thinking globally while acting locally’. Municipalities are such carriers of hope, taking on increasing responsibility as implementers of sustainability. The problem is that sustainability is a social construction site, and implementing it means ‘making it up as you go’. With this

Can artificial entities be worthy of moral considerations? Can they be artificial moral agents (AMAs), capable of telling the difference between good and evil? In this essay, I explore both questions—i.e., whether and to what extent artificial entities can have a moral status (“the machine question”) and moral agency (“the AMA question”)—in light of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun. I

The aim of this study was to analyze the discourse of the theories by John Gray about relationships between men and women. The basis of this study was to analyze the social structures in our society today. I wanted to answer the questions following: In what way does John Gray construct male and female qualities in the literature? In what kind of discourse does John Gray discuss love? And how the t

In this essay, I explore an innovative theme in the interfaces between theology, gender studies, aesthetic theory, and literary studies. More specifically, my aim is to shed light on fundamental theological conflicts underlying the immensely complex subject of the elevated status of "the beautiful woman" as image and idea in Western society. This will be implemented through a close reading of the

Popular Abstract in Swedish Djur och människor exponeras hela tiden för virus, bakterier och andra parasiter. Många av dessa virus och bakterier är ofarliga, medan andra orsakar infektioner och gör oss sjuka. När ett djur smittas av t.ex. ett virus eller en bakterie som orsakar en infektion börjar deras immunförsvar direkt arbetet med att bli av med infektionen. Den första reaktionen som följer påPathogen challenges and host immune defenses can have substantial impact on life history patterns of animals. Biotic and abiotic factors may affect immunity in wild animals, influencing e.g., population dynamics and sexual selection. The overall aim of this thesis was to assess costs and benefits of immune system activation on physiology, behavior and offspring phenotype. The conducted research ha

This article presents the second study in a series that has been designed to manifest the emergence of consciousness and to measure developed competence. Its major aim has been to demonstrate that an invariant formulation of the Agent-action-Objective model and an analysis of its A-O kinematics have the capacity to re-produce contour similarity over time. Within the studied evolutionary-developmen

The main aim of this paper is to discuss how, within a sociocultural perspective, to design and conduct interviews for studying information literacy in everyday life. A methodological framework combining a sociocultural perspective with a narrative interview method is developed, in which visual tools are used to engage interviewees as active participants in the interview situation. This method was

In the wake of the geo-political development in recent years, the question of sacrifice has come to the fore in the contemporary philosophical discussion. Does sacrifice merely sharpen conflicts between cultures, or should it be seen as an inevitable part of their foundation? This article addresses the question from the perspective of the biblical view of sacrifice, expressed paradigmat- ically in

The Story of the Refugees: A Qualitative Analysis of how Refugees and Refugeeism are Portrayed in Contemporary Picture Books The aim of this study is to examine how refugees and refugeeism is portrayed in contemporary picture books. The study takes an intersectional and a discursive perspective, investigating how power structures and categories such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class inte

Syftet med studien var att utforska hur personer med psykisk ohälsa beskriver betydelsen av att blogga om personliga erfarenheter. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med fem personer som lever med psykisk ohälsa och skriver en blogg om det. Materialet analyserades utifrån tolkande fenomenologisk analys (IPA). Analysen av intervjuerna resulterade i fyra huvudteman som skildrar bloggens betydeThe aim of this study was to explore the meaning of blogging about lived experience as described by people living with mental illness. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five people and the content was analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. This resulted in four main themes depicting what blogging meant to the participants in terms of well-being and self-image: The bl

In this thesis, the story of Rahab in Joshua 2 is analysed, with narrative criticism. Several Christian exegeses have been made upon Joshua 2, and they tend to see Rahab as a character who is saved since she is righteous by faith. In this thesis the purpose is to find the reason why Rahab is saved. The story of Rahab is studyied in it's contex the book of Joshua in the Deuteronomic history. I

The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore how literature constructs the identity of the library as mysterious, and further to show what possible consequences this view of the library could have. Questions posed in the study are: How is the library as place articulated by literary representations? What possible consequences could come from reproducing this discourse? My theory and method is d

www.pi.lu.se GENOME-EDITING TECHNIQUES HAVE SPARKED A REVOLUTION IN BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL RESEARCH, AS THEY ALLOW PRECISE, USER-DEFINED MODIFICATION OF THE GENOMES OF ALMOST ANY PLANT OR ANIMAL. THIS RESEARCH HAS HUGE IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANT BREEDING AND MEDICINE, AND THEREFORE FOR SOCIETY. HOWEVER, COUNTRIES WITH RELATIVELY SIMILAR CULTURES, SUCH AS THE NORDIC COUNTRIES, SHOW CLEAR DIFFERENCES IN

https://www.pi.lu.se/sites/pi.lu.se/files/crisprideas_symposium_nov21_poster.pdf - 2025-10-02

This is a novel, the third in a series, about a fictional character, Ulvbjörn Vamodsson, and his adventures in seventh-century Europe. The main event in the novel is the murder of Ulvbjörn's father-in-law during a visit to Lejre, a central place in Iron Age Denmark, which takes place in the prologue. Ulvbjörn's task is to find the murderer. From a literary point of view, the novel is an experiment

This thesis explores how Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Mister Pip (2006) by Lloyd Jones engage with the issue of the white male outsider’s activity of writing black people’s stories. It shows that Adichie counters the discourse that entitles the Western subject, Richard, to tell African stories by transferring his interpretive privilege to the African object, Ugwu. Jo

Popular Abstract in Swedish Avhandlingen belyser läsning och läsarbanor i ett livsperspektiv där fyra lärarstudenters berättelser om läsning från barndom till mötet med lärarutbildningen analyseras ur ett sociokulturellt perspektiv. Ur berättelserna om läsning i olika kontexter såsom familj, skola och lärarutbildning framträder ett perspektiv på läsning som en relationell process. I en relationellThe aim of the thesis is to contribute to knowledge about experience and perceptions of reading that students at a school of education have, from early reading experiences in childhood, to the encounter with reading in context of their teacher training. The following overarching questions were asked: What aspects of narratives appear to be significant in the students’ reading trajectories? Which a

Excursions as field method Tuesday October 17, 2023 14.00-15.00 CEST (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Artists Carl Johan Erikson and Karin Willén give a presentation, followed by a discussion with Lisa Babette Diedrich (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) and Gini Lee (University of Melbourne), and questions from participants. William Kutz will be moderating the seminar. The webinar is free of c

https://www.cors.lu.se/en/borderless-wild-boar - 2025-10-01

Instruktioner till HKBV Leveransmall ver 1.8 2024-04-19 1 Instruktioner för användning av HKBV-leveransmallen + saker att tänka på Vilka data används mallen till?  Leveransmallen används för att leverera både HKBV-data och data från Riksrutorna (Nationella Kustfågelövervakningen) som ligger i HKBV-länen. Ni gör alltså ingen separat leverans av data mha SFTs inmatningsprotokoll för Riksrutor som i

https://www.naturdatavardskap.lu.se/sites/naturdatavardskap.lu.se/files/2024-04/Leveransmall_HKBV_ver1.8_Instruktioner.pdf - 2025-10-02