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Something Fishy on the High Seas: International Regulation, State Capacity and Common Pool Resources
(2022-06-20)Overfishing is a large-scale collective action problem that poses real threats to the marine ecosystem, livelihoods, food security, and the world’s climate. Thus, understanding fishermen’s compliance with fisheries regulations ... -
THE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF WIKIPEDIA A multilingual analysis and comparison of the language used in Wikipedia articles
(2022-06-20)Wikipedia is a great source of knowledge, but due to its open-collaboration nature, it presents some limitations. Namely, the uneven distribution of content, the low overlap in topic coverage, the differences in the ... -
Political Trust and Covid- 19 Vaccine Hesitancy
(2022-06-20)As vaccines against Covid-19 are being distributed globally the goal is to limit the impact of the disease by achieving herd immunity, and to accomplish this most people need to get vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy is a ... -
MULTI-CLASS GRAMMATICAL ERROR DETECTION Data, Benchmarks and Evaluation Metrics for the First Shared Task on Swedish L2 Data
(2022-06-20)Grammatical Error Detection (GED) is a challenging NLP task that has not received a lot of research attention in the recent years, especially in the Swedish language. However, in the world we live in, where there are ... -
Corruption and the satisfaction with democracy
(2022-06-20)Recent years have shown not only a global decline in democracy, but also that citizens increasingly express dissatisfaction with democracy. Previous research has shown that corruption fosters dissatisfaction with democracy. ... -
EVALUATING CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION IN NLU FOR DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
(2022-06-20)Background: Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is an important component in Dialogue Systems (DS) which makes the utterances of humans understandable by machines. A central aspect of NLU is intent classification. In ... -
Comparative Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Methods
(2022-06-20)Sentiment analysis is an on-going field of research within the realm of Natural Language Processing, in which we wish to accurately assess the sentiment of an author on a given topic. Within this thesis project I construct ... -
Operationsteamets erfarenhet av kommunikationen i den intraoperativa fasen
(2022-06-20)Bakgrund: I en operationssal arbetar flera professioner tillsammans och ett fungerande samarbete ställer höga krav på kommunikation i teamet. Operationsteamet har ett gemensamt ansvar för patientsäkerheten, trots detta ... -
Sedering på IVA – En prospektiv observationsstudie
(2022-06-20)Bakgrund: Sederande och analgetiska läkemedel är de mest förekommande läkemedlen på IVA. Sedering behövs i varierande omfattning för att kunna ge en komfortabel vård till den kritiskt sjuka och ventilatorvårdade patienten. ... -
Nå ut - En analys av den externa kommunikationen vid två lärosäten
(2022-06-20)Syfte: Att utveckla och tillämpa ett teoretiskt ramverk för att kvalitativt analysera ex- tern kommunikation från institutioner inom högre utbildning avseende förhål- landet mellan kommunikationspolicyer och producerade ... -
Mitt kors - En stötesten för kyrkan? En diskursanalys av initiativet Mitt kors.
(2022-06-20)Father Jaques Hamel was murdered on July 26, 2016, while he was celebrating the morning mass in his small church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in northern France. Hamel was killed by two young men pledging allegiance to the ... -
Ideal och verklighet i livet som präst: En studie av lidandeprocessen hos präster som begått ämbetsbrott
(2022-06-20)The study examines and analyses the relationship between ideals and reality in perceptions of how priests should live their lives in order to be faithful to their promises and the church’s ideals. The study covers the ... -
Artificial Intelligence for Option Pricing
(2022-06-19)This thesis addresses the issue of vulnerable underlying assumptions used in option pricing methodology. More precisely; underlying assumptions made on the financial assets and markets make option pricing theory vulnerable ... -
AID AS AN EMIGRATION MITIGATION STRATEGY? An analysis of official developmental assistance’s impact on the emigration rates of aid receiving countries
(2022-06-17)In the face of increasing pressure to slow immigration, policymakers in the United States and Europe have increasingly turned to the use of official developmental assistance (ODA) in an attempt to mitigate emigration from ... -
IS THE MEDIA DIVIDING US? A Panel Data Analysis on the Relationship Between Media Fragmentation and Mass Polarization in 71 Democracies (2000-2018)
(2022-06-17)Mass polarization as a phenomenon that divides the electorate on political and societal issues is on the rise globally, and its negative consequences for the well-being of a polity are well documented. Literature on the ... -
HOW DEMOCRACY BACKSLIDES. Tracing the Pathway in Turkey
(2022-06-17)Democratic backsliding is a gradual process that negatively affects the countries in terms of democracy. The different levels of democracies can face a number of challenges as a result of democratic backsliding and this ... -
THE PROMISE OF CHANGE. Key Aspects of Democracy and Quality of Government Against Infant Mortality
(2022-06-17)This thesis investigates which aspects of democracy and quality of government (QoG) drive the inverse relationship democracy and the quality of government has with infant mortality. Though studies exist on democracy as ... -
TURNING TO POPULISM. A Qualitative Content Analysis If, When and How The Social Democrats and Moderate Party have adapted to populist communication
(2022-06-17)This thesis analyzes the possible development of the Social Democrats and Moderate Party and if these have adapted toward a more populist communication. This is achieved by taking the existing research on political ... -
EURONORMATIVITY A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Party Profiles and Electoral Performance in the European Context
(2022-06-17)The observation that many mainstream parties in European domestic party systems have lost votes over the past two decades is nothing new. Pro-European parties’ continued resistance against a policy shift on the European ... -
LOCAL SOCIETAL CONTEXTS AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 26 European Capital Cities
(2022-06-17)Based on a sample of 26 European capital cities, this thesis performs a multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis to identify what combinations of local conditions facilitate or prevent the transition towards high urban ...