This doctoral thesis approaches literary tourism initially from an historical perspective in order to define the phenomenon through a review of the existing academic literature in the field. The forms of literary tourism are analysed to provide a typology and from this the value of literary tourism is explained both from the visitor's point of view and the destination manager's. Current theories underpinning the existing literature on literary tourism, including Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital are reviewed. To extend the current state of research and to answer the research questions a case study of successful urban literary tourism is identified, in this case in Brittany, France. The uses of French literature in literary tourism are reviewed to provide a sound basis on which to examine French texts and tourist destinations. Novel methods of field research are developed to formalise and to make reproducible the methodology for this study and for future work drawing on, and seeking to combine both literary theory and ethnography. Following a pilot study on the French Riviera the full discovery instruments are designed and applied in fieldwork on the case destination, Concarneau, using the detective novel, The Yellow Dog, which is set in Concarneau. Analysis of the findings from this provide a new contribution to the field of literary theory, in the area of reader interpellation, and answer the research questions in the form of a new set of recommendations for DMOs and tourism stakeholders. From the empirical study that used Web 2.0 social media, only available since 2013, an analysis of which novels do stimulate literary tourism is presented for the first time. Out of the research process new methods have been evolved, and are presented in the conclusion, for the DMO to synthesise and leverage digital resources. This provides DMOs with interpretation processes for its managed heritage to use with its local stakeholders in hotels and in tourism businesses. Finally, an innovative conceptualisation of what constitutes tourism knowledge is proposed.

In my thesis I go about principles and methods of security systems, then I go about analysis of avalaible types of security systems (EPS, EZS and CCTV). I have written about their possibile use in design security building. I have described levels of project documentation and its different parts including process service of production a project documentation for security system. I used all knowledges in the end of my thesis, when I designed and integrated security system for a special building.

The content of this thesis is the complex security system proposal, specifically of PZTS system and CCTV system. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part is analysis of the current state, the second is theoretical part and the third part is a practical part. The first part deals with the analysis of the current state of physical security and technical protection of the premises. The theoretical part deals with theoretical solutions for security system proposal. The practical part is focused on separate PZTS and CCTV systems proposal, that will meet all the requirements and standards of the customer.

The amount of data available and consumed by people globally is growing. To reduce mental fatigue and increase the general ability to gain insight into complex texts or documents, we have developed an application to aid in this task. The application allows users to upload documents and ask domain-specific questions about them using our web application. A summarized version of each document is presented to the user, which could further facilitate their understanding of the document and guide them towards what types of questions could be relevant to ask. Our application allows users flexibility with the types of documents that can be processed, it is publicly available, stores no user data, and uses state-of-the-art models for its summaries and answers. The result is an application that yields near human-level intuition for answering questions in certain isolated cases, such as Wikipedia and news articles, as well as some scientific texts. The application shows a decrease in reliability and its prediction as to the complexity of the subject, the number of words in the document, and grammatical inconsistency in the questions increases. These are all aspects that can be improved further if used in production. / Mängden data som är tillgänglig och konsumeras av människor växer globalt. För att minska den mentala trötthet och öka den allmänna förmågan att få insikt i komplexa, massiva texter eller dokument, har vi utvecklat en applikation för att bistå i de uppgifterna. Applikationen tillåter användare att ladda upp dokument och fråga kontextspecifika frågor via vår webbapplikation. En sammanfattad version av varje dokument presenteras till användaren, vilket kan ytterligare förenkla förståelsen av ett dokument och vägleda dem mot vad som kan vara relevanta frågor att ställa. Vår applikation ger användare möjligheten att behandla olika typer av dokument, är tillgänglig för alla, sparar ingen personlig data, och använder de senaste modellerna inom språkbehandling för dess sammanfattningar och svar. Resultatet är en applikation som når en nära mänsklig intuition för vissa domäner och frågor, som exempelvis Wikipedia- och nyhetsartiklar, samt viss vetensaplig text. Noterade undantag för tillämpningen härrör från ämnets komplexitet, grammatiska korrekthet för frågorna och dokumentets längd. Dessa är områden som kan förbättras ytterligare om den används i produktionen.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att redogöra för det förebyggande arbetet kring hot och våld men också hantering av hot och våld i gymnasieskolan. Därmed användes en kvalitativ intervjustudie med rektorer, lärare samt en kurator som gav svar på följande frågeställningar; hur förebyggdes hot och våld i gymnasieskolan, hur identifierades hot och våld i gymnasieskolan samt hur bemöttes hot och våld i gymnasieskolan. Personalens svar på dessa frågeställningar analyserades utifrån Paulo Freires befrielseteori och därmed gavs en tydligare bild av skolans situation gällande hot och våld. Medvetandegöra-(conscientização) innebar att handlingsplanerna kritiskt reflekterades över som uppdaterades årsvis samt granskning av elevenkäter och medarbetarenkäter. I arbetslaget samtalades och delades erfarenheter som var en del i att hot och våld medvetandegjordes. Förutom i arbetslaget delades olika erfarenheter genom föreläsningar, litteratur och poddar, vilket ökade kunskapen om hot och våld. Eleverna diskuterade värdegrunden, normer och de förtryckta samt förtryckarnas världsbild. Därtill fick elever kännedom om den hjälp som fanns såsom kurator, socialtjänst och utväg om de hamnade i en våldsam eller hotfull situation. Det förebyggande arbetet kring hot och våld sammanfattades i följande strategier: skapandet av en trygg arbetsmiljö samt ökning av elevers och lärares kunskap. Dessutom behövdes både teoretiska och praktiska kunskaper om hur elever och lärare skulle agera vid hotfulla och våldsamma situationer. Olika handlingsplaner tillämpades vid olika hotfulla och våldsamma situationer. Vid övning av inrymning förbereddes lärare och elever hur de skulle agera vid våldsamma och hotfulla situationer. Dessutom behövdes kännedom om vilka aktörer som fanns inom skolan såsom elevhälsoteam, som oftast bestod av kurator, psykolog och skolläkare. Därutöver bestod en krisgrupp av andra professioner såsom pastor, diakon, mentor, präst eller imam. I samhället fanns det vid större katastrofer och olyckor stöd och råd från socialtjänsten och POSOM-gruppen att tillgå. Begrepp: Hot och våld medvetandegjordes, i skola, i nära relationer, i hemmet, barn for illa, elevhälsoteam, Krisgrupp, Socialtjänsten, Polisen, POSOM-gruppen / The purpose of this essay was to account for the preventive work on threats and violence but also the management of threats and violence in high school. Thus, a qualitative interview study was used with principals, teachers and a counselor´s who provided answers to the following questions; how threats and violence were prevented in high school, how threats and violence   were indentified in high school and how threats and violence in high school were adressed. The staff´s answers to these questions were analyzed on the basis of Paulo Freire´s liberation theory and thus gave a clearer picture of school´s sitaution regarding threats and violence. Awareness-raising (conscientização) meant that the action plans were critically reflected on, which were updated annually, as well as a review of student surveys and employee surveys. The work team discussed and shared experinces that were part of raising awareness of threats and violence. In addition to the work team, different experiences were shared through lectures, litterature and podcasts, which increased knowledge about threats and violence. The students discussed the values, norms and the world of oppressed and the opressors. In addition, students become aware of the help that was available, such as a counselor, social services and a resort if they ended up in a violent or threatening situation.  The preventive work on threats and violence was summarized in the following strategies: the creation of safe working environment and an increase students and teachers knowledge. In addition, both theoretical and practical knowledge was needed about how students and teachers should act in threatening and violent situations. Different action plans were applied in different threatning and violent situations. When practicing accomodation, teachers and students were prepared to act in violent and threatening situations. In addition, knowledge was needed about which actors were present within the school, such as student health teams, which usually consisted of a counselors, psychologists and school doctor. In addition, a crisis group consisted of other professions such as pastor, deacon, mentor, priest or imam. In the event of major disasters and accidents, support and advice from the social services and the POSOM group were availible. Concepts: Threats and violence were made aware, in school, close relationships, at home, children got hurt, student health team, Crisis-group, Social services, Police, POSOM group

Paare und Paarbeziehungen sind – in westlichen, paarnormativen Gesellschaften – eine hegemoniale Lebensform. (Heterosexuelle) Paare (re-)produzieren in ihren Interaktionen und Aushandlungen – ihrem doing couple und doing inequality – nicht nur Geschlecht (im Sinne von Gender), sondern wesentlich auch gesellschaftliche Ungleichheiten. Paarbeziehungen sind daher ein wichtiges Untersuchungsfeld der Geschlechterforschung; die Paarbeziehung wird hierbei als eigenständige Analyseeinheit betrachtet. Paare werden in der (soziologischen) Geschlechterforschung aber auch auf die Frage hin untersucht, ob sich mit dem Brüchigwerden des männlichen Ernährermodells im globalen Norden ein Wandel der Paar- und Liebesleitbilder abzeichnet und sich u.a. auch dadurch Ungleichheiten im Geschlechterverhältnis verändern, verringern oder neue entstehen.

Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and access to rehabilitation is crucial for recovery. This study examines the potential of digital technologies to improve the rehabilitation experience of stroke survivors in Scania, Sweden. The use of digital tools and telerehabilitation in stroke rehabilitation in Scania remains largely unexplored. Through qualitative interviews with 12 stroke survivors, 1 stroke survivor relative, and 6 healthcare professionals, this study identifies four key themes that play a significant role in the rehabilitation process: Access to care and rehabilitation, Motivation, Psychological and emotional needs, and Social support net. Based on these findings, the study proposes several "digital suggestions" to improve the rehabilitation process, including utilizing digital physio- and occupational therapy and improving alignment between various digital systems within the region. The study emphasizes the importance of individual adaptation in stroke rehabilitation, which aligns with the overarching goal of Swedish healthcare to provide patientcentered care. The findings of this study can inform future work with digital opportunities in Scania's stroke care and rehabilitation, potentially leading to better outcomes for stroke survivors.

<p>This project presents a case study of postmodern trauma, working at the boundaries of the humanities and computer science to produce an in-depth examination of trauma writing in David Foster Wallace’s novel <i>Infinite Jest</i>. The goal of this project is to examine the intricacies of syntax and language in postmodern trauma writing through an iterative process I refer to as <i>broken reading</i>, which combines traditional humanities methodologies (close reading) and distant, computational methodologies (Natural Language Processing). Broken reading begins with close reading, then ventures into the distant reading processes of sentiment analysis and entity analysis, and then returns again to close reading when the data must be analyzed and the broken computational elements must be corrected. While examining the syntactical structure of traumatic and non-traumatic passages through this broken reading methodology, I found that Wallace represents trauma as gendered. The male characters in the novel, when recollecting past traumata or undergoing traumatic events, maintain their subject status, recognize those around them as subjects, and are able to engage actively with the world around them. On the other hand, the female characters in the novel are depicted as lacking the same capacities for subjectivity and action. Through computational text analysis, it becomes clear that Wallace writes female trauma in a way that reflects their lack of agency and subjectivity while he writes male trauma in a way that maintains their agency and subjectivity. Through close reading, I was able to discover qualitative differences in Wallace’s representations of trauma and form initial observations about syntactical and linguistic patterns; through distant reading, I was able to quantify the differences I uncovered through close reading by conducting part of speech tagging, entity analysis, semantic analysis, and sentiment analysis. Distant reading led me to discover elements of the text that I had not noticed previously, despite the occasional flaw in computation. The analyses I produced through this broken reading process grew richer because of failure—when I failed as an interpreter, and when computational analysis failed, these failures gave me further insight into the trauma writing within the novel. Ultimately, there are marked syntactical and linguistic differences between the way that Wallace represents male and female trauma, which points toward the larger question of whether other white male postmodern authors gender trauma in their writings, too. This study has generated a prototype model for the <i>broken reading </i>methodology, which can be used to further examine postmodern trauma writing.</p>

Thèse en cotutelle avec l'Université de Strasbourg. / Le vieillissement de la population nous amène à imaginer de nouvelles approches pour promouvoir la santé et le bien-être à un âge avancé. Les liens sociaux et la mobilité quotidienne jouent potentiellement un rôle important, mais ces dynamiques sont actuellement mal comprises. Cette thèse vise à explorer comment les réseaux sociaux des aînés s'intègrent dans leurs espaces d'activité, et comment les relations sociales, inscrites dans l'environnement spatial, sont associées au bien-être. La thèse explore les données de l’étude CURHA collectées au Québec au sein de la cohorte NuAge. La population d’étude comprend 183 aînés âgés de 79 ans et plus enquêtés en 2014 et 2015, habitant dans les régions de Montréal et Sherbrooke. Le premier volet de cette thèse est de nature méthodologique, et concerne le développement d’un module de questionnaire cartographique interactif permettant de recueillir à la fois des lieux d’activité réguliers et des relations sociales, ces deux niveaux d'information connectés en fonction des “personnes vues dans les lieux d’activités”. Ces données ont été représentées en réseaux bipartites, ce qui a permis de distinguer des structures en étoile formées d’un nœud central connecté à un ensemble de nœuds périphériques. Ces structures identifient d’une part un lieu où l’aîné voit plusieurs personnes, qui pour la plupart, ne sont rencontrées qu’en ce lieu, et d’autre part une personne centrale avec qui plusieurs activités sont réalisées, de manière relativement exclusive.  Le deuxième volet de la thèse porte sur les liens entre les relations sociales et le bien-être émotionnel. Les relations sociales peuvent être catégorisées en relations proches, personnelles, ou de camaraderie. Le nombre de camarades et la présence d’une relation proche sont positivement associés au niveau de bien-être émotionnel, tandis que le nombre de relations personnelles est associé négativement au bien-être émotionnel.  Le dernier volet décrit de manière plus détaillée la distribution des catégories de relations sociales au sein des structures en étoiles identifiées dans les réseaux bipartites. Les relations proches représentent la majorité des personnes qui sont rencontrées ou qui accompagnent les personnes âgées dans un grand nombre de lieux d’activités. La résidence primaire est un lieu de socialisation importante, tandis que les lieux non résidentiels semblent servir de cadre privilégié aux relations de groupes. Les relations personnelles sont plus fréquentes au domicile des participants que dans les autres lieux d'activités. Cette thèse montre que l'analyse de réseau offre un cadre utile pour étudier les relations sociales en rapport avec l'environnement géospatial. Elle met en lumière la concentration de la vie sociale des aînés dans un nombre restreint de lieux d’activités, ainsi que la distribution spatiale différentielle de catégories de relations sociales spécifiquement associée au bien-être émotionnel. Ces approches peuvent soutenir la compréhension des influences socio-environnementales et favoriser la santé et le bien-être des aînés. / The aging of the population leads us to imagine new approaches to promote health and well-being in old age. Social connections and daily mobility potentially play an important role, but these dynamics are currently poorly understood. This thesis aims to explore how older adults' social networks fit into their activity spaces, and how social relationships, embedded in the spatial environment, are associated with well-being. The thesis explores data from the Contrasted Urban settings for Healthy Aging (CURHA) study collected in Quebec within the NuAge cohort. The study population includes 183 older adults aged 79 years and older surveyed in 2014 and 2015, living in the Montréal and Sherbrooke regions. The first part of this thesis is methodological, and concerns the development of an interactive cartographic questionnaire module allowing to collect both regular activity locations and social relationships, those two layers of information connected by “people seen at activity locations”. These data were represented as bipartite networks, which allowed us to identify star-like structures formed by a central node connected to a set of peripheral nodes. These structures identify, on the one hand, a location where the older adult sees several people, most of whom he or she meets only in that place, and on the other hand, a central person with whom several activities are carried out, while being the only person seen in most of these locations. The second part of the thesis focuses on the links between social relationships and emotional well-being. Social relationships can be categorized into close relationships, personal relationships, or companionship. The number of companions and the presence of a close relationship are positively associated with emotional well-being, while the number of personal relationships is negatively associated with emotional well-being.  The final section describes in more detail the distribution of social relationship categories within the star-like structures identified within the bipartite networks. Close relations represent the majority of people who are met or accompany the elderly in a large number of activity locations. The primary residence is an important place of socialization, while non-residential places seem to serve as a privileged setting for group relations. Personal relationships are most common in participants' homes. This thesis shows that network analysis provides a useful framework for studying social relationships within the geospatial environment. It highlights the concentration of older adults' social lives in a limited number of activity locations, as well as the differential spatial distribution of social relationship categories specifically associated with emotional well-being. These approaches can help to understand the socio-environmental influences on older adults' health and well-being.

In this study, I have investigated the effects of station-near development in Kumla to smaller urban areas with sustainable transport. To be able to promote sustainable means of transport and station development in smaller municipalities and urban areas. Transport is mostly done by car and replacing the need for transport with other sustainable modes of transport can be problematic in the smaller towns if it’s not properly encouraged. As similar research has previously been conducted in larger towns, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the station’s proximity in Kumla to smaller towns and encourage sustainable transport to the station from the urban areas. The method for the investigation is a smaller inductive case study that’s applied qualitatively and scenario-work that Kumla municipality has participated in. The strategy Transit-Oriented Development has been used as a point of departure for the scenario work and as a theoretical framework to discuss the results. The result show a current situation analysis and a destination analysis based on the existing environment in the municipality. The result also show the municipality's work with building scenarios, which were then analyzed in a multi-criteria-analysis based on Transit-Oriented Development. Based on these analyses, Kumla Municipality is well placed to develop its objectives and strategies. Transit-Oriented Development is a good guide for Kumla Municipality to develop near-station within the scope of the strategy with sustainable transport. It is also something that can be extended and further used in the routes between the towns based on the winning scenario. / I denna studie har jag undersökt de effekterna med stationsnära utveckling i Kumla till mindre tätorter med hållbara transporter. För att kunna främja hållbara transportmedel och stationsutveckling i mindre kommuner och tätorter. Transporterna sker för det mesta med bil och ersätta transportbehovet med andra hållbara trafikslag kan vara problematisk i de mindre orterna om det inte främjas ordentligt. Då motsvarande forskning har tidigare genomförts i större orter, syftet i denna studie är att undersöka effekten av stationens närhet i Kumla till mindre orter, samt främja kopplingen med hållbara transporter till stationen från tätorterna. Metoden till studien är en mindre induktiv fallstudie som är tillämpad kvalitativt och scenarioarbete som Kumla kommun har deltagit i. Strategin Transit-Oriented Development har använts som en teori i scenarioarbetet och för att diskutera resultatet. Resultatet visar en nulägesanalys och en resmålsanalys utifrån den befintliga miljön i kommunen. Resultatet visar även kommunens arbete med scenariomatrisen, som sedan analyserades och utvärderades i en multikriterieanalys utifrån Transit-Oriented Development. De förutsättningarna utifrån analyserna har Kumla kommun goda förutsättningar att utveckla dess mål och strategier. Transit-Oriented Development en bra vägledning för Kumla kommun att utveckla stationsnära utveckling inom strategins räckvidd med hållbara transporter. Det är även något som kan utvidgas och användas vidare i stråken mellan orterna utifrån det vinnande scenariot.