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31	From liberal feminist to social constructionist approaches – Research school for women and other gender equality interventions at Luleå University of Technology Fältholm, Y., Berg-Jansson, A. 06 1900 (has links) No / FP7
32	Urban flood risk mitigation : A perspective form urban planning Brandow, Andreas January 2023 (has links) Due to the global warming and climate change, an increased frequency of high intensity rains and other disasters are expected all around the world. To predict this change in climate the IPCC has created a set of climate scenarios, RCPs, that will try to predict the future climate based on how much we are able to adapt and mitigate the effects we as a species have on the environment. This master thesis will seek to explore the possibility to use urban planning tools to help mitigate the increased effects and sizes of floods due to the global warming. To achieve this, a case study of Luleå is done, where urban indicators are used to improve the resilience of the city. This is combined with a policy study to see how Luleå compare to other cities in their policies that affect flood protection and mitigation. To have a strong flood protection system in a city several factors need to be considered. One of the biggest factors is what type of strategy is chosen. One possible strategy is resilience, this combines seeming paradoxes into a working flood protection and mitigation plan. Resilience improves the flood protection and mitigation by combining and improving the robustness, adaptability, and transformability of the city. This is done by, among other things promoting inter disciplinary cooperation, public cooperation and knowledge of flooding, and promoting the use of water in the city as an asset. Blue and green infrastructure could also be implemented into the city as these measures help improve the resilience of a city in many regards. Not just for flood protection, but it can also help mitigate the effects of droughts or heatwaves and improve the general wellbeing of the citizens. In the policy study it was found that different cities varied in both scale and strategy in their flood protection measures. All the cities that were looked at would also need to increase the scale of their protection and mitigation measures to mitigate the increased size and frequencies that the climate change brings. In Sweden, especially in the northern parts, the increased risk is not as high as in other parts of Europe. This is due to the land rise in Sweden mitigating the sea level rise. In Luleå the sea level and land rise are expected to fully mitigate each other until the year 2100. The policy study also showed that a history of flood related disasters did not necessary guarantee a strong flood protection scheme, but it would increase the probability of one. In the case of Luleå, the city has mostly focused on flood proofing buildings and infrastructure in the high-risk areas or those who are seen as critical to the society. Based on the analysis of the policies and indicators that were developed for Luleå, the city seems to have good protection from the current risks, such as a 100-year flood, flow, or rain. But the systems in place will most likely need to be expanded and developed further to mitigate the rising risk due to global warming. Some measures that can be implemented are related to the adaptability and transformability, like brochures that teaches the public about flood-protection and what to do and how to act in case of a large flood in the city. Urban indicators Resilience Urban flooding Flood protection and mitigation Luleå Architectural Engineering Arkitekturteknik
33	Se människan! : en studie av Luleå stifts möte med den moderna kulturen under 1900-talets första hälft Ekberg, Mayvor January 2004 (has links) The present study deals with the encounter between the diocese of Luleå and the process of modernising. The main issue is individualism as a part of modern man’s identity. What kind of individualism was it, and how did it find expression in the diocese’s perspective on faith during the first half of the 20th century? A leading idea in the thesis is that the low church profile provided the diocese with a particular readiness to meet the demands of modern culture. The starting-point of the study is Philosopher Charles Taylor’s theory on the rise of modernity’s concept of freedom and perception of the self, which includes a justification of a positive side of modern individualism and a corresponding dismissal of a negative side. This attitude opens the door for the possibility of doing greater justice to the low church emphasis on the individual person. Taylor asks, from his moral-philosophical point of view, as well as the diocese of Luleå did, whether the Christian faith would have any future in modern culture. The low church view on faith becomes dynamic-extential as it dismisses a traditional metaphysical or theoretical explanation of God as a transcendent reality. Instead the subject is given vital importance. This apprehension reflects an influence from expressivism as a new form of consciousness, in protest against the science of the 17th that separated reason from both nature and feelings. This was inherent in the diocese via pietism. However, not an outspoken anthropology, the diocese nevertheless indicates that it considers man a linguistic and self-interpreting creature. This amounts to a more suitable view on the belief in modern culture, which no longer can rely on a commonly accepted belief in an inherent order of the world as an expression of God’s intentions and will. / digitalisering@umu Religion Diocese of Luleå low church the Church of Sweden ecclesiology history of the church Theological and Ideological Studies process of modernisation modernity secularisation pietism expressivism Enlightenment Romanticism Religionsvetenskap/Teologi Religion/Theology Religionsvetenskap/Teologi
34	Public Relations - Positivt, negativt eller något däremellan? : En komparativ studie av unga och äldres syn på kommunikationsformen public relations / Public relations – Negative, positive or something in between? : A comparative study of young and elder peoples attitudes about public relations. Pettersson, Viktor January 2014 (has links) The public relations business has grown from almost nothing to a large international industry the last decades. Throughout the history the industry has struggled with a lot of critique and public relations has become a negative symbol for manipulation of information. Because of this negative view of the industry and the medial change taking place, the purpose of this study is to investigate how two different generations think about public relations. More accurate, the study will through a qualitative interview study explore how young people from a highschool in Luleå and elder people from Luleå township thinks about pubic relations, and most imortant why they have this particular view. By creating four focus groups, two with men and two with women, this also enables a comparative study between the gender. The focus groups were later analyzed and compared to two selected groups of theories on public relations, the theories were positive and critical theories compound in two categories. Critical theories was Habermas on the public sphere (2003), Weaver, Motion och Roper on democratic issues (2006), Jahansoozi on trancparency and dialogue (2006) and Davis also on democratic issues (2007). The positive or normative theories was Grunig (1992) and Cutlip (2000) on a over all positive perspective. In the study all the focus groups tended to, more or less, have a critical view on public relations. The elder men were by far most critical and argued abour risks, problems and public relations as a tool for lying. On the other hand the younger men were the most liberal and positive to public relations, meaning that along with the risks, public relations creates a lot of good opportunities such as publicity and attention. The other two focus groups with women were somewhere in between. The younger women were, as the younger men, a lot more positive than the elder ones. PR public relations critical positive attitudes kvalitative method Lulea PR public relations kritisk positiv attityder kvalitativ metod Luleå
35	Acid Sulphate Soil and Framboidal Pyrite in Northern Sweden Rizq, Hind January 2020 (has links) A soil profile was taken close to Skellefteå in Västerbotten, northern Sweden. The profile has an upper oxidised zone, 30 cm thick, underlain by a transitions zone, in this paper called accumulation zone, and a reduced zone at 160 cm depth. pH was measured in the field and samples from all zones were analysed for major and trace elements by ICP-SFMS. A batch test was performed on samples from the three zones. Optical microscopy and SEM were used to study mineralogy, focusing on the occurrence of framboidal pyrite. The results were compared with those of profiles in the Luleåarea further north, studied earlier. The results clearly show that the sampled soil profile in the Skellefteå area is of similar types as the soils in the Luleå area. A distinct upper oxidation zone has been developed in all profiles with a strong depletion of S, due to oxidation of iron sulphides when these sediments have been exposed to atmospheric oxygen. This oxidation appears to be stronger in the Luleå profiles than in theSkellefteå profile, possibly because they have oxidised a longer time. All the Luleå profiles and theSkellefteå profiles are acid sulphate soils. There is a depletion of sulphide-associated trace elements such as Cd, Cu, Ni and Zn in the oxidation zone due to the oxidation of iron sulphides with subsequent low pH and leaching. This depletion is more pronounced in the Luleå profiles than in the Skellefteå profile. There is a tendency for secondary accumulation in the accumulation zone, in the Skellefteå profile close to the groundwater table in particular. The batch test in the Skellefteå profile allowed for the observation that the highest concentrations occurred at the groundwater level. Framboidal pyrite occurs in the Skellefteå profile as well as in the Luleå profiles. In the Skellefteåprofile there is a positive correlation between organic matter, shells and framboidal pyrite, illustrating that organic matter was important for the formation of framboidal pyrite. Although most of the pyrite has been oxidized and dissolved in the oxidized zone, there was still some framboidal pyrite left, possibly protected by shells and organic matter. Acid Sulphate soil Framboidal pyrite Cubic pyrite Organic matter Skellefteå Luleå Earth and Related Environmental Sciences Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap
36	Bilder av en älv : i skärningspunkten mellan energipolitik, kulturarv och feminism Rönnbäck, Erica January 2022 (has links) This essay explores how an image can be shaped and influenced by several different interests, motives, and schools of thought. The work getting analysed is Till minnet av en älv by Anja Örn. It contains video art, sculptures, and text with a number of different frameworks and references.In the background descriptions made, concepts such as ecofeminism and Anthropocene play a role. The essay also touches upon industrial history and cultural heritage which lifts the interesting question of who's history is being written.It's about how our shared memories are shaped in relationship to the landscape, and who gets represented when these memories are transferred to the next generation. kulturarv energipolitik konstvetenskap feminism ekofeminism antropocen industrihistoria Anja Örn Helmer Osslund nationalromantik älv Luleå Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst
37	Are companies in Luleå not responding to negative reviews - and are consumers in Luleå reading the reviews? Eriksson, Johan, Rudling, Axel January 2022 (has links) People's engagements in social communities online have over recent years proven to be of great importance on others' opinions when purchasing products. Word-of-Mouth (WOM) has been around since ancient times and is a concept about consumers communicating with each other about their experience about services and products. Over the last decades research on Word-of-Mouth has increased when it was discovered how it has the power to influence consumers' purchase behaviours. The modern era of the introduction of the internet gave Word-of-Mouth a new concept called Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) that has given people the opportunity to share their negative and positive experiences online with others by leaving reviews. These reviews can be read by customers with access to the internet and could change their purchase intentions and therefore affect the company's sales and reputation. It has given the companies the opportunity to read about customers reviews and the chance to respond to the reviews by leaving comments online. This gave this study the opportunity to research if companies in Luleå are responding to negative reviews. As well, if the customers believe that their purchase intention is being affected by other users' reviews, and if the customers believe the companies can change the outcome of a review by responding to them. In this study, quantitative research was used to collect data through surveys in Facebook groups with questions limited to Luleå. The questions were divided into three sections: Reading reviews, Responding to reviews, and Purchase intention. The study found that there was a relationship between the variables reading reviews, responding to reviews, and purchase intention. Previous literature has meant that people write more negative reviews when they have the ability to complain and write reviews through the Internet. However, for this study in Luleå, it was shown that this is not the case. It was found that few of the respondents gave negative reviews about the businesses in Luleå and that the businesses in Luleå did not respond to them. It was also found that respondents read reviews before buying, which affected their intention to buy, with negative reviews being more important than positive ones. People in Luleå consider negative reviews trustworthy and believe that businesses can change the outcome of negative reviews by responding to them. Therefore, it is of interest for local businesses in Luleå to review and respond to negative online reviews as they will impact their business. Electronic word-of-mouth word-of-mouth negative reviews reviews service recovery eWOM WOM negative positive survey Luleå Business Administration Företagsekonomi
38	Lekstuga eller framtidens melodi? : en attitydundersökning om datorspel som undervisningsverktyg bland religionslärare på gymnasienivå i Luleå kommun Franklin, Anders January 2012 (has links) Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka attityden mot datorspel i undervisning hos religionslärare på gymnasienivå i Luleå kommun. En enkätundersökning och en intervjuundersökning med hermeneutisk utgångspunkt ligger till grund för detta. Enkätundersökningen visade att attityden var neutral lutandes åt det negativa, medan intervjuundersökningen visade en allmänt positiv inställning till datorspel i undervisning. Denna diskrepans kunde åtminstone delvis spåras till att vissa av respondenterna på enkätundersökningen, som utgjorde underlag till intervjupersonerna, var, av någon anledning, mer positiva i intervjusituationen än när de svarade på enkäten. Den positiva inställning som intervjuundersökningen resulterade i stämde väl överens med den tidigare forskning som gjorts på lärare i Sverige. I resultatet framkom att lärarna inte var oroliga för datorspels eventuella skadliga inverkan och i vissa fall kunde de ge exempel på hur man kunde använda datorspel i undervisningen. Problem som kunde ses var kostnader och bristande kunskap på hur man skulle använda datorspel på ett givande sätt. Datorspel spel undervisning skola lärare Luleå attitydundersökning Humanities Humaniora Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Filosofi, etik och religion Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
39	Activation of Place : Curating Site-Specific Art at the Luleå Biennial in 2018 and 2020 / Aktivering av Plats : Curering av Platsspecifik Konst vid Luleåbiennalen 2018 och 2020 Nåtoft, Maria January 2023 (has links) This thesis investigates how site-specific art manifest itself in different ways, specifically in the biennial format. The focus is on the Luleå Biennale, one of Scandinavia's oldest biennales that returns every two years. Through a case study of four different works of art from two of the biennale's editions, two from the year 2018 and two from 2020, I want to broaden the understanding of the concept of site specificity and how to curate such an exhibition. The theory is based on Miwon Kwon's One Place to Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational identity (2004) and Nick Kaye's Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation (2000) which deal with the concept of site specificity and its various expressions. The questions that arose were centered around research, audience and how art activates the place. Through my investigation, I came to the conclusion that all four artworks are strongly connected to their context, not only the context of the biennial but also the physical location they treated, and that a long process of research made the groundwork for this. One of the works was not newly produced for the place in which it was exhibited, but was realized by translating its original meaning to the place of the biennale with the help of curatorial work. I also come to the conclusion that the audience is of great importance in realizing these site-specific works of art exhibited in places that are otherwise not accessible to the public. The biennale opens up new places and memories. / Denna uppsats är en undersökning av hur platsspecifik konst kan uttrycka sig på olika sätt och specifikt hur det kan se ut i biennalformatet. Fokus ligger på Luleåbiennalen, en av Skandinaviens äldsta biennaler som återkommer vartannat år. Genom en fallstudie på fyra olika konstverk från två av biennalens utgåvor, två från år 2018 och två från 2020, vill jag vidga förståelsen för begreppet platsspecificitet och hur man curerar en sådan utställning. Den grundläggande teorin utgår från Miwon Kwons One Place to Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational identity (2004) och Nick Kayes Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation (2000) som behandlar begreppet och dess olika uttryckssätt, vilket ledde till frågor kring research, publik och hur konsten aktiverar platsen. Genom min undersökning kommer jag fram till att alla fyra konstverk är starkt kopplade till sin kontext, inte endast kontexten av en biennal men även den fysiska platsen de behandlar, samt att en lång process av research har lagt grunden för detta. Ett av verken var inte tillverkade för platsen som den ställdes ut på men blev ändå realiserad genom att dess ursprungliga mening översattes till platsen för biennalen, detta med hjälp av curatoriskt arbete. Jag kommer även fram till att publiken utgör en viktig del för att realisera dessa platsspecifika konstverk som ställts ut på platser som annars inte är tillgängliga för allmänheten. Biennalen möjliggör besök av nya platser och minnen. Site specificity site-specific art site-related art Miwon Kwon Nick Kaye performance performance of space interdisciplinary contemporary art curating biennial art biennial Luleå Luleå biennial Norrbotten Karl Sjölund Raqs Media Collective Maria W Horn Kapwani Kiwanga Platsspecificitet platsspecifik konst plats-relaterad konst Miwon Kwon Nick Kaye performance performance of space interdisciplinärt samtidskonst curating biennial konstbiennial Luleåbiennialen Luleå Norrbotten Karl Sjölund Raqs Media Collective Maria W Horn Kapwani Kiwanga Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst Arts Konst Art History Konstvetenskap
40	Våtmarksord i lulemålen : en ordgrupp sedd ur informant- och intervjuarperspektiv / Wetland terms in the Swedish Lule dialect : a group of words seen from the perspectives of informants and interviewer Wiklund, Staffan January 1992 (has links) The grass of wetlands in northern Sweden has been utilized for mowing and pasture even in our time. There are a large number of words and expressions, expecially in the dialects, to denote and describe the various types of wetlands.The chief aim of the thesis is to investigate some 40 wetland terms in a limited area - the old parish of Luleå, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden - in order to establish their distribution, meanings and use. The aim of the study is also to illustrate different semantic aspects, such as semantic features, semantic fields, the relationship between common nouns and place-names, as well as explanations based on the appearance of the wetlands. The material consists of words that derive from archives, the literature on the subject and interviews with 43 informants, and has been supplemented with studies of the wetlands themselves.Three semantically similar words, drävj, dröla and dovei, are scrutinized and compared with reference to their frequency and distribution, position, humidity, vegetation, form and depth of the ground. To illustrate the relationship between words and referents the author investigates what words are used about (small) muddy pools in a swamp (mire) and about the dry parts of a swamp (in technical language called flarkar and strängar, respectively). The words drävj and dröla are compared with five other words for 'depression/hollow' etc. and 'small pool' etc. Similarities and differences are illustrated in three figures on the basis of criteria like depression/hollow, humidity and size. The words are often explained with reference to special places in the area or to adjacent places, the names of which contain the word in question. With two pairs of words as examples, grande and skärpa, and drävj and dröla, respectively, the author investigates the meanings of the words and their referents and the explanatory strategies of the informants.The author stresses the dependence of word explanations and the learning of words on their contexts and functional situations. This aspect is illustrated in a chapter which summerizes how the author's semantic views of dövel, dröla and drävj have been formed. This is done with reference to the so-called prototype theory. / digitalisering@umu Semantics dialects vocabulary onomastics Scandinavian languages Norrbotten wetland terms semantic fields semantic features prototypes Våtmarker terminologi Sverige Norrbotten Dialekt Luleå Svenska språket Svenska språket dialekter

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