Virserums möbelindustrimuseum är ett arbetslivsmuseum som representerar möbelindustrin i Virserum med omnejd. Det är en ideell förening som driver museet och det föreliggande arbetet undersöker hur föreningen förmedlar det materiella och immateriella kulturarvet. Jag har tagit utgångspunkt i möbelserien som kallas Äpplet för att avgränsa mina studier i hur förmedlingsprocessen ser ut. Syftet är att synliggöra en allmänt känd möbel som tidigt på 1900-talet fanns i många svenska hem som sedan har glömts bort. En diskursanalys tillämpas för att genom utsagor ta reda på vilken betydelse Äpplet har på museet. Utställningen, hemsidan och ett urval i arkivet analyseras genom ett perspektiv som belyser aktivering av kulturarv samt arbetet i dokumentering och förvaltning av arvet som finns i museets samling. Forskningen resulterade i att Äpplets funktion på museet är liten, likaså i historieskrivningen. Museet arbetar ständigt med utveckling men stöter på hinder som engagemang från ideella krafter. / Virserum's furniture industry museum is a working life museum that represents the furniture industry in Virserum and the surrounding area. It is a non-profit association that runs the museum and the present work examines how the association conveys the material and intangible cultural heritage. I have taken my starting point in the furniture series called the Apple to limit my studies in what the conveys process looks like. The purpose is to make visible a generally known piece of furniture that was found in many Swedish homes in the early 20th century and has since been forgotten. A discourse analysis is applied to find out through statements what significance the Apple has for the museum. The exhibition, the website and a selection in the archive are analyzed through a perspective that highlights the activation of cultural heritage as well as the work in documenting and managing the heritage that is in the museum's collection. The research resulted in the Apple's function at the museum being small, as well as in the writing of history. The museum is constantly working on development but encounters obstacles such as commitment from non-profit forces.

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This study examines the portrayal of the woman as monstrous in Daphne du Maurier’s short stories “The Apple Tree” and “The Blue Lenses” and investigates the abject emotions that female bodies induce within the main characters. The study also contrasts the habitual, objectifying gaze of the male focalizer with the reluctant gaze forced upon the female focalizer through a pair of lenses, argued here to represent the patriarchal suppression of woman, as the male gaze is key for mediating the abject in du Maurier’s stories. Additionally, the association of the natural world with the female body is discussed, as the subjugation of nature and women are closely connected in a patriarchal society, and these are both regarded as abject in du Maurier’s stories. It is concluded that gender is elemental to whether the main characters embrace or reject the abject feelings originating within themselves.

This thesis developed out of my personal curiosity on the subject of high-technological development. Specifically, high-technology’s shift from primarily a military tool to a consumer product raised several questions to answer since first taking an interest in the subject. My lifestyle, like many other Americans in my generation, incorporates computers, cell-phones, and video game consoles as not only an innovative tool, but a standard and necessary mode of production. In our contemporary society, technology is obtainable everywhere. As an entertaining tool in the form of video games to a productivity tool in our workplaces, most individuals have assimilated consumer electronics. Yet this essay seeks to look at the beginning of these changes in the late 1970’s and 1980’s. Particularly, how did an American society that based itself around industrial mechanisms suddenly become so enthralled by consumer electronics, which a decade before were used for missile guidance and complex mathematical calculations? How did these devices, which were initially proposed as an industrial and political efficiency tool, suddenly become a labeled consumer luxury good? The answer to these questions surprisingly developed into a more complex socioeconomic analysis of 1970’s and 1980’s behaviors that utilized a Marxist interpretation of the relationship between technology and the human experience. This topic incorporates terms and theories from a variety of academic subjects. While this essay is formed around a historical narrative and argument, much of the evidence is acquired from economical, sociological, and psychological resources. As a result, I hope readers of this essay will find it as enlightening and enjoyable as my own personal journey within the subject.

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is a membrane-based separation process applied in several industrial and food processing applications. In this research, performance of RO process is investigated in respect of two applications (a) wastewater treatment (b) concentration fruit juices using model-based techniques. For this purpose, a number of models (both 1 and 2-dimensional steady state and dynamic) for spiral wound RO process are developed based on Solution-Diffusion model and Irreversible Thermodynamic model. The models are validated against actual experimental data reported in the literature before being used in further simulation and optimisation studies for both wastewater treatment and fruit juice concentration. Wastewater effluents of many industrial applications contain a variety of micro-pollutants and highly-toxic compounds, which are released into a variety of water resources. Such pollutants not only disrupt the biological ecosystem, but they also pose a real threat to the water supply for human consumption and to the aquatic ecosystems. The earlier chapters of the thesis evaluate the performance of RO process in terms of removal efficiency of toxic compounds such as chlorophenol, N-nitrosamine, etc. from wastewater. The effect of several operating parameters such as feed pressure, concentration, flow rate and temperature, on the performance of RO process are evaluated. Also, suitability of a number of different RO configurations for efficient removal of toxic compounds are evaluated. For example, (a) two-stage/two-pass RO design synthesis of RO network for the removal of chlorophenol (b) multistage multi-pass RO process with and without energy recovery option for the removal of N-nitrosamine are investigated. The dynamic response of the RO process for step changes in the operating parameters is investigated for the removal of phenolic compounds. Finally, in the context of wastewater treatment, a case study with multi compounds contaminants is suggested where a multi-objective optimisation problem has achieved the optimum rejection of all the compounds and recovery rate. In respect of food processing, RO has been considered as a prominent process in fruit juice concentration due to its ability to effectively retain the flavour, sensory, aroma and nutritional characteristics and concentrate the juice. This research elucidates one example of apple juice concentration process and focuses on highlighting successful modelling and optimisation methodology. This in turn provides an efficient method of RO process for concentrating apple juice by improving the reliability and efficiency of the underlying separation and concentration process. / Ministry of High Education and Scientific Research of Iraq

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Identifying the resources that limit bee populations is essential both for bee conservation and pollination management in agroecosystems. Land-use change typically leads to decreased habitat availability for wild pollinators including loss of nesting habitat, which is an essential but often-overlooked resource for wild bees. Cavity-nesting bees, such as many Osmia spp. (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), occupy holes in wood or reeds to build their nests; due to their nesting habits, they are frequently scarce in agricultural settings, although, under the right circumstances, these bees can be ideal pollinators of apple and other orchard crops. Artificial nesting structures (“bee hotels”, “trap nests”, or “nest boxes”) are used to study cavity-nesting bees and have been posited as solutions for promoting bee conservation. To evaluate the effects of additional nesting habitat on the local abundance of Osmia spp., and on bees more generally, artificial nesting structures for cavity-nesting bees were installed at 24 sites in apple orchards around Ottawa in 2021 and 2022. Each site had two treatments: one with nest boxes, and one without (control). Transect walks were conducted to measure overall bee contact (including contact by Osmia spp.) with apple blossoms and, after the end of apple bloom, with flowers in the undergrowth and/or in shrubs. Numbers of apple buds and developing fruit were also recorded. Osmia spp. and overall bee numbers were both significantly higher in the treatment with nest boxes (44% and 15% higher, respectively, in 2021, and 113% and 47% higher, respectively, in 2022); however, there was no difference in fruit set (apple count/bud count) between the two treatments. Thus, nest boxes seem to locally increase Osmia spp. numbers as well as total bee numbers, but they have no apparent effect on apple yield, likely because apple production was not pollinator limited in the years of this study. These findings suggest that bee populations in apple orchards are limited by nesting resources, which has important implications for orchard management practices and bee conservation policy.

Följande studie undersöker musikkonsumenternas behov i relation till streamingtjänsterna, med utgångspunkt i det krig som pågår mellan streamingtjänsterna, samt i de tre aktuellastreamingtjänsterna Spotify, Deezer och Apple Music. Studien undersöker musikkonsumentens (tolv till 35 år gamla) omedvetna behov som musikstreamingtjänsten ska uppfylla, samt hur förhållandet ser ut mellan de här behoven och musikkonsumentens val av streamingtjänst. Studien har genom en kvalitativ metod, där fokusgrupper och en semistrukturerad intervju legat till grund för empiriinsamlingen, kommit fram till slutsatsen att musikkonsumenten har två övergripande omedvetna behov: personifiering och igenkänning i tjänsten, samt behovet av att streamingtjänsten ska göra det möjligt för musikkonsumenten att leva i streamingen, i flow med den streamade musiken. Förhållandet mellan de omedvetna behoven och valet av streamingtjänst innebär övergripande att musikkonsumenten använder den streamingtjänst som tillfredsställer de omedvetna behoven, men inte byter tjänst med utgångspunkt i sina omedvetna behov, eftersom konsumenten inte själv känner till behoven. / The following study examines the needs music consumers have in relation to the streamingservices, based on the war going on on the streaming market, as well as in the three currentstreaming services Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music. The study examines the music consumers (twelve to 35 years old) unconscious needs that the music streaming service must meet, and how the relationship is shaped between these needs and the music consumer's choice of streaming service. The study has through a qualitative approach, where focus groups and one semi-structured interview formed the basis of empirical data collection, come to the conclusion that the music consumer has two unconscious needs: personalisation and self-recognition in the streaming service, as well as the need for the streaming service to allow the music consumers to live in the stream, in flow with the stream of music. The relationship between these unconscious needs and the choice of streaming service, shows that the music consumer is using the streaming service that satisfies their unconscious needs, but does not replace the service on the basis of their unconscious needs since the consumer do not know these needs themselves.