In Sweden and in the rest of the world we face the problem how to create a sustainable development. At the same time the Swedish million program, a housing program made in the 1960:s and 1970:s, is facing a renewal due to lack of maintenance during many years. An attempt to join these two interests has been made in the residential area of Gårdsten north of Gothenburg. This paper is a case study to review the project and its approach to the sustainability concept. The purpose is to spread knowledge about the problems that can arise. By studying documentation about the reconstruction I have analyzed the approach that has been used. The housing company?s starting point was user participation and an intention to make the changes visible.

I stort behandlar uppsatsen plagiat på gymnasiet. Tidigare forskning visar att plagiat ökat och att internet gjort det enklare för elever att fuska och plagiera. Även nya studenter tycks sakna tillräcklig kunskap om referat- och citatteknik. Syftet är att är att få en inblick i hur lärare reflekterar kring och arbetar med plagiat på ett studieförberedande program på gymnasiet samt se om det råder några skiljaktigheter mellan lärarna. Jag har gjort en kvalitativ metod och använt mig av semistrukturerade intervjuer.

Siffror om könsfördelning inom IT-branschen och på högre tekniska utbildningar talar sitt tydliga språk. Andelen män inom ämnesområdena data och teknik är ofta betydligt större än andelen kvinnor. Detta kan ge till följd att samhället går miste om en stor del potentiella begåvningar. En jämnare könsfördelning brukar dessutom resultera i ett trevligare och gemytligare klimat. För att öka intresset bland kvinnliga studenter för vissa IT-utbildningar har en del universitet och högskolor ändrat utbildningsformer och innehåll.

The Master of Science in Energy Systems Engineering program at Uppsala University started in 2000 and 221 students has graduated since. This master thesis aims to answer what competencies alumni considers most important for successful professional practice. It also seeks to find out how these competencies are reflected in the program to identify potential gaps between importance and how the competencies are being prepared. With inspiration from similar research a method has been developed consisting of two steps: (1) A survey and (2) interviews with alumni. The alumni survey rates the professional importance of 13 competencies and how well the corresponding competency is prepared in the program.

This report was made for the company HordaGruppen AB to investigate how information security was handled. This report fits in the Master program of Internet Technology at School of Engineering in Jönköping University in Sweden.The question at issue was how you protect your information against different threats. One question was how to make an information security policy and which guidelines you can follow in the Swedish Standard, SS-ISO/IEC 17799:2000.Another question was to investigate the information sources at the company and which threats there are against it.The work begins with a presentation about information security for the chief of information and the chief of quality in the company. The next thing was to do a survey of as thing are at present with a tool from Länsteknikcentrum called ?Infosäkpulsen?.

Aquatic organisms are usually not exposed to single substances but rather to mixtures of toxicants in streams located in agricultural areas. The transport of pesticides used in the agricultural area in Sweden is monitored with continuous environmental supervision every year. During 2002-2008 an average of 10 pesticides were found in each sample and 40% of the samples contained substances with concentrations higher than the Water Quality Standards. Chemical risk management is normally based on single-test evaluations. A problem when assessing mixture toxicities is that the constituents and concentrations of pollutants in the environment vary greatly.

Sammanfattning Zavgorodni, Nikolai (2008). Titel: Rock- och popmusik i undervisningen. En studie om betydelsen av musicerande på gymnasiets estetiska program (Rock and pop music in music education. Investigating the importance of music creation in high school?s aesthetic program). Syfte med denna studie är att undersöka vilken betydelse musicerandet har i elevernas musikaliska utveckling.

The main objective of this thesis was to develop appropriate strategies and find factors that affect the usability of parameterized designs. This was accomplished by investigate the user-interface and how it is designed to meet the user's information needs. The thesis also embraces the basic theories in terms of investigation, cognitive design principles and human behavior patterns in the interaction with the machine. The approach has led to an explorative investigation in this subject area.The thesis also had the purpose to achieve more efficient ways for development of motor chainsaws at Husqvarna AB's department Global Cutting Equipment. That can be achieved through reduce costs of development per sold unit.

The DISA method is a universal program developed for teenage girls to prevent depression. The program includes cognitive behavioral techniques are suppose to change negative pattern of thinking, give practice of communication, strategies of problem solution and exercises to strengthen the social network. The purpose of this study is to find out how a group of teenage boys were affected by the DISA program and what factors that may have impacted the outcome. Material from three different studies have been used, a quantitative study in terms of data from self-assessment form CES-D, materials from two semi-structured focus group interviews with the boys and material from a questionnaire filled out by the boys on two occasions during the DISA method. The result of the CES-D indicates that the boys had less depressive symptoms after the final group meeting compared to the first group meeting and also a year later. Analysis of the material from focus group interviews and questionnaire have been made from a communication theory and systems theory perspective and indicate a shift to greater cohesion in the group and demonstrates that communication between the boy-group and group leaders had importance for the outcome.

The aim of this project was to develop educational resources concerning bioenergy and sustainability. The initial purpose was to produce two sets of material: one suitable for children in their first years of Swedish compulsory school, and one designed for upper secondary students. In the report, however, the possibilities are discussed for this material to be used with even wider audiences.In the first phase of the process, literature (books, reports etc.) with relevance to bioenergy, sustainability and theories of learning were studied. This insight, along with the appropriate course curriculums, was used in the development stage to produce learning material for the targeted audiences. The development was followed by tests and evaluations carried out with high school students, upon which an analytical discussion is held regarding the consequences and possibilities that the results of this project pose.The content of the learning material is based on the curriculum and course requirements provided by Skolverket (The Swedish National Agency for Education) for lower elementary and high school students.

En översiktsplan är ett strategiskt politiskt dokument om byggande, mark- och vattenanvändning samt hushållning med naturresurser. Översiktsplanen beskriver inriktningen för långsiktig utveckling av kommunens fysiska miljö, vägleder, vid konkreta beslutstagande om mark- och vattenområdens användning samt redovisar hur hänsyn till riksintressen och miljökvalitetsnormer enligt Miljöbalken tas. 2007 startade kommunen ett arbete med att ta fram en långsiktig vision för Luleå kommuns framtid vilket resulterade i ett visionsdokument ?Vision Luleå 2050? som beskriver strävan mot ett önskvärt (?idealt?) tillstånd och blev godkänt av kommunfullmäktige 2008. Med strävan efter medvetna val inför framtiden påbörjade kommunen ett stegvist arbete med konkretisering av Visionen.

The purpose of this study has been to investigate how socialworkers describe their attitudes towards reporting childabuse to the police and if they make different decisions when they believe the violence to be honour related and how they handle these questions. The main questions are; How does socialworkers describe their and their colleagues attitudes towards reporting childabuse to the police and when do they believe they should report? Do they describe honourviolence as a specific kind of violence that should be lifted and in what way does it affect their work? The study is written from a legal sociologist perspective with a qualitative approach. Four socialworkers were interviewed and the interviews were analyzed with an anti-racist theory and with the theory about freedom of action.The conclusions is that the socialworkers mostly report childabuse to the police when the violence is physical. This means that children who describes to be subjected to psychological violence, including honourviolence, has poor legal security.

Uppsats för avläggande av filosofie kandidatexamen iKulturvård, Bebyggelseantikvariskt program, 15 hp, 2011.

Skolan har ett demokratiuppdrag såväl som ett kunskapsuppdrag som ligger till grund för denna studies inriktning. Det politiska deltagandet har minskat bland ungdomar under 1990-talet och i en undersökning från Skolverket visade det sig att elever från praktiska och teoretiska program hade stora skillnader i kunskaper om demokrati. Vår studie syftade till att undersöka hur demokrati framställs och problematiseras i fyra samhällskunskapsläroböckers demokratiavsnitt där två används på praktiska program, Bok-och-webb (2004), Aspekt (2005), samt två som används på teoretiska program, Reflex (2004) och Zigma (2000).Läroböckerna i denna studie är exempel på brukstexter som har både en teoretisk och en praktisk funktion. Eleverna möter en textbaserad verklighet och skall utifrån den teoretiska kunskapen kunna fungera och agera praktiskt, i skolan och samhället. Till undersökningen valde vi att tillämpa en kunskapskritisk analys för att utröna vilken kunskap om demokrati läroböckerna förmedlar för att sedan relatera detta till skolans kunskaps- och demokratiuppdrag.

This paper is a critique of an article in the Swedish magazine Filosofisk Tidskrift (Philosophical Magazine), in which professor Per Bauhn maintains that there is something wrong with having a group perspective in moral and political matters. In this article Bauhn makes three conclusions. The first one is that you violate Hume's law if you draw the conclusion that something is an oppression only from descriptive premises, which for example communitarians does according to Bauhn. He argues that ?oppression? is a normative term, and therefore it requires at least one normative premise.