Purpose: The purpose of this study is to highlight what is perceived as- and what is not perceived as- supportive and comforting, by the sick child in palliative care, and by its family. Method: Systematic literature review in which only scientific articles from the years 2001-2010 have been included. Analysis: A method inspired by qualitative content analysis was used. Results: The analysis revealed five categories of what the sick child and its family experienced as supportive and comforting - and what was perceived negatively - in the context of palliative care for children. The results showed that it was very important to have competent, dedicated and compassionate staff that not only care for the child but also see to the whole family.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the view of literature within Swedish governmental cultural policy. The main issue is to discover changes in attitude towards democracy, literature and library by comparing the attitudes in the governmental policy documents from the 1970s with the governmental policy documents from the 1990s. The theoretical starting point is Danish cultural policy researcher Dorte Skot-Hansens theories of the development of cultural policy in the Nordic countries. My method of analysis is a textual one, analysis of ideas and ideology, focusing on the aspect of signification of a text. The study has an effort of analysing the governmental policy in terms of idea and ideology.

Milk and milk consumption has been subject of discussion for a long time, and is still a hot topic. Recently, as study was published that observed a correlation between milk intake and increased risk of fractures and mortality. The authors proposed the milk?s content of D-galactose as the possible mechanism, since D-galactose is used indicated ageing in animal models. Therefore, this study aims to develop a method to determine the amount of galactose, glucose and lactose in milk and fermented milk and apply it on to dairy products on the Swedish market.

Abstract"The Care of Work" is a study whose background comes from the problems surrounding work-life balance and equality that permeates social debates today. The problematic work-life-balance and gender equality are just as relevant today as they were 35 years ago. The aim of the study was to investigate whether or not men and women have a satisfactory work-life balance and if the organization they work for is doing something to make their life puzzles function. Last, but not least, the purpose is to see if gender equality is in the interest of the individual or the state.The study is based on work-life balance, gender equality and gender as the theoretical frames of reference. Eight respondents, four men and four women, from established IT companies were interviewed.

This essay is a normative analysis concerning the question of whether the government should be allowed to use taxes to finance the state. What kind of ethical problems arise when the government use taxation? If it is possible to justify taxation, despite potential moral issues, then what should the government do with the funds they have collected? What kinds of government functions are morally justified? Is it merely the kinds of functions that are supposed to uphold negative human rights; or should the government provide health care, education and even culture for the citizens? This analysis aims to answer those questions and also formulate a principle about what the government should be occupied with, if anything at all. In order to achieve this I mainly use the terms freedom and justice to analyse ethical problems. The ideas of John Rawls and Robert Nozick are essential in this project.My answer is that taxation is justified as long as the purpose is to maintain the most fundamental human rights and also under other special circumstances such as if an individual cannot find a way to finance basic education or necessary health care.

In my paper I have examined the United Nations role in the democratization of Kosovo. In order to complete this purpose I have asked two questions? How has the UN contributed to the democratization of Kosovo that has taken place so far?? What advantages and/or disadvantages has the UN presence in Kosovo had from a democratic perspective?The method I have used in my paper is a qualitative one, and more specified a qualitative text analysis. This means that I have examined a rather small number of sources, but in return I have analyzed these sources very carefully. In addition to the choice of a qualitative method I have used Robert A.

I denna rapport har vi valt att belysa hur väl storylinemetoden bidrar till elevinflytande. Elevinflytande innebär att eleverna själva får planera och genomföra innehåll i ett arbetsmoment och även besluta om vilken redovisningsform de vill använda. Storyline är en metod som vi tror ökar elevernas lust till lärande eftersom en av aspekterna bygger på elevinflytande..

A possible "discursive turn" is believed to have been observed within Swedish political science in later years. The purpose of this study is to examine whether or not such a turn has actually taken place, in order to further determine if a resulting theoretical homogeneity poses a risk to the ability of Swedish political science to identify and respond to its full width of possible research problems, and to determine its perspectives on both these problems and the results that are later communicated to the general society. To do so, the study poses the following primary research question:"Has a discursive turn occurred within Swedish political science?"This question is then broken down into two specified research questions."Has discourse analysis become a more common approach for doctoral dissertations in political science during the period of 2000-2013?""Have ideas corresponding with discourse theory become more common within doctoral dissertations in political science that are not pure discourse analyses during the period of 2000-2013?"These questions are then answered by examining all known 406 doctoral dissertations in political science published in Sweden during the 21st century up until (and including) the year of 2013, using two forms of content analysis, one manual and one computer-assisted. The study finds no clear evidence of a discursive turn in Swedish political science since the turn of the century.

Opcon Powerbox is a product developed by Opcon together with the underlying company SRM (Svenska Rotor Maskiner) where surplus heat from the industry is used through an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC)?process to produce electricity. An ORC-process is a thermodynamic circle process in which a refrigerant is used as the working fluid. The refrigerant makes it possible for the circle process to operate at lower temperatures than the conventional Rankine process.In this master?s thesis a data analysis software for the Opcon Powerbox has been developed in which measurement data is retrieved and handled from the Opcon Powerbox.

Syftet med denna rapport är att introducera läsaren till de olika ämnesområden mitt arbete omfattat, samt att försöka skapa en förståelse för arbetet och tankarna som ligger bakom. Från början handlade mitt kandidatarbete om att profilera mig och mitt nystartade företag, men det fick sedan en plötslig vändning. Istället kom det att handla om mina personliga motgångar ? och hur dessa övervanns..

På många företag används idag projektbaserad verksamhet. Att använda sig av projekt är effektivt och det finns möjlighet till snabba förändringar. Projektorganisationen är tillfällig och projekt genomförs ofta med en bestämd tidsram och budget. Det är projektgruppen som utför de ingående arbetsuppgifterna och levererar resultatet.Det som denna rapport kommer att behandla är hur en projektgrupp skapas utifrån befintliga resurser. Vidare kommer även andra påverkande faktorer att undersökas, som till exempel personliga egenskaper samt om befintliga modeller används.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the view of funding and sponsorship of culture within Swedish governmental cultural policy. The main issue is to discover changes in attitude towards funding and sponsorship of culture by comparing the discourse of cultural policy in the 1970s with the discourse of cultural policy in the 1990s. The theoretical and methological starting point is Ernesto Laclaus and Chantal Mouffes discourse theory. Another theoretical starting point is Danish cultural policy reasearcher Dorte Skot-Hansens theories of the development of cultural policy in the Nordic countries, and Norman Faircloughs, of critical discourse analysis, theory of the marketization of discourse. Four governmental cultural policy documents, two from the 1970s and two from the 1990s, are analysed through a model loosely based on Laclaus and Mouffes idea of nodalpoints and elements constituting a discourse.

Arbetet består av två delar. Den ena är denna rapport, samt även en gestaltande del (presenteras i rapporten) som ställdes ut på Konstfacks vårutställning 2013..

SammanfattningDet finns indikationer på att samarbetet mellan konstruktörer och arkitekter inte ska vara bra. Tidigare studier har gjorts inom ämnet och en av dem tittar tillbaka på hur relationen såg ut på under 20-talet respektive 60-talet. Denna rapport kommer titta på hur samarbetet ser ut idag, finns det samarbetssvårigheter mellan dessa två yrkesgrupper? Finns det något under de olika utbildningarna som skulle göra att en ökat förståelse för den andra yrkesrollen, gjorde att ett senare samarbete blev bättre? Inga personer från utbildningar intervjuas på grund av arbetstiden för rapporten, utan kommer endast ge en översikt av de två utbildningarna. För resultatet har en kvalitativ forskning gjorts.

Denna rapport utreder fördelarna med en högre isoleringsserie av fjärrvärmerör. Dels ur ett ekonomiskt perspektiv men också hur mycket energiförlusterna minskar med en tjockare isolering. Falu Energi och Vattens fjärrvärmenät ligger till grund för arbetet och rapporten är skriven i samarbete med FVB Sverige AB, Fjärrvärmebyrån, på uppdrag av Falu Energi och Vatten. Syftet med rapporten är att utreda hur mycket en tjockare isolering minskar energiförlusterna och om det lönar sig ekonomiskt. Alltså att öka från vad som använts i Falu Energi och Vattens fjärrvärmenät fram till idag, serie 2 som standard på singelrör och serie 1 på twinrör, till en högre serie. Rapporten ska ligga till grund för Falu Energi och Vatten i ett framtida beslut om att öka isoleringstjocklek för nya investeringar och reinvesteringar. Rapporten behandlar fjärrvärmesystemets funktion samt teorin kring de delar som ingår i ett fjärrvärmerör.