The craft of planners are planning for a better future. Knowledge about climate change, environment, health and availability effects the trend towards less car dependent societies in favour of public transport and active transport like walking and biking. This study takes place in Västerbotten, one of Sweden?s most north provinces with a population of 260 000 inhabitants. It is a sparsely populated area with two dominant cities, the other municipalities are largely unpopulated.

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva och analysera organisationskulturen, det vill säga grundläggande antaganden, normer och värderingar, inom den kommunala hemtjänsten ur hemtjänstpersonalens perspektiv.Frågeställningar:1. Hur ser hemtjänstpersonal på sina arbetsuppgifter?2. Hur upplever personalen sin yrkesroll?3. Hur ser de på samarbetet med andra yrkesgrupper?Metod: En fokusgruppsdiskussion och fem observationer har gjorts och analyserats kvalitativt med meningskoncentrering som analysmetod.Resultat: Det insamlade materialet gav oss olika teman som vi har placerat under de tre frågeställningarna. Under fokusgruppsdiskussionen delgav personalen oss sina tankar och värderingar kring livskvalitet, att ge praktisk och social omsorg, den egna synen på sitt arbete och på chefen, genus, status och samarbete med andra yrkesgrupper. Vår empiri har analyserats med hjälp av två huvudteorier såsom teori om organisationskultur samt symbolisk interaktionism. Det teoretiska begreppet social omsorg har hjälpt oss att förstå omsorgsarbetet.

This field study examines how politically active radical feminists have reached their position in a group called Sällskapet. The aim of the study is to examine different paths, with the purpose to gain understanding of how to become a politically active radical feminist. Also, processes of social recognition on the field are examined; what is recognized and what taste preferences and behaviors gain a lower value? The different paths to the feminist position have been examined through a qualitative method consisting of a mixture of interviews and participant observations. The question if the position in Sällskapet requires specific experiences has been analyzed through Pierre Bourdieu?s theoretical framework, with a particular emphasis on the concept of habitus, symbolic- and cultural capital.

In the automatic manual transmission system, Opticruise, the choice of gear is based on several parameters such as road incline, driving resistance and vehicle mass. Many different mass estimations are made during driving. A final vehicle mass is then used to determine the current gear. Construction vehicles are often not equipped with air suspension and can therefore not estimate the vehicle mass when standing still. If that sort of vehicle is reloaded while standing still an incorrect mass estimation will be used and as an effect of that also a wrong gear.

Den omvärldsförändring som skedde i och med Berlinmurens fall och upplösningen av Warszawapaktentillsammans med civil teknikutveckling under 1990-talet har bidragit till en nödvändigoch övergripande förändring av Försvarsmakten.Utvecklingen mot ett nätverksbaserat försvar är en av de största och mest omvälvande förändringarsom Försvarsmakten genomför i modern tid. Detta väcker tankar och funderingar kring hurNBF som idé dykt upp på den politiska och militära scenen i Sverige och hur den fortsatta övergripandeprocessen sett ut fram till och med försvarsbeslut 2001. Detta har i uppsatsen utvecklatstill två frågeställningar:? Hur initierades och etablerades NBF-konceptet på dagordningen och när i tiden skeddedetta?? Vilka politiska och militära händelser och beslut skall ses som avgörande under tidsperiodenfram till och med 2001 för utvecklingen av NBF-konceptet?.

Studiens övergripande syfte är att bidra med kunskap om huruvida specifikt inriktad högskoleutbildning mot fritidshem hos personalen respektive avsaknaden av densamma har någon betydelse för verksamheten och hur det påverkar personalens arbete i fritidshemmet ur såväl fritidspedagogers som rektorers perspektiv. Studien har genomförts genom en kvalitativundersökning där sex fritidspedagoger och fyra rektorer intervjuats. Resultaten av studien har analyserats med hjälp av Colnerud och Granströms (2013) professionsteoretiska begrepp: auktoritet, yrkesmässig autonomi, systematisk teori och egen kontrollerad yrkesetisk. Några resultat som redovisas i studien är hur fritidspedagogers utbildning bidrar med en kunskapsbas med verktyg och modeller för ett legitimt arbete i fritidshemmet. Något som också påvisas är hur fritidspedagoger har svårt att stänga ute obehörig personal trots att det framkommer hur outbildad personal bidrar till lägre kvalité i verksamheten och yrkets tillsynes låga status.

During the 20th century a significant proportion (about 15 %) of the peat-covered wetlands in Sweden were drained to improve forest productivity. Area wise, most of the forest drainage was done in northern Sweden, but relatively speaking a larger part of the wetlands have been drained in the southern parts of the country. Most often, the forest drainage resulted in increased forest growth, but failures were not unusual, and harmful effects, e.g. on species richness, have been a common cause for draining. Ditch cleaning is necessary for maintaining the ditches in good condition.

AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this study was to see if there was any correlation between BMI and chronic pain among participants who underwent a behavioural medicine rehabilitation program at a pain clinic in the central part of Sweden. Method: The study was conducted as a quantitative descriptive study context and has used medical records with documented data from the participants who were part of a pain clinic rehabilitation programs in the years 2004-2005. Altogether there were 76 participants in these years and excluded was nine participants with BMI measurements were not included in the documentation. Main Results: Regarding the relationship between BMI and chronic pain there was no significant relationships. Participants who completed the behavioural medicine rehabilitation program, however, showed a lower value of BMI and the estimated pain in VAS from the first to the third which is the last time of measuring.

Does a person´s self esteem contribute in the process of creating false memories? Previous studies show that mood is related to false memories as well as to self esteem. This led to the focus of this study, to examine the relationship between false memory and self esteem. The question is examined by comparing the amount of false memories produced in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure with people´s scores on Rosenberg´s self-esteem scale. 59 people participated in a test with three different elements, a self esteem test and a memory test with both recollection and free recall.

Purpose Based on the new comprehensive income due to changes in IAS 1, the authors aim to describe how a listed corporate accounting is affected by IAS 1 and the new income statement.Methodology This study uses an inductive approach with a combination of qualitative and quantitative data, using financial rapports from the investment company Latour. This case study is based on Latour?s all published financial statements under the period 2008 to 2012.Result The study resulted in different observations of Latour's operational and financial performance, share price trends as well as ratios. The study's authors can see that Latour's net income and comprehensive income differ due to changes in IAS 1. They can also observe the effect of clean surplus in Latour?s income statement.

Today, there are more than 12 000-14 000 farms worldwide using an automatic milking system (AMS). Studies have shown that transition to AMS affects the udder health of cows adversely, recognized primarily as elevated somatic cell counts. There are several reasons for this, for example the greater variation in milking frequency seen in AMS. On one hand, short milking intervals may lead to bad teat condition of the cows due to the stress the milking procedure exposes the teats to. Too long milking intervals, on the other hand, seem to predispose for milk leakage, which is, in turn, a risk factor for the development of mastitis.

In this paper the authors examine three questions: 1) Is stealth marketing messages posing as status updates on Facebook a more effective way of advertising than traditional web banners? 2) What impact has learning about stealth marketing practices in social media on consumer attitude and post purchase behaviour? And finally 3) Will different generations respond differently to these questions?Our findings show that stealth marketing in social media is not more effective than traditional web banners. Furthermore, the result indicates that when consumers find out about stealth marketing practices it will have a negative impact on future purchase intensions and brand image. Most consumers will also have strong feelings of being deceived, which could instigate harmful post purchase behaviour such as negative word-of-mouth and possibly, based on some earlier cases, boycotts.The result of our research shows that the brand perceptions and future purchase intentions of Generation Y, persons between 18 and 30 years of age, are affected in a less negative way than the brand perceptions and future purchase intentions of older generations when finding out about stealth marketing practices in social media. However Generation Y:s reaction is still negative and they do consider traditional web banners to be more credible than status updates on Facebook.

During the financial crisis voices were raised towards the regulatory framework IAS 39 recognition and measurement of financial instruments and pointed out that it was inadequate. The complexity of the framework contributed to the fact that it was difficult to apply. IASB accelerated the modeling of the new to be regulatory framework IFRS 9. In this study we will focus on the reliability of accounting information, which is an important aspect from the stakeholder?s point of view, for example, to be able to make the best decisions the accounting information should be proper.

AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this study was to see if there was any correlation between BMI and chronic pain among participants who underwent a behavioural medicine rehabilitation program at a pain clinic in the central part of Sweden. Method: The study was conducted as a quantitative descriptive study context and has used medical records with documented data from the participants who were part of a pain clinic rehabilitation programs in the years 2004-2005. Altogether there were 76 participants in these years and excluded was nine participants with BMI measurements were not included in the documentation. Main Results: Regarding the relationship between BMI and chronic pain there was no significant relationships. Participants who completed the behavioural medicine rehabilitation program, however, showed a lower value of BMI and the estimated pain in VAS from the first to the third which is the last time of measuring.

This report describes a study, description and testing of parts to an application adapted to the operating system Android. The application is supposed to measure the distance to a car ahead. Apart from distance measurements the ability of the application to calculate its own speed with the help of GPS is tested. From these two parameters, speed, distance and some constants the theoretical stopping distance of the car will be calculated in order to warn the driver if the car is too close to the car ahead in relation to its own speed and stopping distance.Tests were conducted on the different applications that were programmed and the result showed that the camera technique in the mobile phone itself limits the maximum distance of the distance measurement application. The max distance the tests in this thesis revealed was approximately 5 meters.