Motives and reasons behind a decision to change the asylum process in Sweden are the central concern for this thesis. A symbolic political perspective will be applied in order to elucidate the symbolic factors that have influenced the decision process.The Aliens Appeal Board in Sweden will close down at the end of March 2006 and all pending and future cases will henceforth be decided by three administrative courts. This will be done in order to enhance the principles of legal certainty by making the process more transparent and oral. It is an extensive reform, but since very few amendments are made to the applicable substantive law it raises questions about the actual motives behind the change.One reason that seems to have had a major impact on the decision to close down the Aliens Appeal Board is the fact that the board is perceived as a symbol for an inhuman asylum policy. Transferring the process to the courts might ease the attempt to increase the legitimacy of the asylum process.

This is a graduation project in Innovation Management, which seeks to enlighten new theories within the major subject ? the multi?faceted innovation process.The reader is hereby invited to an insight in the more complex perspectives of these types of theories than what has previously been explained in simplified ways.We have conducted research on a company within the cleantech market; Cellkraft AB. The company develops and produces fuel cells amongst other products, which have emerged during their research and development in the fuel cell technology. Cellkraft works in a high?tech frontline market where innovation is key.

This essay shows how the concept of virtue can deepen our understanding considering processes of empowerment. A virtue is understood as a trait of character, manifested in habitual action, that it is good for person a to have. Virtues are interpreted as socially constructed. Empowerment is presented as a process toward self-confidence and self-determination where recourses and freedom propels the development toward power for the individual, the household and the community. Why does the concept of virtue deepen our understanding? It is argued that our theoretical perceptive of empowerment needs to better encompass values, norms and practise.

Det hÀr utvecklingsarbetet har genomförts i en Ärskurs tvÄ i en grundskola och syftar till att utveckla lÀrares förmÄga att ge elever möjlighet till inflytande i sin skolsituation. Vi upplever att demokratiarbetet i skolan idag Àr begrÀnsat och olikvÀrdigt. I lÀroplanen för grundskolan, förskoleklassen och fritidshemmet framgÄr att alla elever har rÀtt till en likvÀrdig utbildning, vilket vi vill efterstrÀva genom att skapa en formell struktur för elevinflytande. DÀrför vill vi med det hÀr utvecklingsarbetet se om det Àr möjligt att utöka elevinflytande genom formella strukturer och pÄ det sÀttet göra utbildningen mer likvÀrdig. Vi har ett demokratiperspektiv och anvÀnder formella strukturer, deliberativa samtal och flerstÀmmighet som metod.

This paper examines the power producing dams along the Ume-river as an integral part of and a result from the urbanization process in Sweden during industrial capitalism. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the knowledge of the urbanization process in Sweden in general and of its traces along the Ume river in the county of VĂ€sterbotten in particular. The paper applies the theory of concentrated urbanization and extended urbanization put forward by Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid (2015) and argues that the building of power producing dams along the Ume-river is part of an extended urbanization process. This becomes particularly evident when examining the vast physical structures that is the dams, situated in an otherwise remote and sparsely populated area. These vast physical structures are also very well connected to a nation wide electric grid that has connections to bordering countries as well.

Efficiency has become an important objective for many providers of welfare services. Among Swedish schools, both private and public, increased administrative demands seemingly influence operations, and affect teachers negatively through perceived stress. Simultaneously, Swedish students scored an all-time low in the latest PISA survey, and are now performing below the OECD-average in science, mathematics and reading. A central administrative task in the Swedish elementary school is the parent-teacher conference, which is an important activity in supporting the development of the student's knowledge and social skills. Lean is a well-established operations framework, which has proven successful in order to improve process efficiency.

This thesis investigates how web agencys in Stockholm use, value and incoroprate the terms usability, user experience and interaction design in their work process. The purpose of this study is to investigate how creative professionals works with the notions of usability, user experience and interaction design with focus on the end user. Our definition of creative professionals is every employee at a web agency involved in the work process of developing digital artefacts in any capacity. We wanted to investigate how these notions are considered, consciously or unconsciously, during the workprocess. Semi-structured interviews were conducted at three different web agencys with eight different employees.

The object for this study is a company developing and manufacturing vehicles for heavy transportation. The company distributes their products on a global market. Therefore the company is required to have efficient internal production development processes in order to successfully beat the competition. The purpose of this master thesis is to study how this particular company intends to implement their standardized theoretical product development process within their organization and how well it is done. We intend to identify and specify if the process has any unexploited capacity.

The aim of the study is to show how a selected part of the European Language Portfolio, ELP, can support the assessment process for teachers. All the checklists at level A1 and My Language Goals from the Language Biography, a part of the ELP, are implemented and communicated in teaching in a 4th grade class of students. Two teachers are interviewed and both of their classes are compared in the study. One group worked for two weeks with the selected part of the Language Portfolio and the second group followed the regular curriculum for the same period of time. The teachers are interviewed before and after the ELP through support of mind maps.Results show that by using checklists at level A1 and My Language Goals students become aware of their own learning process.

Sammanfattning:Globalisering har möjliggjort för verksamheter att verka över stora geografiska omrÄden. Detta har lett till ökad potential för lönsamhet men stÀller samtidigt höga krav pÄ verksamheten. Konkurrensen pÄ marknaden ökar stÀndigt och stÀller krav pÄ organisationer att rationalisera och effektivisera sin verksamhet. En effekt av detta Àr uppkomsten av fenomenet distansledarskap. Denna kandidatuppsats behandlar Àmnet distansledarskap, hur man kommunicerar samt hur man kontrollerar och mÀter arbetsprestation pÄ distans.

This paper aims to derive the Black-Scholes equation for readers without advanced knowledge in finance and mathematics. To succeed, this paper contains a theoretical chapter in which concepts such as options, interest rate, differential equations and stochastic variable are explained. This paper also presents the theory of stochastic processes such as the Wiener process and Ito process. In the chapter on the Black-Scholes model the Ito process is used to describe price of shares and with the help of Ito's lemma Black-Scholes equation can be derived. In the paper, assumptions are listed that apply to the Black-Scholes model and then uses the Black-Scholes equation to calculate the price of a European call option.

Mergers and Acuisitions are becoming increasingly common. This can be explained with the fact that the competition is increasing. Therefore many companies are forced to join other markets. This thesis inquires into the process of Mergers and Acqusitions when one company buys another company. The main focus is set on how three different banks handle the process of Mergers and Acqusitions and what results this leads to. These are: Kaupthing Bank, Nordea and Citibank.

BAKGRUND:Vi har utgÄtt frÄn Bronfenbrenners utvecklingsekologiska system och Vygotskijs samspelsteori.Dessa teoretiker kopplas samman med aktuell forskning och utgör bakgrunden till den förÀndringsprocesssom vi valt att följa.SYFTE:VÄrt syfte Àr att följa en mÄngkulturell förÀndringsprocess som Àger rum i Sydby Kommundelmellan Lotumskolan och Sydbyskolan. Vi vill ocksÄ undersöka vad denna förÀndring innebÀrför pedagoger i deras undervisning och yrkesroll.METOD:Vi har valt att anvÀnda oss av fallstudie som ansats och intervju Àr vÄr datainsamlingsmetod.Detta eftersom en fallstudie lÀmpar sig dÄ syftet Àr att följa och beskriva en process.RESULTAT:Resultatet som vi har kommit fram till Àr att den förÀndring som skett, inte hade behövt förekommaom samhÀllets struktur hade sett annorlunda ut. Det Àr samhÀllet i sig som skapar problem,som inte hade behövt vara nÄgra problem frÄn början. Genom ett mÄngkulturellt klassrumskapas en förutsÀttning för att acceptera olikheter, vilket bidrar till att elever tidigt fÄr enförstÄelse för att alla Àr olika..

I denna uppsats underso?ker vi hur principer fo?r spelmekanik pa?verkar anva?ndares bena?genhet att bidra med inneha?ll pa? interaktiva webbplatser. Genom en empirisk studie av kvalitativ art ja?mfo?r vi tva? versioner av en testsajt, med spelmekanik implementerat i den ena versionen. Vi kommer fram till att spelmekanik fo?r att motivera anva?ndare att skapa inneha?ll kan designas utefter tre huvudsakliga delar; regler/struktur, ma?l och delma?l samt vinster. Regler och struktur a?r vad som a?r mo?jligt eller tilla?tet att producera samt kvalitetskrav pa? inneha?llet.

During year 2004 Ålö AB made significant change in their production process. The production of front loaders is nowadays highly automated with short operation times. To be able to control their process in a better way Ålö recently decided that they needed a tool for simulation of their production and to shift patterns. This final thesis started with a pilot study in Ålö?s factory in BrĂ€nnland.