UvÄn Hagfors Teknologi AB (UHT) has developed a process ? GRANSHOTŸ ? for quicksolidification of metals in water baths. In the process liquid metal is splintered ? granulated ?into small drops. The drops are rapidly cooled in a water bath where all the heat energy from theliquid metal is transferred into the water.

Companies need to receive feedback in order to understand how they should adjust to shifting demands in the market. This study focuses on the Mystery Shopping process and the information it provides. Through qualitative interviews information was gathered which identifies Mystery Shopping as an approach where companies actively seek information withthe help of anonymous ?shoppers?. This method is compared to other research methods in order to identify the characteristics of Mystery Shopping.

This study examines the possibilities of interpreting the moral values and ethics presented in the current curriculums in a way that makes them inclusive and constructive. The study also reveals how the liberal democratic ideal, presented in the curriculums as a hyper-ideology, is not at all easy to define or live up to in the pluralistic school of today.By close-reading and criticizing the curriculum for the Swedish senior high school (Gy11)and by looking at it from two different points of views, as rules or norms and as a process, Ishow how the curriculum can be interpreted as a basis or starting point for a communicationabout values. I also discuss wether the aim of this communication should be consensus or anongoing process..

SammanfattningOLW har under en lÀngre period velat utveckla sitt innovativa arbete inom kategorin snacksnöt-ter. De pÄbörjade ett arbete för att kunna matcha nya produkter bÀttre mot konsumtions- och köpbeteende. Denna studie hade som syfte att komma fram till tvÄ nya koncept inom kategorin snacksnötter och produktionslinjen nötmixer baserat pÄ insikter inom konsumtions- och köpbete-ende. MÄlet var att fÄ kategorin snacksnötter att vÀxa. Studien genomfördes genom analys av marknadsundersökningar, samt genom direktobservationer.

Public opinion has increasingly become a political force in the European integration process. At present, it appears that the people?s attitude towards the European integration is relatively skeptical. How can we expect that the attitude towards European integration will evolve in the future? This paper tests the extent to which diffusion theory can serve as a model to explain the development of attitudes to European integration policy in Sweden from 1999 until 2009.

The aim of this essay is to study the decision making process and implementation of the principle of political participation and influence for Roma minority in Sweden. The results regarding the decision making process is structured through a discourse influenced policy analyses. Problem picture and recommended measures in the political documents representing the decision making process are analysed through theories of minority rights and equality. The implementation is seen through, by the author given minority discourse and the work in the roma council and analysed by the same theories already mentioned.The results show that regarding the decision process the aim of art.15 in the framework convention is based on the idea of equality while the Swedish documents relates more to an idea of the right to speak for the group. Regarding recommended measures, the framework convention gives several recommendations on specific measures for political participation while the Swedish documents focuses on the general politics of the state.

Background: The request for the Reggio Emilia practice has expanded enormously the last couple of years within the Swedish preschools. This particular practice describes the environment as a third educator. This third educator is supposed to work as - not only a tool - but also a support to ease children's learning experiences and help develop their mind. Previous research has shown that design of, for instance, furniture has a way of affecting the children's learning process and development.Aims: The purpose of this study is to see how two different teams of preschool educators on two differed Reggio Emilia inspired preschools work and handle the physical indoor environment. Method: We started out by contacting Reggio Emilia inspired preschools.

The aim of this dissertation is to examine and compare William Easterly?s and PGU?s (Shared Responsibility: Sweden's Policy for Global Development) different views on development and international development cooperation. The methodological approach chosen in this study is an analysis of ideas based on the following questions:1. Which principles should be applied to development and international development cooperation?2.

Manchay Àr ett av Limas största kÄkstÀder och platsen för projektet "en blomma i öknen". OmrÄdet Àr ett av stadens fattigaste, hÀr rÄder brist pÄ bÄde vatten och jordbÀvningssÀkra hus. Projektets uppgift Àr att skapa en plattform för kunskapsutbyte och socialt omhÀndertagande samtidigt som det Àr ett första steg i att tackla den pÄtagliga vattenproblematiken..

YrkeslÀrare med ansvar för arbetsplatsförlagt lÀrande (APL) anvÀnder sig av olika metoder för att sÀkerstÀlla att APL följs upp pÄ ett strukturerat sÀtt. Studien ÄskÄdliggör de metoder som lÀrare med APL-ansvar anvÀnder i uppföljningen av APL. Den teoretiska utgÄngspunkten fokuserar pÄ vilken kunskap som synliggörs genom dessa metoder. Tidigare forskning visar att en strukturerad process skapar förutsÀttningar för en bÀttre slutprodukt. Slutprodukten likstÀlls i studien med en mer yrkeskunnig elev.

Bakgrunden till denna studie grundar sig i att den svenska mediebranschen har genomgÄtt stora förÀndringar under de senaste Ären. Det Àr framför allt förÀndringar inom teknik som har skett och detta har Àndrat sÀttet som individer anvÀnder och konsumerar nyheter. Detta har lett till att mÄnga företag inom dagstidningsbranschen just nu omstrukturerar sina verksamheter och söker efter nya möjligheter till intÀkter. Viljan Àr att anpassa sina verksamheter för unga vuxna (20-39 Är). Detta vill de uppnÄ genom att till exempel utveckla nya affÀrsmodeller.

Library architecture today is a complicated history. Public libraries are no longer merely a place for book storage, but also a virtual library a social meeting place and a place for study. All these diverse tasks and roles emerge in the democratic designing process of a new library and also transform into the architecture. The underlying process is the evaluation and negotiation of the libraries overall tasks and ideas, ideals and values. Multiple ideologies are incorporated in library architecture.

Syfte: Syftet med studien Ă€r att genom begreppen styrprocess, styrverktyg och styrmĂ„tt försöka skapa en förstĂ„else för hur styrningen skiljer sig Ă„t mellan Nordea och Handelsbanken för att identifiera eventuella skillnader mellan bankerna. Metod: Denna studie har ett hermeneutiskt inslag och genomförs med hjĂ€lp av en kvalitativ arbetsmetod samt en abduktiv ansats. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in med hjĂ€lp av semistrukturerade intervjuer frĂ„n tvĂ„ banker, Nordea och Handelsbanken. Slutsats: Intervjupersonerna har haft olika Ă„sikter av hur styrningen pĂ„verkar respektive bank, utifrĂ„n deras olika befattningar och erfarenheter inom omrĂ„det. Som helhet har det framkommit att Nordea och Handelsbanken skiljer sig pĂ„ ett flertal punkter. Nordea Ă€r vĂ€rdeorienterad i sin styrning och arbetar med helhetstĂ€nkande samt med budget medan Handelsbanken Ă€r kostnadsorienterad och arbetar med delmĂ„l samt med mĂ„lstyrning frĂ€mst. Överlag sammanfattas styrningen som en form av jonglering.

The topic of this thesis interest is the relation between branding as a place making/marketing technology and the process of regionalization. The main proposition advocated is that the officially communicated image of the Øresund Region, as a cohesive place and community, is a space that has been configured with branding and can be described as a territorial simulation. The concept of territorial simulation consists of two conjoined terms: simulation which aim at explaining the idiosyncratic brand image, as a social formation, which does not represent the place it imitates but commoditise it; and territorial which seeks to visualize the process of the unfolding of this image as a territory. The main argument is made in the third chapter, which traces the process of actualization of the brand image as a territory: ?Øresund?.

The purpose of this essay is to critically review three different contributions to the agency ? structure debate from a political science perspective. My opinon is that the agency ? structure debate is one of the main problems within the social science. The theories which I will examine are Lennart Berntsons theory from 1974, Lennart Lundquists from 1984 and Walter Carlsnaes from 1992.