AbstractTitle: The war in Afghanistan ? a necessary evil? (Kriget i Afghanistan ? ett nödvändigt ont? En kritisk diskursanalys av New York Times ställningstagande till och framing av kriget i Afghanistan)Number of pages: 41 (41 including enclosures)Authors: Jenny Häggmark, Madeleine JanssonTutor: Christian ChristensenCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Fall term 2011University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/aim: Our main goal with this paper is to examine and describe how The New York Times have framed the war in Afghanistan in their editorials, and how their position on the war is reflected in the editorials. We are also interested in finding out if their position on the war has changed during the ten years of war. Are the New York Times editorials characterized by peace or war journalism?Material/Method: To fulfill our aim with this paper we are going to use a qualitative method of content analyzes, the critical discourse analysis, when we analyze the editorials selected.

rary of Sweden Statens musikbibliotek [51][pdf.gif] The aim of this study is to investigate how bibliographic description of music materials has improved through history. The historical aspect is given by a study of bibliographic data in different catalogues of a specific collection. The aim is also to understand what specific problems will arise in the work of cataloguing music materials and how the problems are discussed in the literature. The study is focusing of church music material and the history of churchmusic is therefore given an exposition. The origin of musical notation, which took place within the church, is also discussed.

As a company it is required to work with strategies to minimize costs such as packaging and logistic costs. The increased market of industrial produced wooden buildings results that the time and the cost which the packaging of prefabricated building elements consume, is experienced to be in greater need of development than before and demands a better solution. The aim with this dissertation was to discover how the development of the handling of the packaging can improve the packaging process. The goal was to present improvement proposals for a simplified and thereby a more efficient production in time and cost perspective.The packaging process which includes packaging, handling, storage and transport were studied. Interviews were made with participants from the market for manufacturers of wooden houses and a case study was made at the company A-hus.

This project is about Jönsaplan in Landskrona. Jönsaplan is situated at the center of Landskrona in a part called Södra centrum which the municipality is developing, mainly by building new residential buildings. Today, Jönsaplan is not a functioning square. This is due to a ferry terminal and its many fences that block the way for people. In this project, I have assumed that the ferry terminal will be moved somewhere else so that Jönsaplan can be a real square. By studying The Concise Townscape by Gordon Cullen and Byens uttrykksformer by Thomas Thiis - Evensen and three reference places, Daniaparken, Raoul Wallenbergs torg and Norr Mälarstrand, I came up with a number of guidelines for my design proposal for Jönsaplan.

In May 2010 the plans for Malmö?s new Concert Hall, Conference Centre and Hotel were announced publically. The purpose of this thesis was to present strategy for communication in order to gain approval for the new concert and conference center from the inhabitants inMalmö and to incorporate the use of it in their everyday life.Material from the receiver?s as well as the sender?s perspective has been collected from qualitative interviews. Through group interviews we have investigated the general consensus of the inhabitants of Malmö regarding the investment, placing, offered events, expectations as well as how they collected information.

Vi har utgått ifrån det sociokulturella och  fenomenografiska  perspektivet i vår studie. Vår studie har behandlat vilket material som finns och används på respektive förskolor i arbetet med matematiken.  Vi har även undersökt på vilket sätt materialet används av lärarna och av barnen samt om det finns en  matematisk  miljö  på  förskolorna,  och  i  så  fall, hur  den  kommer  till uttryck.   Syftet   med  vår  studie   var  att   ta   reda   på   användningen   av matematikmaterialet  på  förskolor  som  arbetar  utifrån  Montessori  inriktad pedagogik och Reggio Emilia inspirerad pedagogik. Vi har även tagit reda på pedagogers tankar bakom matematikmaterial. Studien har inte som syfte att jämföra de olika pedagogikernas användning av material. Vårt empiriska insamlande  material  har  tagits  fram  via  intervjuer  och  observationer.

Syftet med vårt arbete är att undersöka hur lärare arbetar med laborativt material samt problemlösning i matematik och när de tar in detta i sin undervisning. Vi avser även undersökavad högpresterande och lågpresterande elever har för uppfattningar kring dessa områden i matematik, samt vad lärarna tror att dessa elevgrupper har för uppfattningar om laborativt material och problemlösning.För att få reda på dessa frågeställningar har vi använt oss av strukturerade intervjuer med 15 högpresterande och 15 lågpresterande elever samt kvalitativa intervjuer med fem lärare.Resultatet av denna undersökning visar att laborativt material är något som mestadels används som hjälpmedel till lågpresterande elever. Problemlösning anses stimulera högpresterande elevers intresse för matematik i större omfattning, än de lågpresterandes.Problemlösningsuppgifterna anpassas sällan till elevernas nivå och mestadels tas dessa uppgifter från elevernas matematikböcker. Laborativt material ses som accepterat att använda blandklasskamraterna enligt de intervjuade eleverna, de flesta anser även att det skulle vara eller är roligt att använda laborativt material..

This thesis puts together general guidelines for the design of outdoor environment at nursing homes for people with dementia. The goal is to give the residents a greater quality of life with the garden.The garden must be safe and secure while offering places for fellowship or retirement and experiences of joy and competence. The plant material and other elements in the garden are inserted to stimulate the senses and to inspire to different activities. The paper describes the health promoting effects of nature and gardens by referring to scientific studies. These studies encompass the impact of nature on all human beings as well as how the outdoor environment affects our target group, elderly people with dementia. An essential part of the work focus on the conditions in a garden for people with dementia, on the contact between residence and garden and the access to surrounding life. Eventually, the general guidelines are applied to a real building project ? the Vega project in Lomma,a new nursing home for persons with dementia.

The housing sector of today represents for almost 40% of the energy consumption, an energy consumption of which the major part consists of non-renewable energy sources. This is not sustainable and utilization of new energy-efficient technologies in buildings can be a step in the right direction, towards a sustainable energy society.This report has been made on behalf of and in cooperation with Älvstranden Utveckling AB in Gothenburg to examine how future energy-efficient technologies can affect the energy demand in energy-efficient multi-dwelling buildings.The report is based on Älvstrandens passive house, Hamnhuset, a house whose energy consumption is far below the BBR's requirements. The report looks at the opportunities for improvement within windows, insulation, solar energy technologies, as well as white goods. Computer simulations are then made to apply the selected technologies into a reference building. Technologies are selected from an energy efficient perspective and no account has been taken of other aspects such as the economy.

This thesis project has focused on studying ÅF?s business concept Energy Collaboration, which is their way of selling energy efficiency services. Thereforeongoing projects have been analyzed. The purpose was to determine achieved energy efficiency, costs and profitability for the studied projects. It was concluded that the Energy Collaboration is a good way of selling energy efficiency services, since the customer takes no risk and energy savings of about 15-25 % can be achieved with simple measures.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka ifall barn har inflytande över sin miljö och sitt material i verksamheten samt vilket perspektiv pedagogerna utgår från vid planering av miljön. Studien har utgått från följande frågeställningar: Anser barnen att de har inflytande över sin miljö och sitt material på förskolan, och i så fall hur tar detta sig uttryck? Vilket perspektiv ligger till grund för pedagogernas utformning av miljön i verksamheten? För att få svar på mina frågor har jag använt mig av en kvalitativ studie med semi-strukturerade intervjuer med intervjuguide, strukturerade intervjuer med intervjuformulär samt dokumentation i form av bilder. Slutresultatet visar att det finns en vilja och önskan hos barnen att bestämma tillsammans med pedagogerna, att ha inflytande över miljö och material. Den faktorn som främst påverkar barns inflytande är det pedagogiska förhållningssättet hos pedagogerna, deras intentioner kan både vara stödjande och begränsande för barns inflytande..

BIM har varit ett hett ämne på byggmarknaden de senaste åren. Några företag har varit snabba och vågat satsa på den nya tekniken sedan flera år tillbaka. Andra företag står fortfarande i startgroparna och överväger fördelar mot nackdelar. Andra företag väljer att inte utnyttja den nya tekniken alls.Förkortningen BIM står för byggnadsinformationsmodellering (Building Information Modeling) och begreppet har en bred definition. En byggnadsinformationsmodell utgörs av en 3D-modell som förutom det visuella även innehåller information om de olika objekten i modellen.

This work is about getting to know tufting as a technique and to design tufted products for home furnishing.It all began in Finland, where during springtime 2004, I got in contact with the technique oftufting for the first time. A very pleasant meeting that resulted in two carpets and a longing to continueand learn more. It was then that an idea for my final project started to take form. My wish was to designtufted ?floor jewelleries? and cushions.I made a base for my project during a design project in autumn 2004.

An increase interest of new methods and tools has begun to grow in the real estate business, this new trend causes an increase in new programs that aim to simplify processes of energy-efficiency and environmental issues.After consulting with Björn Alsmark from Bjerking AB, an architect and engineering company, we made a decision that the Degree Project is going to examine the program IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions) with some integrations from Revit Architecture application.To be able to examine IES, we got access to a completed project from Bjerking. The project is a nursery school in Uppsala. An application has been handed in from Bjerking to make this project to a Green Building-certificated project. According to Bjerking own calculations (with the energy-calculation program Enorm), the consumption of energy of the nursery school is 48 percent lesser than required by BBR.An evaluation of IES and Enorm has been made with an aim to compare these two programs and find out if IES is an appropriate program to replace Enorm. Does Enorm or IES come up to BBR´s recommendations?The Degree Project cover 15 ECT, that required several adjusting and delimitations, and the study sketch ended with a literature study.After finishing the study sketch the modeling of the nursery school began.

Unlike the manufacturing industry, the construction industry is always in motion. Each new construction project brings new opportunities, and it requires a new plan, new organisation, and new suppliers. All construction projects are very different from each other and in terms of a logistical perspective, this is very weak as it makes it difficult to get a flow in the production and to make flawless routines. The way the external and internal logistics are managed, can effect the final product in the time taken to produce it, the quality of the product and the profit made from it. When internal logistics are handled poorly, it could result in materials not being at the right place at the right time, or information not going through to the right person.