This essay in musicology is combined with a CD-recording of piano improvisations. Its purpose is, on the one hand, to examine some of the ideas permeating piano improvisation during the first part of the nineteenth century, and, on the other, to find ways to apply these nineteenth century ideas of improvising to modern piano playing. The artistic part of the work is as important as the theoretical, and the two strands are supporting and reinforcing each other.The first section of the text focuses on preluding ? that is, a genre of improvisation. The second section investigates some aspects of the improvising of Franz Liszt ? that is, different types of improvisation as practised by an important nineteenth century musician.

Gunnebo House and Gardens was designed during the late 18th century by architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg as a summer residence for the wealthy merchant John Hall Sr. and his family. The garden consists of formal garden, kitchen garden and English park. For the first two parts several original drawings have been preserved and here a lot of restoration work has been carried out. This paper aims to examine how the English park might have been implemented during John Hall Sr.?s time and to create a plant scheme for the area called ?Engelska kullen? (The English hill).

Over a long time psychology was focusing on human frailties and mental diseases. In 1998, positive psychology was introduced - the scientific study of strengths, well-being and optimal functioning. Theory and research in the area has identified 24 character strengths, in which each individual owns and celebrates a number of top strengths, signature strengths. These strengths have been shown to be important in achieving happiness and well-being. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between character strength and psychological well-being, job satisfaction, harmonious- and obsessive passion and stress.

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine the process of selecting films at Bibliotekstjänst and at Swedish public libraries. The tools that have been used for analysing and interpreting the results from the interviews and the questionnaire are theory-based models describing the selection process concerning film and Carl Gustav Johannsen?s quality definitions. The result of the investigation shows that Bibliotekstjänst doesn?t really work with any quality definitions in their selection process.

Slovenia and Latvia are two examples of countries which have gone through a successful democratic transition. They were both under authoritarian rule and command economy up until their declarations of independence in the early 90s. Today they have a functional market economy and political pluralism. I have examined transition theories highlighted by Jonas Linde and Joakim Ekman and from these theories sought the explanations to what lies behind the successful transitions of these two countries. The transition in Slovenia was affected by liberalization from within the ruling communist party which then controlled much of the transition process. A relatively large civil society and the fact that Slovenia was not involved in the Balkan War also contributed to the short process.

Åtskilliga gånger har skolans litteraturundervisning varit föremål för diskussioner som hand-lat om det litterära urval som görs i svenskundervisningen och debatter om kanon har förts. Föreliggande studie syftar till att undersöka gymnasielärares urval av fristående skönlitterära verk, som läses i sin helhet i svenskundervisningen, samt bakomliggande motiveringar och yttre faktorer som styr lärarnas urval. Studien genomfördes som en kvantitativ enkätunder-sökning i vilken 56 gymnasielärare i svenska vid 24 gymnasieskolor i Sverige deltog. Resul-tatet visar att det i dagens gymnasieskola inte kan talas om en kanon av fristående skönlitte-rära verk i någon traditionell mening, men väl om en tradition dominerad av August Strind-berg, samt av manliga och västerländska författarskap. Dock kan det idag även talas om en utveckling som gör att författare som Jan Guillou och Jonas Gardell får ett väsentligt utrym-me i undervisningen och att urvalet domineras av 1900-talslitteratur och har en stark internationell prägel.

This report describes the bachelor degree project called ?A case study in strategic product design in collaboration with Elfa? carried out by Mathieu Gustafsson and Pär Rickberg,students at Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies.We had the opportunity to do our degree project in collaboration with ELFA after a previous school project where we made suggestions for new products. Initially the brief was to develop new products for the company which was based on previous proposals.Reasoning led us in to design strategies and how to use such a strategy to develop newproducts for ELFA. During our first superficial analysis of ELFA and its current products, we found that we wanted to recast the framework of identity and context in which the product would be created. According to the researches made by SVID (The Swedish Industrial Design Foundation),companies that continually are working with design strategies strengthens the brand, its competitiveness and become more innovative.

In our study we examined recurrent patterns and changes in the representation ofhomosexual persons in Swedish daily newspapers 1987, 1997 and 2007.We analysed articles about HIV-infected persons and articles with a view to portray thelife conditions of gay and lesbian persons from the three different years. We chose toonly analyze news articles that intend to represent real human beings, which mean thatwe did not analyze reports that only reproduce abstract knowledge from authorities.With analytical tools from semiotics and discourse analysis we identified some recurrentpatterns in the representation of homosexual people. We found that a recurrent pattern inthat when homosexual people are seen as groups, they are described as deviant,discriminated and some times as a threat. When portrayed as individuals the nonanonymouspersons appear in articles and pictures as normal, strong and healthy. Lesbianwomen are not represented in the articles from 1987, but in articles from 1997 and 2007they appear as unhappy when single and happy in a relationship.The results also showed some interesting differences in news representation ofhomosexual persons between the three investigated years.

The purpose of this study was to analyze recent appropriations of works of art in advertising. Why was art infused into magazine advertisements, how were the works of art tampered with to achieve commercial goals, how well did they function together with the ad copy? What did these advertisements want? What did the artwork contribute to the commercial message? These were some of the questions asked in the study that involved a closer look at four appropriations: one based on a battle painting by the Swedish 1900th century artist Carl Wahlbom, with a commercial message printed on top;  one a collage including an 18th century portrait of Marie Antoinettte by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; one advertisement was influenced by Dutch 1700th century still lifes, and, finally, one paraphrased Velázquez?s famous painting Las Meninas from 1655. Companies behind the advertisements featured a Swedish trade journal, a fashion exhibition in Paris, a shop for kitchen utensils in Stockholm, and an up-scale department store in Madrid.The ads, in different ways based on works of art, were evaluated as reasonably successful commercial messages. These ads, however, hardly qualified as works of art in their own right ? if that was the intention.

Enligt lag (2006:985) om energideklaration för byggnader, som träder i kraft fullt ut i årsskiftet 2008/09, har fastighetsägare en skyldighet att energideklarera ens byggnader. För en fastighetsägare kan utförandet av en energideklaration leda till minskade driftkostnader, detta då energianvändningen är en stor del av en byggnads drift. Genom ett bra samspel mellan energiexperten och fastighetsägaren ökar chansen till lyckade åtgärdsförslag. Nyckeltal som ska användas för att avgöra huruvida en byggnads energiprestanda är låg eller hög, har i skrivande stund en låg kvalité. I rapporten referensnivåer och energianvändning i lokaler, som Carl Bro har sammanställt på uppdrag av Boverket, betonas det att de framtagna nyckeltalen för lokaler endast ska ses som en hjälp i inledningsskedet av energideklarationerna.

The object of this study is to examine the effective functionality of an OPAC-system while a few participants interacted with the catalogue. I?ve used Carl Martin Allwood?s (1998) four designed usability factors to be able to estimate the effective functionality of the online catalogue. Theoretic basis is Human Computer Interaction together with Allwood?s four defined usability factors.

Företaget TräEnergi Teknik AB säljer pelletskaminer. Försäljningen av produkten går inte så bra, men ägaren Carl-Axel Fagerström tycker att produkten borde vara efterfrågad av kunderna eftersom den är både miljövänlig och prisvärd. I denna rapport undersöks hur företaget kan ändra sina marknadsföringsstrategier för att nå ut till potentiella köpare. En enkätundersökning har gjorts hos återförsäljare för att ta reda på slutkundernas behov och önskemål. Ur undersökningen framgick att även om kunden är miljömedveten går priset alltid före.

BAKGRUNDI bakgrunden görs en längre redogörelse kring läsmetoder, begrepp inom läsundervisningen samt en genomgång av aktuell litteratur. Det är skolans skyldighet att se till att alla elever lyckas med läsningen. Alla barn är olika och lär sig på olika sätt. Att endast använda sig av en metod kan ses som negativt för elevernas läsutveckling. Vi har utgått ifrån två teorier - den kognitivistiska och den sociokulturella teorin.SYFTEArbetets syfte är att undersöka vilka läsmetoder som används vid läsundervisningen i skolorna i en kommun på västkusten samt deras motiv till användandet.METODVi har använt oss av en webbenkät som datainsamlingsmetod.

?Optimizing the workflow of hydraulic reservoir tanks? is a degree project made by Jonas Olsson, student within the faculty of technology and science, during spring semester 2012. The project comprise 22,5 ECTS.Volvo Construction Equipment, located in Arvika, was the client in this project. The mentor at Volvo CE was A?sa Barck, and the mentor at Karlstad University was Monica Jakobsson.

Åtskilliga gånger har skolans litteraturundervisning varit föremål för diskussioner som hand-lat om det litterära urval som görs i svenskundervisningen och debatter om kanon har förts. Föreliggande studie syftar till att undersöka gymnasielärares urval av fristående skönlitterära verk, som läses i sin helhet i svenskundervisningen, samt bakomliggande motiveringar och yttre faktorer som styr lärarnas urval. Studien genomfördes som en kvantitativ enkätunder-sökning i vilken 56 gymnasielärare i svenska vid 24 gymnasieskolor i Sverige deltog. Resul-tatet visar att det i dagens gymnasieskola inte kan talas om en kanon av fristående skönlitte-rära verk i någon traditionell mening, men väl om en tradition dominerad av August Strind-berg, samt av manliga och västerländska författarskap. Dock kan det idag även talas om en utveckling som gör att författare som Jan Guillou och Jonas Gardell får ett väsentligt utrym-me i undervisningen och att urvalet domineras av 1900-talslitteratur och har en stark internationell prägel.