KKS includes difficulties hearing speech in background noise although results from pure toneaudiometry are normal. The condition is also called ?Obscure Audiotory Dysfunction? and?Auditory disability with normal hearing?. KKS affects a heterogeneous group. We believethere is a need for synthesis of existing studies to acknowledge the condition in Sweden toimprove rehabilitation for the affected individuals.

Familjebildning är för många personer en central del av livet. Att bli adoptivföräldrar innebär en annorlunda process jämfört med det biologiska föräldraskapet. För att bli adoptivföräldrar måste man genomgå en utredning. Utredningen benämns som medgivandeutredning och innebär att socialsekreterare granskar om personer är lämpliga som föräldrar. Syftet med vårt examensarbete är att förstå hur adoptivföräldrar upplever en medgivandeutredning och hur de upplever att bli utredda av socialsekreterare.

The study aims to gain insight into how social workers perceive their psychosocial work environment and examine whether this effects the performance of their duties. The study mainly addresses the shortcomings of the psychosocial work environment of Social Services and the implications it entails for social workers health and wellbeing. The psychosocial work environment includes physical and psychological factors therefore the study's interpretive framework consists of organizational theoretical and social psychological concepts and previous research on the subject. We examined the organizational and social psychological connections to social workers perception of their work environment with a qualitative approach. The empirical data was collected through interviews with four social workers in a municipality in central Sweden using a semi-structured interview guide.

Syftet med undersökningen var att belysa skolgårdens konflikter sett ur ett pedagog- och elevperspektiv samt att undersöka hur konflikterna förebyggs och hanteras i enlighet med styrdokumenten. Undersökningen utfördes på två stycken F-5 skolor och var av kvalitativ karaktär. Metoderna var observationer av skolgårdens konfliktsituationer samt intervjuer med fyra pedagoger och samtal med fyra elever. Resultatet visade att de konfliktsituationer som uppstår på skolgården oftast är av liten karaktär, där inte så stora åtgärder behövs för att stoppa dem. Av resultatet framkom också att det förebyggande arbetet styrs av likabehandlingsplanen som varje skola ansvarar för att utforma.

Executive SummaryThis final thesis has examined the effects of an increased centralization and better coord­in­ation of the distribution logistics at ABB in Västerås. The company is today strongly decent­ralized and there is a minimum of collaboration between the 20 business units. This is why the questions were raised; how could the business units coordinate outbound logistic activities and what effects would that provide. The obj­ect­ive of this final thesis is to provide basic data for a future decision-making which desc­r­ibe these effects.The report has mapped out the factors that are important to ABB in an evaluation of their logistic activities and how the outbound logistics work today. The four factors are cost efficiency, delivery service, environmental impact and logistics capability.

Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka vilken roll skönlitteraturen kan tänkas inta, och vilken roll den faktiskt intar, i skolundervisningen på mångkulturella storstadsskolor. Studien lägger fokus på barn som har ett annat förstaspråk än svenska. Undersökningsmetoderna är av kvalitativ art, intervjuer och observationer. Undersökningen ägde rum på tre olika mångkulturella storstadsskolor där majoriteten av eleverna är flerspråkiga. Undersökningsgruppen består av olika lärare på dessa skolor.

 This essay has been investigate a Hindu swaminarayantempel in central Sweden, its activities and function from a diaspora perspective. Also to investigate the relationship between Hindu diaspora groups and in relation to South Asia. An ethnographic method was used.The result of this study shows that the key activities temple provides the puja. Pujan is the most frequent activity in the investigated Temple. The temple also provides other activities that often are linked to anniversaries and celebrations of festive calendar, such as Diwali or gods' birthdays.The investigated temple has a similar function as other diaspora groups.

The aim of this thesis is to describe passage retrieval (PR), with basis in results from various empirical experiments, and to critically investigate different approaches in PR. The main questions to be answered in the thesis are: (1) What characterizes PR? (2) What approaches have been proposed? (3) How well do the approaches work in experimental information retrieval (IR)? PR is a research topic in information retrieval, which instead of retrieving the fulltext of documents, that can lead to information overload for the user, tries to retrieve the most relevant passages in the documents. This technique was investigated studying a number of central articles in the research field. PR can be divided into three different types of approaches based on the segmentation of the documents.

Från att ha haft en central roll i den tidiga psykoanalysen, har sexualiteten kommit att ges mindre utrymme i psykodynamisk psykoterapi. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka patienters erfarenheter av hur sex och sexualitet behandlas i psykodynamisk psykoterapi. Utifrån ett bekvämlighetsurval genomfördes sju semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer, och materialet analyserades med fenomenologisk metod. Många av informanterna upplevde sex och sexualitet som svårt eller omöjligt att tala om i sina terapier, och flera av dem upplevde också att deras terapeuter hade svårt att hantera dessa ämnen. Endast två informanter beskriver erfarenheter av att terapeuten initierat samtal om sex och sexualitet.

Background: Pesticides in conventional food may be related to morbidity and mortality. Furthermore pesticides have a negative impact on the whole ecosystem. Organic food can presume better health as they contain less chemicals and toxins and contribute to sustainable development efforts.Objective: The aim was to examine what attitudes consumers have regarding to purchase organic fruit, vegetables and root vegetables.Methods: The association between consumers? views on conventional food and organic food was investigated using questionnaire given to a population sample of men and women aged by 23-65 (N=60) in grocery stores and in a fitness center. The study was based on a cross-sectional study in a municipality in central Sweden.Results: Consumers were interested to buy organic food.

The aim of our study was to investigate how much self-determination persons with intellectual disabilities living in group-homes have when it comes to recreational activities. We studied what the recreational activities looked like, if there was any self-determination concerning recreational activities and which factors influenced self-determination for persons with intellectual disabilities. We used qualitative interviews with persons with intellectual disabilities, next of kin and personnel at group-homes. The result has been analyzed from earlier research, central concepts as self-determination and recreational activities and the theory of empowerment. The most important results that emerged in our study were; that recreational activities for persons with intellectual disabilities varied substantially, that there is a large number of to recreational activities available and no one seemed directly displeased with their recreational activities.

The world is getting smaller. Global markets, political processes and communication technology bring people together. Even though many of these processes are dynamic and constructive, they have also resulted in a need for better and more effective ways of international conflict resolution. This thesis investigates central issues connected to the concept of humanitarian interventions in relation to current and future legislation of the European Union. The overall question is whether the rapid globalization process has resulted in a change of international law towards more liberal view where authorization of the security council is not always needed? And, if there has actually been such a liberalization, how does that affect the legal possibilities for the European Union to carry out armed operations without the consent of the global community?The conclusion of the thesis is that international law has been modified mainly in two aspects: First, the concept of sovereignty is no longer seen merely as a right of the nation, but also as a responsibility.

Hälsa är ett omfattande begrepp som främst kan tolkas ur två olika perspektiv, salutogent där fokuset ligger på att frambringa hälsa och patogent där fokuset ligger på den fysiska kroppen och sjukdom. I skolämnet har begreppet idag en central roll där begreppet i ämnet delats in i olika diskurser. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med lärare samt en kvantitativ enkätundersökning med elever på två olika skolor har syftet att utreda vad lärare respektive elever har för förhållningssätt gentemot hälsa svarats på utifrån perspektiven och diskurserna. Arbetet berör hur dessa förhållningssätt förhåller sig till varandra samt om det föreligger någon regional skillnad mellan de olika skolorna. Studien visar på att elever och deras undervisande lärare i stor grad har en liknande syn på hälsa och att det finns regionala skillnader.

In 1998 a new regional development policy was introduced by the Swedish government. A central feature in the policy was the formation of partnerships at the regional level. The partnerships were meant to consist of local and regional stakeholders, representing a great variety of interests, who would collaborate in order to improve regional development. The new policy was promoted, besides being more efficient, as a way to broaden political participation and to break male-dominated structures.This thesis discusses whether the regional partnership actually favours ?women's interests?, in terms of how the relationship of power between women and men is constituted by the model.

In this study environmental work in the Swedish hotel chain "Scandic" is investigated. Earlier studies point out sustainability and different environmental certificate programs as essential for the housing sector to contribute to sustainable tourism. The purpose and willingness to fulfill such a mission has been investigated by interviewing central actors in the hotel chain. The result shows that there is a desire to be part of environmental certificate programs mainly for the reason to be part of the system and not for the benefit of nature. Sustainable development is understood as being environmentally friendly. Different solutions to adapt and being more environmentally friendly is discussed.