The youth of today grow up with all the new ways to communicate that new technology provides. A lot of young people chat on the Internet. Adults often lack experience and knowledge about this way to communicate. This is a study of teenagers and adults values and views on teenagers online chatting. It focuses on area of use, meaning and effects on young people.

With ever-increasing environmental problems in the world, I have with this thesis aimed at studying how the Inuit people of the Arctic organize themselves around the issue of environmental degradation. In focus for this thesis is the organization Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), an NGO that focuses on saving and protecting the social and cultural rights of the Inuit people, along with the environment in the four arctic regions. This aboriginal population has a strong connection to the environment they dwell in, as the area serves as a source of income and nutrition as well as an historically important place for their culture.I will in this thesis primarily investigate the methods of operation amongst NGOs, as well as their ability to influence and interact with the UN. These are three concepts that I, as a hypothesis, considered to distinguish ICC from other NGOs. With help from three theories about NGOs, I conclude that certain central elements of ICC differ from the average NGO, making ICC a new kind of actor in global politics..

I takt med att ett samhälle utvecklas förändras de krav som samhällets invånare har på användningen av marken. Istället för ett koloniområde behöver kanske viss mark användas till studentboende. När ett nytt behov konstaterats skall, enligt plan- och bygglagen (1987:10), en intresseavvägning mellan allmänna och enskilda intressen ske. För planering och till viss del även genomförande av en förändring av markanvändningen är den svenska plan- och bygglagen central. Syftet med plan- och bygglagen är att främja en samhällsutveckling med jämlika och goda sociala levnadsförhållanden och en god och långsiktigt hållbar livsmiljö.Denna uppsats är inriktad på den intresseavvägning som enligt plan- och bygglagen skall ske vid förändrade krav på markanvändningen.

Idag är datorutrustning en central del av många personers arbete. Vissa personer är helt beroende av datorutrustning för att kunna utföra sitt arbete. Om denna datorutrustning havererar kan detta leda till att en anställd person på ett företag inte kan utföra sitt arbete vilket leder till en ekonomisk förlust för företaget. Ett haveri av datorutrustning kan även innebära att viktig data som företaget använder i sin verksamhet kan gå förlorad, vilket kan vara dyrt att återställa.Detta arbete kartlägger hur väl förberedda företag idag är för att minimera de ekonomiska förluster och förluster av data ett haveri av datorutrustning kan innebära.Resultatet av den genomförda intervjuundersökningen tyder på att små företag idag har en relativt dålig framförhållning för att minimera förluster till följd av haveri av datorutrustning. Därtill har guidelines arbetats fram för att vara ett stöd för företag att välja rutiner för att minimera konsekvenserna av ett haveri av datorutrustning.

Syftet med följande arbete är att undersöka pedagogiska möjligheter och hinder för en gynnsam utveckling hos flickor med en ADHD diagnos. I arbetet ges läsaren en inblick i specialpedagogiska strategier och metoder som gynnar flickor med ADHD. Metoden för vår undersökning är halvstrukturerade intervjuer som utförts med 13 respondenter. Tre av intervjuerna ägde rum i Finland med personer med olika spetskompetenser. Övriga tio intervjuer hölls på flera platser i Sverige med personer som hade spets- eller erfarenhetsbaserad kompetens. Sammanfattningsvis tyder resultaten på att respondenterna var väl insatta i ADHD problematiken. De flesta påpekade att flickors problematik måste synliggöras. Tidig upptäckt och tidiga insatser kan minska riskbeteenden som depression, sexuellt missbruk eller utbrändhet.

Social exklusion av romer i Europa ökar. Media uppmärksammar romer som kommerfrån Central-och Östeuropa och bosätter sig tillfälligt på parkeringsplatser eller i stadensutkanter. Studien syftar till att belysa hur en grupp romer i Tjeckien uppfattar migrationoch vad de själva lägger i begreppet hem. Studien genofördes i norra Tjeckien, ett avÖsteuropeiska länder. Studien bygger på en kvalitativ intervju som forskningsansats.Informanterna rekryterades med bekvämlighetsurval och i studien ingår sex informanter.Det insamlade empiriska materialet är tolkat med postkolonial teori.

In the expansion rate of the national as well as the international market, the importance of trademark has been given a central matter. The definition of what can be considered a trademark has been widened. Today?s trademark law defines a trademark as something that can be graphically reproduced. Trademarks can there for contain names, words, numbers, letters or the shape of the goods itself or the packaging.

Today, many people have the need of contemplation due to higher stress levels in every day life compared to before. By examining the conditions of a secularized place of contemplation in greenbelts close to residential areas, I hope to contribute to a more balanced picture of how we utilize our greenbelts in the future. This kind of place is not a common phenomenon in our everyday outdoor environment.I have taken my starting-point in the traditional memorial and by that means been able to study the design of an existing delicate environment intended for mourning and contemplation. In this paper I review foremost the secularized place of contemplation in greenbelts close to residential areas from two central questions. First I examine its possibility to function as a place for mourning and contemplation.

This study is about which opinion active teachers are having when it comes to integrate religious traditions and ceremonies in their teaching. The aim is to study the religious traditional ceremonies part and how they are being defined in the Swedish classrooms in primary school. Together with literature, research and the discussion in this study, I came up to a few conclusions of how religious ceremonies will be integrated and how it looks like in Swedish classrooms. In this study of literature and research overview, the literatures are intended to provide an insight about how the Swedish school system went from a Christian education to a school that was separate from the church. In the chapter called Literature and research overview the literatures are written by scientists and therefore this chapter is based on research.

The main purpose of my essay is to inquire into the situation in the preparatory classes. The focus of interest in the essay is to see how new arrived pupils/children from Iraq integrate in the new school environment, foreign culture and what difficulties they come across during their period at the preparatory class. Such as language difficulties and how they manage with the traumatic memories from the war and the effect of that in their learning.I choose to do a qualitative survey and taking part in observing a preparatory class to see how they work. Thereafter, to see from a different perspective and understand the pupils more and perhaps go deeper with some questions I choose to interview some of the pupils. The responds I received gave me a more comprehensible idea of the struggle these children have been through and still go through in a daily basis.The result of this study illustrates the character of a preparatory class, and the central factors that occur in their education.

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.

The purpose of this study is to understand and get increased knowledge about what it means to see artists as brands. What are the typical assets and what kind of advantages and disadvantages are distinctive when it comes to applying a brand perspective on artists. Brands are an important part of our lives today, and the benefit of seeing a company as a brand has made that not only big companies are interested in building brands. Beyond companies even persons now want to become brands. The new perspective in seeing persons as brands is interesting and something that made us curious to investigate.

I dagens skola finns det många elever som är i behov av särskilda stödinsatser i form av ett åtgärds-program. I vår strävan efter en skola för alla bör och ska ett åtgärdsprogram fylla en central funktion i elevens och skolans utveckling. Vårt syfte är att undersöka den synliga sidan av åtgärdsprogrammet, hur man arbetar och upprättar åtgärdsprogram på två skolor i Mellansverige. För att få svar på våra ställda frågor har vi valt att använda oss av den kvalitativa metoden, både i analysavsnittet och intervjuavsnittet. Resultatet i vår undersökning visar på att åtgärdsprogrammen i många fall är likriktade och statiska, samma åtgärder och målsättningar upprättas för elever i behov av särskilt stöd.

AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this study was to see if there was any correlation between BMI and chronic pain among participants who underwent a behavioural medicine rehabilitation program at a pain clinic in the central part of Sweden. Method: The study was conducted as a quantitative descriptive study context and has used medical records with documented data from the participants who were part of a pain clinic rehabilitation programs in the years 2004-2005. Altogether there were 76 participants in these years and excluded was nine participants with BMI measurements were not included in the documentation. Main Results: Regarding the relationship between BMI and chronic pain there was no significant relationships. Participants who completed the behavioural medicine rehabilitation program, however, showed a lower value of BMI and the estimated pain in VAS from the first to the third which is the last time of measuring.

The world is increasingly coalescing, ecologically, economically and culturally. Many problems can no longer be solved within the own state borders and the limitation of the territorial state is obvious. Jürgen Habermas means that a world domestic politic without a world government is what this progress need. Therefore it is important that national interests become less central and the solidarity between people is given priority in international relations. The focus of this thesis is therefore a critical discourse analysis of the current position of the internationalisation of Swedish security and defence policy.