Christendom has under a long period of time in Swedish history been the central component in legitimating the monarchs' power, a continuous process than can be clearly observed through the customs of royal coronation and baptism rites. However, during the 20th century those close ties between the state and the church of Sweden have been dissolving at a steady rate, alongside a growing societal democratization and modernization process. Officially the monarch still had a clear constitutional power legitimated through the transcendent, but unofficially his power was in reality heavily reduced. How do the Swedish monarchy relate to a rapidly changing society and secularization process? This pilot study investigates this relation by analyzing the news reports of the royal coronation and baptism rites between 1858 and 2012 from two leading newspapers, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter.

The objective of this report was to analyse and compare vulnerability and preparation in Swedish municipal drinking water production, in case the commonly used water sources were inoperative. Methods used were a questionnaire and a less extensive study of regulations for water protection areas. The questionnaire was answered by 41 Swedish municipalities. A handful of them were companies co-owned by a few municipalities. Only one out of four municipalities had source protection areas to all their water sources and for many sources the protection was not satisfactory.

The objective of the master thesis is to analyze how future business administrators relate to discriminatory structures during their period of studies. Eight students studying business administration have been interviewed. The empirical material is analyzed with theories from the field of research of Critical Whiteness Studies and Feminist Organization Theory. The theories are chosen from a Situated Knowledge perspective. It turns out that the interviewed students have a conception of an ideal student who studies business administration.

Studiens syfte har varit att få en fördjupad förståelse för partnerkonflikter vid ojämn ägarfördelning i internationella joint ventures (IJVs). Syftet adresseras med två forskningsfrågor; (1) När IJVs har ojämn ägarfördelning, vilka partnerkonflikter riskerar att uppstå? (2) När IJVs har ojämn ägarfördelning, vad är särskilt relevant att beakta för minoritetsägare för att undvika partnerkonflikter? För att bemöta syftet och besvara forskningsfrågorna har studien haft en explorativ karaktär med en induktiv forskningsansats, där en fallstudie har undersökts kvalitativt. Primärdata bestod av tolv semistrukturerade intervjuer och sekundärdata bestod av mejlkonversationer samt formella dokument, såsom avtal och statuter.Resultatet från studien visar att partnerkonflikter riskerar att uppstå i avtals olika dimensioner; termspecificitet, anpassningsbarhet och ansvarsförbindelser. Det visar även att partnerkonflikterna i avtalet påverkas av personer i IJV:et samt omgivningen som avtalen ska fungera i.

In this Master we have studied classification system and alternative arrangements of books in a public library. The public libraries in Sweden use the SAB classification system. This system was created nearly a hundred years ago in order to suit the librarians and the Swedish society at the time. Today many library users find the system difficult to understand. This and other factors have inspired a number of libraries to arrange books in an alternative and more user-friendly way.

When constructing a road the risk of emission of substances from the used materials to the surrounding environment has to be evaluated. The aim of this study is to present a proposal for how to evaluate the risk of contamination as a result of emission from the materials in a road construction. The study is based on literature studies, an inventory and a questionnaire that examines how experts in governmental agencies, industries and universities evaluate the risk of contamination. The inventory indicates that guidelines for evaluating the risk of emission from secondary materials in a road construction do not exist. The conclusions from the questionnaire are: that there is no common way to evaluate the risk of contamination as a result of emission from materials in the road construction, there is no uniform interpretation of the terms "minor" and "significant" risk of contamination and that the evaluation is subjective.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between physical activity and perceived stress, energy and musculoskeletal disorders among office-workers and warehouse-workers and also to see if there were any differences depending on work-place and gender. The method that was used to collect data was three different validated questionnaires that measured stress and energy (the Stress-Energy questionnaire), musculoskeletal disorders (intensity and localization of pain, a Pain Drawing questionnaire with a VAS-scale) and physical activity (IPAQ ? the short version). Eighty-eight workers participated in the study. Forty-seven of them were office-workers and forty-one were warehouse-workers.

For a long period of time there has been an extensive documentation of how things are presumed not to be at our workplace. However there is little knowledge on how it is supposed to be, what makes us feel good and what makes us retain our well-being. The aim of this study was to survey the attitudes towards factors of well-being at the workplace among personnel at four institutions at Kristianstad University. The work method used in this study is quantitative and a questionnaire survey was carried out to produce an overall picture. The majority considered praise from manager and the opportunity of development discussions of great importance.

It is important to identify the consequences of alcohol consumption among university students since over-consumption can lead to health problems and poorer academic performance. The following personality factors, neuroticism, conscientiousness and extraversion, have in previous studies shown to be related to alcohol consumption  and shown to be associated with the university students' alcohol use and living arrangements. This study examines the following question; Is there a link between university students' alcohol consumption, and;1) the personality factors neuroticism, conscientiousness, extraversion?2) their living situation?3) personality factors and living situation together?Participating in this survey was one hundred university students with a mean age of 23.4 years (SD = 2.6). To examine participants' personality, alcohol consumption and living arrangements, the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (Costa, McCrae, 2003) questionnaire was used and the questionnaire also contained self-constructed questions about drinking habits, living arrangements and demographic questions. This study's results indicate that neuroticism, conscientiousness, living situation and extraversion predicts alcohol consumption (R2 = .354, p <.001). Thus, students who have these personality traits and circumstances one by one or together have a increased risk for alcohol over-consumption..

Bakgrund: En rikstäckande undersökning från 1998 visar att var tredje kvinna mellan 18-64 år någon gång har blivit utsatt för våld av tidigare make/sambo samt att drygt var tionde kvinna har utsatts för våld av den make/sambo hon lever med. Att bli utsatt för våld av sin partner har visat sig få både fysiska och psykiska hälsokonsekvenser, och våldsutsatta kvinnor söker sig oftare till sjukvården än icke våldsutsatta. Kroppsuppfattning är ett vedertaget begrepp inom sjukgymnastiken och syftar till den mentala bild en individ har av sin kropp. Studier visar att kroppsuppfattningen påverkas hos kvinnor som blir utsatta för våld. Syfte: Att beskriva kroppsuppfattning hos våldsutsatta kvinnor i heterosexuella parrelationer.

Our purpose with this paper has been to analyse and discuss how motivation of the personnel affects the service quality in service companies. This has been done through two studies; a literature study with existing theories and an empirical study on the divisions of Lyckohjul and Shopping at Liseberg. In the introduction of this paper we put the question of research; why is there a need for work of motivation in service companies. When collecting information we used literature briefing, a questionnaire study and depth interviews. The literature briefing focused on the well-tried and most dominating theories on the subject motivation.

Studiens syfte har varit att få en fördjupad förståelse för partnerkonflikter vid ojämn ägarfördelning i internationella joint ventures (IJVs). Syftet adresseras med två forskningsfrågor; (1) När IJVs har ojämn ägarfördelning, vilka partnerkonflikter riskerar att uppstå? (2) När IJVs har ojämn ägarfördelning, vad är särskilt relevant att beakta för minoritetsägare för att undvika partnerkonflikter? För att bemöta syftet och besvara forskningsfrågorna har studien haft en explorativ karaktär med en induktiv forskningsansats, där en fallstudie har undersökts kvalitativt. Primärdata bestod av tolv semistrukturerade intervjuer och sekundärdata bestod av mejlkonversationer samt formella dokument, såsom avtal och statuter.Resultatet från studien visar att partnerkonflikter riskerar att uppstå i avtals olika dimensioner; termspecificitet, anpassningsbarhet och ansvarsförbindelser. Det visar även att partnerkonflikterna i avtalet påverkas av personer i IJV:et samt omgivningen som avtalen ska fungera i.

This paper intends to examine how parents think and reflect on gender issues when they borrow books for their children at the library. The theory applied is Yvonne Hirdman?s theory of a gender system. A questionnaire was made available at the Children's department of Uppsala City Library in February, 2010. The material was compiled and analyzed with the intention to try to detect trends, patterns and themes, rather than statistics and hard data.Parents in the study perceive themselves as gender-conscious.

Author: Julia Falk and Linnéa LinderothTitle: ?Am I being me? Or am I being a girl with Asperger´s?? A qualitative study of the role relationships have for young women with Asperger´s syndrome identity [Translated title]Supervisor: Melker LaboryAssessor: Ulf Drugge During adolescence, relationships are important for young people and studies show that having a partner is something that becomes more important, especially for young women. Creating and maintaining good relationships can be problematic, but can this problem be different for a young woman with a neuropsychiatric disability as Aspergers syndrome? A person with Aspergers syndrome often has difficulties with communication and interaction with other people. But the syndrome is also characterized with special interests, different language management and difficulties with sudden changes.

 Abstract The purpose with this study is to study the individual setting of salary rates among branch heads. We have chosen to look deeper into which criteria that are the base for the branch heads? individual setting of wage rates within geriatric care and the care of disabled people. One other aspect we have looked into is how the setting of salary rates appears from a gender perspective. The empirical material in our thesis consists of both qualitative and quantitative methods in the shape of a questionnaire study and three open interviews.