Studien har utvecklats som en del av ett samarbete mellan Taiwan, Finland och Sverige där avsikten är att jämföra elever i olika åldrars uppfattningar angående elektriska kretsar. Syftet med den här kvalitativa studien är att ta reda på vilka uppfattningar svenska elever i olika åldrar har angående den elektriska kretsen. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Totalt har nio elever i år 5, i år 9 och på gymnasiets 3:e år intervjuats. Intervjuerna har analyserats dels utifrån Kärrqvists (1985) förklaringsmodeller som elever har uppvisat angående elektriska kretsar och dels med hjälp av en fenomenografisk metod.

This paper examines the film distribution and exhibition sector in Europe. The general analysis of these sectors? situation was made. Moreover, the comparative and more in depth analysis of three countries by the Porter?s five forces model was made; These were United Kingdom, France and Denmark.

This is a study about a company in Norrköping, called Stadium AB, and its first steps into the global market. We have studied how the conditions of the company have changed during their expansion. This study is not written from the viewpoint of business economics, it is rather a study from a cultural and social studies perspective. The study deals with subjects such as the globalization of society, organizational theories and leadership. The empiric material consists of Stadium?s staff magazine Tracks, the company?s swedish homepage on the Internet and an interview with Sussi Calås-Jonsson, Chief of the Department of Information at Stadium AB.

The main purpose of this C-essay is to answer the question: What have been the consequences and effects of the merit point system on language studies and the parties concerned (teachers, students and principals) during the school year of 2010/11?The merit point system is the result of a political decision and was implicated for the first time in the Swedish upper secondary school during the school year 2010/2011. Being a completely new phenomenon it is of great interest and importance to study its effects.The study in this essay also aims to verify, falsify or nullify two hypotheses very often referred to in the political discussions regarding the merit point system:The merit point system will replace affection and interest as main reasons for language studies in upper secondary school and cause a rectification amongst the students choices of additional courses.The merit point system will have a segregating effect upon society and make it harder for people to rise in society through education in the future.A verification of these hypotheses would imply the appearance of an increased rectification amongst students as well as an orientation towards an in the future more segregated society.The empiric material has been collected and examined with qualitative as well as quantitative methods (questionnaires and interviews) and belongs epistemologically to the phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions..

The aim of this Masters thesis is to investigate how the image of the Public library is described in the Swedish national library politics, and compare it with the image given of the public library in the Danish national library politics. The method used for this analysis is a comparative discourse analysis of the homepages produced by the Swedish central government Regeringen and Kulturrådet and its Danish counterpart Kulturministeriet and Biblioteksstyrelsen. Theories on postmodernity have been used to analyze how the Swedish and the Danish central governments image of the Public library corresponds with a changing society and the changing behaviour of the public library users. Our analysis concludes that the traditional view of the Public library as an institution mainly concerned with literature and reading still is of great significance in the discourse of the Swedish central government. In contrast, the Danish central government presents a more postmodern view of the public library as an institution that is part of the Information- and the Knowledge society.

Plikten att revidera är i dagsläget tvingande för alla aktiebolag i Sverige, oavsett företagets storlek eller omsättning. I övriga EU är läget ett annat då revisionsplikten är avskaffad i alla länder förutom de nordiska. Ett förslag på att även avskaffa revisionsplikten för små och medelstora aktiebolag ligger nu hos regeringen i Sverige, Finland och Danmark. Detta är ett debatterat ämne och vi har i denna uppsats valt att studera vad ett antal mindre företag i Norrbotten anser om att slopa revisionsplikten, hur de tror styrelsens arbete kommer påverkas samt om detta skulle medföra några organisationsförändringar. Resultatet i uppsatsen blev att samtliga företag var tämligen omedvetna om att andra små och mikro företag i EU inte har någon plikt att revidera. Trots att det i dessa länder visat sig fungera bra, var de flesta av de valda företagsledarna pessimistiska till ett avskaffande av revisionsplikten och efterfrågar även fortsättningsvis hård kontroll i samtliga företag.

Plikten att revidera är i dagsläget tvingande för alla aktiebolag i Sverige, oavsett företagets storlek eller omsättning. I övriga EU är läget ett annat då revisionsplikten är avskaffad i alla länder förutom de nordiska. Ett förslag på att även avskaffa revisionsplikten för små och medelstora aktiebolag ligger nu hos regeringen i Sverige, Finland och Danmark. Detta är ett debatterat ämne och vi har i denna uppsats valt att studera vad ett antal mindre företag i Norrbotten anser om att slopa revisionsplikten, hur de tror styrelsens arbete kommer påverkas samt om detta skulle medföra några organisationsförändringar. Resultatet i uppsatsen blev att samtliga företag var tämligen omedvetna om att andra små och mikro företag i EU inte har någon plikt att revidera.

This essay focuses on how trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation is defined and dealt with in the Nordic countries. Agreements on how trafficking for sexual exploitations should be dealt with is presented in reports and Action plans from the European Union and United nations amongst others. In this essay we will compare four national Action plans made by governments by Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway between 2005- 2011 to each other. Mainly we have been looking at similarities and differences in the different Action plans. The essay is based on Discourse theory and discursive struggle and we have been looking at similarities and differences in how trafficking is dealt with through language.

The aim of this thesis is to seek understanding to how a national identity is constructed. Five women and five men at the age of 21-37 years old have been interviewed during November 2005 and January 2006. All of them lived Oslo at the time. The informants have been divided into two groups, `Swedish immigrants` and `Norwegian immigrants`, none of the people interviewed is ethnic `Swedish` or `Norwegian`. The empirical material has been analysed with the help of Billig´s theory about banal nationalism and Laclau and Mouffe´s discourse analysis.

Krigsslutet 1809 innebar en mängd förändringar för befolkningen i Tornedalen. Gränsen mellan Sverige och det ryska Storhertigdömet Finland skulle ritas upp och kom att dela området i två delar. Förhandlingarna kring den nya gränsen kom att dra ut på tiden ? inte förrän 16 år efter krigsslutet var processen avslutad. Uppsatsen fokuserar på denna gränsdragning, som kan liknas vid en förlängd fredsprocess.

The construction industry develops at a high pace today. Because of this the construction companies has to rethink and try to develop at the same pace. One of the biggest challenges in the construction industry today is to improve the logistics since improved logistics leads to lower costs. This is something that the construction companies have started to realize and they are beginning to invest more money in order to improve the logistics. It is especially important to have good logistics when the conjuncture turns for the worse.

The master thesis ?Mechanical Integration of an IR-detector in a Micro Cooler? has beenperformed at FLIR Systems AB in Danderyd. FLIR Systems is a world leader in the design,manufacture and marketing of thermal imaging camera systems.The thesis project is divided into to two areas, Production Method and Noise.The Production Method concerns the positioning of a detector on the cold finger within the IRcamera.The detector has to be positiond with very high accuracy at the center of the cold finger,so it can be placed in line with the optical axis to avoid movement of the picture during zooming.The positioning of the detector is at present done with the help of specially designed guides on aplate on top of the cold finger. The design workes well but the special machining needed for thisplate is very expensive.The goal concerning the production method was to derive a new more cost effective method forthe assembling and positioning of the detector on the cold finger by replacing the guides on theplate with a reusable equipment or some other alignement operation.Several concept ideas have been generated with the help of concept generation methods in theform of concept classification trees and concept combinational tables. Two of these conceptswere selected to be further refined.

Background: The speech- and language deficit aphasia affects 12 000 persons annually in Sweden. Aphasia is caused by injury in the brain and the most common etiology is stroke. According to the tool for describing and assessing aphasia, A-FROM (Kagan et al., 2008), the four following aspects of aphasia need to be considered: severity of aphasia, participation in life situations, communication and language environment and personal factors. Several different interventions and treatments can be performed in every domain. There is scientific evidence for interventions performed by speech and language pathologists; however, the question is yet being discussed since results are unambiguous.Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to investigate which aphasia interventions performed by speech and language pathologists that are supported by evidence.

Commonly held dietary guidelines discourage full-fat dairy consumption due its to high levels of saturated fatty acids, which are believed to aversely influence cardiovascular disease risk. Cardiovascular diseases cause more than one third of deaths in the developed world. With dairy often providing a large part of energy and nutrients in Western diets, research into its effects on human health is warranted. Several recent studies have suggested a protective role of dairy in the development of cardiometabolic disease. However, many of these have used imprecise methods of dietary assessment, based on questionnaires or interviews. Biomarkers are emerging as a means of evaluating diet in a more objective way. Currently used dairy fat biomarkers are minor fatty acid constituents of dairy that preferably are unique to dairy and not influenced by endogenous metabolism.

Arbetet syftar till att undersöka hur inkubatorer understödjer tillväxt för sina företag samt att också beskriva hur företag i inkubatorer använder, upplever och värderar tjänster hos inkubatorn. Resultaten från undersökningen kommer att jämföras med två tidigare studier, den ena utförd 2004 i Finland respektive den andra utförd 2005 i Sverige. Metodansatsen som har använts består av både en kvantitativ och kvalitativ del. Som underlag för studien har vi samlat in data från 52 slumpmässigt utvalda företag genom webbenkäter samt genomfört 6 djupintervjuer med 3 inkubatorer respektive 3 företag. Samtliga företag härrör från inkubatorer, teknik- och forskningsparker anslutna till SiSP, Swedish Incubators and Science Parks.