Dementia may cause difficulties in communicating. People suffering from dementia are therefore often described as being unable to take part in meaningful conversation. The responsibility to create understanding in a conversation is shared by all participants. By means of different strategies, participants in conversation can construct understanding through collaboration. How these strategies are utilized in conversation where one or more of the participants suffer from dementia is relatively unknown.

Title: Strategies for competition ? a study of the Swedish contact lenses market.Authors: Pernilla AArskog and Annika Lange.Background: As a market gets more mature and the competition increases, it is more important for a company to apply the right strategic perspective. There are four fundamental strategic perspectives for a service-oriented business: a core product-, a price-, an image- and a service perspective. This study is a about service management and take its point from the theories from the Nordic School about strategies for competition, customer value, perceived customer quality and customer loyalty.Purpose: The main purpose with this study is to analyze and evaluate how the actors at the Swedish market of contact lenses should compete to gain further competitive advantages.Method: The study includes four qualitative interviews with two traditional opticians and two Internet based businesses, but also a survey with 106 contact lens users is included.Analysis: In the analyse part of this thesis it was concluded that the traditional opticians conception about their customer not agrees with what the customer evaluate as important. Many of the customers have thought about changing their optician, and besides that do not recommend their optician, and can there for not be categorize as loyal customers.

Syftet med studien är att belysa skillnader mellan pojkars och flickors olika skriftspråk mot bakgrund av en djupanalys av elevtexter skrivna av två klasser i år sex. Totalt antal texter att analysera blev 49, varav 28 var skrivna av flickor. Texterna skrevs utifrån en detaljrik bild för att, till studien, få ett material att analysera och redovisa som kunde svara mot vårt syfte. I studien undersöks i vilken mån pojkar respektive flickor använder första person singular samt i vilken utsträckning de beskriver olika relationer i sina texter. Resultatet av studien, som behandlade första person singular, visade på en skillnad mellan de två grupperna, alltså inte mellan pojkar och flickor.

Today therapy dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) service people more than ever and different categories of work places use therapy dogs to help their caretakers. Many studies have been made on the positive effects in patients when they are given contact with a dog, but very little have been done on how the dog experience its situation and what kind of behaviour a therapy dog shows during its working days. This work was made to investigate the behaviours that educated therapy dogs in Sweden showed when they were in contact with a caretaker and to find out if the dogs showed any signs of stress or some other kind of discomfort. To do this a survey was sent out to 17 educated therapy dog handlers in Sweden that together had 18 educated therapy dogs. The survey contained 39 questions about the daily work of the therapy dogs when they were together with caretakers and some questions about the therapy dogs spare time. A question about what kind of dog breed the therapy dog handlers had were also in the survey to investigate if some breeds were more usual as therapy dogs.

Under det senaste året har ett nytt koncept för utlåning av pengar mellan privatpersoner utvecklats på kreditmarknaden. Det består av ett nätverk där de som behöver låna pengar annonserar på internet hur mycket de vill låna och till vilken ränta. På motsvarande sätt lägger andra personer ut bud för utlåning. Då låntagare och långivare enats om belopp och ränta, sker en lånetransaktion mellan dem precis som i en traditionell bank. En mellanhand ser till att allting är säkert, rättvist och enkelt att hantera.

Many persons with long-term illness experience a decline in their quality of life. Perceived Quality of Life is a subjective term based on prior personal experiences and is highly individual. The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate perceived Quality of Life in persons with Multiple Sclerosis and to get knowledge if physical therapy changes a person?s quality of life. Three women and three men with a range of disability were interviewed in depth.

ABSTRACTAim: The aim of this study is to chart the experiences of Swedish general psychiatric care on a Swedish University hospital from a relative?s point of view. The study focus on how they are meet, satisfaction with and participation in the care. The study is done as an improvement project.Methods: The study was conducted by performing semi-structured interviews with eight close relatives to patients on a general psychiatric ward. The interviews lasted for 20-40 minutes.Results: The result shows that relatives are satisfied with the way they are meet by the staff on the ward, that they appreciate staff that are open, down to earth and are inviting to form a good relationship.

This study investigates augmented reality using third person perspective and what precision can be achieved by using this method. There have been prior studies in regards to precision using augmented reality, however studies using third person perspective is scarce. This study presents a solution using a static camera capturing the user as well as the plane to augment from behind. This augmented image is then transferred to a handheld device that is held by the user. Using this method the user will be free to manipulate and work with the plane without removing the device that captures the scene, a common problem when using visual reference markers in augmented reality.

ABSTRACTIntroduction: An increasing number of patients undergo surgery under local anesthesia and are thereforeawake during the procedure. Nursing care that is provided to these patients can differ from those thatreceive general anesthesia. Previous research has focused on patients? general experiences of being awakeintraoperative. But there is no research that focuses on patients perceptions of security.

Närstående till en person med allvarlig kronisk sjukdom lever med känslor av rädsla, ilska, ångest, maktlöshet och skuld. Även deras närståendes relationer påverkas och vardagen förändras. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person med allvarlig kronisk sjukdom. Det gjordes en litteratursökning där tio studier valdes ut, som analyserades med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med manifest ansats. Analysen resulterade i sex kategorier; att måste ta ett större ansvar i vardagen, att hitta sätt att hantera den nya situationen, att behöva stöd för att förstå och hantera sjukdomen och den sjuke, att känna sig otillräcklig, att sakna de relationer som har varit, att vara rädd och orolig inför döden och framtiden.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur människor tolkar handlingsförklaringar beroende på bedömarens perspektiv och innehållet i handlingsförklaringen. Undersökningen genomfördes kvantitativt genom en enkätundersökning som baserades på en dialog mellan två personer. Den ena personen utför en handling vilket den andra personen ger olika handlingsförklaringar på. Handlingsförklaringarna delas upp mellan tre olika förklaringsmodeller vilka är skälförklaringar samt interna och externa bakgrundförklaringar. Varje handlingsförklaring följs sedan upp av frågor där respondenten får tolka den aktuella handlingsförklaringen.

I denna litteraturstudie beskrivs upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person med psykotisk sjukdom. Litteraturstudien är baserad på nio stycken vetenskapliga artiklar som är analyserade med en kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i sex kategorier, som på olika sätt skildrar upplevelsen av att vara närstående när en person drabbas av psykotisk sjukdom. Bland de upplevelser som skildras framkommer bland annat att stigman kring sjukdomen utgjorde ett stort problem för den närstående, samt även avsaknaden av stöd och information från personer i sjukvården. Inom båda dessa områden finns det mycket att göra inom omvårdnaden.

The aim of the study is to describe social workers discretion when it comes to the relation between children placed away from home and their biological parents.The study describes how the social worker designs the contacts with the biological parents, for instance the extension for the actual meeting. The results are based on six interviews conducted with social workers who work with foster children. They have responded to questions related to the contact between children and their biological parent. The questions are based on eight vignettes. The contents of the vignettes show different conditions that affect the contact, for example age and foster care attitudes The results of the study have been compared to other previous research in discretion of the social worker and contacts between children and their biological parents.In summary the study shows that there is  high degree of independence for the social workers designing their work and that their level of discretion.

Behaviour problems are often behaviours that cat owners don´t like, but are normal to the cat. The reason to why cat owners experience certain feline behaviours as problematic is probably due to the current practice in cat housing. The ways that cats are kept today causes somewhat of a compromise between cat and owner and inhibits the expressions of the cat's natural and normal behaviour. The cat owners may misunderstand their cats behaviour, for example the cat owners believe that their cats perform certain behaviours because of feelings of guilt, hate, revenge or maybe to protest against something or someone. An animal hospital may help solve behaviour problems, but also help the cat owners to undstand their cat´s behaviour in an other perspective. The aim of this study is to investigate the need of a cat ethologist in animal hospitals.

The topic of this essay is the expected effects that can come during and after a mega event and how the local impact may affect the local community and the citizen. This essay concerns a forthcoming mega event, the Olympic Games that will be held in London 2012. The area that the Olympics will be held in is Stratford that is located about twenty minutes from the central of London by the underground. The Olympic Games is one of the largest mega events with its millions of visitors. The purpose of this essay is to study what is expected after the mega event has taken place in London.