Sustainability reports have during the last decade had a strong development. Both in terms of establishing a sustainability assurance, in its form, and get it assured together with standards, principles and regulations which organisations and accountants have utilized. The growth of sustainability reports and the choice of getting them assured have in particular favoured the accounting business. Due to this result, some critics have voiced that assuring a sustainability report gain accounting firms more than it gains the actual organisation. Other say that it is necessary in order to increase the credibility and the eligibility of the report, while it also has become a requirement from stakeholders.

Value stream mapping is a tool that is frequently used by many different companies. It is a great tool used to achieve the work that follows the theories of lean production. The tool is used, however, only frequent on the factory floor and the method is also designed based on this type of use.An interest of applying the method on administrative parts of the company has occurred lately. Administrative parts of the company refers to the part that does all the planning such as purchasing, receiving orders, customer contact, contact with factory floor and other work that is made around the actual manufacturing. But the knowledge about applying value stream mapping on the planning part of the company is lacking because the method is relatively new.In this work, a comparison is made between the introduction of value stream analysis on production and planning.

This study will focus on how patients that suffer from self-injurious behaviours experience the relation between their self and body according to some professionals. The purpose is to enlighten why a person who has mental problems chooses to injure his or her body. We believe that the reason behind this is based on the early attachment between the parent and child. We also believe that a person only continues with this behaviour if he or she gains from it. The research questions this study raises are:· How does a person with self-injurious behaviour experience the relationship between their body and their self?· What is the effect of self-injurious behaviour on the body and what is the effect on the relationship between their body and their self.· How did the relationship between body and self evolve?This study is qualitative and is based on interviews from our respondents of whom all work or have worked with self-injurious behavioural patients.

On the first January 2009 the official animal welfare control were transferred from the municipalities to the County Administrative board. With this transition, some changes occurred for those who work as animal welfare inspectors. The aim for this study was to examine farmers' view on the transition between the municipalities and County Administrative board, in order to compare the two authorities. I have also studied the farmers view about animal welfare inspectors' knowledge, both theoretical and practical. The questionnaire also included questions about farmers' view on animal welfare legislation.

När en person drabbas av hjärntumör sker det inte bara stora förändringar i den sjukes liv utan även för närstående som finns runt om kring. Närstående har en betydande roll som kan liknas med vårdgivare för den sjuke. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva upplevelser av att vara närstående till en person som drabbats av hjärntumör. Tretton vetenskapliga studier analyserades med hjälp av kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i fem slutliga kategorier; att känna sig splittrad i en övermäktig situation, livet känns osäkert och krävande, att ge stöd och hopp till den sjuke, komma till insikt om omgivningens betydelse samt förändrat liv leder till ett nytt normalt för familjen.

Bakgrund: Stroke är en sjukdom som innefattar olika skador som uppstår i hjärnan som orsakas av en emboli eller en trombos som täpper till kroppens blodkärl där en förträngning finns. Detta gör att hjärnans celler inte får syre. Cellerna dör och en skada uppstår. Tre av fyra som insjuknat i stroke får kommunikationssvårigheter i form av afasi som resulterar i svårigheter att tala och förstå. Tidigare forskning har visat att personer som har afasi är beroende av den icke-verbala kommunikationen.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka när den svenska skattskyldigheten upphör. För att ge uppsatsen ett internationellt perspektiv undersöks vilka regler som gäller för att skatt-skyldigheten skall inträda i Storbritannien. Uppsatsen behandlar också hur en persons hemvist avgörs när han anses som bosatt i både Sverige och Storbritannien.En person som är bosatt eller stadigvarande vistas i Sverige är obegränsat skattskyldig i Sverige. Även den som är bosatt utomlands, men som tidigare har varit bosatt i Sverige och som fortfarande har väsentlig anknytning hit är obegränsat skattskyldig i Sverige enligt 3 kap 3 § inkomstskattelagen (1999:1229). Att en person är obegränsat skattskyldig innebär att han måste betala skatt i Sverige på alla sina inkomster, även om inkomsterna härrör från utlandet (3 kap 8 §).

The most dominating channel for communication, connecting companies and customers, during the 1900 century was those who included either physical contact or phone contact. However, when Internet started to make its way as a channel for communication, a whole new opportunity opened up for the companies. Since then Internet has grown to be an important part for any company that wants to gain market shares. One of those markets is the market of travelling.This paper discusses the Swedish industry of travelling, and different travel organizers use of Internet as a mediate for long-term relationships. The paper is built on a comparison between three companies that all distributes journeys, this is to examine the Internet communications effect on the electronic relationship (e-relation) with customers.Three travel organizers with similar visions and objectives are compared in this paper, these are Apollo, Fritidsresor and Ving.

I Sverige drabbas varje år ca 150 000 personer av någon form av demenssjukdom. Demenssjukdom innebär vanligen minnesstörningar och personlighetsförändringar för dem som drabbas. Ur ett systemteoretiskt perspektiv påverkas även anhöriga när någon insjuknar i sjukdom och de anhöriga till personer med demenssjukdom kan få omorganisera hela sin vardag för att upprätthålla den tillvaro de lever i. Syftet var att beskriva anhörigas upplevda erfarenheter kring att leva med en person med demenssjukdom. Metoden som användes var systematisk litteraturstudie.

 The sawmill industry is a relative fragmented industry that is in an economic upswing andwith a hard competition. The customers have high demands on their suppliers and the highcustomer demand make it necessary for the companies to make a streamlining in planningand production. For that reason it is very important that the planning- and productionprocesses aren?t to complex and with a simple structure.The purpose of this report is to study and map out a marked out part of a planning- andproduction process, from adjust works to final delivery, at a company in the sawmill industry.Different methods have been used for the report, among others interviews and subordinatedmaterial.We have mapped out a marked out part of the planning- and production process at theCompany. This part we have studied, and we have analysed the process it self and otherthings connected to the process.We see the planning- and production process in the Company as complex.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om det finns skillnader mellan kvinnor och män när det gäller utsatthet för negativa konsekvenser av andras drickande. Tidigare studier har påvisat att man kan bli negativt påverkad på många olika sätt men huruvida det skiljer sig för män och kvinnor är mindre utforskat. Som underlag används data från en frågeundersökning riktad till 2033 respondenter; 1011 män och 1022 kvinnor. De negativa konsekvenser som studeras i denna studie är följande: huruvida man blivit antastad eller besvärad av berusad person på offentlig plats eller privata miljöer, om man blivit fysiskt skadad eller fått ägodelar förstörda av berusad person, om man blivit utskälld eller förolämpad av berusad person samt om man blivit rädd för berusad person eller hållits vaken om natten på grund av oväsen orsakad av berusad person. Förutom att studera könsskillnader "i sig" kommer betydelsen av andra variabler att undersökas såsom ålder, utbildning, boendeort och egna alkoholvanor.

People?s perceptions about health are very complex. In today?s society there is a moral value in being healthy, and a healthy person is seen as a person with strong willpower and self-discipline. But people also tend to go against the norm in the society to experience autonomy and therefore choses to live unhealthy.

The purpose with this examination is to build a measureequipment to AerotechTelub AB (AT), who will registrate fault in SRAM-memory in contact with cosmic radiation. The equipment will be created around developcard from Memec Design with FPGA from Xilinx. The logic in the FPGA will be implemented with the hardwaredescribed language VHDL. The SRAM-memory that will be tested is build in CMOS-teknologi. The memorycells will be loaded with a predecided bitpattern.

Competence Portals are software tools that are intended to make it easier for persons that have had no previous contact to find and contact each other. The portals can address areas ranging from finding an expert within an organisation to the marketing of the competence of a region or a research centre to other organisations. The purpose of the thesis is to examine the necessity of Competence Portals in research-intensive organisations. Important characteristics of the information in such portals have been identified and used as a basis for recommendations regarding how Competence Portals could be designed. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on the task of finding a source of knowledge within an organisation.

This master thesis deals with the problem of integrated libraries. The number of integrated public and school libraries has significantly increased over time. These libraries are integrated for different reasons, most often because of economic considerations. The goal of the thesis is to investigate librarians´ understanding and perceptions of the professional role in this type of integrated libraries. I have investigated how librarians see and interpret their own professional role, and what factors influence their perceptions in an integrated library.The three main questions are: How do the librarians explain their professional role in an integrated library? How does their professional role change because of the fact that they work in an integrated environment? What factors, according to the librarians, influence and/or change the professional role mostly? The data has been collected through interviews with eight librarians at integrated libraries.