The purpose of this study is to focus on library service for children in a hospital, which in turn is seen in relation to a traditional children s library. Four aspects of library work were investigated. These aspects were working methods, partners of co-operation for the libraries, media policy (acquisition, use of the collection and circulation procedures), as well as programme activities for children.The research method was qualitative and comparative in nature, consisting of case studies of two libraries : (1) the library in a children s hospital, known as Bokskogen at Astrid Lindgren s children s hospital in Stockholm and (2) a traditional children s library, the children s department at Eslövs city library. In each library interviews were conducted. The investigation shows that the librarians in the hospital library must be more outreaching and active in order to stimulate children to use library materials.

When a company seeks to enter a new market, the multiple choices of possible new business relationships exist. Further, establishing new relationships is a time-consuming procedure associated with high uncertainty and high costs. Hence, if the firm does not succeed in pinpointing the most suitable business partners to collaborate with, the firm may both forfeit other possible good relationships, as well as resources invested. Based on this notion the aim of this thesis is to explore how a manufacturing company can base the selection of future dealership Business-to-Business partners by evaluating indicators of a possible business relationship?s potential to become successful. The choice of focusing on the Business-to-Business relationship between a manufacturer and a dealership company originates from being influenced by the issues facing the Swedish agricultural machinery manufacturer Väderstad-Verken AB, who is putting attention to explore the US market.

In a phonological assessment, the aim is to obtain systematic and reliable data of a child's speech output, which can then serve as a basis for a decision on an appropriate intervention (Wolk & Meisler, 1998). Whether phonological assessment should be derived from an analysis of picture-naming or a conversation with the child, and whether the two methods for elicitation generate equivalent results, has been debated among clinicians and researchers for an extended time (Masterson, Bernhardt & Hofheintz, 2005).The aim of the present study was to compare two methods of speech elicitation for phonological assessment: spontaneous conversation and picture-naming, respectively. In the study, the procedures have been used when assessing children with phonological disorders as well as children with typical language development. The results are presented using two levels of phonological analysis; degree of phonological impairment, in terms of percentage of phonemes correct (PPC), and type of phonological impairment, in terms of phonological simplification processes. Eighteen (18) children participated in the study, nine (9) with phonological impairment (age 3;10 ? 5;11), and nine with typical phonologic development (age 3;2 ? 4;6).

Denna uppsats tar avstamp i den ha?rda kritik som revisionsbyra?erna, och revisionsbranschen i allma?nhet, har fa?tt under de senaste a?ren. Syftet med uppsatsen a?r att underso?ka revisorers lojaliteter och vilken vikt de la?gger vid uppra?ttha?llandet av det professionella oberoendet. Vi underso?ker a?ven skillnader i lojaliteter och oberoende mellan tva? olika karria?rsteg pa? revisionsbyra?erna; partners och ansta?llda.

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) är ett tillstånd som uppkommer hos personer som har förlorat stora segment av tarmen vilket resulterar i malnutrition och de som har mindre än 2 meter tarm är mycket utsatta. Forskningen visar att det är många aspekter av livet som berörs för de personer som drabbats av SBS och det medför en förändrad livssituation för den sjuke personen. Förändringarna påverkar inte bara den som är drabbad utan även familjen, så som en partner. För att öka vårdarens förståelse för dessa partners situation är det viktigt att uppmärksamma och belysa deras upplevelse. Syftet med studien är att belysa partners upplevelse av att leva med någon som har SBS.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and identify a selected number of key factors in successfully implementing open innovation. More precisely, it looks at how value is maximized using open innovation practices. The scientific approach taken is based largely on the network perspective, which puts relations to other companies in focus. An extended view of the resource based view (RBV), different from the traditional one by taking also external resources into account, is in addition central to understanding the use of external resources to create internal value. The two main research questions strive to look at how the company locates relevant partners and what the relations that are established with these partners should look like to get the most of open innovation.

Syftet med denna systematiska litteraturstudie var att undersöka vilka copingstrategier som kvinnor med bröstcancer, deras partners och barn använde. De vetenskapliga artiklar som ligger till grund för litteraturstudiens resultat söktes på databaserna Elin@Dalarna, Wiley InterScience och PubMed. De valda artiklarnas vetenskaplighet granskades med modifierade versioner av Willman, Stoltz & Bahtsevani och Forsberg & Wengströms granskningsmallar. Resultatet av denna litteraturstudie visade att det fanns olika copingstrategier som användes för hantering av kvinnors bröstcancer. Flera studiers forskningsresultat visade att de copingstrategier som kvinnor med bröstcancer använde var religion, acceptans, att ha ett positivt synsätt, förnekelse, emotionellt stöd och undvikande.

This masters degree is a study of factors of success in a drug preventions work of change and model or method which could facilitate this work. The target group, which is in focus in this survey, is alcohol- and drug coordinators, also called prevention coordinators who?s main task is to develop and coordinate the preventive work in the alcohol and drugs area. My method of investigation is a combination of literature studies and a quantitative poll study with the target group, alcohol and drug presenters?, in Sweden.

Sjuksköterskor har en central roll i att hjälpa patienter och deras partners med problem relaterade till sexualitet. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva homo- och bisexuella personers upplevelser av vårdpersonals bemötande. Vetenskapliga artiklar analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys med manifest ansats. Analysen resulterade i sex kategorier: Att bli respekterad och uppmuntrad: Att det är betydelsefullt hur partners bemöts: Att vårdpersonal bemöter med heteronormativa förväntningar och tar avstånd: Att bli bemött med okunskap och att anses som sjuk: Att det är svårt att anförtro sig till vårdpersonal: Att vara orolig och rädd. Resultatet visade att homo- och bisexuella inte fick stöd från vårdpersonal och att de blev förlöjligade.

The overall aim of this study is to achieve the increased knowledge of the use of the counselling methods in the student counsellors' work and to find the possibilities for development. Two questions are used as guidelines:Which counselling methods do student counsellors use in their work in schools?How can the current education for the student counsellors be supplemented?The analysis of the interviews with six counsellors in Stockholm's administrative province showed that even uneducated counsellors use the same counselling methods as the educated ones. All these methods which are used remind of the known counselling methods that are the part of the current education for the student counsellors.In general counsellors experienced that the education for the counsellors should be supplemented within the field children with special needs and that conversation's methodology is the essence of the counselling work..

Bakgrund: Varje år inträffar det cirka 330 miljoner fall av sexuellt överförbara infektioner i världen. I Sverige har klamydiafallen tredubblats de senaste tio åren. Sveriges befolkning har blivit sämre på att använda kondom vid sexuella samlag. Syftet: Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva riskbeteenden kring sexuellt överförbara infektioner bland ungdomar och unga vuxna i Sverige. Metod: Artiklar samlades in genom en systematisk litteratursökning i databasen Pubmed.

This study uses qualitative research consisting of six semi-structural interviews of treatment workers who, in various capacities, have worked with men who use violence against their female partners. The purpose has been to show what the treatment counselor understand to be the reasons behind the men?s violence, what kind of backgrounds and problems they believe these abusers have and, lastly, how they view the male abusers as clients. The empirical data was analyzed through four perspectives and explanatory models derived from the past thirty years of Scandinavian research on the reasons behind men?s violence against women.

Studiens syfte var att skildra anhörigas individuella upplevelser av att vårda sin partner på äldre dar. Teman som berördes var upplevelser kring hur situationen uppkommit, relationen, vardagen, stöd och den egna hälsan. Metoden var kvalitativ med en fenomenologisk ansats. För att besvara frågeställningarna intervjuades fyra personer, tre kvinnor och en man. De anhöriga var vid tidpunkten av deras partners insjuknande pensionerade.

Antalet äldre personer ökar i samhället. Risken att drabbas av demenssjukdom är större med stigande ålder. De närståendes dagliga liv påverkas när partnern blir sjuk, det dagliga livet och roller förändras. Den närstående får ofta ta ett stort ansvar förden sjuke partnerns liv. Sjuksköterskans uppgift är att se både den sjukes och den närståendes behov.

The aim of this master?s study is to examine the function of the public library in the local community at present. I have searched for the answers to the following questions: Which position has the public library in the local cultural policy? What characterizes each library and which are the priorities? What is the local profile of the public library? What cooperation partners does the public library have and what do they mean to the library? Does the public library intensify the local community in any way? To answer this, I have made three qualitative case studies. Interviews and collection of documents were carried out in three different communities.