This Master?s thesis is a comparative study of information retrieval results between three distinct search strategies in simulated automatic query expansion in a bibliographic database. Our purpose is to investigate which of the search strategies score the most effective precision and to what extent the same relevant documents are retrieved (overlapped). A thesaurus attached to the database is used to select appropriate descriptors for the baseline query formulations which subsequently are expanded with hierarchical relations. The search strategies are s1: A baseline query with two or three descriptors, s2: The baseline descriptors combined with at least one Narrower Term, s3: The baseline descriptors combined with Narrower Term and at least one Broader Term.

As a result of global competition, companies within the automotive industry are required to improve their production systems to achieve sustainable and competitive production. To attain operational excellence, companies have adopted concepts like lean and World Class Manufacturing (WCM).In order to deliver, companies need to increase the availability and reliability of production equipment. This demands focus on both operational and strategic maintenance, and efficient equipment acquisition and management. The main objective of this thesis is to identify processes and success factors that are necessary for improved maintenance performance. By conducting a case study and by performing a literature review, the following has been studied: 1) how companies within the automotive industry work with maintenance and maintenance strategies, 2) implementation of maintenance strategies, and 3) new acquisition and spare parts management for maintenance. The results show that basic maintenance concepts and related terms are well defined in the literature.

 Stress och symtom på stress, ökar inom hela den svenska befolkningen. I synnerhet har stressen ökat hos hälso- och sjukvårdens professioner. Stressrelaterade sjukdomar som hjärtkärlsjukdomar och depression leder till sjukskrivningar. Sjuksköterskan löper hög risk att utsättas för hög stress på arbetsplatsen och stressens påverkan på sjuksköterskan står i relation till hur hon värderar situationen samt vilka hanteringsmöjligheter hon ser. Ett ineffektivt hanteringsmönster kan få svåra konsekvenser för hälsa och socialt liv.

Denna studie hade som syfte att undersöka vilka orsaker till stress svenska elitfotbollsdomare upplever samt hur domarna hanterar den upplevda stressen. Vidare syfte var att undersöka hur stressen påverkar domarnas hälsa, och vilken påverkan stressen har på beteendet hos domarna. Urvalet till denna studie bestod av 10 svenska elitfotbollsdomare, både män och kvinnor, med domaruppdrag inom Allsvenskan eller Superettan säsongen 2011. En semistrukturerad intervjuguide användes under antingen telefon- eller personliga intervjuer. Intervjuerna analyserades genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys.

The aim of this master's thesis is to describe the visibility of the university libraries in the strategic documents from the actual universities to which they belong. And also, the image of themselves they send out, are examined. By examining different kinds of descriptions we want to get a clearer picture of how and in what amount the libraries are mentioned in highest level strategies. By doing this we expect to find out the libraries' strategic role in higher education and research. The research questions are: What role and function are assigned to the university libraries in strategies created by the schools' highest administrative levels? How do the libraries present themselves in their own strategies? The approach is cross sectional and the time frame is year 2008.

Stress bland ungdomar är något som går allt längre ner i åldrarna. Prestationskrav och konkurrens ökar och många ungdomar är rädda att inte räcka till vilket kan leda till stress. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad som stressar ungdomar på det naturvetenskapliga programmet i gymnasieskolan och hur elevernas copingresurser verkar i förhållande till stressen. Studien bygger på ett flertal olika psykologiska teorier om stress och coping, däribland Krav-Kontroll-Stöd modellen, utvecklad av Robert Karasek och Thöres Theorell (1990), Lazarus och Folkmans teorier om coping (1984), Siegrist ansträngnings- och belöningsmodell (1996) samt Blumberg och Pringles (1982) prestationsteori. I studien deltog 64 elever på det naturvetenskapliga programmet i Luleå.

Bakgrunden: Sinne för humor är individuellt, är en del av personligheten samt kan vara ett viktigt verktyg i omvårdnadsarbetet. Humor kan vara en gratis medicin som rätt anpassad kan ha positiva effekter på patienten som att lindra smärta, ge avslappning och hjälpa patienten att skapa distans till svårigheter. Trots det inbjuder sällan sjuksköterskan till humor med patienten i omvårdnadsarbetet. Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskans möjligheter till och användning av humor i omvårdnadsarbetet. Metod för fördjupningsarbetet var en allmän litteraturstudie baserad på 11 kvalitativa och kvantitativa artiklar.

Author: Madeleine Ahlström and Hanna PuontiTitle: To meet the invisible population - A qualitative study of men with deliberate self-injury [Att möta de osynliga - En kvalitativ studie om killar med självskadebeteende]Supervisor: Anders ÖstnäsAssessor: Jan Petersson This study aims to provide a picture of the underlying causes why men deliberately hurt themselves. It also aims to provide a picture revolving how men self-harm and what the direct effects are from their self-harm. The study describes their behaviour and how the behaviour has evolved over time. There is also a focus in the study to illustrate how society´s operative approach towards men makes their self-harm invisible, and make them an invisible population that neither the scientists nor the general population chooses to see. Self-injury is strongly associated with girls and their way of harming themselves.

The main purpose for this thesis is to investigate why female academics choose to work as temporary workers. Through profound interviews I look at the reasons the women gives to why the have chosen the role as a consultant but also why they choose to stay on in the position. I?m relating their answers to widely spread theories about gender and social structures. I also investigate theories about job satisfaction and how these women?s answers can be interpreted from these theories.

This essay is about exploring the rhetorical business negotiation process. The aim has been to find out how skilled salespeople stand out, and what rhetorical means they use to convince the other party. For this study, a qualitative research interview was applied and altogether five vendors in three different industries were interviewed. The fundamental theory of the essay is based on classical rhetoric. From that I have chosen the specific parts that I have found useful to discuss negotiation and sales processes.The results show that there is not a one single rhetorical approach that is essential to convince the other party.

This thesis revolves around NATO?s role in the Ukraine crisis with the startpoint in 2014. Specifically, through conducting a qualitative content analysis of various NATO related material, a study regarding NATO?s security strategy and defense strategy, and the strategies' implications and roles in the Ukraine crisis, was able to be conducted. The purpose was to obtain an understanding of how NATO?s strategy has been interpreted and implemented in relation to the crisis.

Bakgrund: Palliativ vård definieras som vård som ges till patienter vid deras sista tid i livet och målet är att lindra patienters lidande och främja livskvaliteten. För att sjuksköterskorna ska kunna skapa god omvårdnad krävs kunskap, helhetssyn och förmågan att förmedla trygghet.Syfte: Att belysa sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att arbeta med palliativ vård.Metod: En systematisk litteraturstudie som inkluderade nio artiklar från tre olika databaser. Artiklarna analyserades utifrån kvalitativ innehållsanalys med induktiv ansats enligt Lundman & Graneheim (2008).Resultat: I resultatet framkom att palliativ vård är väldigt krävande för sjuksköterskor och det behövs mycket resurser för att de som arbetar inom detta område ska orka med sitt arbete. Huvudfynden presenterades i Sjuksköterskors professionella förhållningssätt, Innebörden av att arbeta med palliativ vård samt Sjuksköterskornas behov av coping-strategier.Slutsats: Sjuksköterskors personliga egenskaper och kvaliteter hade stor betydelse för att ge god palliativ vård. Stort behov av stöd i form av exempelvis handledning krävdes för att sjuksköterskorna skulle klara av att vårda patienter palliativt.

Intro: 80 percent of the Swedish population own shares. This makes Sweden the leading country in private investment in securities. It can be difficult for the private investor to know where, when and which security to invest in. The strategies are as ambivalent as the stock markets fluctuations. If the investor prefers to refrain from investing money himself, there are brokers who carry out these types of services.

This essay focus on the social media Twitter and how three Swedish PR practitioners view and use communication strategies for this social media. Twitter was created 2006 and is kind of a new channel in the digital world. The micro blog has over these few years attracted 175 million users across the world. In Sweden there is 91 000 registered users and according to a survey, 11 000 of them are active by tweeting once a day.Twitter is highly current and all kinds of people are using the social media, for example, artists, companies and individuals. Twitter is with its highly number of users building a new market for organizations to find their stakeholders.

The aim of the study was to investigate how a significant other of threepersons with Parkinson?s disease experienced the communication in conversation. Astructured interview and analysis of a video recorded conversation was performed.The questions in the interview were aimed at mapping the significant others?experience of communicative problems, their frequency, degree and conversationstrategies used by a significant other in conversation. The result showed that thesignificant others? experienced problems in communication related to the disease inseveral different areas for two of three participants with Parkinson?s disease.