Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka förståelsen för SME företagens val av finansiering och val av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik.  Vidare är syftet att se hur finansieringsvalet och valet av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik förhåller sig till varandra. Detta är viktigt av anledningen att SME företagen bidrar till sysselsättningsskapandet i samhället, och finansieringsvalet och användandet av kapitalbudgeteringstekniker kan vara fundamentala för deras bidrag. För att erhålla en djupare förståelse har ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt valts där sju tillverkande SME företag i Sverige intervjuats. De huvudsakliga resultaten är följande, (1) SME företag använder mestadels återinvesterat kapital och undviker att finansiera investeringar från utomstående finansiella institutioner. Vidare, (2) användes mindre sofistikerade kapitalbudgeteringstekniker oavsett valet av finansieringskälla.

This study concerns how Muslims are portrayed in a choice of twelve news articles from Swedish dailies and tabloid newspapers on the aftermath of the film Innocence of Muslims published on YouTube. All articles are distributed in the newspapers Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet in the period of September 11th, 2012 until September 30th, 2012.For this study, a qualitative text analysis has been embraced and focus has been on van Dijk?s Critical discourse analysis to the texts, with additional features from semiotics applied on the images.The theories consist of Critical discourse analysis, hegemony, ideology and power, postcolonialism and stereotyping.In the qualitative content analysis, concrete examples from the articles are retrieved and commented. These have been divided into various themes, which are trends that the authors have been able to distinguish in the analysis.The result shows that Muslims in the analyzed newspapers are portrayed as the others, unimportant and extremely religious, in a negative manner rather than a positive. Moreover the press has tendencies to generalize Muslims as a group.

Syfte: Att studera hur pressmeddelanden med positiva forsknings-resultat påverkar marknadsvärdet av bioteknikbolag, och därefter analysera hur företagsspecifika faktorer påverkar effekterna på marknadsvärdet. Metod: Undersökningen bygger på kvantitativ metod där studerandet av pressmeddelandena sker enligt Event Studie metodik. Insamling görs av sekundärdata bestående av press-meddelanden, aktiekurser samt marknadsindex. Ett antal hypoteser ställs upp för att sedan genom statistisk analys bekräftas eller förkastas. Slutsatser: Studien visar att meddelanden med positiva forskningsresultat medför signifikant positiv icke-normal avkastning.

The purpose of this study is to compare students (both male and female), from the Linnaeus University in Kalmar, about their perceptions with a particular focus on identity and self-esteem. In regards to the current societal problem concerning obesity and beauty ideals, this paper aimed to study the student?s opinions concerning health and diets in order to fully answer the purpose of the study. The theory used in this paper is in particular regards to identity and self-esteem. In order to answer the study questions, a qualitative approach was conducted in the form of various focus groups.

Summary The purpose of this research is to find out if technology is being used in pre-school activity, to what extent, in which way and what part the pre-school teachers believe they should have in the process. To gather information for the research, questionnaires were sent out to all pre-schools in a municipality in central Sweden. Based on that information two were chosen for observations and interviews. The work with technology in pre-schools may vary. Some pre-school teachers believe they do not adopt any technology at all when asked and all this because of their own lack of interest or knowledge, while others believe it is contained in all of their educational activities.

The aim of this thesis is to study how Denmark and the Danish people has been represented in the Swedish press and which images of them that appears. For this purpose I make use of discourse analysis and discourse theory. By analysing three cases were the debate about the Danish migration policy has been scrutinized in Swedish newspapers I seek to discover different ways of looking at the world. The study concentrates on the descriptions made by journalists and others who contribute to the debate in the media. The results show an image of the Danes as a people reluctant to foreigners and restrictive in their politics.

Botswana anses vara en fungerande demokrati. Landet omnämns ofta som Afrikas mirakel. Vi har valt att utifrån Robert Dahls teori om polyarki granska och belysa Botswanas demokratiska brister. Som komplement till Dahls teori används även Andreas Schedlers sju kriterier för demokratiska val.Det resultat som presenteras genom tillämpning av dessa teorier visar att det råder klara brister i Botswanas demokratisering. Analysdelen av arbetet belyser de problem som finns inom politiska rättigheter, såsom medborgarskapsrättigheter, mötesfrihet samt åsikts- och yttrandefrihet.

Studiens syfte är att beskriva hur enhetschefer i en offentlig organisation med inriktning på vård och omsorg resonerar kring sina förutsättningar att påverka arbetsmiljön och arbetsglädjen. I organisationen har det under de sista åren skett stora omorganisationer och förändringar som medför en känsla av oro och osäkerhet och ingen vet hur framtiden blir. Arbetslivet står inför stora utmaningar som innebär ett hårdare arbetsklimat med andra villkor som sätter press på människan. Konsekvenserna av de ständiga förändringar och påfrestningar inom arbetslivet leder ofta till en försämrad arbetsmiljö och sämre anställningsvillkor. Det är därför viktigt för dagens organisationer att stödja och utveckla ett gott ledarskap, så ledarna tillsammans med medarbetarna orkar utveckla och driva verksamheten framåt.

Vid prismätning av varukorg har det framkommit att prisnivå mellan de olika butikerna betydligt skiljer åt, mellan 17 ? 47 % lägre genomsnittspris för varukorgen på Lidl än hos de andra dagligvaruhandlarna. Då konkurrenternas priser är en av de faktorer som påverkar prissättningen är det rimligt att tro att en nyetablering av en lågpriskedja på den lokala marknaden ökar prispressen och därmed får en priseffekt på hela marknaden speciellt när priserna så mycket skiljer åt som min prisunderökning visat. Nyetablering av en lågpriskedja kommer att aktualisera en rad frågor hos konkurrenter, konsumenter och leverantörer. Köparnas förhandlingsstyrka stärks och de andra aktörerna i branschen blir tvungna att se över sitt pris.

The purpose in this Bachelor degree project has been to create a visual identity and to design a compilation cassette for the small music distributor Kyrkvägen Kassett. My way of approaching the task has been to draw parallells between the cassette as an obsolete music format and more or less abandoned or anachronistic formats, materials and printing methods in the graphic design area. The result is a visual identity that is built upon materials and methods of production rather than specific visual elements. The work is to be seen as a tribute to the small non-profit producers of music and graphic design. As often done in the DIY movement, I chose to consider my lack of practical knowledge in these fields not as an encumbrance but as an asset and an incentive.

Daily citizens are informed by the media about the environment and the climate changes. The schools purpose is to educate students according to events that are of current interest and take place in present time. According to Swedish curriculum, Lpf94, all Swedish education should include and discuss the problems surrounding durable development. The purpose of the study is to se how the textbooks in History, Social studies and Geography and their contents meet the demands of the curriculum. The study shows that only the textbooks in geography meets the demands that the curriculums have on durable development.

ICA is the largest general dealer in the Swedish market as well as the largest supplier to the independent ICA-dealers. The principal and one of the biggest stakeholders of this thesis is the department Supply Chain Development who is responsible for the development of ICA?s Supply Chain.The purpose of this study is to examine how ICA?s sales are affected by weather and to make recommendations on how ICA should proceed with its work regarding this issue. By leveraging their forecasts by including weather, ICA hopes that their logistical metrics amount of spoilage, service levels and number of inventory days will improve. This thesis describes how ICA is working with weather currently, and furthermore it discusses the existing literature within this area.

The goal of this master thesis project was to develop computer models of some plausiblepretreatment techniques and to assess the potential benefits/costs of using pretreatment andanaerobic digestion for waste management of organic waste from a system perspective. Forthis purpose a computer program called ORWARE has been used. ORWARE (organic wasteresearch) is a program for making life cycle assessments of waste management. As the mainpart of the project work the ORWARE system has been provided with three new models ofpretreatment techniques. The additions consist of: One model of pretreatment with ultrasound,one model of thermal hydrolysis and one model of a screw press.

This study concerns how Muslims are portrayed in a choice of twelve news articles from Swedish dailies and tabloid newspapers on the aftermath of the film Innocence of Muslims published on YouTube. All articles are distributed in the newspapers Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet in the period of September 11th, 2012 until September 30th, 2012.For this study, a qualitative text analysis has been embraced and focus has been on van Dijk?s Critical discourse analysis to the texts, with additional features from semiotics applied on the images.The theories consist of Critical discourse analysis, hegemony, ideology and power, postcolonialism and stereotyping.In the qualitative content analysis, concrete examples from the articles are retrieved and commented. These have been divided into various themes, which are trends that the authors have been able to distinguish in the analysis.The result shows that Muslims in the analyzed newspapers are portrayed as the others, unimportant and extremely religious, in a negative manner rather than a positive. Moreover the press has tendencies to generalize Muslims as a group.

The question formulation in the essay brought up whether Clas Ohlson works today with their graphical productionflow and if that way of working leads to a desirable result in press. After a dialogue with Clas Ohlson it emerged thatthey had certain problems with the material that came out of the printing presses. Certain colours were not reproducedaccording to the stated values that had been developed. In March -08 an analysis of the graphical production flowspresent situation were done at Clas Ohlsons in order to find out how they worked with their production of print materials.In the analysis, their way to work with color spaces, displays, ICC-profiles, PDF-exports, pictures and printerswere examined. Occasional interviews were also implemented with responsible personnel about how they worked withdifferent aspects.Deficiencies were found on almost all examined parts in their graphical production flow.