This essay aims to investigate the use of an origin-ID within the Beaker Complex, as defined by John C. Barrett, seen through their different expressions of use in ceramic form and ornamentation, architecture and landscape through time and space with special emphasis on the late Neolihtics in the South of England. The analytic vehicle "the reinforcing circle" is used as a new diffusion model suggested by Stuart Needham, and the analytic tool "incubation" is used to structure the process the Beaker-cultures may have used to reach cultural hegemony. Id est, that the Beaker-cultures socially invites already existing cultures, offering within family and trading the results of new technolo­gies. And/or, occupy the space and use the authority needed by re-writing the narrative as seen in the grave use and grave deposits.

Det finns idag en ökande miljömedvetenhet i samhället där många börjat ifrågasätta den miljöpåverkan vi orsakar i världen genom det sätt vi lever. Ett hållbart samhälle är det självklara målet för många, men vi verkar ändå inte vara villiga att förändra vår livsstil trots alarmerande rapporter från forskarsamfundet världen över. De förändringar som ändå sker i samhället går visserligen mot ett mer miljövänligt och hållbart samhälle, men det går förhållandevis långsamt. Koldioxidens skadliga inverkan på miljön är något man bör lägga särskild energi på att försöka minska eftersom koldioxiden är så starkt kopplad till klimatförändringen. Dagens ökande bilförsäljning är en av orsakerna till de förhöjda koldioxidutsläppen i världen.

A great number of empirical researches show that hedging is associated with higher firm value, particularly hedging interest rate and exchange rate. However, there is no clear support for value-added risk management hypothesis in the case of producers of commodities. Moreover, according to Shrand and Unal (1997), there are two types of risks, core business risks (or core risk) and homogeneous risks (or non core risks), which are based on a firm's comparative advantages with respects to the source of risk. Firm can earn economic profits for bearing core risks in which it has a comparative information advantage. Firm earn a zero economic rents for bearing non-core risks, where it has no advantage information than its competitors.

CSR is a far reaching concept and practice, whose popularity and diffusion has increased rapidly in recent years. Research indicates that CSR has made an evolutionary journey from primarily being characterized by reactiveness to develop into a risk minimizing and proactive competitive advantage and should be looked upon as an answer to heightened societal pressure and awareness. Based on a review regarding different relevant theoretical perspectives, this master thesis discusses CSR as a concept and practical matter in relation to various strategically chosen representatives of a selection of professions.Moreover, the data were collected through in-depth semi structured interviews. The findings show that CSR is a contemporary and highly context dependent phenomenon whose inherent multiplicity brings a distinct aspect of uncertainty to it, in terms of both meaning and practice. And in some parts there is a reluctance to communicate CSR due to a fear of missing out of important aspects.

En stor andel av Sveriges enfamiljshus byggs i trä. Väggen i ett sådant hus är typiskt en skivbeklädd regelvägg. Målet med detta examensarbete är att studera lastkapaciteten hos träreglar i sådana väggar. Olika randvillkor gäller i de tre olika uppställningarna som studerats. Genom att variera randvillkoren undersöks vilken inverkan en syll och en skiva har för att styva av knäckning i veka riktningen.

This thesis focuses on how companies in the textile and clothing industry view or interpret the idea of corporate social responsibility. The purpose of the study is to create an understanding for how this view affects the dissemination and the implementation of the idea in the organization and what might be the effects on the organization of those processes. In order to identify any differences in how the view affected the processes I have studied the current discourse on CSR simultaneously with my theory and conducted a comparative case study of two Swedish clothing brands. The theory focuses on the diffusion of ideas and change management within organizations. My data shows that the two companies have different ways of interpreting CSR and that this indeed affects their dissemination of the idea in the organization.

The aim of our bachelor thesis was to study how the personnel incharge of the mobile websites at two University Libraries and thestudents at those Universities viewed the mobile websites, and iftheir views in any way differed.Our research questions were:Why have the examined Libraries chosen to offer mobilewebsites?How do the students at the examined Universities experience anduse respective mobile website?Are there differences between the staff?s intentions with themobile websites and how they are used and experienced by thestudents, and how could they be explained?Semistructured interviews were conducted with six staff membersresponsible for the mobile websites and eleven students that hadexperience in using these. The theoretical framework for thisthesis consists of Klasson?s three models for University Librarianspersonas, and the parts of Rogers theory about diffusion ofinnovations that concerns the attributes of innovations and thecommunication channels.The result of the study indicates that there are some differencesabout how the students use and experience the mobile websitesand the staffs intentions for them. The students required contentwhich the staff had discarded.

Innovation är av stor vikt för ekonomisk tillväxt och mycket pengar satsas på att föra ut idéer från akademi till industri. Tidigare forskning visar att endast en liten del av innovationerna inom industrin kommer från akademin. Frågeställningarna har behandlat vilka problem som uppstår under innovationsprocessen och hur en innovation påverkas av den kontext där den utvecklas. Teoretisk grund har varit en processmodell som behandlar invention, diffusion och tillämpning samt ett nätverkssynsätt som behandlar kontextuella skillnader. Studien bygger på en kvalitativ fallstudie av medicinteknikföretaget Sensodetect som utvecklar objektiva diagnosmetoder för psykiatriska sjukdomar.

This thesis describes the introduction of Web 2.0 education into Swedish LIS education with emphasis on the driving forces and obstacles in the process. It also discusses the possibilities of estimating the appropriate time for the start of new educational courses introducing new technologies, when it is uncertain if the technologies in question will sustain for a long enough period of time to make the educational effort worthwhile. The data on the Web 2.0 education was collected during the spring of 2010 from the Web pages of the five LIS departments in Sweden, namely Borås, Lund, Umeå, Uppsala and Växjö, as well as by 10 interviews during November and December 2010 with two representatives from each LIS department..The key finding is that Web 2.0 is covered in Swedish LIS education and embracing both practical and theoretical issues. The main driving forces have been both the needs of the profession and an academic research interest. It is concluded that Rogers??S-curves? as described in ?Diffusion of Innovation? can be used as a tool in order to improve the understanding of when to introduce education in new technologies.

Titel: Politik i sociala medier - En studie om hur politiskaungdomsförbund använder sociala medier.Författare: Susanne Lundström och Anna-Lotta OhlénHandledare: Lars PalmExaminator: Ulrika SjöbergUtbildningssäte: Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektion Hälsa och SamhälleKurs: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 61-90 hpDelkurs: C-uppsats, 15 hpÅr: 2009Syfte: Att förstå hur politiska ungdomsförbund använder sigav sociala medier.Teori: Dagordningsteorin, Tvåstegshypotesen,Diffusion of innovations.Metod: Som kunskapsteoretisk utgångspunkt används ett explorativt förhållningssätt. Metoderna har utgjorts av intervjuer samt innehållsanalys av webbplatser.Resultat: Sociala medier är och kommer med största sannolikhetatt förbli en viktig del av ungdomsförbundens arbete.Dock behövs en mer strategisk planering kring deras användning. Utvecklingspotentialen hos sociala medier ärstor. Det personliga mötet är stort och ökad användningav sociala medier hänger ihop med en ökad användningav just personliga möten.Nyckelord: Sociala medier, politiska ungdomsförbund,opinionsbildning, communitys, medlemsrekrytering..

This literature study concerned the use and function of the radioactive isotope carbon-14, as a dating method of organic material, within the scientific field of physical geography. In this report it is presented the need of atmospheric calibration curves and the development of these as a necessity to translate carbon-14 years to calibrated calendar years. A number of common age-depth models that is used to give an approximation of an accumulation sequence and its related dates over the actual time period in different natural archives is presented and discussed. Different problems that commonly occur when age-depth models are utilized as for instance reservoir effects, contaminations or other age deviations are addressed and analyzed. The software CLAM in presented and discussed and was also used to produce age-depth models.

Despite the fast growing development of IP-telephony services, only a small number of people in Sweden use them. Of the total amount of fixed telephony subscriptions, maximally five percent are based on IP-technology. Through an exploratory study, the main purpose with this thesis is to identify factors that influence the use of IP-telephony on the consumer market, and the factors? internal relationships. The thesis also has two sub-purposes: firstly, chart the supply of IP-telephony services and secondly, discuss what IP-telephony services that are requested by today?s customers in the future.

Despite the fast growing development of IP-telephony services, only a small number of people in Sweden use them. Of the total amount of fixed telephony subscriptions, maximally five percent are based on IP-technology. Through an exploratory study, the main purpose with this thesis is to identify factors that influence the use of IP-telephony on the consumer market, and the factors? internal relationships. The thesis also has two sub-purposes: firstly, chart the supply of IP-telephony services and secondly, discuss what IP-telephony services that are requested by today?s customers in the future.

Bakgrund: Ett antal nya idéer har blivit introducerade i ekonomistyrningen på senare tid och mycket har skett inom Business Intelligence (BI). BI har dock mest funnits som del av ett större system eller eget system som implementeras till företag på plats. Konceptet att istället hyra olika IT-lösningar, så kallade SaaS-lösningar (software as a service), blir allt mer populärt inom affärsvärlden och kan minska företagens börda när det gäller installation, konfigurering, underhåll och andra inneboende projektriskfaktorer.Frågeställning: Vad innebär fenomenet SaaS BI och hur ser spridningen ut?Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva Business Intelligence som hyrtjänst, samt studera hur detta sprids och anammas av marknaden i Sverige.Metod: Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod för att samla in djupgående data till studien.Resultat och slutsatser: Studien visar att SaaS BI är en innovation. Spridningen av SaaS BI på den svenska marknaden är begränsad och spridningen sker i dagsläget främst från utbudssidan, alltså förespråkare av innovationen.

I detta arbete approximeras Helmholtz ekvation med hj?lp av den finita differensmetoden f?r olika parametrar s?som, d?mpningsterm, rutn?tsstorlek, frekvens och f?rkonditionerare. Helmholtz ekvation kan anv?ndas till mycket, bland annat anv?nds det vid akustik och seismologi. Men i detta arbete till?mpas Helmholtz ekvation inom medicinsk bildbehandling. Bara f?r att Helmholtz ekvation ?r anv?ndbar betyder det inte att den ?r l?tthanterbar. Alla givna parametrar ?r intressanta i ett medicinskt mikrov?gsbildbehandlingssyfte och har verkliga kopplingar.