It is a well-known fact that textiles and carpets have benign sound-absorbing properties. It is desirable to have quantified values of these properties ? especially for architects and interior designers. They often need to be able to giveaccount for the acoustic properties of their designs at a relatively early stage and sometimes have strict acoustic classifications imposed upon them by their contractor. A product with documented acoustic properties would aid when prescribing interior elements.The purpose of this thesis is to develop a wall-mounted panel in hand-tufted material ? aesthetically pleasing and versatile but also having documented and quantified acoustic properties.

Social enterprises make up one of the groups of participants that provide welfare services financed by public funding. The object of this study is to describe and analyze from a theoretical point of view which conditions, in what fields, by which Division of responsibility and finally through what decisions these social enterprises are allocated a place in the market for social welfare services. The company that has been the object of study offers services in the field of social welfare and in employment. In the study a triangulation of qualitative methods has been used: studies of literature on the subject, recurrent interviews and observations and also reviews of documents. The results have been analyzed from theories on the space available on the market for social services, on social economy and on social capital in the form of strong, weak and bridging bonds.

The aim of this study is to examine how teachers and school librarians view the concept of information literacy in relation to their students, and to find factors that affect their undertakings to make their students information literate. In order to accomplish this, qualitative interviews have been carried out with teachers and school librarians at four Swedish junior high schools. The theoretical framework of this study is the seven faces of information literacy developed by Christine Bruce. The empirical material has been analysed firstly by finding themes that are of importance for the work with information literacy, and secondly by placing the interviewees? commentaries on information literacy in Bruce´s seven faces of information literacy.

Under andra världskriget kom tyskarna att använda sig av tillfälligtsammansatta förband. Många av dessa tillfälligt sammansatta förband stred inom ramenför Division och skapades oftast också ur dem. Från 1939 och ända till slutet av krigetanvändes så kallade kampfgruppen för att lösa olika uppgifter. Tiden varierade för detillfälliga uppsättandena från enstaka dygn till veckor och månader.Med de olika truppslagens sammansättning i Divisionerna skapades grunden för att kunnakombinera många system till rätt sammansättning av tillfälligt sammansatta förband,kampfgruppe.Uppsatsen kan ge generella erfarenheter, slutsatser och idéer inför framtidens tillfälligtsammansatta förband, inte minst med tanke på EU:s bataljonsstridsgrupper, EUBattlegroups, från de erfarenheter man finner i militärhistorien.Syftet med denna uppsats är att problematisera och kritiskt diskutera fenomenet tillfälligtsammansatta förband genom att analysera organiseringen av tyska kampfgruppen underandra världskriget, för att om möjligt, identifiera de viktigaste förmågorna som ettsammansatt förband behöver ha för att framgångsrikt uppnå sina mål..

Vårdpersonal känner ofta stor rädsla att gå in i vårdsituationer med en döende förälder. Tidiga stödinsatser har visat sig vara av värde för barns krisbearbetning och accepterande i dessa vårdsituationer. Vården är vanligen inte anpassad för att barnen ska involveras och många föräldrar upplever det svårt att förmedla information om sjukdom och förväntad död till sina barn. Syftet med studien var att undersöka vårdpersonalens upplevelser och erfarenheter av att stödja familjer med minderåriga barn när en förälder är svårt sjuk eller döende. I form av tre fokusgruppsintervjuer intervjuades 10 personer med olika vårdyrkesbakgrund.

En utvärdering gjorts om vilka de kritiska funktionerna på MA (den studerade organisationen) är, hur de ska organisera sina arbetsprocesser och vart i organisationen funktionerna de ska placeras för att minska de negativa effekterna av en marknadsgruppering. I en fallstudie fokuseras en speciell enhet vilket i detta fall är MA. För att samla in det empiriska materialet som använts tillsattes två stycken fokusgrupper. Fokusgrupper är lämpligt när man vill utveckla en ny kunskap inom ett område. Det är lämpligt när man vill försöka konkretisera en problemställning eller när man vill ha synpunkter om gruppens ställning till ett problem och oenigheten/enigheten i gruppen.

AbstractTitle: Who said what? ? A qualitative content analysis regarding the UD?s, the government?s and the travel agencies after the Tsunami disaster.Number of pages: 38Author: Malin HanssonTutor: Peder Hård af SegerstadCourse: Media and Communication Studies DPeriod: Autumn 2006University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of information science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The purpose of the paper is to find out what person said what to the media and public after the tsunami catastrophe. The aim is to find out if there is any difference in how the government and communicators talked, and if those differences agree with the public opinion about these persons.Material/Method: The material is interviews with the relevant people on TV news. The first three days are included and the interviews have been transcribed and counted in sentences. The method is therefore quantitative content analysis.Main results: All of the analysed persons used the category Concrete action the most, which is what they are doing at the moment.

A B S T R A C TTitle: Democracy- Choice of the people or the voice of media? (Demokrati- Folkets styre eller Mediernas Makt?)Number of pages: 36Author: Carolina VallinTutor: Else NygrenCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Autumn term 2006University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The purpose with this essay is to discuss which influence media has on the democracy.Material/Method: Qualitative explorative research method is used to see how much space the newspaper Dagens Nyheter gave to the parties represented in the parliament, and compare the results with the numbers the parties received in the general election 2006.Main results: This research showed similar results in the survey made of DN and the numbers the parties received in the general election 2006. Media can?t decide how people should vote in a election, but they can influence what citizens think and talk about by having the power to choose which information that shows on the agenda.Key Words: Dagens Nyheter, Agenda setting, Media, Power and Democracy..

This Master Thesis discusses the development of bids for regulation power with consideration of change of discharge. The study was initiated by Vattenfall PD and is a limited part of a substantial development project at the same Division. The background of the project is the new demands from SvK, which among other things includes more detailed regulation bids. As from the 1st of November 2008, the regulation bids are supposed to be calculated regarding each specific regulation object, something that is defined by SvK. These new demands changes Vattenfall?s conditions and will increase the need for detailed knowledge about available regulation power and costs for regulation.In this study a strategy for regulation bids was developed.

This literature study aims to examine the existence of cancer stem cells in breast cancer. The cancer stem cell theory states that there is a hierarchical organization within a tumour, in which a small subpopulation of the cells can initiate new tumours and maintain tumour growth whilst the bulk of the tumour cannot. These tumour initiating cells have shown to possess many characteristics similar to those of adult stem cells, which is why they are often referred to as cancer stem cells. Both cell types have the capacity of asymmetric Division and have shown to possess mechanisms of resistance to both apoptosis and cancer drugs. The cancer stem cell theory elucidates many biological aspects such as the heterogeneity of tumours and the relapse of many cancers after what appeared to be successful treatments.

The starting point for the present study is that the physical environment can enhance the learning processes of children. We want to contribute to more focus being placed on this within library and information sciences. Our main aim is to illustrate how the physical environment can facilitate the learning of children. In order to achieve our aim, we examine a concrete physical environment, namely the children?s department at the main library in Kungsbacka.

Inledning/Bakgrund: En Division 3-klubb har under fyra sa?songer va?rvat na?stan 70 spelare och har samtidigt uppma?rksammats i media fo?r deras engagemang i Sierra Leone, med ett va?lgo?renhetsprojekt vid namn ?Fotboll kan hja?lpa?. Det gjorde fo?rfattarna nyfikna, hur a?r det mo?jligt att en amato?rklubb i fotboll kan va?rva spelare utomlands i dagens fotbollsmarknad. Med utga?ngspunkt fra?n Charles E.

Inledning/Bakgrund: En Division 3-klubb har under fyra sa?songer va?rvat na?stan 70 spelare och har samtidigt uppma?rksammats i media fo?r deras engagemang i Sierra Leone, med ett va?lgo?renhetsprojekt vid namn ?Fotboll kan hja?lpa?. Det gjorde fo?rfattarna nyfikna, hur a?r det mo?jligt att en amato?rklubb i fotboll kan va?rva spelare utomlands i dagens fotbollsmarknad. Med utga?ngspunkt fra?n Charles E.

Inledning/Bakgrund: En Division 3-klubb har under fyra sa?songer va?rvat na?stan 70 spelare och har samtidigt uppma?rksammats i media fo?r deras engagemang i Sierra Leone, med ett va?lgo?renhetsprojekt vid namn ?Fotboll kan hja?lpa?. Det gjorde fo?rfattarna nyfikna, hur a?r det mo?jligt att en amato?rklubb i fotboll kan va?rva spelare utomlands i dagens fotbollsmarknad. Med utga?ngspunkt fra?n Charles E.

This thesis examines the concept of righteousness in the Gospel of Matthew. The research explores the literal meanings and theological functions of the noun ?righteousness? and the adjective ?righteous? through a descriptiveand comparative study of all the pericopes which include these words. The research also includes relevant information about the historical context of the text as well as the central theological themes which relate to the subject.In the research on the literal meanings, it seems that both words primarily occur in ethical teaching and that the concept of righteousness in Matthew is closely related to humanconduct (e.g. Matt 5:20; 6:1).