I USA infördes begreppet informationsoperationer i mitten av 1990-talet och det har sedan dess skett en stor utveckling inom detta fält. Även i den svenska Försvarsmakten har konceptetinformationsoperationer införts och en utveckling och uppbyggnad av förmågor inom detta koncept pågår. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka huruvida konceptet informationsoperationers uppkomst i Försvarsmakten kan utgöra ett exempel på idéspridning. Utgångspunkten är att USA som en av världens ledande försvarsmakter är trendsättare för andra försvarsmakter i västvärlden, däribland den svenska Försvarsmakten. Med utgångspunkt i teorin om idéspridning undersöks om den amerikanska idén om informationsoperationer har spridit sig och snappats upp av Försvarsmakten som sedan översatt idén efter sina egna förutsättningar.

Public participation in urban planning is meant to increase democracy in the planning process. Even though all citizens have the option to participate in urban planning debates, few seize their chance to partake. This thesis describes a study on how user needs are met and prioritized in design processes concerning urban planning. The aim was to determine whether user-centered design (UCD) methods could be used as an avenue for public participation in urban planning and ultimately invite more citizens into the planning process.The thesis details a design process where a team worked to develop Farsta, a suburb of Stockholm. The design problem was the question of how Farsta could become an attractive business location.

Med ett naturligt fältexperiment studeras betydelsen av social påverkan för individers benägenhet att skänka pengar. Den dominerande teorin inom nationalekonomin som förklaring till välgörenhet är warm glow altruism. Teorin säger att människor skänker pengar på grund av en kombination av altruism och warm glow. Men det finns även teorier som förutsäger att socialt tryck spelar roll. I experimentet ställdes frågor till pantkunder om deras bidrag till välgörenhet.

This thesis is based on the implementation of a bilateral rural development program in Burkina Faso. The main purpose of this study was to put the actual implementation process of a bilateral development program in view. This was done by investigating how two dominant perspectives in the implementation literature can explain what in fact happens during the realization of an aid program. A further aim of the thesis was to explore the limitations of these two dominant theories, in order to get a full understanding of the complexity of the realization of an aid program. Based on the implementation theory, this study shows that the realization of an aid program can be understood from three different angles.

Previous research has, by studying large listed firms, identified cost reductions and knowledge transference as the primary reasons for outsourcing.  Previous research has also indicated that Business Process Outsourcing is likely to increase in popularity and experience high annual growth going forward. This study aims to explore why mid-sized and large firms decide to in Jämtlands län, fully or partly, outsource their finance/accounting activities. Theories regarding transaction cost economics and resource based view composes the foundation of this study and the information used has been gathered through the use of semi-structured interviews.  The results shows, like the chosen theories and previous research indicates, that the outsourcing decision is primary based on expected cost reductions.

The Swedish National Labour Market Administration wishes to acquire further knowledge about how the evaluation process of vocational rehabilitation at the employment service operates as a part of the quality assurance of this activity. The primary task for vocational rehabilitation at the employment service is to investigate the work capacity of unemployed people, to give them increased knowledge and better understanding of their own capacity concerning work or education. The aim of this study was to survey the evaluation process of vocational rehabilitation at the employment service in Sweden. Data were collected through telephone interviews with 15 occupational therapists employed at the employment service, who were working with vocational rehabilitation. The result shows that the investigation of work capacity can take place in different environments and that the space of time for an investigation can vary.

Phosphate is a used as a surface treatment method which is used for various purposes in the industry. In this case, phosphate coated wire is used in the processes to achieve a desirable outcome. The reason to why phosphate coated wire is used in the production process is because phosphate acts as an accumulator, where it stabilizes the lubricant on the surface of the wire. Lubrication is important because it plays a major role in the roll quality and characterizes important benefits regarding the outcome.Currently, SKF has to wash away all phosphates residues after extrusion process in an operation called tumbling. The main reason for this is simply because the surface has to be completely free from lubricants and coatings till the next step of process.

Syftet med undersökningen är att få ökad kunskap om hur tre grundskolelärare använder olika medier i matematikundervisningen mot bakgrund av den logocentriska traditionen i skolan. Jag kommer att utgå från följande frågeställningar i min studie: ? På vilka olika sätt gestaltas den logocentriska traditionen i matematikundervisningen i en årskurs 1, 2 och 4? ? Vilka anledningar anger lärare till att de centrala medierna i undervisningen i skolan är de logocentriska uttrycksformerna och inte de kinestetiska, visuella och auditiva uttrycksformerna? ? Hur uppfattar lärare att de visuella, auditiva och kinestetiska uttrycksformerna utvecklas i en logocentrisk skoltradition? Teorin i mitt examensarbete definierar begreppen medier och logocentrisk tradition i matematikundervisningen. Teorin innehåller tidigare forskning om hur den logocentriska traditionen gestaltas i skolan, samt skolans behov av förändring för att motsvara samhällets utveckling. Jag har använt mig av en etnografisk ansats och mina insamlingsmetoder är intervju och observation. Undersökningarna är gjorda på en skola, där jag har besökt tre olika skolklasser i två dagar per skolklass.

With this essay we want to describe the transformation process that the real estate owner has to go through to sell the current rented flats to tenant. We also want to provide an understanding how the valuation is performed in the transformation process and highlight the issues that affects the price in the valuations. In the essay we would like to see if the valuation and the transformation process differ in a public real estate company compared to a private real estate company. Based on this we have asked us the following question to answer: -Is there any differences in how real estate?s are valued in the transformation process between public real estate companies and private real estate companies? We have used a qualitative approach to keep our main question.

The aim of the thesis is to investigate to what extent the pedagogy process has been affected by the close collaboration between librarians and teachers when it comes to education on the information search process. The thesis shows that the librarian is seen as an acting intermediate for information, and is regarded as a part of the learning process. The issues covered comprise of how students, teachers and librarians perceive that the students becomes information literate, how they perceive that the subject fields are covered, and how information has been transmitted, and how all this has been affected by the fact that the librarian is actually less available in person. Also, the following questions are discussed; how do librarians, teachers and students interact through the homepages of the course and "the landscape of studying"? And in what respect have the old library halls changed into that, which is available 24 hours a day, with different kinds of meeting opportunities where the search of information has been integrated with group projects? The foundation of this study is built on an evaluation of a project comprising of virtual study environment at the University of Linköping.

I dagsla?get saknar Thor Ahlgren AB underlag fo?r att pa? ett enkelt sa?tt kunna kalkylera och uppskatta priset fo?r ett pressverktyg. Na?r fo?retaget fa?r en fo?rfra?gan fra?n kund anga?ende huruvida de kan producera en detalj ma?ste de a?terkomma med en offert till kunden da?r ett pris fo?r verktygskostnaden a?r inkluderad. Innan ett pris kan offereras till kund ma?ste Thor Ahlgren AB kontakta en verktygsmakare fo?r prisfo?rslag pa? verktyget och denna process kan variera i tid.Syftet med arbetet a?r att fo?rkorta eller eliminera denna process och pa? sa? vis kunna offerera pris fo?r konstruktion av ett pressverktyg snabbare.

The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on how evidence-based librarian and information practice (EBLIP) is understood and practised at some Swedish hospital libraries, and also to analyze how EBLIP functions as a strategy to bridge the gap between research and practice as described by Haddow & Klobas. The theoretical framework for the study is partly based on Haddow & Klobas description of the gap between research and practice in the field of LIS and partly a description of the EBP-process which plays a key role in the use of EBLIP. Interviews have been done with four people, three librarians, all with management experience, and an academic development officer, active at three different hospital libraries where EBLIP is practiced. All informants believed that it is important to make use of research results in order to improve services and practice. In their efforts to apply the research findings the informants face a number of hindrances, which indicates a gap between research and practice.

Examensarbetet är utfört vid BAE Systems Bofors AB i Karlskoga. Projektet har gått ut på att utvärdera den nya teorin STAMPoch testa det tillhörande verktyget STPAinom säkerhetsarbete mot det avgränsade ARCHER-systemets delsystem granatgrip-/lyftdon.I dag blir systemen mer och mer komplicerade och de nuvarande metoderna har inte utvecklats i samma takt för att göra en grundläggande säkerhetsanalys då många av olyckorna härrör från oförutsedda interaktioner. Teorin och verktyget är en nyutvecklad metod för att identifiera och värdera risker i ett system eller en produkt. Företaget har ännu inte satt sig in tillräckligt i professorn på MIT, Nancy Levesons rapport som ligger bakom denna nya metod för att arbeta med riskbedömning. Eftersom det är en relativt ny teori inom säkerhetsarbete så finns det inte speciellt mycket forskning att tillgå och antalet källor som finns tillgängliga är få.

Detta arbete handlar i första hand om hur en dyslexiutredning går till. Jag har genom litteraturstudier och en fallstudie försökt besvara mina frågeställningar som rör definition, symtom, utredningsprocessen med de professioner som ingår samt vad testerna, som en elev får gå igenom innan en diagnos kan ställas, fokuserar kring. Det finns väldigt många definitioner av dyslexi men jag har valt att presentera några som både har likheter och skillnader. Vidare nämner jag olika symtom som är viktiga att uppmärksamma hos elever samt möjliga orsaker till handikappet. Den största delen i arbetet beskriver förloppet från remiss till diagnos, vilka delar som ingår i en utredning och vad som är viktigt att undersöka för att få en helhetsbild av eleven och kunna kartlägga svårigheternas karaktäroch omfattning.

This Master's thesis aims to investigate the reference interview using the discourse analytical method discourse psychology. The reference interview has been studied thoroughly, and its importance has been proven repeatedly within the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). However, it has never been studied from a discourse analytical point of view before.The material for our study was gathered at Malmö public library, and consists of 10 tape-recorded and then transcribed reference interviews. Our study shows that there are several discourses within the reference situation. The dominating discourse, the reference interview discourse, is found within all the reference interviews.