In game development, performance is everything and the Playstation 3 provides a unique platform for utilizing parallelization of code to achieve extremely high performance. In this master?s thesis the issue of animation with smooth skinning is migrated from being a GPU process to becoming a parallelized and 358% faster process. This method is incorporated in an existing commercial game engine and integrated in a currently in development title for the Playstation 3. An in-depth study covers parallel processors, the CELL processor, used in the Playstation 3, and how contemporary industry leading game developers are utilizing the same unique architecture to increase their own games? performance..

Contemporary libraries face challenges in transforming their organization to meet the digitalized society. To develop the process of digitization of literature is a natural way for libraries to go when they already have more visitors online than physically. Since the demand for digital material is so sought after, we feel challenged to address the challenges of the Internet as an emerging functional medium for distributing knowledge. These developments will be able to significantly modify the nature of literature as well as the existing system of quality assurance. In this study, we explored and analyzed a digitization project at a research library.

Följande arbete är en beteendevetenskaplig studie som avser att empiriskt undersöka kollektivresenärers attityder och beteenden gentemot miljön. Studien bygger på en enkätundersökning där 199 kollektivresenärer deltog. För att stärka våra resultat använder vi oss av tre huvudteorier; teorin om självperception ? det vill säga huruvida respondenterna uppfattar sig själva som miljövänliga då de reser kollektivt; teorin om handlingsberedskap ? det vill säga vilka handlingar respondenterna säger sig vilja utföra kring ett visst objekt, till exempel kring miljön; samt teorier om medias möjliga påverkan på respondenternas beteende. Resultaten visar att kollektivresenärerna ser sig själva som miljövänliga individer då de reser kollektivt och att de har en handlingsberedskap, alltså en vilja att utföra miljövänliga handlingar.

The purpose of this report is to come up with possible improvement suggestions to the distribution central at Götene Stål & Verktygs AB (GSV). GSV is a wholesale dealer located in Götene. The company doesn?t produce anything it self, it buys in products and sells them to customers.The distribution central at GSV is the place where the products comes in and gets ready to deliver.To come up with possible improvement suggestions we started with process mapping over the main process and the distribution centre process. The main process here is from the point where the customer gives GSV an order to the point where GSV deliver the order.Our result shows that the major problem in the distribution central at GSV is the big volume differences in the incoming goods.

With this study we aim to learn more about the process in creating an identity onFlashback Forum. We have observed four members of the forum to find what themesdefine thier way of making an identitity. Besides to our empirical material we foundearlier research that could support our study. The methods we used was qualitativesince we wanted to get a deep understandning for their behaviour. We found thattheese three themes were central: Language, Content and the feeling of beingAnonymous.

As companies worldwide are in search of competitiveness and larger shares of the market, organizational change has become a key-factor to sustain a competitive edge. But as organizations consist of people, the human aspect of change is not to be disregarded. When change occurs, humans need time to find their new role in the organization, a process that takes time. In this thesis the authors ask themselves what an implementation process of a new managerial role looks like. To answer this question they?ve studied LRF Konsult.

Vissa forskare anser att autentiskt ledarskap är grunden för alla positiva former av ledarskap. Andra forskare menar på att det är en fördjupning av delen föredöme i den svenska modellen, utvecklande ledarskap, vilken används av svenska Försvarsmakten.Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka kadetterna vid Försvarshögskolan Karlbergs syn på de ingående delarna i föredöme och applicera teorin autentiskt ledarskap på detta. Förhoppningen var att genom detta identifiera skillnader och likheter mellan teorin och kadettens syn på föredöme och därigenom tydliggöra de teoretiska perspektivens relation till varandra. Utöver detta skulle studien även kunna ge en bild av i vilken utsträckning kadetternas ledarskap kännetecknas av ett autentiskt ledarskap samt föredöme.För att svara på detta har studien genomfört en kvantitativ enkätundersökning samt en kvalitativ intervjustudie. Dessa har visat att kadetterna kännetecknas av en hög grad av autentiskt ledarskap samt att kadetternas syn på föredöme till en viss del är likvärdig gentemot autentiskt ledarskap, men att en svaghet råder i de två perspektiven..

Fuel pellets are in Sweden mainly produced from sawdust and cutter shavings. Before the pelletising process the raw material is dried to attain consistent moisture content and ground up in a hammer mill. In the densification process (pelletising) the ground material is forced through holes in a rotating die. This heats up the wood particles which cause them to soften and self bond. After the process the pellets are cooled, sieved and bagged. The milling process creates a wide range of particle sizes.

The purpose of this paper is to study the rules of the bill 2007/08: 136 "Areformed sick-leave process of increased return to work" as related to therehabilitation chain. In the interpretation of the material I have used the ?practicallegal method? and a minor empirical study has been conducted to find out howRegion Skåne and UMAS adjust their activities to the new regulations.The government aims to reduce sick leave and on March 19, 2008,the above mentioned bill was presented to the Riksdag. The bill is a part of thegovernment's package of measures and contains proposals for a revised sick-leaveprocess. The rehabilitation chain is a part of the package and includes actions witha tighter schedule.The employer is still after the new rules playing a central role in thesick-leave process and must through early and continuous contact with theworkers start the rehabilitation process.

The construction process which is used today while constructing residential buildings has for along time remained unchanged. Unfortunately the development process has gone away frombecoming industrialized and instead most of the work is done at the construction site. In thisrespect this is a worse alternative because the project outcome will be more expensive and theconstruction time will be longer. Skanska?s vision is to have a process which is more like the oneused in small residential buildings which is fully industrialized.The constructing process for residential building involves more parties and therefore it becomesmore complicated.

I uppsatsen redogörs för hur information och kommunikation utformas och förmedlas i ett företag under en stor ekonomisk förändring. Syftet med forskningen är att undersöka hur information och kommunikation kan fungera mellan strategisk, taktisk och operativ nivå för att nå fram med budskapet och för att processen ska bli så effektiv som möjligt. Syftet behandlar även kommunikationsmediets påverkan. Kommunikation är en komplicerad process där brister ofta förekommer, detta kan leda till att budskapet uppfattas felaktigt och syftet med processen uteblir. I val av medie är det därför viktigt att ta hänsyn till sändare, mottagare och meddelandets situation.

?How does the Turkish debate appear concerning the EU-discourse in relation to political conditionality? Is Turkey accepting the demands that are being made?? These questions are answered in this thesis through a qualitative document analysis of the debate concerning EU as it is in Turkish newspapers and statements made by Turkish political representatives. The debate is used to describe the association?s process in a candidate country through investigating how the process and the relationship between EU and Turkey are discussed within the country. The national debate is then used to compare with the accession process for the Central and Eastern European countries based on conditionality to discover if Turkey is different from other candidate countries and if so explain why.

This report is the result of a project in the course Independent Projekt in Molecular Biotechnology at Uppsala University during the spring of 2014. The foremost purpose of the course is to give students the opportunity to carry through exstensive work in a project environment. This project was formed based on a comission from the biotechnology company SweTree Technologies, and the goal has been to compose a summary of the different techniques and methods that exist in the field of mass propagation of trees through the method of somatic embryogenesis.The project group has obtained information about the area mainly throgh reading patents, trying to find key components and bottlenecks in other companies? somatic embryogenesis technologies. This paper is divided into different sections, containing the patents of the automation of different steps in the process.

Utvecklingen inom redovisningsområdet har gått i mycket rask takt. Den svenskalagstiftningen har anpassats till EG-rätten och gjort redovisningen onödigt svår ochkomplicerad för onoterade svenska företag. På grund av detta har bokföringsnämndenidag delat upp företag i fyra olika kategorier med olika redovisningskrav beroende påstorlek. Dessa kategorier benämns K1, K2, K3 och K4. Denna kandidatuppsats ärbegränsad till att enbart behandla K3.Bokföringsnämnden har än så länge enbart lagt fram ett utkast för K3-regelverket.Informationen i utkastet är så pass tunn att syftet med uppsatsen är att försöka ta redapå hur det nya regelverket bör utformas, så att det gynnar så många företag sommöjligt inom denna kategori.

A multi professional team use different professional skills to a specific target. The people in the team complement each other to achieve the best performance possible. Professional identity is a mix between the professional and personal identity. Social identities, like professional identity, is a product of social categorization and social comparison. The purpose of this study was to examine how increased cooperation in cross-disciplinary teams has affected the professional identity of home care staff.