The study explores collective action in Sweden between 1980 to 1995 using time-series data from the European Protest and Coercion Database. In spite of severe hardship during the crisis of the early 1990s, Swedish strike-rates declined. However, contention merely shifted from workplaces into the streets; there was indeed a protest movement against austerity, as shown by a series of large demonstrations, and some riots, between 1989 and 1993. Further analysis indicates this movement faded as it was increasingly chanelled into the electoral campaign of the labor pary; having won the 1994 election, the organised labor movement no longer had an interest in sustaining the protest movement against austerity..

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how students writing their master thesis seek information, how they reason about their information seeking behaviour and how their studies in LIS could have affected their information seeking behaviour. The result was analysed with Roger Säljö?s theory about the sociocultural perspective about how individuals learn in relation to their context and the social practice that they act in. The following conclusions were drawn from analysing the result. The students didn?t really reflect over their information seeking behaviour.

This paper is an account of the work around the arrangement and registration of the archive of the Swedish Art-ists? Association?s archive. The Swedish Artists? Association is an association of artists that both makes exhibi-tions for their members? works and handles the Artists? House, called Konstnärshuset in Swedish. During the work with the archive the author faced a number of challenges and problems.

Abortion during late gestation is often caused by placental dysfunction such as placentitis. To prevent this from happening the placenta can be monitored pre partum so treatment can be started at an early stage. Methods for monitoring the placenta include hormonal monitoring, presence of clinical signs of placental dysfunction and ultrasonographic evaluation of the fetus and the placenta. Transrectal ultrasonography provides a very good image of the caudal portion of the allantochorion where an ascending placentitis normally establishes. An increased combined thickness of the uterus and the placenta, CTUP, has been associated with placental failure. This study included ten Swedish standardbred trotter mares in late gestation. They were monitored by transrectal ultrasonography of the placenta two times with approximately a month in between. CTUP was measured on each examination.

Our aim with this study has been to show the central factors that we consider have had animpact on public libraries in the "information society". We have studied two communities in the south of Sweden, Ronneby and Sölvesborg. These two communities have both started a development to the IT society, a society where information plays a great role, where the technique is the tool that supplies information.Ronneby community had early the aim to be the chief Swedish information center. A priority on information technology has therefore been obvious for them. Sölvesborg community has had another method and time schedule towards the IT society.We have been studying the documentation of aim and the strategy for IT development in different levels.

The aim of this paper is to take a critical look at retouching of medieval mural paintings inSweden. This is done by firstly examining the different methods of retouching, including thematerials used. Secondary it tries to answer the question of which intentions have guided theconservator?s decisions dealing with the retouching. The medieval mural paintings in Swedishchurches have three major functions today.

Otillräckligt behandlad postoperativ smärta är ett problem som sjuksköterskor i allmänhet kommer i kontakt med i sitt dagliga arbete och som åsamkar patienten både fysiska och emotionella kval. Musik, med tusenåriga traditioner som läkande, har länge varit en bortglömd intervention då sjukvården under lång tid varit strikt biomedicinskt inriktad. Syftet var att belysa musikens inverkan som omvårdnadsåtgärd i samband med postoperativ smärta, ur ett patientperspektiv. Metoden bestod av en litteraturstudie, nio vetenskapliga artiklar har analyserats och ligger som grund till resultatet. Analysen av artiklarna har lett fram till tre olika kategorier; Lindrad smärtupplevelse, lindrad upplevelse av känslomässigt lidande och underlättad mobilisering.

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vilka metoder som kan användas av sjuksköterskor för att uppnå följsamhet gällande genomförande av livsstilsförändringar hospatienter med diabetes typ 2 samt effekten av dessa. Metod: Uppsatsen har genomförts somen systematisk litteraturstudie. Artiklar har sökts i databaserna ELIN@Dalarna, Cinahl samtPubMed. Endast vetenskapliga artiklar som har publicerats mellan 2003 och 2008, tillgängligai fulltext, har inkluderats. Sexton kvantitativa artiklar ligger till grund för resultatdelen.Resultat: Användandet av telefonsamtal som hjälpmedel för sjuksköterskan att nå ut tilldiabetespatienterna har visat sig kunna öka diabetespatienters följsamhet vad gäller dieten.Automatiserade telefonsamtal har påvisats kunna hjälpa till att öka följsamheten gällandefysisk aktivitet.

The national spatial planning guidelines and the subsequent legal regulation in the Natural Resources Act and the Environmental Code has been a part of the Swedish planning system for almost 40 years. In the recent years, critics have claimed that the regulations are outdated and does not work the way it was intended. This paper examines closer why it is perceived that the regulations does not work, with a focus on how the national interests are managed in the municipal planning. Why is the national interests not applied in the municipal planning as intended? Is the error in the system or in the implementation of it? The aim of this essay is to study the gap between theory and practice by studying how the land management provisions in the Environmental Code is applied in five selected municipalities. The aim is also to find interesting issues for futher studies of the topic.

Vårt arbete syftar till att studera två övergripande tillvägagångssätt gällande annonsering vid en nylansering för att avgöra när det ena tillvägagångssättet förespråkas framför det andra. En kvalitativ studie i form av 4 individuella delvis öppna djupintervjuer har genomförts genom att utgå från en tolkningsbaserad ansats. Intervjuerna har genomförts med personer från en mediebyrå, reklambyrå, ett högteknologiskt företag samt en mediekanal. Teorier om produktlivscykeln, lansering, målgrupp, självkoncept, typ av produkt samt reklamens utformning behandlas i studien. De slutsatser som kan dras är att det inte finns någon generell ideal tidpunkt för annonserig vid lansering av en ny produkt.

In this essay I compare the description of the Thirty Years? War in a number of German and Swedish encyclopedias published between 1854 and 2005. The essay is a historiographical research with focus on three areas; the description of the war background, the reason of the Swedish intervention in the war and the picture of the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf with the consequences of the war and the peace of Westphalia. I want to analyze the differences and similarities in the way the history is being told in the German and Swedish encyclopedias. The research shows a transformation from a narrative, nationalistic, partial description with focus on individuals and specific events to a more analytical and objective description with focus on structures.

Den 11 september 2001 förändrades världen. USA var inte längre skyddat av stora hav utan var nu sårbart för anfall. En ny värld krävde nya krig och de gamla doktrinerna för rättfärdigande av krigföring och nationalstatens suveränitet sattes ur spel i sökandet efter terrorister.Efter att Talibanregimen var störtad i Afghanistan var det största hotet mot USA säkerhet och världens fred diktaturen i Irak och diktatorn Saddam Hussein. Man sökte nu ett rättfärdigande av en militär invasion av Irak och presidentens retorik sökte med snabbt legitimitet i teorierna om rättfärdiga krig.Det nya amerikanska försvarsdoktrinen krävde en modig retorik för att rättfärdiga det kontroversiella beslutet om att ? efter många år ? avsätta den Irakiska diktatorn.Gränsen mellan mod och dumdristighet är hårfin.

Munvård är en viktig del i vårdpersonalens utförande av omvårdnad. Om den uteblir skapas snabbt ett lidande för patienten. Trots detta har det via studier visat sig vara den intervention som vård-personal ofta väljer att försaka. Syftet med denna systematiska litteraturöversikt var att beskriva faktorer som påverkar utförandet av munvård hos patienter inom slutenvård och kommunala bo-enden. Sexton vetenskapliga artiklar med både kvantitativ och kvalitativ ansats har legat till grund för analysen som resulterade i sju faktorer som påverkade munvården.

Ångestsyndrom tillhör den vanligaste psykiatriska problematiken hos barn. Ångestsyndrom börjar ofta i tidig ålder, medför stort lidande och predicerar psykiatrisk problematik senare i livet. Det är viktigt att undersöka hur ångestsyndrom kan förebyggas eftersom få barn med denna problematik kommer i kontakt med behandling. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om FRIENDS, ett preventionsprogram från Australien, fungerar i en svensk kontext. Femtio barn i nioårsåldern undervisades i FRIENDS under tio lektioner.

The world is getting smaller. Global markets, political processes and communication technology bring people together. Even though many of these processes are dynamic and constructive, they have also resulted in a need for better and more effective ways of international conflict resolution. This thesis investigates central issues connected to the concept of humanitarian interventions in relation to current and future legislation of the European Union. The overall question is whether the rapid globalization process has resulted in a change of international law towards more liberal view where authorization of the security council is not always needed? And, if there has actually been such a liberalization, how does that affect the legal possibilities for the European Union to carry out armed operations without the consent of the global community? The conclusion of the thesis is that international law has been modified mainly in two aspects: First, the concept of sovereignty is no longer seen merely as a right of the nation, but also as a responsibility.