: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva hur korruptionen i Vietnam påverkar företagsverksamheten ur företagens och organisationernas perspektiv. Vidare är syftet att redogöra för vad företagen och organisationerna anser att Vietnams medlemskap i WTO kan bidra med för att minska korruptionsrisken. Vi ser att påverkan av korruptionen på företagsverksamheten uppfattas av samtliga företag och organisationer som negativ. WTO och dess medlemskap bedöms kunna påverka genom ökad transparens, öppenhet och tydligare spelregler. WTO och dess medlemskap skulle utöver dagens inflytande också genom att bli berättigade till sanktioner mot landet, kunna minska korruptionen.

Forensic psyhiatric care protects the society by giving patients care to diminish risks of serious crimes. In their work the nurses use different care methods to help and support the patient in managing his or her life situation. To clarify how a group of nurses describe the nursing process in forensic psychiatric care. A qualitative study based on interviews. Six nurses were interviewed about their work in four different forensic psychiatric care units.

AbstractNowadays, companies and organizations manage large amounts of data to be used as support in decision making. A good solution for data management is in the form of data warehouses. A data warehouse is used to gather information from multiple sources within a company and arrange the information in a way that makes it easy to retrieve and analyze. Designing a data warehouse is not a simple task. The study herein will focus on what a data warehouse is and how the ETL process is used for data storage in the data warehouse. ETL stands for Extract, Transform and Load and is the process that retrieves data, transforms it and finally loads it into the data warehouse.

 Saab Microwave Systems (SMW) is a business unit within Saab AB that manufactures and develops different types of radar- and sensor systems for naval, airborne and ground based forces as well as within the market for civil security. In addition to the manufacturing of radar and sensor systems they also provide different types of service concepts. The business unit has 50 years of experience within the area of developing radar systems and is considered to be one of the market leaders. When applying an assemble-to-order production strategy with products at this level of cost price the product lead-time is vital and becomes an important part of the strategy within marketing and sales. Within SMW there is a new department called Supply Management (SM) that provides the supply of incoming and outgoing material. Within SM there are four sub-departments working with activities such as planning, purchasing, receiving inspection, storage and distribution.

This paper describes the integration of environmental assessment in Swedish municipality comprehensive planning through a chosen case study. The implementation of a new EGdirective in Swedish law, concerning Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, should lead to some changes in the way Swedish municipalities' deals with environmental issues in their comprehensive plans. This could later on lead to new preconditions for municipality comprehensive planning. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the planning organisation in the municipality adapts to new regulations for impact assessment of comprehensive plans required by the Planning and Building act. Secondly the purpose was to partly participate in the early stages of the planning process and thereby indicate and identify possible environmental impacts regarding the aspects of land and water. This was done as a case study in a well defined part of the process.

The decisions for investment are forward-looking and the base of a long-term strategy. The research within investment have focused on diverse formulas which are used in financial assessment, which also should be complemented with qualitative evaluation. Consequently, the focus should not only be on the execution of the formulas. Less time have been spent on research concerning what actually initiates the investment proposals and affects the decision-making. This will be highlighted in this essay.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka förutsättningar och möjligheter att producera biogas på Utö. Förhoppningen var att på detta vis kunna utnyttja främst slammet ifrån det lokala reningsverket som en resurs. Examensarbetet utfördes som en del av EU-projektet Green Islands där Skärgårdsstiftelsen i Stockholms Län är Lead Partner.Utöver reningsverkets slam undersöktes andra möjliga substrat, där matavfall ifrån Utö Värdshus och slakteriavfall ifrån ett mindre slakteri valdes ut som bäst lämpade. En uppskattning av substratsmängderna gav att en lämplig storlek på biogasreaktorn skulle vara ca 50 m3. Lokala användningsområden för producerad gas och rötrest utreddes och ett antal olika typer av små biogasverk har undersökts.

Författarna utreder i denna uppsats medelst empirisk analys huruvida ålder, anställningstid och personalansvar inverkar på graden av deltagande i budgetprocessen samt i vilken utsträckning dessa individuella karaktärsegenskaper påverkar uppfattningen av budgetmålens svårighetsgrad. För att definiera, mäta och samla in data har författarna distribuerat 103 stycken enkäter med direktriktade frågor till kostnadsansvariga chefer vid en av Sveriges ledande verkstadskoncerner. Resultatet har därefter sammanställts och analyserats utefter koncernens organisatoriska struktur.  Sammanfattningsvis gav uppsatsens empiriska resultat ? i strid med tidigare empirisk forskning ? tillräckligt med statistiskt belägg för att författarna skulle kunna konstatera att individuella karaktärsegenskaper som ålder och personalansvar särskilt bör beaktas vi en effektivisering av deltagandegraden i budgetprocessen..

Quality assurance of construction projects and create effective ways of working, is intoday's pressed position, major objectives for building contractor companies. This thesis is an attempt to see if it is possible to achieve these goals with the new modern tool iPad.The author of this thesis has during the latter half of his one year practice work in Uppsala for the Swedish building construction company NCC Construction Sverige AB, conducted a study on the possibility of using the iPad on an construction site. This has been done with active field studies in which applications have been tested and also the supervisors receptive. The usability of the iPad has always been in focus since it is important that the applications are easy to use and easy to learn.The results of the work, as presented in this report, points at opportunities in efficiency if the iPad is introduced and used on construction site. There are many useful applications for the iPad, and with a system that can handle the synchronization between the iPad and the computer, the workflow will be streamlined significantly..

Med tanke på att kraven ställs allt högre på dagens företag och organisation, vill det till att företag är flexibla och konkurrenskraftiga. Kraven på effektivisering av affärsprocesser ökar markant för att ständigt förbättra arbetssituationen i organisationer. Detta examensarbete behandlar ämnet virtuell organisation och dess betydelse i integrering av affärsprocesser i B2B-företag.Undersökningen är gjord i form av intervjuer, där sju företag medverkade. Arbetet syftar till att klargöra i hur stor utsträckning det virtuella arbetssättet används i B2B-företag, gällande affärsprocesser. Syftet med detta arbeta är att undersöka ifall affärsprocesser i B2B-företag har inslag av egenskaper som kännetecknar en virtuell organisation.Resultatet visar att integrering av affärsprocesser i B2B-företag har stora inslag av egenskaper som kännetecknar en virtuell organisation..

This Master thesis is about how to involve young people in a creative process. The aim is to see what methods can be applied to make them reach the kind of knowledge they need to be able to contribute to the creation of a memorial place. Issues such as if a place that displays death has a right to exist in an urban environment or why young people should be involved in the creative process are brought up and discussed in this thesis.The memorial place that the young people contribute to is unique, in some sense, due to it not commemorating any special event or person. The purpose of the memorial is rather to serve the public when larger catastrophes occur or to serve individuals who do not have a grave they can visit to commemorate their loved ones. The idea is to place the memorial in an urban setting in the city of Borås.In this thesis the process that the young people participate in is reported in a form similar to a diary where the reader can follow the developments of the young participants, from how they gain knowledge to how they develop their ideas.

Shock absorber units play a key role in establishing the driving dynamics and performance of automobiles. Öhlins Racing has manufactured high-tech automotive shock absorbers for over 30 years. Öhlins Racing?s advanced technology has contributed to over 200 world championships in automobile racing. Öhlin?s manufacturing process has long utilized automated fluid filling equipment during the final shock absorber unit assembly stage. The filling process consists of vacuum pumping the shock absorber unit and subsequent transfer of fluid. Vacuum pumping is necessary to remove residual air from the shock absorber unit prior to initiating the liquid filling stage. The presence of undesirable gases drastically compromises the performance of a shock absorber. The filling degree, defined as the final ratio of air to oil, is determined by the specific filling protocol as well as the specific equipment utilized.The current investigation aims to develop a viable technique to accurately determine residual air content in shock absorber units. If the filling degree can be appropriately quantified for a specific manufacturing process, then the air/oil ratio may be quantitatively related to shock absorber performance. The utilized measurement method must be completely integrated into the manufacturing process to guarantee shock absorber performance specifications according to the manufacturer?s standards. By utilizing the measurement method developed in this work, the manufacturing process, manufacturing equipment and product specifications can all be tailored to provide improved filling conditions.The developed measurement method provides accurate quantification of the filling degree under a wide range of processing conditions. The method establishes the relative quantity of air in the shock absorber unit by performing in-situ compressibility tests. The fill ratio can be controlled and varied by manipulating the vacuum pressure exerted during the filling process. Performance tests, however, indicate no correlation between filling degree and unit performance..

In the production of pulp, paper and cardboard, a large amount of water is used daily. The water has to be purified in the internal purifying plant before it reaches the receiving body of water. In the biological purifying stage at the Stora Enso Skoghall mill, an aerated basin is used where the microorganisms, using oxygen, oxidize the organic material to carbon dioxide. The air is pumped from the bottom of the basin and the oxygen can then be transported from the air bubbles to the water through diffusion. The problem with aeration of waste water from the forest industry is that wood residues, such as fatty acids, are making the transport of oxygen in water more difficult.

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.