This thesis examines the effects of proximity operators and query expansion with synonyms on retrieval performance. The queries were expanded with synonyms and structured with proximity operators where the permitted distance between terms varied from 1 to 3. The expansion terms were selected from the online lexical reference system WordNet. Initial query terms were selected from 28 topics that contained compound words and were chosen on the basis of their expandibility. The English morphological analyser ENGTWOL was used for normalization of query terms.

På Facebook är man författare till sin egen digitala självbiografi. Sociala medier och socialanätverk har gjort det möjligt för användare att kunna forma den bild av sig själv man vill visaomvärlden. Vi har gjort en studie om vilka strategier man använder sig av för att dela bilderoch vad dessa bilder säger om användarens identitet. Med hjälp av tidigare forskning samtvår egen studie bestående av intervjuer och enkäter har vi kommit fram till att man ofta delarbilder för att ta kontakt och känna gemenskap med andra människor/användare. Användarnavi undersökte vill visa den bästa bilden av sig själva samtidigt som användarna vill visa en såverklighetstrogen bild som möjligt.

Is social media becoming a new form of interview? This is a quantitative study about the use of quotations from social media in Swedish newspapers. We chose the online editions of two of Sweden?s biggest newspapers for this, namely aftonbladet.se and dn.se.Although we noticed a big difference between the more serious dn.se and the more scandal-oriented aftonbladet.se both newspaper still frequently used quotations from social media.The thing that we found most troublesome about this phenomenon was the fact that we found that journalists very rarely contacted the person whose quotations they used. That meant that the interviewee had a very slim chance of correcting any misunderstandings.It also opened up the opportunity for certain people to use the media to spread their own agendas without getting questioned.We used the social institutionalizing theory and the social responsibility theory to verify our findings.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to examine the function of public libraries on the social web, focusing on reading promotion and reading stimulation. For an understanding of the larger context regarding public libraries on the social web, we conducted online interviews via email with people in the Swedish library profession, together with a content analysis of various texts on the subject found in library journals and on the Internet. Furthermore to identify the public library's practice on reading promotion and reading stimulation on the social web, we did interviews with librarians at a public library on their use of a blog for this purpose, together with a questionnaire handed out to the library's users on their use and conceptions of the blog.The conceptual framework of this study consists of four key aspects in the theoretical and empirical definition of Library 2.0 presented by Holmberg, Huvila and Widén-Wulff. The results showed that the public library can create a substantial value through its use of the social web, but it?s necessary to have a clear vision of the desired outcome.

Relationship Marketing - will banks be able to handle higher consumer mobility in the private market?The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of the factors that affect customer loyalty to the bank. Consumer mobility will probably increase as a result of political changes and pressures on the private banking market to become more competitive. This study was carried out using semi-structured interviews and were transcribed and analyzed with the help of models and theories centered on relationship marketing. The theories describe loyalty, the customer lifecycle and relationships between customers and organizations.

Bakgrund: V?rldsh?lsoorganisationen (WHO) arbetar f?r att uppn? b?ttre h?lsa f?r alla m?nniskor ur ett globalt perspektiv. WHO:s senaste riktlinjer f?r psykisk h?lsa f?rd?mer anv?ndningen av tv?ngsmetoder inom psykiatrisk v?rd. ?ven om minskning av just tv?ngs?tg?rder inom psykiatrisk v?rd ?r ett av de viktiga internationella m?len, anv?nds det fortsatt i Sverige f?r att f?rhindra patienter fr?n att skada sig sj?lva och omgivningen.

Denna studie syftar till att belysa l?rare i fritidshems perspektiv p? det h?lsofr?mjande arbetet i fritidshemmet samt hur detta arbete utf?rs i verksamheten. Med vetskapen om att barn i dag r?r sig f?r lite i f?rh?llande till rekommendationerna s? vill vi unders?ka hur detta ?terspeglar sig i den fritidshemspedagogiska verksamheten. Det ?r ett intressant omr?de att l?gga fokus p? d? m?nga barn spenderar mycket tid i fritidshemmet.

Examensarbetet har utfo?rts av Ida Montan, maskiningenjo?rsprogrammet pa? Karlstad Universitet. Arbetet har skett i samarbete med Swenox AB. Ett fo?retag vars produktion a?r bela?gen i Nyko?ping.

The e-commerce in Sweden has increased each year for the past several years, but still just over half of all the consumers feels worry about payment security. This could be the reason why over half of the consumers just shopped about one time on the Internet during the whole year of 2009. Another reason could be that the many consumers have a lack of trust to the different payment methods that are available during payment on the Internet, because they might don't possess enough knowledge regarding the payment methods and their security. If the consumers were to gain more knowledge about the payment methods and their security, it may lead to that the they would feel more comfortable when shopping online, and do it more frequently. It is this that will be investigated in this paper.The purpose of the paper  is to research if consumers believed knowledge concerning the different payment methods available on the web and their security influence the consumers trust in the payment methods.

Syftet med studien var att underso?ka hur kla?desaffa?rer kan skapa en mer positiv syn pa? second hand kla?der bland konsumenter. Underso?kningen utfo?rdes genom att anva?nda Tricomponent Attitude modellen och erka?nda strategier fo?r attitydfo?ra?ndring. Tricomponent Attitude modellen utgo?rs av den kognitiva, affektiva samt konativa delen medan attitydstrategierna utgo?rs av tillva?gaga?ngssa?tt fo?r att fo?ra?ndra attityden.

Syftet med studien ?r att f? mer kunskap om hur pedagoger p? sfi reflekterar ?ver uttal och uttalsundervisningen i allm?nhet, men ?ven mer specifikt kring deras m?l med uttalsundervisningen och vilka prioriteringar den har i j?mf?relse med ?vriga delmoment inom sfi. Unders?kningen har genomf?rts genom kvalitativa intervjuer med fem sfil?rare verksamma p? studiev?g ett, kurs a, b, c, och d, d?r l?rarnas erfarenheter, funderingar och intentioner kring uttal och uttalsdidaktik ligger till grund f?r analysen. Resultatet visar att sfil?rarna anser uttal vara en viktig och relevant del av svenska som andraspr?ksundervisningen f?r elever p? sfi men samtidigt synligg?rs en avsaknad av gemensamma riktlinjer samt gemensamma pedagogiska praktiker och m?l med uttalsundervisningen.

This report is a market research for the company 4 Body and Mind, a start-upcompany that works with personal training online. They wanted to know if themarket for elderly care could be interesting for them to enter. This report is hence aresearch of the market for health and welfare technology in elderly care within thepublic sector in Sweden. A general fact is that the world's population is getting older.This combined with rapid growth of individuals in the age 65+ changes the demandson the elderly care in Sweden?s municipalities.

Most of the information online is difficult for people with cognitive disabilities to understand and assimilate. In this project I have had the expectation that this is possible to change. In cooperation with FUB, a Swedish organization working for people with cognitive disabilities, I have studied how to adapt content, pictures and writing to persons with the levels of mild to moderate cognitive disabilities. I have also taken the perspective ?design for all?, which means that you adapt a design for the weakest persons in the society to make it work for everyone.The purpose of my work is to study how to create a web text where content, writing and pictures are incorporated.To examine how to do this I have conducted qualitative interviews in which I have let the informants look at and read four different texts.

Syftet med fo?religgande underso?kning a?r att studera hur en viss grupp flickor pa? gymnasiet upplever fo?ra?ldrarnas sto?ttning i sin skolga?ng. Studien a?mnar a?ven studera en eventuell a?tskillnad i hur sto?ttningen kan tas i uttryck beroende pa? fo?ra?ldrarnas utbildningsniva?. Begreppet sto?ttning har i studien operationaliserats med utga?ngspunkt i motivations- och fo?rva?ntansteorier och med hja?lp av Bourdieus teori kring kapital a?mnar studien att fo?rklara den reproducerande kraft som utbildningskapitalet hos fo?ra?ldrarna bidrar till.

Denna rapport ämnar beskriva framtagningen av en applikation för Android riktad mot aktiva inom ridsporten. Under många tävlingar inom ridsporten har tävlande och åskådare svårt att snabbt få tillgång till resultaten på plats. Projektet ämnar öka tillgängligheten till resultat och startlistor, vilket resulterade i en prototypapplikation för Android.Rapporten beskriver hur det i början av projektet genomfördes en förstudie där projektgruppen tittade närmare på Equipe AB:s webbtjänster samt skapade en öppen marknadsundersökning som låg till grund för utvecklingen av applikationen. Rapporten tar även upp projektets utvecklingsprocess, Scrum. Efter färdigställande av en prototyp av applikationen genomfördes användartester för att utvärdera de olika delarna och samla data inför vidare utveckling.I rapporten beskrivs prototypen, där basfunktionerna är presentation av start och resultatlistor, onlinelistor, bevakning av en start och lista alla aktuella tävlingar med respektive tidschema.