This paper investigates the automatic stabilizer and the underlying factors behind its function. The paper includes both a literature review and an empirical analysis. The literature review discusses the IS-LM and Mundell-Fleming models and different ways to quantify the automatic stabilizer. Based on the theory, the relationship between volatility in GDP and the size of the automatic stabilizers is then analyzed with the help of regressions. Our main result shows a negative relation between these two variables.

Homework is and has always been a part of school work. It may take a lot of time from the pupils? leisure. Despite this, you cannot find anything written about homework in the curriculum. How can this be? Is homework necessary and what is its function?The purpose of this study is to find out how a few teachers in primary school reason about homework.  What are their attitudes towards homework and what functions do they see?To get an answer to this I studied literature and research reports, and did four qualitative interviews with teachers who teach grades 1-6.The results show that all the teachers give homework to their pupils, but their opinions about homework differ.

The aim of this paper is to examine how the press describes the public and private role of the Swedish monarch in texts that report about the biography Carl XVI Gustaf ? den motvillige monarken (Sjöberg et al. 2010) when it is published in November 2010. The examined period ranges between the days just before the release and a fortnight after. The analysis is limited to standard Swedish papers: a daily, Svenska Dagbladet, and an evening paper, Expressen.Questions asked in the study are: In what ways do the analysed texts raise a discussion about the monarchy?s importance or function in the society of today, that is a public debate on the monarchy? To what extension are status symbols used in the constructing of royalty, that is what Jürgen Habermas (2003) describes as representative publicity? What similarities and differences are found when comparing the news articles in the daily and in the evening paper?The method used to answer the aim and questions is the critical discourse analysis, as Norman Fairclough (1995) describes it, and the theoretical perspective of the essay is Jürgen Habermas? (2003) theory about the bourgeois public sphere.The result shows that the news articles in the daily unsurprisingly construct only a public who wants to debate on the monarchy.

Titel: ?Man skulle ju aldrig lägga upp en ful bild på sig själv liksom?.Författare: Ronja RiemanKurs: C-uppsats inom medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapTermin: Vårtermin 2014Handledare: Malin SveningssonAntal ord: 23.553 ord inklusive bilagor(19.407 ord exklusive titelblad, innehållsförteckning, executive summary, abstract, referenser och bilagor)Antal sidor: 46 sidor inklusive bilagor)Syfte: Studien undersöker vad unga kvinnor har för uppfattningar om och erfarenheter av utseendefokus på Instagram och om de anser att det kanfinnas en påverkan på deras självbild.Metod: Kvalitativa gruppintervjuer med totalt tolv personer.Material: Tre gruppintervjuer med unga kvinnor, 15-24 år, som är aktiva användare avInstagram.Huvudresultat: Denna studie har visat att unga kvinnor söker sig till Instagram försocial interaktion, underhållning, tidsfördriv och frihet att kunna påverka hur de framställer sin ?online-identitet?. Samtidigt upplever de att Instagram är stress- och beroendeframkallande. Kvinnornas relation till Instagram kan beskrivas som komplex och i viss mån motsägelsefull.Studien visar vidare att unga kvinnor upplever att ett fokus på utseendet finns på Instagram. Det kan bland annat identi!eras genom att många unga kvinnor publicerar en stor andel bilder som visar ett fördelaktigt utseende på deras ansikte eller kropp.

The objective of this project was to develop an application for mobile phones using the Android operating system. The main goal was, with the help of GPS, to pinpoint locations, measure distance traveled and illustrate the progress on a map. Functionalities for just showing the map, fetching addresses and saving to a database was also implemented. The result of the work was a proper application, called MeasureApp, that fulfills the goals set in the planning stages of the project. MeasureApp can be used to measure distances where accuracy is not a main factor, i.e walks or runs.

There is a clear difference between the way football players and leaders regard the role of the referee, compared to the way the refereeing body looks at it. The refereeing body regard themselves as fundamental for the existence of the sport, while the other mentioned parties merely see them as functional justice makers. This view places the referees outside the field of football. This establishes a football culture, which is conflicted when it comes to the role of the referees on the field. The conflict comes to its edge in youth football, where the referees are under severe pressure.

A qualitative study of high school student teachers' ideas about libraries and school libraries.Interviews have been conducted with future teachers about the library's role in their education,their views on library functions in high school and whether they as teachers will use theschool library. The results show that the students have had some instruction concerninghow to use the library as students, but very little as regards their future teaching. The professorsof teacher education focus on the fact that the library should be used in high schoolteaching, not how to use it. Despite this, the student teachers look very positively upon libraries.Libraries play an important part in their education and they are all sure that they asteachers will use the school library, which includes interacting with the librarian. To them, themost important school library function is to allow pupils to seek information..

This work examines the students´ thoughts on climate change with a focus on carbondioxid through photosynthesis and the carbon emissions from cars. The study is based on two subject areas, one with a focus on enhanced greenhouse effect, and the other focusing on photosythesis. The survey was conducted by means of qualitative interviews with students in grades four and six. The results describe that student´s understanding for photosynthesis and the carbondioxids function for photosynthesis doesn´t change significantly from grade four to grade six. I have divided the students inte three levels based on their understandingof the various fields, and their use of adequate concepts.

Titel: ?Att lämna den teoretiska textboken till förmån för den riktiga världen? -Lärare och medier i undervisningenFörfattare: Fredrik Andersson & Elisabeth ErikssonInstitution: Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommuniksation, JMGKurs: Mk1500, examensarbeteTermin: Vårterminen 2012Uppdragsgivare: LUN, Annika BergströmHandledare: Jan StridSyfte: Att undersöka lärares beskrivning gällande sina arbetssätt om, för och medmedier samt motiven till dessa.Metod: Kvalitativa/kvantativa mailenkätintervjuer av lärare som arbetar med medier iundervisningen.Material: MailenkäterNyckelord: Medier, Media Literacy, Media Education, Mediepedagogik, IKT, Digitalkompetens, Metodik, Pedagogik, Didaktik, Styrdokument, LärareAntal ord: 19.939 + Abstract, Executive summary samt BilagorHuvudresultat: De tillfrågade lärarna i vår undersökning använder både aktivt och entusiastiskt medier i sin undervisning. Användningsområdena är många och personligtutarbetade och anpassade till lärarnas eget arbetsätt. Samtliga mediekategorier används av ett par av lärarna, medan kategorier som TV, filmer och andra rörliga bildmedier används av alla de tillfrågade lärarna. Det arbetssätt som är vanligast är att man arbetar med medier, det vill säga använder medier som ett verktyg.

The purpose of this thesis has been to determine experimentally how good a peltierelement is to convert waste heat from wood burning. Three different peltier elementswere used in a comparison study. The comparison was mainly done to know howmuch power could be obtained from each element. Even, a circuit with a step-upfunction has been created to give a higher output voltage than the peltier elementitself. The result of the experiments was a low output power, the highest valuereached 2.18W.

This Master?s Thesis work was performed at the Studio Engineer department at Volvo CarsDesign Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. The assignment has been to create a new idea of an airvent where the news value mainly was focused at functionality but also with great attention onvisual appearance.The work has been totally independent and not been aimed to any specific car model. Theindependency initially made that the visual appearance primary wasn?t limited in any way dueto surrounding components.

This is an essay with anticipations to bring out knowledge about organisational culture for the interested reader or explorer of culture in organisations. Focus positions on ingredients that can be understood as fabricating organisational culture. The essay is, for example, about values, norms, ethics peoples characteristics, that shapes an organisation. In this area of expertise there are numerous categories of scientists and disciplines that do research on this theme. Therefor it exists a rather various collection of definitions of what organisational culture is, or can be.

The main objective with this study was to investigate so called odd purposes acceptable when registrating property along with how social development affects these purposes, furthermore to investigate how the cadastral surveyors estimates a foreseeable time. Tradition and praxis is used for several obvious purposes such as housing, farming, forests, offices and industry. Praxis is yet to be defined regarding more unique purposes. There is no mention in the law about which purposes are found acceptable to assure the demands on suitability are met. Cadastral authorities are responsible for making sure the division into property units is uniform and rule of law-accordingly.

The consumer today is affected by a considerably larger number of world surrounding factors than she used to be, borders between different cultures and other consumer differences are being erased to a growing extent. The consumer can easily get its inspiration from many different directions which become clear in the common life. We eat sushi for lunch, we?re driving German cars and we?re having dinner with international business partners. The community also exposes the consumer for a more intense noise from offers, impact and marketing.

In this paper we have chosen to focus on social workers and their experiences of interacting with clients with neuropsychiatric disabilities, in example persons with ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), Asperger syndrome, autism and/or Tourette syndrome. The main purpose was to look into three areas: What knowledge do social workers mean that they need about neuropsychiatric disabilities and how can their needs of knowledge can be met? How do they experience the meeting with a person with neuropsychiatric disabilities? How does the cooperation function between authorities regarding persons with neuropsychiatric disabilities?Definition of the concept of disability and function from a historical perspective points out that the approach has changed over time. Previous research studies of the interaction in meeting between the client and the social worker shows that the social worker carries two faces, so called aspects. The first aspect is about help and care and the second aspect is about administrative functions.