As humans we transfer norms and values, which we are aware or unaware of, to the children near to us. These children embrace them, and the adult´s norms and values become the child's own ones. When a Bible story is going to be transformed into a children?s bible text it goes through shortening and simplification of the story to fit children´s bible edition. The adjustment will be unconscious and conscious choices that change the meaning of the text and the possibility of contextual interpretation.

The Multispectral Canopy Reflectance Model (MCRM) by Kuusk (1995) has beenused to simulate the reflectance of a sugarbeet canopy. The simulated reflectancevalues show high absorptance in the VIS area, compared to field measurements, andhigh reflectance values in the NIR area. The errors may be due to overestimation ofclorophyll content in the sugarbeet leaves and scattered light during fieldmeasurements. The estimation of the clorophyll content where carried out using thePROSPECT-model by Jacquemoud & Baret (1990).During the vegetation period, the state of the canopy moves towards a closed canopy,with sparse vegetation in spring. The MCRM-model was used to perform a ?spring?simulation, which was compared to the original simulation.

I en rapport som Svensk Näringsliv (2010) har utfört beskriver de att företag redan idag ochinom en snar framtid står inför den största pensionsavgången någonsin i Svensk historia. 40-talisternas avgång ställer företag inför stora utmaningarna, framförallt att lyckas genomföra enlyckad generationsväxling. De personer som går i pension har under sitt yrkesverksamma livutvecklat en kunskap som många organisationer vilar på. En stor del av denna kunskap måsteöverföras för att organisationerna ska kunna fortsätta att vara effektiva på marknaden. Syftetmed denna studie var att få en djupare förståelse för ledarskapets betydelse gällandekunskapsöverföring i en organisation, samt bidra med praktiska verktyg till chefer ochmedarbetare för att undvika att förlora värdefull kunskap vid en generationsväxling.Industriföretaget LEAX har själva identifierat ett problem i att överföra viktig kunskap i ochmed kommande generationsväxling.

This Master's Thesis studies the attitude that library employees have regarding a sex and gender-neutral treatmentof their clients. The analysis is based upon replies to a questionnaire which was submitted though channels directedat library employees, like BIBLIST and BiblFeed. The respondent?s replies contained a number of welldevelopedcomments making the resultant analysis both quantitative and qualitative in nature.In performing the analysis a theoretical framework combining Hirdman?s gender system with symbolic interactionismhas been used together with literature about gender roles.The questionnaire showed that gender neutrality is a complex concept that can be interpreted in many differentways and is therefore easily misunderstood. It is obvious that sex is an important category when respondents aredealing with their clients, but also that sex and gender are problematic concepts which respondents find difficultto know exactly how to relate to.

People have utilised and influenced the boreal forest for many centuries. Prior to the industrial revolution during the 19th century, however, human use primarily only had a low impact on the forest. When the timberfrontier swept over the country, the Swedish forests came to change for ever. The study site for this thesis is situated in the northern part of the county of Västerbotten, Sweden, and has previously been a National forest. Today the area is an ecopark and the land is owned by the forest company Sveaskog.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur Voltaires idéroman Candide och ett urval av romanens motiv kan analyseras och kopplas till en nutida samhällsdiskurs. Den ger även förslag på hur verket, mot bakgrund av en didaktisk diskussion, kan användas i undervisningssammanhang. Uppsatsen behandlar Voltaire och hans kritiska förhållande till Leibniz optimistiska och deterministiska världsåskådning. Här orienteras läsaren i den filosofiska motsättning som ligger till grund för verkets kärna: Voltaires polemik mot en okritisk acceptans av tesen Vi lever i den bästa av världar. Uppsatsen siktar på att levandegöra verkets tema optimismen och ett tänkbart huvudmotiv: människans utsatthet (i tillvaron), genom att koppla detta till dagsaktuella och till synes seglivade fenomen, t.ex.

Title: Ethics in thought and practice ? a qualitative study in how editorial staff at student magazines reason about ethics. (Etik i tanke och praktik ? en kvalitativ studie i hur studenttidningsredaktioner resonerar kring etik)Number of pages: 30 (37 including enclosures)Author: Bianca GidebackTutor: Peder Hård af SegerstadCourse: Media and Communication studies CPeriod: Spring 2010University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science,Uppsala University.Purpose/Aim: The purpose of this study is to explore how students that work at student magazines reason about ethics of journalism and how they transform it into practice. By identifying what circumstances in the context of the student magazine that can affect the work this study aim to see if and how this can affect how they conform to ethics of journalism in practical situations.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur Voltaires idéroman Candide och ett urval av romanens motiv kan analyseras och kopplas till en nutida samhällsdiskurs. Den ger även förslag på hur verket, mot bakgrund av en didaktisk diskussion, kan användas i undervisningssammanhang. Uppsatsen behandlar Voltaire och hans kritiska förhållande till Leibniz optimistiska och deterministiska världsåskådning. Här orienteras läsaren i den filosofiska motsättning som ligger till grund för verkets kärna: Voltaires polemik mot en okritisk acceptans av tesen Vi lever i den bästa av världar. Uppsatsen siktar på att levandegöra verkets tema optimismen och ett tänkbart huvudmotiv: människans utsatthet (i tillvaron), genom att koppla detta till dagsaktuella och till synes seglivade fenomen, t.ex.

In my scientific essay, I an experienced child minder, describe two different preschools cultures and investigate how preschool culture can be influenced and created by different conditions. In my first story I describe a professional preschool with a preschool director who is involved in the activities every day. The second story is about a preschool that is characterized by a different preschool culture and members of the staff who are stuck in old patterns and with an absent preschool director. What is it that really creates a professional preschool? I want through my essay highlight pedagogues child perspective, attitude, approach to ethics and preschool values.

The veterinary handling of wildlife, both in zoos and in the wild, commonly requires that the patients need to be captured and immobilized for examination or treatment. This emphasises the need for quick, on-site, laboratory equipment, in order to minimize the analysis time and thus the stress for the animal and also in order to increase the possibility of starting relevant treatment early on. The aim of this pilot study was to determine whether Serum Amyloid A (SAA) could be a measured in blood samples from bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and South American tapirs (Tapirus terrestris). SAA rises to its maximum about 24 hours after the introduction of an inflammatory agent in companion animals. This also correlates with the estimated time it takes for animals at Kolmården Wildlife Park to be examined and having blood samples collected after being observed as sick. The study also evaluated whether the Eurolyser SOLO, using a turbidometric immunoassay (TIA) developed for human diagnostics, could be used for such analysis. This pilot study was a retrospective analysis of SAA in convenience sampled frozen serum, collected from dolphins, elephants and tapirs.

Culture is seen as an abstract phenomenon, not easily defined. It is cathegorized as something that affects every person, though it is seldom described how. This study adress how culture, in the form of basic assumptions and accepted behaviors and ways to think affected how young coaches formed their leadership under the influence of their organization. The possible implications for the importance of knowing about ones culture in an organization affect both the recruitment process in organizations and what the organization stands for and what is conveyed through values and ways to act in the organization. The purpose of this study was, through the use of semi-structured interviews with young coaches and organizational leaders and a review of policys, to get the perspective and experiences of young coaches regarding cultural influence on their leadership.

For centuries, the human body has been used as a mean to project the norms, moral values and aesthetic preferences that exist throughout society. It has been controlled through constrictive fashion, family and social virtues and through how we perceive gender and sexuality. This essay strives to show, not only how the body and the aesthetic values coexist, but also how they work together and influence each other, with the body as the aesthetic medium. To do this, Michel Foucault?s writings of sexuality and his theories on morality and discipline, as well as Judith Butler?s works on normativity and performativity are being used.

Sportchefer på elitnivå inom svensk fotboll har det yttersta ansvaret för den sportsliga verksamheten i klubbarna. Dagens klubbfotboll kan likställas med ett större företag vars resultat noga bevakas av media, supporters och sponsorer. Pressen på dessa sportchefer är höga både när det gäller att leda en omfattande organisation och att ta ansvar för det sportsliga resultatet. Detta är utgångspunkter som ligger till grund för vår undersökning.Syftet med denna uppsats var att utifrån sportchefers egna perspektiv försöka förstå hur de uppfattar kraven på deras roll samt hur de omsätter sitt ledarskap i praktiken och vilken/vilka ledarskapsmodeller detta kan relateras till. Vi har utifrån detta syfte formulerat våra undersökningsfrågor enligt följande: Vad krävs för att vara sportchef i en svensk fotbollsförening på elitnivå?Vilka ledaregenskaper anser sportchefer är nödvändiga för att leda en klubb?Vi har använt oss av en semi-strukturerad kvalitativ intervjumetod riktad till åtta sportchefer.Respondenternas svar diskuterades med stöd av tre ledarskapsteorier som sedan låg till grund för vår empiri, analys och slutsats.De sportchefer som har intervjuats har olika bakgrund och ledarstilar.

AbstractEssay in political science, C-level, by Julia Leonsson, spring semester 2007Tutor: Susan MartonFreedom ? The political philosophy of our time?An analysis of the ideas of the international debate aboutChávez socialistic politicSince more than 2000 years there has been an ongoing discussion about whether state interference is a good thing or not. Most international organisations on the international political arena are today founded on neoliberal values, and it has developed in to the hegemonic ideology of the world. The socialistic politics of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez is thereby a somewhat unusual strategy. The purpose of this essay is to examine to what extent the international debate about Chávez socialistic politic can be understood through a neoliberal perspective.

This master?s thesis focus on Dewey Decimal Classification during the period 1932 to 2011, where the classification of the psychological knowledge domain is analyzed and discussed. In the light of the recent swedish switch from the swedish classification system SAB to DDC, this research area deserves prominence. The aim of this study is to investigate how DDC represents the historical development of the psychology subject with its underlying epistemology, to identify and analyze values and prejudice, and to analyze problems with DDC?s classification of psychology in relation to three other classification systems.