The public sector in Sweden has in recent decades undergone a large change due to market and liberalism impact. This change has meant that marketing communication and its concepts have been adopted by administrative authorities. In this thesis, we used governmentality, social constructivism and an interpretive perspective to examine the staff at the County Administrative Board in Kalmar County and their experiences and opinions of the concepts ?customer? and ?trademark?. The study was designed as a case study with qualitative interviews.

The purpose of this report is to collect, compile and complement the scientific and experience based knowledge concerning high pressure fire fighting today. The goal is to produce a decision data for the Rescue Service concerning the use of high pressure systems for fire fighting. Focus is on hose reel high pressure systems but other systems are discussed too. The report begins by describing the technical properties of the different systems. Then the fire fighting properties are evaluated, including manoeuvrability and safety for users.

The main focus of this essay is to analyze whether strict employment protection legislation has a negative effect on the labour market possibilities for youth in the EU or not. To empirically examine the labour market possibilities for youth, data for unemployment rates and incidence of temporary jobs are used. By doing simple correlations between the different labour market characteristics and OECD?s employment protection legislation index the effect of the latter is tested. The result is that a tendency for youth unemployment and frequency of youth with temporary employment to be higher when employment protection legislation is strict can be seen.

Digitala v?rdtj?nster har blivit alltmer popul?ra i Sverige under de senaste ?ren, men det r?der delade meningar bland forskare och v?rdanst?llda om huruvida dessa har en positiv p?verkan p? v?rdsamh?llet eller inte. Denna uppsats syftar till att unders?ka hur kostnaden f?r utoml?nsers?ttning i samband med anv?ndningen av privata digitala v?rdtj?nster har p?verkat v?ntetiderna inom prim?rv?rden. Detta g?rs genom en regressionsanalys, d?r ytterligare variabler s? som bra sj?lvskattad h?lsa, median?lder, ekonomisk standard och eftergymnasial utbildningen kontrolleras f?r.

A tough working climate and the lack of extrinsic motivation at workplaces within health care raise the question of what instead drives employees within this industry. A possible answer to this is Public Service Motivation (PSM) - a type of motivation that is based on the desire to do good for society and its individuals. In order to investigate this further we have performed a qualitative study consisting of ten interviews with people working with institutional care, where the purpose has been to identify the sources of motivation and determine the impact of PSM. The results show that the compassion dimension of PSM appears to be one of the most salient motivational factors. While the rest of the PSM dimensions fail to explain the level of motivation to the same extent as compassion, other factors are recognized, such as relatedness and aspects of the nature of the work itself.

Leken är ett självklart moment i förskolan, det är en nödvändighet för att barn ska kunna utvecklas och leken ska utgöra den centrala delen av barns vardag. För att en lek ska bli bra och kunna fortgå krävs det av samtliga deltagare att de kan samspela med varandra.Syftet med det här examensarbetet har varit att ta reda på hur barn i tre till femårsåldern samspelar i den fria leken och hur de får tillträde till lek. Den empiriska undersökningen har genomförts med hjälp av observationer på en förskola. Barnen och pedagogerna på förskolan kände jag sedan innan då jag hade gjort verksamhetsförlagd utbildning där vid ett tidigare tillfälle. Genom mina observationer kunde jag se att barn ägnar en stor del av sin dag på förskolan åt att etablera kontakt med sina kamrater.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to, through user studies, analyse whether Carol C. Kuhlthaus information search model is applicable in a Swedish school. Furthermore, the guidance that the students may receive from the teacher and/or school librarian is analysed. Answers are sought to the following questions: · How do the students perceive their information seeking? · How do the librarian and/or teacher support the students during their information seeking process? The study is based on a qualitative method of approach, through interviews with four informants: a librarian, a teacher and two pupils.

Working life changes, just like the rest of today?s society, at an accelerated pace. It is through changes and challenges that human beings develop, personally and professionally. Changes are often met by resistance. The purpose of this study is to see how different factors influence individuals? experiences of change.

Syfte: Denna systematiska litteratur?versikt syftar till att unders?ka och sammanst?lla den aktuella forskningen kring hur sockeralkoholen erytritol p?verkar fris?ttning av aptithormonet kolecystokinin (CCK). Metod: Studien genomf?rdes som en systematisk litteratur?versikt d?r s?kningar utgick fr?n tv? databaser och endast inkluderade randomiserade kontrollerade studier. Intervention var intag av l?sning s?tad med erytritol och utfallsm?tt inkluderade fris?ttning av CCK samt aptitrelaterade upplevelser hos en normalf?rdelad, frisk, vuxen population. Resultat: Litteraturs?kningen resulterade i 23 unika artiklar, varav sju l?stes i fulltext. Av dessa inkluderades fyra studier med totalt 55 deltagare. Det sammanst?llda underlaget visade en statistisk signifikant effekt p? fris?ttning av CCK vid intag av 50?75 g erytritol j?mf?rt med vatten.

The aim is to find out how teachers apply the knowledge they get from mathematics pilots in preschool and from mathematics developer in the municipality, as well as how they work further towards the children with mathematics.The study is based on qualitative interviews with two teachers, one mathematic pilot and one mathematic developer. I used the semi-structured interview questions.The results show that teachers believe that mathematics pilots will inspire the teachers in their work with mathematics in preschool. One of the teachers who were interviewed said:?Mathematics pilots should be those that have the strongest glasses and coming up with new ideas and they push the rest of the teachers in their work with mathematics in relation to children in preschool?.The teachers use the correct terms for mathematical concepts with the children. They also stressed how important it is to point out to the kids that it is mathematics that they are doing.The conclusion of the study is that the teachers agree that it is their approach towards the children that is important and how they can lead the children?s interest of mathematics forward.

The aim of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a mindfulness- and acceptance-based smoking cessation program in group (MRG). MRG was developed into an intervention consisting of 6 group sessions during 35 days including individual homework assignments. 8 of 10 participants completed the program. In order to evaluate the effect of MRG a quasi-experimental design with pretest and double posttest (second posttest at 1 month) was chosen. At second posttest, 50 percent (of 8 completers) were non-smokers, and the rest showed a decrease in smoking at a rate between 45 and 75 percent.

Enligt Konventionen om barnets rättigheter och Läroplanen för förskolan har barn rätt att göra sina röster hörda och bli lyssnade till. Hur detta ser ut i praktiken och vad som krävs av den vuxne för att samtal med barn ska fungera ömsesidigt är vad denna studie försöker inringa. Utifrån samtal och deltagande observationer under tio dagar av två femåriga pojkar och två femåriga flickor vid en förskola har fyra ögonblicksbilder, kallade livsberättelser, tolkats fram. Syftet är att undersöka hur barnen gestaltar sin livsberättelse i samtal och samspel och vad som framstår som viktigt i deras liv vid undersökningstillfället.Studien utgår från hermeneutisk tolkningslära, narrativ teori och ett relationellt psykologiskt perspektiv. En problematisering ges av begreppet barnperspektiv, vilket är centralt för förståelsen av barns livsvärld.

The aim of this study is to examine how two Kenyan school's approaches gender roles, by what the curriculum says and by how the teachers way of teaching are effecting the creation of gender roles. The aim is further to find out what the Kenyan school settings are, according to gender and equality, and how these are implemented in practice. This was examined through interviews at two local schools in Kenya, with five practicing teachers from grade one through grade six. This work compares the respondents' answers to the research that is related to the topic. Because of lack in the research about Kenya, the research has been based on mostly Swedish investigations.

Befintlig forskning pa? omra?det har dragit slutsatsen att Knowledge Sharing a?r av stor vikt fo?r ett fo?retags framtida o?verlevnad och att sma? och medelstora fo?retag i ma?nga fall inte tagit de a?tga?rder som beho?vs fo?r att fra?mja en o?kad kunskapsdelning mellan medarbetarna. Studien belyste da?rfo?r Knowledge Sharing inom sma? och medelstora, projektbaserade fo?retag. Syftet med studien var att o?ka fo?rsta?elsen och bidra med kunskap ga?llande hur medarbetarna inom sma? och medelstora fo?retag arbetar med och kan stimulera Knowledge Sharing.

Bakgrund Arbetet och dess psykosociala arbetsmiljo?faktorer a?r av betydelse fo?r va?lbefinnande i arbetslivet. Syftet med detta examensarbete var att underso?ka sambandet mellan arbetsmiljo?faktorer, arbete-livsbalans och arbetsrelaterat va?lbefinnande samt att identifiera fo?rklaringsfaktorer fo?r va?lbefinnande i arbetslivet.Metod En kvantitativ tva?rsnittsstudie genomfo?rdes med insamlad data fra?n ett pa?ga?ende projekt, GodA-projektet. Ansta?llda inom tre kommunalt a?gda bolag i Ga?strikland (n = 303) fick a?r 2013 besvara en enka?t.