Ever since it was first introduced in an article in the Journal of Finance 1952, Harry Markowitz? mean - variance model for portfolio selection has become one of the best known models in finance. The model was one of the first in the world to deal with portfolio optimization mathematically and have directly or indirectly inspired the rest of the world to develop new portfolio optimization methods. Although the model is one of the greatest contributions to modern portfolio theory, critics claim that it may have practical difficulties. Partly because the Markowitz model is based on various assumptions which do not necessarily coincide with the reality.

The purpose of this essay is to examine and compare the news covering of Swedens three biggest cities (the metropolitan areas) and their surrounding areas with the covering of the rest of the country (the provincial areas) in two daily national newspapers, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The aim has been to answer the following questions:- What amount of the news coverage in Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter concern the metropolitan areas compared to the provincial areas, and how do these two newspapers differ in the news covering of these areas?- Is there a difference in the news articles size and content, depending on weather they concern the metropolitan or the provincial areas?- How has the balance between news concerning metropolitan and provincial areas changed over the recent 20 years?The theories used in this study are News values, the media commercialization and Popular Journalism, and The Agenda Setting Theory. The method that has been used is a Quantitative Content Analysis.Despite the essays hypothesis, that the news coverage in the two newspapers would be dominated by material from the metropolitan areas, the result showed that a majority of the examined articles concern the provincial areas. It also showed that Aftonbladet has a bigger percentage of provincial news than Dagens Nyheter.

Syfte och fr?gest?llningar: Syftet med studien var att unders?ka hur personer med egen erfarenhet av indirekt eller direkt sj?lvskadebeteende som engagerar sig inom frivillighetsorganisationer kan anv?nda sina erfarenheter i syfte att hj?lpa andra med liknande erfarenheter. Syftet var ocks? att unders?ka hur ?verg?ngen fr?n att vara hj?lps?kande till att tr?da in i en mer hj?lpande roll har sett ut. Fr?gest?llningarna har fokuserat p? att unders?ka hur intervjupersonerna beskriver och f?rst?r ?verg?ngen fr?n att ha varit hj?lps?kande till att engagera sig och vilka sv?righeter och utmaningar de beskriver i samband med den nya rollen, vilka funktioner de beskriver att engagemanget fyller f?r dem, hur de anv?nder sina erfarenheter f?r att hj?lpa och st?dja andra som g?r igenom liknande sv?righeter samt hur de skapar en hj?lpande roll.

Uppsatsens utga?ngspunkt har varit universitets- och ho?gskolestudenters stress info?r det kommande arbetslivet da?r det ga?ller att vara sa? attraktiv som mo?jligt fo?r deras fo?rsta arbetsgivare. Att vara attraktiv handlar ba?de om meriterna som finns pa? en persons CV (Curriculum vitae) men samtidigt speglas ocksa? en person pa? sitt personliga brev. Uppsatsens syfte har varit att nyansera bilden fo?r de stressade studenterna och fo?rdjupa kunskapen kring hur HR-personer och fo?retag ba?de praktiskt och teoretiskt ga?r tillva?ga na?r de rekryterar nyexaminerade studenter.

Stress-related diseases in Sweden have doubled since 1997. Even longterm sickness related tostress has increased over the last decade. In future there is a need of alternative methods todecrease the amount of people being affected to gain a better population health. Natureassisted therapy (NAT) was shown to be a successful method as part of the therapy of stressand burnout likewise was nature an important factor to prevent people from mentaldisorders. The aim of this study was to analyse the latest research concearning nature and itshealth effects with focus on stress and burnout patients in order to plan health promotingactivities outdoors for these patients.

SammanfattningDenna uppsats besta?r av en fenomenografisk intervjustudie da?r 6 la?rare i idrott och ha?lsa intervjuats. I fokus sta?r idrottsla?rarnas tolkning av den nya a?mnesplanen i idrott och ha?lsa. I bakgrunden till denna studie presenteras rapporter fra?n skolverket och skolinspektionen som visar en komplicerad och problematisk bild av la?rare i idrott och ha?lsas tolkning av styrdokument.La?rarna har i denna studie fa?tt besvara fra?gor om hur de ser pa? begreppen ?kroppslig fo?rma?ga? och ?goda ro?relsekvalite?er?.

Na?r kunder go?r inko?p fra?n distanshandelsfo?retag a?r leveranstiden en viktig aspekt. E-handelsfo?retag, likasa? ma?nga postorderfo?retag, har framga?ngsrikt lyckats anpassa sig efter detta och erbjuder fo?rha?llandevis snabba leveranser. Men de postorderfo?retag, vars affa?rside? a?r att erbjuda konsumenter abonnemang av fo?rbrukningsartiklar till ett la?gkostnadspris, har inte ha?ngt med i denna utveckling och tillhandaha?ller fortfarande relativt la?nga leveranstider fo?r nyinkomna besta?llningar.

The main aim of this study is to determine whether the monastery in Ny Varberg has been used as a hospital during its active years. The second aim has been to investigate weather the buried individuals at the monastery at Ny Varberg exclusively are deceased monks. Only individuals from the monastery's active years has been included in this study. A total of 16 inhumated individuals was analysed. Both men, women and children was shown to be present, as well as wide spread of children and adults.

The Swedish School Board reported in 2007 that students with a foreign background to a larger extent than Swedish students leave school without grades in one or more subjects in the ninth grade. The report also reveals that during the year 2007/2008 17 percent of elementary school pupils had the right to home language instruction. Students with an other mother tongue than Swedish are considered a separate group that doesn?t perform as well in school.My study investigates how eleven Arabic-speaking ninth-graders at age 15-16 perceive the importance of their mother tongue for learning and identity development. To this purpose I have conducted semi-structured interviews ? one comprising six students in group and five individual ? in a school in one of the suburbs of Stockholms.

The purpose of this essay is to examinate the statements and verbal attributions of King CarlXVI Gustaf of Sweden in the early 2000?s. More exactly I?ve got two question formulations:Which statements does king Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden make during the early 2000?s and are thesestatements, in line with the king?s attributions, non-political, party-politically neutral and noncontroversialaccording to different perspectives? Question number two is if there are to find anyboundaries for where the verbal attributions of Carl XVI Gustaf seem to go when he expresses himself inthe role as the king of Sweden and the chief of state in the early 2000?s. My procedure is to read theChristmas speeches of Carl XVI Gustaf during the 2000?s and use former beheld statements of Carl XVIGustaf to seek answers to the research questions.

Under de senaste ?ren har digitaliseringen framfart f?r?ndrat hur m?nniskor lever och arbetar, vilket har lett till stora f?r?ndringar inom m?nga yrken ?ver v?rlden. Redovisningsyrket, som traditionellt innefattar rutinm?ssiga uppgifter som bland annat bokf?ring, registrering, uppr?ttande av ?rsredovisningar och finansiella rapporter, har inte varit ett undantag. Denna studie syftar till att utforska hur digitaliseringen har p?verkat redovisningskonsulters yrkesroll i Sverige.

One of our big public health problems in Sweden is that human beings are too inactive in outdoor settings. That is why stress related diseases increase and influence humans both mentally and physical. The physical activity is halved among many children when they start school and the older they become the less they enjoy school. It is also an increasing problem that children and youth in today's society have lack of worthwhile experiences in the nature. The aim of this study was therefore to examine how the experience of outdoor environment had importance for health and learning on upper secondary school pupils.

It is essential to reuse- and recycles residues to decrease the amount of deposit materials and reach sustainable energy use. Two ways to work towards this is to recycle wood ashes to the forest as nutrient compensation and extract biogas from combustion of biomass.The aim with this study was to decide whether wood ashes that been used for biogas upgrading with accelerated carbonation also can be used as a nutrient compensation in the woods according to recommendations from the Swedish Forest Agency (Skogsstyrelsen).The ashes that were used in this study came from Johan Andersson who works at JTI in Uppsala, who also treated the ashes with biogas. The ashes have, in both untreated and treated condition, been analyzed in this study according to contents of elements, leaching properties, hardening properties and contents of crystalline phases, to evaluate what impact carbonation with biogas has on the ashes.The accelerated carbonation led to hardening of the ash, and decreased amount of CaO- and increased amount of CaCO3. The CO2-uptake also entails a dilution of the elements, and the content of nutrients and trace elements decreases. However the results show an indication of an uptake of S from the biogas to the ash, since the dilution had a smaller impact on S than the rest of the elements.

L?nder v?rlden ?ver intresserar sig f?r hur det g?r f?r deras elever med l?sf?rm?gan, n?got som resultat i internationella m?tningar som PISA och PIRLS kan ge en indikation om. Vad som p?verkar en elevs l?sf?rm?ga ?r m?ngfacetterat. Viss forskning st?djer resonemanget kring att en elevs spr?kliga erfarenhet vid skolstart kan avg?ra hur avancerat eleven kommer att l?sa i h?gre ?rskurser.

The purpose of this article is to investigate how and from which sources librarians collect information on their profession with respect to factors that are important for their work. In order to achieve this goal, a questionnaire-based survey will be conducted at three medium-sized central-public-libraries in southern Sweden. Using this survey, I wish to answer the following four questions: To what extent do librarians acquaint themselves with changes and developments within regional and cultural policy arenas important to their work? To what extent do librarians acquaint themselves with information using conferences and library debates that are focussed on changes and developments relevant to their work? Do librarians consider that they have enough time within the limits of their work hours to follow developments within the librarian profession, for example with respect to developments within information technology, and how would they appraise the future demand for information technology-based services at the library? From which source(s) do librarians collect information relevant to their work? The theoretical basis of this paper can be compared to a radar as it scans subjects-of-interest to the organization in the field of business intelligence. This investigation uses a quantitative method, with data collected via a survey consisting of 13 questions.