To identify and evaluate apple cultivars is not an easy task, since the taste and appearances of the fruit are affected by where the apple tree grows. At the Balsgård new apple gene bank there is a unique and interesting collection of over 260 different cultivars from all over the world. To find out if these cultivars are consistent with previously published descriptions, the fruit was evaluated for some of the cultivars. Among the evaluated cultivars some were selected that could be suitable for cultivation and/or fruit breeding. A few cultivars were in addition analyzed at a consumer evaluation at the Kivik apple market where visitors could vote for the most beautiful apple and the best taste.

Almost every day newspapers cover companies and brands in crisis. This should worry companies as negative publicity has been shown to have a great influence on consumer perceptions on brands. In addition, brand crises have been shown to be contagious, meaning that they also affect consumers? views on other similar brands. This study aims to investigate spill-over effects of one brand crisis to another within a product category.

The Swedish nonprofit sector is experiencing a sectoral change, moving closer to the corporate sector to become more commercialized. The recruitment of leaders with corporate experience constitutes one of the factors influencing this development. Hence, to create an understanding of this sectoral change, the thesis aims to investigate the motivational forces underlying the leaders' decisions to work within the nonprofit sector. Additionally, the thesis seeks an understanding of why the leaders' decisions were made later in their careers. Through conducting qualitative interviews with leaders representing top management of six humanitarian organizations in Sweden, the study finds that nonprofit leaders with corporate background, analogous to volunteers and employees, are motivated by a sense of relatedness to the vision of the organization.

Sandvik Wire needed a review of the administrative part of the order fulfillment process and especially the work around packing and the inventory of finished goods. Therefore we acquired the assignment to investigate the administrative part of the order fulfillment process in the company with the purpose to identify potential for improvement. This investigation was performed with focus on the terminal and packing functions. The purpose with the investigation was also to identify critical factors for an efficient order fulfillment process and investigate if information quality is such a factor.Data was collected through interviews and observations on Sandvik Wire. With the help of this data the information and material flows was mapped, the work within terminal and packing, and adjacent functions was investigated.

A refugee reception has been placed in Kungshall, one of Nybros residential areas. The area has a bad reputation and there are arguably prejudices about the area from the local population. I therefore want to investigate if an ethnic residential segregation exists in Kungshall, from a postcolonial perspective. The following research questions have been formulated: How do residents who doesn?t live in the refugee reception, look at ethnic residential segregation in Nybro? How has Kungshall changed since the refugee reception? Does a cultural racism exist in Kungshall? The study is a qualitative study using semi structured interviews of four people living in the residential area, a person who has moved out of the area and a person working on the housing corporation ?Nybro bostads AB?, who is one of the housing corporation responsible for the residential area Kungshall.

Store windows, as many earlier research studies indicate, is an important factor of the store atmosphere to attract customers into the store. In this study we have narrowed it down and chosen to focus on how different contexts of the store windows will effect customers' evaluation. The purpose is to find out how the context of high creativity and low creativity combined with different time aspect in store windows will affect store image, attitude, entering decisions and purchase intention toward the store. The results are based on a quantitative study where we did an experiment and a field study. The result shows that higher level of creativity is better than lower level of creativity in certain aspects.

I Sverige kan VKR (varmformade konstruktionsrör) vara 15-23 % dyrare än KKR (kallformade konstruktions­rör) av samma tvärsnittsstorlek. Trots detta lägre pris på KKR har det upp­skattats att i Svensk stål­byggnation används endast 5 % KKR, av det totala användandet av VKR och KKR. I detta examensarbete har det först undersökts vilka skillnader i egenskaper som finns mellan VKR och KKR. Därefter beräknas prisdifferensen mellan de två profiltyperna när de utsätts för en centrisk tryckkraft under likadana förhållanden. Målet är att ta reda på vilket som är det mest ekonomiskt lönsamma alternativet i valet mellan VKR och KKR.Tryckkraftskapaciteten med hänsyn till knäckning för alla profilstorlekar i Tibnor konstruktions­tabeller har beräknats för varje möjlig kombination av tio olika längder mellan 1 till 10 m, tio olika laster mellan 100 till 1000 kN och två olika upplagsförhållanden, ledad i båda ändarna eller fast inspänd i båda ändarna.

This thesis explores the position of book blogs in the literary system through Robert Escarpit's socio-literary model of the book market. Simultaneously the thesis serves as a test for Escarpit's theory: by actively applying his theory and model to a very new and contemporary actor on the book market I hoped to reach or confirm new insights into the usefulness and validity of Escarpit's work for contemporary socio-literary studies.Three book blogs were selected for the analysis and interviews were carried out with the authors. The interview questions were formulated specifically for the purpose of extracting the kind of information necessary for an analysis using Escarpit?s theory. As a complement to the interviews, statistics on the type of books reviewed on the blogs were also compiled.

Varje år kasseras stora mängder mat i Sverige. En viss mängd av det matavfall som uppstår kan inte undvikas eftersom ett livsmedels alla delar inte kan konsumeras och därför måste slängas vid matlagning. Trots detta kvarstår faktum att stora mängder mat kastas före användning på grund av att hantering och tillagning inte sker på ett fördelaktigt sätt. I denna uppsats presenteras och analyseras två svenska kommuners system för avgiftsbeläggning inom området för matavfallshantering. Kommunerna har valt att implementera olika system. Gotlands kommun har valt att implementera en viktbaserad avfallstaxa medan Uppsala kommun istället tillämpar en fast avgift baserad på sopkärlets storlek.

The consumer of today is bombarded by an increasing number of commercial messages, which makes it harder and harder for brands to cut through the clutter. Because of this, new methods are developed and introduced to the market every day. One of the most widely discussed of these methods is guerrilla advertising. Even though the method has received numerous praises there are not any academic proofs supporting these arguments. The authors, of this thesis, have examined if guerrilla advertising is more or less effective compared to traditional advertising and what the reasons for the result are.

Theft without break-ins has increased significantly in the last year of swimming, sports and leisure facilities in Karlskrona, more precisely 60%. Vandalism in the shape of graffiti is another common crime. The solutions are divided into social and situational crime prevention. Social crime prevention engage in actions that are based on social causes of crime rather than the opposite situational crime prevention, which instead assumes that discourage with the help of technical solutions and has as primary objective to hinder accessibility for example theft friendly goods. The main purpose of this work is to come up with solutions to prevent these crimes, while also being cost-effective and realistic to implement.

Background: The dependency on knowledge and competence today is more critical than earlier. Today, companies need to put more effort into identifying and filling knowledge gaps, which can be achieved through mergers and acquisitions. It is important that the companies succeed in coordinating their operations after this process of change. Out of a theoretical point of view it can be argued that companies need to balance between different coordination mechanisms that result in standardized and flexible coordination respectively. Purpose: The purpose of this Master Thesis is, in the context of a merger, to investigate and analyze which coordination mechanisms that are used in knowledge-intensive companies, how these coordination mechanisms are combined and what explains the chosen combination.

Bakgrund: I kursplanen för år 5 finns både strävans- och uppnåendemål inom naturvetenskapens tre områden 2013 kemi, fysik och biologi. Det finns studier som visar att den naturvetenskapliga undervisningen är obefintlig inom vissa områden för de lägre åldrarna. Detta beror på att pedagogerna för de lägre åldrarna inte är förtrogna med kemi och fysik själva och därför undviker ämnet samt dess begrepp. Syfte: Syftet är att undersöka hur lärarna för klass 1-3 spontant tänker kring begreppen fast och flytande form samt gasform, ljudets utbredning och magnetism samt vilka arbetsformer de kan tänka sig att arbeta med inom respektive område samt vilken inställning de har till att etablera begrepp hos barnen. Metod: Vi har valt att göra en kvalitativ studie genom att intervjua åtta lärare, för att få fram lärarnas spontana tankar.

Research in the FMCG sector shows that in-store atmosphere has a great impact on customer attitude and behavior. Despite this, there is a lack of knowledge regarding how the atmosphere influences the customer in a fashion store setting. The purpose with this paper is to investigate if and how visible in-store atmospherics influence customer attitude and behavior in a fashion store setting. We also investigate if behavior and attitude is affected by the customer's expertise and the purpose of the visit. The study takes place in two different fashion stores within the same fashion chain.

Frågan om vid vilket moment bundenhet uppstår vid successivt undertecknande av formalavtal har prövats i Högsta domstolen (HD) vid tre avgöranden de senaste 15 åren, av vilka det senaste avgjordes så sent som 2012. Avgörandena har berört frågan huruvida bundenhet uppstår vid den tidpunkt den andra parten undertecknar avtalet eller om bundenhet uppstår först vid den tidpunkt det undertecknade avtalet kommuniceras till den första parten eller till en i förhållande till den andra parten fristående person.Med anledning av bristen på tydlighet i gällande rätt, vilken tagit sig uttryck i skiljaktiga meningar i rättstillämpningen, har det varit upp till HD att, med vägledning från lagtext, förarbeten, doktrin och allmänna principer, besvara bundenhetsfrågan. HD har, med härledning från en allmän princip, klargjort att bundenhet uppstår vid den tidpunkt köpehandlingen utges antingen till den först undertecknande parten, de av HD specifikt bestämda personerna eller en i förhållande till den sist undertecknande parten fristående person. Genom analys av HD:s resonemang identifieras den riktningsändring som vidtagits av HD samt på vilket sätt HD:s resonemang eller uteblivna resonemang ger upphov till betänkligheter vid successivt undertecknande av avtal om fastighetsköp. Riktningsändringen, som synes bero på att HD valt att utföra en stilfull ändring av tidigare praxis, tar sig uttryck i en komplex definition av den fristående person till vilken den undertecknade köpehandlingen kan utges.