This thesis describes a system for dealing with free surface fluid simulations, and the components needed in order to construct such a system. It builds upon recent research, but in a computer graphics context the amount of available literature is limited and difficult to implement. Because of this, the text aims at providing a solid foundation of the mathematics needed, at explaining in greater detail the steps needed to solve the problem, and lastly at improving some aspects of the animation process as it has been described in earlier works. The aim of the system itself is to provide visually plausible renditions of animated fluids in three dimensions in a manner that allows it to be usable in a visual effects production context. The novel features described include a generalized interaction layer providing greater control to artists, a new way of dealing with moving objects that interact with the fluid and a method for adding source and drain capabilities..

Background: Nursing staff use touch on a daily basis, often without reflecting over it. It is not only the touch itself that emerges, everyday nursing staff get involved in the meeting with patients. The use of touch can be divided in to different kinds of touch, due to its purpose these are instrumental- and expressive touch. Purpose: The purpose with the study was to illustrate what physical touch means for the meeting between patient and caregiver. Method: A literature review has been done, based on ten scientific articles and by these four domains emerged.

The aim of the essay is to investigate how the term ?Third world? is constructed in media. With this I intend to make a historical survey of the conception. With the help of Swedish newspapers and their description of the concept, I am going to answer the following questions: How is the concept ?Third world? constructed in script, in a historical context and in modern time? Is there a tendency of racism in the term?The method I used was discourse analysis.

Strategiska samarbeten blir allt vanligare mellan företag. Dessvärre misslyckas många av dessa samarbeten av en eller annan orsak. För att företagen inte skall misslyckas med sina samarbeten är det viktigt att känna till karakteristika hos en samarbetspartner som kan påverka prestationen i företaget. Syftet med studien är att utveckla kunskap inom ämnesområdets strategiska samarbeten genom att skapa en modell för att visa samband mellan en samarbetspartners karakteristika och prestation i ett företag. Vi har för studien tillämpat ett deduktivt tillvägagångssätt för att utifrån teorier skapa en grund för modellen.

Strategiska samarbeten blir allt vanligare mellan företag. Dessvärre misslyckas många av dessa samarbeten av en eller annan orsak. För att företagen inte skall misslyckas med sina samarbeten är det viktigt att känna till karakteristika hos en samarbetspartner som kan påverka prestationen i företaget. Syftet med studien är att utveckla kunskap inom ämnesområdets strategiska samarbeten genom att skapa en modell för att visa samband mellan en samarbetspartners karakteristika och prestation i ett företag. Vi har för studien tillämpat ett deduktivt tillvägagångssätt för att utifrån teorier skapa en grund för modellen.

Introduction: Mental illness is a public health issue which 20-40 per cent of the inhabitantsin Sweden suffer from. Many factors can lead to mental illness and because of that it isimportant that different organisations and professions collaborate in prevention and healthpromotion work. To develop the collaborative process by noticing difficulties and successes,documenting, follow-up and evaluation is of great importance. Aim: The aim of this literaturereview is to investigate which methods are used for evaluation of health promoting anddisease preventive collaborative projects, which focuses on mental health directly orindirectly, and find out what results these projects has revealed. Method: Literature reviewwith descriptive design.

Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents is increasing. Diseases which earlier occurred exclusively among adults are now also observed among children. There is an urgent need for new treatments that can change this negative trend. The aim of this study was to describe existing treatments for obesity among children in the age of 6-12 and the effect of those treatments. This descriptive literature study is based on 17 research articles published between 2000 and 2007 from different parts in the world.

Huvudsyftet med uppsatsen är att utforma en modell, vars uppgift är att ligga till grund för analys av belöningssystem. Undersyftet är att applicera modellen på banksektorn. För att uppnå vårt huvudsyfte utgick vi från teori om belöningssystem. Undersyftet uppnåddes genom en kvalitativ studie på de tre bankerna Handelsbanken, SEB och Nordea. Primärdata inhämtades från intervjuer och sekundärdata främst från böcker och artiklar.

Studies have found that the applicability of commercial marketing strategies within politics have increased in recent years as a result of a rising number of swing voters. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of the commercial theory of incongruent information in political marketing in Sweden. Subsequently, an experiment with 742 participants was conducted, testing the effects of congruent and incongruent ad messages for two established Swedish parties. The effect of ad message choice on several well-established measures of ad effectiveness such as awareness, credibility, attitude, conviction and voting intentions was analyzed. The results showed that incongruent information effectively increases attitude, conviction and voting intention for voters who decide on the election day what party to vote for.

The official statistics on communication and transports in Sweden is administered by Statens Institut för kommunikationsanalys (SIKA). SIKA?s commission includes production of statistics on the Swedish vehicle fleet. These statistics provide important information tofinancial institutes, ministries, industry and mass media among others. Furthermore, the vehicle statistics include measures of comparison between different counties and municipalities.

The effects of the climate changes are expected to generate several substantial direct and indirect consequences on both ecosystems and societies. It is the extent of the negative consequences that determents the vulnerability of the things or the ones exposed. The knowledge of the effects and consequences by a changing climate provides an opportunity to take measures to reduce the vulnerability.Our society?s vulnerability depends on how we choose to act out of the existing knowledge and what measures we choose to take. Karlstad municipality has good knowledge and perception of the increased flood risks the climate changes will generate and the probable consequences that most likely will follow. How the municipality decides to manage the flooding issue is not just affected by the will to mitigate the vulnerability but also by the vision to increase the number of citizens.

This degree project concludes the Innovation and Design Engineering programme at Karlstad University. The project was carried out by David Brocker, Erik Hallberg and Andreas Hertzman during the spring of 2006 and corresponded to 15 weeks of work per student. Assigner was Martin Larsson at Arexor and instructor at Karlstad University was Monica Jakobsson.Arexor has a patent to a construction of an electrical skirting board with moveable wall sockets, called Electrical Track System. The lowest parts of the interior walls along the floor are today almost always covered by a conventional skirting board. Arexors patented product replaces that with the possibility to move and increase the number of wall sockets by choice along an electrical skirting board.

Konsekvenser av konkurser drabbar såväl företaget själv som andra intressenter. Exempel på sådana är investerare, kunder, leverantörer, långivare och staten. Att utveckla ett verktyg för att kunna analysera ett företags väg mot konkurs är därför ett bidrag till såväl företaget själv som samhället. I den här studien har vi utvecklat en modell som kan appliceras på småföretag inom kategorin aktiebolag i Sverige. Den kan användas för att prognostisera konkurs för 18 månader framåt i tiden.

Det finns idag ett stort behov av att kunna analysera affärsprocessmodeller. Bolag som arbetar med att föra register över hur de arbetar inom olika områden sitter ganska snabbt med en omöjlig uppgift. Stora bolag kan ha register med flera tusen modeller, detta leder till att det är svårt att veta om en ny modell redan finns i registret, om det finns en liknande modell, eller om man ska lägga in den nya modellen.I denna studie visas det hur man kan gå till väga för att skapa en mjukvara för att jämföra BPMN modeller mot varandra, utifrån algoritmer som jämför modeller på syntaktisk, semantisk och strukturell nivå. Likhetsvärdena används sedan för att avgöra vilken modell som är konsensusmodellen. Konsensusmodellen är den modell som är mest lik alla andra modeller som jämförts.

The aim with the literature study was to describe how persons with dementia and health care workers in the geriatric care experiences soft massage and to describe the derived effects for persons with dementia. Scientific articles were sampled from the databases: Medline (Pub Med), Cinahl and Psyc INFO. The main results of the study are presented in three parts: how persons with dementia experiences soft massage, health care workers experiences of giving soft massage and the health care workers descriptions on derived effects on persons with dementia. The results showed that persons with dementia experienced a positive reaction to soft massage and the health care workers did no longer feel helpless in their care service towards persons with dementia. The studies showed that soft massage decreased agitation, wandering, pain and sleeplessness.