The essay is about the concept of text in a wider perspective, what can be included in that, how it can be used and above all, why one might want to use it. The essay will also include what the term popular culture implies, and school?s attitude towards it, since some of the medias that are a part of the text in a wider perspective, many times fits the description ?popular culture?. Most of the earlier research show that the positive aspects of the use of text in a wider perspective as the same time as it attacks school because school is opposing the popular culture.       The essay consists of two parts and it begins with a theoretical part where I present existing research about the concept of text in a wider perspective and the research about popular culture.

The aim of this study is to through six interviews, with six experienced, social workers?, in three cities, understand how the child?s position in the Swedish child protective services? enquiries has change, and the factors behind it. The aim is also to compare if the social workers? view of the child?s position in the enquire has change accordingly to Socialstyrelsens intentions of BBIC. The theoretical approaches that was used is the new institutionalism, the Shier?s pathways to participation and the term discretion.

Teaching preschool children about the environment. A comparative study of how two preschools work with environmental issues.My investigations are based on qualitative interviews and observations carried out at two preschools, one of which has a nature and environment profile while the other works in traditional ways with these questions. I sought to explore the ways in which pedagogues in each preschool raise environmental awareness and, more generally, awaken an interest in nature in the children. The consequences of methodological similarities and differences will be considered.This term paper concludes that the difference between an environmental profile preschool and a traditional preschool working on environmental awareness is not large. The knowledge gained by children in the latter preschool surpassed that gained in the former.

För att minska avfallsmängderna och öka källsorteringen har flera länder samt kommuner i Sverige valt att övergå från volymbaserad avfallstaxa till viktbaserad avfallstaxa. Göteborgs stad har successivt infört vikttaxa under åren 2010-2013. Tidigare utvärderingar i Sverige hävdar att införandet av taxan har minskat restavfall med ca 20-31 procent. För att se om införandet har gett önskat resultat i Göteborg har vi kontrollerat för trender och andra faktorer som kan tänkas påverka avfallsmängden. På grund av att taxan införts vid olika tidpunkter för Göteborgs stadsdelar kan vi använda oss av paneldata och en ekonometrisk regression där vi använder fixed effects.

The aim of the study was, through qualitative interviews with school counsellors in Swedish primary schools, to study what the counsellors are experiencing condition their ability to work proactively according to the Swedish Education Act provisions on student health. During the study, six interviews with school counsellors who worked in the same suburbs, was conducted. The theoretical approach that was used is Michael Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucrats and the term discretion. The overall outcome of the study was that the interviewed school counsellors felt that they did not have good opportunities to work preventively as the Education Act requires. The main reason for this was the school counsellor?s heavy workload.

This essay is about the engineer platoon. The engineer platoon has many different tasks and from my own experience sometimes too many. The platoon is able to build bridges, clear mines and to perform all kinds of construction work in rural or in urban terrain.In this case study I compare goals/demands for the battalion to goal?s set up for the company and finally what effects this has on the engineer platoons abilities. The main question is, if the engineer platoon really can solve all tasks given to them in the document TOEM? Abilities such as effect, protection and movement are the bearing parts of the case study.The materials I have analyzed are mostly from documents published by The Swedish Armed Forces.

The purpose of our study is to find out if insiders in Sweden generate abnormal earnings through insider trades. We want to pinpoint the cause for abnormal earnings by dividing transactions after company market value, size of the trade and type of insider. A quantitative approach using the market model have been used. We have conducted an event study over two short term event windows. We conclude that insiders in Sweden generate positive abnormal earnings for sales and negative for purchases in our ?long? event window.

Bakgrund och problem: Externredovisningens utveckling sker till stor del på internationell nivå, där organisationerna IASB och FASB genomför ett konvergensprojekt för harmonisering mellan IFRS och US GAAP. För att undersöka vilka effekter föreslagna förändringar i intäktsredovisningen kommer att få söker arbetet svar på hur svenska IT-företag tillämpar dagens rekommendationer och hur deras externredovisning är förberedd på de förändringar som normgivarna har föreslagit.Syfte: Att identifiera vilka förändringar som IASB:s och FASB:s konvergensprojekt kan komma att innebära för intäktsredovisning hos svenska IT-företag. För att skapa en bild av utgångsläget innefattar detta att kartlägga hur svenska IT-företag tillämpar IAS 18.Avgränsningar: Arbetet behandlar de IT-företag som är noterade på NASDAQ OMX Nordics Stockholmslista enligt börsens definition av IT-företag. Den del av arbetet som behandlar de föreslagna förändringarna för intäktsredovisning utgår från utkastet Exposure Draft: Revenue from Contracts with Customers som presenterades i juni 2010.Metod: Det empiriska materialet består av en praxisundersökning av noter om intäktsredovisning i årsredovisningarna hos samtliga noterade IT-företag på NASDAQ OMX Nordics Stockholmslista, samt av kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra personer med ansvar för externredovisning på IT-företag och med två redovisningsspecialister från revisionsbyråer.Resultat och slutsatser: Årsredovisningars noter saknar ofta väsentlig information om hur redovisningen av intäkter upprättas. Svenska IT-företag anser IAS 18 vara en god normgivning för intäktsredovisning och ser begränsad nytta av principerna bakom de föreslagna förändringarna.

The goal of this thesis was to explore how real estate investment companies are affected by a weaker world economy. The reason to investigate this was that in the 90s in Sweden, the housing market crashed in conjunction with the bank collapse. Therefore I have looked at how the commercial real estate companies would be affected if we were to have a double dip recession, because it has been confirmed by Gyourko that commercial real estate market and the housing market tend to react in the same way on new fundamental information. This was examined through a sensitivity analysis, one investigated the effect of falling rent income and the second analysis looked at the effect of higher interest costs. I found that IAS 40 rule about unrealized profits of properties affected the results in a significant matter and therefore decided to include the regulation in my thesis.

Under den ekonomiska krisen i Sverige på nittiotalet skedde två trendbrott på den svenskaarbetsmarknaden. Den totala arbetslösheten steg markant för att sedan ligga kvar på betydligthögre nivåer än tidigare, och dessutom förändrades arbetslöshetens sammansättning. Innankrisen var män arbetslösa i mindre utsträckning än kvinnor men från och med krisens utbrotthar män tenderat att vara mer arbetslösa än kvinnor. Syftet med denna uppsats är att utredavad könsskillnaderna i arbetslösheten i Sveriges kommuner beror på.En ekonometrisk analys av Sveriges kommuner ligger till grund för studien och genomförsmed en Fixed Effects-modell. Datamaterialet som ligger till grund för studien avser åren1996-2012 och är uppdelat på kommunnivå.

The aim of this study is to through six interviews, with six experienced, social workers?, in three cities, understand how the child?s position in the Swedish child protective services? enquiries has change, and the factors behind it. The aim is also to compare if the social workers? view of the child?s position in the enquire has change accordingly to Socialstyrelsens intentions of BBIC. The theoretical approaches that was used is the new institutionalism, the Shier?s pathways to participation and the term discretion.

Since the 1980s, companies have taken a larger interest in quality and it´s economic impact within the company. Having the knowledge that it´s not quality that costs money, but it´s rather the lack of quality. The work immerses itself in the field of cost of poor quality and the development of key performance indicators.The thesis is performed at Bufab Holding in Värnamo. Bufab Holding is a trading company which mainly buys and sells C-parts. C-parts include fasteners, other small metal-, rubber- or plastic parts such as wires, springs and electronic fasteners.The aim of this thesis was to make a survey of the cost of poor quality and to find key performance indicators (KPI) for cost of poor quality that can be continuously monitored.

There is strong evidence that cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is effective. The aim of this study was to compare 7 group-sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for insomnia (MBCT-I) with 3 group-sessions of CBT-I, on sleep measures and sleep related psychological processes, such as pre-sleep arousal, thought control strategies and mindfulness. Participants (N = 44; age 18-66) with long term insomnia were stratified and randomized into waiting list, MBCT-I and CBT-I. Significant improvements were seen in both groups, compared to waiting list, for instance on insomnia severity, sleep latency and restorative sleep. Small improvements on psychological processes were also found in both groups.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how an aging population affects rural municipalities? ability to meet future welfare needs, as well as how place marketing and strategies are used to manage demographic changes. The study is based on a qualitative case study of Herrljunga municipality, where interviews with municipal officials and document analysis form the empirical basis.The results show that the municipality is characterized by a growing elderly population and the outmigration of younger people, which contributes to challenges in welfare and skills supply, particularly within health and social care. The study shows that these demographic changes, combined with limited resources, have an impact on the municipality?s ability to plan long-term.

Bachelor thesis in Interaction Design by Håkan Carlsson, spring term 2007, Malmö University, School of Arts & Communication. The climate for video sharing online is somewhere in the border of becoming a place for only the big companies to distribute material with general interest, or small communities with genre-specific interest to attract a larger audience. In this article I will look at the travelindustry to see what possibilities can be implemented into communities with interest in planning and travelling. I will argue that the importance of collaboration with different media can create a bigger picture so that more people can use and discover each other?s travel videos and experiences. I have also taken a closer look at social interaction at online communities such as MySpace and YouTube.