Abstract Tutor - Anders Richtnér History - Theories suggest that Lean Product Development strategies dramatically increase a company's performance through enabling faster T-T-M, Quality and Costs of Product Development. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is therefore to investigate whether the implementation of LPD actually affect corporate performance measurements T-T-M, Quality and Cost, in a positive way. Methodology - This Bachelor thesis is an exploratory investigation of the concept of Lean Product Development within a global IT- company, performed through four case studies, interviews and complementing corporate performance data. Findings - With empirical data and subsequent analyzes in mind, we note the following; it is clear that the project that produced the best results, in terms of T-T-M, Quality and Cost, also was the one furthest in the process of implementing Lean Product Development..

When SKL (Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science) gets images to analyse, the task often is to identify a person or an object. In that work it?s important to find features. Unfortunately images from camera surveillances often contain a lot of noise, so details can be hard to discern.A simple method to improve an image from a sequence is to compute the mean of some of the images. However, the part of interest in the image has to be in the same position in all images.

This work presents the way exiled Tibetans I?ve met view gender and equality. The world is becoming increasingly global and in order to educate future world citizens it is important to make sure that they learn about gender and equality. Males and Females have different cultures and where manly is the norm female is the exception, but it is important to try and level out these differences while children are still in school. This work originates from studies of literature and several interviews with exiled Tibetans in the Indian city of Dharamsala. They are Tibetans with different roles in the exile-Tibetan society and also of different generations and gender.

Idag är socialt ansvarstagande inte längre en isolerad företeelse utan något som genomsyrar det dagliga arbetet. För företagen handlar det förutom att upprätthålla sitt varumärke och ett gott rykte också om att kontrollera risker och på så sätt skapa förutsättningar för bättre lönsamhet. Allt fler företag har upptäckt att det finns affärsmässiga fördelar med att ta ett aktivt socialt ansvar. (Svensk handels importhandbok 2009). Något som bidragit till att efterfrågan för redovisad miljöredovisning ökat.

Our time is characterized by the development of new technologies that facilitate communication between people. The need for Video Mediated Communication (VMC) is increasing because people move to other locations due to migration and global mobility. VMC provides the opportunity for millions of people around the world to ?hang out? and see each other despite the distance in between. The world is "shrinking" because of the Internet and our perception of distance is changing.VMC is becoming increasingly available, in the form of applications like Skype and MSN for mobile phones and computers, and in addition, it?s practically free.The purpose of this thesis is to render a picture of the way in which people use Skype in the private sphere.

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att unders?ka vilka motivationsfaktorer som driver fotbollstr?nare i ideella f?reningar att engagera sig i sitt tr?naruppdrag, hur de uppleverbalansen mellan inre och yttre motivation samt vilka utmaningar som p?verkar deras vilja att forts?tta eller avsluta sitt engagemang.Metod: Studien genomf?rdes med en kvalitativ forskningsansats med Self-Determination Theory (SDT) som teoretiskt ramverk. Datainsamlingen genomf?rdes genom sexsemistrukturerade intervjuer med fotbollstr?nare som hade begr?nsad erfarenhet och l?g ekonomisk ers?ttning i sina tr?naruppdrag. Materialet analyserades genomkvalitativ inneh?llsanalys.Resultat: Resultaten visade att tr?narnas motivation fr?mst grundades i passion f?r fotboll, social gemenskap, personlig utveckling och upplevelsen av meningsfullhet i rollen.

Today's global market means that raw materials are sought and bought from all over the world. This creates an higher demand for a well-functioning supply chain. In our thesis we have studied a large paper mill in northen Sweden which experiences issues with flow of raw material. Our aim has hence been to examine which aspects affect the flow of raw materials to the mill, and how these can be adressed using an IT-system. The question we sought to answer was; What factors are important to consider and how do these affect the ability of an IT-system which will support the flow of raw material at the paper mill? We have found that the problems are strongly connected to the low amount of information sharing between the mill and the suppliers.

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen ?r att ?ka f?rst?elsen f?r samverkan mellan offentlig sektor och civilsamh?llet. Teori: F?r att ?ka f?rst?elsen f?r samverkan mellan civilsamh?llet och offentlig sektor tar denna studie avstamp i nyinstitutionell teori. F?r att diskutera och analysera det samverkande arrangemanget har forskning om tv?rsektionell samverkan och projektifiering av relevans anv?nts f?r att diskutera och besvara v?ra forskningsfr?gor. Metod: Vi har genomf?rt en fallstudie av ett samverkande arrangemang mellan offentlig sektor och civilsamh?llet som h?r utg?rs av en statlig myndighet, en kommun och flera Arbetsintegrerade sociala f?retag (ASF). Den huvudsakliga datainsamlingen f?r studien ?r semistrukturerade intervjuer vilket genomf?rts med akt?rer ur samverkansarrangemanget.

I detta kandidaterbete studeras Gauss hypergeometriska differentialekvation, samt hur den hypergeometriska funktionen kan anv?ndas f?r att l?sa kopplingsproblemet (jfr. eng. connection problem). Den hypergeometriska funktionen ger uttryck f?r de lokala l?sningarna kring differentialekvationens tre singulariteter.

Bakgrund: Demens ?r en obotlig sjukdom som utvecklas fr?n mild kognitiv funktionsneds?ttning till avancerad sjukdom med stora behov av st?d. P? v?rd- och omsorgsboenden har sjuksk?terskan stort ansvar f?r att bibeh?lla livskvalitet och ge en god palliativ v?rd som enligt nationella riktlinjer ska vara personcentrerad. Den palliativa v?rden av personer med demenssjukdom har visat sig ha l?gre kvalitet ?n den palliativa v?rden av personer med andra diagnoser. Syfte: Att belysa sjuksk?terskans upplevelse av att v?rda personer med demenssjukdom i livets slutskede p? v?rd- och omsorgsboende. Metod: Strukturerad litteratur?versikt d?r kvalitativa studier och studier av mixad metod s?ktes via databaserna Cinahl, PubMed, PsycInfo och genom manuell s?kning.

This essay examines the processes of interpretations of hadith within a group of muslim women in Stockholm, Sweden. The readings and interpretation of hadith took place in a smaller mosque. The practices of interpretation was studied by the authour through observations and further discussed with informants in interviews. Meaningmaking processes which connected the hadith readings with the everyday life of the group participants; related to questions of moral and etics, relations between men and women and other specific issues, has been highlightened through the observations. The material from observations and interviews has been examined hermeneutically through a narrative model of analysis, revealing structures of interpretation which includes local perspectives as well as connections to a global islamic discourse.

The purpose of this study was to examine how modern information and communication technology influence collective action within the framework of social movements. By studying the protests in the Arab World 2011, and focusing on the social movements in Suleimanya in northern Iraq, by observation taken on place, the essay discusses that collective action is closely related to the use of technology, for example cell phones and Internet.Result shows that modern communication technology has enabled immeasurable access andconnection between individuals throughout the world, which seems to be different from previouscollective action. The new communication channels in the form of social media, has been used for the dissemination of information and news, documentation, organization and membership recruitment in the social movements in the Arab World and Suleimanya. The new social movements have the tendency to be decentralized and flattened organized, they are now self-organizing and that they only do a whole as global patterns, as evidenced by the social movements in the Arab World andSuleimanya..

Handledare: Johanna HanssonExaminator: Per ForsbergTitel: Da?rfo?r va?ljer fo?retagare aktiebolag idagBakgrund: Denna uppsats har sin utga?ngspunkt i de fo?ra?ndringar som skett fra?n statens sida vad ga?ller aktiekapital och revisorsplikt. Detta skapade en tanke om vad det a?r som faktiskt pa?verkar fo?retagarnas beslut att va?lja aktiebolag.Syfte: Studiens syfte a?r att beskriva vilka faktorer som a?r viktigast i fo?retagares val av bolagsformen aktiebolag efter de fo?ra?ndringar i lagar och regler som skedde a?r 2010. Detta ska go?ras genom en ja?mfo?relse av svar fra?n respektive respondent fo?r att sedan ta fram de viktigaste kategorierna utifra?n den teori som tagits fram.

Syftet med den fo?religgande underso?kningen a?r att fa? kunskap om hur undervisning kan fo?rba?ttra elevers la?rande vad det ga?ller elevers historiemedvetande. Metoden som under- so?kningen anva?nde sig av a?r en learning study, ett kollektivt samarbete mellan historiela?rare som riktar fokus pa? elevers la?rande. Genom utva?rderingen av det samlade datamaterialet besvarades underso?kningens fra?gesta?llningar Vilka a?r de kritiska aspekterna fo?r att elever i a?rskurs 8 ska kunna utveckla en ho?gre grad av historiemedvetande, och Vilka centrala punkter i undervisningens uppla?gg go?r positiv skillnad fo?r elevers la?rande? Resultatet visar att de deltagande pedagogerna identifierade tre kritiska aspekter som anses vara avgo?rande fo?r en undervisning med ma?let att utveckla elevers historiemedvetande: 1.

This study is intended to give an impartial view of a young and complex program in Sweden titled Product Innovation Engineering program. The purpose of this program is to increase innovation capability in Sweden that will result in new companies, patents and economic growth. The results from this study might give some direction to future innovation initiatives, but should primarily serve as a tool for the PIEp participants. The study will focus on investigating the creation of the program as well as the development of its strategy. From weaknesses and strengths within the strategy of the program the study should also attempt to show its future potential.