The aim of this thesis is to describe the rise of the Tea Party movement in the United States. By using a known theory within social movement studies, the political process theory, this thesis look into the factors that could have played a role in the rise and fast mobilization of the Tea Party movement. The political process theory consists of three parts and hence looks into both the political structure of, in this case, the United States, how mobilizing structures have been used and into the cultural framing used by the Tea Party to create their identity. In order to bring structure to the thesis, the three theory parts have been transformed into analysis models. These give a very good idea of all the factors that could have played a part and therefore also a good way to describe the rise of the Tea Party movement.The research confirm what the political process theory says, that the Tea Party movements rise came at a time when there were a mix of factors at play, both structural and cultural, creating an opportunity that the Tea Party took.

The aim of this Master thesis is to make a survey of the public library staff-relations at work and discuss relationship marketing as it applies to public libraries. Relationship marketing involves the establishment, maintenance and development of users and other library-related relationships, including the relations among the library staff itself. Good relations among the library staff is a necessary condition for good relations with others. The focus of relationship marketing is at the user?s needs, wants and demands instead of the library collections and services.

The defence unit´s archive stretches over a time limit between the middle of 1971 to the end of 1987. The records the archive mainly contains are concerning the civil defence, inspection and construction of shelters, war- and crisis planning. The majority of the records are registered record, as often is the case with an authority?s archives. The main problems that occurred concerned what should or shouldn´t be public, the principle of provenance and what to prioritize; finish the project before deadline or make sure the records are prepared for a storage that ideally should last for several lifetimes..

In today?s society more and more activities are digitalized. This means that everyone has to be able to use information and communication tools (ICT) in order to take part in the digital world, otherwise they will be left out of the digital community. There is a so called digital gap between for instance elderly and young people, where elderly do not know how to use the tools and there for cannot gain access to the digital society. What happens when people, not only grow old, but also have a communication disorder, such as aphasia? How are they included? The purpose of this study is to investigate whether or not surf pads are good tools for bridging the digital gap for people with aphasia, and which activities and situations that encourages people with aphasia to work with the surf pad.

Syfte: Syftet med vår studie var att undersöka hur en institution på en högskola påverkas av mål- och resultatstyrning och hur det upplevs ute på institutionerna. Metod: Vi har genomfört personliga intervjuer med prefekter eller representanter för institutionerna vid BTH. Det som framkom i intervjuerna analyserade vi i relation till teorin och utifrån analysen drog vi slutsatser. Slutsats: Genom att styra högskolan på detta sätt, med fokus på ekonomi och prestationer, uppfattar vi en risk för att systemet på sikt kan komma att sänka kvaliteten på utbildningarna vid BTH. Trots denna fara upplevs mål- och resultatstyrning av institutionerna som positiv..

This study investigates the effects that commercial computer games have on young individuals social comfort and learning progress. As a systematic study of literature, scholarly articles have been analysed in order to illuminate the positive as well as negative effects on social comfort and learning progress that may come with playing computer games. The social effects have mainly been discussed with role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft, as starting point, while the learning effects have been coupled with strategy games, such as Civilization IV. The study does not simply declare how these games can be good for these factors, but also in what respect computer games may prevent the development of young individuals socials skills and learning progress. The study showed that in spite of perpetual prejudices against computer games in the technological age, computer games might actually be good to use as a tool in order to authorize the development of young individuals regarding learning and social aspects.

Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att ur ledningens perspektiv undersöka hur företag med olika kundgrupper arbetar med intern marknadsföring. Metod: Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ forskningsintervju, på två företag som verkar i olika branscher. Slutsats: För tjänsteföretag ses personalen som den viktigaste tillgången. Teorier inom intern marknadsföring syftar till att behandla medarbetarna som företagets interna kunder. Vårt resultat visar att det föreligger både likheter och skillnader i företagens arbete med intern marknadsföring. Båda företagen värdesätter intern marknadsföring, men deras arbete att skapa detta skiljer organisationerna åt..

SammanfattningTitel ? Gilla, dela och kommentera: Hur svenska fastighetsma?klarfo?retag anva?nder sociala medier Fo?rfattare - Ellinor Hult och Malin Walle?n Handledare - Bo RundhA?mne - Kandidatuppsats i fo?retagsekonomiProblemformulering - Studien fokuserar pa? hur svenska fastighetsma?klarfo?retag hanterar sociala medier och uppsatsens funktion a?r att ge en insikt i fastighetsma?klarfo?retagens anva?ndande av sociala medier samt vilka mo?jligheter och problem det kan leda till.Syfte - Syftet a?r att underso?ka hur ett fastighetsma?klarfo?retag anva?nder sig av sociala medier som en del av marknadsfo?ringen.Metod - Studien har genomfo?rts med en kvalitativ enka?tunderso?kning som skickades ut till de 13 sto?rsta riksta?ckande fastighetsma?klarfo?retagen i Sverige fo?r att fa? en fo?rsta?else fo?r hur de arbetar med sociala medier.Resultat - Det a?r ma?nga fo?retag inom fastighetsma?klarbranschen som anva?nder sociala medier och har en strategi fo?r sitt anva?ndande. Dock ga?r det att utla?sa fra?n studien att flertalet fo?retag bo?r se o?ver och mo?jligen tydliggo?ra sina strategier fo?r att fa? ett ba?ttre hanterande av medierna. Utifra?n analysen kan det ocksa? konstateras att fastighetsma?klarfo?retag bo?r anva?nda sig av sociala medier som marknadsfo?ringsverktyg eftersom det enligt underso?kningen genererar fler kunder, a?r mer kostnadseffektivt a?n traditionell media och fungerar som ett bra komplement till traditionell media.

Detta arbete är ett examensarbete där en applikation för administration av utskick till studenter utvecklats. Syftet med arbetet är att förenkla arbetet för en lärare på Mittuniversitetet. Applikationen är skriven i Java och ramverket JavaServer Faces för att få applikationen tillgängligt i ett webbgränssnitt. Information om studenter och kurser läses in från textfiler och sparas i en databas. Användaren kan med hjälp av den inlästa och sparade informationen sortera ut efterfrågade studenter med dessa kriterier: olika kursinstanser, terminer, om studenterna är registrerade eller ej samt vilka utskick som sparats.

This report describes the work of developing a specification of requirements for Waste Heat Recovery Units. The main part of the paper describes how the work with the specification of requirements has been performed. One specific question to be answered is:What are the customer?s demands in case of properties for the Waste Heat Recovery Units and how is that information collected as an order documentation to suit the business area Oil & Gas?The report begins with a description of the assignment and continues with the aim and background. A theoretical part describes the different areas and methods that have been important during the process.

This study deals with the complex phenomenon of occupational health. There is knowledge of how a good work environment should look like, but despite this, many employees experiences ill health in the workplace mainly in the form of neck and back pain. This study is a case study conducted in a high-risk workplace. The overall purpose was to describe and analyze the health situation of a specific company with neck and back problems. Mainly, eight interviews had been used as the data collection method, but additional observations had also been implemented.

The climate changes that are occuring in the world have resulted in that the EU callingfor a 20 % reduction in energy consumption to the year 2020, to reach that goal theEU want the public sector to go forth as a good example. Västfastigheter owns andmanage the hospital buildings in the Västra Götaland region. To be able to reducetheir energy usage Västfastigheter has hired several consulting firms to chart out theenergy consumption on each hospital building. The biggest energy savings potentialhave been calculated and what the cost will be to perform each action. The energyaudit have been completed and stand as the decision basis for Västfastigheter?s choiceon which action packages that should be implemented.

This study aim to investigate the conditions framing the professional development situation for physical education teachers (PE) in a small municipality in the south of Sweden. The Swedish National Agency for Education declare that "focus must be directed towards strengthening the teachers' profession", and that "schools need well-trained teachers and good teaching to help students achieve good results". The study focuses both the schools? contribution and the way in which the teachers take own initiative and are motivated to develop their professional skills. The investigation is all based on teachers' perspectives.

Diagnosis means detection and isolation of faults. A model based diagnosis system is built on a mathematical model of the system. The difficulty when constructing the diagnosis system depends om how the model is formulated. In this report, a method is described that rewrites the model on such a form that the construction of the diagnosis algoritm is easy. The model is transformed by two state space transformations and the result will be a system on state space form where one part of the system becomes easy to supervise.

The Swedish Transport Administration manage nearly 4,000 railway bridges in different condition and age around the country. These bridges is in constant need of maintenance and requires continuous inspections. This thesis is designed as a damage investigation on a single-track railway bridge south of Solvarbo in Säter municipality. The railway bridge is in operation and serves over 10,000 trains a year, everything from speed trains to freight trains. The bridge is built as a beam bridge, simply supported over a road.