Facilitated by the breakthrough of the internet, new ways of organizing internet-based projects that harness the power of the crowds are becoming increasingly common. Today there are ways of using the crowd as paid labour, as funders of your new project ventures and even for helping scientists doing science. Staying true to its traditional principles of objectivity and trustworthiness while asking the crowd to contribute, crowd generated ?Citizen Science? does not provide even the slightest amount of pay in exchange for the time and effort put in by their contributors. Surely there can not be many people willing to do such a thing voluntarily? Actually, practice is showing the exact opposite with contributions counted in their millions among the more popular Citizen Science projects.

The subject of this thesis is the history of the library at The Göteborg Museum of Art. The aim of the thesis is to depict and analyze the emergence and the expansion of the library?s holdings until 1939. To fulfill the aim, two questions are asked. The first question is: Is it possible to argue that the library?s holdings were collected to document the entire world of art? The question is formulated in relation to a comment by Susan Wyngaard.

A new phonological test, LINUS, for Swedish-speaking children between the ages of three and seven, has been developed at the speech and language pathology department at Linköping University. The aim of the present study was to create a reference manual for the long version of the new test. The participants in the present study were children between the ages of five to seven in a medium-sized municipality in the Northern part of Kalmar County, Sweden. In total, 124 native Swedish-speaking children (58 girls and 66 boys) with typical language development participated. The children were divided into two age groups, 5;0-5;11;31 and 6;0-6;11;31 years.

Tobii Technology AB is a global leading company in eye tracking. The technology is a part of acomputer screen called an eye tracker. It enables computers to follow eye movement whichfurther make it possible to control the computer by only using your eyes.The mission was to develop an arcade game for eye controlled games that Tobii can use in theirmarketing or as a tool when doing researches about the interest in the technology amongst gamecompanies. The product realization involved designing an innovative, functional and futuristiccase which gathered the existing hardware and software to build the final prototype. In order toattract users it was important to focus on the visual expressions.Initially, the project started off with an information retrieval which contained interviews, fieldstudies, tests and literature studies.

Wetlands play an important role in the ecosystem. They reduce the impact of flow flux in the drainage area, acts as upholder of biodiversity, as an esthetic and recreational component in the landscape and they have the ability to reduce nutrients such as nitrogen, and help preventing eutrophication in costal areas.The number of wetlands in Scania have, due to the intensified agriculture been reduced to maximize the area suitable for crops.However since the mid 80th the consequences of this has been acknowledged, and many wetlands have been restored.This master?s thesis aim to see what impact this development have had on wetlands in Scania over the last 60 years. And also look at some of those factors important for the efficiency of nitrogen removal in wetlands. During the process a detailed manual for inventories of this sort was created.The material used to execute the inventory of wetlands where aerial photographs over Scania from the 1940th, 1980th and 2000.

I Sverige finns ett brett utbud av föräldrastödsinsatser. Trots att 1,5 miljoner av Sveriges invånare är utrikesfödda riktar sig endast 4 av 60 föräldrastödsinsatser till utrikesfödda föräldrar. Att blanda föräldragrupper med inrikes- och utrikesfödda föräldrar kan bidra till social interaktion mellan människor som inte med självklarhet kommer i kontakt med varandra i vardagslivets olika aktiviteter. Det finns ingenting som säger att en föräldrakurs är givande för en utrikesfödd förälder bara för att en inrikesfödd förälder har utvärderat kursen som positiv. Det finns forskning som visar på att det kan vara svårt att arbeta med föräldrastöd när deltagarna har skilda föreställningar om vad en bra familj och förälder bör vara.

Hur påverkas socialarbetares handlingsutrymme och relation till brukare i arbete medmanualbaserade metoder, enligt de yrkesverksamma? Vilka hinder kan uppstå när manualbaserademetoder importeras och används i svenska förhållanden? Hur kan den lokala organisationen tahänsyn till dessa kulturella skillnader? Vad kan arbete med manualbaserade metoder innebära försocialarbetarna? Hur påverkas professionen och socialarbetarnas syn på sin yrkesroll?Vad kanarbete med manualbaserade metoder, enligt socialarbetarna, innebära för brukare?Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur arbete med manualbaserade metoder, i en utvaldstadsdel i Göteborg, kan påverka det sociala arbetet som profession, samt hur det kan påverkasocialarbetare och brukare. Vi har intervjuat tio socialarbetare, verksamma inom behandlande ochförebyggande arbete med barn och familjer. Dessa semi-strukturerade intervjuer analyserar viutifrån begreppen humanism, etiska värden, normer och värderingar samt teorier ombehandlingsarbete och bemötande i socialt arbete.För de yrkesverksamma finner vi att arbetet med manualbaserade metoder kan leda till enlojalitetskonflikt mellan rollerna hjälpare och utvärderingsassistent. Relationen till brukarnaförändras så att teknik, kompetens och ekonomiska värden får ökad betydelse, kanske på bekostnadav humanistiskt hänsynstagande.

Iliotibialt friktions syndrom (ITFS) är en av de vanligaste överbelastningsskadorna som drabbar knäet. Traditionellt har skadan betraktats som ett friktionssyndrom, senare studier har dock hävdat att en kompression av underliggande fettvävnad är orsaken till diagnosen. Etiologin och patologin bakom diagnosen har därmed inte kunnat fastställas. Kliniskt tillämpas stretching, styrketräning av höftabuktorer, neuromuskulär korrigering och myofaschiella behandlingsmetoder i rehabiliteringen av ITFS. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att sammanställa det vetenskapliga underlaget för behandlingsmetoder vid iliotibialt friktions syndrom.

Detta examensarbete har utförts på Kvaerner Pulping i Karlstad. Kvaerner Pulping är ett globalt företag, ledande inom tillverkning av maskiner och anläggningar till pappers- och massaindustrin. I samband med företagets anläggningar i Karlstad finns det ett reservdelslager som används dels för förebyggande underhåll men också vid akutsituationer världen över. Målet med examensarbetet är att ge företaget ett mer ekonomiskt och serviceinriktat reservdelslager med hjälp av en bättre lagerstyrning. För att skapa en bättre lagerstyrning beslöts att arbetet skulle följa en trestegsprocess: • Utvärdering av samtliga artiklar för att se vilka som är relevanta för lagerhållning samt utveckla en modell för hur detta kan uppdateras kontinuerligt eller i tidsintervall.

During Spring semester 2011, Linda Engstrom and Malin Heder performed ?Golden Ratio?, a thesis which included 22.5 hp. The thesis followed the syllabus for the Degree Project for degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering (MSGC12) which was a unit in the Innovation and Design Engineering program within the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.The client was Crem International AB, a company located in Åmotfors that develops the design, manufactures and markets coffee machines. The supervisor at the company has been Peter Larsson and supervisor at Karlstad University has been Monica Jakobsson. Examiner for the thesis has been Professor Fredrik Thuvander at the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.Crem International AB controls a patent, representing a new technology to streamline and minimize use of energy during the coffee preparation and results in a good coffee quality.

A possible "discursive turn" is believed to have been observed within Swedish political science in later years. The purpose of this study is to examine whether or not such a turn has actually taken place, in order to further determine if a resulting theoretical homogeneity poses a risk to the ability of Swedish political science to identify and respond to its full width of possible research problems, and to determine its perspectives on both these problems and the results that are later communicated to the general society. To do so, the study poses the following primary research question:"Has a discursive turn occurred within Swedish political science?"This question is then broken down into two specified research questions."Has discourse analysis become a more common approach for doctoral dissertations in political science during the period of 2000-2013?""Have ideas corresponding with discourse theory become more common within doctoral dissertations in political science that are not pure discourse analyses during the period of 2000-2013?"These questions are then answered by examining all known 406 doctoral dissertations in political science published in Sweden during the 21st century up until (and including) the year of 2013, using two forms of content analysis, one manual and one computer-assisted. The study finds no clear evidence of a discursive turn in Swedish political science since the turn of the century.

During Spring semester 2011, Linda Engstrom and Malin Heder performed ?Golden Ratio?, a thesis which included 22.5 hp. The thesis followed the syllabus for the Degree Project for degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering (MSGC12) which was a unit in the Innovation and Design Engineering program within the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.The client was Crem International AB, a company located in Åmotfors that develops the design, manufactures and markets coffee machines. The supervisor at the company has been Peter Larsson and supervisor at Karlstad University has been Monica Jakobsson. Examiner for the thesis has been Professor Fredrik Thuvander at the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.Crem International AB controls a patent, representing a new technology to streamline and minimize use of energy during the coffee preparation and results in a good coffee quality.

The company Pilotfish has developed the system MIVEO which is used by car-sharing to wirelessly monitor, book or otherwise manage a fleet of cars. In a car pool the system has three different types of users with varying degrees of eligibility. These are end users, administrative and service personnel. We have chosen to focus on opportunities to streamline the administrator and service personnel work with a mobile service, as these users of MIVEO often are movable and mobile. From this position we have in the study attempted to answer the following question: How can mobile services used to streamline administrative tasks? This study is about developing a mobile application that will contain the same features as the existing system, but must be mobile suit.

 Titel: I sanningens ögonblick: berättelser om hur frontlinepersonal levererar service. Bakgrund: Service definieras som något som levereras men resulterar inte i ägande av något. Service levereras av frontlinepersonal till turister. Frontlinepersonalen har betydelse för hur servicen levereras. Jag har inte funnit någon detaljerad inventering vad serviceleveranser innehåller. Däremot finns det teorier som berättar hur företagsledningar ska leda personalen som levererar service.

Uppdraget har handlat om att kartlägga en ekonomisk modell för nyutvecklings- och uppgraderingsinvesteringar. Modellen är en investeringskalkyl baserat på olika tidsperioder vilka är projekt, produktion och eftermarknad. Lönsamhetsmodellen, som den kallas i examensarbetet, jämför egentillverkade och inköpta komponenter (ex växellåda). I modellen finns några viktiga parametrar som behöver verifieras. Reservdelsförsäljning är en sådan.