My work deals with large scale design of the urban fringe. The thesis is divided in three parts; ?Current viewpoints?, ?Infra City ? conditions ? and ?Infra City ? project?. In the first part, I go through the history of trade shortly. Then I discuss the concept of nature, which ends up in a linkage between natural science and aesthetics in landscape architecture. The link between those two makes a project stronger and more multifunctional. The object of my case, Infra City, is a mall situated north of Stockholm on both sides of the E4 motorway going to Arlanda airport.

Bakgrund: Tidigare forskningen visar på ett lärande som pågår hela tiden och att det på varje arbetsplats finns specifika lärprocesser. Hemtjänsten bör i detta avseende också kunnas ses som en lärande arbetsmiljö. När man talar om lärande, talar man underförstått om kunskap. Vårdpersonal har i tidigare studier, uttryckt att de är stolta över sina kunskaper, men att de samtidigt är bekymrade över att allmänheten inte vet och förstår vad de gör.Syfte: Vårt syfte är att utifrån personalens individuella erfarenheter belysa den kunskapsform som ligger till grund för hemtjänstarbetet, lärandet i arbetet samt de villkor personalen upplever är av betydelse för deras lärande.Metod: Studien bygger på ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt, med kvalitativa intervjuer som insamlingsmetod.Resultat: Empirin visar att undersökningspersonerna upplever att de har varierande uppgifter, i form av praktiskt, socialt, medicinskt samt administrativt arbete. Den kunskapsform som är mest central, är den kunskap som sker i handling, men den teoretiska kunskapsformen förringas inte.

Dialekter jämnas allt mer ut och utpräglade dialekter är sällsynta i dagens samhälle. I denna utjämning har skolan spelat en stor roll då det under 1800-talet förespråkades en utrotningspedagogik på grund av språkliga fördomar. Trots att det idag finns en större medvetenhet om dialektens betydelse för den enskilda individen är skolans språknorm ännu rikssvenska. Denna studie har för avsikt att undersöka hur lärare hanterar motsättningen mellan skolans språknorm och elevers identitetsutveckling i sin yrkesroll. Deras egna dialektbruk och dialektattityder studerades för att få en uppfattning om hur de förhåller sig till dialekter i klassrummet.För att undersöka hur verksamma lärare i de lägre årskurserna på Gotland förhåller sig till dialekter genomfördes en enkätundersökning och en intervjuundersökning.

This essay aims to report on the process of our documentation of art objects in the care of Smålands nation in Uppsala as a part of our education in museology and cultural heritage studies. The nation has a long history and our documentation shows many valuable objects reflecting this. The care of these objects is substandard and in great need of change. Our work process has involved photography and research about each object, the information has then been registered in our catalogue. The documentation has, besides the catalogue, generated a plan for future management and storage of the collection.

AbstractHuvudsyftet med uppsatsen är att få en större uppfattning och förståelse för sekundära intrång i gravar under förhistorien där koncentrationen ligger på skelettgravar i Skandinavien. Genom en jämförelse av arkeologers tolkningar av sekundärt manipulerade gravar har jag kartlagt sekundära intrång där det visar sig att fenomenet inte varit vida förekommande under förhistorien. Skillnader från mesolitikum till yngre romersk järnålder kan spåras i fråga om vad som har plockats ur gravarna där koncentrationer går från kroppsdelar till artefakter. Dock går det inte att spåra vilka exakta gravar som har varit utsatta. På frågan varför sekundär manipulation har skett kan endast olika tolkningsmöjligheter appliceras såsom sociala, ekonomiska och symboliska konsekvenser som möjliga förklaringsbegrepp till varför fenomenet skett..

This thesis is an investigation of Iranian immigrants and their use of libraries in Sweden. It isbased on a combination of a qualitative and a·quantitative method.Using a qualitative method, I give an outline of the history of lran from ancient times up to the present, as well as the different ethnological groups in Iran and their cultures. The main objective of this part is to clarify the contrasts between Iranian and Swedish cultural, social, linguistic and family structures, and also the characteristics of the crisis that most immigrants go through on their arrival in the new country. The qualitative method also involves structured telephone interviews with eight highly educated Iranians.This method was supplemented by a quantitative study through questionnaires of the attitudes· of lranian immigrants to libraries and reading. Iranians in Sweden turned out to be frequent Iibrary users.

Does playing have to hurt? - A quantitative study of ergonomics and double bass playing. This is a paper about ergonomics and double bass playing. I have studied the prevalence of playing-related pain in professional double bass players, teachers and students. This study is based on a questionnaire with 11 questions about double bass playing and pain.

The great bustard (Otis tarda) became extinct in Sweden during the mid-19th century. Globally, populations have suffered dramatic declines during the past two centuries. Recently, local populations have stabilized or increased after hunting bans and conservation efforts. Despite positive trends the species is still classified by IUCN as vulnerable (VU), mainly due to withdrawals in the distribution. The limited distribution emphasizes the need for finding ?new? areas suitable for a translocation or reintroduction.

This degree project is a realization of a strategy for collaboration between an industrial designer and employed workmen of a producing company. The collaboration aims to engage everyone involved in the co-authorship of a products design and manufacturing history. The realization has taken place in an open dialogue where the designer no longer owns the design process by himself. The project has been carried out in cooperation with the company Iris Hantverk. The company is owned by the Swedish body for visually impaired and has their main production facility in Stockholm.

Människan har använt sig av växter i medicinska syften sen begynnelsen. Men med senare tids vetenskap där man kan ta fram syntetiska medel har växter i många fall glömts bort. Genom att studera historiska medicinal växter finns det en möjlighet att hitta nya sätt att bota sjukdomar. De växter som har undersökts i studien är Malört, Dragon, Åbrodd och Gråbo som alla tillhör Artemisia släktet. De har alla haft en liknande användning genom historien främst vid problem i magen och tarmar. De kliniska studier som har gjort på de olika Artemisia- arterna har visat att de har en bevisad effekt.

Dietary patterns has varied throughout history, both due to resource and cultural limitations. In this thesis, a study was conducted to establish the dietary patterns of eight individuals from an early Midieaval gravesite in Rambodal, Östergötland, in order to explain why they were buried there. This was done through stable isotope analysis on collagen extracted from bone and tooth on the buried individuals. The analysis showed that these indviduals had a diet that was mainly based on freshwater fish. This suggests that these people may have been christians, due to the fact that fish was not regarded as meat and therefore you did not have to abstain from it during periods of fasting.

The aim with this paper is to study how the integrational ideology of the Swedish parliaments party platforms, including the right wing Sverigedemokraterna, is formulated. The integration theories examined are assimilationism, multiculturalism, universalism and residualism. In turn these theories are simultaneously applied to the party platforms extracting explicit or implicit messages of the four former mentioned theories. The Swedish history of integration as well as immigration, which per capita is one of the highest in the European union, pinpoints the reason why this subject is due to further investigation. The results show that most of the parties contain traces of more than one integration theory, with the exception of primarily Sverigedemokraterna which focuses on assimilationism.

Abstract:According to the curriculum of the Swedish school the pupils should develop their historical consciousness. The aim of this study was to find out which pupils develop this consciousness by listing to an historical novel, talking about that book and writing stories. The study went on for four weeks and the subject of the teaching was the Middle Ages. 28 pupils took part and a variety of methods were used: 1: questionnaire about the lives of the pupils, 2: Making observations of their attitude to the teaching and 3: story writing. The results show that the social background does not influence the development of an historical consciousness.

As I recently started to record in a studio, I almost immediately came to the conclusion that getting the right sound is not easy. I became curious about my recording procedure. What did I do wrong? How to place the microphone? Use of equipment? How is it possible to modify the sound afterwards? Are there any special methods that are commonly used among producers and/or guitarists? My thoughts ended up in a question ? What do producers and guitarists think of the guitar sound during a recording session in relation to the final production? In my research I interviewed two producers and two guitarists about guitar recordings. The results show that the quality of the guitar sound is in relation to production and style of music.

Syftet med mitt arbete är att få en fördjupad insikt i en lärares arbete, och få kunskap om hur stress och utbrändhet kan påverka arbetet som lärare. För att få denna förståelse har jag intervjuat en manlig lärare, Ove. Han har arbetat som lärare i fyrtio år. Genom att använda mig utav livsberättelsemetoden har jag fått tagit del av hans erfarenheter. I hans berättelse framkommer det att stress var inledningsvis något som var positivt för hans arbete.