This final thesis is a basic inquiry into a countryside programme for the municipality of Hässleholm. By interviewing people who live in the countryside in the municipality of Hässleholm I?ve tried to get a picture of how the thoughts on development of countryside are. Trough these interviews I?ve also tried to find out how people on the countryside defines the concept of countryside.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how four decision makers at a University College and a library director at the same University College perceive the profile, image and identity of their library. This University College library is used as our main example. We have evaluated the main example in relation to two other University College libraries, in order to obtain a deeper understanding of how these library directors view their own libraries and to attain a more multi-dimensional view of the main example of our study. Our intention is to analyse the current situation, not the past nor the future. Qualitative semi-structured interviews with decision makers and library directors have been conducted.

Everything has changed, yet everything is the sameUsually, there is no reason for people to think about death or illness, although it is a highlynatural part of life. Most people live in health without major problems. When something does happen, people assume it will be at the end of their life and then it will be a natural part ofgrowing old. Yet some will get the notice or the feeling that something is not the way it should be, it can be something they can live with or they may have to face death.The work concerns the body?s fragility and feelings about human vulnerability.

This is a study concern high school student?s view of religion and their religiosity. I dispensed a questionnaire to 124 high school students studying comparative religion in a large high school in Sweden, with the students from different socio-economic backgrounds. The result I came up with is that traditional religion activities have decreased, religion has not disappeared but taken other shapes than before. And I also came up to with the result that more than half of them who answered the survey likes the subject and there are tendencies by them who doesn?t like the high school subject religion that they live in a non-religious family.The study concerns following aspects: sociology, youth, human needs, religion, spirituality and individualization..

AbstractKnowledge is today usually used as a way to compete in todays working life. It has become a fashionable concept and is used without a purpose. Both Plato and Aristotle used knowledge as a concept and Plato foremost acknowledged the theoretical aspect of knowledge and called it episteme. The practical aspect of knowledge was by Aristotle called techne. Today there are several concepts that describe the practical and theoretical aspect of knowledge.

En central dimension i teorin om målstyrning är att få en koppling mellan mål och resurser, däremot finns det ingen vägledning i hur dessa två kan integreras. Uppsatsens syfte är att göra en jämförelse av hur sammanlagt fyra myndigheter integrerar mål och resurser i planeringsarbetet och utifrån denna kartläggning komma med förslag för hur Vägverket kan förbättra kopplingen mellan mål och resurser i sitt arbete.För att undersöka detta har en kvalitativ studie utförts med stöd av intervjuer samt interna dokument från berörda myndigheter, vilka är förutom Vägverket: Arbetsförmedlingen, Polismyndigheten i Stockholms län och Försäkringskassan. Informationen är strukturerad på följande sätt: inledningsvis beskrivs hela planeringsprocessen och därefter följer beskrivning av målutformningsprocessen samt resursfördelningsprocessen. Alla processer studeras för sig vartefter deras förhållande sinsemellan diskuteras. Slutligen har det framkommit att alla dessa myndigheter har likartade planeringsprocesser och någon form av koppling mellan mål och resurser, dock är det endast Vägverket som gör en beräkning av resursåtgången per mål.

This study is based on interviews with five directors of educational administration within the Stockholm County. The purpose is to investigate how the directors of educational administrations, in the different municipalities, describe the relationship between the administration and the local school units. Moreover, the aim is also to describe the administration director?s work in relation to the various levels of the administration. To what extent can it be identified as a dimension of the learning organization described in this report.The study shows that skepticism is usually directed upwards toward the next level in the organization and that the decision-making right for local schools is consistently safeguarded.

This project is the result of a cooperation between HalmstadUniversity and EABAB. The aim of the project was to create a macro that would help EABAB automate the process of designing steel trusses. When run in Microsoft Excel, the macro imports and processes coordinates from a calculator program. The data is then imported into the Building Information Modelling software Tekla Structures, which creates a 3D structural model of the steel truss.The macro saves much time in the project planning process and also helps minimize the risk of design flaws caused by human error. .

Undersökningens syfte har varit att kartlägga hur basgruppsarbetet och studenternas lärande upplevs ur ett handledarperspektiv på läkarprogrammet vid Hälsouniversitetet i Linköping. Studien är grundad på kvantitativ ansats baserad på en enkät vilken delades ut till samtliga aktiva basgruppshandledare vid undersökningens tidpunkt och efterföljdes av statistiska bearbetningar. Resultatet baseras på faktoranalys, kombinerat med deskriptiv statistik samt på en öppen fråga av kvalitativ art. Resultatet redogör för studenternas lärande samt vilka aspekter anses främja respektive hindra lärande utifrån ett basgruppshandledarperspektiv. Dessutom redogörs för basgruppshandledarnas förslag på förbättringar av verksamheten.Studiens slutsatser är följande: Basgruppshandledarnas arbetssätt överensstämmer med beskrivningar av PBLmetoden.

Is the new technology always the best? This final project tries to determine if BIM is the melody of today, or if traditional 2D drawing is recommended. Perhaps a compromise is necessary, utilizing both methods.In order to answer this question, different views from the industry have been retrieved through reports, producers of software and users. The approach has consisted in building a 3D model of the school Råslättsskolan, house 01, along with interviews with people involved in the building process.When working in 2D it is hard to include the third dimension, mistakes are done and collisions happen that must be corrected, in most cases at the construction site. BIM is an incredible help since the model allows you to detect collisions and correct them.

Disinfection methods for drinking-water produced at the two water works of Stockholm Water Co are compared in this study. Three different nethods are compared; disinfection with chlorine gas, disinfection with sodium hypochlorite and disinfection with UV-light and monochloramine. The method used is Life cycle assessment, LCA. LCA is defined as the compilation and evaluation of the inputs, outputs and potential environmental impact of a product system shroughout its life cycle. The environmental burden is compared for the three different disinfection methods.

Prestationens betydelse och normer kring presterandet kopplat till organisationen och individen är viktiga att studera inom dagens föränderliga yrkesliv. Försvarsmakten är idag under strukturell och kulturell förändring med den enskilde yrkesofficeren allt mer i fokus. Syftet med denna studie var att få förståelse för yrkesofficerens upplevelse runt begreppet prestation samt lyfta fram synpunkter utifrån ett könsperspektiv. Datainsamlingen skedde genom intervjuer med både manliga och kvinnliga yrkesofficerare tillhörande Försvarshögskolan eller Signalregemente 1. Analysmetoden som användes var induktivt tematisk.

Filmskapare har unika hantverksmässiga kunskaper om hur man påverkar mänskliga kognitiva processer för att uppnå önskade effekter på åskådaren. Om dessa kunskaper blev systematiserade med hjälp av empirisk forskning, skulle de kunna komma till nytta även inom vetenskapliga discipliner där man intresserar sig för människans kognition.I denna uppsats kombineras analysen av två filmsekvenser med ett experiment i vilket åskådarnas ögonrörelser filmades och personerna fick svara på frågor om sina intryck av filmen. Resultaten tyder på att människor framför allt blir medvetna om sådana intryck som liknar verkligheten, t.ex. karaktärers personlighet och beteende, snarare än sådant som rör filmens form. Dessa fynd diskuteras i ett allmänt kognitivt perspektiv och ytterligare empiriska undersökningar föreslås för att studera samspelet mellan filmen och åskådaren.Summary in English:Through their craft, film artists have unique insights into methods of influencing human cognitive processes to achieve desired impact on the spectator.

This study aims mainly to investigate what kind of role the public library plays in the regional and local development. The aim is also to investigate how the public library can strengthen the role as a factor of regional and local development. To explore the subject, the study is focused on the Swedish region of Västra Götaland. Three officials along with two policy documents, are included in the study as representatives of the region. Four public library managers are also interviewed but as representatives of the local perspective.

The conflict over Western Sahara is primarily a conflict over sovereignty, with Morocco on one side claiming territorial rights, and the Polisario Front on the other side claiming popular sovereignty. The conflict has till this day not been resolved and is in a dire need of a solution. In order to determine which solution is the most appropriate, an understanding of all the complex aspects of the conflict is required. In this context, the study aims to examine the conflict in a globalized setting by analyzing how the American news agency AP News portrays the conflict. The US media conglomerate was specifically chosen due to its dominance over international information flows.