Syftet med denna undersökning är att undersöka elevers förståelse av begreppet gravitation. Undersökningen är gjord på elever som läser kursen fysik B på gymnasiet. Många studier har undersökt elevers begreppsförståelse kring rörelse och kraftbegreppet. Min undersökning grundar sig i denna forskning och i empiriska studier. Begreppen och kunskaperna som behövs för att lösa enkätfrågorna är inget nytt för eleverna.

This aim of this thesis is to measure the effect of the user interface in real searches on the Internet through a small experiment. Theories on web and search usability and psychological factors concerning usability were first explored. Then three interfaces were constructed, one "good" that followed usability guidelines and had multiple search functions, one "bad" that completely disobeyed those guidelines and had only a simple and small search field, and one "intermediate" interface that was a mix of the two. The search field was set to different sizes, with the shortest in the "bad" interface, a medium field in the "intermediate" interface and several long fields in the "good" interface. All three interfaces were then attached to the same web search engine, Altavista.

Body esteem is the affective aspect of body image, which is shaped by social experience. Compared with men, women have a more negative body image, which is more frequently correlated with depression and dysfunctional thoughts, especially in the case of eating disorders. The purpose of the present study was to examine gender differences in body esteem and its subcategories, and to find out whether there exists a stronger link between negative body esteem and higher levels of dysfunctional thoughts in women. The relationship between body esteem, dysfunctional thoughts and mental illness was examined. Participants were 73 college students doing social sciences and sports training educations.

The landscape architect is similar to the moviemaker in that they both want to mediate an experience with their creations. The landscape architect designs playgrounds and the moviemaker makes movies for children, but how does the relationship between children and nature look like in the landscape formed by the movie maker?s fantasy? The purpose with this thesis is to study how the relationship between child and nature is depicted in a movie as a medium, by analysing ?My neighbour Totoro?, a Japanese animated movie from 1988 by Hayao Miyazaki. The analysis consists of two combined analyses, Experiential Landscape Analysis and Gordon Cullen?s Serial Vision, both of which analyse the relationship between a human being and her environment as well as the emotional changes that occur as she moves in it.

The purpose of this study has been to examine and analyze school counselors? experience of collaboration with other professions in the student health team and the preconditions for their work. The study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with six elementary-, and two high school student counselors in a medium-sized town in Sweden. The theoretical approach being used is: role theory, theory of professions and theory about collaboration. The study´s result shows that the school counselors? experience an unclarity in their job assignments and their role is often described as diffuse and vauge.

Denna kvalitativa underso?kning handlar om fotografi vilket anva?nds som pedagogisk dokumentation i fo?rskola. Studien problematiserar det som synliggo?rs i fotografierna genom pedagogernas samtal och fotograferande.Da?rmed underso?ks hur medlet fotografi, kan formuleras in i ett pedagogiskt sammanhang och vilka specifika funktioner detta medium har na?r det anva?nds som dokumentation i fo?rskolan. Studien underso?ker ocksa? vad som avgo?r sorteringen och urvalet av dessa fotografier.Resultatet visar att a?terkommande drag i de tagna fotografierna kan ses i relation till pedagogernas fo?rha?llningssa?tt.

Under de senaste åren har användningen av interna sociala nätverk (ISN) markant ökat. En orsak till detta kan vara den ökade användningen av publika sociala nätverk (så som Facebook eller Twitter) på arbetstid, då detta tenderar att sänka arbetsmoralen och effektiviteten hos de anställda. Ett ISN fungerar i princip som ett socialt medium, men dock innanför ett företags eller organisations interna väggar och fokuserar mer på att främja samarbete, kommunikation och kunskapsutbyte. Detta examensarbete utreder hur man kan implementera ett ISN i en mindre organisation och få det att leva i ett företags vardag. Vanligtvis används ISN inom större företag för att främst hitta och dela kunskap inom organisationen.I denna avhandling kommer jag (baserat på genomförda metoder) skräddarsy ett gränssnitt för Xtractor Interactive AB i ett ISN som heter Totara Social.

The media arena is becoming more and more crowded by various brands and different commercial messages. At the same time, consumers learn how to screen marketing communication and their cognitive ad filters enable them to avoid message elaboration. Thus, new thinking and new communication executions are required in order to surprise the consumers and break through the clutter. In the present study, we have investigated how the choice of media affects attention, memory and several communication effects that the ad can generate in the short as well as in the long term. The study is conducted on a well-known brand within a low-involvement product category.

Serieforskning som tvärvetenskapligt fält avancerar framåt ur såväl ett internationellt som nationellt perspektiv och syftar ofta till att synliggöra mediets meningsbyggande funktion, något som är intressant inte minst ur en kommunikativ aspekt. Den vetenskapliga litteraturen på området har stor spridning över olika forskningsfält och det saknas väl etablerade teorier och metoder för att analysera tecknade serier. Syftet med studien är att undersöka och analysera skildrandet av tidsförlopp i tecknade serier utifrån sidlayout och seriens system. Avsikten är att utforska hur den formmässiga kompositionen och förhållandet mellan strukturella element påverkar uppfattningen av tidsförlopp i tecknade serier. Undersökningen baseras på teori som behandlar den tecknade seriens system, dess meningsbyggande funktion, anpassningen av verbalt narrativ till visuellt medium och illusionen av tid.

I mitt examensarbete undersöker jag skissens betydelse och funktion för bildskapandet. Syftet med detta är att ta reda på skissens möjligheter för den som använder skissandet som metod i sitt bildskapande. I mina frågeställningar försöker jag ringa in skissen som fenomen för att få så uttömmande svar som möjligt om mitt område och för att visa på dess funktioner och möjligheter. För att genomföra min undersökning använde jag mig av litteraturstudier där jag gjorde textanalyser och intervjuer av konstnärer och en konstvetare som alla har förtrogenhet med skissens på något vis. I både närläsningen av texter och av intervjusvaren har jag fått flera intressanta aspekter på området jag har undersökt.

Intresset för denna studie började med tanken på musik som social rörelse och på vilket sätt detta medium framställer en verklighet av sociala problem och orättvisor.Denna studie om kvinnliga hiphop artisters musiktexter ämnar att lyfta fram hur olika diskurser produceras och reproduceras, förhandlas, utmanas och förändras, hur verkligheten konstrueras i texterna samt vilka möjliga subjektspositioner banar de identifierade diskurserna i musiktexterna väg för. Det är främst genom dessa subjektspositioner som kvinnor kan identifiera sig med. Undersökningen består av en kritisk diskurspsykologisk analys av musiktexter för att kunna genom ett mikroperspektiv fokusera på den mer närliggande lokala diskurserna samt använda metodens tre huvudbegrepp; tolkningsrepertoarer, ideologiska dilemman samt subjektspositioner. Genom min frågeställning: Hur konstrueras verkligheten i kvinnliga hiphopartisters musiktexter kommer det empiriska materialet belysa en upplevd verklighet genom ett socialkonstruktionistiskt perspektiv. Resultatet visar att de kvinnliga artisternas upplevda verklighet innehåller sociala problem med relationssvårigheter, kärlek, styrka och vänskap i fokus..

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out how young adults experience the library and the space that they have access to. I used semi-structured interviews to find out about this and interviewed eight youths between the ages of 15 and 18 in a medium sized city in the province of Västra Götaland in Sweden. I then analyzed the material with the help of Goffman?s theory about front stage and back stage. I also did a small comparison with results from previous studies.The result showed that the youths generally liked the library and the staff but they had opinions on some issues.

Title: Interorganizational accounting in close relations ? A case study of the relation between a big purchasing company and two of their most important cooperation partners Course: Master thesis in Business and Administration within Accounting, 30 ECTS Advisor: Gun Abrahamsson Theoretical framework: This thesis uses theories of business relationships, management information systems and interorganizational accounting. Conclusions: Despite a difference in the relations the interorganizational accounting is designed and used in a similar way. The interorganizational accounting that exists in the two relations has a medium scope, fast timeline, high aggregation and high integration. The information is mainly used for attention directing and for decision making.

This study examines the cultural place and status of video and computer games in the Swedish public library. Using works on popular culture and the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, this study employs quantitative methods, as well as textual analysis, to analyze the results of an online questionnaire with 19 questions focusing on selection criteria, shelf placement, perceived competence, as well as reasoning for having or not having these games in the library. 286 out of the 440 libraries contacted is participating in the study, and the libraries consist exclusively of public libraries in Sweden that are found in the database of the Royal Library.The results of this study show that a larger number of libraries than previously indicated have started to provide electronic games to their patrons. At the same time, patterns in the data and comments suggests that these games in many cases still do not enjoy the same level of cultural recognition as other media. Indicative of this is the way most libraries seem to focus on the medium being exclusively for their young patrons, with seem-ingly very little in the way of investment for adults.

In relation to the paradigm shift that took place between the marketing mix and relationship marketing, and the emergence of information technology in the 90:s, the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has become a frequently used concept in marketing. Most definitions and approaches have been generated from previous studies, but the concept is still criticized for the number of failed implementation attempts. Along a discussion of the area has an elaborate theoretical foundation remained as the foundation for the study development and utilized in all the sections of the study. The study, with help from Gartner's eight building blocks of CRM, focus on how Swedish medium and large companies work with CRM, and if this is an indicator of the number of failed implementation attempts. The survey consists of two approaches, qualitative and quantitative, to provide both depth and generalizability of the study.