The relationship between China and Japan has historically been problematic and, in some ways still is. One of the issues where both of the states cannot agree on is the island dispute. While both states are claiming sovereignty over the island and there do not seem to be an ending to it in the near future. If the island dispute continues to escalate it could have a negative impact in the Asian region and eventually rest of the world as well. However due to the complexity of the dispute a deeper knowledge is needed and a mutual understanding is needed.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate which enter- and exit barriers that exist on the banking market for small enterprises located within the region of Gotland. The reason was to examine and identify which barriers that could affect the mobility among small enterprise bank customers on the bank market. To identify the barriers, the study was carried out partly by a quantitative survey with 33 small business owners respondents located at three different concentrated small enterprise areas within the region of Gotland. And partly by qualitative interviews that were conducted with two employees at Länsförsäkringar Gotland Bank.The result indicated that the enter barrier mostly depended on the aspect that business owners of small enterprises believed that bank switching were complicated. The business owners did also consider bank switching as time demanding.

The thesis aims to describe the current sales climate in the context of complex sales in business-to-business. The purpose is to increase the clients knowledge of sales and test the clients hypothesis that the sales climate is changing from Solution Selling to Insight Selling, further the thesis aims to contribute to the scientific debate of sales. Solution Selling is characterized, as the name suggest, by selling of solution to the customers needs. With Insight Selling the seller has a provocative approach towards the customer and the seller is searching for customers in the need of change. This is a qualitative study conducted with eight interviews and one focus group.

Background: Resources that are hard to put a value on and cannot be classified as assets in the balance sheet as well as the development towards the information society has led to an increasing need and use for voluntary information in the annual reports. The increase of voluntary information can foremost be seen in the field of human resources.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe the development of voluntary information about human resources in the annual report of a number of Swedish quoted companies. The purpose is also to see if there is a difference in the development between manufacturing companies and service companies.Method: Six manufacturing companies and six service companies were chosen from the Stockholm exchange A-list. Using both a qualitative and quantitative research method the annual reports of the chosencompanies were studied for the years 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003. A model consisting of seven categories; health, diversity, recruitment, staff turnover and comfort, benefits and motivation, education and competence development, was developed to clarify were the development took place.Conclusions: After finishing the study one can tell that the amount of voluntary information about human resources in the annual report has increased even though the percentage share of the total annual report only has increased appreciably for manufacturing companies.

The study describes six upper secondary school students? thoughts of and stories about mentors and mentorship in secondary school. The mentorship has been studied with a hermeneutic approach from a narrative pupil relational perspective, which is influenced by the phenomenological humanity perspective. The aim of this study is to describe a few pupils? life worlds and to try to interpret how they describe and explain their own behavior related to mentorship and their mentors.

Varje år drabbas ca 50000 människor i Sverige av cancer. Ungefär var tredje människa kommer någon gång att få en cancersjukdom. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva personer med cancer och deras upplevelse av information i samband med behandling och/eller undersökning. 11 internationella kvalitativa vetenskapliga artiklar analyserades med manifest kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i tre kategorier: Betydelsen av olika informationskällor, missnöje över att inte få individuellt anpassad och relevant information från vårdpersonal och att kontrollera och hantera situationen genom att erhålla eller undvika information.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to study an electronic reference service from a user perspective. By qualitative interviews with eight students the thesis examines their information behaviour, why and when they use the service, the user?s experiences of the service and the communication with the librarian. The users have all used the Swedish electronic reference service Fråga biblioteket ? Forskningsbibliotek.

Bakgrund: I Sverige drabbades 7000 kvinnor år 2005 av bröstcancer. Forskningen har gått framåt vilket resulterade i att fler kvinnor överlevde diagnosen bröstcancer. Kvinnor som drabbades av bröstcancer var i stort behov av stöd och information från sjukvård, vänner och familj. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats var att belysa betydelsen av stöd samt information för kvinnor med bröstcancer. Metod: De vetenskapliga artiklarna som utgjorde studiens resultat erhölls genom litteratursökning som gjordes i databaserna SweMed+, PubMed och Cinahl.

AbstractThis study focuses on three generations of Kurdish women's view on honor. The study is a qualitative research based on three individual interviews. The aim of this study is to examine how three generations of immigrant women from a culture of honor is influenced over time by the majority culture and its values together with how these women affect each other mutually both consciously and unconsciously within the family. The study is based on two questions: What does"honor" mean to the three generations of women who are Muslim and Kurdish? Did these three generations of women?s idea of honor change over time as they have lived in Sweden? Results of this study have shown that the concept of honor has its focus on the woman's body, sexuality and chastity.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how municipal archivists/records managers seek and use information in their daily worklife. Two mayor questions were addressed:1. What information resources and information channels do the respondents use in their daily worklife and which functions do these fulfil?2. How do the respondents experience their information seeking in relation to the work role and the tasks in the municipal organisation?A qualitative method with interviews was used.

Bakgrund: I och med att företag arbetar i nätverk skapas beroendeförhållande som kräver styrning och koordinering. En viktig faktor i ekonomisk styrning är tillgången till och skapandet av information. Det har inte genomförts någon större mängd studier, i synnerhet inte med svenska exempel. Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att beskriva vilken ekonomisk information som delas, och hur den systematiseras, i utvecklade vertikala samarbetsrelationer mellan kund och leverantör, samt att förklara hur den ekonomiska informationen används. Genomförande: Vi har valt att studera tre relationer mellan företag som redan har ett nära samarbete.

Fokus i examensarbetet ligger i att kartlägga likheter och skillnader i inlärning hos människor/djur och artificiella system genom att jämföra inlärningshastigheter och avkligningstider. Förhoppningen är att detta i förlängningen bidrar till ökad förståelse för och därmed förbättrad interaktion mellan artificiell och mänsklig intelligens. Arbetet bygger i huvudsak på teorier av B.F. Skinner och hans bok The behavior of organisms som gavs ut 1938. Hans teorier och experiment jämfördes med dagens kunskap om artificiell intelligens och ett eget experiment med artificiella neurala nätverk genomfördes.

Ett ökande antal operationer sker dagkirurgiskt vilket leder till att patienten får ett kortare avbrott i arbete och socialt liv. Denna typ av vård medför dock mindre tid för undervisning perioperativt, vilket blir en utmaning för vårdpersonalen. Information är centralt i omvårdnaden av patienten som genomgår ett kirurgiskt ingrepp. Utan information har patienten en minskad förmåga att ta en aktiv del i den perioperativa processen. Studiens syfte var att beskriva patientens upplevelse av perioperativ information vid ett dagkirurgiskt ingrepp.

Studiens syfte var att undersöka om en veckas retentionsintervall påverkar vittnens minnesbild. Vidare undersöks om man kan inkorporera missvisande information i ett vittnesminnesbild och om vittnen minns centrala detaljer i större utsträckning än perifera detaljer.Totalt deltog 17 män och 31 kvinnor i studien. Försökspersonerna fick se en filmsekvens på 1.35 minuter. Vidare fick de fylla i ett frågeformulär med 10 frågor. Efter en veckas retentionsintervall fick försökspersonerna fylla i samma frågeformulär men hälften hade fått en sammanfattning med vilseledande information.

AbstractThis study focuses on three generations of Kurdish women's view on honor. The study is a qualitative research based on three individual interviews. The aim of this study is to examine how three generations of immigrant women from a culture of honor is influenced over time by the majority culture and its values together with how these women affect each other mutually both consciously and unconsciously within the family. The study is based on two questions: What does"honor" mean to the three generations of women who are Muslim and Kurdish? Did these three generations of women?s idea of honor change over time as they have lived in Sweden? Results of this study have shown that the concept of honor has its focus on the woman's body, sexuality and chastity.