The reason for, and objective of, this project has been to research the relation between abstract and figurative illustration and how, if at all possible, one can bring them together and make them act as a whole.As a starting point for this project I used fragments from texts I?ve written during the past years. The texts deal with the thoughts and emotions that describe the state of melancholy or mania, two psychological conditions that are widely spread in our society. By illustrating these text passages in pencil drawings I?ve been given the possibility to investigate how to combine figurative illustration with the abstract alike.

In recent time, agile methods have been devoted much attention, and the concept is widely used in the IT industry in particular. An increasing number of companies are interested in this way of working. The following report is the result of a study on the ability to create value for customers in business development through the use of agile methods. We ask what the advantages and limitations of agile methods are in the creation of customer value. Grounded Theory and an initial literature review was used to answer this question.

Genom en kvantitativ studie av 60 aktier på Stockholmsbörsen har följande fråga besvarats. Hur kan en investerare utnyttja historisk information för att nå riskjusterad överavkastning? En teknisk analys för att testa den svaga formen av informationseffektivitet genomfördes. Aktiernas faktiska avkastning jämfördes med den förväntade enligt CAPM, och de alfavärden som observerades testades genom variansanalys. Resultaten från studien visade att de undersöka aktierna har alfavärden som är signifikant skilda från noll, när endast skillnaden studerades.

I den här undersökningen analyseras texter skrivna av elever i olika skolår. Skillnader i texterna jämförs på helhets-, menings-, ord- och teckennivå, mellan de olika skolåren. Tjugo texter, tio från skolår 3 och tio från skolår 5, analyseras funktionellt och strukturellt. Elevurvalet har jämn könsfördelning och hälften har ett annat modersmål än svenska. Resultatet visar att skillnaderna mellan skolåren är små och främst på menings- och ordnivå.

Background: Investors have several options to choose from when the goal is to achieve the highest yield at the lowest cost and risk. Stocks are a common investment options, but is also associated with risks. Portfolios are usually constructed with several different assets to reduce the unsystematic risk of investment. Funds are similar to composite stock portfolios, the big difference is that they dealt with in their entirety and investors may not affect the fund's content. The problem remains that whether you choose stocks or mutual funds there is still uncertainty as to how the future will unfold.

In 2010, Airwatergreen AB started testing their new technology, the Airwaterwell, an atmospherical water generator of their own design that is running on solar heat, with a production capacity of three litres of water per day and m2. The purpose was to focus on foreign aid organizations as main purchasers for project investments towards rural communities in developing countries that suffer from lack of, or compromised quality of drinking water. In order to further understand if this technology would bring a positive impact in the developing countries, the company contacted the Swedish University of Agriculture for a socio-economic study of the Airwaterwells? potential. The authors elected Cost benefit analysis as the appropriate method for conducting the study and India became the study region because of its many problems with water related issues such as diseases as well as insufficient water supply for households. The regions that this study is based on are Gujarat, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh given their differences in income, health situation and poverty rate.

Globalization has stimulated the free markets and has made possible for Swedish companiesto expand internationally. Some markets have been deemed attractive and companies havechosen to enter them. The decisions concerning internationalization and marketing havedetermined the success of the companies on the new market. Therefore, several elementsbecome important: the motives behind the new market entry, the local marketcharacteristics and the adaptation of the four components of the marketing mix ? product,price, place and promotion.The purpose of this thesis is to study how three Swedish companies adapt their marketingmix to the local conditions in Australia and identifies success factors in order to help othercompanies considering a market entry.

Studien syftar till att undersöka huruvida det finns ett signifikant samband mellan den svenska reporäntan och prisbildningen av aktier inkluderade i indexet OMXS30. Datamaterialet täcker perioden 2004 till 2012 och hämtas direkt från NASDAQ OMX Nordic. Genom en eventstudie och med hjälp av Marknadsmodellen estimeras en abnormal avkastning för händelseperioderna. För att ta hänsyn till de estimeringsproblem som finns associerade med finansiell tidsseriedata och dess varians används en EGARCH-modell. Resultatet tyder på en signifikant negativ korrelation mellan reporäntan och marknadspriserna på Stockholmsbörsen.

Epilepsy is a common neurological condition in dogs, being a common reason for death in the statistics from the insurance company Agria in Sweden. Among the different types of epilepsy, idiopathic epilepsy (IE) is the most common and is characterized by the fact that a veterinary examination does not reveal a cause for the seizures. This study has been conducted through studies of medical records and interviews with dog owners. From a total number of 103 dogs that were neurologically examined for seizures, 42 dogs met the inclusion criteria, being classified as having idiopathic epilepsy. When the study was performed, 28 dogs had died, while 14 were still alive.

Förväntningshypotesen förkastas vanligtvis vid empiriska studier. Longstaff (2000) visar däremot att hypotesen håller för extremt korta reporäntor med löptiderna från en dag upp till tre månader. Syftet med uppsatsen är att replikera Longstaff för svenska depositräntor, med det avseendet att extremt korta räntepapper använts. Enligt förväntningshypotesen ska investeringar i räntebärande papper med olika löptider ge samma förväntade avkastning över en bestämd tidshorisont. Johansens kointegrationstest används för att utvärdera förväntningshypotesens giltighet och resultatet visar att hypotesen håller för samtliga studerade löptider, en dag mot en vecka, en månad och tre månader.

Uppköp tillhör de största investeringar ett företag kan göra. Av denna anledning blir finansieringen av dessa uppköp av största vikt. Företaget har ett antal olika alternativ att välja mellan och denna uppsats studerar uppköp finansierade via aktier, kontanter, belåning samt balanserade vinstmedel. För att undersöka om dessa finansieringsmetoder tolkades olika av marknaden insamlades data rörande tidpunkter för uppköp samt aktiekurser för de företag som lägger budet. Därefter skattades marknadsmodellen utifrån dessa data.

During our teacher training, focusing on history and Swedish at further education level, we have noticed a discrepancy in the way history is portrayed in further education and higher education literature. Accounts of historical ideas, events and developments have often wrongly been depicted as non-gender specific, that is, of equal relevance to both men and women. To what extent is it made clear in further education textbooks that Rousseau?s treatise on education was exclusively aimed at the male gender, and how are the gender-specific aspects of his ideas described? What role and space are set aside for women in the accounts of the struggle for the universal right to vote in Sweden at the turn of the century in 1900, and how is the unions? initial exclusion of female workers portrayed? Focusing on the above historical events and developments, this study aimes to examine whether or not gender-specific issues are described as gender neutral in a selection of history textbooks for further education published in Sweden between 1982 and 2003..

I denna uppsats undersöks dislokationer hos en pojke på drygt tre år. Dislokationer omfattar konstruktioner som: I morgon, då kan hon nog vara med, din syster, vilket är ett exempel som innehåller både en initial och en final dislokation. Sådana konstruktioner har inte undersökts i svenska barns språk tidigare.Undersökningen är en fallstudie. Materialet består av nio timmar videoinspelningar av samtal inom familjen under gemensamma aktiviteter, i första hand leksituationer. Materialet har analyserats och excerperats med avseende på sekvenser som innehåller dislokationer, initiala och finala, samt tveksamma fall av båda.

We investigate if the size of goodwill compared to total assets has any effect on the shareholders return on companies listed on the Swedish Stock market. We put up two different hypotheses with a foundation from previous research and later dismiss one of them. Our evidence does not show any indicators that the size of goodwill have an effect on the shareholders return, which brings us to believe that there, from a share holders point of view, isn?t any need for concern regarding the standards about accounting for goodwill as stated by IFRS. .

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether social counselling via chat conversations could meet the criteria for a professional conversation, and how the six social workers who were interviewed felt that it had affected the profession and the clients who are seeking their help.Communication, professionality, power, roles and regions are the key topics of this study. A hermeneutic approach has not only influenced the interviews but also the content analysis that was used to encode the results.The interviews revealed that the chat conversations was a successful tool but not entirely without difficulties. The initial contact making between the client and the social worker favours the client, since she/he remains anonymous and that was the main advantage of the method. The biggest concern however was that in the anonymity it is not possible to report cases that the social worker are obligated to. The changing of forum does not necessarily affect the professionality but due to the faceless chat conversation an entire dimension of communication disappears because the loss of body language.