Västerländsk litteratur som behandlar asiatiska religioner använder ofta västerländska begrepp för att beskriva religiösa objekt och företeelser. Emellertid överensstämmer inte alltid översättningen med den inhemska innebörden av begreppet. Ett exempel på detta är det Japanska konceptet kami, som felaktigt översätts med västerländska begrepp som ?gudomar? och ?andar?. Syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera kamibegreppets semantiska spektrum i en specifik inhemsk religiös textsamling.

Syftet med denna studie är att studera ekonomierna i Japan, USA och Storbritannien där ländernas centralbank använt den okonventionella penningpolitiska metoden kvantitativa lättnader. Genom att studera penningmängden, BNP-tillväxten, inflationen och kostnaden för dessa länders valutor i förhållande till tio andra valutor vill denna studie kunna avgöraom Riksbanken med hjälp utav kvantitativa lättnader kan få inflationen att stiga samt vad som bör hända med den aggregerade efterfrågan och kronans värde. Resultatet visar att inflationen och BNP-tillväxten haft en stigande trend under perioderna av kvantitativa lättnader. Resultatet visar också att Storbritanniens valuta deprecierades mot alla valutor i studien och Japans valuta deprecierades mot hälften av valutorna, däremot kunde denna studie inte observera något samband mellan kvantitativa lättnader i USA och en deprecierad dollar. Det denna studie kan säga är att Riksbankens kvantitativa lättnader bör skapa enpositiv trend för både inflationen och den aggregerade efterfrågan, samt att kronan med största sannolikhet bör deprecieras..

On November 1989 the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Today more than 20 years later the convention is ratified by all countries in the world except the USA. A question asked is however if the convention after 20 years of development work has in fact accomplished some positive effects for children around the world? The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in selected states and to reach this aim some questions need to be answered: What do the selected states do to realize the best interest of the child?What do the selected states do to guarantee all children?s right to survival and development?Do all children in the selected states have the same right to health and health services?Do all children in the selected states have the same right to education? The material studied in this thesis is those reports that are to be sent periodically to the Committee on the Rights of the Child by all states. The result of this study shows that the Convention on the Rights of the Child has made some positive progresses when it comes to the situation of the child in the world.

Textbooks are a very influential medium considering the fact that they often introduce students to information they have never read or heard about before, and as such they become very important in forming students? opinions on different matters. In this study I have taken a closer look at five textbooks in history that are currently being used in the Swedish upper secondary school. My aim has been to find out how East Asia is pictured and also how much space East Asian history is given in these textbooks with the postcolonial theory as theoretical basis. My study shows that East Asia is given very little space compared to Europe in these books, with an average of less than a twentieth of the number of pages that deal with European history.

Previously when I have made proposals for privately owned gardens, I have found it difficult to find strong, extensive designs and to work with room and space. Since this is the field within which I am going to work in the future I feel that I need more experience, reference material and ideas on how I, in an early stage of the working process, can work with and consider room and space. The aim of this project has therefore been to procure experience, reference material and ideas for design of a garden in relation to space. To procure experience and reference material I have, during the fall of 2008, made two incredible study tours to France and to Japan. I have interviewed the landscaping architect Maria Arborgh and studied literature. I have also used a garden outside of Gothenburg in which I have been able to try out different thoughts and ideas regarding shape that have appeared during the course of my work. My conclusions about landscaping are that you should first find the different functions in the garden. The next step is to find an overall theme or shape, use a small number of materials, build a room with sealing, walls and portals with the help of vertical elements e.g.

Den svenska planprocessens effektivitet är ett problematiskt och omdiskuterat ämne. Uppsatsen behandlar effektivisering av den fysiska planeringsprocessen med leanteoretiska begrepp som utgångspunkt. På senare tid har flera alternativa lösningar för effektivisering uppkommit. En av dessa lösningar är lean, en verksamhetsstrategi med ursprung från Toyotas produktionsfilosofi. Uppsatsen utgår ifrån en kvalitativ forskningsmetod med målet att genom intervjuer, offentliga rapporter och litteratur granska den svenska planeringsprocessen och fenomenet lean inom fysisk planering.

I Japan är språkskolor som säljer det engelska språket ofta förekommande. De använder sig av websidor som kunden enkelt ska kunna besöka och köpa deras tjänster ifrån. Uppsatsen analyserar sex Japanska språkskolors hemsidor utifrån Björkvalls (2009) teorier om multimodala analyser och har som syfte att klarlägga språkanvändningen inom främst keigo och katakana som skolorna använder sig av. I resultatet framstår det att hemsidorna använder keigo och katakana som motsvarigheter, där keigo tolkas som formellt, seriöst och mindre personligt, medan katakana tolkas som informellt, mindre seriöst samt mer personligt. Katakana används i större mängd vid personliga element, samtidigt som keigo minskas i dessa områden.

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.

This graduation paper is based on my interest for wood and its different tonal quality?s.After some time of thinking I decided to write my paper on the tonal difference between two of the most common woods in guitars, East Indian Rosewood and European Maple. I had built two identical guitars before my graduation paper in which the difference was the wood the back and sides were made of. One was being made of East Indian Rosewood and the other being made of European Maple.I chose to speak with a number of people with different angle of approach to the two kinds of wood and its tonal difference and quality?s.

Problemformulering: Swapspreaden undersöks i flertalet studier, i bland annat USA, Japan och Australien. Dessa studier påvisar åtskilliga förklaringar till swapspreaden, men de olika empiriska studierna, baserade på olika marknader, finner inte samma förklaringar. Vi ställer oss därför frågan om samma förklaringsfaktorer finns till den svenska swapspreaden. Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka huruvida de förklarings-faktorer som påvisats i tidigare, utländska studier även förklarar swapspreaden i Sverige. Metod: Vår studie är av kvantitativ karaktär med ett hypotetiskt-deduktivt angreppssätt.

Renal dysplasia in dogs is a severe kidney disease that causes great suffering for the affected individual. The disease disturbs the development of the kidneys which leads to an immature microscopic structure of the kidney and smaller kidneys than normal. A dog with renal dysplasia only lives between 4 and 24 months, because of kidney failure. There are different ways to establish a diagnosis, but the most common way today is to take a renal biopsy. In a scientific study, ultrasound based diagnosis was shown to match the histopathological picture of the disease.

Textbooks are a very influential medium considering the fact that they often introduce students to information they have never read or heard about before, and as such they become very important in forming students? opinions on different matters. In this study I have taken a closer look at five textbooks in history that are currently being used in the Swedish upper secondary school. My aim has been to find out how East Asia is pictured and also how much space East Asian history is given in these textbooks with the postcolonial theory as theoretical basis. My study shows that East Asia is given very little space compared to Europe in these books, with an average of less than a twentieth of the number of pages that deal with European history.

This study is performed as an Archive, Library and museum master?s thesis in two years studies. The overall aim is to investigate and analyze what the term Manga means in a library and information science context. The concept of Manga has different meanings depending on whether we start from a Japanese or a Swedish context. Manga is integrated in the Japanese society while Manga often is associated with youth culture or a separate genre in Sweden.

Hematology-instruments that analyze blood cells can at specific cases be followed by manual counting with a hemocytometer. The plastic hemocytometer which has a fixed coverslip and is assigned for disposable use, appears to reduce the problems arising from the use of the traditional glass hemocytometer, for instance coverslip-application difficulty and dust particles. Capillary whole blood sampling may be useful for patients at the emergency department and in addition, a smaller volume of blood is taken compared to venous blood sampling. This study will focus on the platelet- and leukocyte count (PLT and WBC) in venous and capillary blood, in order to compare the plastic- and glass hemocytometers with Sysmex XN-2000 (Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan), and verify if capillary whole blood sampling can be used for the measurement of these hematological parameters. 30 subjects donated both capillary- and venous blood samples and these blood samples were analyzed with glass- and plastic hemocytometers with Sysmex XN-2000 as the reference method.

AbstractDet finns skolor som anser att den Japanska förhandlingskulturen och den kinesiska förhandlingskulturen är identiska med varandra. De sympatiserar för Raymond Cohens berömda klassificering om högkontextuella förhandlingskulturer. Enligt denna klassificering innebär det att förhandlingskulturerna i fråga inte skiljer sig åt. Men det finns andra skolor som anser att det är fel. De kritiserar klassificeringen och menar att den är för generell vilket medverkar till att olikheter inte framställs.Jag ska försöka konstatera vilka av dessa motpoler som har rätt.