Efter avregleringen år 1992 av de svenska kommunernas nämndstruktur har nya styr- och organisationsformer införts. En diskussion har förts om huruvida avregleringen skulle leda till likformning eller mångfald. Denna uppsats har som i svenska kommuner. Vid en jämförelse med en tidigare studies resultat kan vi se hur styr- och organisationsformernas popularitet och utbredning har förändrats. Detta gör vi för att pröva tesen om att det har skett en likformning av de svenska kommunerna under en längre tid.

The purpose with this study is to investigate funds that are environmentally friendly. Environment issues has become a large subject that affects all aspects in today?s society.  It is a global issue which has affected the awareness of environmentally friendly products and its benefits for the environment.How has this awareness affected the financial market?  In this study the authors have looked at six environmentally sound funds and six energy funds to answer the question if it´s better to have your money in traditional energy or in renewable energy.This study is made in an quantitative way, the data has been gathered from the internet database Morningstar. The energy funds have had its biggest assets in companies dealing with oil, and the environmentally sound funds have had its biggest assets in renewable energy. Bye looking at the different funds rate of return and relating that to risk managing theories of Sharpe and Treynor, the authors compared the two types of funds.During the period that was looked at during this study ( third quarter of 2007 until third quarter 2010) the energy funds outperformed the environmentally sound funds in every aspect. .

The fundamental freedoms and human rights is something the countries, and its citizens, of theEuropean Union more or less take for granted. However, in recent years these rights have become atopic of discussion in the way that a debate about the Islamic headscarves has developed. Thisdebate has resulted in that a number of countries, including France, have taken legislative measuresto ban clothing that fully covers ones face. Out of these bans a discussion has arisen concerning thefundamental freedoms and human rights. These burqa bans, as it is labeled in the pubic debate, havebeen accused to wrongfully limit the individuals freedoms and human rights.This study therefore has the aim to analyze these burqa bans in relation to the European Union,United Nations and the Council of Europe?s general declarations concerning the fundamentalfreedoms and basic human rights.The main result of this study shows that these bans in fact is not a proportionally restrict in thefundamental freedoms and human rights.

BACKGROUND: Today?s societal changes, including high rate of change and increasing information flows, are increasing the demand on the individual mental capacity. It becomes increasingly difficult to analytically process all the different dilemmas and everyday decisions as individuals have a limited mental capacity available to make these decisions. Thus, it has been suggested that ego-depleted relies more heavily on intuition, which is less burdensome, when making decision. However little is known about to what extent intuitive decisions differ from analytic.

The fundamental freedoms and human rights is something the countries, and its citizens, of theEuropean Union more or less take for granted. However, in recent years these rights have become atopic of discussion in the way that a debate about the Islamic headscarves has developed. Thisdebate has resulted in that a number of countries, including France, have taken legislative measuresto ban clothing that fully covers ones face. Out of these bans a discussion has arisen concerning thefundamental freedoms and human rights. These burqa bans, as it is labeled in the pubic debate, havebeen accused to wrongfully limit the individuals freedoms and human rights.This study therefore has the aim to analyze these burqa bans in relation to the European Union,United Nations and the Council of Europe?s general declarations concerning the fundamentalfreedoms and basic human rights.The main result of this study shows that these bans in fact is not a proportionally restrict in thefundamental freedoms and human rights.

The aim of this thesis was to examine the ways in which librarianswork to stimulate the joy of reading in boys. Four children- andschool librarians were chosen for interviews in which they wereasked questions about boys' reading and the approaches they usedto help boys. The librarians were asked if they perceived boys'reading as problematic, what methods they used to stimulate thejoy of reading and if they thought it would be helpful to work withboys and girls in different ways. They were asked what theythought was the biggest challenges in changing the boys? attitudestowards reading and what they would do if they could choosefreely without any constraints in time or money.Aidan Chambers' "The circle of reading" was used to compare atheory about reading to the ways in wich the librarians worked andtheir thoughts about how to initiate reading.

Tematiskt arbete är en ämnesintegrerande arbetsmetod som blir allt vanligare i den svenska skolundervisningen. I denna studie undersöks hur pedagoger och elever arbetar med metoden samt deras syn på densamma. Syftet med denna undersökning är att få en bild av hur pedagoger och elever upplever tematiskt arbete med fokus kring matematiken. Undersökningen har skett genom intervjuer med fyra pedagoger som alla har erfarenhet av tematiskt arbete samt fyra elever från årskurs fyra som nyligen deltagit i ett tematiskt arbete som vi själva genomförde under en treveckorsperiod. Där gavs tillfälle att på nära håll kunna följa arbetet och se dess konsekvenser.

I made this examination essay to investigate the possibilities and problems with machinery import. The rules intend to loaders and agriculture machines are still pretty flexible. It is today rather simple to make a registration or inspect those machines. There are still some practical problems to be aware of. It is very important to have the right contacts abroad, it is not always that you have time or moment to inspect the machines before purchase. In that case you have to trust your contact or partner about condition, equipment or working hours of the machine. Another important thing is payment before delivery: There is a huge risk that you do not get the machines that you paid for. If problems come up, you need to know the laws, your rights and your duties. A Swedish company does not pay any value-added taxes when it buys from another member of the European union. On the other hand must the machine be sold included value-added tax, if the buyer is a Swedish company.

New high strength steels require improved cold rolling techniques. The aim of this degree project was to develop a new and money saving cold rolling technique to manufacture steel strip for saw blades. The work is based on earlier rolling experiments made with a high carbon steel grade at LuCoil Steel AB. The work also focused on the mill requirements to cold roll high strength steels. The results show that LuCoil?s existing cold rolling mill was actually designed for rolling low carbon steel.

Datorspel och TV-spel utgör idag en betydande del av ungdomskulturen samt en viktig del av fritiden för fler och fler ungdomar. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka spelintresserade gymnasieelevers allmänna uppfattningar och attityder till användandet av kommersiella spel i undervisningen samt deras syn på vad de lär sig av sitt spelande. En webbaserad enkätundersökning genomfördes med gymnasieelever från årskurs 1-3 på IT-programmet vid ett John Bauergymnasium. Utifrån enkätsvaren framgår att en övervägande majoritet av eleverna gör kopplingar mellan sitt spelande och det egna lärandet, såväl lärande i vardagslivet som i skolan. Särskilt framträder ökade kunskaper i det engelska språket.

Vårt arbete handlar om hur elever uppfattar elevinflytande i skolan samt om de har något inflytande i skolan. Tidigare forskning har visat att elever får inflytande i skolan, fast det är oftast väldigt begränsat, om det ens existerar. Klassråd och elevråd är platser som eleverna anser att de har inflytande på. Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod med teckningar och intervjuer i vår undersökning. Det är 16 elever som är med i studien och alla går i årskurs 3.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa i vilken utsträckning valda faktorer påverkar direktavkastningen i Sverige samt att klargöra huruvida investerare kan använda faktorerna i syfte att uppnå önskad utdelningsnivå. Metoden som har använts är kvantitativt baserad, den empiriska datan är företrädesvis insamlad från databasen Six Trust, tillhandahållen av LINC vid Lunds Universitet. Angreppssättet har varit deduktivt, där teorier har testats genom multipel regressionStudien visar inte på något entydigt signifikant resultat för de undersökta variablernas förklaringsgrad på direktavkastningen. Resultatet motsäger därmed ett flertal erkända forskares tidigare resultat, däriblad kan nämnas John Lintner(1956) som menade att utdelningen i mycket stor utsträckning kan förklaras av företagens vinster, något vi inte finner stöd för. Vid prognosticering av utdelningsnivån hos svenska börsföretag bör undersökta variabler inte ligga till grund för placering..

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to explore the organizational culture within the corporation The Body Shop. I have been working with two different question formulations. The first is to answer how the culture can be described. To answer this I have been using Edgar H. Scheins theory of cultural levels.

Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på hur pedagoger tänker kring fenomenet samling. Jag ville också ta reda på hur musik skulle kunna användas i samlingar. För att ta reda på detta delades enkäter ut till olika förskolor i Malmö. Observationer genomfördes för att få exempel på hur musik kunde användas i en samling. Stor del av litteraturen har kretsat kring barns intresse, erfarenheter och aktiva barn kopplat till samlingar.

Today, literature is published in a wide variety of formats, it can be published digitally or in the more traditional paper format or as an audiobook. This thesis aims to take a closer look at fan fiction readers? reading habits and motivations for reading, as group accustomed to using different kinds of formats for their reading. It does so by analyzing fifteen responses to an online survey using only open-ended questions. The survey was posted online on fan fiction sites and could be answered anonymously.