In this thesis, a case study of Kungens Kurva in Stockholm is made. The municipality of Huddinge has designated the area, which is an external shopping-center, as one of its key development areas in the future. The municipality has established a future vision for the area, which extends until 2030. The vision claims, inter alia, that Kungens Kurva along with Skärholmen will become a vibrant suburb. How well the values and aims of the vision are met in the current area situation is discussed in the case study by a number of analysis that carries out the existing structures and characters of the area.

The purpose of this thesis is to study the usage of and attitudes towards electronic books among graduate and PhD students at Karlstad University. The main questions are: How do graduate and PhD students use electronic books? To what extent are electronic books used compared to printed books? To find the answers, a user study was carried out at Karlstad University library. The results show that a majority of the respondents are aware of the possibility to use electronic books but prefer to use printed ones if they have to choose. Many respondents also complained about difficulties reading a text on the computer screen.

I en va?rld av smartphones och la?splattor i ha?nder pa? folk i alla a?ldrar a?r kraven pa? webbplatser ho?gre a?n de var fo?r sju a?r sedan. Trots detta a?r det ma?nga som inte anpassat sin webbplats fo?r att ackommodera fo?r det. Denna studie riktar sig till att o?ka anva?ndarupplevelsen pa? den mobila webbplatsen fo?r Karlstad Golfklubb.!Problemet som studien har avsett att lo?sa, a?r bristen pa? anva?ndarva?nlighee och fo?rho?jda upplevelser hos golfare pa? mobilanpassade webbplatser.

Specialpedagogens roll i skolutveckling. Från vision till vardag. Syftet med vårt arbete är att undersöka specialpedagogens roll när det gäller skolutveckling, utifrån ett skolledarperspektiv. Vi vill undersöka i vilka typer av skolutvecklingsfrågor specialpedagogisk kompetens efterfrågas. Vi har därför valt att intervjua tio rektorer, för att få deras syn på hur de använder sig av den specialpedagogiska kompetensen. Resultatet av vår undersökning visar att det finns ett stort behov av specialpedagogisk kompetens inom skolutvecklingsområdet. Visionen om en skola för alla ställer nya krav på de verksamma inom skolan.

Begreppet ?fickpark? är en direktöversättning från det engelska ordet ?pocket park?vilket för det mesta syftar på en liten park med mycket innehåll. Det är ett relativt nytt begrepp inom den svenska planeringen. Den kommun som i Sverige jobbat mest aktivt med fickparker är Enköping. Parktypen kan vara användbar i takt med att städerna förtätas.

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to examine whether the individual influence at the working place leads to the perception of decreased stress. Also I looked at whether stress and individual influence is affected by the employees age, sex or employment years. Previous research shows that individual influence decreases stress but strangely enough do the research show that individual influence seem to decrease in today?s work environment. This research is quantitative with questionnaires, answered by 74 civil servants working in a department in the municipality of Karlstad.

During Spring semester 2011, Linda Engstrom and Malin Heder performed ?Golden Ratio?, a thesis which included 22.5 hp. The thesis followed the syllabus for the Degree Project for degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering (MSGC12) which was a unit in the Innovation and Design Engineering program within the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.The client was Crem International AB, a company located in Åmotfors that develops the design, manufactures and markets coffee machines. The supervisor at the company has been Peter Larsson and supervisor at Karlstad University has been Monica Jakobsson. Examiner for the thesis has been Professor Fredrik Thuvander at the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.Crem International AB controls a patent, representing a new technology to streamline and minimize use of energy during the coffee preparation and results in a good coffee quality.

Alla drömmer om att komma bort från vardagen även om det bara är för några timmar. När en person betalar för en upplevelse vill denne ha tid att njuta av flera minnesvärda händelser som erbjuds av ett företag, och som berör personen på ett personligt sätt. Karlstad CCC är en tillflyktsplats där gäster kan få energi och drömma sig bort för en kväll, genom bland annat en minnesvärd föreställning. Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva gästens upplevelse under en föreställning på Karlstad CCC. Denna upplevelse ska analyseras genom observationer, intervjuer, enkätundersökningar och experiment.

Vatten är ett livsviktigt livsmedel och tillgång till dricksvatten av god kvalitet betraktas av många som en självklarhet i vårt samhälle. Trots detta är vattenförsörjningen sårbar. Vattenförsörjningen kan störas genom på många olika sätt. Bland dessa finns mikrobiologisk förorening, förorening på grund av en farligt gods olycka och sabotage. Vattenburen smitta är, enligt livsmedelsverket, den allvarligaste akuta hälsorisken förknippad med dricksvatten.

I have been studied Microsoft SharePoint on behalf of Prevas in Karlstad.The purpose of my work was to see if Microsoft SharePoint was what Prevas wanted as a replacement for the existing intranet, which they are not satisfied with today.My work was a kind of foundation for Prevas so they could make a decision in this matter.The work began with installing SharePoint at one single server at Prevas. We used a virtual technology (VMware) at the installation, which can be described as that we created two ?miniservers? in a bigger server, one for SharePoint and the other for storing the information. This kind of technology is strongly advancing. The main work consisted of setting up the structure for the navigation and designing both the portal and the local homepage for Prevas Karlstad.

The usage of visions and strategies is something that helps an organisation to create an imaginary scenario and guide them of how to realize these goals. During the years of 2006-2008 Region Gotland presented a document that was supposed to show the region's visions. The theoretical framework of this thesis is based on the stakeholder theory, Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and Management Control Systems Package (MCS). Personal interviews were conducted within the organisation Region Gotland, with individuals whom are directly linked to the visions and strategies of the organisation. The purpose of this study is to clarify the concepts of vision and strategy, and what their impact is on the organisation's work on the operation level.

During Spring semester 2011, Linda Engstrom and Malin Heder performed ?Golden Ratio?, a thesis which included 22.5 hp. The thesis followed the syllabus for the Degree Project for degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering (MSGC12) which was a unit in the Innovation and Design Engineering program within the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.The client was Crem International AB, a company located in Åmotfors that develops the design, manufactures and markets coffee machines. The supervisor at the company has been Peter Larsson and supervisor at Karlstad University has been Monica Jakobsson. Examiner for the thesis has been Professor Fredrik Thuvander at the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.Crem International AB controls a patent, representing a new technology to streamline and minimize use of energy during the coffee preparation and results in a good coffee quality.

During Spring semester 2011, Linda Engstrom and Malin Heder performed ?Golden Ratio?, a thesis which included 22.5 hp. The thesis followed the syllabus for the Degree Project for degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering (MSGC12) which was a unit in the Innovation and Design Engineering program within the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.The client was Crem International AB, a company located in Åmotfors that develops the design, manufactures and markets coffee machines. The supervisor at the company has been Peter Larsson and supervisor at Karlstad University has been Monica Jakobsson. Examiner for the thesis has been Professor Fredrik Thuvander at the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.Crem International AB controls a patent, representing a new technology to streamline and minimize use of energy during the coffee preparation and results in a good coffee quality.

During Spring semester 2011, Linda Engstrom and Malin Heder performed ?Golden Ratio?, a thesis which included 22.5 hp. The thesis followed the syllabus for the Degree Project for degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering (MSGC12) which was a unit in the Innovation and Design Engineering program within the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.The client was Crem International AB, a company located in Åmotfors that develops the design, manufactures and markets coffee machines. The supervisor at the company has been Peter Larsson and supervisor at Karlstad University has been Monica Jakobsson. Examiner for the thesis has been Professor Fredrik Thuvander at the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.Crem International AB controls a patent, representing a new technology to streamline and minimize use of energy during the coffee preparation and results in a good coffee quality.

The purpose of this study is to investigate and describe what factors are most important to students when choosing training center, and how these factors affect the choice of each training center. We investigated this by performing a qualitative research and a quantitative survey of students at Karlstad University that trains at Friskis & Svettis and Sats in Karlstad. The results show that there are a number of important factors in the total customer experience that affects a student's choice of training center and that they also differ between a premium center and basic center. Our conclusion is that when a total customer experience concept consists of a core, core experience and peripheral experiences well linked into each other competitive advantages is created, resulting in more satisfied and loyal customers. .