Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects both men and women, in homo- as well as heterosexual relationships. The most recognized form of IPV is violence against women. The proposition "Kvinnofrid" was approved by the Swedish parliament in 1998 and proposed an extensive effort to increase knowledge and awareness of IPV among occupational groups, mainly in the health care system. These professionals are also often directly involved in the care of victims of IPV. The main purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes and level of knowledge among nurses about violence in an intimate relationship.

In this essay, I intent to examine history as a school subject in Swedish compulsory school (for children aged 7-16), it contains mostly an analysis of the syllabus for history in the three latest curriculums Lgr 69, Lgr 80 and Lpo 94. The main purpose of the essay is to illuminate the development and the change history as a subject has gone through during this specific time, and my will is also to illustrate the view on knowledge and learning that is revealed in the syllabus for history in today?s curriculum (Lpo 94).The survey shows that in Swedish compulsory school, history as a subject has changed significantly. During the examined years, the contents have been exceptionally broadened and that has lead to increasing demands on the students as it has gone from being directed to the individual and its contiguous history with shorter outlooks on the rest of the world, to requiring the individual to be able to see and understand other parts of the world and different time, on the basis of it?s own history and culture.

 The purpose with my study was primarily to illuminate the students' expectations on gained knowledge during their studies at the upper secondary school Hotel- and Restaurant program, and to what extent these expectations were fulfilled. Secondarily, the purpose was to compare the students' expected and perceived knowledge with the program goals set by the Swedish government and the knowledge requirements expressed in a pilot study made by the Education council of the Hotel and restaurant business (UHR, 2007).I chose a quantative approach and I used an anonymous group enquiry among students at the Hotel- and Restaurant program at two different upper secondary schools to carry out my study.Tendencies in the result suggested that the students at the Hotel- and Restaurant program expected high knowledge level within the competence areas of Guest reception and communication, Cleaning and hygiene, Cooking of cold and hot dishes and Waiting. The expectations were not big within the areas Computers and Internet and Business economics and management.Fulfillment of expected knowledge tended to be high within the areas where the expectations were big. It might therefore be a good investment for schools to work on the student expectations to increase motivation within the low expectation areas.A confrontation of the tendencies in the result with the program goals and the competence requirements expressed in the UHR study, suggested that the upper secondary Hotel- and Restaurant education might focus some more the areas of Guest reception and communication, Beverages and Organization of banquets. Business economics and management should be given much more weight..

AbstractOur life-experiences and our background form the way we act and the activities we are involved in. The overall purpose in this thesis has been to study what habits are to be found in different activities related to the outdoors and how these habits have been developed. Hopefully this work can contribute to a better understanding of the meaning of habits in our lives and thereby play a part in a further differentiated talk about habits and knowledge in society. The background and my theoretical approach has been three views of habits:In practice these patterns of habits are not separable so this approach should be seen as a way of making the development of habits clearer. Another purpose is to study how the following concepts can be related to habits: Reflection, master-apprentice, episte?me, techne, phronesis, interest and tacit knowledge.

Aim: The aim of this thesis is to through a survey, gain information about the tenant owners knowledge concerning their own and the real estate agents rights and obligations, this to elucidate one of the factors we think play a big part in the general publics dissatisfaction about the real estate agents and the negative picture painted of them in media today. By throwing light on the assumed lack of knowledge in this area we hope to contribute to improve the information communicated to the customers so that they can feel safer when consulting a real estate agent in this matter.Our main question in this thesis is: How much knowledge does tenant owners and tenant owners to be have concerning the division of responsibilities when it comes to selling and buying a tenant owned flat and what problems can the presumed lack of knowledge in this area lead to?Method: We have used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Data has been collected through a survey which we have put together and analyzed both based on the results we got from the survey but also based on the reactions we received from the participants. The results are presented both in text and in diagrams.Result & Conclusions: The results we got from the survey indicate that the knowledge among our participants is much worse than what would be desired.

This literature study assembles current knowledge about CODD (Contagious Ovine Digital Dermatitis). The aetiology of this disease is not completely known and to obtain a manageable overview, this study aims to summarize the knowledge from published studies and shed light on the subject. Search for literature on the subject has been made in the Web of Knowledge, PubMed and Google Scholar, and has been compiled in this paper. Footrot and ovine interdigital dermatitis are differential diagnosis of CODD and they possibly have a common role in the emergence of CODD. Several studies have drawn parallels to bovine digital dermatitis.

Sexually transmitted diseases among youths is a growing problem. Generally, the knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases is relatively good, however, the risktaking among youths is great. The schools education regarding sex is often insufficient. The foundation for avoiding STD is knowledge. However, knowledge does not solve the attitude problem regarding the use of condoms.

This Master of Science thesis was completed at the Department of Machine Design at the Royal Instituteof Technology in Stockholm in collaboration with Lund Faculty of Engineering, Luleå University ofTechnology and Stanford University. At Stanford University a global product development project wasrealized as part of the course ME310. The project was initiated by the American company ImmerseGlobal whose vision was to develop a new type of Atmospheric Water Generators, a machine that absorbsthe moisture in the air and via a water system transforms it to pure drinking water. The project was partlyfinanced by the Product Innovation Engineering program, a Swedish research and development programfor increased innovation capability in organizations.In parallel with the global project in the ME310 course the product development process was studied inorder to compare it with a product development course at the Royal Institute of Technology, IPU. Thetwo courses are similar to each other in several aspects.

Att använda produktutveckling som konkurrensfördel har ökat dramatiskt de senaste tio åren. Anledningen till det kan spåras till att på 2000-talet har det skett en förändring till en mer kunskapsbaserad ekonomi, vilket har lett till att det även har blivit en förändring i när innovation typiskt sker i samband med produktutveckling. Numera sker innovation typiskt genom ständig förändring genom att kunderna får säga vad de tycker, istället för att ske vid produktionsanläggningen. Med hjälp av informationen från kunderna kan företaget sedan producera produkter som motsvarar precis kundernas behov. Därför kommer det företag som har mest kundanpassade produkter att ha störst framgång.För att involvera kunder finns det olika metoder som företagen kan använda sig av, där de metoder som tidigt involverar kunderna i produktutvecklingsprocessen förespråkas.

I dagens samhälle blir det alltmer viktigt för företag att ta tillvara på medarbetarnas kunskap och kompetens. Företagskulturen blir en viktig del i arbetet med att skapa utrymme för individernas lärande och företagets utveckling. Knowledge management är ett verktyg som underlättar arbetet med att skapa, organisera och dela medarbetarnas kunskaper.Syfte: Syftet med den här studien är att granska ett företag som arbetar med knowledge management, och se hur konceptet bidrar till kunskapsspridning och lärande. Vi vill undersöka hur Företaget har implementerat idéerna, och på vilket sätt detta påverkar de anställdas kunskap kompetens och lärande. Vidare vill vi även se vilka utmaningar som förekommer i skapandet av ett kunskapsdelande företag.Metod: Vi genomförde kvalitativa intervjuer med sex personer som alla är involverade i arbetet med knowledge management på Företaget.

I samhället finns oro över den digitala utvecklingens framfart där fokus läggs alltmer på att skapa innovation, vilket är en tillgång ur konkurrenssynpunkt men där individers behov och förutsättningar bortses från. Den snabba utvecklingen kan medföra att individer med låg förståelse och acceptans av informations- och kommunikationsteknik riskerar att hamna utanför samhället. Seniorer är den åldersgrupp vilken har benägenhet att besitta en lägre förståelse och acceptans för den digitala utvecklingen. Detta är ett aktuellt dilemma eftersom ett fungerande samhälle förutsätter att alla individer ska kunna använda sig av de samhälls- och kommersiella tjänster som finns att tillgå. Till följd därav är det oumbärligt att utveckla användbar informations- och kommunikationsteknik vilken möter slutanvändares behov och förutsättningar.

In my essay, we get to meet Olle who goes in first class. The essay takes off after school and when recreational activities have started. Olle comes running towards me to ask for help, he has gotten into trouble with three classmates and he feels unfairly treated. A true classic or normal event, which I think takes place in most schools. What I am interested in examining is how my feelings affect the whole course of events in the conflict arising.

Anton Lindberg och Daniel Lissert,studenter på programmet Innovation & Produktdesign vid Mälardalens högskola, har på uppdrag av SE AB genom Minst Innovation i Mälardalen utvecklat koncept på ett antal komponenter för en elektroniskt höj- och sänkbar vagn med användning inom begravningsbranschen.Examensarbetet bygger på tidigare produktutveckling med problemformuleringen ?att minska lyft inom begravningsbranschen?.Ett tidigare examensarbete låg även som grund för vidareutvecklingsarbetet.I detta projektbehandlas bland annat konstruktion, transportmoment i samband med dödsfall samt interaktion mellan produkt och användare med hänsyn till användningsområde.Projektet resulterade i ett koncept som uppfyller uppdragsgivarens kravspecifikation samt identifierade kundbehov. Resultatet presenteras som CAD-modell med tillhörande komponentritningar.Marknadsundersökning, kravspecifikation ochutvärderingsverktyg såsom FMEA, QFD och Pugh?s matris användes för att säkerställa kvalitet i konceptet som togs fram.Marknadsundersökningeninnehåller intervjuer, hantering och analys av omgivning.Intervjufrågor behandlade problem vid hantering av kistor och avlidna samt framkomlighet i närhet av kyrka, bårhus och äldreboende.Det insamlade underlaget möjliggjorde slutresultatet;en transportvagn med förenklade lastmöjliheter och ställbara lägen. Utvecklade delar består av lastplan, släde, handtag samt kontrollpanel.Idéer diskuterades med uppdragsgivare vid avstämningsmöten och kostnad för komponenttillverkning har tagits i beaktande.Något målvärde på kostnad har inte fastställts vilket leder till att tillverkningsmetoder och materialval kan behöva anpassas mot produktionsval.

This thesis looks at two sides of the same coin: how to support the production and future development at a specialist medical technology department at Danderyd Hospital. The two sides are; a pilot study of a product management system (PDM) and an interview based study on the characteristics of the silent knowledge of the technicians. The department (National respiratory centre, NRC) is facing retirement of several key employees.The technical study shows that the success of an implementation is largely dependent on the users? prior knowledge and use of a 3D Computer aided design system (CAD).The system itself is shown to fulfill the Lifecycle requirement of tracking the products (mostly tracheostomy tubes) but without a CAD centered workflow, some substantial education and preferably some new recruits, an implementation of the PDM system will fail. The author recommends development of the current ?low-tech? system of MS Excel and Access rather than redistribute the dependency from technician towards a complex, commercial software and its vendor.The analysis of the technicians? silent knowledge with the newly developed method, epithet for silent knowledge (ETK), shows that the longer employment time:the more differentiated technicians become in describing their work,practical knowledge are regarded higher andthe social and collective problem solving factors of the work becomes more important.Typically, it is shown that a new employee should preferably enjoy problem solving, being pragmatic and social as well as having some prior education or work experience in a CAD and/or a PDM system..

The purpose of this thesis is to study how organisations are working with repatriation of employees who have been working abroad, especially regarding how their experiences and competences are being utilised and transferred within the company. A qualitative abductive method is used, since the aim is to obtain an understanding of this phenomenon. The main source of information has been 21 interviews. The interviews were executed in two steps; a preliminary study with nine Swedish organisations was followed by our main study, containing 12 interviews with repatriates, their colleagues, and personnel employed at the International Assignment departments at Scania and Volvo. The conclusion of this thesis is that large Swedish companies, which have Swedish employees working abroad do not seem to be working with repatriation according to suggestions given by the theories, even though their performances are better than earlier research implies.