Det är vetenskapligt bevisat att IKT gynnar lärandet. Trots att det är känt sedan tidigt 70-tal tycksskolvärlden fortfarande se lärandet med hjälp av IKT som "en ny era". Syftet med den här studien äratt i första hand ta reda på varför förskolan inte hänger med i samhällsutvecklingen. Trots att storasatsningar har gjorts både materiellt och kunskapsmässigt så har det inte skett några störreförändringar. Det tycks alltså inte vara endast regeringen tillsammans med olika ansvarsposter somexempelvis KK-stiftelsen som bär skulden för en trög utveckling.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att öka förståelsen för hur organisationer som utsätts för negativ publicitet bör kommunicera med medarbetarna, för att bibehålla deras förtroende för organisationen. Vi har genomfört en kvalitativ fallstudie där vi samlat in vår empiri genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Upprättandet av en dialog är det effektivaste kommunikationsmedlet för att kommunicera med medarbetare. För stora organisationer är det svårt att upprätta en genomgående dialog på alla nivåer, och även om den i viss mån förekommer i den dagliga kommunikationen, så uppstår svårigheter när negativ publicitet ska kommuniceras på ett internt plan. Trots att begränsade resurser kan hindra optimal kommunikation vid negativ publicitet, är det viktigt att ledningen inte tiger, utan kommenterar det inträffade.

Idag saknar många landskapsarkitekter tillräcklig kunskap om hur växter ut-veck¬las, vilket gör att många planteringar inte utvecklas som man planerat. Genom att använda sig av växt¬dynamik kan planteringar bli hållbarare, få för¬bättrade sociala, biologiska och estetiska kvalitéer samt locka fler målgrupper. Syftet med uppsatsen är att presentera exempel på kunskap som krävs för att gestalta dynamiska plan¬teringar i urban miljö. Studien utgår från frågeställningen ?Hur kan man gestalta en dynamisk plantering med naturlik karaktär i en offentlig park?? I arbetet presen¬teras två planteringsförslag för en kvarterspark i industriområdet Kungsängen i Uppsala.

The numbers of natural disasters caused by extreme weather are increasing through out the world. A large majority of the research concerning the climate shows that this is a trend that can be expected to continue. At the same time the urbanisation is increasing more than ever and for the first time in history more than fifty percent of the population lives in a city. How we build these cities will have a crucial importance for our adaption to the new climate. In Sweden, our capacity for an adaption are high because of our economic situation as well as our rather well built society.

The use of ERP in organisations is very popular and many companies have embraced this paradigm without really questioning why. Problems therefore often arise and cause high costs which is a result of poor planning. The paradigm also has its origin in the traditional architectural design that creates a system that has difficulties to adapt to organizations that are constantly evolving. The purpose of this study is to provide a different view of how IT-systems can operate within an organization and show how standard systems can be structured. We emanated from a case study at Linköping University Library, where we studied the implementation and integration of a standard system called Symphony.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate and analyze how widely and intensive genderequality issues are considered within Swedish companies. Qualitative interviews werearranged with personnel managers within each company, and complemented with aquestionnaire amongst the employees. The collected information was analysed on the basis ofgender theory, organization and change theory, theory of equal opportunities and historicalstatistics. The outcome of the analysis indicates that companies find gender equality of highinterest, and important to address within the daily work. However the analysis also shows thateven though the companies find gender equality important it is only adopted within few areas,and not across all departments.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how to use remote sensing data when making a forest management plan. The main focus of the study is to compare different methods to identify forest stands of a forest property, and by manual measures and estimates try to evaluate the quality of interpreting data. This report is based on survey questions sent to five different organizations working with remote sensing data. Only two of these where willing to participate in this investigation. The organizations where asked to analyze the same forest property and divide into compartments and make estimations of volume, basal area etc. in every stand.

Modern air battles are very dynamic and fast, and put extreme pressure on pilots. In some unpredictable situations, like new discovered threats or mission plan deviation because of enemy aircraft, the pilots might need to replan their predefined flight route. This is very difficult, if not impossible, to do since numerous factors affect it. A system that can help the pilots to do such a thing is needed. Previous work in this field has involved methods from artificial intelligence like A*-search.

I detta arbete beskriver jag FMT-metoden ? Funktionsinriktad musikterapi och visar på hur den kan motsvara mål som är formulerade i grundsärskolans läroplan. Jag lyfter vid sidan av den även fram Salamancadeklarationen. Jag gör en kort beskrivning av SI-terapi ? sensorisk integrationsterapi och jämför den med FMT-metoden. Min slutsats är att metoden lämpar sig ypperligt vid arbete i såväl grundsärskolan, som i den ordinarie grundskolan.

Durban, South Africa?s third-largest city is a socially segregated post apartheid society, struggling with high unemployment and AIDS. The city becomes even more complex with a changing climate, creating an influx of people to the city, putting scarce resources under further stress. Warwick Junction, an important transport hub in the centre of Durban, holds a large site of informal trading alongside the formal markets. This informal sector generates large financial flows and provides for a rapidly growing population. The aim of this thesis is to develop an approach that is realistic and relevant to planning and design of an urban context in South Africa.

The intention of this final thesis is to examine how to create a schoolyard that inspires children at the age of 6 ? 12 years to play and give them possibility to develop. To get a lot of knowledge in this subject, I have combined studies of literature with practical studies at Hosjöskolan in Falun. During my practical studies I have done interviews, walks in the area with the children and visited other schoolyards. I have based a design proposal for the schoolyard of Hosjöskolan on these studies.

Fenomenet att betala dricks för service är ett världsomfattande fenomen. Däremot är diskussionen om den monetära belöningens inverkan på motivation gammal, kontroversiell och fortfarande olöst. Syftet med studien var att utifrån en referensram med tidigare motivationsteorier studera hur restauranganställda reflekterar kring dricks och utifrån det utröna dricksens roll för uppkomsten av motivation. Kvalitativ metod användes och sju restauranganställda intervjuades.  Intervjuerna var av semistrukturerad karaktär. Tematisk analys visade att dricks inte förefaller ha en avgörande roll för motivationen och att de intervjuade till stor del styrs av inre drivkrafter.

Literature describes what it is like to be a leader in the healthcare and what is looked upon as the most characteristic quality for female leadership. Women often use a leadership technique that motivates the employee and they allow themselves to develop a humanitarian leadership. The aim of this study was to describe female head nurses? experience of their leadership in healthcare. The collection of data has been carried out from interviews.

AimThe aim of the study is to find out if, and in that case how, the sports movement creates and reproduces norms and values regarding sex and sexuality. Questions to be answered are: Which experiences do non-heterosexual women have of everyday activities in the Swedish sports movement? How are norms on sex and sexuality visible in practice? Are there mechanisms/practices that challenge these norms? Finally, the results are discussed in relation to two policy documents from the National Organization of Sports (RF); ?Sports Wants? and ?Policy and plan of action against sexual harassment and sexual discrimination within sports?.MethodSince the aim was to understand, and not to generalize and quantify, a procedure of qualitative interviews was chosen. Ten non-heterosexual women were interviewed concerning their experiences of the Swedish sports movement. They were active (or had recently been) at different levels in the following sports: basketball, soccer, floor ball, ice hockey, bandy and volleyball.

The county administration asked LKAB to make an inventory of possibly contaminated sites caused by their mining activity. The inventory should be performed according to the MIFO model, a method from SEPA which is used to assess a contaminated site. The first phase involves collection of information through interviews and site inspections and in phase 2 a general survey with field sampling is conducted. LKAB started the work with the first phase of the survey during 2003. During this project the information collected in Phase 1 was evaluated and 16 of the sites were chosen to proceed to MIFO Phase 2 (six sites in Kiruna, and 5 sites respectively in Svappavaara and Malmberget). The sampling of these 16 sites was performed during week 27 2004.