The pupose of this study is to qualitatively study how teachers at a high school work with the schools demokratic mission under the management by objectives and what the policy document says and how the students can partcipate in different issues. My question fomulations are: What does it say in the governing documents about schools democratic mission and student influence? How do teachers concretely work to implement the values of democracy and student influence? How can the class councils used as part of the school's democratic mission? The theoretical frame of the study is about the school democracy mission and the possibilities and limits.  Futhermore a brief review of the fundamental values of the school are presented, followed by how the democratic process works.I used the qualitative analysis in order to find a lot of information about a small amount. Its strength is to convey a lot of information about a small number of observations and if the material is small in size.

ABSTRACT: Commercial swab transport systems are used for collection and transporting of fecal and other microbiological samples. This system must maintain viability and contribute to survival of microorganisms during transport to the laboratory. Four swab transport systems have been compared, eSwab, ?- Transwab and fecalSwab, all three with flocked swabs, and Copan Venturi Transystem with rayon swabs. The study followed the recommendations from the Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute; document M40-A for recovery of Samonella, Shigella, Yersinia and Neisseria gonorrhoeae after storage for 0, 6, 24, 48 and 72 h at room- (22-25°C) and refrigerated (2-8ºC) temperature.

The aim of this study is to explore local cultural policy documents in the municipality of Gothenburg Sweden, and, more specifically, to investigate the concepts of cultural planning and instrumental cultural policy. Cultural planning is in this thesis seen as a result of an instrumental view of cultural policy. The theoretical framework consists of the theories of Danish cultural policy researcher Dorte Skot-Hansen. She describes cultural policy in urban areas as founded in motives such as economy, social issues, entertaining and enlightenment. A qualitative text analysis is performed in order to see if the purpose of the cultural policies is to focus on cultural planning as formulated in the document Kulturpolitisk strategi ? version 1.0, adopted by the city council in 1998.

SyfteSyftet med denna uppsats är att tydliggöra samt klarlägga hur artister och teamenkring dessa arbetar för att bygga och bibehålla starka relationer mellan fan och artist.Fortsättningsvis vill vi även öka förståelsen kring hur fansen uppfattar denna typ avarbete för att upprätthålla relationen.Utifrån syftet har vi utvecklat följande forskningsfråga;- Vad präglar artistens och dennes medarbetares arbete med relationerna gentemotfansen?MetodVi har i denna uppsats valt att arbeta utifrån en kvalitativ ansats för att kunna samla inrelevant information från olika perspektiv och för att få en djupare förståelse förämnet. Vi har intervjuat tio olika respondenter, både fans och inflytelserika personerinom musikbranschen. Dessa har genomförts face-to-face, via mail samt över Skype.Förutom intervjuerna har vi även analyserat litteratur, artiklar och onlinekällor.SlutsatserUppsatsen sammanfattas i ett avslutande kapitel bestående av våra slutliga tankar ochen kort sammanfattning av svaret till vår forskningsfråga. I detta kapitel presenterar viatt relationen mellan artist och fan behöver vara personlig för att en artist ska kunnaskapa en varaktig lojal fanbase.

Thesis purpose: The purpose of the master thesis is to analyse the battle of meaning creation regarding the notion of smoking and to reveal the production of unequal power relations. The battle is fought by different stakeholders through means of language and the study focuses on the tobacco industry in Germany. Methodology: A critical discourse analysis is applied with a qualitative research strategy. Our data collection was inspired by grounded theory and is limited in scope through a relevant case within the context of smoking in Germany. Empirical data is collected by means of an internet based document study of publicly available texts.

Uppkomsten till denna uppsats grundar sig i ett samarbete med Luleå kommun. Då tekniken ständigt utvecklas och nya medier skapas sker förändringar i samhället. Idag är Internettjänsten Facebook vida populär i världen. Denna Internetsida är ett resultat av ändrade sätt att kommunicera och umgås för människor. Förutsättningar för marknadsföring och informationsspridning förändras också med tiden.

Abstract:Perennials in public areas have during the latest decades been more and more popular. This group of plants has become a more accepted komponent when creating pleasant public places, and people begin to see the functional aspects. Perennials do also give a colour- and senceexperience in a more detailed way than can be achieved with only trees and shrubs. One of the ojects of this essay is to give more examples of motives for using perennials in urban areas.Having in mind the increasing use of perennials, you can expect a growing need for better understading of how to create successfull perennial plantings. In spite of the increasing interest it is hard to find any written information in this subject.

One of the social services primary missions is to protect children from suffering harm. Social service work should work based on the child?s best and have the child's perspective in mind. In all cases involving children, the focus is on the child's needs and interests and is regulated in Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Both of the previous research and this study reveal the various markers that are evident in the social services handling of honor related cases.

The problem with narcotics is one of Sweden?s biggest social problems. Statistics shows thatthe number of narcotic related deaths and the numbers of heavy drug users are increasing. Thepresent narcotic policy has been questioned due to this increase. As a social worker you meetdrug users on a daily basis.

Uppsatsen syftar till att identifiera och ringa in rådande normer kring sexualitet och hur asexualitet förhåller sig till dessa. Vi har utfört kvalitativa intervjuer via mail, med individer som identifierar sig med asexualitet. Dessa intervjuer har vi analyserat för att urskilja vad diskurser kring sexualitet och asexualitet innehåller och hur de förhåller sig till varandra. Våra huvudsakliga frågeställningar är: ? Hur definieras asexualitet av respondenterna?? Vad upplever respondenterna för reaktioner från omgivningen?? Hur upplever respondenterna samhällets attityder till sexualitet och asexualitet?? Hur kan dessa definitioner och upplevelser förstås utifrån en teoretisk referensram?För att analysera empirin har vi valt ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv och ett queert förhållningssätt.

Studier inom Kriminalvården sker både med handledd undervisning ochmed distansstudier i olika studienivåer, från SFI till högskolestudier. Dennakvalitativa studie har velat ta reda på för- och nackdelar med distansstudierinom Kriminalvården. Studien har utförts med djupintervjuer av två läraresom arbetar på anstalt, samt sex distansstuderande män på anstalt. Enutbildningsansvarig har svarat på frågor via mail. Distansstudier kräverenligt denna studie stor motivation och självdisciplin.

This paper aims to investigate the systematic risk exposure of Swedish hedge funds using a modified Fung & Hsieh (2004) asset-based style factor model. The results show that the average Swedish equity hedge fund and fund of funds had a significant positive exposure to the equity market portfolio and the spread between small cap and large cap stocks (SMB) during the sample period. This is consistent with our a priori expectations and previous international studies. We do not find the expected systematic fixed-income related risk exposure for the fixed-income hedge funds and fund of funds in the sample. The empirical material used in this study is taken from a publicly available fund database maintained by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen).

With the political situation that prevails in the world, the need for contingency planning for the ecclesiastical heritage has become actualized with the aim of protecting the churches and their assets in war and armed conflicts. In accordance with Kulturmilj?lagen (SFS 1988:950) chapter 4 ? 15a, the Church of Sweden and its organizational parts are responsible for ensuring that contingency plans for the ecclesiastical heritage are established. In the legal statutes, it is not clear how this is to be carried out, who is responsible for all practical aspects or what is to be protected, something that creates gaps of knowledge regarding logistics, roles and selection. This means that there is currently a lack of principles and practice around the protection of the ecclesiastical cultural heritage, as contingency planning for cultural heritage is a fairly new phenomenon that has not been practiced in times of peace.

The purpose of this masters thesis is to examine outlines of literary history for students at upper secondary school from a gender studies perspective. Earlier theoretical work concerning outlines of literary history is sparse. There are three dissertations, but none with an explicit gender perspective. The theoretical approach comes mainly from theories in literary historiography and gender research. Also discussed are the following concepts: canon, literary field and literary valuation.

Swedish law (SOL 2001:45, LVU 1990:52) has gone through several changes to promote participation. The law also includes that young people should be able to participate even during a placement at youth detentions.  The aim of this study is to describe how young people at youth detentions are participated in their treatment plans. The questions of the study were: How and where are the young opinions produced in their treatment plans; how did the opinions change during the time in detention; and how have the opinions been considered at youth detentions? Participation is a wide concept with different meanings. The meaning of participation in this study is that youth have been listened to and that their opinions have been paid attention to.