The aim of the study was to examine the impact of the use ofTalking Mats in group conversations with preschool children. Two preschoolteachers and eight preschool children, aged 4-5, took part in one of twoconversational groups with one teacher and four children in each group. Thegroups were video-taped during four group conversations on two topics, withand without the use of Talking Mats. The amount of time for each child inthe conversation was calculated, the child?s communicative contributionswere coded and thereafter the extent to which their views were noticed wasanalyzed.

The purpose of the study was to examine if Talking Mats® couldsupport communication and participation for people with Huntington?sdisease, carers and a dental hygienist in conversation about oral care. Elevendyads, a person with Huntington's disease and a carer, participated.Conversations with and without mats were video recorded and compared.Each participant responded to a questionnaire about how they experiencedthe conversations. Analysis with Effectiveness Framework of FunctionalCommunication showed that two participants increased their communicativeeffectiveness using Talking Mats®. Feelings of participation increased forall participants and were significantly higher for participants withHuntington's disease.

The purpose of the study was to examine how TalkingMats® canbe used to support communication in a group of people with aphasia. Fourpeople with aphasia and their group leader participated. Comparison wasmade between group discussion with and without Talking Mats. Theparticipants used one Talking Mat each. The group discussions werevideotaped and analysed.

Maja åker hiss med Mats, en granne. När hissen fastnar visar sig Majas klaustrofobi och Mats behöver snabbt lära sig hur man hjälper henne bäst.Ellinor har en älskare som inte är intresserad av något riktigt förhållande. Den smärtsamma processen att inse detta vecklar ut sig..

I mitt examensarbete gör jag en jämförande studie mellan två verk av glasformgivarna Bertil Vallien som arbetar på Åfors glasbruk och Mats Jonasson som arbetar för Målerås glasbruk. Den frågeställning som jag har valt är: ?vad kommunicerar verken?? och ?varför ser de så olika ut??. För att ta reda på det har jag använt mig av Bourdieus teorier om de olika kapitalen. Att deras verk ser så olika ut beror på de olika platser med sina respektive kulturer som de har växt upp med.

Sleep is essential for all mammals and they all have different sleep patterns. Wild horses normally spend 2-8.5% of a 24-hour period in recumbent position while stabled horses lie down 11-20%. To fulfil the need of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep the horse must lie down with support against the ground for the head. The lying behavior can be affected by external stimuli such as age, food intake, bedding materials and if the horses feel safe or not. This study investigates the lying behavior of horses on different bedding materials; wood shavings and filled rubber mats (HIT SoftBed®).

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the function of TalkingMats in a group of people with Huntington?s disease, with main focus on theeffectiveness of communication. Four individuals with Huntington?s diseaseand their group leader participated in the study. The group was videotapedduring four sets of conversations; two with and two without Talking Mats.

Cecilia Österholm: Improvisation i folkmusik? En svensk folkmusiker improviserar: Mats Edén i Norafjälls. C-uppsats. Institutionen för musikvetenskap, Uppsala universitet, vt 2004.Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur improvisation kan utformas i svensk instrumental folkmusik. Undersökningsobjektet är en låt, spelad av Mats Edén, verksam inom svensk folkmusik.

Sja?lvreglering inom olika marknader a?r inte na?gon ny ide?, utan har funnits under la?ng tid i Sverige och internationellt. Sja?lvreglering ga?r i korthet ut pa? att pa? frivillig grund skapa normer som pa? olika sa?tt sa?krar kvaliteten fo?r producerade varor och tja?nster. Det kan till exempel handla om etiska regelverk och rekommendationer fra?n branschorganisationer.

Den tekniska utvecklingen i samha?llet ga?r fortare och fortare frama?t. Idag a?r det inte ovanligt att mobiltelefonerna anva?nds fo?r att go?ra banka?renden, hantera e-post och vara aktiv pa? sociala medier. Tekniker och lo?sningar som utvecklas ska vara kostnadseffektiva och anva?ndarva?nliga, men a?r detta pa? bekostnad av informationssa?kerheten? Fra?gesta?llningar som har besvarat handlar om vilka sa?rbarheter i tekniken som angripare kan utnyttja fo?r att ta sig in i en telefon, hur det uppta?cks och vilka proaktiva a?tga?rder som kan implementeras.

Anva?ndandet av internet i mobiltelefonen har o?kat drastiskt de senaste a?ren och detta fenomen inneba?r att ma?nniskor har tillga?ng till internet i sto?rre utstra?ckning a?n fo?rut. De svenska bankerna har tagit tillvara pa? denna trend genom att utveckla mobila bankapplikationer da?r de erbjuder sina kunder mo?jligheten att utfo?ra banka?renden med hja?lp av mobiltelefonen. A?ven om fo?rdelarna med denna tillga?ng a?r ma?nga, finns det a?nda? vissa nackdelar.

Det finns i management control-litteraturen en efterfra?gan pa? studier som tar ett helhetsperspektiv pa? styrsystem (Management Control Systems, MCS) och som fo?rklarar hur dessa system bidrar till effektivitet hos organisationer. Utifra?n ett contingency-synsa?tt underso?ker vi i denna studie hur kulturell styrning och prestationsma?tning som delar av MCS, tillsammans med den kontextuella variabeln osa?kerhet i omgivningen, pa?verkar hur effektiva organisationer a?r. Vi antar en systemansats och o?nskar studera relationen mellan fler variabler, och da?rfo?r tilla?mpas en klusteranalys da?r datamaterialet delas in i grupper med liknande karakta?ristika.

De stora livsmedelskedjorna sta?ller krav pa? sina leveranto?rer att de ska vara certifierade enligt na?gon av kvalitetsstandarderna som finns inom livsmedelsbranschen. Standarderna a?r relaterade till kvalitet, produktsa?kerhet och miljo?. Fo?r leveranto?rerna inneba?r detta att de ma?ste vara certi- fierade fo?r att vara en akto?r pa? marknaden, samtidigt som det fo?r dem bidrar med en o?kad image och trova?rdighet gentemot ko?paren.

The purpose of this work is to explore how to work with early reading and writing and find out what really comes first of the two. The work also involves the best known literacy learning methods and deals with methods to work around reading and writing. I have read previous research on the subject and watched a movie from our AV-central on children?s early language development. It includes an interview with two professors of education, Mats Myrberg and Mats Ekholm where they talk about the pros and cons of early learning literacy. My research is based on literary sources and interviews with educators who work with reading and writing in the early years. The results showed that even if a teacher tries to work with early writing skills we still remain in the traditional school, beginning with learning how to read.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine posts on bookblogs about the book, Cirkeln by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren and see how it has distributed amongst readers through social media and reader response. We want through this examine whether bookblogs have a place in the literary society, and in such cases, how this may take place. The Swedish Online bookshops Adlibris and Bokus is being used to find the blogposts to be examined in this thesis. The analysis is being implemented using content analysis and constructed encoding schemes. Interdisciplinary topics, like LIS and sociology of literature may have similar points of contact, which we want to highlight with this thesis.