This study centres on learning to read and Methods for teaching reading skills. The aim is to provide a survey of the concept reading skills and the Methods developed on the basis of different theories and the Methods preferred when teaching children in primary school and why. The study is based on interviews with eight teachers who are working on a dailybasis teaching Swedish in preschool class or lower primary school. The result of my study is that the majority of teachers do not use a specific method, but rather combine several different Methods, thus adapting instruction to each individual pupil. .

The aim of the study was to look at a particular work group of housing supporters, whomhave implemented two special working Methods in their work. The Methods have been implemented by two of the housing supporters that also have special education in the MethodsSOC (Sense of Coherence) and solution focused brief therapy. The study is based on anethnographic observation and analysis of documents that are used in the implementation. To analyse the information that was given at the observation and in the document I´ve used a theory which illustrates the significance of developing professions so their knowledge become legitimate. I´ve also used a theory that illustrates the importance of implementation and how it´s done at its best.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reading Methods that pedagogues, active in classes 1-3, use in the first stage of learning to read and how they consider their own choices of Methods. In the theoretical background I sort out the basic differences between synthetic and analytic Methods of acquiring the skills of reading. The analytic reading method means that the skills of reading starts with the complete text in order to later analyze the parts of the text. The synthetic method approach is based on a reading method where the parts are linked as a whole. The two Methods are considered antipodes but can also be looked upon as complements in the current governing documents.

Very often the interesting variables are explained by several underlying variables and in statistical analyses it is common to study the relationship between variables and groups of variables. Because of this multivariate analysis is commonly used in both science and industry. There are two problem with both univariate and multivariate analyses. One is when the variables are correlated. The other is when the number variables of exceeds the number of observations which makes the matrices algebra used in the analysis impossible to execute.

In recent time, agile Methods have been devoted much attention, and the concept is widely used in the IT industry in particular. An increasing number of companies are interested in this way of working. The following report is the result of a study on the ability to create value for customers in business development through the use of agile Methods. We ask what the advantages and limitations of agile Methods are in the creation of customer value. Grounded Theory and an initial literature review was used to answer this question.

Very often the interesting variables are explained by several underlying variables and in statistical analyses it is common to study the relationship between variables and groups of variables. Because of this multivariate analysis is commonly used in both science and industry. There are two problem with both univariate and multivariate analyses. One is when the variables are correlated. The other is when the number variables of exceeds the number of observations which makes the matrices algebra used in the analysis impossible to execute.

The aim of this meta-study is to present an overview of the Methods used in Master theses written at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, where all Master theses from 1999, 2004, and 2009 has been studied. The aim includes examining if there is a connection between college (Swedish term: kollegium) belonging and Methods used but also to examine and compare the qualitative and/or quantitative approaches to the Methods. In the 252 Master theses studied, 353 different choices of method are recognized. After taking note of the Methods, six categories are created in which the Methods are placed. The categories are: Interview, IR-test, Observation, Studies of Text, Survey, and Other.

This thesis describes new Methods for automatic crack detection in pavements. Cracks in pavements can be used as an early indication for the need of reparation.Automatic crack detection is preferable compared to manual inventory; the repeatability can be better, the inventory can be done at a higher speed and can be done without interruption of the traffic.The automatic and semi-automatic crack detection systems that exist today use Image Analysis Methods. There are today powerful Methods available in the area of Computer Vision. These Methods work in higher dimensions with greater complexity and generate measures of local signal properties, while Image Analyses Methods for crack detection use morphological operations on binary images.Methods for digitalizing video data on VHS-cassettes and stitching images from nearby frames have been developed.Four Methods for crack detection have been evaluated, and two of them have been used to form a crack detection and classification program implemented in the calculation program Matlab.One image set was used during the implementation and another image set was used for validation. The crack detection system did perform correct detection on 99.2 percent when analysing the images which were used during implementation.

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate two pearl growing Methods in ISI Web of Science. The Methods tested are Find Related Records FRR, an automatic service that uses bibliographic coupling, and Author Keywords AK, where searches are performed using the two first keywords from this field. Both search Methods were used on twenty initial documents and the first twenty hits were evaluated for relevance using a binary scale 0,1. The relevance criteria were based on specific information needs connected to every initial document. The measures used to evaluate the effectiveness of the search Methods were Precision at DCV=10, P10, and Uninterpolated Average Precision AP.

Keywords: ID-method, internet, security, digitzing, bank Background: The digitizing of our society continues to grow and more parts of our lives is spent on the internet. The banks are one of the institutions that is at the forefront of this development since they established themselves on a early basis. The banks meeting points have since this establishment moved from the regular bank office out on the internet. A problem that has occurred during this transfer is the possibility to positive ID a customer in a virtual world. It is essential to offer the customer Methods to identify themselves that are both safe and easy to use.

In recent time, agile Methods have been devoted much attention, and the concept is widely used in the IT industry in particular. An increasing number of companies are interested in this way of working. The following report is the result of a study on the ability to create value for customers in business development through the use of agile Methods. We ask what the advantages and limitations of agile Methods are in the creation of customer value. Grounded Theory and an initial literature review was used to answer this question.

The aim of the study was to look at a particular work group of housing supporters, whomhave implemented two special working Methods in their work. The Methods have been implemented by two of the housing supporters that also have special education in the MethodsSOC (Sense of Coherence) and solution focused brief therapy. The study is based on anethnographic observation and analysis of documents that are used in the implementation. To analyse the information that was given at the observation and in the document I´ve used a theory which illustrates the significance of developing professions so their knowledge become legitimate. I´ve also used a theory that illustrates the importance of implementation and how it´s done at its best.

This thesis takes on a broader perspective of the modern age phenomenon we call spam. One of the aims of this thesis is to present and to compare the variety of Methods used in the day-to-day fight against spam, as far they have evolved today, but also to present and discuss some alternative Methods for suggested future use. The properties of a common e-mail spam are analyzed to show how the components that make up the structure in an e-mail can be used to classify spam. Furthermore I explain the naïve Bayesian classification Methods, the signature-based method, the commonly used rule-based method and the challenge and response method and discuss these. The widespread use of blacklists is also explained and a close new variant to blacklisting, Turntide is presented and discussed.

This study presents a survey of the capital budgeting Methods used in investment decisions by selected Swedish firms. The study has a qualitative approach where the main goal is to increase the understanding of why firms use ?incorrect? capital budgeting Methods like the payback method despite the well known fact that it is one of the most faulty Methods, according to literature in business finance (Brealey. Myers). The study has specially researched the impact of company?s size, investments size, ownership structure, branch traditions and political risks influence on firms capital budgeting..

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reading Methods that pedagogues, active in classes 1-3, use in the first stage of learning to read and how they consider their own choices of Methods. In the theoretical background I sort out the basic differences between synthetic and analytic Methods of acquiring the skills of reading. The analytic reading method means that the skills of reading starts with the complete text in order to later analyze the parts of the text. The synthetic method approach is based on a reading method where the parts are linked as a whole. The two Methods are considered antipodes but can also be looked upon as complements in the current governing documents.