Advertising is something that we get in touch with on a daily basis and more or less everywhere. Advertising is used in different mediums, such as magazines, television, radio, internet, cellphones et.c. The aim of the present study is to find out if there are any recurrent dissimilarities how advertising is constructed among the mediums regarding rhetorical and semiotical theories. Two different mediums have been chosen for a comparison, printed advertisments versus internetbanners. The study has been based on a total of ten qualitative image analyses.

Facial expressions are a part of our body language that helps us to clarify the verbal communication between humans. We use our facial expressions every day, both consciously and unconsciously, to express emotions and attitudes depending on the situation. The hypothesis of the study is: Given a facial expression, how well can Microsoft Kinect, as an input method, determine a person?s feelings with the two algorithms Naive Bayes and Sequential Minimal Optimization? The feelings are limited to happy, sad, surprised and disgusted. With the help of Kinect, a person?s facial data, both coordinates of the face and parameterized data, were saved and used for machine learning.

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to test for the existence of Capital Structure Arbitrage oppertunities in the equity-credit markets. Methodology: The mispricing of Credit Default Swap contracts are calculated and used as input in an Equity-Credit market trading strategy. The returns are then evaluated with a modified Value-at-Risk simulation. Theoretical perspectives: A Merton-based structural model, CreditGrades, is used for credit pricing and a mispricing-convergence trading-strategy between the credit and equity markets is implemented. Empirical foundation: Daily quotes for the Credit Default Swap spread of 37 European firms were collected for a period of two years, as well as equity-prices for the same period and the previous two years, used for model calibration.

This one-year master's thesis investigates the late part of the Middle Neolithic on the island of Gotland. This thesis has been written without the influence of a singular theoretical pespective, and has therefore seen input from the processual, and postprocessual theories. By using several perspectives, an attempt is made to view the material remains used in the most objective manner possible. The specific aim of this thesis is to investigate whether the Mid-Neolithic inhabitants of Gotland were a part of the Corded Ware culture (or as it is called in Sweden, the Battleaxe culture or the Boataxe culture). Most recent literature has concluded that Gotland was never a part of the Battlexe culture, though this thesis has discovered many parallels with the mainland culture, including the production of similar objects and ritual practices.

In this bachelor thesis a complete prototype of an industrial vibration measurement platform has been developed. By measuring a number of variables such as acceleration, temperature and speed conclusions can be drawn on machinery health. The aim is to evaluate hardware and software solutions for a possible future product. Based on a requirement specification a proper hardware design has be developed. The hardware consists of a four-layer PCB with an ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller and about 250 other components. The PCB was designed, assembled, tested and finally housed in a box.

In the coming years, organic food waste will be collected in the region of Gästrikland, Sweden. The collection is planned to cover the entire region by the end of year 2007. To start with, smaller amounts are being collected and transported to a central composting plant in Sala. However, a central composting plant in the region of Gästrikland is projected.The objective of this thesis is to evaluate a number of possible methods for composting of organic food wastes regarding their environmental impacts and localization.There are four scenarios for future composting of organic waste that have been evaluated. There are two that consist of membrane composting, either in Sala or in the region of Gästrikland.

This report describes a final thesis done during the spring of 2008 as part of the bachelor degree in computer engineering degree at the School of Engineering in Jönköping.The client is working in the consulting business and is involved in, amongst others, work regarding information security. Within this field they perform so called Threat, Risk and Vulnerability assessments. Today these assessments are done by a predefined method, but many details are controlled by the person documenting the project. A wish was made that the implementation was standardized, it should also ease the task of estimating the need for time and money. The solution for this seems to be a software tool.

I l?roplanen f?r f?rskolan kan man l?sa att ?Barnen ska erbjudas en stimulerande milj? d?r de f?r f?ruts?ttningar att utveckla sitt spr?k genom att lyssna till h?gl?sning och samtala om litteratur och andra texter.? (L?roplan f?r f?rskolan, Lpf?, 2018 s. 8). Syftet med den h?r studien ?r att unders?ka f?rskoll?rares uppfattningar av h?gl?sning med boksamtal som medel f?r att berika och fr?mja barns spr?kliga f?rst?else i f?rskolan och vidare vad f?rskoll?rare ser som gynnsamma didaktiska strategier. Unders?kningen ?r kvalitativ och bygger p? intervjuer av f?rskoll?rare.

This thesis is a product development project that was performed at Alfa Laval Tumba AB. In the past Alfa Laval have manufactured gas separators for engines where gas flows were cleaned from oil. A new business area for this kind of technology has shown to be the manufacturing industry where oil mist has to be separated from the vented air. Therefore a new and bigger design is needed to be able to handle the greater gas flows. A product like that would be a strong competitor on the market when the maintenance would be low in comparison to today?s equipment.During the project several concept suggestions were developed using customer interviews and research as input.

Bakgrund: N?jesparker, som Liseberg med ?ver 2,2 miljoner bes?kare ?rligen, ?r v?xande turistattraktioner med stor potential. De bidrar till h?llbarhet genom sociala, milj?m?ssiga och ekonomiska initiativ men st?r inf?r utmaningar som s?songsberoende, s?kerhetskrav, teknologiska f?rv?ntningar och personalhantering. N?jesparker beh?ver ?ven hantera stora m?ngder avfall, energi- och vattenf?rbrukning samt resursintensiva byggnationer.

Tången 2 is a building situated in Stockholm, Sweden. It´s built in the 1930s and contains both residences and businesses. The property owner, Diligentia AB, wants to lower the energy use in Tången 2. This report consists of an energy audit which clarifies the specific circumstances linked to Tången 2. Collected knowledge is then used, together with the results from the literature study, to decide energy measures to proceed with.

Studiens syfte är att identifiera åtgärder, som de gotländska lantbrukarna kan vidta för att överbygga hindren och utnyttja möjligheterna för en ökad produktionsvolym av grisar på ön. De hinder och möjligheter, som omfattas av studien, är av varjehanda slag ? kostnads- och intäktsposter, företagsledning i bred bemärkelse (vilken är överordnad de olika ekonomiska nyckeltalen) samt olika ?mjuka? variabler av psykologisk och social karaktär (vilka är överordnade företagsledningsförmågan). Studien bygger på tre teorier, nämligen nätverksteori, teorier om företagsledning samt teorier om regional utveckling. Med dessa teorier som grund formuleras ett antal hypoteser, från vilka frågor härleds till den intervjuguide som används vid intervjuerna. Det empiriska materialet samlades in i tre omgångar.

We live in a stressful world and a demanding society where the ability to quickly adapt is one of the most important and most difficult challenges of today. A fairly new phenomenon called intranets has evolved to meet this challenge, however many examples of corporative intranets are stories about failures and systems with poor usability. This study focuses on how the user oriented approach to systems design affected upon a system development process of an Intranet, solely developed within a company, and how it impacts on the intranets popularity among the employees in the company. The study starts not from the literature but from a survey, which is based upon the Delphi method. Which results were used for further in-depth research about the subject, by interviewing three representatives from the company.

AbstractIt is unclear how L2 students acquire vocabulary ? how is it taught ? or wheather it can even be taught. In an SSL (Swedish as second language) program for young adults the ambition has been to integrate the L2 students? into the national high school (gymnasium) courses as quickly as possible, in order to meet the students? demands for subject education and to challenge them on an appropriate knowledge level. Teachers noticed quite early that the course ? integrated L2 students seemed to have a deeper understanding of words and an easier flow in their speech.

Flera forskare lyfte att f?rskolan har stora m?jligheter att arbeta f?rebyggande och h?lsofr?mjande med barns psykiska h?lsa. Trots detta visade Folkh?lsomyndigheten i ?rsrapporter att den psykiska oh?lsan g?r l?gre ner i ?ldrarna och att k?tiderna till barn- och ungdomspsykiatrin v?xt. Det framkom att det fanns en kunskapslucka kring barns psykiska h?lsa och oh?lsa inom f?rskolans kontext och forskare ans?g att barn befinner sig i milj?er och grupper som inte alltid ?r sj?lvvalda.