The purpose of this paper has been to identify which modern search functions user of Smartphones are using, why just these functions are being used, and how they have affected the way users acquire information. Modern search functions in this paper means searches that are not based on text, i.e. ways to search for information by other means than writing something into a search field. To identify this, two studies were conducted, one with a questionnaire being distributed with the help of Google Docs through social networks, and one with four interviews with users of modern search functions for Smartphones. The study showed that even though 76 % of Smartphone users are aware of at least one modern search function, only 29% uses one on a regular basis.

Uppsats för avläggande av filosofie kandidatexamen iKulturvård, Trädgårdens hantverk och design, 22, 5 hp, 2014.

With background in the acknowledgement of the current period of major change in the characteristics of traditional Swedish foreign policy, considering the membership in the European Union, as well as the new contextual scenarios that Sweden has been situated in after the end of the cold war, this thesis aims at scrutinizing the Swedish Foreign Policy from 1991 to 2010. The purpose of the thesis is further to localize continuity and change in the ideas which Sweden has explicitly stated in its foreign policy. Based on the theory of institutionalism, the thesis also aims to bring forward plausible explanations built on the main empirical findings. This has been done by identifying different types of goals and means within realism and liberalism as well as categorizing each theory within three ideal types.The chosen research method has been a qualitative text analysis with focus on an ideational analysis. The material on which the descriptive analysis is based upon is constituted by the annual statements of government policy in parliamentary debates on foreign affairs.The results of the thesis show that the ideas that are related to solidarity, consensus and active foreign policy are constant through the period of examination.

?Dom hade iaf sjuuukt tur me vädret? :)? är en språksociologisk jämförelse av hur män och kvinnor förhåller sig till den traditionella skriftspråksnormen när de bloggar. Bloggskribenternas språkbruk tolkas utifrån att det är både en del i konstruerandet och en del av konstruktionen av manlighet och kvinnlighet.Materialet består av två hundra blogginlägg från resedagboken.se. Materialet antyder tre tendenser. Den första tendensen är att totalt sett bryter män och kvinnor lika ofta mot den traditionella skriftspråksnormen.

Essay in Political Science, Advanced Course, by Christoffer Hagström?The Bush Administration´s view on international cooperation and internationallaw and political-theoretical traditions influence on the administration´s foreignpolicy?Supervisor: Jan OlssonThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the American foreign policy, particularly with regard tointernational cooperation and international law. The two following research-questions are used inorder to fulfil the purpose: (1) what is the Bush-administrations´s view of of the place forinternational cooperation and international law in American foreign policy?, and (2) how does theadministration´s foreign policy correspond to dominant political-theoretical thought-traditions? Thetraditions used are: liberalism, realism and neoconservatism. The sources of the study mostlyinclude literature and policy-documents.

This bachelor thesis? purpose is to investigate how purchase librarians work with foreign language collection management. Since about 15% of the citizens of Sweden are born abroad or have a foreign background, the subject of investigation becomes relevant because it touches a wide user group of the public library.Interviews were conducted with four librarians responsible for purchasing of foreign literature. The purpose of these interviews was to investigate which underlying strategies and thoughts are used as a basis for purchasing.Since the library act does not include guidelines regarding the content of the foreign literature collection, how is the literature chosen and to what purpose?As a theoretical framework a self-developed model was used to categorize the foreign literature into its different functions.

This study aims to find out what students think about bilingualism as well as whether there are advantages and disadvantages of it, based on the children's perspective. All children in this class are bilingual, is thus a mother tongue other than Swedish. All were born in Sweden but has parents who are originally from / born in other countries in addition to having mom who was born in Sweden but originally from another country. In my study I have chosen to use qualitative methods in which I used semi-structured interviews and non participant observations. In the study, I have come to interview the children think that being bilingual is good, they mean that there are some drawbacks to this except that it can sometimes be a bit hard when someone does not understand.

The socialdemokrats? long possession of government power from the 1930?s to 1976 gave them the opportunity to put their stamp on Swedish domestic and foreign affairs in the shadow of the cold war. The government policy in security and foreign affairs, therefore, was that of the socialdemokratic party. The stance of the government has been researched, but it lacks focus on the opposition. The purpose of this paper is to analyse Folkpartiet´s view of security and foreign affairs in comparison with government policy.

It is common today that many children in Sweden  grow up in families that speak two or several languages. Language and identity building is connected to each other. So is also Languages and learning (Becknert m. fl. 2008:13).

I modernt danskt språkbruk finns en tendens att välja icke-kongruerande form av perfektparticip istället för kongruerande i meningar som Væggene er malet och Naboerne er interesseret, så att man inte längre skiljer på verbalt och adjektiviskt perfektparticip i predikativ användning.Syftet med föreliggande undersökning var att ta reda på hur perfektparticip i predikativ användning uttalades respektive skrevs på danska, i en informantgrupp bestående av 10 informanter, varav 5 var kvinnor och 5 män. Metoden var att låta dessa informanter översätta en svensk text till danska, först muntligt och sedan skriftligt. Som komplement till min metod använde jag senare ytterligare två informanter till att lyssna på perfektparticipen i det inspelade materialet från undersökningen, för att de skulle uppge vilka former de hörde.Undersökningen visar att de manliga informanterna i större utsträckning än de kvinnliga informanterna valde den kongruerande formen av perfektparticip vid den muntliga undersökningen, trots att de inte själva var medvetna om detta. I de kvinnliga informanternas uttal var det ett uttal med [ð] som dominerade, och dessa informanter uppvisade en större medvetenhet om att både kongruerande och icke-kongruerande former av perfektparticip existerar i danska språket. I den skriftliga översättningen var det dock hos både de kvinnliga och de manliga informanterna den icke-kongruerande formen som valdes i störst utsträckning..

Unemployment amongst Swedish citizens is higher within the group which falls under the designation foreign-born. The aim of this thesis is to examine which municipal factors that can explain the differences in unemployment amongst foreign-born relative to native born.The empirical models are examined with both cross-sectional data for the year of 2010 and panel data for the years of 2002-2012. The examination is implemented through a linear regression analysis of the type Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Fixed Effect regressions. A theory section will be presented where the theory on Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate (NAIRU), theories on discrimination and country-specific human capital are illustrated.The result from the cross-sectional data shows that the amount of foreign-born, the level of foreign-born immigrated from Nordic countries have a significant negative effect on unemployment amongst foreign-born. The general unemployment shows a significant positive effect on the unemployment amongst foreign-born.

Churches are seen as one of Sweden's most valuable cultural heritage. They bear witness to a living tradition and gives us knowledge of society at large and therefore people's lives at different times. These buildings possesses a high value, which is shared by the vast majority, and they are protected by law. The concept of modern churches is in this essay the churches built after 1940, which is not covered by law. The older churches has therefore a cultural and historical value which the modern churches lack.About 600 churches are built after the year of 1940 and the total number of churches in the country is 3400.

Denna studie avser att ta reda på och skapa en bild av hur verksamma gymnasielärare i svenska kan tillämpa ett demokratimål. Frågeställningen blir således: Hur kan svensklärare uppfatta, tolka och tillämpa, att eleven "genom olika texter och medier blir förtrogen med grundläggande demokratiska [...] värden men också medveten om destruktiva krafter att reagera emot"?.

Denna rapport är en del av ett 10 poängs examensarbete och är en avslutning på en kandidatutbildning i datorgrafik med inriktning mot realistisk och interaktiv miljö för datorspel. Examensarbetet har utförts inom "Foreign Ground" - ett projekt vars syfte är att utveckla en ny typ av dialogbaserat datorspel som ska användas för beslutsträning i framtida fredsbevarande utlandsoperationer..

I denna uppsats har jag velat undersöka om de prosodiska skillnaderna mellan svenskan och franskan kan förklara de avvikelser från den franska normen som återfinns hos nästan alla svenska inlärare av franska, i det närmaste oberoende av hur länge man har studerat språket. Jag ville studera om skillnaderna kunde härledas till olikheterna mellan de båda rytmiska språktyperna stress-timing och syllable-timing, där svenskan anses tillhöra den förra och franskan den senare. I hur stor utsträckning påverkar modersmålet inlärning och produktion av ett andraspråk? Den undersökning jag har gjort syftade till att se om de rytmiska olikheterna mellan svenskan och franskan har märkbara effekter på hur betoning realiseras. Förhoppningen var att skillnaderna skulle vara särskilt påtagliga vid just betoning beroende på de skiljande realiseringssätten i franskan och svenskan.