The history of books and libraries in the Philippines starts after the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521. During the Spanish era, most of the libraries were established through the religious orders to support their own religious mission. The Americans came in the beginning of the 20th century and have had a decisive influence on the education system and the development of libraries in the Philippines. For the analysis, I have used the models of Michael H. Harris and Magnus Torstensson in their studies of library development.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to describe and analyse the origin and development of the municipal library of Västervik. There have been four previous libraries and our examination starts in 1859 with the foundation of a parish library. The other forerunners were a working-class movement library and two libraries in the International Orders of Good Templars. Before the merger of the libraries there were discussions in the municipal council, among the working-class movement and in the IOGT.

Denna rapport analyserar hur små tillverkande företag arbetar med affärsutveckling och hur det påverkar lönsamhet och tillväxt. Examensarbetet ingår som ett delprojekt i forsknings- och utvecklingsprojektet Business Navigator[1] som syftar till att ta fram ett koncept för ett IT-stöd som kan fungera som färddator för små och medelstora företag i deras affärsutveckling. Syftet med examensarbetet är ta fram underlag för att analysera om det kan vara en möjlighet för Sparbankerna och Swedbank att erbjuda sina små företagskunder stöd i deras affärsutveckling. En extern part i styrelsen är närliggande det arbetssätt som bankerna skulle kunna erbjuda och finns redan infört idag, dvs det finns exempel på att bankpersonen agerar affärsutvecklare till kund- eller andra företag. Därför analyseras hur en extern part i styrelsen påverkar ett företags affärsutveckling.Det visar sig bland annat att de företag där ledningen lägger tid på affärsutveckling i genomsnitt har dubbelt så hög lönsamhet jämfört med de företag där ledningen inte lägger tid på affärsutveckling.

AimThe purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between off-ice horizontal jump tests and on-ice skating among students at hockey high schools. Questions: What is the association between the performance on horizontal jumps and skating 10 meters standing start among students in Swedish ice hockey high schools? What is the association between the performance on horizontal jumps and skating 10 meters flying start among students in Swedish ice hockey high schools?MethodStudents at three ice hockey high schools in the Stockholm area participated in the study. Two schools were national approved sports educations and one at lower level. All 50 students (41 at national approved sports educations and 9 lower level) that were included in the study were men and went year one and two in gymnasium.

AimThe purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between off-ice horizontal jump tests and on-ice skating among students at hockey high schools. Questions: What is the association between the performance on horizontal jumps and skating 10 meters standing start among students in Swedish ice hockey high schools? What is the association between the performance on horizontal jumps and skating 10 meters flying start among students in Swedish ice hockey high schools?MethodStudents at three ice hockey high schools in the Stockholm area participated in the study. Two schools were national approved sports educations and one at lower level. All 50 students (41 at national approved sports educations and 9 lower level) that were included in the study were men and went year one and two in gymnasium.

The rural development programme is a tool for promoting sustainable development in the Swedish countryside. The master plan should, for example, give directions for the national interest and describe how it will follow up national and regional targets such as the EU's environmental quality standards. Because the municipality has considerable freedom to formulate the plan in its sole discretion, and that it contains the municipality's political vision, it is also feasible to make a discourse analysis of the plan text.In discourse analysis, including articles and documents written by Rural Network Working Group on land use planning to be included. The purpose of discourse analysis is to see if there are differences in the way rural areas are described and if there are any flaws in how the designer interprets the rural development programme. Furthermore, the analysis result in tools that are adapted to the standards we create and choose.The standards we have are being designed based on our values, which differ.

AimThe purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between off-ice horizontal jump tests and on-ice skating among students at hockey high schools. Questions: What is the association between the performance on horizontal jumps and skating 10 meters standing start among students in Swedish ice hockey high schools? What is the association between the performance on horizontal jumps and skating 10 meters flying start among students in Swedish ice hockey high schools?MethodStudents at three ice hockey high schools in the Stockholm area participated in the study. Two schools were national approved sports educations and one at lower level. All 50 students (41 at national approved sports educations and 9 lower level) that were included in the study were men and went year one and two in gymnasium.

There are no general working processes that can stand for how all the investment process is preceded in the organization of major Swedish banks. It is not a question of investment process but rather a question of, investment processes. How these investment processes operates depends totally on the type and size of the current investment, which unit that is operating the processes and what situation the bank currently finds itself in. There is a written form that describes how the different processes should be operated and which capital budget models that should be used but the usage of these forms can be questioned..

The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on a present trend of professionalization in Swedish local environmental politics, which have recently seen a decline in active participation of the citizens in favor of an increased governmental regulation. With the aim to closer investigate this relatively new phenomenon, the paper is a qualitative single case-study of environmental policies in the Swedish municipality of Karlskrona. In this case, the municipality is obviously balancing between regarding the interests of the national level and the interests of its own citizens at the same time. This motivates the use of system-theory, and relates to the classical political paradox between participation and efficiency which is also a present theme in the paper.This text-analysis based on interviews with personnel and documents from the municipality shows a visible trend of professionalization in the local politics of the municipality of Karlskrona, from a large grade of participation and a strong bottom-up approach in the days of Agenda 21 to now being more strongly top-down defined by national environmental objectives and principally operated on a professional level..

The aim of this study is to examine if library and archive will meet professionally in digitization projects. The study has been conducted as a discourse analysis in accordance with the methods of Norman Fairclough, professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. The texts are seen as linguistic and semiotic elements of social events that can be analyzed as parts of the social process ? discourse. The relationship between events and structures in society will be part of the social practice.The basic data derive from five public documents collected from Swedish government agencies.

This essay focus on the European Union and its democracy both from a national perspec­tive and from an international perspective. Furthermore, the essay center on the con­cept of democratic deficit, this in order to study the European Union´s status regarding the democratic legitimacy. This study intends to nuance the problems that previous research and previous researchers have de­fined as democratic deficits in the European Union and ends up in conducting a textual anal­ysis of the latest European Union treaty, the Lisbon Treaty.The aim is that by using previous research on the democratic deficit in the European Union examine whether the Lisbon Treaty has enhanced the EU's position regarding democratic legitimacy. In other words, my study aims to identify what the deficit is and if it exists.The results show that the Lisbon Treaty has been trying to improve the democratic legitimacy and that some practical adjustments have been made, but it also show that there is much that still can be improved before citizens have full democratic rights..

Bakgrund: Framtidens bank måste arbeta mot att få mer lojala kunder då framtagandetav nya produkter och strävan efter ökad kostnadseffektivitet inte längre räcker.Eftersom banker endast kan uppnå lönsamhet först efter upprepade köp är det viktigt attkartlägga bakomliggande faktorers betydelse för den privata bankkonsumentens lojalitetsett till dess finansiella beteende och behov i olika åldrar.Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att kartlägga hur den privata bankkundens lojalitet varierarvid olika åldersintervall samt hur bakomliggande faktorers betydelse för lojalitet skiljersig åt vid olika åldersintervall.Avgränsningar: Vi har valt att avgränsa vår studie till en svensk miljö och den privatabankkonsumenten. Vi avser inte att undersöka bankernas arbete för att styrka lojalitetenhos konsumenten och vi vill heller inte utreda om det finns tidigare okända faktorer somkan kopplas till lojalitet inom bankbranschen.Resultat: De bakomliggande faktorernas betydelse för lojalitet skiljer sig inte åt i olikaåldersintervall i den privata bankkonsumentens liv. Varje faktor påverkar docklojaliteten olika mycket beroende på vilket åldersintervall som den privatabankkonsumenten befinner sig i. Vid samtliga åldersintervall är klagomål den faktorsom har störst betydelse för den privata bankkonsumentens lojalitet, följt avkundnöjdhet, prisvärdhet, servicekvalitet och produktkvalitet. Vidare visar våra resultatatt bankernas klagomålshantering inte fungerar.

The artist Pehr Hilleström has been credited as the founder of the Swedish genre painting. In the second half of the 18th century he began painting everyday subjects of the different social stratums. Today his paintings are noted for their way of showing us the culture of the time since the photograph still had still not been introduced.   Hilleström was a court painter for King Gustav III who wanted him to depict the Swedish people and their different costumes. The king thought the costumes were of great significance for their psychological impact on people and therefore used them as a way to unite the nation psychologically, both by the genre paintings and also by making a national costume. The costumes were used as a symbol of an unbroken tradition and national heritage.

Since 1979 when homosexuality no longer was classified as an illness the Swedish authorities have been working on increasing the LGBTQ community?s rights and living conditions. How is this work reflected within the Cultural heritage sector, especially since the adoption of Agenda 2030. The purpose and goal of this study is to examine whether the cultural heritage sector actively works to include the LGBTQ perspective in their preservation work by using a quantitative method. Through a document analysis and a survey, it examines this on a national, regional and local level within ?sterg?tland county and its 13 municipalities. The study shows that at a national level there are no specific strategies for working inclusively with an LGBTQ perspective in cultural heritage, however, there is almost always a general level where concepts such as equality, gender equality, inclusion and intersectionality are mentioned.

I ekonomin finns kognitivt och strukturellt socialt kapital och när detta är otillräckligt uppkommer fattigdom. Med utgångspunkt i läran om mänskligt beteende analyseras mikrokreditens värde som socialt kapital genom en fallstudie av Grameen Bank i Bangladesh. Ekonomi skapas av socialt kapital som består av kognitivt och strukturellt socialt kapital. Kognitivt socialt kapital formar de handlingsregler, det vill säga institutioner, som utgör de ekonomiska möjligheterna inom ett land, det strukturella sociala kapitalet överför det kognitiva sociala kapitalet genom nätverk som upprätthåller institutionerna. Österrikisk ekonomisk teori betraktar ekonomin som en lärprocess som kräver ständig revidering, där entreprenörerna på marknaden skapar kapitalkombinationer baserade på subjektiv kunskap och förväntningar.