Examensarbetet ger en bild av både lärares och forskares syn på matematiksvårigheter samt deras uppfattning om orsakerna bakom problemen. Vi har undersökt vilka områden i matematiken som elever med matematiksvårigheter har mest problem med samt hur läraren förklarar och underlättar matematiken för dessa elever. Både forskningen och de lärare vi intervjuat är överens om att begreppet matematiksvårigheter är väldigt komplext. Orsakerna kan vara av medicinsk/neurologisk, psykologisk, sociologisk och didaktisk karaktär. I våra intervjuer framkommer att positionssystemet, bråk, procent, enheter, Multiplikation och division är de områden som kan ställa till mest problem för elever med matematiksvårigheter.

PR appears to be an indistinct division and a complicated resource for companies to value. The current circumstances are negative to the credibility and reliability of PR. This study emphasizes how an application of return on investment contributes to a more strategic use of PR and increases the status and credibility for the division.We experience that measuring the economic value of PR is of great importance and of current interest with few prior studies made. The purpose of this study is to find out how a PR-agency and one of its clients relates to and works with evaluation of PR-activities and to which extent the economic contribution of the activity is measured.The foundation which the theoretical reference grounds on is theories of Delusions of PR and the use of benefit-cost analyzes, Stages and Levels for Evaluating Public Relations Programs, Marketing Return on Investment and PR Return on Investment. The theoretical reference serves as a base during the analyze of the study.The conclusion, based on the empirical body of information, is that an application of return on investment could contribute with a higher status and credibility for the PR-division.

This essay examines the historical development of group rights for cultural minorities in Sweden between the years 1970 and 2010. The purpose of the study is to analyze the development of political measures taken at government level for different minority groups, foremost explaining the division that have arisen between measures aimed at the five national minorities, the Sámi, the Swedish Finns, the Roma, the Jews and the Tornedalians, and measures directed at other ethnic groups.My conclusions are that the division in Swedish public policy between one the one hand national minorities, and on the other hand immigrant groups, is in no way self-evident. The division has arisen from an international standard on how democratic states, such as Sweden, should treat their cultural minorities. Further, this division has had an immense impact in shaping public policy as well as determining the type of group rights introduced for minority groups in Sweden.A difference has also been found in how the minorities are perceived by state actors. Immigrant groups are currently perceived as less entitled to group rights due to their short presence in Sweden, whereas national minorities are seen as more entitled to group rights due to their long historic presence in the country.

 The purpose with this thesis was to develop a designguideline which will simplify the development of new products that will be laser welded. The need for this thesis has come forward from the quality problems that Volvo Construction Equipment, Components Division is having with their laser welding manufacturing unit. The reason for the problems emerges from the bad communication between the development unit and the manufacturing unit within the company when the products produced today was developed. This resulted in products that were hard to and in some cases almost impossible to weld. To avoid these problems from occurring again it was needed to gather the experiences within this area and compile it and present in a brief a pedagogical manner. The information for the groundwork of our results has been gathered by interviews of several key persons in Volvo Construction Equipment, Components Division.

The aim of this study is to examine how important a factor the environment and the interior is to the creation of a user-friendly children?s library. In this study, environment is taken to mean the furnishing and the equipment in the children?s area at the library. The environment plays an important role in society today and because of that this is a current topic.

Syfte ? Syftet med denna studie är att skildra de framgångsfaktorer och problem som kan uppstå vid implementeringen av det balanserade styrkortet inom en division i ett svenskt landsting. Vi avser även att undersöka i vilken omfattning det balanserade styrkortet har spridits inom organisationen. Metod ? För att uppnå vårt syfte ansåg vi att en kvalitativ fallstudie var passande. En fallstudie är att föredra om man vill studera och öka förståelsen av en specifik händelse eller plats.

ABSTRACTUniversity: Växjö University, school of social science, department of political scienceLevel: Bachelor?s thesis in political scienceTitle: SHIFTING BALANCE OF POWER? ? an analyze of the new EU-treaty?s consequences for the EC-court.Academic adviser: Associate professor Stefan HöjelidAuthor: Magnus NordahlThis study focuses on the increased role of the European Court of Justice through the establishment of a Constitution for Europe and its impact on the balance of power, both horizontal and vertical.To do this, the study takes its aims from the research problem, formulated as follows:Does the establishment of a constitution for Europe contribute to an increased role for the European Court of Justice and does it create a more legible horizontal and vertical division of power?To reach the relevant analyses and conclusions two precise questions are presented as well as an analytical model. The precise questions are:? Which are the relevant contributions for the balance of power from a perspective of juridification in the new EU-treaty?? What impacts do those contributions have on the so called ?European federalism??The theoretical perspective of this study is rooted in the concept of federalism with special emphasizes on constitution and sovereignty as well as a part about the process of juridification. Along with the presented analytical model consisting of a horizontal and vertical division of power, the empirical material is presented with focus on the new EU-treaty about a constitution for Europe and the European Court of Justice.

Abstract Rapporter från Skolverket visar att många elever inte når målen i matematik.12 % av eleverna i åk 9 nådde inte godkäntgränsen på ämnesproven i matematik 2006, (PM 2006:2230). Utifrån provens resultat funderade vi över vilken undervisning elever i matematiksvårigheter möter eller mött. Är det så att de blivit utslagna från skolans matematikundervisning redan innan de nått högstadiet? Vad gör skolan för dessa elever i mellanåren så att de ska bli godkända i matematik åk 9? Vi var intresserade av hur de specialpedagogiska insatserna såg ut och hur eleverna upplevde dessa. Vi har intervjuat 13 elever i åk 6 från två olika kommuner kring upplevelser och erfarenheter av matematikundervisning och specialpedagogiskt stöd.

Hälsofrämjande arbete inom företag kan fungera på olika sätt, vilket kan ha betydelse för lärandet. För att lärandet ska ske i samband med hälsofrämjande arbete måste medarbetarna vara medvetna om att arbetet finns och hur det fungerar inom företaget. För att kunna bevara och utveckla lärandet i samband med hälsofrämjande arbete är det nödvändigt att utvärdera medarbetarnas behov. Därför var syftet med den aktuella uppsatsen att belysa några medarbetares, inom PEAB Bygg Division Västs, uppfattningar om hur ett framtida hälsofrämjande arbete ska kunna utvecklas på arbetsplatsen. För att undersöka ovanstående syfte hölls en fokusgrupp med fyra medarbetare från företaget.

Bakgrund: De kommande åren går många människor födda på 1940-talet i pension. I och med detta står många småföretag inför ett ägarskifte det kommande decenniet. Ett eget företag kan vara som att ta hand om en baby ? det krävs engagemang, omsorg och omtanke för att babyn ska växa och må bra. Att vara den som adopterar en baby är därmed ett stort beslut som omgärdas av många olika faktorer vilket köparen av ett företag behöver känna till.Syfte: Syftet med studien är att beskriva vad köpare av små ägarledda företag upplever som kritiska inre faktorer vid ägarskifte och skapa en förståelse för dessa problem.

In 2006 there was a change in LMA (1994:37) that clarified the division of responsibility be-tween the Migration Board and the municipalities, concerning unaccompanied children. The social services should now be utmost responsible for the housing and care of these children, to assure that they gain the same standards and rights as all other children. The aim of this essay has been to examine how the division of responsibility has influenced the work of the social services and how they interpret their responsibility for the unaccompanied children. How do the social services investigate and make decisions concerning these children? Do these chil-dren have the same rights as other children? To answer these questions a legal study was made, followed by qualitative research interviews with four social services that receive unac-companied children.

The purpose of this study is to describe if and how a seasonal based company named SkiStar, learns through the exchange of experience and knowledge. We have analyzed gathered qualitative and empirical data to explore this subject. We conducted three semi-structured group interviews with employees from the SkiStarshop division. They described their routines and procedures in SkiStarshop. The collected data was processed and analyzed through our theoretical framework.

I detta 10-poängsarbete går jag igenom hur min egenhändigt producerade kvadratrotsalgoritm fungerar praktiskt och teoretiskt. Med denna algoritm kan man för hand räkna ut kvadratrötter som innehåller 50-60 värdesiffror. Med de tidigare kända algoritmerna för kvadratrötter kan man räkna ut 5-6 värdesiffror. Min algoritm fungerar inte på samma sätt som de tidigare använda kvadratrotsalgoritmerna men den är lika korrekt. Stor tyngdvikt i arbetet har därför lagts på att visa på att det finns flera olika korrekta algoritmer för våra vanliga räknesätt.

The Division of Language and Communication at Chalmers uses a web-based language tool, named EngOnline, to teach English grammar. The language tool suffers from some shortcomings. These include stability problems and an outdated interface but, above all, there is no documentation. Because of the lack of documentation and EngOnline?s need of maintenance, the Division of Language and Communication has decided to replace the language tool with a new and well documented one.The new language tool was developed using an agile work process; detailed documentation was replaced with more efficient communication.

Construction companies in Sweden have for recent years seen an increase in the numbers ofwarranty complaints associated with the market of resident buildings and the cost for this hasbeen measured to over 1.2 billion SEK per year. Working with poor quality cost as a way ofcreating insight about defects within the company?s processes is a method developed and usedby the manufacturing industry for decades, but have not yet reached the construction industry.This study has been performed in collaboration with a Swedish construction company, wherethe author has been stationed at the aftersales division for residential buildings. Owing tocircumstances, this published report has been made anonymous regarding the company whowill further on be namedthe Company. The Company is aware that warranty claims producegreat costs and has requested a way of putting cost and cause to specific claims in order ofreceiving a more specific cost view and to make the reuse of knowledge more efficient.