Den höga konkurrensen mellan företag gör det allt viktigare att ligga i framkant med enmodern och teknisk utveckling. Detta driver företag att fokusera på InnovationManagement genom att utveckla metoder för att mer effektivt kunna dra nytta avpersonalens kreativitet och engagemang. Detta är nödvändigt för att bibehålla enkontinuerlig och hållbar utveckling.Syftet med denna studie är att skapa förståelse över hur företag får in tekniska idéer frånde anställda och hur dessa idéer utvärderas. Studien påbörjades med att få engrundläggande förståelse av begreppet innovation. Detta följdes av en fallstudie påföretaget ABB Capacitors med intervjuer och en enkätundersökning som utvärderadesgenom en statistisk analys.

In this essay I have aimed to examine how the theology of Paul Tillich relate to modern views of reality, both the way it was expressed in his contemporary time and the way I see it today. Reality I have defined as an entirety of the physic- and metaphysic reality. A so called panentism where God is reality and the world is a part of this reality.With Tillichs Systematic Theology as my principal material, I have first made a brief presentation of his theology, of its construction and main concepts. Then I have chosen to further examine the way he describes being, reason and revelation to see how this particular concepts of Tillich agree with my definition of reality. In this I have consulted the books Tillich in Dialogue by Mackenzie-Brown and Natural Theology Versus Theology of Nature, a book edited after the forth international Tillich symposium 1992, which had "Tillichs thinking as impetus for a discourse among theology, philosophy and natural sciences" as a theme.I have tried to point out the possibilities opened up by the ontology and epistemology of Tillich for the dialogue between theology and natural sciences.

SammanfattningIntroduktion: Om patienter med cancersjukdom slutar röka innan strålbehandling påbörjas kan behandlingsresultat, biverkningsfrekvens och graden av biverkningar påverkas positivt.Syfte: Syftet med aktuell studie är att beskriva kunskap och attityder hos sjuksköterskor som arbetar med patienter med cancersjukdom gällande rökning och rökstopp inför eller under pågående strålbehandling.Metod: Den fullskaliga studien kommer att genomföras som en enkätstudie med slutna frågor samt öppna frågor, som analyseras med innehållsanalys. I syfte att pröva forskningsplanen genomfördes en pilotstudie i form av en enkätundersökning, där sammanlagt 20 enkäter delades ut på tre onkologenheter på ett universitetssjukhus.Resultat: Av de 20 utdelade enkäterna, besvarades 16. I frågorna med slutna svarsalternativ framkom bl.a. att majoriteten av sjuksköterskorna kände till att rökning påverkar biverknings-frekvens och graden av biverkningar vid strålbehandling (10/16). De kände även till att rökning i samband med strålbehandling påverkar behandlingsresultatet (12/16).

Att ta vara på lärdomar från genomförda projekt för att förbättra kvalitén på utfört arbete är idag något som inte fungerar tillfredställande i byggbranschen. Forskning visar på att upp till 1/3 utav byggkostnaden för om- och nybyggnadsprojekt kan härledas till kvalitetsbristkostnader. Genom att bedriva ett systematiskt förbättringsarbete med hjälp av erfarenhetsåterföring inom företagen så kan vissa utav dessa kvalitetsbristkostnader reduceras. NCC vill idag utveckla sitt arbete med erfarenhetsåterföring då de ser en möjlig förbättringspotential inom området. Detta arbete syftar till att ta reda på hur erfarenhetsåterföringen bedrivs idag inom NCC och genom både litteraturstudier och en fallstudie identifiera förbättringsmöjligheter inom området.

Abstract Essay in political science, C-level, by Jenny Senemgen, spring semester 2008. Tutor: Michele Micheletti. ?Hennes & Mauritz ? a case study of their CSR work and collaborations with NGOs.?The purpose of this essay is to examine if and how the transnational corporation Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) collaborates with NGOs in it?s work with human rights for workers and increased corporate social responsibility. I have looked at H&Ms CSR report from 2006, the Swedish network Clean Clothes Campaigns report about Swedish corporations in the textile industry and if their CSR work during the past ten years have given any results and I have also done two interviews with two NGOs.The examination is thereby a case study where I?m examining H&Ms CSR work and its collaborations with NGOs and the NGO?s opinions about H&Ms CSR work.My delimitation lies in the fact that I only have examined one corporation and what two NGOs thinks about the corporation.

Adler, Ann-Christiné (2009). Mötet mellan lärare och föräldrar ? en undersökning av lärares och föräldrars upplevelser av de informella samtalen med varandra. (The meeting between teachers and parents - An examination of teachers and parents experiences of the informal talks with each other). Lärare har ett stort uppdrag som innefattar många olika former av arbetsuppgifter. En uppgift är att samarbeta med föräldrar.

The aim of this study was to examine how the interviewed teachers in one school observe their view of gender and equality regarding the educational system.  Accordingly, I would like to present my intention with this study, also be to analyze how the interviewed teachers way of working with matters of gender and equality, carry out as a portrait of their values considering the distribution in terms of gender. The research questions are the following: What is the teachers view on the concepts of equality and gender in school?How do different teachers talk about their way of working in relation to gender and equality in school?How is boys and girls images presented in the teachers descriptions in their discussion about gender and equality?This study is based on a fundamental qualitative method, where a handful number of teacher?s from one school were interviewed in order to obtain information and data for the examination. The interviews were analyzed and discussed in association to earlier research in aspiration to study different writer?s theories about the conception of gender and equality.

Discussion about the connection between severe mental disorders and criminal acts is constantly ongoing. Violent crimes committed by persons with severe men-tal disorders get a lot of media attention in today´s society. This arise general questions regarding the penalties that these offenders are sentenced to. It is known that the responsibility for these people lies on the forensic psychiatry, however, the media does not draw attention to what is happening in this organization. The purpose of this study is to describe the forensic psychiatric organization from a staff perspective and from a legal perspective.

The setting of pupils' final grades in the Swedish upper secondary school system is the responsibility of their teachers and once grades are set, they are not open to appeal. This can be compared with the British system where an external, central examination board sets the final grades based on the result of externally marked examinations (A-levels). These grades are then open to appeal if it is felt that an injustice has been made.This research paper has been an investigation into how pupils in one Swedish upper secondary school attempt to influence their teachers in the grade-setting process and how these teachers are affected by these different methods. Five teachers in total were interviewed in a qualitative case study. The study has also taken up the controversial issue of how grades, which are set individually by thousands of teachers across the country, can be deemed to be fair and equivalent.The study revealed that pupils employ many different methods when trying to influence their teachers in the grade-setting process e.g.

Bakgrund: Då bröstcancer drabbar kvinnor med stigande statistik finns det ett stort utbud av information om ämnet. Många kvinnor i världen rekommenderas att själva undersöka sina bröst, Breast Self Examination (BSE), i kampen mot cancer. Internationella intresseorganisationer och i vissa länder även sjukvården rekommenderar kvinnor att utföra BSE för att upptäcka bröstcancer så tidigt som möjligt. Syfte: Att beskriva kvinnors attityd till självundersökning av bröst (BSE). Metod: En systematisk litteraturstudie genomfördes.

ABSTRACTTitle: Elle & Café ? a study of fashion magazines cover pages.Number of pages: 38Author: Greta SimonssonTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communication Studies DPeriod: Spring Semester 2008University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityAim: The purpose of this essay is to:? Analyze the cover images from the 2007 editions of the magazines Elles and Café, using semiotic analysis.? Analyzes eventual resemblances or differences between the two magazine's cover images based upon the result of the semiotic analysis.Material and methods: The study of Elles's and Café's cover pages has been done using a model built upon semiotic analysis, developed with the purpose of suiting observation and examination of cover pages of fashion magazines. The cover pages were analyzed from the categories character, context, and environment.Main results: The main results include the observation that both Elles and Café chooses well-known figures from women's fashion industry as prime characters on their covers. In Elles, all main characters are famous women emerging from the music, television and fashion industries. The women in Café are known for similar professions.

Aim: The purpose of the study was to investigate how the assessment and grading is designed and practiced in the practical courses of physical education at GIH - the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, along with how it could affect newly graduated physical education teachers? ability to assess and grade students. The study was based on Habermas?s system and life-world theory.What view occurs concerning proficiencies, basis for assessment and marking among teachers who are responsible for examinations within physical education at GIH?How is the examination structured within physical education at GIH?How are skills and proficiencies among assessment and marking further mediated to students in the teacher education at GIH?Method: The case study was realized by performing qualitative interviews with a total of four teachers at physical education at GIH. Additionally, syllabi were text-analyzed to improve the validity of the study.Results: From the results we found that the teachers experience marking as a complicated assignment, where particularly the didactic ability but also the practical ability form a formative and summative assessment.

Syftet och målet med examensarbetet är att skapa underlag för fortsatt förbättringsarbete till att kunna minska den icke värdeskapande tiden i tillverkningen av gångjärn på ASSA OEM AB, främst genom reducering av ställtiden i rullmaskinerna. Arbetet består av en produktionsanalys av gångjärnstillverkningen, nulägesbeskrivning av ställtider och problem vid omställningsarbete samt förbättringsförslag till ställtidsreducering. Huvudsakliga metoder som har använts för informationsinhämtning i arbetet är litteratur, intervjuer, observationer och beräkningar. Produktionsanalysen innehåller beräkningar av produktionstakt, kapacitet, utnyttjandegrad och OEE. Dessutom en noggrannare undersökning på anläggningseffektiviteten, en processschemaläggning samt det fysiska flödet med transportavstånd på avdelningen. Från analysen noteras främst att det är rullmaskinerna som är den stora flaskhalsen i produktionen av gångjärn, beroende på tillverkningstiden där, och att av dessa rullmaskiner är 1743 den stora begränsningen.

AbstractIn this essay I examine the exegetical problems concerning the interpretation of the metaphor ???????????????? in 2 Corinthians 2:14.The regular idea of the metaphor is that the apostle Paul is using the picture of a Roman triumph to describe the apostle?s and his co-worker?s service for God. This includes that God is leading them into many sufferings finished off with a martyr death as the triumph was very painful for its prisoners and mostly ended with an execution. But since A.D 300 such an interpretation has been questioned. Scholars react primarily to the cruelty of it and ask if that really was Paul?s meaning.

Background: Sweden and the rest of the world went through the biggest financial crisis at the end of 2008 since the 1930s. The major Swedish banks have goodwill related to their acquisitions inside and outside Scandinavia. Swedbank, SEB and Nordea has acquired in the Baltic countries and Russia, however Handelsbanken has established itself in Great Britain. The crisis in the Baltic countries led that real wages fell, unemployment rose, real estate prices collapsed and the number of borrowers who had trouble repaying their loans increased rapidly. All this led to the problem of impairment of goodwill in the Swedish banks that had expanded rapidly in the Baltic countries.Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the application of IFRS 3 in Swedish banks before, during and after the financial crisis, and to investigate the low-downs in the four majorSwedish banks in 2006-2010.Completion: The study is primarily based on the case studies by the examination of the annual reports from all banks as well as evaluation of the interviews.The authors have chosen to makea strategic choice of a small number of cases through the concentration on the impairment of goodwill in the bank sector of Sweden.Results: The result of this study is that there are problems for banks in implementation of IFRS 3 in practice because of insufficient information in the banks' financial statements.Generous estimates used in the calculation of impairment testing.