This thesis aims to analyse a time series containing the annual accumulation rate of minerogenic matter in the lake Kassjo?n. First there is a theoretical survey of some frequently used tools for the analysis of time series in the time domain and in the frequency domain. This survey is followed by a simulation study that illustrates how the theoretical tools work in practice. After this, the time series "toolbox" is used to analyse the time series from Kassjo?n (5701 data points).

During the winter 2011 Isaksson and Andersson did a time budget study on Nordens Ark?s Przewalskis horses during daytime when there were visitors and caretakers in the park. This time budget study was made during daytime and when there were no visitors or caretakers in the park. The horses where observed in the morning (5.30-6.30 am) and in the evening (5.45-6.45 pm) during four days. In addition to a time budget, the horses? positions in the enclosure were registered.

Today's labor market is characterized by flexibility. This applies to organizations, forms of employment and working time. Unregulated working time is such an adaptation and the main subject of this essay. The purpose of this study was to investigate the conditions that underpin unregulated working time, in relation to the Swedish legislation and to EU legislation. The intention has been to investigate the work environment impacts of unregulated working time, and what differences there are from a gender perspective.The conclusion is that workers who enter into agreements for unregulated working time have significantly different terms from traditional workers.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to investigate what attributes were used in story-time activities, why attributes were used in story-time activities and what functions they have. The study is based on qualitative methods in the form of a literature studies, observations and interviews. The interviews were undertaken with two storytellers from the same public library. The story-time activities were adapted for children from three to six years of age. The study suggested that there was a connection between story-time activities and a social and cultural perspective.

This case study is performed within the production of Sherwin-Williams, Bellö. The purpose is to increase the understanding how a value stream can function more efficient, from a lead time perspective. With the analytical model that is build up on known theories, the purpose have been fulfilled. Mapping of value and non value time for four products thru their respectively process reveals wastes, which is, waiting, transport and movement, incorrect processing and set-up time that in it self create transport and movement. Thru identified wastes that causes loss in lead time suggestions of improvement has been proposed.

Denna uppsats kretsar kring andra satsen ur Sergei Prokofievs bero?mda verk Piano Sonata 7, Op 83. Syftet a?r att utforska Prokofievs sinne fo?r musikalisk form, samt att reflektera kring varfo?r hans musik var banbrytande genom att studera stycket fra?n ett nytt perspektiv. Jag har tidigare sja?lv spelat hela sonaten och djupdyker nu mer teoretiskt i verket fo?r att hitta nya infallsvinklar..

Denna sja?lvsta?ndiga studie behandlar en musikalisk djupdykning i den fo?rsta satsen av Oskar Bo?hmes trumpetkonsert op.18 i f-moll. Genom en musikteoretisk, grafisk och praktisk analys av satsen fo?rdjupar jag mig i musiken pa? ett annat sa?tt a?n att som musiker bara spela den och kan da?rigenom fo?rhoppningsvis ta till mig musiken pa? ett djupare plan. .

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur kommunikation i instrumentalundervisning kanförstås i förhållande till teorier om dialog och dialogisk undervisning.Med avstamp i den ryske litteraturteoretikern Michail Bachtins dialogbegrepp och med tankaroch forskning om dialogisk undervisning som referenspunkter undersöks det i denna uppsatshur kommunikation i individuell instrumentalundervisning respektive ensembleundervisningkan se ut och förstås. En instrumentallärare som arbetar på en kommunal kulturskola har observeratsnär denne undervisar elever individuellt samt i ensemble. Observationerna har struktureratsoch analyserats med hjälp av begrepp och idéer om dialogisk undervisning i klassrumssituation.Under observations- och analysprocessen har begreppen omarbetats för attkunna belysa det specifika i den instrumentalpedagogiska situationen i allmänhet och denindividuella undervisningsformen i synnerhet. Några dialogiska huvudteman har visat sigförekomma i den observerade lärarens undervisning och dessa har kopplats samman med deredan befintliga begreppen om dialogisk undervisning för att på så vis söka förståelse i hurkommunikationen i de observerade undervisningssituationerna kan förstås i förhållande tilltidigare forskning.Den musikaliska kommunikationen var det som tydligast skiljde resultatet av undersökningenfrån den tidigare forskning om dialogisk undervisning som presenterats, och just denna typ avkommunikation visade sig också skilja sig i hur den användes i individuell undervisning respektiveensemble. Det finns i allmänhet grundläggande skillnader i hur kommunikation igrupp och kommunikation mellan enbart två individer fungerar och detta var också något somresultatet av undersökningen underströk.

This paper aims at assessing the relationship between female and male part-time employment and the business cycle in Sweden during the years 1987?2005 using quarterly time-series data and two alternative indicators of the business cycle. It further aims at determining whether the share of women working part-time has changed over time. Key results include that the relationship between the business cycle and female part-time employment is found to be significant and countercyclical. No significant effect is however found for men.

Studien syftar till att få en djupare förståelse för hur sångare använder och upplever olika verktyg för att forma och kommunicera musik, vilka verktyg de prioriterar samt vilken funktion dessa verktyg fyller. För att undersöka detta har jag utgått från olika teorier om musikalisk kommunikation samt ett multimodalt och socialsemiotiskt perspektiv med fokus på kommunikation som en social process av teckenskapande. Jag har genomfört åtta kvalitativa intervjuer med sångare som arbetar/arbetat professionellt med sång inom olika genrer. Resultaten visar att sångarnas musikaliska kommunikation formas och uttrycks genom ett användande av flera olika verktyg varav röstteknik, samspel, publikens förväntningar, personlighet och tradition är de viktigaste. Sångarnas användande och prioritering av dessa olika verktyg kan sammanfattas i olika övergripande förhållningssätt som sångarna har till sin musikaliska kommunikation, varav tradition och personlighet är de mest framträdande förhållningssätten.

Abstract   Cinematic time is the most complex of all: it is composed of public time (clock), personal time (experienced) and in addition, it can run backwards, be contingent, stored and (re)created. The present study examines some aspects of cinematic time, with special reference to the instant, the moment and the present. The strictly defined instant or moment does not exist. It is a passage between the past and the future and it is impossible to record on film or a photograph. One example is the moment of death, which is an abstraction with zero duration.

The aim of the present study was to investigate response time variations in tasks for assessment of high level language functions and how response time is related to education, age and gender. Response time is defined as the time to complete a task after it has been presented. 103 subjects, aged 20 to 80 years, were tested with the Assessment of Subtle Language Disorders, Sentence analysis and Morphological completion. The subtest Comprehension of ambiguous sentences showed the longest response time and Morphological completion the shortest. Correlations were found between increasing age and longer response time for Comprehension of metaphors and between education and response time for several subtests.

The main purpose in this degree thesis is to investigate changes in performance when introducing a newly produced Real-Time database in one of CC Systems products, the Diagnostic Runtime Engine, DRE. The thesis is a collaboration between CC Systems, creator of DRE, and Mimer AB, developer of the Real-Time database.The result reveals that the time spent on database access is considerably lesscompared to the originally used database. The research has lead to several additional requirements on the real-time database and these are presented as part of the result in this thesis. The additional features will help making the product more suitable for DRE and similar applications.Additional research is required to be able to recommend the use of this product or not. Primarily the performance in another operating system, Windows CE, but also the introduction of additional features should be investigated.

ABSTRACTThe aim of the observation study was to examine the dental hygienists working tasks and the time they used carrying them out. Four dental hygienists where observed during four days each. The total time the dental hygienists used with patients during sixteen fulltime days come to a sum of 89 hours of the possible 111 hours. Twelve hours was late cancels and time when patients didn?t come to their appointment and ten hours were used for meetings.

For a long time I have felt that there is a lack of time planning productson the market that attracts me to use them. Therefore I wantedto explore the possibilities of developing something that I reallywanted to use.At first I tried to come up with a more general tool for planningand structuring time, different from the products that are alreadyavailable. But soon I found it more interesting to see myself as theprimary user. This way I felt that I could experiment more and Ididn?t have to take things like production, cost and possible targetgroups into consideration.As I set out with an aim to try and understand my own problemswith planning and structuring time the project became a very personalone.