This study investigates and describes the phenomenon of ?technical tourism?, in the case ofwind power plants in Sweden. The main purpose of the study is a greater understanding ofa field which to date has remained largely uncharted.Technical tourism is a type of visits to a production site, where the technical aspect ofthe production is the main focal point for the visitor. The definition of technical tourism isbased on concepts within ?Industrial tourism?.

KLIPPANByggnadens form utgår från platsens morfologi och topologi.Konkav mot staden och konvex mot parken, utskjutande mot hornsbruksgatan och fasad mot Högalidsparken.I gränsen mellan natur och stad vill den ta fasta på båda världars egenskaper och styrkor och samtidigt utgöra länken dem emellan.En klippa som sträcker ut sig mot det urbana landskapet med Högalidskyrkan i ryggen.Den skapar möten och förenar inom ramen av sig själv och de cirkulationsflöden den ger.Klippan förlänger parken genom sitt offentliga terrasstak och utgör samtidigt en öppning från stad till park.Ett trappsystem placerat på den södra delen leder in besökaren till de offentliga delarna av byggnaden. Ett centralt system, direkt till parken.Härigenom skapas ett följsamt möte mellan stad och park samtidigt som gränsen mellan privat och offentligt luckras upp inom ramen för byggnadens mixade programmering.Ett bibliotek/ideastore placerat på markplan i riktning mot Hornstull, samsas med kontorsdelar mot tunnelbanan.I de två övre planerna ligger programdelar som direkt har ett utbyte av varandras närhet, uthyrbara kontorsplatser, arbetsförmedling, ateljéer och kafé.Boendedelen är fristående och placerad ovanpå T-banestationen, men ändå integrerad genom det externa cirkulationssystemet--------------------------------------------------------------Utgångspunkten är mötet mellan stad och natur, park. Idén är att skapa en byggnad som starkt relaterar till sin gränslandet och samtidigt har en självständig identitet Platsen har idag en rad olika och i viss mån separerade kvalitéer. Grönområde - urbanitet - närhet till olika noder - T-bana - urban knytpunkt - Hornstull. Byggnaden ska ta till vara på dessa kvalitéer genom att arbeta med mötet där emellan. Genom att knyta ihop dem kan en tredje sfär skapas inom ramen för byggnaden och dess omgärde.  - Hur koppla ihop delarna? - Hur få ut något intressant och bra? Macrostrategi Byggnadens externa relationÖppna upp cirkulationsflödet mellan gaturum och park. Öppna upp siktlinjer - skapa visuella kopplingar från gaturum till park - från byggnad till sin omgivning. Distribution av programdelar i relation till plats.

The aim of this essay is, firstly, to ? through a text analysis ? compare the curriculum of Waldorf education in Sweden (in the essay referred to as ?WL?) to the Swedish national curriculum ?Lpo 94?, to uncover possible differences and similarities between these documents, and, secondly, to present the roots and educational philosophies that these two curricula, respectively, are based upon. The purpose hereby is to be able to trace, describe and explain the differences between the pedagogical practices of Waldorf education and that of conventional Swedish schools.In the essay, a historical investigation of the main traditions of ideas behind the Swedish national curriculum is briefly carried out, where I swiftly present the educational philosophies of John Dewey (1859-1952) and Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934). Next, an investigation of the worldview and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) is effectuated, where I attempt to bring to light Steiner?s anthroposophical and holistic worldview ? a worldview that throughout the 20th century has developed into an international and wide-ranging anthroposophical movement ? as well as his concepts of knowledge, science and educational philosophy.

This paper investigates the level of consciousness regarding to the diversity work in the municipalities of Malmö, Lund and Landskrona. The study focuses on persons in a middle management position connected to various spheres of activities in each municipality. A survey concerning each municipality's diversity plan, diversity work, recruiting process, education and knowledge was used to investigate the participants' consciousness. The survey poses similar questions regarding equality between the sexes to compare the results from each field. The paper presents an overview of the development of Sweden's labour market and society, and gives an account for the differences between immigrants and natives positions in the labour market.

Inom arkitektbranchen är tävlingar ett vanligt arbetssätt men samtidigt ett unikt förfarande för arkitekter som akademisk yrkesgrupp. Vi hade inga tidigare erfarenheter av arkitekttävlingar och såg examenssarbetet som ett bra tillfälle att bygga erfarenheter inför yrkeslivet. Vårt gemensamma examensarbete är en undersökning av tävlingsformatet som arbetssätt och genomförs genom att delta i den allmäna idétävlingen OpenGap InNatur_2. Därefter kommer vi att utvärdera och reflektera över vårt deltagande och resultatet i tävlingen. Vårt mål är att kunna erbjuda landskapsarkitekter och studenter värdefull inblick i vad denna typ av tävlingar innebär och den specifika problematik som vårt val av tävling förde med sig. InNatur_2:s tävlingsuppgift bestod av att arbeta fram ett idéförslag på ett besökscentrum för ett valfritt skyddat naturområde.

This thesis examines why working time preferences differ between workers and nations, and explains the effect of working time regulation and working time flexibility on negotiating work-life balance. In five separate sections the following working time issues are examined: the number of hours worked by workers in Europe; factors affecting individual working time preferences; how working time preferences are negotiated in the national industrial relations systems of Sweden, France and the United Kingdom; how the institutions of the European Union have influenced working time negotiations through the Working Time Directive; and the benefits and practices available to organisations implementing working time flexibility. Broadly this paper views working time preferences as being a highly personal and influenced by factors such as wages, taxation, culture (national and workplace) and non-work responsibilities. It is argued that negotiating a preferred working time pattern is essential to achieving work-life balance and when such a balance is achieved, workers are more healthy, motivated and committed to their employer. Essentially this provides an incentive for businesses to voluntarily implement working time flexibility beyond the regulatory standards..

The European Union has been working to promote equality between women and men for a long time. Despite this, Sweden still have a gender segregated labor market where men generally has the leading positions. According to European law the member states shall promote gender equality and to take all appropriate measures. Statutory gender quotas for company boards is one such measure that some of the European member states have implemented in national law. The Swedish law has no provisions governing gender quotas and therefore the purpose of this study is to explain how gender quotas for company boards relate to current law, both of European law and national legislation.

AbstractJerfström, M. (2013). Mission overweight and obesity ? how do child-care centers operate? C-thesis in Public Health. Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies.

This study analyzes the discursive content of four history textbooks in order to demonstrate how national identities are formed and how they differ from each other. This was done through discourse analysis guided by social constructivism and John M. Hobson?s dichotomy of East and West. The study shows that textbooks mainly construct national identities in three ways; first by making a clear distinction between ?The Self? and ?The Other?, second by preserving a world order based on the notions of the invariant hegemony of the nation-state, and third by utilizing stereotype based dissimilarities in order to accentuate existing differences between nationalities. Implicit ideals and values in the historical discourse play an important part in the construction of identities; however sends a contradictory and ambiguous message.

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The SAB-system (Klassifikationssystem för svenska bibliotek) was created almost a hundred years ago and has often been viewed as insufficient among many academic libraries. KB (Kungliga Biblioteket) has therefore decided to change to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) which means that the Swedish libraries are now facing a challenge that involves a change to a new classification system. This is a comparable situation that occured when the SAB-system was created. The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine the Swedish library sector´s approach to a new classification system, first to the SAB-system and then to DDC.

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has lately gained popularity throughout the globalized world. Swedish retail industry is no exception. Though increased levels of explicitly claimed responsibilities of companies, a number of other facts points out a development that contradicts this trend. Labour conditions and forms of employment is substantially retrograding, with an increased level of insecurity characterizing the Swedish retail labour market. At the same time, almost all Swedish retail companies explicitly state claims on social responsibility.

During spring 2008, the Institution for Landscape Architecture, in co-operation with Naturvårdsverket, initiated a survey in the districts of Skåne. In the survey, four out of eight park characters were examined, and it was observed that not only was it difficult interpreting these characters, but it was also presented with difficulties separating ??Lustgården?? and ??Allmänningen??. The purpose of this master thesis in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Psychology is twofold. Firstly, a theoretical framework will be constructed on the thee characters ??Allmänningen??, ??Lustgården?? and ??Centrum, festen??.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the two thinning models: Bergvik Skog´s thinning model, which is based on total stems and dominant height, And Swedish forest agency´s thinning model which is based on basal area, habitat index, dominant height and recommended number of stems at final felling in Heureka´s StandWise and PlanWise. The data we chosen for our study were taken from the Swedish National Forest Inventory and we were creating a simulated stand based on a great number of sample plots in Region three from The Swedish National Forest Inventory. We had chosen to create one stand with low habitat index (T20) and one with high habitat index (T24). Our purpose were to come as close as possible to a natural stand in central Sweden. We performed the thinning in StandWise and analyzed the data I Excel files. Our thinning optimizing´s were performed and analyzed in PlanWise. There wasn´t any big differences between the thinning on the lower habitat index.

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