The parallel bars is used in physical therapy and is mainly used for patients who have to train walking and balance after a stroke or an operation. It consists of two long handrails with two legs on each handrail. These legs go down into two ground-plates and are locked at the wanted height with a pin. The parallel bars is an appreciated device and is used on a daily basis in many care units.The main issue with the manual parallel bars is that it is very difficult and heavy for a single person to adjust the height of it. If a larger adjustment of the height has to be done, the legs have to be adjusted one at a time otherwise the they will be locked.

Sammanfattning Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva kommunala chefers uppfattningar om vilka faktorer som främjar systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete (SAM). SAM är lagstadgat i Arbetsmiljölagen och är ett viktigt redskap för att skapa en god arbetsmiljö, ökad effektivitet och minskade kostnader. Stödet till chefer och organisationer i deras arbete med SAM är en viktig uppgift för företagssköterskor i företagshälsovården. Antonovskys (1987/1991) teori, känsla av sammanhang (KASAM) och i huvudsak det salutogena, hälsofrämjande synsättet ligger till grund för studien.Studien har en kvalitativt beskrivande design. Datainsamlingen har skett genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex enhetschefer från två svenska kommuner.

It is important that organizations today focus on continuous improvements in order to face the growing competition in the world. A company needs a corporate culture that supports and encourages the employees to be creative and innovative in their work. This is necessary for the company if they are striving towards continuous learning and development within their organization.The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how the culture differences between Sweden and China affect Sandvik AB. We will also study how the company manages continuous improvements and what consequences culture differences have on their work.Our paper is a single case study at Sandvik AB in Sweden and China. We have visited Sandvik in Sandviken to conduct a series of interviews with employees of different position within the company and with dissimilar work tasks.

The aim of this thesis is to highlight how male and female characters are portrayed in children?s books, that have football as a theme, and are written for children between 9-12 years of age. I have chosen this subject so that I, as a pre-school teacher, can adhere to the curriculum?s aim of maintaining the school?s responsibility for counteracting traditional gender roles. I aim to study how gender is represented in literature for children.I shall apply Yvonne Hirdman?s theories on the gender system which is built on the principals whereby the sexes are separate entities and there is a structural hierarchy between them.

Örebro Universitet                                                                Institutionen för hälsovetenskap och medicinArbetsterapi Arbetets art: Uppsatsarbete omfattande 15 högskolepoäng C, inom ämnet arbetsterapiSvensk titel: Mobiltelefon som kognitivt hjälpmedel för personer med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar - arbetsterapeuters erfarenheter.Engelsk titel: Mobile phones as cognitive aids for persons with neuropsychiatric disorders - occupational therapists´ experiences.Författare: Therese Eklöf Malmgren, Linda SödermanHandledare: Kajsa Lidström HolmqvistDatum: 2012-05-09Antal ord: 7752Sammanfattning: Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att beskriva arbetsterapeuters erfarenheter av arbete med förskrivningsbara och icke förskrivningsbara mobiltelefoner som kognitivt hjälpmedel för personer med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar. Användandet av mobiltelefon och smartphone ökar för personer med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar och arbetsterapeuterna behöver öka kunskapen om detta. De sex deltagande arbetsterapeuterna valdes genom bekvämlighetsurval. Datainsamlingen gjordes genom intervjuer med öppna frågor. Kvalitativ innehållsanalys användes för att analysera data. Resultatet presenteras i fem kategorier och fem underkategorier som beskriver arbetsterapeuters erfarenheter av mobiltelefon som kognitiv hjälpmedel. Arbetsterapeuterna beskrev att klientens nätverk var en viktig del för att användningen av handifon skulle fungera. Resultatet visade att arbetsterapeuterna följer förskrivningsprocessen för kognitiva hjälpmedel vid förskrivning av handifon.

 Title: Implementation of Balance Scorecard in public sector - a case study in the community of Tidaholm. Course: Thesis in business administration, 15 p Authors: Marie Ohlsson and Ola Pettersson Advisor: Henrik Linderoth Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the balanced scorecard can be formed according to the backgrounds in the community of Tidaholm. Methodology: We have chosen a qualitative case study. We work on the supposition of an established theory. And switch between deductive and inductive method, with an abductive method as a result. Theory: We work on the supposition of the latest theories from the authors of the balanced scorecard, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton.

The Church of Sweden has in recent years offered activities such as Christian deep medita-tion, mindfulness and health days. This may be a way for the Church of Sweden to reach the modern man who would not otherwise have come to the church, but there are critics who argue that new spirituality has made its entry in the Church of Sweden. The phenomenon of Christian deep meditation has become increasingly common in the Church of Sweden. In order to satisfy my curiosity about what a Christian deep meditation is, I decided to write an essay about this. My question is as follows: How important is Christian deep meditation as a religious practice in the Church of Sweden? This essay is a qualitative study and I have cho-sen to perform eight pieces of interviews, two of them are recorded.

Throughout many years there have been discussions within the European Union (EU) regarding harmonization and improvement of accounting rules for companies with listed shares or other securities. The ambition exists to adopt, the within the union applied accounting standards, to those applied globally. These discussions lead the year 2002 to adoption by the council and parliament of international accounting standards (IFRS). The ordinance meant that all listed European companies have to adopt international accounting standards, accepted for application within the EU, for their consolidated accounts.During July 2003 the Swedish Government Official Reports issued a report (SOU 2003:71) stating, among other things, the differences and oppositions of implementing IFRS on a corporate level in Sweden, since corporate disclosure is regulated in Swedish law by Bokföringslagen (BFL) and Årsredovisningslagen (ÅRL). One of the main obstacles for the full implementation of IFRS is that a company?s annual report underlies the governmental taxation and an implementation of IFRS would affect this balance.

Bakgrund Det m?nniskan g?r utvecklar vem hon ?r och det ?r naturligt att skapa mening i vardagliga aktiviteter. N?r aktiviteter som ?r meningsfulla att g?ra inte utf?rs p?verkar det h?lsan negativt. Att drabbas av mental fatigue leder till en nedsatt f?rm?ga att hantera och utf?ra vardagliga aktiviteter.

This study is about children that have been forced to flee to another country, due to conflict, poverty or natural disasters, without their families. They are known as unaccompanied refugee children. The aim of the study is to, by focusing on individual children's feelings and experiences of being forced to flee create greater knowledge and understanding of what is hidden behind some of the statistic of migration.To answer the aim of the study, I used the following research questions: How is a child affected by being forced to leave home and to flee to a foreign country? How does an unaccompanied refugee child perceive the exodus? How do the unaccompanied refugee children handle their situation during the flight and at arrival in Sweden?The study is based on a qualitative method and consists in semi-structured interviews with five unaccompanied refugee children aged 17 to 21. The theoretical framework is based on three theoretical concepts; refugee crisis, identity and coping.The study results show that these children are a very vulnerable group, who were forced to be exposed to several losses and traumas.

This thesis examines the legal boundaries of third-party use of trademarks in the European customized clothing market. The purpose is to determine under what circumstances third parties may legally modify and sell trademarked apparel without infringing on trademark rights. The study employs a legal dogmatic method, analyzing EU trademark law, case law, and legal doctrine to clarify the scope of exclusive rights and their limitations. By analyzing key EU case law, the study further illustrates how the legal framework has been interpreted and applied in cases concerning third-party trademark use. Given the increasing demand for customized fashion and the rise of new business models in the clothing industry, this topic holds significant legal and economic relevance. Additionally, Schumpeter?s theory of creative destruction provides a theoretical perspective on how trademark restrictions impact innovation and market competition.

Aim and questionsThe aim of our study was to increase knowledge about successful school managers' views on teachers' mental health and their own work regarding this subject.In what ways do the school manager work preventive with measures on teachers' mental health? How does leadership affects teachers' mental health? What factors create mental health among teachers? MethodIn order to answer the questions, we have chosen to use semi-structured interviews. To get in touch with schools that have been successful with their work with the teacher's mental health, we have made a targeted step wise sample where we contacted the primary managers of six randomly selected municipalities in Stockholms län. In total six school managers have been interviewed. The empiric data were thematized and analyzed based on the demand-control-support model. ResultsAll the interviewed school managers agreed to that the concept of mental health is about feeling good, about balance in life and to feel safe.

The purpose of my study is to highlight how children at preschool are affected by adult?s awareness of norms and interpretations of masculinity and femininity. The essay shows examples of boys? and girls´ expectations of each other and the preconceived notions of what boys and girls should or can do, and how we pedagogues relate to this matter. One example is about an encounter with a mother, where we have different opinions about her son´s wishes to be Lucia instead of Santa Claus.

AbstractEffective January 1, 2005 publicly listed companies were obliged to adopt a new financialreporting standard (IFRS/IAS). The objective of IFRS/IAS was to increase transparency andcomparability in financial reports between companies. The authors have chosen to write aboutIAS 40 where the accounting treatment for investment property and related disclosurerequirements are regulated.The purpose of this thesis is to investigate potential effects of valuation of investmentproperty at fair market value for real estate companies at times when market price decreasesand to investigate what an acceptable difference for the valuation could be.To fulfil this purpose the authors have chosen a qualitative method interviewing accountants,property analysts and a credit analyst to obtain a deeper understanding of the problem. Basedata for the thesis have been collected during meetings, telephone interviews and e-mails.Additional data was collected from public available sources such as the internet, relevantprofessional magazines and professional newsletters. The authors have designed a modelshowing how Income and Balance Sheet statements are influenced by changed valuation ofinvestment property.

För att utvecklingsarbete ska fungera bra på ett företag är det viktigt att företaget kan fångaupp och exploatera de idéer som finns hos medarbetarna, något som industriföretag ofta ärväl förtrogna med, men som en del tjänsteföretag idag inte har grepp om. Syftet med dennastudie är därmed att visa på de delar av arbete med forskning och utveckling inom industrinsom kan hjälpa tjänsteföretag förbättra möjligheterna att ta tillvara på sina medarbetaresinnovationskraft.Fallstudien är gjord på ett maltabaserat spelföretag, GameCo, och är ett exempel på hur detkan se ut i ett tjänsteföretag som förvisso arbetar med utveckling av idéer, men där detfortfarande finns en del hinder att överkomma, både medarbetarnas inställning och i hurorganisationen tar hand om medarbetarnas idéer. Det visade sig att innovation inte var särskiltprioriterat på företaget, att det rådde delade meningar om processer för utveckling och attkommunikationen inte alltid fungerade.De delarna av industrins forskning och utveckling som kan användas behandlar både självautvecklingsprocessen, dess utformning och vilka delar som anses speciellt viktiga i dettasammanhang, och hur arbetet med innovation och en utvecklingsprocess kan bedrivas, R&Dmanagement.Båda delarna har valts därför att de svarar mot en efterfrågan att förbättrainnovationsarbetet genom mer formella vägar, men där det också krävs kunskap om hurutvecklingen ska ledas och organiseras för att en formell process ska vara meningsfull.Slutsatserna av detta blir att tillvaratagandet av innovation kan förbättras närinnovationsprocessen formaliseras, när ledningen visar att innovation är ett prioriterat områdeför företaget och när kunskapsdelningen inom företaget fungerar bra. Dessa slutsatser innebärofta en stor omställning, och denna kan göras lättare och mer sammanhållen om den görsinom ramen för en arbetsfilosofi. För falltstudieföretaget ges avslutningsvis ett antalrekommendationer baserade på slutsatserna, men där dessa anpassas till GameCos specifikaproblematik..