Efficient energy use in the housing sector is crucial for achieving a sustainable society. The expansion of this sector only represents a fraction of the existing houses, hence it?s within the existing houses the potential for energy savings lie. This potential has been analyzed in order to determine if it?s possible to cut the current energy demand in half.

Uppsatsens syfte var att beskriva och analysera kring varför män begår övergrepp, våldtäkt, mot kvinnor ur ett förövarpsykologiskt och psykodynamiskt perspektiv så som det beskrivs i ett urval av forskningslitteraturen. Den frågeställning som har varit i fokus för uppsatsen är; hur litteraturen beskriver och diskuterar ur ett förövarperspektiv med fokus på det psykodynamiska perspektivet övergrepp, våldtäkt, mot kvinnor. Studien utfördes i form av en selektiv kunskapsöversikt och bygger på ett urval av litteratur av svenska forskare och forskare med internationell koppling. Huvudinriktningen var att fokusera på utvalda teman där självbild/identitet, uppväxt, manlighet och alkohol användes för att belysa och strukturera upp problembilden. De viktigaste resultaten visade att förövarna var män som tidigt i livet blivit traumatiserade av olika slag.

Det primära syftet med denna mindre offerstudie är att undersöka erfarenheter och upplevelser av utsatthet för hatbrott bland personer med afrikansk bakgrund. En del av syftet är även att undersöka deras erfarenheter och upplevelser av polisens bemötande samt få en inblick i hur polisen arbetar med och hanterar hatbrott och mångfald. Centralt i studien är också vilka konsekvenser utsattheten och bemötandet kan medföra för individer men även större grupper och gemenskaper. Frågeställningarna som kommer att undersökas är därför: Vilka upplevelser och erfarenheter av utsatthet för hatbrott berättar personer med afrikansk bakgrund om? Vilka upplevelser och erfarenheter av polisens bemötande berättar personer med afrikansk bakgrund om? och Vilka arbetsinsatser mot hatbrott och mångfald berättar poliser om?Kvalitativa intervjuer har utförts med fem personer som har afrikansk bakgrund och där syftet med intervjuerna var att låta dem berätta om sina upplevelser och erfarenheter av hatbrott.

Lean Production is used by many manufacturing companies. Companies in process industries do not use Lean Production to the same extent today. This is part of the report's issue to explore how Lean Production can be applied to a company in the process industries.The investigated company is a processing company that manufactures various types of foil. The company wishes to streamline its production and has therefore asked the authors to examine if Lean Production can offer the company improvements in their production. Lean Production value stream mapping tool has been selected to identify and analyze the current state of two of its products in production.

Sveriges skolor står inför många utmaningar med sjunkande kunskapsresultat och med en ökad andel elever som mår dåligt. Förutom sin kunskapsförmedlande uppgift har skolan även en fostrande roll. Denna studie belyser betydelsen och benämningen av socialt arbete i skolan. Syftet är att undersöka vad skolpersonal upplever att socialt arbete i skolan är samt hur det sätts i relation till kunskapskraven. Studien är präglad av en induktiv ansats och bygger på fem kvalitativa intervjuer i semistrukturerad form med en rektor, kurator, barn- och ungdomsassistent samt två lärare vid en kommunal grundskola.

This essay examine the meaning produced around bodies and body fat in the queer community, but also in the surrounding straight community. The author has interviewed fat activists, and are using queertehory, to examine and analyze the relationship between body fat and the understanding and construction of sexuality and gender. The author concludes that even if norms around body shape and body fat are overlapping between the two contexts to some degree, they also differ. In the straight community, people with larger body shapes and sizes are punished, and encouraged to stay, or become, slim. However, in the queer community, ?fat? or bigger body sizes are not frowned upon in the same degree.

This report will try to evaluate the use of rented concrete casting moulds, which are used to build walls and system of joists. The evaluation is only examining the economical aspects.The cost of using concrete casting moulds is a big part of the total production expenses. Therefore it is important that the calculated price not exceeds the final costs of the casting moulds. The calculated price is the price used in the process of making an offer.The evaluation consists of a comparison of the calculated price and the final costs for three building projects. It also evaluates the exploitation of the concrete casting moulds for each project.The report is made by Sven Gynne and Anders Alexandersson at School of Engineering, Jonkoping University, in cooperation with PEAB Jonkoping.

In light of the recent scandals in Europe involving food labelling, this study will be focusing on food labelling. This study?s purpose is to investigate the extent of knowledge concerning labeling and presentation of food in the different food stores in Halmstad.The study was conducted out of our own interests with the guidance from the environmental health office. The study included nine different food stores of different size. The focus in this study was to verify how well five selected products follow the labeling rules.

The smartphone is part of our daily life. Smartphone users type on a screen area that is no larger than the palm of a hand. To help with this endeavor the software known as AutoCorrect was created. However little is known about how AutoCorrect actually change the language and if AutoCorrect users at all perceive the impact it has. This study aims to find out if our test subjects are aware of AutoCorrect?s presence and how much it influences them.

The aim of this paper is to examine which attitudes and experiences teachers have around the wide text concept, which is found in the course plan for the Swedish subject, and to find out which function films have in their teaching. The starting point of the paper?s theoretical part is the Swedish subject?s course plans and current research concerning the wide text concept and film in teaching. In order to achieve the formulated aim, qualitative interviews have been performed with three Swedish teachers active in the later years of compulsory-school.The result shows that there are divided opinions of the actual meaning of the concept. However the three teachers agree that film has something to enrich the teaching of the Swedish language and they are for most part positive to using film in their teaching.

This study examines how managers in the public sector experience and manage their digital maturity in the context of digital transformation. The study is based on qualitative interviews with twelve managers and three developers in a municipality in western Sweden and is analyzed based on a theoretical framework that combines individuals digital maturity (DIMI model) with organizational conditions. The results show that managers' digital maturity is influenced by both individual and organizational factors. At the individual level, the importance of digital competence, self-efficacy, and willingness to participate in and lead change are emphasized. At the same time, organizational conditions such as coordination, resources, technical support and clear governance are required.

???This research traces the trajectory of those methods of teaching grammar that five different teachers in Swedish from Stockholm municipality use in their practice. ?Their both constructive and negative attitudes towards grammar were in fokus when looking after the connection between their own experience of learning/teaching native language grammar and the methods that they are actually using in their own classes. I was trying to gain knowledge and achieve the purpose of this research by means of a qualitativ method.

The purpose of this masters thesis is to examine the fanzine, a form of amateur publication, in Sweden, both in the traditional paper form and the more recent electronic form. It deals with what is distinctive about the fanzine as a publication and also as a social and cultural product. It also looks upon how the fanzine uses the Internet and the new possibilities it brings. The people behind 18 fanzines, 10 electronic and 8 in paper, have answered a questionnaire about how they produce, publish, distribute and promote their fanzines, what they think about the fanzine as a mode of expression, and how they use the Internet. The masters thesis uses theories within cultural studies as a theoretical approach to the fanzine.

The purpose of this study was to examine whether youth novels contained informationconcerning our society. We reviewed youth literature and its history in brief, including itscommencement and development from separate boys' and girls' novels to a common youthnovel after the Second World War.To obtain a clearer picture and a better understanding of youths, we read non-fiction, such asbooks, magazines and articles, concerning youth culture, its meaning and content. We decidedto review the period 1990-1994 more closely. We therefore set up selection criteria whichfinally resulted in 56 youth novels. We examined these novels to determine if and/or how theymatched the nine preselected areas that we felt were typical for the 1990's.

Background and problemThe biggest difference between companies and non-profit organizations are their purposes. Companies? purpose is to generate profit to the shareholders. Non-profit organizations do not have any shareholders and their purpose is to offer service to receivers of benefits.There are a lot of non-profit organizations today and the competition for the donations is rough. Non-profit organizations can influence the publics? decision of who to support by creating a financial reporting that appeal to the public.PurposeThe purpose of this essay is to examine how non-profit goals are measured in non-profit organizations and if there are a practice on the subject.MethodologyWe choose a qualitative approach as we wanted to understand the reality by explaining it with words.