Researchers claim that stress has become a word of fashion and is now frequently used. They also state that there is no accepted definition that can easily describe the concept. In this essay, I have examined children and stress. The aim of the diploma work is to illustrate stress more closely the stress concept, the underlying reasons that can influence children and how teachers and school staff support children in their stress handling. My three issues are: What is stress? What stressors put children, at home and at school, in a stress situation? How can teachers help children to manage their stress? The diploma work is based on a literature study in order to find out what has been written on the subject in earlier research.

This study has the purpose of looking at the current and future position of record labels from a context involving the technological developments, while the opportunities for the artists are changing. As the actors inside them music industry find themselves in an ever changing climate where traditional supply chains are threatened by new technology, the record labels need to change the way they work in order to maintain their existence in the music industry. The study has been conducted by interviewing a number of people involved in the music industry, by using a qualitative method approach. The conclusion of the study shows that the traditional way of doing business by treating music as a product that makes revenue is gone. Instead the labels have to take on new roles formerly run by third parties in order to survive and be profitable, especially since artists can now in control of activities that used to be controlled by the record label..

Through trading with countries that have a relative aboundant supply of labor, Sweden changes it's effective supply of labor, in a Factor Content perspective. This essay does two Factor Content analyses, one for year 1995 and one for 2000. The first comparison of these analyses shows that Sweden exports about 27 600 labor-years more year 2000 than 1995. However, since Factor Content analysis arguably underestimates the imported labor, some assumptions are made in order to correct for this. This correction has great importance for the final analysis.

The hotel sector has reviewed big changes, as higher requirements on independent hotels have been set. In order to be able to compete with big hotel chains, it is no longer sufficient to only use the 4P of marketing mix, it is also required a bigger focus on the personnel. Trained and service aimed employees are service companies' intangible assets and they become more important. Globalisation and internationalisation has however contributed to that the labor market has become more open, and employees easier can compare employment conditions or change job.The aim of this essay is to analyze and to evaluate conditions for the internal marketing at independent hotels, in order to be able to achieve employee loyalty. The essay builds on a comparison between managers' and employees' views about internal marketing.A qualitative hermeneutical study has been used in order to be able to analyze and evaluate conditions for the independent hotels' internal marketing.

Syftet med denna undersökning var att ta reda på hur kvinnor i medelåldern påverkas av kvinnoideal och hur detta påverkar deras sätt att se på sin egen identitet. Frågor kring sambandet att konsumerar varor till sig själv för att uppnå ett visst ideal. Metoden som jag använt mig av är en kvalitativ metod där empirin är insamlad genom sex intervjuer. Jag har huvudsakligen koncentrerat mig på hur informanterna uppfattar kvinnoideal, sin egen identitet, konsumtionen och reklamens påverkan. Teorier jag använt mig av är Zygmunt Baumans teori om konsumtionssamhället, Anthony Giddens teori om modernitet och självidentitet och Yvonne Hirdmans teori om genus.

När människor drabbas av en traumatisk kris som raserar deras vardag tvingas de till att försökabygga upp sin tillvaro igen. Vissa gör detta genom att blogga om sina tankar och känslorrörande krisen. Vad kommer det sig att så många väljer att visa upp sitt lidande i ett offentligtforum? Med hjälp av grundad teori undersöker vi de mest centrala aspekterna av och omkringkrisbloggande för att skapa en större förståelse för detta nutida fenomen. Genom intervjueroch studier av bloggar framkommer det att personer som bloggar får möjlighet att på egnavillkor göra sin röst hörd, sprida sin berättelse och reflektera över sin egen resa.

The purpose of this study was to find out how gender roles are described in two popular children?s detective stories, one of them written in 2002 and the other in 1946, to be able to compare the two. In order to do this, I used a qualitative research method in which I read and analyzed the text and illustrations of the books out of a gender perspective.I used gender theories describing how stereotypical gender roles are displayed, and these theories were later associated with the books I studied. I also used previous research concerning gender roles in other children's books in order to compare those results with my own.After having read, analyzed and compared the two books, I found vast resemblances between them, but also certain differences. However, it is obvious that the gender roles in both books for the most part are traditional.

Jag har i denna studie valt att titta på hur slöjdlärare arbetar och planerar sin undervisning i slöjd. Syftet var att se i vilken mån det finns utrymme till teoretiska avsnitt i undervisningen. Jag har fokuserat på hur slöjdlärarna låtit eleverna planera och utvärdera och reflektera över sina arbeten och försökt att se vilket utrymme teori ges i undervisningen. Jag har även försökt att se om slöjdämnet är integrerat med andra ämnen vilket i så fall skulle kunna öppna för en större variation i ämnet. Jag har gjort litteraturstudier som knyter an till ämnet och själv gjort fem kvalitativa intervjuer med utbildade slöjdlärare.

The purpose of this essay is to look at how museums design their activities as tourist destinations through the dissemination of history. In order to research this problem we have posed the following questions: How do museums act in order to animate and interpret history? What does the future hold for the museums? In order to find the answers to these questions we have made a deep-going analysis of the activities of four museums, Nordiska Museet, Etnografiska Museet, Historiska Museet and Naturhistoriska Museet. These museums have been analyzed by means of interviews, observations and the study of documents. Our theoretical perspective is informed by a hermeneutic perspective as well as Foucault´s definition of museums as institutions, and the concept of storytelling.

Uppsatsen är en studie av möjligheter och begränsningar när det gäller att på olika sätt kombinera psykodynamisk teori och systemteori i det kliniska arbetet med företrädesvis ungdomar och deras familjer. Genom litteraturstudier, genomgång av forskningsartiklar på området samt intervjuer med tre psykoterapeuter med utbildning och klinisk erfarenhet från båda teoriområdena, ges olika bilder av hur kombinationer av ovan teori och metod kan se ut och de svårigheter som finns. Uppsatsen berör även generella frågor kring att arbeta integrativt som psykoterapeut. Resultatet av studien visar att det går att kombinera ovan teorier/metoder och att de svårigheter som behöver hanteras, främst handlar om lojalitet och sekretess. Svårigheterna kräver en tydlighet från terapeutens sida när det gäller struktur för behandling och informationsflöde.

Aktiv dödshjälp är bara tillåtet på fem platser världen över och debatten om dess vara eller icke vara går i vågor. I Sverige är dödshjälp olagligt, dock är palliativ sedering (nedsöv-ning för symptomlindring) tillåtet även om det leder till att livet förkortas.Denna studie syftar till att undersöka den process som ligger bakom skapandet av män-niskors inställning till dödshjälp. Tidigare forskning inom området har inriktat sig på statis-tiskt paradigm, vilket begränsar forskningsområden och resultat samt även debatten kring ämnet. I uppsatsen har forskningen delats in i fyra kategorier, för- och emot forskning, kom-parativ forskning, övrig jämförande forskning samt övrig forskning.Fem intervjuer genomfördes med analytisk induktion som urvalsgrund med syfte att varje intervjuperson skulle slå hål på den tidigares uttalanden. Analysen genomfördes med hjälp av grundad teori.

Transportation constitutes a large part of the forest industry's raw material costs. Transport also contributes a significant proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions. In order to reduce both the cost and environmental impact different types of decision support are required. These, in turn, require extensive information about the road network and correct information on road path selection and transport distances. In the development of national road data base for forestry (SNVDB) a road selection application has been included.

Tomato production is a common and important agricultural activity in Nicaragua. During the last decades tomato producers have suffered great yield losses due to begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae). The genome of begomoviruses generally consists of two circular ssDNA components, DNA-A and DNA-B. Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is an example of a begomovirus with only one component. An approach to manage the virus epidemics has been to breed a cultivar with begomovirus resistance genes, which have been transferred from wild tomato.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to see how illustrators and illustrations are treated in Bibliotekstjänst?s binding booklets compared to how authors and texts are treated, i.e. the picture versus the printed word. My aim is to try and find out if librarians have the aids to acquire information about picture-book illustrators and illustrations in their selective work and reference work. In order to find out about this I need to examine the most common aid in this work, i.e.

This master thesis is one part of a project, called ?StabSim?, with the purpose to develop a simulation model for the align and stabilisation system in main battle tank 122. The origin of this project is that it should be possible to make control analysis without risking any hardware. Besides that it will be easy to change components in order to investigate the behaviour of the system. The report includes modelling of tower and weapon mechanics and also the modelling of the synchronous motors, which control these.