This Master?s Thesis aims to illustrate in what ways the two Swedish environmental assessment tools, the Environmental Load Profile and EcoEffect differ and if performed valuations gives different results and environmental goals.The built urban environment causes about half the environmental loading in Sweden. The society?s ambition towards sustainable development has resulted in demands reducing the environmental load. One way to accomplish this change is with the assistance of tools for environmental assessment of the built environment.

To manage the industry?s need of wood assortments in a optimal and cost effective way the forest companies need to have knowledge of the actual standing volume and the yield of the planned clear cuts. The mean volume of the trunk is also important since it is important for the contractors prices. Today the total volume are estimated either with Näslund (1940) or Brandels (1990) functions of volumes, and the yield is estimated with Rune Ollas (1980) function for trunks and stands. The purpose of this study has been to answer the following questions: How good is the yield forecast with data collected with currently used methods? How well can the yield forecasts became with data collected according to the instructions? How well can the yield forecast be with data collected according to the instruction and calculated with the program Aptan for theoretical bucking? The study has been initiated and financed by SCA Skog AB.The material consisted of a number of randomly selected objects ready for clear cut.

In this thesis recruiter?s attitudes and usage of social media within the media business has been examined. The purpose was to find out whether a certain type of behavior in social media could or could not lead to a future employment. How much weight is put on the virtual identity and what does recruiters look for when the look someone up on the internet. Personal interviews with recruiters were done in six different media companies in Stockholm to find out how they used social media when searching and employing new employers.

Sweden?s forestry legislation was updated in 2010 and a new definition of forest land was introduced. This definition was adapted to the one used by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for international statistics on the state of the world's forests. It is in short based on the lands ability to grow forest that reaches 5 meters, 10 % canopy closure and has a continuous distribution, according to FAO at least 0.5 hectares. A country-wide laser scanning is now carried out for the production of a new national elevation model; the laser data also provides information on forest height and density.

In this thesis recruiter?s attitudes and usage of social media within the media business has been examined. The purpose was to find out whether a certain type of behavior in social media could or could not lead to a future employment. How much weight is put on the virtual identity and what does recruiters look for when the look someone up on the internet. Personal interviews with recruiters were done in six different media companies in Stockholm to find out how they used social media when searching and employing new employers.

Syftet med detta arbete var att genom intervjuer med förskollärare och personal på lekterapin undersöka hur barn sörjer samt hur förskollärare och personal på lekterapin kan hjälpa barn att bearbeta sorg genom leken. Vi har även undersökt om det finns någon handlingsplan på förskolorna då det gäller arbetet med barn som är i sorg. Resultatet visar att barn sörjer på olika sätt och att de sörjer i perioder. När barn bearbetar sin sorg gör de det genom att till exempel leka och rita. Resultaten visar även att vuxna bör finnas där för barnen som är i sorg.

This thesis suggests an explanation for how it is possible for individuals living in an unsafe neighborhood to expressa highlevel of security. Araby is the district in Växjö municipality withthe highest level of insecurity. Within the district, there is acategory of individuals in security-measurements showing a high degree of security. Inhabitants living in house in Araby also seem to show a higher level of security than inhabitants in the same accommodation in other neighborhoods in the municipality.The study's purpose is to understand how individuals belonging to an unsafe neighborhood can experience a high degree of security.Qualitative data were collected from an observation in Araby and from interviews with individuals living in house in the district.Previous research has shown that security in the surrounding area depends on several factors, such as disorders, the degree of social control and personal opinions. Thestudy shows how a distinction to places and people in the district can explain the degree of security.

SammanfattningStudien syftade till att få en djupare förståelse för hur personal inom äldreomsorgen upplever effekterna av ett kvalitetsarbete. Studien hade följande frågeställningar:? Hur beskriver personalen kvalitetsarbetet och effekterna av detta?? Hur ter sig arbetssituationen med fokus på arbetsgrupp och delaktighet efter det genomförda kvalitetsarbetet?För att besvara frågorna utgick intervjun från tre teman, kvalitetsarbete, delaktighet och arbetsgrupp. Vår vetenskapsfilosofiska utgångspunkt har varit hermeneutisk och resultatet av intervjuerna har analyserats utifrån humanistisk teori, systemteori samt Angelöws teori om förändringsarbete i organisationer.Studien visar att det har varit viktigt för personalen att få vara delaktig i kvalitetsarbetet och att detta motiverade och inspirerade dem. Vidare visade studien att personalen upplever att arbetsgruppen har blivit mer öppen och tillåtande samt att den stress som de tidigare upplevt minskat och att arbetsglädjen har ökat.

The purpose of this study was to try to develop a better understanding of the process that being a member in a new religious movement might imply, and to find out how the identity of a defector changes from the time upon entering the movement, while they are within the movement and after leaving the movement. We also wanted to examine what kind of help and support would be needed around a defection. The study focuses on identity and our questions were: How does the defector describe him/herself and his/her identity before joining the new religious movement until the period after defecting? What demand for support and help may there be when defecting from new religious movement? The theoretical starting point was The Identity Theory, Structural Role Theory and KASAM. A qualitative method was used and four defectors from new religious movements were interviewed.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur den psykosociala boendemiljön är för personer som bor i särskilt boende som insats via LSS med särskilt fokus på förekomsten av hot- och våldsituationer. Studien har genomförts vid särskilda boenden i en kommun i mellersta Sverige. För att få svar på syftet samlades data in genom kvalitativa intervjuer med personal som grundade sig på öppna frågor. Forskningsfrågorna i studien har varit: I vilken utsträckning kan de boende påverka sin psykosociala boendemiljö? Hur arbetar personalen för att minska hot- och våldsituationer? Hur stor insyn ger personalen de boendes företrädare i hot- och våldsituationer som uppstår på boendet? Som stöd vid intervjuerna har jag haft en intervjuguide med frågor som var kopplade till forskningsfrågorna.

In many biomedical contexts, e. g. when evaluating hearing disorders, the data obtained can be described as pairs (x1, y1), ?, (xn, yn) where x is a quantitative variable and y a 0/1 variable whose probability of taking the value 1 is a monotonic function of x. One way of analysing such data is to perform probit regression; thereby two parameters, b0 (= the constant) and b1 (= the slope) are estimated; the interest centres around m = -b0/b1, i.

LKAB använder i rekryteringssammanhang personlighetstest i syfte att om möjligt förutsäga hur kandidater agerar vid givna situationer i det framtida arbetet som produktionschef. Företaget använder Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) och känner sig inte tillfredsställda med detta, då kandidaternas personliga egenskaper uppfattas annorlunda vid anställningsintervjun än vad testet visar. På uppdrag av LKAB har olika personlighetstest analyserats och jämförts mot LKAB:s kravspecifikation på produktionschefer. Genom intervjuer med HR-advisors på LKAB samlades information in om produktionschefernas personliga egenskaper, LKAB:s rekryteringsprocess och om personlighetstestet. Med utgångspunkt från företagets kravspecifikation för produktionschefer jämfördes personlighetstesten Gordon Personal Profile Inventory, NEO Personality Inventory-Revised, Hogan Personality Inventory, Sixteen Personality Factor och Temperament and Character Inventory med hjälp av en litteraturstudie.

Patienter i behov av palliativ omvårdnad finns på många vårdenheter och målet med modern palliativ vård är att främja livskvalitet. I vården har personalens bemötande stor betydelse för patienters välmående. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av det goda mötet i palliativ omvårdnad. Arton vetenskapliga artiklar analyserades med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Detta resulterade i tre kategorier: att få omsorg utan att behöva fråga, att bli sedd som människa inger hopp, att lita på personalens kunskaper.

The domain of this thesis is Personal Information Management (PIM) which is a sub-domain to human-computer interaction (HCI) that specifically concerns the interaction between human and information. The purpose of the study is to make an exploration of information management in a scientific research setting, to study which tools and strategies for information interaction that are used in the context and to suggest possible improvements of today's practices. Three in-depth interviews with scientific researchers have been conducted followed by a qualitative analysis of the results. The results show that there are great variations among the three respondents and that there can be distinguished as much as 15 different dimensions that when put together forms a unique PIM profile for each individual. The recommendation following this is that tools for PIM have to allow a high degree of individualisation.

This report is a market research for the company 4 Body and Mind, a start-up company that works with personal training online. They wanted to know if the market for elderly care could be interesting for them to enter. This report is hence a research of the market for health and welfare technology in elderly care within the public sector in Sweden. A general fact is that the world's population is getting older. This combined with rapid growth of individuals in the age 65+ changes the demands on the elderly care in Sweden?s municipalities.