The aim of this two year master thesis is to analyze how digital preservation is presented as a problem in the Swedish national strategy for the digitization and digital preservation of the Swedish cultural heritage. In order to study which assumptions about digital preservation exists within the strategy I apply the discourse oriented methodological tools presented by Carol Lee Bacchi, which focuses on discerning what problem or, rather, representation of a problem exists within a specific policy. This study is a post-structuralist discourse analysis. The main focus of the study is on what assumptions and prerequisites the dominating representation of the problem is based upon and how the representation has evolved. The main material of the study consists of public investigations conducted by the Swedish state, governmental propositions and replies as well as other public documents upon which Bacci's methodological tools are applied.Results show that digital preservation is primarily interpreted as a financial problem as the national strategy and its surrounding documents stress the need of cost-efficient solutions.

The purpose of this essay is to discuss relationality in G.W Leibnizs Monadologie (1714). In general terms this essay analyzes the notion of individuation in relation to the concept of monads. The analysis proposes a question regarding the body in this individuation, and what consequences follows for the understanding of the relation between the single individual and other individuals. It will be shown that the irreducibility of having a body transcendens something like ownness, subjectivity, personality and individuation, and this is explained through the pre-established harmony between the monads ? where the plurality of monads is detected before the monads singularity. To widen this investigation of relationality between the monads, I will turn to Edmund Husserls phenomenological operation for solving the egological problem of solipsism in Cartesian Meditations (1929). In his meditations, Husserl uses the monad as a self-conscious ego with peculiar ownness.

This project has revolved around finding better ways of overseeing vibrations of the gearbox at a wind power station. The gearbox has been a huge problem at the stations located at Gässlingen and the sooner the warning of an incoming breakdown is at hand the more money you can save from preparations. The work has been carried out together with Askalon AB in cooperation with consults from ÅF. Askalon is a company with a department focused on overseeing vibrations and it is in collaboration with that department the work has been carried out. During this work, new positions for the sensors and new methods of gathering and analyzing data have been worked out. This was then implemented at a wind power station to be tried out on site.

Den ekonomiska utvecklingen i Kina har varit snabbare än i något annat land och idag tillhör Kina toppskiktet bland världens ledande ekonomier. År 2001 blev Kina en fullvärdig medlem i WTO vilket gjorde att Kinas näringsliv öppnades upp allt mer för utländska företag och investeringar, men den kinesiska staten vill inte helt släppa kontrollen över vissa strategiskt viktiga marknader. Beroende på bransch, verksamhet eller etableringsform är förutsättningarna olika. Det finns alltså många specifika faktorer och förhållanden som kan skapa möjligheter eller problem för företag som skall etablera sig i Kina. Syftet med den här studien är att synliggöra just de specifika möjligheter och problem som finns på den kinesiska marknaden och hur svenska företag som har valt att etablera sig i Kina upplever dessa..

Rapporten beskriver hur ett processavsnitt vid Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner i Piteå fungerar och hur reglerkretsarna i detta processavsnitt optimeras för att fungera så bra som möjligt. Optimeringen av kretsarna sker genom Lambdametoden och genom polkancellation. För kretsarna som är optimerade jämförs hur de fungerar före optimering mot hur de fungerar efter optimeringen. Processflödet för Stripper 2 är stabilare efter optimeringen. För Stripper 3 finns problem som inte kan lösas genom optimering av kretsarna.

This thesis is an analysis based on the problem of defining a humanitarian intervention and argues when or not, it is appropriate to operate it. The interest lies in finding out whether the argument itself is justifiable,not whether the act of interference was justifiable. My hypothesis is that both private and international operatios misuse the definition "humanitarian interventions" as an excuse to trespass the laws of war. Behind the idea of protecting human rights, freedom and democracy, is the liberalist idea of all individuals being equal. The respect for their freedom and rights drives outside actors to intervene when crimes are comitted against them.

GIS är inte längre en ny teknologi utan har funnits i snart fem decennier. Trots det har GIS inte hittat sin plats i den svenska gymnasieskolan, jämfört med t.ex. webb-design och andra datorteknikkurser som har funnits under en kortare tid. På den tekniska gymnasieutbildningen på Polhemsskolan i Gävle har GIS-utbildning bedrivits sedan 1999.De slutsatser som framkommer i rapporten är att en teknisk GIS-utbildning inte enbart är för elever på tekniska gymnasieutbildningar utan även för elever på andra gymnasieprogram eftersom de har samma förutsättningar att lära sig verktyget. Det konstateras även att det genom åren har funnits både nationella och internationella problem med att införa GIS-undervisning i gymnasieskolan.

During the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century Sweden experienced social changes. The proceeding industrialization led to a process of urbanization where people were forced, more or less, in to the cities to find work. The traditional agricultural self-sufficiency society was successively replaced by salaried employment. This meant that family and home was no longer the major centre of production, nurturance and care. In order to support themselves and their families, even women applied for industrial work.

Forskningen visar att förändringar av informationsteknologin och en ökande anskaffning av nya programvaror har lett till underliggande problem som kan drabba heterogena programvarulicensmiljöer och stora organisationer. Underliggande problem i den stora kontexten är mjukvaruhantering. Licenshantering av programvaror är just en förgrening av det stora problemet. Stora organisationer som en kommunal verksamhet är drabbad av det här underliggande problemet på grund av komplexitet hos organisationens miljö. Att tillämpa förändringar i området programvarulicens är omöjligt utan att göra förändringar i hela den organisationsprocess som följer med det.

Title: Information storage - A growing problem? Authors: Göran Svanhall Pär Truedsson Erik Ponnert Tutor: Bengt Carlsson Problem: Every day companies, regardless of size, produces new information that needs to be stored. In the information society of today, the characteristics of the information changes both in size and complexity. This results in higher demands on which storage solution that suits the company and their field of business. New and more innovating storage solutions enters the market, but are they necessary to smaller companies of development active in the IT society? Questions to Answer: Is data storage a growing problem for companies of development active in the IT society? How do traditional storage solutions manage the information growth of today? How urgent is the need of a new storage solution? Which features are prioritized in the future storage solution? Method: By performing a quantitative survey we delivered an inquiry to several companies, which answers will help us answering our above mentioned questions. Conclusion: The consulted companies experience no growing problems what so ever regarding their existing storage solution..

The aim of this thesis is to analyze how small and medium-sized management consulting firms in Sweden work with human resource management during digital transformation. By interviewing companies, this study explores their approach to attracting, recruiting, and developing competence. The results showed that management consulting firms have good access to candidates, made possible by having a strong corporate culture and attractive working conditions - Crucial parts for attracting talent. Social media and networking are frequently used for marketing and attracting interesting candidates. Digital tools and social media showed to be useful during the recruitment process, but personal contacts and networking still play a central role.

The aim of this study was to analyze how discourses about domestic violence emerges in policy and practice, and to investigate how those discourses may change from a structural, political level to a local, practical level. The research questions focused how the problem of domestic violence is formulated at national and local level, scrutinizing the different discourses framing and reproducing the causes and solutions of the problem, and also to deduce how different context affects formulations. The empirical material consists of policy plans and interviews with social workers. The findings indicates that the issue of domestic violence is articulated differently on different levels. In action plans on the national level, the domestic violence is formulated within a structural discourse, being a problem on a (gender-) political level, whereas professional social workers recognizes domestic violence as a personal problem within an individual oriented discourse.

Background: The nursing profession involves meetings and situations which can be stressful. The work environment can cause additional stress in the form of time pressure, lack of support from colleagues, management or disgruntled family members and patients. This places the nurse in a position that requires a sharpened ability to handle stress. It can become overwhelming and unmanageable and cause a serious threat to the nurse's health and wellbeing. To handle stress the nurses uses different coping strategies.Aim: The aim of the review was to gain a better understanding of how nurses deal with occupational stress.Method: A systematic literature overview study based on eleven articles, including both qualitative and quantitative studies.Results: Nurses deal with stress in different ways based on their own resources.

Genetiska algoritmer, som baseras på den biologiska evolutionen, har historiskt sett används till att lösa komplexa problem med väldigt stora lösningsrymder.I den här rapporten beskriver vi hur vi implementerar en genetisk algoritm och en hissmodell, och undersöker möjligheterna att med hjälp av den genetiska algoritmen konstruera ett välfungerande hisstyrningssystem.Trots att vi inte lyckas få fram ett tillfredsställande hisstyrningssystem, finner vi potential att lösa dylika problem med genetiska algoritmer, och redogör för hur man kan göra det..

Bakgrund: IT-företag väljer att i allt högre utsträckning utlokalisera sin verksamhet till låglöneländer. Detta fenomen är dock förenat med en del kvalitetsrelaterade problem vilket kan skapa extra kostnader för dessa företag. Ett sätt att hantera dessa problem är att säkerhetsställa kunskapskapitalet som finns inom företaget genom en fungerande kunskapsöverföring. Ett etablerat verktyg för att arbeta med detta på nationell nivå är genom agila metoder, som en kommunikativ kunskapsöverföringsmetod. Syfte: I vår studie vill vi undersöka hur ett svenskt IT-bolag förebygger kvalitetsrelaterade problem i samband med offshoring av IT-tjänster till Indien. För att få svar på det har vi valt att titta på vilken betydelse agila metoder, som en kommunikativ kunskapsöverföringsmetod, har. Resultaten och slutsats: Vår studie ger belägg för att agila metoder motverkar ett hierarkiskt styre samt överbryggar kvalitetsrelaterade problem i företag som agerar på en internationell marknad med krosskulturella interaktioner..