Background: Due to outsourcing, the material flows in the telecom equipment industry have undergone major changes, which in turn has imposed new challenges for packaging supplier Nefab who delivers to the industry. In order to achieve market intelligence, Nefab wants to map the material flows, and investigate possibilities of further reusable logistical packaging systems.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe the typical features of the logistical material flows in a technically based, rapidly growing industry, and analyze the driving forces and obstacles, which influence the selection of logistical packaging system. Procedure: After developing a theoretical framework consisting of general logistical theories and theories related to logistical packaging, we have interviewed companies in the logistics channel of Ericsson Radio Systems.Results: We have found the main characteristics of material flows in our investigated industry to be Variations in Demand, Focus on Time-to-Customer, and Globalization of Logistics Channels. Regarding driving forces and obstacles in the selection of logistical packaging systems, we have identified Transportation Characteristics, Customer Demands, Quality, Handling & Administration, and Current Packaging System as important factors..

The purpose of this study was to gain greater knowledge of how preschool teachers and children using an experimental- and activity box in biology. To find this out, I have used the participant observation method and semi-structured interviews since my study is qualitative. The result of the work led to a greater understanding of the biologybox. It was shown that preschool teachers' involvement is very important for children and that the biologybox contained good and inspiring materials. Although educators desired that there was more material to choose from as well as the usage time of the biologybox should be longer than 3 weeks..

Purpose/Aim: To examine whether or not there is such a thing as bloggbullying, and if so, how this manifests itself among female bloggers.Material/Method: To analyze the material, which consists of comments made on a total of 75 posts made on three different blogs, a quantitative method as well as a qualitative critical discourse analysis was used.Main result: Several similarities between Anatol Pikas definition of bullying and the results were found, and the conclusion is that there is such a thing as bloggbullying..

From the customer?s perspective the only reason for a firm to exist is the value it creates. However, a problem within manufacturing companies is that of the total lead time, only a small part can be considered as value adding. It has further been discovered that when working with improvements businesses often sub-optimizes single processes instead of considering what benefits the entire company. Thus, when improving processes and activities it is important to have knowledge about and understand which factors that affect how the flow can be designed.Several studies have been performed with a wide perspective on process flows in order to obtain a more resource-efficient and value added flow.

Syftet med arbetet är att konstruera en vardaglig jacka som fungerar oavsett väder, genom att undersöka krav och behov, kartlägga tillgängliga metoder, samt möjligheter att enbart använda ytbehandling som regnskydd. Kraven ställs genom att studera litteratur, samt genom en enkätundersökning. Metoderna att uppnå vattentäta textilier kategoriseras i tre grupper; mikroporösa beläggningar och laminat, hydrofila beläggningar och laminat och väldigt tätvävt material. Dess egenskaper presenteras i rapporten, framförallt tätvävt material som visade sig vara det mest passande material för jackans syfte. Möjligheten att uppnå tillräcklig vattentäthet med enbart ytbehandling testades genom att behandla olika bomullstyger, med ytbehandlingar av olika substanser.

This report is a result of a project that been conducted on System Andersson. System Andersson sells and develops MPS-systems for small and medium sized manufacturing companies. System Andersson are today located in the central parts of Jönköping and has about 20 employees. The goal for the project is to develop a new version of Andersson Qwick mps. The project has been divided into a number of smaller projects were the authors been part of the planning module project.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad som är legitimt återbruk och användning av någon annans tidigare designat material, i nya formgivna produkter eller verk. Frågeställningarna som diskuterats i arbetet är; Hur mycket av någon annans tidigare formgivna material får återanvändas i kommersiella återbruksprodukter?Vad är legitimt bruk av ?ready-mades? i konstnärliga verk?Anses det vara ett konstnärligt verk när konstnären inte själv åstadkommit alla delar av verket? Dessa frågeställningar har diskuterats utifrån juridiska och moraliska perspektiv. Som metod användes en litteraturbaserad studie av juridisk litteratur som behandlar immaterialrätt, avgränsat till bestämmelser av lag i Sverige. De juridiska reglerna jämfördes sedan med etiska teorier.

AbstractTitle: A democratic organisation - one click away? A quantitative content analysis which studies the potential of democratic communication through intranet use.Authors: Stina Gabrielsson and Jill Johansson VennelinPurpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is potential for democratic communication within the NGOs through intranet use.Key questions to be answered were: To what extent is authority versus members represented on the intranet Klick?s discussion forum? What/which communication-related functions out of social function, knowledge transferring and debate are featured in the posts published on the intranet Klick?s discussion forum? Are deliberative discussions being practiced in the discussion forumthreads on the intranet Klick? The thesis is based on the theory of deliberative democracy. In order to substantiate the theory has theoretical perspectives concerning participation and involvement also been applied. These perspectives are derived from organizational theory and internal communication.Method/Material: This study consists of a quantitative content analysis of the 477 posts and the 129 discussion threads available on the NGO RFSU?s intranet Klick the 29th of november 2012.Main results: The results show that 63, 4 percent of those who were active in the discussionforum represented the category authority, while the category members were formed by 36, 6 percent.

Syftet med denna undersökning är att lyfta fram hur förskollärarna tänker i sina didaktiska val av lekmaterial i den fria leken. Dessa val kan påverka barns lärande och utveckling i den fria leken genom regler gällande olika materials användande. Genom material kan barn i sin fantasi omvandla ett material med ett specifikt användningsområde till något helt annat, då barn gärna transformerar material så de passar in i den fria leken. Dessa tankar baseras på det sociokulturella perspektivet.Metoden som används är intervjuer då utgångspunkten är att förstå och beskriva hur förskollärare tänker om sitt handlande, vår ansats utgår därför från ett kognitivistiskt perspektiv. Resultatet baseras på sex intervjuer av förskollärare.Resultatet som framkom i undersökningen var att samtliga förskollärare tänkte på att ge barnen fri tillgång till allt material i en tillåtande miljö.

Syftet med uppsatsen var att ta reda på mer om matematiksvårigheter och pedagogers syn och erfarenhet av detta. Syftet var även att finna ny kunskap om olika arbetssätt, vilket resulterade i insikten om olika laborativa material och dess betydelse för matematikundervisningen.Författarna valde att genomföra studien med hjälp av att låta pedagogerna skriva berättelser. För att vinna ny kunskap har författarna delvis använt sig av hermeneutisk metod för att se helheten genom de olika komplexa delarna.I studien har det visat sig att det är flera faktorer som påverkar elevers matematiska svårigheter. Det kan vara allt ifrån den kognitiva förmågan hos eleven till den omgivande miljön.Uppsatsen har givit författarna många tankar kring hur man kan arbeta med framförallt laborativt material. Några spännande förslag finns under sammanfattande avslutning där de presenterar vad man skulle kunna studera vidare..

The purpose of this report is to simplify the process of designing carbon fiber strengthening for existing concrete constructions, specifically beams. The intention has been to establish a flow chart containing information on the necessary testing and calculations for the design, to as far degree it is possible satisfy the requirements stipulated by Swedish and by extension, European authorities.To do this the report will examine a parking garage situated underground by Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala. The parking garage was built in the mid-seventies, and has in recent years been subjected to a greater load than designed for by the construction of a road on top of it. FEM-Design has been used to obtain the internalforces of the beams and thereby determine whether they are in need of strengthening or not and thereafter design the strengthening according to Täljsten (2006) with some corrections from Täljsten (2011) due to new regulations.The result of this report is that the flow chart used is viable to design carbon fiber strengthening, atleast with the conditions met in our reference project.The conclusion drawn after working with this report is that there is a need for a clear standard for carbon fiber strengthening , preferably a standard that can be used throughout Europe..

This paper is an assessment of whether the Nordic countries constitute an optimum currency area (OCA) or not. Hodrick Prescott-­?filtered data of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and rate of employment are used to investigate the similarity of business cycles between the target countries through a series of correlation analysis with Sweden as the base reference country and also by using a linear regression model. Additionally there is an evaluation of trade volume and labour mobility between the countries. Our results indicate that Iceland had the least similar business cycles within the Nordic countries and that the area should therefore possibly comprise Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. .

This paper is an account of the work around the arrangement and registration of the archive of the Swedish Art-ists? Association?s archive. The Swedish Artists? Association is an association of artists that both makes exhibi-tions for their members? works and handles the Artists? House, called Konstnärshuset in Swedish. During the work with the archive the author faced a number of challenges and problems.

Organic cotton has been in the medias field of vision for quite some time. This interestalso reflects in a growing awareness in the textile industry where more and morecompanies today offer organic cotton in their product range. With this in mind wequestion whether organic cotton has become a viable commercial product. We alsoacknowledge there is a lacking of understanding the complex problems that organiccotton manufacture involves, for example the huge effort and cost required for a transitionfrom conventional to organic cotton farming.The purpose of this paper was to study how textile, ecology and competition today arebeing combined by companies. We wanted with our investigation to find out whethercompanies in the textile industry use ecology as a competitive advantage.

I dagens samhälle råder det ofta en bristande kunskap hos butikspersonal gällande textila material, och de har ofta problem med att besvara kundernas frågor gällande exempelvis krympning, fällning eller tvättråd. För att en butik ska kunna utmärka sig från e-handeln är det av största vikt att personalen är experter på dessa frågor. Syftet med examensarbetet är att undersöka om den textila materialkunskapen hos butikspersonal är tillräckligt god för att matcha kundens förväntningar. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av tidigare forskning, samt egna undersökningar. Vi har utformat och genomfört två olika enkäter, en riktad till butikspersonal och en till kunder, samt genomfört en deltagande observation i butik.