The members of the OECD have agreed on giving aid assistance to developingcountries in a way of promoting their own capacity of handling the challengeof poverty and development. The members also cooperate and coordinate theiraid to recipient countries in the purpose of giving as effective assistance aspossible. The aid from these countries is often intended to human rights,democracy and has a humanitarian idea. This is the way from the OECDcountries. The Chinese way of giving aid mostly aimed at the industry of therecipient to promote the economic growth to lift the country out of poverty.The Chinese way do not aim or intend their aid at promoting human rights ordemocracy, often just industry and infrastructure.

Urban forests are important for people to get at break and be able to relax in a stressful world. Several studies show that we feel better through being out in the forest and historically this was the normal environment for us. As a result of population growth and urbanization we tend to spend less time in nature nowadays than before. Due to this development urban forests have become a central role in our society as a place where people can fulfill their needs and interests. The management of the urban forest is therefore important, especially for municipalities that own forest which is supposed to be of benefit to local residents.Falköpings municipality owns approximately 260 hectares of forest in the popular and most visited recreational area along Mösseberg?s southern slope.

The purpose of this research is to examine some historical aspects of Robert Putnam?s thesisabout voluntary associations and social capital. According to a micro perspective theory ofsocial capital the trust and reciprocity required and created by associations is important toexplain the disparity between institutional performance and socioeconomic development ofsocieties. The social patterns governing this therefore set a precedent for the future. Using themutual sickness benefit societies in Sweden as variable for voluntary associations around1884, the essay discusses the possible links between social capital, associations and long termeconomic development.

This report is on concrete work during the winter and is implemented on Peab?s behalf. The assignment was to describe the differences between a summer- and a winter casting. While it shows the complications that exists, it also show what aids are available, both electronic via computer and physical aids.The information that I have developed is originally from theory in books, information on the internet as well as practical experience from knowledgeable people that works in construction output. Other theories are those I have learned throughout the education to become a construction engineer, including all oral sources over the years.The results I have come up with, I hope will be able to help future construction projects in the planning phase of a winter casting.

In this study our aim is to display a series of possible mechanisms which operateswithin the regions and societies were child soldiers were frequently andextensively used in combat tasks. Our study is based on the assumption thattoday's peace-building strategies are inadequate to describe certain problemsfaced by many post-conflict countries, especially in Africa. We argue that largeformations of child soldiers will, if not properly and immediately addressed, causeserve and structural problems in society, gravely hampering growth andinstitutional capacity. The Issues of Post Traumatic Stress and societal insecuritybrought on by the use of child soldiers poses a serious threat to society as a whole.In this study we use Uganda as an illustrative case to describe the mechanisms atwork..

Titel: Sluten societetsborg eller trygg fristad?Författare: Emma Karlsson & Jani KorhonenKurs: Examensarbete i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Institutionen för journalistisk och masskommunikation vid Göteborgs UniversitetTermin: Höstterminen 2008Handledare: Karin FogelbergSidantal: 35 exkl. bilagorUppdragsgivare: Fastighetsägarna Göteborg Första Regionen.Syfte: Vårt syfte är att, ur ett trygghetsperspektiv, undersöka hur människor som på olika sätt har erfarenhet av Eriksberg upplever området där.Metod och material: 5 stycken kvalitativa djupintervjuer med personer som har koppling till Eriksberg, intervjuerna var av semistrukturerad karaktär och spelades in med bandspelare, varefter de transkriberades till text.Huvudresultat: Våra resultat visar att Eriksberg är ett område som upplevs som modernt och tryggt, men samtidigt också som en form av segregation, då endast vissa har råd att bo där. De visar även att arkitekturen spelar en roll för människors upplevelse av trygghet, bland annat att de känner sig mer trygga med ökad belysning..

The purpose with this essay is to examine the phenomenon SMS in TV. Partly by identify the communication process behind the phenomenon and partly by describing it in a editorial and technical point of view. We have analysed the communication process regarding scientific theories in communication, interaction and convergence. With a qualitive approach we have fulfilled four interviews and two small ethnographical field observations. Objects for the interviews and observations have been two Swedish produced debate-programs, broadcasted in TV; Diskus in TV4 and Debatt in SVT2.

Our society has become increasingly digitized, and all around us information flows constantly. Knowledge about valuing different sources of information, and not least the information itself, are becoming increasingly important. Media and information have come to play a big role in our society, and knowledge of media and information literacy becomes important to learn in school. High school students are at the beginning of their adult lives as educated citizens.In this study, we measured high school students experience of media and information literacy, during their three years in high school. Students answered a questionnaire, with questions based upon theoretical concepts in media and information literacy.

The goal of this qualitative essay is to approach the knowledge of people who commit crimes. From a development psychology point of view, questions relating to childhood ang growth are some of the important subjects we choose to discuss. Our purpose is also to reveal the linkage between criminal behavior and different theories of the above mentioned perspective. To bridge the gap between the general and the individual, our survey was based on profound interviews with four inmates in prison. This offer an opportunity to capture the individual´s inner thoughts, feelings and experience about the criminal action.

Research now shows that the Individual Educational Programs (IEP) are dominated by individual- oriented actions. This despite the fact that the school`s policy documents advocate that IEP should be viewed in context of the school`s activities. Support must be seen from a holistic perspective and the student`s difficulties will be related to the whole school environment. In an attempt to understand why the individual- oriented actions are still there, I have studied how specific IEP are formulated, and how it relates to the school`s policy documents.In the study, I used discourse theory as a method. By examining the I E P in educational activity, I wanted to find the meaning with which the concept of individual, group and organizational level were filled.The results show that the IEP in comparison with the policy documents mainly differ on the definition of group and organizational level.

Denna studie inriktar sig på bevarande av åkermarksareal utifrån ett hållbart resurshanteringsperspektiv. Syftet är att analysera förutsättningarna för åkermarkens bevarande genom en kartläggning av faktiskt och önskvärt handlingsutrymme på regional nivå i Sverige. Studien utgår ifrån ett induktivt förhållningssätt men har fäste i vetenskaplig litteratur om lagar/reglers efterlevnad och implementeringsbarriärer. Det empiriska materialet bygger på en metodikkombination. Intervjuer har utförts vid Östergötlands länsstyrelse för att kartlägga det praktiska, upplevda samt önskvärda handlingsutrymme för åkermarkens bevarande.  En textanalys av lagar, mål -och policydokument har kompletterat intervjuanalysen genom att synliggöra den regionala nivåns formella handlingsutrymme i frågan.

The purpose of this study is to search and analyze different logics that operators use in the work of helping juvenile delinquents to break their criminal behavior. New institutional theory is used in this study to analyze the results. The study was conducted through qualitative interviews of six professionals in two municipalities which work with juvenile delinquency. There are two questions that we want to address in this study. The first one is what methods the social workers are using in two middle large municipalities to help youth to brake there criminal behavior.

The structure of the thesis is based on opportunities to attract businesses to the region, the need of establishments in the region and benchmarking with establishment strategies of other cluster initiatives. The identified opportunities are the local business relationship with ABB, the prerequisites of life quality in the region and the availability of financial support. Further on has a number of opportunities to be developed been identified; diversification of the existing businesses, an expansion of the cooperation with universities and to simplify the contact with local authorities. Challenges that HVV is facing is: creating a more dynamic labor market, secure long-term labor supply, spread the image of the brand HVV and finally putting HVVs geographic scope. Two of the identified needs of establishments are strategically important: to establish a third-party logistician and commercializing systems for distributed generation and energy storage.

Vårt syfte med detta arbete är att undersöka hur två- och flerspråkiga barns olika språk påverkar varandra i förskolan, samt hur förskolan påverkar de olika språken. Vi vill även undersöka hur pedagogerna kan få kompetens, utbildning och hjälp att stödja dessa barn i förskolan. Vi har valt att göra en kvalitativ studie på två olika förskolor, där vi gjort intervjuer och observationer som fokuserat på barnens flera språk, pedagogernas arbetssätt och kompetensutveckling. I examensarbetet har vi kommit fram till att olika förskolor arbetar på olika sätt med flerspråkighet, och att det är både en regional och en lokal fråga, som beror på ekonomi och vad förskolorna prioriterar. Förskolorna i studien har båda ett stort antal flerspråkiga barn, men prioriterar olika när det kommer till hur de arbetar med flerspråkighet.

This study analyzes the political view of criminality and crime politics in three political parties in the Swedish parliament, Socialdemokraterna, Folkpartiet and Moderaterna. The study seeks to describe which kind of view these parties present on the criminality in our society. The material for this study is the ideologies that the parties descend from which are, socialism, liberalism and conservatism, the political programs of these three parties have also been studied as well as the parties proposals, political documents in the Swedish parliament. The current public debate shows that the crime politics is an attractive question and the parties may seem to have similar proposals on how to lower the criminality in our society. The theory that has been used to describe the results of the study is ?actors and structures? and the results are related to this theory as well as the theory has been used as an instrument to explain and sort the material and the results.The results of the study show that the parties are different in their views on criminality as a problem in our society.