The purpose of this essay is to perform an evaluation regarding retrieval performance of three web search engines. The search engines included are All the Web, Alta Vista and Google. These have been tested using ten queries within different subject areas chosen by the author. The first twenty hits for each question have been analyzed for relevancy. Relevancy is judged on a three-point scale; 0, 0,5 and 1 where 0 goes to irrelevant and inactive or duplicate documents, 0,5 point goes to partially relevant documents and 1 point goes to highly relevant documents.

Informationsso?kningar av olika slag sker dagligen va?rlden o?ver och so?kresultatet kan ma?nga ga?nger vara sa? stort att anva?ndarna har sva?rt att veta vilka so?kresultat som a?r relevanta. I denna uppsats har syftet varit att underso?ka hur so?kresultat kan filtreras och sorteras med hja?lp av platsbaserad so?kning fo?r att det ska bli mer relevant fo?r anva?ndaren. Genom litteraturstudie och intervjuer har det blivit mo?jligt att ta reda pa? hur ett so?kresultat skulle kunna filtreras och sorteras fo?r att mo?ta anva?ndarnas fo?rva?ntningar.

In this essay, a search strategy for citation index is studied. The strategy, which is essentially a citation cycle, starts with documents retrieved by a subject search, wherefrom new documents are identified following the network of citations backwards and forwards in time. Based on the theory of polyrepresentation, the strategy exploits overlaps between cognitively different interpretations of the same documents in order to automatically select references seed documents used as a starting point for the forward chaining. The purpose of the investigation is to evaluate the retrieval effectiveness of the search strategy and to find out whether the strategy can be used to expand a subject search with the help of the network of references in order to retrieve new relevant documents. Two questions are formulated: 1a.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur den gamla kursplanen i historia från 1994 skiljer sig från den nya ämnesplanen i historia från 2011.Metoden för uppsatsen är en dokumentanalys av styrdokumenten: Kursplanen från 1994 och Ämnesplanen skriven 2011 samt att koppla detta till relevant historiedidaktisk litteratur.Resultatet är att ämnesplanen och kursplanens innehåll skiljer sig åt. Vi ser tendenser till att ämnesplanen är utformad mer specifikt i vad undervisningen ska innehålla, medan Kursplanen är mer övergripande.Slutsatsen är att vår undersökning är relevant då den visar på vilka förändringar verksamma lärare måste göra i sin undervisning, dessutom finns det en tydligare koppling mellan ämnesplanen och den didaktiska forskningen..

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to study resource allocation among district libraries within Stockholm?s City Library (SSB) on three different occasions ? 1996, 2001 and 2005 ? and to examine whether there exist any inconsistency between the state of the allocation of resources and what might be considered reasonable. During the course of the study, it became apparent that some measurements are more relevant than others when determining whether the allocation of resources is reasonably fair. The most relevant ratio is the share of net cost per capita in relation to population and the population?s composition of children, youngsters and persons with foreign background as a result of relevant political governing documents giving priority to these three groups.

In the beginning of the 19th century, Swedish was the only official language of Finland, and thus the dominating language in administration and higher education. However, during the latter part of the century, efforts were made to develop Finnish into a language which could be used in every part of society. In 1881, the medical society Suomalainen Lääkäriseura Duodecim was founded with the development of a medical terminology in Finnish as one of its main purposes. In 1885, a medical paper, Duodecim, and a medical dictionary were published. The aim of this study is to illuminate the vocabulary of the dictionary.

Abstract: Since the recession caught the market in fall 2008, multiple companies have suffered due to their former aggressive investment behavior. Huge goodwill piles have been collected ready to be doomed by the market. The aim of the study is to investigate equity analysts? consideration of goodwill in a recession market. An empirical study is conducted, based on interviews with ten Swedish equity analysts that follow companies with relevant goodwill status.

Sysselsättningen i den svenska landsbygden har minskat avsevärt sedan 1900-talets början. Den senaste tidens ökning av importmat tvingar mjölk- och köttproducenter att hitta andra verksamhetsområden att tjäna pengar på. I takt med samhällsutvecklingen har kraven ökat för bland annat närproducerade livsmedel. Landsbygdsföretagarna i Norrbotten är duktiga jordbrukare men har generellt begränsade kunskaper hur företag ska drivas. Lantbrukarnas Riksförbund startade för tre år sedan ett projekt i syfte att hjälpa jordbrukarna bli bättre företagare.

The question whether controlled vocabulary or natural language free-text terms is the most effective search strategy has occupied researchers in LIS for many decades. This Masters thesis is an empirical study which aims to compare these two search strategies in LISA Library and Information Science Abstracts, an online bibliographic database. 22 topics from the discipline of Library and Information Science were constructed and out of each topic one query for each search strategy was formed. Queries in natural language were formed with terms from different sources, for example dictionaries, while queries in controlled vocabulary were built with terms from LISAs electronic thesaurus. The measures used in this study were precision, relative recall pooling method and overlap.

The aim of this thesis is to compare the effectivity of using a natural language and a controlled vocabulary when performing subject searches in the bibliographic database LISA Library and Information Science Abstracts. 20 topics were created and for each topic two searches were made, one by using a query formulated with natural language directed to the abstract field and the other one by using a query formulated with descriptors from the thesaurus in LISA directed to the descriptor field. The average relative recall amounted to 64,8% for the AB-queries and 54% for the DE-queries. Failure analysis showed that the majority of the relevant documents not retrieved by AB-queries could have been retrieved with other query terms, such as synonyms. In a natural language there are many different ways of expressing a topic, and this tends to have a negative effect on retrieval effectivity.

This study investigates the value relevance of goodwill impairments for equity investors in Swedish listed companies. We provide insight on whether goodwill impairments are value relevant before as well as after the implementation of IFRS 3 and IAS 36. We express market value of equity as a function of book value of equity; net income excluding goodwill impairments and goodwill impairments, using the Ohlson valuation model and Hellström's price regression. Our findings suggest that goodwill impairments are statistically value relevant for equity investors. Prior to the implementation of IFRS 3 and IAS 36, our findings imply that equity investors respond negatively to goodwill impairments.

In query expansion (QE) terms are added to an initial query in order to improve retrieval effectiveness. In this thesis we use QE in the sense that a reformulation of the query is done by deleting the terms in the initial query and instead replacing them with terms from the documents retrieved in the initial run. The aim of this thesis is to, in a experimental full text invironment, study and compare the retrieval result of two different query expansion strategies in relation to each other. The following questions are addressed by the study: How do the two strategies perform in relation to each other regarding recall? What may be causing the result? Are the two strategies retrieving the same relevant documents? Two strategies are designed to simulate a searcher using automatic query expansion (AQE) either with or without relevance feedback.

I vårt examensarbete ville vi undersöka hur nära skolverkets kursplaner för fotografisk bild ligger näringslivets önskemål, och vad som är relevant kunskap. Anledningen är att inom fotografisk bild går utvecklingen väldigt snabbt tack var den digitala tekniken. För att få en relevant bild av kursplanerna vände vi oss till branschfolk som dagligen hanterar bilder inom olika områden. Vi genomförde dels en enkätundersökning där vi på en skala kan se hur de olika yrkena ser på de olika delmomenten, dels en intervju där det framgår hur fotografyrket förändrats och vart yrket är på väg. Vi gjorde även en intervju med en kursplaneskribent som arbetade med gymnasiereformen 2007 för att få en bakgrund till hur kursplaner tas fram.

Denna studie genomf?rde intervjuer p? f?rskolor i tre arbetslag som inneh?ll flera olika yrkeskategorier. Fenomenet som unders?ktes var olika yrkeskategoriers varierande uppfattningar av delaktighet och ansvarsf?rdelning f?r planering samt genomf?rande av undervisning. Fr?gest?llningarna som besvarades var f?ljande: Hur uppfattar arbetslaget delaktighet i planering och genomf?rande av undervisning? Hur uppfattar arbetslaget att ansvarsf?rdelning b?r vara g?llande planering och genomf?rande av undervisning? Hur vill yrkeskategorierna i arbetslaget att ansvarsf?rdelningen ska vara g?llande planering och genomf?rande av undervisning? Detta fenomen har unders?kts genom en kvalitativ metod med en fenomenografisk ansats.

The main purpose of this essay was to study whether niche parties that were represented in municipal councils in Sweden during the 2007-2010 term of office were politically relevant. Furthermore, factors that might facilitate political relevance for niche parties were studied. Political relevance was studied using two theoretical perspectives. The objective model of political relevance presents four categories of relevance based on the relations between political parties in a political assembly; governing parties, coalition parties, blackmail parties and isolated parties. The subjective model of political relevance relies on the party representatives? own judgments of the relevance of their parties.