Background: To be better able to meet the new competition, companies are seeking new competitive advantages, wich is forcing them to review and, in time, change both working methods and corporate structures. This has led to an increased interest in the development of strategies within the field of Knowledge Management. Objective: The objective of this thesis is to improve understanding of how learning in a company occurs over internal boundaries and to investigate whether individuals need to be motivated in this regard. We also aim to give recommendations as to how this can be developed. Furthermore, we will work out a model that explains the learning process.

The amount of web APIs that are open to the public is increasing fast. Both the free web APIs as well as the ones that cost money to access. Both bigger and smaller organizations, professional and non-professional developers use these web APIs to add value to their systems or use it to create new applications. This is an area study where alot of research has been done in the last few years. In spite of this there are still no user-centered evaluation methods for web APIs.

This study aims to identify the municipalities of Hallands? methods, guidelines and policies in integration concerning new arrivals of children and teenagers. Some of the new arrivals are under the power of Swedish Migration Board and some of them are by a contract handed over to the municipalities. The evaluation is based on Michael Lipskys street-level bureaucracy which puts its focus on the lower level of bureaucrats meeting with clients. The frame is Skolverkets guideline for education of new arrivals which is more or less a way towards a common policy.

A comparative essay between the findings of research and practical methods in the English classroom conserning vocabulary learning in a foreign language..

Clearcutting systems have been the dominating silvicultural approach during the last decades in the Nordic countries. While economically rational, it is also leading to a trivialisation of the flora and fauna, and may result in negative reactions of people in urban settings. As a consequence of this, and a more diversified view on which goods and services forests should deliver, there is an increasing interest in broadening the range of silvicultural methods that are used. The term continuous cover forestry (CCF) represents a suite of methods that have gained increasing interest in the Nordic countries. In CCF a considerable amount of the trees are left after harvest to favour values that require a continuity of tree-covered areas. There are thus hopes that this method will meet the needs for maintaining biodiversity and satisfy social and cultural values.

Asylsökande föräldrar lever under stark social och ekonomisk press. De har ofta sviktande psykisk och fysisk hälsa till följd av tidigare traumatisering och den belastning som asylprocessen innebär. Om föräldrarna under dessa omständigheter inte längre klarar att ta hand om sina barn kan barnen bli placerade i familjehem. Sex socialsekreterare med erfarenhet av sådana placeringar djupintervjuades med syfte att undersöka hur barn och föräldrar från asylsökande familjer reagerar när barn placeras i familjehem utan sina föräldrar. Syftet var också att undersöka hur socialsekreterarna resonerar kring och påverkas av att arbeta med placering av barn från asylsökande familjer.

The first aim of this thesis is to descriptively identify and chart the activities of the strategic intelligence and environmental scanning that take place at the regional collaboration network Regionförbundet Örebro. This identification is essential in reaching the comprehensive and primary aim of the thesis: to discuss, through normative discourse, what the options of improvement are and in which ways systematic operations can be integrating parts in the organization. In order to offer guidance of development from the perspectives of environmental scanning, the question at issue has emanated from activities concerning the present methods of working at Regionförbundet Örebro.During the creation of this thesis, several interviews have been made with people who are regarded to be key roles within the regional collaboration network. An analysis has been made, based on governing documents and answers from the interviews, where possible improvements of the business have been identified. The inferences become parts of a greater potential of amelioration since they are presented as active solutions and proposals that can be directly adaptable to the organization.Our proposals of improvements/ameliorations are constituted by a number of concrete/explicit points such as: a wider public information supply and an introduction of several annual routines and methods..

There are several treatment methods that are used by physiotherapists to treat migraine and tension type-headache (TTH). The effects of these methods have been evaluated in previous studies. However, there are few studies evaluating headache patients own perception of the treatment. The purpose of this study was both to examine the patient?s perception of the physiotherapy headache treatment and to examine if the treatment had effect on their quality of life.

Sedan 2006 är en allvarlig konflikt mellan föräldrarna det vanligaste skälet till att tilldöma en förälder enskild vårdnad vid en rättslig tvist om barn och i Sverige är det i 9 fall av 10 mamman som har enskild vårdnad efter en separation. Syftet med denna studie är att skapa en teori om vad genus har för betydelse för lämpliga föräldrars möjligheter och begränsningar i en rättslig tvist om barn. Genom intervjuer med domare, advokat, samtalsledare, medlare, en mamma och en pappa som gått igenom en rättslig tvist om barn skapade jag en faktisk teori om vad genus har för betydelse för lämpliga föräldrars möjligheter och begränsningar i en rättslig tvist om ?barnets bästa?. Min teori är att lagstiftningen om ?barnets bästa? begränsar möjligheterna för lämpliga föräldrar att lösa sina konflikter och att lagstiftningen om ?barnets bästa? inte är tillämpbar på tvister där två lämpliga föräldrar ställs emot varandra.

There is a need for correct and adequate pain assessment in horses. Methadone is used in pain management in horses but the full pharmacokinetic picture of methadone is not yet known. The aim of this pilot study was to develop a behaviour protocol and suggest a reliable recording method for use in a larger research project with an aim to potentially correlate behaviours to concentration of methadone in blood. In this study two coldblooded trotters were given methadone intravenously with doses of 0.1 mg/kg for horse 1 and 0.2 mg/kg for horse 2. The horses were videotaped pre and post methadone administration.

The general purpose of this dissertation is to study picture communication in picture books and it addresses the following questions:What is the illustrator?s role in the process of making a picture book? What communicative qualities do pictures have in picture books and how do pictures interact with texts? What methods do illustrators use to visualize the meaning of stories in picture books?A genre analysis, a literature study and an interview of a professional illustrator has been conducted to answer the questions. I found that all objects that make up pictures, the arrangement, colours and shapes contribute to the meaning in diverse ways. Pictures also communicate in a different way than texts. An important difference between pictures and texts in the context of picture books is that pictures are more open for interpretation.

The aim of this thesis is to mediate to the reader an image of Chinese classification systems and in what way the methods of classification have progressed during time. The tradition of classification in China is very old and dates back more than two thousand years, but it wasnt until the downfall of the dynastic era in the beginning of the 20th century, that Chinese libraries and methods of classification were modernized. This thesis also identifies the development of Chinese librarianship which is of old age since Chinese literature stretches three thousand years back. The main question is in what way the values of three different philosophies are reflected in five classification systems compiled between 1953-1975. The three philosophies are Daoism, Confucianism and Maoism/Mao Zedong Thought.

Context. In today?s society we use smart cards in many areas, NFC is a smart card technology that allows contactless interaction between a reader and the tag, the tag is often in the form of a card. NFC can be used for various payment methods or as access card to a building which makes life easier. In previous studies, the technique has proven to be weak to attacks using an NFC reader connected to a computer.

This paper deals with the opportunities for the technique of condensation, for wood fired household heaters, on the Swedish market. In this project the condenser is preceded by a scrubber and both energy exchange and separation of unburnt particles have been studied. The facility studied is connected to a wood stove at 30 kW. The tests would show that the effect from the stove never reached above 16 kW. This might be a result of the low temperature of the water going into the stove, from the condenser. In addition to this the wood was not of highest quality and the stove could have needed some maintenance before the tests.

I denna kvalitativa studie intervjuades tre kvinnor som lämnat relationer där de utsattes förvåld. Syftet med studien var att få en fördjupad kunskap kring kvinnornas känslomässigaprocess kring relationen där de utsatts för våld med fokus på ilskan. Frågeställningen var omdet kan finnas en positiv kraft i ilskan som hjälper kvinnorna i relationen ochuppbrottsprocessen. Studien kopplades till ilskans funktion utifrån affektteori.De tre kvinnorna i studien berättade om relationer som präglats av våld. De beskrev sinakänslor och reaktioner under relationen, i separationsprocessen och utvecklingen efterseparationen.