This study deals with some contested issues regarding prehistoric cultural development in Amazonia and the colonial impact on the native inhabitants of the area. It focuses on the relation between groups belonging the language families of Tupí and Gê, on one hand, and the different ecological zones that they inhabit, on the other. GIS mapping is used to visualise the distribution and movements of these groups in relation to ecology and the impact of European colonization. GIS is shown to be a useful methodology for analysing historical data derived from written sources and maps. The results of these analyses are discussed in the light of different theoretical perspectives.

This essay attempts to examine the discourse of the Sweden democrats in relation to thevalue system of the Swedish national school.To analyse the political texts I use discourse analysis and especially the method and approachconducted by Judith Lee Bacchi. Bacchi focuses on the construction of a problem in variouspolitical discourses. When performing this kind of analysis the main question is (accordingto Bacchi): ?What is the problem represented to be??I find that the Sweden democrats construct the ?migration politics? and the ?multiculturalpolitics? that is guiding the society as the cause of most problems in our society. To solvethe ?problems? they promote a nationalistic and a cultural racist discourse especiallypinpointing the ?Muslims? as being a problem.Since the Sweden democrats are striving to implement their discourse in the society andschool, and since their discourse already are reproduced by solar students in the classroom,I find it important to examine the essence of their particular discourse and contrast it withthe current value system of the Swedish schools.I don´t find the nationalistic and racist discourse of the Sweden democrats to correspond tothe value system of the Swedish school, mainly due to their strive to create alienation, andby labeling individuals in a reductive manner, instead of using apparent differences as asource for democratic discussions in the classroom.

This thesis investigates how a developer can move a desktop application to the web environment. The investigation also includes finding out what are the limitations of a web application and what is not possible to move to the web from the desktop. The question is whether there is any functionality that is gained or lost in the web application after the move.A survey has been conducted to find out what types of problems occur when moving an application from desktop to the web. The authors of this thesis have developed two prototypes for a company who wants to move a limited part of their current desktop application to the web in the future. The prototypes have been developed in Silverlight and ASP.NET.The survey has revealed that one of the disadvantages of web applications is the difficulty in working with local files and hardware on the computer.

I Sverige finns en det en brist pa? kockar. Stja?rnkro?gare och branschfo?retra?dare uttalar sig om att det a?r sva?rt att finna ?bra personal? och att restaurangutbildningarna inte ligger i fas med deras krav. Arbetsfo?rmedlingen har i sin rapport Var finns jobben? (2014a) beskrivit kock som ett paradoxyrke, att det ra?der ho?g arbetslo?shet samtidigt som det a?r brist pa? arbetskraft.

Denna c-uppsats handlar om hur de äldre invandrarnas sociala liv påverkas av migrationen samt vilka tankar de har kring sin omsorgssituation. För att få en djupare kunskap och förståelse för de äldre invandrarnas sociala situation samt deras förväntan på äldreomsorgen gjordes en kvalitativ intervjuundersökning med sex äldre invandrare från Bosnien och Somalia. En jämförelse mellan de båda grupperna redovisades inom olika teman, umgänge, de närstående, åldrandet och hemlängtan, omsorgen i det nya landet. Resultaten studerades utifrån ett interaktionstiskt perspektiv och den teoretiska kunskapen om socialt nätverk och socialt stöd. De båda grupperna hade kommit till Sverige på grund av krig i sina hemländer, de hade inte valt att flytta utan blivit tvungna att fly från hemlandet.

Denna undersökning är en analys av intervjuer som är genomförda med fyra informanter. Tre av dem är första generationens invandrare och den fjärde är andra generationens invandrare. Jag har som ambition att problematisera termen invandrare utifrån begreppet identitet. Jag undersöker hur identiteter skapas, formas och utvecklas i samband med migration. Rami kommer från Irak, Maria kommer från Guatemala, Line kommer från Norge och Kristina är född och uppvuxen i Sverige av kroatiska föräldrar.

In 2006 there was a change in LMA (1994:37) that clarified the division of responsibility be-tween the Migration Board and the municipalities, concerning unaccompanied children. The social services should now be utmost responsible for the housing and care of these children, to assure that they gain the same standards and rights as all other children. The aim of this essay has been to examine how the division of responsibility has influenced the work of the social services and how they interpret their responsibility for the unaccompanied children. How do the social services investigate and make decisions concerning these children? Do these chil-dren have the same rights as other children? To answer these questions a legal study was made, followed by qualitative research interviews with four social services that receive unac-companied children.

Haptoglobin is an acute phase protein with important biological role because of its capacity to bind to haemoglobin. Haptoglobin exists in three major genetic polymorphism types: Hp1-1, Hp2-1 and Hp2-2, the distribution of which has been associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), an asymptomatic aortic disease common among men older than 65 years.    Five different electrophoretic methods were tested according to their ability to separate the haptoglobin phenotypes. The detection was based on a produced hemolysate of blood in which haemoglobin binds to haptoglobin thereby forming a complex that can be detected by specific haemoglobin staining using TMB-dihydrochloride and hydro peroxide as substrate resulting in an azure-green color of the bands. Samples from 15 patients who had suffered surgery for not broken AAA, that is more than5.0 cmaortic diameter, and 15 samples from matched controls were analyzed.    Among the five tested electrophoretic methods best migration and separation was seen on the pre-cast agarosgel Hydragel HR on the instrument Hydrasys. The other four methods gave less successful results.

Threats and violence, or the risk of being subjected to threats and violence in the workplace, is a major health and safety problems that exists in many professions. To be exposed to threats and violence can have serious consequences for the employee's health but also for the organization in question. The aims of this study was to investigate the prevalence of threats and violence at the Swedish Migration Board detention, and to examine whether there were health problems among employees who may be exposed to threats and violence. A web-based questionnaire was answered by 29 employees (response rate = 51 percent). The results showed that more employees had been exposed to verbal threats (66 percent), compared to physical violence (10 percent), and they showed a greater tendency to report physical violence, as opposed to verbal threats.

Migration ökar i hela världen och det svenska samhället omformas från ett samhälle med ett fåtal etniska inslag till ett samhälle med över hundra nationaliteter, språk och många religioner. Varje kultur har sin syn på hälsa och sjukdom. Vårdpersonal tycker att det är svårt att bedöma, förstå och vårda personer från andra kulturer. Syftet med arbetet är att belysa kulturella skillnader och problem som kan uppstå vid omvårdnad av person med annan kulturell bakgrund. En litteraturstudie gjordes och den är baserad på åtta vetenskapliga artiklar och materialet bearbetades genom en innehållsanalys.

During the 1960s and 1970s an increased interest in Native Americans can be seen in Sweden, e.g. through the establishment of organizations such as the Indian Club of Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to study the portrayal of Native Americans and its role through Albin Widén, a Swedish author, ethnologist and member of the Indian Club, and his non-fictional works on the Swedish migration to America, Swedish-America and Swedish contacts with Native Americans. The study is divided into four parts. The first part looks at the portrayal of the Native Americans in Widén?s writings, in comparison with Euro-Americans? and Europeans? traditional stereotypic images of a good and a bad Indian.

 The aim of this two-years master?s thesis is to examine the role of the body and the importance of nonverbal communication in the library workplace and to explore the possibility of becoming more nonverbally skilled. For this purpose a course was developed and presented to nine librarians in a public library in the vicinity of Stockholm in February, 2011. Qualitative interviews with the librarians were conducted after the course.Important theories for this work were Annemaree Lloyd?s thoughts on corporeality, Erving Goffman?s dramaturgical sociology and John Dewey?s learning by doing.

Abstract:Styrdokument i musikämnet-En komparativ studie av norska och svenska styrdokument i Musikämnet i skolan.(Music Subject governing documents- A comparative study of Norwegian and Swedish policy documents in the Music subject in school)The purpose of this study is to compare the Norwegian and Swedish policy documents on teaching in the Music topic. The comparison also applies to the requirements which have been in Sweden over time. In comparison, the policy document LGR 11 from Sweden, analyzed, and the governing documents MUS1-01 and R94 from the Norwegian School.The main issue in the study is: How does the policy documents for the topic music in Sweden, compared to Norway? In order to answer the question, I compared the above-mentioned policy documents and set in relation to the musical substance is designed in Norway and Sweden.In curriculum theory treats one problem based approaches in structural functionalism, pragmatism, social epistemology and post structuralism. The starting points are then used to explore various relationships between curriculum theory and didactics.The principal researcher and proponent of curriculum theory is Ulf Lundgren.

Problemformulering: Tekniska konsultföretag, som Syntronic, tycks idag konvergera till en gemensam bransch för produktutvecklingskonsulter, drivna av nya kundbehov. Hur kommer dessa behov att utvecklas i framtiden och vilka affärsmodeller är bäst lämpade för att möta dessa behov? Inom respektive affärsmodell, vilka är de nyckelelement som skapar konkurrensfördelar? Vilken av dessa affärsmodeller skall Syntronic välja, och vilka strategiska förändringar kräver det? Syfte:Syftet med uppsatsen är att formulera en ny strategi för Syntronic, och att skapa insikt i produktutvecklingskonsulternas utvecklingsvillkor och möjligheter till konkurrensfördelar. Metod:För att bygga upp den nödvändiga förståelsen har vi genomfört en omfattande studie av Syntronic, deras kunder och konkurrenter. Ett ramverk med teorier om extern försörjning, Value Migration och strategi har hjälpt oss att utveckla affärsmodellerna och våra strategiska rekommendationer.

Sverige är ett exceptionellt fall av sekularisering på både samhälls- och individnivå. Samtidigt har immigrationen delvis förändrat det demografiska landskapet för religiositet då utrikesfödda i regel är mer religiösa än inrikesfödda samt oftare tillhör en annan religion. Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva utrikesföddas religiositet i Sverige med särskild fokus på vistelsetidens och religionstillhörighetens betydelse. Inom religionssociologin antar den så kallade moderniseringsteorin att ju mer sekulariserat ett samhälle är, desto mer sekulariserade är dess medlemmar. Variationen i religiositet inom samhället beror på socialisering och upplevelser av otrygghet.