Denna studie undersöker äldre människors upplevelser av bemötande och delaktighet i samband med biståndsbeslut gällande hemtjänst. Våra resultat visar att personerna kände stort förtroende för biståndshandläggaren och var delaktiga i sin ansökan om hemtjänst utifrån deras synpunkter och önskemål. Personerna har tagit kontakt med biståndshandläggaren i det skede av livet som hjälp har varit nödvändigt för att klara vardagen i hemmet. Teorin som tillämpades var symboliskt kapital och är baserad på kulturella, sociala och ekonomiska kapital som ger status i samhället, beroende på sammanhanget..

Examensarbetet har handlat om hur man med produktdesign kan öka synligheten hos tjejer i åldrarna 18-25 år som rör sig i urbana, trafikerade miljöer under de mörka delarna av dygnet. Genom intervjuer, frågeformulär och litteraturstudie urskönjdes att målgruppen var väl medveten om nyttan med reflexanvändning men att detta trots allt inte var ett starkt nog motiv till att använda reflexer då existerande produkter ansågs löjliga, opraktiska och fula. Vad som huvudsakligen har bearbetats är mjuka värden såsom status och estetik samt yttre krav på ett optimerat reflexbärande. Resultatet är en väska som med sin multifunktionalitet och sobra estetik medger synlighet för brukaren. Det är en reflexprodukt som målgruppen kan identifiera sig med och bära vid många tillfällen..

När EU:s ramdirektiv för vatten (2000/60/EG) antogs 2000 fick medlemsstaterna ett ansvar att uppnå god ekologisk och kemisk status i alla vatten 2015 med vissa undantag. Vattendirektivet införlivades i Sverige genom förordningen om förvaltning av kvaliteten på vattenmiljön (2004:660) 2004, där det stod att det, för varje vattendistrikt, ska finnas en länsstyrelse som ska utgöra vattenmyndighet för distriktet. De fem vattenmyndigheterna har, på grund av föreskrifter i Miljöbalken och förordningen om förvaltningen av kvaliteten på vattenmiljön, utfärdat åtgärdsprogram. I åtgärdsprogrammen finns 7 punkter av 38 riktade åt kommuner, varav punkt 37 lyder: ?Kommunerna behöver, i samverkan med länsstyrelserna, utveckla vatten- och avloppsvattenplaner, särskilt i områden med vattenförekomster som inte uppnår, eller riskerar att inte uppnå, god ekologisk status, god kemisk status eller god kvantitativ status? Även om kommuner ska få stöd av länsstyrelser, vattenmyndigheter och Havs- och vattenmyndigheten när det gäller vattenfrågor har handledning och riktlinjer för att utforma kommunala vattenplaner inte funnits.

The aim of this study has been to investigate children and adolescent development in ?The turning point? children´s and adolescent program in Kristianstad. We also wanted to find out the support group leaders experiences concerning the children´s and the adolescents development in programs and how they apprehended their role as a support group leader. Our intension was also to study how the adolescent and the children considered their own development in the program. To carry through this study, we used two types of qualitative methods i.e.

In 2002 George W. Bush held a speech where he classified six nations as being the main threats to American security, one of them being Syria, a state with a secular constitution, no resent offence towards the US, and with an improved diplomatic relationship to the US during the Clinton years.Being an ally to the Soviet Union during the Cold War Syria was forced to redefine its role in the region. Using neorealistc theory one part conlusion is the fact that the new Syrian leader, Bashar al-Hasad, in the early 21th century determined to set higher goals for the Syrian power ambition in the Middle East, threatened to destabilize the region and leave the US and its allies in a caotic situation.In the US, however, the new administration after 11/9 sharpened its tone towards states that did not cooperate in the new ?war on terrorism? or/and were likely to harbour terrorists. Syria was accused of doing both.

Inbyggda system förekommer överallt i dagens samhälle i allt från mobiltelefoner tillsatelliter. Teknikens utveckling går mot att fler produkter kommunicerar värdefulladata till användaren och i takt med att komponenter minskar i storlek och pris, blirde allt lättare att implementera i redan befintliga produkter.Målet med det här projektet var att tillföra mervärde till ett redan befintligtproduktionsverktyg inom träindustrin. Genom att implementera ett inbyggt systemkan verktyget kommunicera en aktuell status till operatören för att förebyggaoväntade tillbud och optimera produktionsflödet.Resultatet av det här projektet tyder på att implementationen är fullt möjlig trots tuffamiljöer, men det återstår att utföra fullvärdiga test och utvärderingar ute på industrin..

Inbyggda system förekommer överallt i dagens samhälle i allt från mobiltelefoner tillsatelliter. Teknikens utveckling går mot att fler produkter kommunicerar värdefulladata till användaren och i takt med att komponenter minskar i storlek och pris, blirde allt lättare att implementera i redan befintliga produkter.Målet med det här projektet var att tillföra mervärde till ett redan befintligtproduktionsverktyg inom träindustrin. Genom att implementera ett inbyggt systemkan verktyget kommunicera en aktuell status till operatören för att förebyggaoväntade tillbud och optimera produktionsflödet.Resultatet av det här projektet tyder på att implementationen är fullt möjlig trots tuffamiljöer, men det återstår att utföra fullvärdiga test och utvärderingar ute på industrin..

This essay examines on what kind of Muslim stereotypes exist in entertainment movies which are being produced in the West and particularly the United States. First, the focus will be on explaining the concept of stereotypes and Islamophobia and what role the media has in the movies' production of its contents. The incident at the World Trade Center will also be discussed briefly. By using semiotic and narrative analyses the essay investigates if a stereotyped image is being used about Muslims and how Muslim main characters that have the role of being protagonists, are visualized in entertainment movies. The material that is included in the empirical analysis consists of three selected movies.

Iron deficiency is one of the most frequent micronutrient deficiencies around the world. Low iron bioavailability simultaneously with a high iron requirement is a high risk factor for developing iron deficiency. Probiotics are microorganisms that confer a health benefit on the host. Prebiotics are oligosaccharides which provide a health benefit on the host due to a positive modulation of the microflora in the gut. The aim of this paper is to evaluate if there is a connection between pro-and/or prebiotics and iron bioavailability.

This master's thesis is about alternative career opportunities for library and information science graduates. Ever since the beginning of our education we have been interested in working outside of the traditional libraries. Now that we are about to receive our degrees in library and information science we are doubtful if the competence we have obtained is enough to meet the demands of the labour market. The employment field we have been studying in this master's thesis is information management, since this is a field that we find comparable to library and information science. Our study involves a qualitative survey amongst recruiting companies to investigate how the recruiters value different educations, competences and personal skills when they employ staff within the field of information management.

The task in this thesis is the steering of one of Saab Bofors Dynamics robots using Sliding Mode Control, a method they never used before. The robot constitutes a system which in addition to perturbations and uncertainties due to modeling imprecision, hold the difficulty of being highly time variant. In order to be able to keep required performance with uncertainties and modeling imprecision present, the use of robust control methods like Sliding Mode Control is necessary. SMC is based on the states of the system being forced to stay on or in the direct vicinity of a hyper plane in the state space which is chosen in a way that gives the system dynamics desired properties. Other advantages with sliding mode are reduced order dynamics on the switching surface and total insensitivity to some uncertainties and perturbations.

What drove me to write this paper is the will to  examine if there is a philosophically and scientifically viable  alternative foundation for an objective morality other than what we like to refer to as "God". The  American philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris presents in his book The Moral Landscape a thesis for an objective morality based on science in which he states that  science can determine human values. The purpose of this paper is to perform a theoretical trial of The Moral Landscape, examining Harris' thesis and it's relations to the philosophical obstacles that stands in its way, these being mainly the famous philosophical principle "Hume's Law" and G.E. Moore's "Naturalistic Fallacy and Open Question Argument" and thus will serve as my main theoretical foundation. The results of my study was not conclusive since Harris in fact doesn't succeed in bridging the gap between facts and values on a scientific ground.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the concept of permanent establishment, as defined in Article 5 of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital, is applicable to electronic commerce and if so whether the current definition is able to appropriately deal with the challenges of electronic commerce.In 2003, the OECD added a new section to the Commentary on the Model Tax Convention on Article 5. The new section is a clarification on the application of the permanent establishment definition in electronic commerce.The current definition of permanent establishment in the Model Tax Convention relies on the physical presence of a foreign corporation as the threshold for source taxation. While the current definition, prima facie, might be applicable on electronic commerce, the highly mobile nature of electronic commerce might affect the current revenue distribution equilibrium between states..

Each year 225 million pigs are transported within the European Union (EU) for slaughter, fattening and breeding. This results in poor animal welfare due to the fact that animals are exposed to several numbers of stress factors in the vehicle during loading, transit and unloading. Animal welfare can be defined as how well the animal attempts to cope with its environment and during transport there is often severe difficulty for the pigs to cope properly. There is a growing societal concern for animal welfare. This resulted in that the European Union enacted a law called the EU-regulation with certain directives of how to improve the welfare of the animals during transport.

The purpose of this paper is to identify the current status of fuel cell technology and to establish whether said technology is mature enough to be implemented into the Swedish Armed Forces. The question to be answered in this paper is as follows: Can hydrogen gas and fuel cells be used as an alternative source of energy within the Swedish Armed Forces?This paper is based on theoretical studies and reports from prior research done on fuel cells. By studying these facts a predictive answer has been obtained. The answer I have come to, is that the maturity of fuel cell technology is currently inadequate for the Swedish Armed Forces to implement, especially considering its harsh working conditions..