The aim of this paper is to investigate how well information and communication technology (ICT) is implemented in the new teacher training program in the subject of Swedish and how this is presented in the applications for examination licence to the National Swedish Agency for Higher Education. This is an interesting field of study, since ICT has been selected, by an investigation chosen by the government to be one of four overall perspectives that are supposed to permeate the teacher training program. There have been several difficulties involved in this project of which one has been the extent of the material.  27 applications and all curriculums in the subject of Swedish belonging to them have been examined. Another difficulty was that the applications and the curriculums are written by different persons under different conditions such as time and resources.

This thesis processes the work of developing CPU code and GPU code for Thomas Kaijsers algorithm for calculating the kantorovich distance and the performance between the two is compared. Initially there is a rundown of the algorithm which calculates the kantorovich distance between two images. Thereafter we go through the CPU implementation followed by GPGPU written in CUDA. Then the results are presented. Lastly, an analysis about the results and a discussion with possible improvements is presented for possible future applications..

The study aims to investigate Swedish fitness companies positioning and strategic choices when internationalising in the Scandinavian countries and what has influenced this choice. Furthermore, the corporate risk and what obstacles they encountered will be examined.The study was conducted as a qualitative study with a deductive approach. The results are based mainly on primary data from interviews, as well as secondary data.The fitness companies? choice of strategy in internationalisation depends largely on its concept and positioning. The main obstacles in the internationalisation process are lack of communication, language difficulties and regulations.

This thesis conducts a comparative study between two academiclibraries, one Swedish and one English, in order to analyse ifdifferent funding systems influence the marketing of theirservices. The theoretic foundation is built on relationshipmarketing, which emphasises the importance of creating andmaintaining relationships. A qualitative approach has been usedthrough the use of case studies, with semi-structured interviewsbeing held with library staff and managers in both countries. Inaddition to these interviews strategic plans have also beenanalysed. The result from the study shows that whilst there aresome differences between the two university libraries there arealso similarities, which indicates that it is not clear if differentfunding systems have an impact on the marketing of the services..

Syftet med studien a?r att beskriva erfarenheter elever i gymnasiesa?rskolan har av a?mnet matematik. Den teoretiska ansatsen utga?r fra?n grunderna i konstruktionismen och Berger och Luckmann's (2008) kunskapssociologiska fo?rha?llningssa?tt. Jag analyserar mina resultat utifra?n Hacking (2000) och ett socialkonstruktionistiskt perspektiv.Studien a?r kvalitativ och gruppintervju anva?nds som metod.

The aim of this paper is to investigate how well information and communication technology (ICT) is implemented in the new teacher training program in the subject of Swedish and how this is presented in the applications for examination licence to the National Swedish Agency for Higher Education. This is an interesting field of study, since ICT has been selected, by an investigation chosen by the government to be one of four overall perspectives that are supposed to permeate the teacher training program. There have been several difficulties involved in this project of which one has been the extent of the material.  27 applications and all curriculums in the subject of Swedish belonging to them have been examined. Another difficulty was that the applications and the curriculums are written by different persons under different conditions such as time and resources.

Tio procent av Sveriges befolkning har någon form av funktionsnedsättning. Var tionde person har alltså särskilda behov i sitt resande och är därmed beroende av att hela destinationens miljö är tillgänglig. Tillgänglighet är någonting som Stockholm Stad arbetar med då de har som mål att år 2010 vara världens mest tillgängliga huvudstad. Stockholm är en destination och en destination består av många olika aktörer, både kommersiella och icke kommersiella. Studien syftar därför dels till att undersöka om, och i så fall hur, en god tillgänglighet i Stockholm skulle påverka de enskilda turistiska aktörerna på destinationen.

De flesta klagomål TV-bolag får in från tittare handlar om den upplevda ljudnivåskillnaden mellan program och kanaler. Speciellt irriterande är övergången mellan program och reklam/trailers. Därför har detta examensarbete studerat de svenska TV-kanalerna SVT1, TV3, TV4 och Kanal 5 i avseende att belysa detta problem och dess orsaker. Arbetet har utgått ifrån The European Broadcasting Unions mätstandard för ljudnivånormalisering: loudness recommendation EBU R128. Denna innefattar algoritmer för hur den perceptuella ljudnivån bör mätas och riktlinjer för hur dessa nivåer bör hanteras. I utredningen har intervjuer, mätmetoder och användartester genomförts för att besvara hur kanalerna förhåller sig till ljudnivånormalisering enligt EBU R128 samt om kanalernas nuvarande ljudnivåbehandling är tillfredsställande för tittarna.                                                                  Resultatet visar att ingen kanal ännu implementerat EBU R128.

Idag byter många företag ut sina gamla informationssystem mot nya, standardiserade affärssystem. Detta görs för att man ser stora framgångs- och konkurrensfaktorer i att ha ett standardiserat system, att anpassa ett affärssystem mot verksamheten blir dessutom väldigt kostsamt. På Saab Aerosystems införde man under 2006 just ett standardiserat affärssystem, IFS Applications 2004, där man tidigare hade använt sig utav 59 olika system.Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilka möjligheter och utmaningar man såg på Saab Aerosystems i och med införandet av det nya affärssystemet. Det utfördes en fallstudie där det samlades in empiri från ett antal kvalitativa intervjuer för att kunna jämföras mot den teoretiska referensram och på så sett kunna besvara frågeställningarna; vilka möjligheter uppstod i samband med införandet av det nya affärssystemet? Hur tog dessa tillvara på? Vilka utmaningar uppstod i samband med införandet av det nya affärssystemet? Hur hanterades dessa? Många av utmaningarna respektive möjligheterna kan ses som nära relaterade, i denna studie presenterar vi hur olika aktörer inom verksamheten upplevt dessa, samt hur de relaterar till existerande teori på området.Resultat visar att följande kategorier: förändring, anpassning av och gentemot affärssystemet, strategi, utbildning och hjälpresurser utgjorde stora utmaningar.

Since the 1990?s Open Access has developed into an alternative model for scientific publication. Today an increasing political interest in promoting Open Access is commonly channeled through the implementation of policies by research funders. However, in the scientific community the uptake and acceptance of the model has been of notably different character.This Master?s thesis examines the understanding of and attitudes towards open access among eight senior Swedish researchers and how these have been affected by the implementation of the Swedish Research Council?s Open Access-policy as implemented in 2010.

I många organisationer är minskade utbildningskostnader ett av de viktiga skälen för att använda e-learning. En av de metoder som används för detta är att dela inlärningsmaterial och information mellan olika system. På så sätt behöver samma material inte skapas om på nytt och analys av insamlad information blir mycket enklare. Sharable Object Reference Model (SCORM) har länge varit en standard för att återanvända inlärningsmaterial, men har med tiden blivit förlegad. E-learning utvecklas tillsammans med teknik och interaktions-möjligheter.

In this paper, I design a new concept for a patio at Hotel and Restaurant Villa Anna in Odinslund, Uppsala, Sweden. Through this design, I examine how urban farming can thrive in a restaurant-context. The purpose of the design is to give the visitor a sense of the core values of the cuisine and to strengthen the sense of place by storytelling. My methods are comprised of a literature study on urban farming and storytelling as well as a discussion with the res-taurateur Rafael Löfstedt. I create a story of the place by examining its historical background and connect it to the current philosophy of the Villa Anna restaurant.

This research paper has the aim of examining Swedish and Australian teachers? knowledge base and use of learning strategies in their language classes. After conducting qualitative interviews, the interviewees? answers are tabled to corresponding descriptions of how strategies are communicated in current curricula of the two countries. The answers confirm that teachers? understanding of learning strategies partly agree with previous research on strategies.

The subject of this Master?s thesis is the process of change in a public library context, the implementation of the Stockholm City Library?s homepage Biblioteket.se. The aim is to examine the factors that influence this particular change and how they affect the process and extent of change in practice. The study designed as a qualitative case study is based primarily on document analysis, and supplemented by an interview. DiMaggio?s and Powell?s three mechanisms of change; coercive, mimetic and normative isomorphism, is applied.

This thesis processes the work of developing CPU code and GPU code for Thomas Kaijsers algorithm for calculating the kantorovich distance and the performance between the two is compared. Initially there is a rundown of the algorithm which calculates the kantorovich distance between two images. Thereafter we go through the CPU implementation followed by GPGPU written in CUDA. Then the results are presented. Lastly, an analysis about the results and a discussion with possible improvements is presented for possible future applications..