Gender politics in Sweden is considered unique because gender policies (jämställdhet) are integrated into national politics and politicised both in the public and the private sphere. The Swedish case is therefore considered a role model by many feminist scholars.This view has been criticised by both post modern feminists and public administration scholars. Critics imply that the increased immigration and more heterogeneous population have led to a new challenge for state institutions. The Swedish model, with its universal welfare solutions, lacks the ability to recognise differences within groups. Universal solutions that treat everyone the same is no longer the most just way to treat people.The growing use of goal orientation in Swedish public administration has increased the civil servants discretion in the implementation process, and thereby the space for differentiated treatment.

A central question is what view of communication is dominating in a municipality in the southern part of Sweden. The study deals with communication theory from two different perspectives; the view of transmission and the view of creation of meaning. Falkheimer and Heide (2003) claim that the view of transmission is one-way communication where the receivers apprehend passivly. In the view of creation of meaning the goal is to develop and strengthen the common notion that exists in a group. Empirical studies were done, that consisted of qualitative interviews with politicians, directors of the municipality, and principals from three childcare and school areas, and also from one upper secondary school.

The Swedish sports retail industry has experienced extensive growth during the last decade, and this has attracted new entrants to the market, both start-ups and international followers. This has inevitably put more pressure on incumbents, which are now confronted with major challenges as how to retain their customers and market shares. Customer loyalty has been proved to be an important factor for customer retention and proposed to constitute inertia of switching behavior. In light of this problematization, the purpose of this study is to describe the underlying factors of loyalty and whether purchase habits could further explain customer loyalty. The aim is also to understand the strategic implications of the factors involved.

Följande studie syftar till att belysa hur organisationer idag arbetar med att mäta och följa upp sina immateriella resurser, vilket i denna studie avser personal. Vi lever idag i ett kunskaps- och tjänstesamhälle vilket innebär att människans bidrag i form av humankapital generellt värderas högre än materiella tillgångar. Dessutom medför en ökad globalisering ett hårdare affärsklimat och konkurrens. En konsekvens blir därför att organisationer för sin överlevnad måste vara allt mer lönsamma, vilket ökar vikten av en rätt hanterad personalresurs som kan generera kostnadsfördelar. Med den bakgrunden bör organisationer fokusera på metoder som kan synliggöra den allt viktigare personalresursen.

This work aims to evaluate the possibility of using a graphical programming language to develop software for a digital signal processor. A fixed-point digital signal processor called Blackfin BF-537 is used for this. Instead of using conventional programming languages, like C or assembler, for software development the possibilities to use a graphical environment to fill the same purpose are examined. The development environment primarily used is NI LabVIEW, but also the use of Mathworks Matlab Simulink is investigated. A variety of programs consisting of various signal processing operations and utilities are developed using these development environments.

This report describes the procedure in which we accomplished our task, which was to implement a present algorithm. This was made using C++. The algorithm is developed by Sasan Gooran, who is our examiner in this project. The algorithm uses an iterative method to produce the halftoned images. The reason for this project is to speed up the existing program which is made in Matlab.

Bakgrund: För att uppnå kundtillfredsställelse behöver företag vara serviceinriktade och erbjuda kundanpassade tjänster. Därmed är medarbetares beteende och kompetens av stor vikt för företags lönsamhet. För att få medarbetare att utföra önskvärda prestationer måste ledningen hos dem skapa engagemang och delaktighet. Ett tillvägagångssätt är att delegera ansvar och överlåta befogenheter till dem. Ett koncept som bygger på detta är empowerment.

Titel: Med inlevelse ? En studie om marknadskommunikation, storytelling och målgrupper iupplevelseindustrin.Författare: Magdalena BjörklundUppdragsgivare: Stylt Trampoli ABKurs: Examensarbete i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid institutionen förjournalistik och masskommunikation, Göteborgs universitet.Termin: Höstterminen 2013Handledare: Orla VigsöSidantal: 49 inklusive bilagaSyfte: Att ta reda på hur företag i upplevelseindustrin ser på och använder sig av marknadskommunikation och storytelling.Metod: Kvalitativa samtalsintervjuerRespondenter: Ballongflyg i Väst, Clarion Hotel Post, GBG Wrestling, Gunnebo Slott och Trädgårdar, Lajvverkstaden, Ostindiefararen Götheborg och The Barn.Huvudresultat: Mina resultat visar att företagen har en relativt genomgående strategi när de marknadsför sig. De viktigaste kanalerna är hemsidan, Facebook, PR, samarbeten med andra företag, nätverk och word-of-mouth-kommunikation. Det finns tre huvudsakliga sätt att använd storytelling på, det första är att upplevelsen är en berättelse, det andra är att berättelserna runt företaget bygger dess identitet, och det tredje är att företagets verksamhet bygger på berättelser om dess historia. Företagen använder storytelling för att väcka känslor, ge kunderna ett mervärde, bli ihågkomna och differentiera sig mot andra företag.

This report describes a synchronous machine model with magnetic saturation in d-axis, neutralconnection and electrical exciter interface for the transient simulator PSCAD/EMTDC. It hasbeen designed and verified in comparison to the regular machine model in EMTDC.The performance of the model is very good when incorporating a linear as well as a saturatedmagnetising inductance. The dynamic deviation is only thousandths to ten thousandths perunit. By using a cubic interpolation of the saturation curve, the model gives a good representationof the saturation effect. The open source code implementation of the synchronousmachine model gives the possibility to easily adapt the model to specific requirements.The derived model makes it possible to simulate a synchronous machine with its excitationsystems, e.g.

Rapporten tar upp och behandlar ämnet betalväxlar utifrån en utvecklares perspektiv. Två företag som varit i eller nära inpå processen att utveckla en webbshop har intervjuats och jämförts med utbudet hos ett antal olika betalväxlar. Intervjuerna har visat ett resultat som är mycket troligt att man som ny utvecklare kommer i kontakt med i början. Positionen kan då vara både som utvecklare eller som ägare till webbshoppen. Det gick även att konstatera att det fanns ett antal betalväxlar lämpade för olika kunskapsnivåer.

Detta examensarbete har haft som uppgift att undersöka möjligheterna för hur man skulle kunna förbättra gränssnittet för användarna av WIS, Webbaserat informationssystem (1), genom att göra webbapplikationerna mindre dataintensiva. Examensarbetet görs i samarbete med Know IT Candeo AB i Luleå som är utvecklare och förvaltare av systemet. Examensarbetet tar upp några exempel på hur många webbapplikationer fungerar och är uppbyggda idag och försöka se det från ett perspektiv på hur man skulle kunna förbättra gränssnittet för användarna med hjälp av asynkron webbkommunikation. De bakomliggande principerna för asynkron webbkommunikation kommer att behandlas för att sedan kunna beskrivas mer specifikt i AJAX(Asynchronous JavaScript and Xml) tekniken och Microsofts implementation av AJAX som heter ASP.NET AJAX (3). För att kunna utvärdera om asynkron webbkommunikation är användbart i just detta specifika projekt ska några enkla prototyper tas fram..

The purpose of this Master thesis is to examine theinformation use and information seeking behaviour amongpersons who actively work with information. For this study,interviews have been conducted with a group of six personswho work with information in information intensiveorganizations. The aim is to answer the following questions:What kind of information is connected to the respondents?work tasks? What is the purpose of their search forinformation? Which information sources do they use and whatkind of information sources do they demand? The theoreticalframework consists mainly of Wilsons information needs andinformation seeking model.The results of this study show that none of the respondentshad any strategic model for their work with information. Theinformation that the respondents were searching for is ofdifferent content and depends on the organization in which therespondent operates.

Storing kinetic energy in a flywheel allows for more efficient driving of electricvehicles. Research in this area is in progress at Uppsala University, where a flywheelwith magnetic bearings encased in a vacuum chamber is being constructed. To makethis possible methods for measuring the current through the electromagnets in thebearings and temperatures in the flywheel need to be developed. This has been thepurpose of this report. The current measurement resulted in a resistive method, andthe implementation of eight measurement circuits in the system.

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..

In today's social work there is an ambition to work evidence-based in order to improve quality and competency in business. This study is made in a disability administration which has introduced a common approach towards users for all employees. The approach is called low arousal approach. The purpose of the study is to investigate how a method takes hold and implements within an organization. The empirical data is analyzed by theories of professionalization, idea dissemination and translation.