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..

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur Apple och HP, genom att kommunicera sina SR-initiativ i sina hållbarhetsrapporter, legitimerar sin verksamhet för sina intressenter. Metod och material: Kritisk diskursanalys av Apples och HPs hållbarhetsrapporter. Huvudresultat: Apple och HP legitimerar sin verksamhet i sina hållbarhetsrapporter, genom att anpassa det språk och ordval som används. De ordval som görs ger direkta konsekvenser för hur företagen framställs i sammanhanget och påverkar hur de fråntar sig ansvaret av sin verksamhet..

Under de senaste åren har revisionspliktens avskaffande i Sverige varit ett omdiskuterat ämne. Genom en kvalitativ undersökning med genomförda intervjuer på tre små oberoende revisionsbyråer har författarna till denna undersökning försökt svara på följande problemformulering: Hur hanterar små oberoende revisionsbyråer en slopad revisionsplikt? Studien visar att hanteringen av en slopad revisionsplikt skiljer sig åt mellan revisionsbyråerna. Samtidigt som en del byråer är väldigt aktiva i sin hantering finns det andra som är passiva. Med en slopad revisionsplikt följer såväl hot som möjligheter och för att möta dessa effektivt krävs strategiska förändringar..

The aim is that on the basis of interviews with personnel and clients examine whichexperiences they have of the drug abuse programme and its implementation. To be able toanswer the aim following question has been formulated: (1) What do the personnel and clientthink about the drug abuse program arrangement? (2) In which extend is the programimplemented as thought? (3) How do the personnel assesses the client?s participation? (4)How does the client?s think about their own participation in the program? (5) Do the client?sthink that the program have been helpful in their personal development? A qualitativemethod was chosen and has used a semi structured interview. Total has ten interviews beenimplemented on Rällsögården, five with clients and five with personnel. The study'sinterpretation framework builds on research around drug abuse treatment and theories andmethods that lie to shallow for the drug abuse programme.

The problems and the opinions regarding accounting of Goodwill have always been an issue. In the search for a more standardised accounting standard IASB made a series of changes with the implementation of IFRS/IAS, which means that all companies who are listed on any stock exchange in Europe have to follow these new standards. During the process IASB wanted some feedback from the users to get a better understanding of how different participants in the economic market would respond to a number of questions regarding different changes in the accounting. In total IASB got 126 responses for the 'Comment Letters' (CL) they sent out.This paper aims to review these CL and examine how different participants will stand on different questions, mainly regarding the elimination of the pooling method and if goodwill is to be amortised but also any opinions regarding the implementation of the impairment tests. The present study comprises 126 CL, which represent participants from all the corners of the Earth.

Public concern and the need of responsible way of doing business have brought forward the issue of sustainability at the forefront of discussion in the last decade. Even though, food retailers are playing an important role in the economy, they are exposed for criticism by media and consumers for any socially and environmentally irresponsible business practices because, the potential environmental and social impacts from their operations are significant. These impacts need to be recognized and properly addressed. The main objective of this study was to assess the sustainable business management of a cooperative food retail business in Sweden, known as Konsum Värmland (KV). The necessary data and information on history and status of KV, and its practical activities concerning the implementation of sustainable development programs as well as the motivation and challenges encountered by KV during the implementation were gathered via reviewing different documents, research papers and press releases; interviewing decision makers and other personnel in KV and other researchers from Swedish University of Agricultural University who have investigated KV.

Syftet är att undersöka om de fyra kriterierna komplementära färdigheter, samarbetsvilliga kulturer, förenliga mål och proportionella nivåer av risk som utarbetats av Brouthers et al (1995) har något empiriskt stöd för olika typer av allianser. Studien är empirisk med ett hypotetiskt-deduktivt tillvägagångssätt med en kvalitativ ansats. Hypoteser framtagna utifrån Brouthers et als teori undersöks för att avgöra vilka faktorer som avgör om en allians blir framgångsrik eller inte. Studien inkluderar även en explorativ förstudie för att konstatera kunskapsläget och formulera en undersökningsplan..

Problem and purpose: The authors were interested in studying how large Swedish banks managed liquidity risks when facing the financial crisis of 2008 and whether the implementation of Basel II framework had an impact on the major Swedish banks' capital adequacy. Furthermore, the authors intend to examine how, based on the analysis of the implementation of Basel II, the introduction of Basel III will affect major Swedish banks' liquidity in the future.Method: The essay is written from a quantitative approach and has a deductive perspective. Data was collected from the annual reports of the selected banks to later use relevant theories to analyze the work.Theory: This part of the essay presents relevant theories, a detailed description of the Basel regulatory framework and its requirements, rules for capital adequacy and to relevant key to achieve the Basel regulatory requirements are considered. Furthermore the authors present criticism of the Basel framework and a summary of the key theoretical points to be used for analyzing empirical data.Empirical: In this chapter the data collected from selected banks is presented and processed.Conclusion: The essay authors present the deficiencies and weaknesses that make the Basel II regulatory framework inadequate for the Swedish financial market. Essay authors also present their opinions regarding how the latest form of the Basel regulations could have a more significant influence on the long-term stability of Swedish banks and how this may increase protection against potential liquidity risks..

The essay shows that temporary agency employees work in a complex business. Both labor and management differs from other businesses in the Swedish labor market. Regarding the unemployment insurance, they have previously been separated from other businesses through legislation. Based on the essay question regarding workers protection has the statutory rights for employees been strengthened. This by the implementation of the directive on manning into Swedish law and now covers all workers in the business.

Detta arbete är ett uppdrag från Luleå kommun. Som kommun erbjuder Luleå ett flertal kompetensutbildningar där främsta målet är att utveckla mänskliga kompetenser i arbetslivet, men även att ge möjligheten till varje person att förbättra sin kompetens under hela sin anställningstid.Det erbjuds också karriärutveckling inom hela kommunen som ett uttryck för att verka för ett gott medarbetarskap. Därför är Luleå kommun intresserade av att ta reda på vilken nytta kompetensutbildningarna har för chefer. Kommunen har även tagit fram ett så kallat kompetenshjul som beskriver fem olika aspekter av delkompetenser, nämligen personlig, yrkes, social, strategisk och funktionell. De menar att dessa är viktiga för att kunna möta de behov av kompetens som finns inom organisationer.Syftet med denna studie blev därför att ta reda på om de kompetensutbildningar som Luleå kommun erbjuder möter chefernas behov av kompetensutveckling inom Tekniska förvaltningen och Socialförvaltningen.

Ordbetydelsedisambiguering, att bestämma vilken betydelse av ett ord som gäller i ett givet sammanhang, är en av språkteknologins huvudutmaningar. Medan ordklasstaggning och informationssökning har nått mycket användbara nivåer är det fortfarande långt kvar innan vi har hittat en metod som på ett tillförlitligt sätt kan hjälpa oss att automatiskt ordbetydelsedisambi- guera digital text. I denna uppsats undersöker jag vilka metoder för ordbetydelsedisambiguering som finns, hur de fungerar, samt demonstrerar hur en praktisk implementation av en sådan metod går till..

The aim of this master thesis is to describe some general trends and important steps in the Swedish university libraries user-orientation from the implementation of the university college reform 1977 until today. The aim gave rise to four further questions. Literature studies and empirical studies in the form of focusing interviews have been carried out, in order to answer the questions. Of the entire background material I have made a simple form of general analysis. I found that the libraries, during the years have interacted with the following four interested parties, the government, the mother organization, other libraries and the library users.

In the year of 2002 a new council regulation on community designs was implemented. In the beginning of the essay the legal situtation before the implementation is investigated and part of the purpose is to evaluate if it constitutes a solution to the problems with protection of fashion designs that existed then. Because fashion designs more or less were excluded from protection during the period before the implementation the fashion business developed a habit of unauthorized reproduction. This attitude among the market players is a central point of the essay. The essay starts off with a review of the earlier lack of possibilities regarding the protection of fashion designs.

The purpose of this study is to highlight the existence ofpersonalization within Swedish political parties along withhow the parties work with this phenomena in order to achievemore voters.The method used is personal interviews with politiciansfrom four different government parties. As a complement, interviews with a political expert was also made. All parties use personalization in different ways as a strategy tocreate dialogues and relationships with both media and voters. We distinguished two sorts of personalization: individualization and privatization, and discovered that not all parties use both..