The purpose of this study is to examine the implementation of the Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, CEDAW, in Uppsala local council and county council. The aim is to examine how the respondents, in their daily work, understand and implement the convention as well as how they consider the prerequisites for a successful implementation. The study was conducted using qualitative interviews with three civil servants and four politicians. The theoretical approach was implementation theory whose concepts willingness, comprehension and capability were used as tools for the analysis. The results portray CEDAW as a well-known treaty amongst the respondents but at the same time absent in local politics and everyday work.

Titel: Kriskommunikation och Maktrelationer. En retorisk analys och kritisk diskursanalys av pressmeddelanden Författare: Alexander Frost Utgivningsdatum: 2012-08-29 Handledare: Michael Krona, Fredrik Edin Examinator: Bo Reimer Utbildning: Medie- och Kommunikationsvetenskap Typ av dokument: C- uppsats Språk: Svenska Syfte: Att utifrån fyra olika företags kriskommunikation i form av pressmeddelanden analysera språkliga mönster och strategier sedda ur ett maktperspektiv. Teori: Diskurs och makt, Strategisk kommunikation, Hermeneutik Metod: Kritisk diskursanalys, Retorisk analys Nyckelord: Kriskommunikation, Pressmeddelande, Diskursanalys, Retorisk analys, Strategisk kommunikation, PR.

Background: Balanced scorecard is a relatively new strategy in analysing activities in a company. To carry out a strategy in an organization a successful implementation is very important. Strategy implementations are unique for each organization and to succeed it has to be formulated and implemented with the individual companies particular conditions as starting- point. A problem is that the implementation sometimes is treated as a small detail in the planning process. This problem depends on how the strategic plans is carried out.

SammanfattningFördjupningsarbete i företagsekonomi. Ekonomihögskolan i Växjö, Linnéuniversitetet. Civilekonomprogrammet, controllerfördjupning. Vårterminen 2012.Titel: Strategiska affärssystem? ? en fallstudie på NVSBakgrund och problem: För att förenkla företags arbete mot dess mål kan de ta hjälp av ett välfungerande affärssystem.

Abstract CORDIC (Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer) is an iterative algorithm for the calculation of a two-dimensional vector in circular, linear or hyperbolic coordinate systems. This paper presents a survey of known CORDIC algorithms and architectures for the rotation and vectoring mode in the circular cordinate system. In addition an implementation of the differential CORDIC algorithm in VHDL has been done. The implementation is designed to keep the fast timing and throughput characteristic known for on-line redundant arithmetic..

The purpose of this study is to find out why the EU has not yet implemented the EuropeanCivil Peace Corps (ECPC), which the EU Parliament took a resolution about in 1999. Themore specific questions posed are whether the concept of ECPC has been redefined, whetherthe issue of ECPC has been prevented from coming up for discussion and decision-making,and what this has meant for the non-implementation. Steven Lukes' theory about the threedimensions of power is used in combination with a discourse analysis method. The materialused is documents from the EU Parliament's decisions and debate about ECPC, and ECPCfeasibility studies. In the analysis I find one "law and order"-discourse and one "peaceknowledge"-discourse.

This study was carried out in Ronneby municipality during May 2006. I chose to compare three senior schools with regards to the implementation of objective orientated directives based on the teachers understanding of the task, motivation, resources allocated and their significance for the disparity between boys? and girls? grades.I carried out nine in-depth interviews: three at each senior school. From the interviews it emerged that teachers perceive objectives differently from parents and students. Teachers claim that they understand the directives but say that they lack the resources.

The aim of the study was to examine prerequisites for the changes that are taking place within working with Intimate Partner Violence in Va?stra Hisingen (a municipal district in Gothenburg, Sweden). My research questions concerned incentives for the new features, their practical consequences and prerequisites for implementation. The study has been performed by three focus group interviews with different parts of the organization represented. The work material has then been analyzed using Implementation Theory, Human Service Organization Theory and theories on breaking up.

Strategiska beslut är komplexa och innebär ofta en stor risk för företaget. Det finns många faktorer som ligger till grund för beslutsunderlaget och många faktorer som påverkar en strategisk beslutsprocess. Vi har valt att titta närmare på en av dessa aspekter; den information som hämtas från ekonomistyrningen. Vi fann det mest intressant att fördjupa oss i ekonomistyrningens användning och betydelse. Hur ekonomistyrsystemet är utformat bör rimligtvis påverka hur det används och vi frågar oss därför om det finns några krav på ekonomistyrsystemets utformning? Vilka andra faktorer påverkar användningen av informationen? Syftet med denna uppsats är att utreda hur ekonomistyrningen används då strategiska beslut fattas samt vilken betydelse ekonomistyrningen får för det strategiska beslutet.

Detta arbete utgör specifikation, implementation och utvärdering av ett läroverktyg sett till hur man säkerställer att en ensam utvecklare lyckas i varje enskild problemdomän. Detta nås genom en metodik för kravinsamling och specificering grundad i Co-Creation, designmönster och kodstrukturering som stöd i själva utvecklingen samt agil utvecklingsmetod sett ur perspektivet av en ensam utvecklare..

Lean has been studied intensely since the 1980s and it has been tested and successfully implemented in a wide variety of businesses. This thesis aims to examine the potential effects of a Lean implementation on meeting efficiency, a topic that has gotten little attention in the research community. First, a number of meeting problems are introduced, as they are perceived from the company that is the subject of the study. Second, the potential of introducing Lean in a meeting process is evaluated using the Lean Thinking principles. Third, the wastes that are generated from the meeting problems are identified.

The aim of this paper is to explain and compare non-compliance of two EU-directives, ?the quality of bathing water? and ?the working time directive?. This study answers the questions: Why didn?t Sweden implement the directive on bathing water quality and the working time directive correctly? Are the reasons for non-compliance the same or different in the two cases? The paper is designed as a case study and with an explanatory attempt we explain why the two directives weren?t implemented correctly in Sweden. The theoretical approach is based on both general- and EU-specific implementation theories.

AbstractTitel: Med uppdraget i alla kanaler -Institutionell logik för strategisk kommunikation på svenska statliga myndigheterFörfattare: Ulf NylénKurs: Examensarbete i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 15 hp, MK 2500Termin: Vårterminen 2014Syfte: Syftet uppsatsen är att identifiera tre grundelement i den institutionella ordningsom styr den institutionella logiken strategisk kommunikation på svenska statligamyndigheter. Med utgångspunkt i neoinstitutionell organisationsteori och Thorntons(et al. 2012) interinstitutionella system formuleras tre forskningsfrågor:1. Var hämtar den strategiska kommunikationen på en statlig myndighet sin legitimitet?2.

The development in electronics increases the demand for good design methods and design tools in the field of electrical engeneering. To improve their design methods Ericsson Microwave Systems AB is interested in using computer tools to create a link between the specification and the implementation of a digital system in a FPGA. Xilinx System Generator for DSP is a tool for implementing a model of a digital signalprocessing algorithm in a Xilinx FPGA. To evaluate Xilinx System Generator two testcases has been designed. The testcases are selected to represent the FPGA designs made at Ericsson Microwave Systems.

The eld of Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) concerns linking together an external device with the brain of a human or an animal. By doing this the conventional use of a mouse or keyboard can be circumvented, which can greatly benefit people with different types of diseases that cause paralysis or other loss of motor control, such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A BCI can also be used for cognitive training of either healthy or mentally impaired subjects to increase cognitive capabilities.In this thesis an implementation of an interface is made against such a device, the Emotiv EPOC Headset. The result is meant to be a stable basis for further study using the device. An in-depth study of the history of EEG and its current use in clinical work and research in the topics of BCI as well as Human-computer interaction (HCI) is presented.