The world economy of today is in an extensive financial crisis which has lead to the fact that people seek well placed investments and securing of capital, something that by many people can be found in forest investment. The price of forest estates has increased with 90 % during the last 5 years and marketing polls indicate a positive belief in the future among forest owners. The development of timber prices has not increased to the same extent as the forest property prices which implies that the property price not only reflect the yield value from the forest but also that the lumber value does not have such a meaningful role in the pricing of forest properties as proven earlier. This fact means that forest owners either invest their capital in forest in a speculative point of view or that the purchasers of forest properties invests in non monetary benefits that lacks a direct yield value. The purpose with this degree thesis is to increase the understanding of the pricing of forest properties with focus on the above mentioned fact.

Structural changes on the grocery market usually take place when the consumer is persuaded to take on the more labourintense parts of the distributionprocess. Internettrade changes this by causing competition between the unpaid work done by consumers and the labor performed by employees. In this master thesis grocery shopping on the internet is analyzed in a economic perspective with focus on distribution, changing marketstructures, driving forces and the future potential of internet as a saleschannel. The main conclusions are that consumerdemand and the belief in electronic commerceas a costreducing mechanism as well as a powerful new marketing tool were the driving forces behind the fast growth of grocery shopping on the internet. Electronic commerce introduces a new model of distribution with changing roles for consumers and grocerychains.

Uppsatsen presenterar två studier som med den socialpsykologiska modellen ?teorin om planerat beteende? (Ajzen, 1991) undersöker hur väl en webbaserad måltidsplaneringstjänst lyckas med att få dess användare att regelbundet äta varierat.Tjänsten bestod huvudsakligen av en sökbar receptdatabas på 250 recept, en kalender för att planera in recepten i, och en inköpslista som genererades automatiskt utifrån recepten i kalendern. Tjänsten byggdes under tiden som uppsatsen skrevs, och författaren deltog som interaktionsdesigner i detta projekt.I  uppsatsen presenteras  två sekventiella studier för att mäta användarnas intention till beteendet. I vardera studie presenteras först webbtjänsten och den funktionalitet den hade vid tiden för testet. Detta följs av en hypotes om tjänstens påverkan över användarnas vilja att äta varierat.

The study aims to describe and analyse the relationship between norm and practice regarding social services casework on honour-related problems. The relationship between norm and practice involves the difference between the way it is intended that social workers shall operate in these cases and how they perceive that this works in practice. We interviewed two focus groups of eight Swedish social workers, four in each group. We also held an individual interview with a social services business developer. Focus group interviews were based on two vignettes; one depicting an honour-related case and the second an "ordinary" case.

The premise for this study is the question how we should relate to people with different religious beliefs. The aim is to examine if an existence characterized by a religious diversity should affect the certainty and confidence in our faith. To answer my question I have turned to the philosophers David Basinger, Mikael Stenmark, William Lane Craig and Robert McKims different views on this issue. Using an approach based on a comparative method and argument analysis I have then assessed their different opinions in the matter. Based on my own discussion of these arguments I conclude that a religious diversity should imply a reduction in our own religious confidence and that it should be reduced in relation to the amount of disagreement that exist between conflicting religious perspectives in an specific case and matter.

Renman Linda (2008). Skolutveckling En fallstudie: jämförelser mellan teori och praktik. School development: A case study: Comparing theory an practice. Skolutveckling och ledarskap, lärarutbildningen, Malmö Högskola. Syftet med denna studie har främst varit att tydliggöra mötet mellan teori och praktik i ett skolutvecklingsprojekt.

Syftet med studien är att analysera om, och i så fall hur, Försvarsmaktens sjukvårdskoncept tillvaratar krigsvetenskaplig teori. Genom en kvalitativ ansats och användning av främst fallstudier analyseras praktisk verksamhet under insatserna NBG 11 och FS 22 jämfört teorin. Inom sjukvårdstjänstens tre principiella områden (medicinskt understöd, medicinsk evakueringskedja och planering av medicinskt understöd i operationsområdet) tillvaratas krigsvetenskaplig teori men det framkommer också att praktisk verksamhet har ett behov av större tydlighet och mer detaljrikedom än vad befintlig teori erbjuder. Vagheten i teorin möjliggör dock flexibla lösningar och skapande av modulära system förutsatt att ledningen är förutseende och har godasambandsmöjligheter.Då antalet fall är få blir generaliserbarheten av resultatet begränsat. Sjukvårdskonceptet anpassas alltid efter rådande förutsättningarna och fördjupad förståelse för konceptet är viktigare än generaliserbarheten av resultatet..

The term CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is frequently discussed today. Many large companies work actively with CSR related questions. However, few empirical studies exist on what this work entails and why it is undertaken. Instead, most of the academic research focuses on what the term itself should mean. To bridge this gap this study centers on the employees? perceptions of CSR.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur timanställda inom äldreomsorgen upplever sinarbetssituation och förhoppningen är att genererar en förståelse för hur det kan vara att arbetamed en ?a-typisk? anställning i ett emotionellt arbete. Studien baseras på 6 kvalitativasemistrukturerade intervjuer, varav fyra av dessa är intervjuer med timanställda, entillsvidareanställd samt en områdeschef inom äldreomsorgen. Dessa intervjuer har analyseratsmed hjälp av socialpsykologiska teorier så som Asplunds teori om social responsivitet,Collins interaktionsritualer, Hochschilds teori om emotionellt arbete, Hirdmans teori omgenussystemet och genuskontrakt samt Allvin m.fl. perspektiv på den nya arbetsmarknaden..

The purpose of this essay is to study the public debate on the subject of creationism, the belief that there is a creator of all life on earth. The study is focused on creationism in different forms in schools and the more general discussion of creationism as an alternative to the theory of evolution. The overall question is what should be taught as the origin of life: Evolution or creationism in various shapes and forms? The essay consists of an overview of previous research in both the USA and Sweden, and an analysis of argumentation on the issue in newspapers. A comparison is made between the USA and Sweden.The analysis of newspapers shows that there are some arguments for different forms of creationism but there are considerably more arguments against creationism.

The aim of this thesis is to highlight how male and female characters are portrayed in children?s books, that have football as a theme, and are written for children between 9-12 years of age. I have chosen this subject so that I, as a pre-school teacher, can adhere to the curriculum?s aim of maintaining the school?s responsibility for counteracting traditional gender roles. I aim to study how gender is represented in literature for children.I shall apply Yvonne Hirdman?s theories on the gender system which is built on the principals whereby the sexes are separate entities and there is a structural hierarchy between them.

Huvudsyftet med denna studie var att se hur pojkar och flickor hjälper till vid matsituationen i förskolan. Studien är genomförd ur ett genusperspektiv där Hirdmans (2001) teori om genuskontrakt har använts som analysverktyg och resultatet vidare diskuterats ur ett jämställdhetsperspektiv som en aspekt av hållbar utveckling. För att undersöka detta har observation använts som metod. Resultatet visar att både pojkar och flickor hjälper till, ibland på lika sätt och ibland på olika sätt. Genuskontraktet finns till viss del implementerad på avdelningen där observationerna har utförts.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka ungdomars uppfattning av hur kränkningar i sociala medier kan se ut samt att studera om det finns något som särskiljer det från kränkningar som sker öga mot öga. Eftersom den tekniska utvecklingen skapar förändrade förutsättningar för det sociala samspelet gör det att personer som arbetar med att förebygga kränkningar och mobbning ställs inför nya utmaningar. Därför är studien även inriktad på hur skolan kan arbeta med dessa kränkningar. Enligt en rapport från BRIS ?Barnens Rätt I Samhället? får de in fler och fler samtal varje år som handlar om mobbning och annan kränkande behandling.

Faith is a phenomenon that engages the individual into emotional, social and daily manners.Religion tends to engage the individual in different levels in the daily life. In the church communion, there is a belief to the traditional and the repeteated behaviour. This shared group is strength by ceremonies and rituals and people in this collective somehow experience another type of reality. This study has a social - psychological perspective and the purpose is to study people?s know-how of faith and why they seek religion in today´s secularized society.

The purpose of this essay is to shed some light upon the children who grew up in Sweden after their parents fled the war in former Yugoslavia. Did the parents spread their own opinions about the other ethnicities which they fought against in the war to the children, even though they live in a new country? And if so, was it an act of patriotism for the country they once lived in and who was to blame for the war? Did the children who grew up in Sweden share the same attitudes as their parents? To find out about this we used interviews with four people, all with heritage from former Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Croatia. What we found out was that the thoughts from the parents partially were passed down to their children, even though the children thought that they had formed their own opinions. In this case the thoughts didn?t relate to any kind of patriotism or who to blame for the war, they rather believed that they shouldn?t blame the other ethnic groups for the war.