In this thesis a study about funding in civil-society organizations is carried out. The aim is to understand how an organization in civil-society is affected by different forms of financing models. The empirical material in the thesis consists of a case study of three Swedish civil-society organizations (CSO) producing social services in the field of rehabilitation of people with a drug addiction. The case study consists of mainly interviews with people holding a leading position in the three organizations together with a study of for the research question relevant documents. From the empirical material, including an extensive analysis of these organizations different income sources, a partial model of how to categorize and analyze different forms of funding in CSOs is developed.

Denna rapport är resultatet av ett examensarbete som har utförts vid institutionen för informationsochkommunikationsteknik, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), och omfattar 15 hp. Rapportenpresenterar ett arbete där examensarbetarna har utvecklat en terräng med höjdskillnader ochljussättning, partikeleffekter (CPU-GPU implementering) som liknar ett fyrverkeri, partikeleffekter(GPU implementering) som visar olika mönster samt en kamera för att kunna observera spelvärldenfrån alla möjliga olika vinklar i 3D med API:et Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL).LWJGL är ett lågnivå-API som riktar sig mot nybörjare och professionella spelutvecklare iprogramspråket Java. Flera tekniker exponeras istället för att mappa lågnivå-funktioner iobjektorienterad programmeringsparadigm som många javautvecklare är vana vid. LWJGL hanterarsin egen grafik, ljud och styrkontroller enbart för att få en solid grund för moderna spel och enbättre användarupplevelse. Den grafiska renderingen sköts med OpenGL.Syftet med det här examensarbetet var att utvärdera LWJGL om den är kompetent nog att användasi samband med spelutveckling.

Svart Själ är en kortfilm i genren skräck/thriller som är inspelad i High Definition Video och ljudlagd i 5.1 Surroundljud. Skapandet av denna film har involverat tre faser; Förproduktion (manus, casting av skådespelare, lokalisering av inspelningsplatser och införskaffning av rekvisita), Produktion (inspelning) och Postproduktion (redigering, effekter, musik och ljudläggning). Filmen handlar om ett kusligt hotell där ett mord har begåtts på ett brutalt sätt och den enda överlevande kommer inte ihåg något alls. Dagen efter kommer Peter, en journalist, till platsen för att undersöka saken. Vi följer med Peter in i en rysande historia där sanningen om hotellets mörka förflutna möter dagens ljus.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker varför vissa spel kan ses med ett större estetiskt värde än andra och hur detta estetiska fokus kan uppnås samt hur detta påverkar spelen och dess värde. Syftet är att beskriva estetisk effektivitet som begrepp och metod för att kunna applicera dessa kunskaper i produktioner av digitala spel. För att undersöka problemområdet utfördes en spelproduktion där metoder framtagna under undersökningens gång applicerades. Denna produktion testades sedan mot respondenter och resultaten sammanställdes med reflektioner kring hur processen påverkat slutprodukten. Undersökningen beskriver ett förhållningssätt, komplett med begrepp, definitioner och metoder och visar att detta kan användas för att skapa sammanhållna och starka upplevelser. .

The aim of this study has been to examine six books about Oscar Wilde?s homosexuality during the years 1906 ? 2003. I have been analyzing their descriptions about his sexual orientation and compared them to each other to see the changes through time. In order to see some clear changes the main focus was to choose time differences between the books. It was clear that the earlier writers had negative opinions and thoughts about his sexual deviation the way they described it.

The aim of the study was to investigate how a significant other of threepersons with Parkinson?s disease experienced the communication in conversation. Astructured interview and analysis of a video recorded conversation was performed.The questions in the interview were aimed at mapping the significant others?experience of communicative problems, their frequency, degree and conversationstrategies used by a significant other in conversation. The result showed that thesignificant others? experienced problems in communication related to the disease inseveral different areas for two of three participants with Parkinson?s disease.

Datortekniken har utvecklats vilket innebär att man kan göra mer högupplösta 3D-objekt (se ordlistan) som ser mer realistiska ut än sina föregångare vilket har skapat en trend där 3D-objekten ska vara realistiska. Vi vill bryta den realistiska trenden genom att ta inspiration från det konstnärliga fältet vilket ledde oss till att undersöka de metoder som surrealisterna kan ha använt. Surrealismen innebär att konstnären vill fånga sina inre visioner och drömbilder. Undersökningen sker med fokus på metoden kollage, utklippta bilder som sätts ihop till en bild, såsom bland annat Max Ernst utförde det. Vidare testas våra egna varianter av kollage och därefter diskuteras arbetsflödet i de olika varianterna.

This is a qualitative study which purpose is to examine how the social workers in a medium-sized municipality in southern of Sweden are experiencing the different forms of housing that the municipality has for disposal. The purpose is also to examine opinions - belonging to the social workers? representatives - concerning the value of motivational work in changing the lifestyles of assaulted and addicted women. The questions we have decided to examine are; how is the social services' work with assaulted and addicted women designed, how do the social workers experiences the situation on these forms of housing and what the social workers believe is promoting and inhibiting factors for motivation with assaulted and addicted women. The results in this study are built on qualitative semi-structured interviews with social workers where both sexes are represented.

This report is a study in voltagelevel in connection with regeneration of brake energy from the tramtype M31 in Gothenburg.In the act of braking, the tram M31 uses electrical braking where the electrical motors generates energy and if possible send it back to the overheadline, where other trams in the nearby can use this regenerated energy for its own driving force. In cases where no other energyconsumers are located in the same section, there is a resistance witch task is to convert this energy into heat. The regulation of this resistance appears to cause an increase in the voltagelevel into far too high levels.Investigations of the trams regulationequipment and its construction have been done. Further have measurements on the overheadline been performed in order to map the voltagevariations during a longer period of time.The result have been showing that the voltagelevel during regeneration often is as high as 880V-920V, more extreme values have not been observed in a large scale. The values are especially high compared to the nominal voltagelevel.

This study treats the possibility of breeding mallards and pheasants on our own farm, Björnslund. From the beginning I considered to breed them from eggs to adults but after visiting several breeders I changed my mind. It seemed to be a lot of work with no economic profit in comparison with buying already hatched birds and then feed them to adults. If the business shall be profitable I have to be soll the hunting for the birds and then sell the dead birds to game purchasers. There are also calculations that show which price you have to charge for the hunting that will give a positive result. Another possibility is to own a slaughterhouse and sell the meat to restaurants and supermarkets.

This Masters thesis concerns computer games in Swedish public libraries. We have investigated the opinions of public librarians concerning what they think about computer games, and to what extent they believe it should be a part of the public library. The method we have chosen is qualitative interviews. The theory we have used is a pedagogical literature strategy, which we have reformulated so that it fits our investigation. The results show that the interviewed public librarians think that the library should offer computer games for children and youths to use at the library, and that they should offer computer games for lending, to all the library users.

This is a case study of the music channel MTV and it?s impact on the Swedish mediascape. We want to look into the process that lies behind this huge intercontinental corporation. Through literature studies we present the mechanism?s that paved the way for MTV growing into the number one music channel of modern time.

This thesis presents my work at the company Fatshark AB in Stockholm. My supervisor Rikard Blomberg, who works as a chief technology officer at Fatshark and is one of the owners of the company, explained that they had experienced weaknesses in the methodology used when developing heads up displays (HUD) for their games. In the latest production, Lead  and Gold, the HUD had been redesigned a number of times, becoming an unnecessarily big expense due to the number of work hours invested. In modern software development, an iterative workflow is commonly encouraged. Despite this fact, the work efficiency could likely be increased by setting up guidelines as a help in the process of developing HUDs and reviewing the solutions.

I förarbeten till lagarna LVM och LPT framkommer det att det finns en problematik kring vården av personer som lider av både missbruk och psykisk ohälsa. Det framgår att samarbetet mellan psykiatri och socialtjänst i vissa avseende är att anse som bristfälligt och att brukarna faller mellan stolarna. Syftet med studien har varit att, genom granskning av rättskällorna, ta reda på och tydliggöra vad som ska ses som gällande rätt, för om en person med både missbruk och psykisk ohälsa ska få vård enligt LVM eller LPT. Metoden som har använts är en rättsvetenskaplig metod där fokus legat på granskning av rättskällorna. En rättsfallsstudie har även gjorts för att bredda bilden av hur rekvisiten för lagstiftningarna tillämpas.

 Every day media reports acts of violence in various kinds. Crime statistics shows that threats and violence are increasing in regard to both frequency and intensity within the nation. Nurses in the ambulance service are often the first to meet with a patient, therefore these nurses often find themselves in situations where violence and threats occur or have occurred. Drug addiction or some kind of illness are often reasons behind threats and violence.Earlier studies within this area of knowledge are mostly foreign and therefore little describes Swedish nurses` experiences of threats and violence within the ambulance service.The purpose of this study was to describe nurses experiences of threats and violence in the meeting with patients within the ambulance service.The study is a qualitative interview study performed within the School of Life Sciences at the University of Skövde. Six nurses were interviewed with the criterion that they should have experienced threats and violence within their occupation.