There are several objects of age whose provenance and history has disappeared with time. The purpose of this thesis is to find out which analyzing methods that gives results and how the different methods can be combined and /or established in each other. The investigations centers around an embroidery, belonging to Tämta church, with unknown origin, use and age. The embroidery is long and narrow with applications in the form of dragons and eagles on a ground of velvet cloth. The dragons and eagles are covered with metal threads.

Open source is growing outside the boundaries of hackers, amateurs and software development, creating a humongous potential in many different areas and aspects of society. The intrinsic and extrinsic motivations that drives open source have been in the subject of much research recently, but how they affect each other when paid and unpaid contributors come together is still hidden in obscurity. In this study I investigate how intrinsic and extrinsic motivation correlates with each other and how those correlations affect paid and unpaid open source software contributors. The literature synthesis is based on of systematic reviews through searches in library databases, identification of articles by searching on the Internet and by reading relevant books. My results indicate that intrinsic and extrinsic motivations continuously affect each other and that paid contributors are more vulnerable since their extrinsic motivation in terms of money is reached only when many other motivations are fulfilled.

In this paper we explore the relations between context and feedback generated in three user-centered evaluations of a flash-based game. Whether it?s the social context, the physical context or the degree of intrusion from the evaluator, they all contribute to the quality of the feedback received. The selection of test subjects is a narrow process, which gives the above mentioned factors different meaning. Contextual factors have shown to influence the feedback given within both usability and user-experience.

This paper investigates the relations between the fantasy genre and the phenomena of escapism. It also delves into the factors which motivates consumption of various fantasy mediums. This is done through interviews with six different fantasy-consumers, along with two observations; of which one is performed at a science fiction convention and the other at a table-top role playing game. The study resulted in a basic understanding of escapism ? it is not limited to the fantasy genre, and fantasy consumers do not deny that fantasy is a form of escapism.

I denna studie så kommer jag att analysera MMORPG-spelet World of Warcraft genom att utföra en analys i hopp om att isolera spelmekanismer och element som kan anses vara välfungerande och väldesignade. Jag kommer dessutom att bryta ner World of Warcraft till dess kärnkomponenter med hjälp av Interaction Centric Framework modellen som ett komplement till denna studie. Resultaten visar att World of Warcraft använder sig av många slags egenskaper och designval som skiljer sig själv från andra spel, som att dra ner på story element och att destillera spelets kärna till en väldigt grundlig ?morot-och-piska? formel som låter spelaren kunna spela oavbrutet utan att känna något skäl att sluta spela. .

This retrospective study reviews and investigates type of dementia, related to co morbidity, symptoms of dementia, previus anaesthesia/surgery, intraoperative events and postoperative cognitive symptoms. The patient co morbidity was compared to occurrence in an age-matched population of 1095 individuals. Fifty-two patients with different types of dementia participated. Data was collected from patient journals.Compared to population, heredity for dementia, heart insufficiency, hypertension, depression and B12- deficiency was more frequent in the patients. B12- deficiency was common in vascular dementias and "burn-out syndrome" in early-onset AD.

Aim: The aim for this study of Swedish daily press is to see how the musical reporting is structured for the newspapers I have chosen to analyse. My main purpose is to investigate how the newspapers reporting are distributed between artists who belong to either a major record company or an independent record company. With this research I want to find out if there are any economic backgrounds to the content and if the reporting is equal to the market production.Method/Material: For this study I have studied, by quantitative research, every piece of musical reporting in seven daily newspapers for two weeks. Through thorough research I have determined the belonging of every article?s record company.

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.

The aim of this study was to describe non-surgical treatment options for the diseases mucositis and peri-implantitis found in present literature. The literature review also illustrates the effect of the treatment opptions on soft tissue with mucositis and peri-implantitis surrounding dental implants. The study reviews twelve scientific articles that have been processed from the aim of the study. The result shows six therapy options, Er:YAG laser, air abrasive, ultrasonic device, hand instruments, hand instruments in combination with antibiotics and hand instruments in combination with clorhexidin. The following methods are described according to how they are used and how they affect the soft tissue surrounding dental implants.

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 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.

Subject: The Teacher Training Programme, Degree Project in Educational SciencesSödertörn University CollegeAutumn Term, 2006This study titled, Those who feel worst, need help to feel better, is a Degree Project in Educational Sciences for the Teacher Training Programme at Södertörn University College. The purpose of this study is to find out how school introduction for newly arrived refugee children is organized in two schools, considering the fact that many refugee children can suffer from PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The study is qualitative, based on interviews with principals, teachers and students in one junior high school and one high school. The study also reviews literature and research on how to work with children who suffer from PTSD. The results show that lack of national policy for the school introduction and education of refugee children, leads to the fact that school introduction can vary from school to school.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to deepen the understanding of how society affects literary criticism by studying the reception of two Swedish dystopian novels and their contemporary anchorage. The questions that we answer here are concerned with how critics have drawn parallels between the novels and events occurring in the contemporary society, and how the critics outlook on the future are connected to ideas about the future in the novels. The first novel, Kallocain 1940 by Karin Boye has been interpreted as a critical statement directed towards totalitarian ideologies. The second novel, After the Flood 1982 by P C Jersild, has been seen as a warning against nuclear warfare. This qualitative study is based on 41 reviews from Swedish daily press.

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.