This studie explores how a promotive youth movement that aims to activate adolescents in economically and socially exposed areas, can affect the youth?s participation in society and oppose their experience of stigmatization. The youth movement, whom is being studied, uses urban art expressions as a mean to engage and motivate the adolescents. The empirism has mostly been collected by a limited participatory observation, and through qualitative interviews with staff and adolescents in the movement. The result has been analyzed through Pierre Bourdieus field theory.

Cancer är den ledande orsaken till sjukdomsrelaterad död hos unga individer mellan 15-24 år. Detta är en tid som präglas av fysisk och psykisk utveckling, då unga söker efter identitet och självständighet.  Studier har visat att under pågående behandling upplever de unga patienterna ett sjukdomslidande och att de isoleras från sin normala omgivning. De unga påpekade vikten av att bli sedda och lyssnade på av vårdpersonalen, de beskriver även betydelsen av att vara delaktig i sin vård. Antalet unga canceröverlevande ökar och många av dem känner sig övergivna efter utskrivning, vilket späder på det lidande som de redan upplevde under behandlingen. Syftet med studien är att beskriva ungas, 15-25 år, upplevelser av att överleva en cancerdiagnos efter färdig behandling till friskförklaringen som är efter fem år.

Huvudsyftet var att utveckla recept och tillaga hållbara och vegetabiliska lunchalternativ till en blandkostmeny. De nya måltiderna skulle vara välsmakande och näringsriktiga enligt Nordiska näringsrekommendationer (2012). Med hjälp av creative design togs tio vegetabiliska luncher fram och näringsberäknades med hjälp av Dietist Net. Det utfördes ett gillandetest och en gruppdiskussion med 19 gymnasieelever. Erhållen feedback användes i förbättringsarbetet av måltiderna.

During the 90?s, several reforms took place in order to change the educational system. The reforms intended to increase the freedom of choice and to facilitate the start-up process for driving independent schools. A broad alliance of political parties from left to right supported these reforms. Twenty years later, the independent schools constitute a substantial part of schools in Sweden.

Bovint respiratoriskt syncytialt virus (BRSV) och bovint coronavirus (BCV) är två vanligt förekommande infektioner i nötkreatursbesättningar världen över. BRSV och BCV kan orsaka luftvägssjukdom hos kalvar och vuxna nötkreatur, och BCV kan även orsaka diarré. Frihet från infektionerna har i studier satts i samband med ekonomiska vinster för lantbrukare då antikroppsnegativa besättningar visat sig ha lägre tankcelltal och att besättningar nyligen infekterade med BRSV kan ha minskad mjölkavkastning under lång tid. Man har även i en studie visat att det är möjligt för en region att hålla sig fri från BRSV under en längre tidspe-riod. Förekomsten av BRSV och BCV har tidigare inte studerats i åländska besättningar och studi-ens syfte var att undersöka antikroppsprevalensen av BRSV och BCV i åländska mjölkbesätt-ningar samt att undersöka riskfaktorer för introduktion av smittorna från Sverige och finska fastlandet till Åland. Tankmjölk samlades in från 97%, 96% och 98% av de åländska mjölk-besättningarna 2008, 2010 respektive 2012 och analyserades avseende förekomst av antikrop-par mot BRSV och BCV.

Nematodes are perhaps the most common animals in the world. Nematode populations can reach densities up to several millions per square meter in the soil. There are many factors which affect nematode communities in arable soil with respect to diversity and population size. Factors like tillage, crop, fertilization, nutrient status and moisture in the soil all have an impact on soil biology and in this way also have effects on the nematode community. This study is based on three different parts, soil samples taken in March 2012 and March 2013, soil samples taken monthly during the growth season of 2013 in bare fallow plots and a pot experiment.

Denna studies syfte är att belysa hur ett urval av engelsklärare uppfattat hur undervisningen samt deras elever påverkats av införandet av betyg i årskurs 6. För att besvara detta användes kvalitativa intervjuer med fem lärare som satte betyg i engelska läsåret 2012/2013. Resultatet visar att införandet av betyg påverkat undervisningen så tillvida att de muntliga inslagen ökat eftersom förmågorna som ska bedömas kräver att eleverna ges förutsättningar att visa dessa. Resultatet visar även att införandet av betyg har ökat elevernas motivation till skolarbetet. De elever som riskerar ett lågt eller ett underkänt betyg uppvisar dock inte ökad motivation utan snarare sänkt.

This thesis presents an application that performs positioning of modules automatically based on given data for every module, and the development of it. The basis of the application is from a previous thesis code. On top of that code, more features and error handling has been added, as well as fixes for various bugs. A stress test has been performed and further development possibilities are being presented.The thesis work was carried out at Toyota Material Handling Mjölby (TMH) and was made in parallel with another thesis by Fredrik Holden who was generating data for the application. For a complete understanding of the theory and background, please also read Holden?s thesis report ?Development of method for automated positioning of 3D-representations of a modularized product?, as well as the former thesis  ?Analysis for Automated Positioning of 3D-representation of a Modularized product??..

The different characteristics of many food products, such as aroma and texture, changes during storage time and become undesirable. The reason is instabilities within the product which become prominent as the product ages. These changes in characteristics are quality losses caused by changes in the product?s intrinsic and extrinsic environment. The stability in UHT-milk and beverages similar to it have been studied in the past decades and a certain focus have been on age gelation which is a common defect in these type of products.

This essay examines the communication value of music in television advertising. It studies different forms of music and whether these forms contribute positively or negatively to how television advertising is perceived and remembered. The forms are jingle, familiar song and unfamiliar song. 100 high school students participated in the study through a questionnaire.                      The study shows that music is an important tool that complements television advertisings visual aspects. Music creates feelings, emphasizes aspects of the image and clarifies the advertised message.

In this essay we discuss the broad area of website usability from a tourism perspective. Our goal was to investigate the usability in smaller and bigger tourism websites. We have declared what website usability means and the importance of involving the users when designing a user interface. In a pilot study, we conducted three interviews with people who work with usability and then used the information we got to form questions to use in a focus group interview. In this focus group, we asked three people to assess two Swedish tourism websites, one bigger and one smaller, to find out if they were considered usable and if there was any difference in usability depending on the size of the site.

This paper examines the impact of conscious shelf management on online grocery stores. An S-O-R framework is used to unveil if some established shelf management techniques from physical stores are applicable in an online context. We also explain some of the cognitive processes customers experience as they get exposed to online buying situations. A main study with two data sources is conducted: one quantitative website experiment with 168 participants who got exposed to five different organisation patterns within five different categories; and one more qualitative eye tracking experiment with 20 participants. The results indicate that a disorganised product page evokes not only different scan paths and cognitive patterns but also generates higher sales.

Denna uppsats underso?ker hur Mitt Romney och hans mormonska tro portra?tterades i tidningarna The New York Times och The Washington Post under presidentvalet 2012. Artiklarna som har analyserats a?r ha?mtade fra?n sista veckan av valet, fra?n 1 november fram till 7 november 2012, dagen efter valdagen. Syftet med uppsatsen a?r att underso?ka vilka inramningar, frames, som var mest fo?rekommande i portra?tteringen av presidentkandidaten och hans tro.Mormoner a?r en sa? kallad minoritetsreligion i landet och har sedan dess bo?rjan pa? artonhundratalet mo?tt motsta?nd fra?n ba?de den amerikanska befolkningen och staten.

The purpose of this thesis is to create opportunities for an efficient interchange of information between humans and technology, especially for the skilled user, and put the designprincipal for informative structures and features into practice. Informative structures and features in a large number of information items helps the peripheral visual system to automatically capture knowledge through logical patterns.A field experiment was done to evaluate if informative structures and features, implicate efficient human information-processing, even in a small study. The results was ambiguous because the quantitative part of the investigation didn?t show any significant differences, whereas the qualitative showed that people prefer a dynamic document with a high degree of informative structures and features over a dynamic document with a low degree of informative structures and features. Even if this study was inconsistent, probably because to few subjects where used, the implication of the research that?s behind it is solid.

Organizational democracy has been a popular research area in recent decades but the implementation in real organizations is slow (Kokkinidis, 2012; Verdorfer, Weber, Unter Rainer & Seyr, 2013). Several researchers (Schön Jansson, 2012; Falkheimer, Heide & Johansson, 2013) argue that communication practitioners have a key role in democratic processes and that because their job role is under constant change there are only a few modern studies regarding the subject. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how communication practitioners in private and public organizations experience their role in the process of internal communication and to what extent they are aware of, and work with internal organizational democracy.The practitioners we interviewed had a strong feeling that they were a support function for the business and the organizational management. As a result of the study it is clear that communication practitioners are very loyal to their employers and to the organization they work for. They are, therefore, not neutral in their professional role and argue that their task is to represent the management's interests.