This thesis is based on two different parts. First a presentation and a brief insight of the most comprehensive picture educational structures/theories and their various branches in Sweden from the post war period. Secondly a presentation of my artistic masters project Fantasy World, where I together with a group of children aged 7-12 freely created an artwork in the form of a world of its own, in sculptural expression. The idea behind the thesis has been to study how the perception of picture education and children?s creation has been in the recent decades and how different picture educational theories looks like and then to compare with the idea behind my project and how it may look in practice..

This thesis studies the relationship between risk and the first day returns of Initial Public Offerings (IPO) by assessing the risk of each issuing company with a risk model that combine financial key ratios of importance. The study is based on 92 IPO?s that were made on the Stockholm OMX stock exchange during the period of 1997-2009. The point of departure was to investigate if the uncertainty created by the asymmetric information between investors and the issuing firm could be captured by predicting the possibility of failure in the future. This has been studied by applying Skogsvik?s probability of failure model on the 92 issuing firms.

The aim with this Masters thesis is to examine the professional knowledge of the librarian. The method used is text analysis of a state public investigation, SOU 1969:37, that concerns librarian education. The theoretical starting point is a theory of knowledge thats descended from Aristotle. Three different forms of knowledge are central concepts in the theory: the theoretical, the practical and the ethical. The main issue in this thesis is: In what ways did the investigators look at the librarians knowledge? Was it in a changeable period of time? In that case, what reasons could there be? The conclusion shows that educational political changes were affecting the whole educational sphere at the late 1960:s, and in the beginning of the 1970:s, including library education.

Syftet med vårt utvecklingsarbete var att intressera flickor till att utveckla sitt musikspelande. Arbetet genomfördes på en fritidsgård i Skellefteå kommun under vårterminen 2003. Gruppen med flickor vi arbetade med var mellan tretton och fjorton år gamla. Vår undersökning genomfördes under en sju veckors period. Försökspersonerna intervjuades vid två tillfällen och observationer genomfördes under samtliga repetitionstillfällen.

The purpose of this paper is to study whether or not stock returns increase abnormally over month ends on the Swedish stock exchange. Previous research has proven an international so called ?Turn-of-the-Month? effect where stock returns increase significantly over a few days around month ends. If the effect exists, it is a violation of Fama?s Efficient Market Hypothesis.

This bachelor thesis is intended to gather the knowledge and experimental data on the winter wheat crop production relevant for Swedish conditions, with focus on sowing time, row spacing and seed rate. This essay is a literature study with a minor component based on interviews with farmers producing winter wheat. The work is divided into a background part where basic knowledge of winter wheat physiology, development and environment interactions are described and one part where results of field trials studies are presented. Optimal date of sowing winter wheat depends on annual weather variations. Because it is difficult to forecast the weather the choice of sowing date should be based on weather statistics, production experience and previous results depending on sowing date.

The aim of this paper is to describe how to measure welfare effect of the deregulation and increased competition of the public transport by railway in Sweden. The paper also includes a numerical example of how to measure the welfare effect. In our study we use public data from SJ regaring quantity and ticket prices for the period 1996 - 2005. We have used equivalent variation, EV, as the method to measure the welfare effect. We demonstrate how to derive the equation to calculate EV by starting with a Marschallian demand function.

Föreliggande effektivitetsstudie med individuell KBT-behandling för 17 diagnostiserade socialfobipatienter genomfördes på två allmänpsykiatriska öppenvårdsmottagningar under en period av 18 månader. Syftet med studien är att utvärdera effekten av en KBT-behandling. Alla patienter uppfyllde kriterierna för social fobi enligt DSM-IV. Patienterna erbjöds en behandling med upp till 14 sessioner plus möjlighet till tre uppföljningssamtal. KBT-behandlingen har varit tidseffektiv och deltagarna har framfört positiva synpunkter om samarbetet med terapeuten och de uppnådda målsättningarna i behandlingen. Resultaten visar statistiskt signifikanta förbättringar i samtliga använda mått; BAI, BDI, SPS, LSAS, SIAS. Resultaten visar också måttlig effektstorlek..

What psychologial processes are activated in experiencing mourning after a loss of a belovedperson? How is death described in other authors? novels and short stories compared to mine?This essay aims at analysing my two short stories The follower and The price for love fromdifferent aspects. I discuss the psychological realism and the spirituality using the method ofclose reading, interpreting and applying ideas of texts from other authors in my short stories.Death is a central phenomenon in both of my texts. Therefore I discuss death frompsychological and philosophical aspects in this essay. To get a philosophical frame of death Iturn to Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.

The sludgebark and to a certain extent the bark were until a decade ago waste products without any economic value that were thrown away. A number of environmental laws and increcing energy prices have improved the prerequisites for increasing the use of these materials. At Seskarö sawmill they burn the sludgebark and a great deal of the bark in the sawmill furnace. The sludgebark has a number of disadvantages compared to bark during burning. The sludgebark is often wet which means the energy net from burning often gets low.

I kandidatarbetet undersöker jag identiteten ?hästtjej?, det är en av de identiteter som har varit viktigast för mig under min uppväxt. Oskrivna regler som styr de stallet, dikterade vad som var rätt i allt från ridkläder, vänner, utseende och vilka hästar som var ?rätt?. I detta arbete förmedlar jag en historia genom avgjutningar och kompositioner.

Purpose/Aim: The purpose of this study is to examine how the advertisements of houses in the newspaper of Dagens Nyheter, have developed in layout, by text and image, during the last fifty years and to examine what part of the home is highlighted, as evident values of lifestyle.Material/Method: By examining twenty advertisements from the newspapers every decade during the period of 1958-2008, the layout and lifestyle will be described and analyzed by a quantative and qualitive (discourse) method.Main results: The advertisements has changed in many ways. The layout has drastically developed to a more personal layout of the estate agents and the trends of lifestyle have had an impact on how the agents have created the text in the advertisments to entice customers..

This thesis investigates the effects of active ownership on the return on assets (ROA) of Swedish listed companies during the years 2003 to 2013. Active ownership is operationalized based on the probabilistic voting model that is used to calculate the minimum amount of shares the largest shareholder needs in order to possess control of a contested vote at the shareholder meeting. We study the three largest lists on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, having 1454 observations from 207 companies to test our hypothesis. The main result from the study is that there's a significant positive relationship between active ownership and ROA during the investigated period. The active owners' relative strength also proves to have a significant positive relationship to ROA..

Hedgefonder anses kunna generera positiv avkastning oavsett marknadsklimat pga. sina friare placeringsregler och möjlighet för förvaltarna att använda sig av flera olika derivatinstrument och finansiella tillgångar när de konstruerar sin portfölj. Eventuell överavkastningen beror bl.a. på att förvaltare av dessa fonder lyckas minska marknadsrisken som ett marknadsindex är exponerad mot. Resultatet för denna studie visar att de flesta undersökta hedgestrategier har lyckats generera högre avkastning än marknadsindex men inte lyckats prestera positiva resultat i samtliga av de undersökta delperioderna under en period som kännetecknats av negativ utveckling på flera globala marknader..

Syftet med studien a?r att underso?ka pa? vilket sa?tt en slagverkare anva?nder kroppen som semiotisk resurs samt hur o?vningsprocessen under en begra?nsad period a?r utformad. Fo?r att underso?ka detta har jag under en femveckorsperiod o?vat pa? ett marimbastycke 20 minuter om dagen fem dagar i veckan och dokumenterat detta genom videoobservationer och loggboksskrivande. I analysen utga?r jag ifra?n ett designteoretiskt perspektiv.