The proportion of elderly people in Sweden is increasing. Many of these live at home and as their age increases so does the likelihood of health problems and the need for support, medical attention and care. Personnel working with home help provide a large part of this care, including areas of home-based care that are the responsibility of the district nurse. The purpose of this paper is to describe how home-help personnel perceive their work in the area of home-based care, as their views are an important factor in the ability to provide a care system that funktions successfully. The method employed here is phenomenografic and nine subjects from a home-help group have been interviewed.

Purpose Based on the new comprehensive income due to changes in IAS 1, the authors aim to describe how a listed corporate accounting is affected by IAS 1 and the new income statement.Methodology This study uses an inductive approach with a combination of qualitative and quantitative data, using financial rapports from the investment company Latour. This case study is based on Latour?s all published financial statements under the period 2008 to 2012.Result The study resulted in different observations of Latour's operational and financial performance, share price trends as well as ratios. The study's authors can see that Latour's net income and comprehensive income differ due to changes in IAS 1. They can also observe the effect of clean surplus in Latour?s income statement.

Title: Nätdejting för olika åldrar (Netdating for different ages)Author: Henri NekmouchePurpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate what influence the medium Internethas had on building up relationships between people who have dated online, and tocompare two different age groups.Method/Material: In this study the author has conducted personal interviews with sixpeople who all have experienced Internet dating, and had their first contact with agirlfriend/boyfriend online. The questions asked were designed to help answering thepurpose of the study.Main results: This study shows that in general there is a positive view of Internet datingamong both groups. They appreciate the opportunities it provides, as they get to knowthe other persons personality first. Even so, it should be noted that they still tend to be abit ashamed to talk about Internet dating, and some don?t want to be associated with it.The communication pattern tend to be pretty much the same among both groups.

Swedish school children exhibit deteriorating knowledge results in terms of reading comprehension. Previous research shows that a method to increase the level of knowledge is the use of evidence-based learning techniques. Test based learning generates what is commonly referred to as a test effect, which proved to strengthen the relationship between learning and memory, as well as being applicable to various test formats. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether test based learning, in terms of learning english words leads to increased performance in a reading comprehension test, more specifically a cloze test. The study was based on a within-group design and was conducted three times over four weeks.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how salesperson control can be exercised in a retail store environment. A case study has been performed on a Swedish fashion company emphasizing the relationship between the company?s upper level management and their retail store operations in order to describe, analyze and classify the prevailing management control mechanisms. The paper presents an agency theoretical approach to the relationship applying behavior- and outcome based control theory, performance measurement theory and incentives theory in order to give a comprehensive image of the control system. The main finding is that the company?s management control system as applied to the sales force in its retail stores can be categorized as mainly behavior-based despite several explicit outcome-based features..

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate 7 different search strategies for content-based image retrieval with respect to retrieval effectiveness. The strategies are based on different levels of resolution implemented by the Haar transformation. The result of the study shows an improvement in both mean average precision and mean recall in strategies based on lower levels of resolution..

Abstrakt Dahlgren, O (2009). Ungdomars identitet genom chatspråk (The Identity of Youth through the Language of Chat) Malmö: Lärarutbildningen: Malmö högskola Examensarbetet beskriver identitetssökandeprocessen bland ungdomar och på vilket sätt chatspråk formar dagens ungdomars identitet. Syftet med examensarbetet är att beskriva ungdomsperioden och ge en syn på hur chatt formar den nutida ungdomens identitet. Dessutom syftar arbetet till att bidra till föräldrars och vuxnas medvetenhet om en sådan ungdoms livssituation för att de skall kunna ha förståelse för ungdomarna, acceptera deras beteende och språk och vara ett stöd. Arbetet har utgått ifrån följande frågor: Vad kan en identitetssökandeprocess bland ungdomar innebära? På vilket sätt kan chatt och chatspråk forma ungdomars identitet? De metoder som använts för att få svar på frågeställningarna har varit att intervjua ungdomar om chatt och chatspråk och att göra en undersökning av utdragen ur chatt av de intervjuade ungdomarna.

Opera är främst en webbläsare, men innehåller även klienter för bl.a. mail och chat. Innan den här rapporten skrevs saknades dock en klient för instant messaging-protokollet Jabber. Denna rapport beskriver arbetsgången och resultatet av utvecklandet av en Jabberklient till Opera.Eftersom det inte fanns nog med tid att utveckla en fullfjädrad Jabberklient beslutades det att målet skulle vara ett s.k. ?proof of concept?.

Simulation means running a model of a system with suitable input and observing the corresponding output. Real-time environment simulation is a special kind of simulation used to simulate a control system's environment in real-time. This is done to test the control system before it is used in its real environment. In this project, computer simulation of a certain kind of environments, called track-based systems, is studied and a general model for track-based systems is developed. In this model, track layouts are represented by graphs, which is a flexible and extensible representation and a method for visualizing these layouts is presented.

Abstrakt Dahlgren, O (2009). Ungdomars identitet genom chatspråk (The Identity of Youth through the Language of Chat) Malmö: Lärarutbildningen: Malmö högskola Examensarbetet beskriver identitetssökandeprocessen bland ungdomar och på vilket sätt chatspråk formar dagens ungdomars identitet. Syftet med examensarbetet är att beskriva ungdomsperioden och ge en syn på hur chatt formar den nutida ungdomens identitet. Dessutom syftar arbetet till att bidra till föräldrars och vuxnas medvetenhet om en sådan ungdoms livssituation för att de skall kunna ha förståelse för ungdomarna, acceptera deras beteende och språk och vara ett stöd. Arbetet har utgått ifrån följande frågor: Vad kan en identitetssökandeprocess bland ungdomar innebära? På vilket sätt kan chatt och chatspråk forma ungdomars identitet? De metoder som använts för att få svar på frågeställningarna har varit att intervjua ungdomar om chatt och chatspråk och att göra en undersökning av utdragen ur chatt av de intervjuade ungdomarna.

Millions of people are using search engines every day when they are trying to find information on the Internet. The purpose of this report is to find out how people formulate search queries. The result in this report is based on an empirical study which is based on a search log from the Swedish search engine Seek.se.One of the results in this thesis is that nearly all search queries are based on keywords..

Internationally most Internet trade related payments are performed with the use of a credit card based payment system on the Internet. Payment against invoice is still most common when trading over the Internet in Sweden. The security development, comfort and timesaving indicate that credit card based payment systems on the Internet soon will have a breakthrough in Sweden as well. The Swedish legislation concerning payment is neither especially extensive nor suited to electronic payments but to payments performed with notes and coins. When the legal effects, of a payment performed with a credit card based payment system on the Internet, set in is not fixed.

Abstrakt Dahlgren, O (2009). Ungdomars identitet genom chatspråk (The Identity of Youth through the Language of Chat) Malmö: Lärarutbildningen: Malmö högskola Examensarbetet beskriver identitetssökandeprocessen bland ungdomar och på vilket sätt chatspråk formar dagens ungdomars identitet. Syftet med examensarbetet är att beskriva ungdomsperioden och ge en syn på hur chatt formar den nutida ungdomens identitet. Dessutom syftar arbetet till att bidra till föräldrars och vuxnas medvetenhet om en sådan ungdoms livssituation för att de skall kunna ha förståelse för ungdomarna, acceptera deras beteende och språk och vara ett stöd. Arbetet har utgått ifrån följande frågor: Vad kan en identitetssökandeprocess bland ungdomar innebära? På vilket sätt kan chatt och chatspråk forma ungdomars identitet? De metoder som använts för att få svar på frågeställningarna har varit att intervjua ungdomar om chatt och chatspråk och att göra en undersökning av utdragen ur chatt av de intervjuade ungdomarna.

The ambition to use evidence based treatments has spread within the field of Swedish social work. The number of treatments with claim to being evidence based has grown but the research concerning implementation; the procedures being used to introduce new methods in organizations and assure that the method is being used appropriately and continuously, is scarce. The aim of this study was to examine the implementation of Functional Family Therapy (FFT), being an evidence based treatment, in an organization providing social services in the public sector, in Sweden. We used a qualitative research design and conducted interviews with persons involved in the implementation of FFT in the social services in a town in the south of Sweden. We used the practice guidelines provided in Evidence Based Practice (EBP) together with recently published meta- analyses of implementation research, in the field of social work, to examine the implementation of FFT, as being an evidence based treatment.

The focus of this thesis is positioning and customer retention in newly started small service businesses. The thesis is based on the case study of two small newly started service businesses: Kåffe In that is based in Skellefteå and Lundström Aaro Design! which is based in Umeå. The thesis presents the conclusion that newly started small service businesses, regardless of industry, seem to work in accordance with the theoretical framework of the thesis..