The aim of this study is, from a norm-critical approach, to find, investigate and analyse human representation in the visual culture of one preschool in order to understand if the children enrolled are represented or not. The research questions are: In what ways is there imagery of human representations in images and materials designed for play? What skin-colors and origins are dominant in the data collected?We carried out a qualitative study in the form of visual ethnography. This method allowed us to use a combination of different data collection tools such as photography and ethnographic field notes to collect our data. The photographs we took of images and material used for play, was then analysed through semiotic picture analysis.

Titel: En kartläggning av tolkningsproblem och brister i Eurokoderna.Högskola: Högskolan i Halmstad.Kurs: Examensarbete, 15 högskolepoäng på Byggingenjörsprogrammet.Nyckelord: Eurokoderna, tolkningsproblem, brister, enkätundersökning.Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka om det behövs en förbättring av Eurokoderna, och i så fall redogöra för vilka delar det gäller. Undersökningen kan på så sätt vara ett steg mot en ytterligare förbättring av Eurokoderna, och därmed ett bidrag till att underlätta konstruktörens dagliga arbete.Metod: Kartläggningen grundades på resultatet från en enkätundersökning som i sin tur grundades på ett antal intervjuer. Både intervjuerna och enkäterna besvarades av byggkonstruktörer som arbetade mycket med Eurokoderna. Under intervjuerna ombads respondenterna att redogöra för de Eurokod-delar som ansågs vara svåra att tolka. Därefter utformades en enkät som behandlade frågor på de delarna som lyftes fram som problematiska under intervjuerna.Slutsats: Enligt den här studien kan det konstateras att konstruktörer tolkar vissa delar i Eurokoderna på olika sätt.

The aim of this study was to investigate whether a dietary change, physical activity or a combination of both gave the best result when treating obesity, concerning weight loss and BMI. Excessive weight and obesity are today a big health-issue and it is estimated that 10 % of the men and 12 % of the women in Sweden have a BMI over 30, i.e. are suffering from obesity. The corresponding number for children is 3 %. No one can say for sure what causes obesity but there are many theories.

Due to global climate change and the rising levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, the interest for seeking solutions for mitigation has increased. While much attention has been directed towards technical solutions such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), biogenic carbon sinks has also garnered significant attention. Previous studies have shown that coastal ecosystems such as seagrass meadows and mangroves have a much greater capacity for storing carbon (C) compared to terrestrial ecosystems. That raises the question if other coastal ecosystems, such as coastal wetland forests, that previously haven?t been considered as blue carbon habitats also contribute to coastal carbon sink capacity.

Akademiska Hus owns and manages the university facilities in most university towns in Sweden. Bilbergska house in Örebro was built in 2008 by Akademiska Hus, and designed by White Architects. Today's buildings must meet accessibility requirements determined by Swedish Board of Housing, and it is the developer who must ensure that they are fulfilled. Swedish Board of Housing requirements are often vaguely written and interpretation space is large.This report aims to investigate how much of the requirements which are set towards the University and landlord Akademiska Hus are being achieved. This is done by studying the requirements that are set.

Strömstad is a small city located on the Swedish west coast. Urbanization and development is acurrent issue for the municipally, as for many other in the current situation. The municipal housingcompany Strömstadsbyggen is one of the parties involved in the extensive development that mustbe implemented to meet the changes and developments which the issue holds.One area that is of interest in the discussion is Rådhusberget - this due to the existing infrastructureand unique qualities that the area holds. In order to achieve the best solutions possible for the area,Strömstadsbyggen wishes to listen to what the existing tenants at Rådhusberget thinks and feelsregarding the area and its future potential.This thesis has therefore been carried out in collaboration with Strömstadsbyggen and has beenaimed at identifying the current tenants' thoughts and opinions in the existing area of developmentand infill potential. The aim of this work was also to investigate how the tenants value their homeand local environment in its current state, and what their wishes are for the possible futuredevelopment of Rådhusberget.To achieve analyzable results concerning how the tenants perceive these aspects, an extensivesurvey have been carried out which were sent out to all tenants in the area.

The negative trend of newspapers reading gives the owner of several paper manufacturingcompanies in the West worries. Producers should be more concern to strengthen their marketpositions in order to maintain profitability in the paper mills. Holmen Paper is a medium sizedpaper mill company with all of their production in Europe. Sales are mainly made to printingcompanies operating in European countries. In order to strengthen their economic strengthHolmen Paper needs to increase the market share in markets where they have the greatestprofit margins.

Studien har sin utgångspunkt i ett genusperspektiv och syftar till att undersöka högstadieelevers inställning till bildämnet. Studiens metod utgörs av en kvalitativ intervjustudie som innefattat tio informanter. Informanternas svar har analyserats med hjälp av ett kodningsprotokoll och presenteras i resultatkapitlet. Teorierna som används i studien utgörs av Zimmerman och West teori om ?doing gender?, Thornbergs socialidentitetsteori och självkategoriseringsteori.

Rotskärsskolan is located in Skutskär, Älvkarleby municipality and the school conducted today consists of lower secondary. The school was built in the early 1960s and contains three buildings. Today there is a great need for reconstruction of Rotskärsskolan, when the premises are worn out and not suitable for today's education. It must therefore be a phased change involving all the school buildings, starting in the winter of 2008/2009.Our degree project involves one of these buildings, called house F. This building will, by a recent decision, be adjusted for classes from preschool up to grade five, special school and leisure activities when some of the municipality's schools will consolidate.

The study begins with a historical background over the fisheries development in North America and in the Baltic Sea area in Finland and Sweden. As we can see the fisheries development depends on the interaction between ecology, state of production, politic and also social factors. In Sweden the fishery politic has changed over the period of the study. In the 1970: s the main politic focus was on the fisheries progress, expansion and rationalization. The State in Sweden took a vast part in this development and gave economic support.

A radical change is taking place in the world today: some former colonies are now booming economically while several former colonizers are suffering from economic crisis. Postcolonial theory states that old structures from the colonization are keeping the South poor and the North rich. Today there?s a shift in these structures as former colonizers Spain and Portugal are forced to ask for economical support from their former colonies.The colonial discourse separated white from black and depicted the population in the colonies as the absolute antithesis of the Europeans. In Portugal circulated also lusotropicalism, an ideology that claimed Portugal as absolutely free of racism, a statement with great influence in the postcolonial Portugal.On the basis of semi-structured focus groups I will in this paper do a discourse analysis of young, university educated Portuguese identity/ies in relation to the former colonies and the changing relations to these countries.

Studien har sin utgångspunkt i ett genusperspektiv och syftar till att undersöka högstadieelevers inställning till bildämnet. Studiens metod utgörs av en kvalitativ intervjustudie som innefattat tio informanter. Informanternas svar har analyserats med hjälp av ett kodningsprotokoll och presenteras i resultatkapitlet. Teorierna som används i studien utgörs av Zimmerman och West teori om ?doing gender?, Thornbergs socialidentitetsteori och självkategoriseringsteori.

Nu för tiden jobbar allt fler företag med team. Det krävs att det finns en bra strategi, struktur och rätt personer för att teamet ska bli så innovativt som möjligt. Desto större och mer expanderade företagen är över världen krävs det även att människor från olika kulturer och länder samarbetar mot att föra företaget framåt. Något som kan skapa problem i och med olikheterna.Forskning från West et al. (2006) och Paulus et al.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden held about 15-20 certified health resorts that wanted to improve peoples? health with vegetarian food and alternative medicine. This essay aims to explore the popularity of health resorts through a patient?s perspective. What did the patients look for at the resort, which they could not find in the official health care? A basis for the analysis is Bonnie Blair O´Connor?s theory of Health Belief Systems.

I en allt mer föränderlig och globaliserad värld ökar trycket på företagens konkurrensförmåga. Knowledge Management (KM) behandlar förmågan att tillvarata intellektuellt kapital med syfte att överföra kunskap från individ till organisation. Vår studie är formad enligt kvalitativa arbetssätt, med en fallstudie på ett globalt, tillverkande företag i Sverige. Rapportens syften är att bidra till forskningsområdet KM, undersöka metoder för kunskapshantering med fokus på projektverksamhet samt undersöka i vilken mån detta företag är en lärande organisation. Den teoretiska grunden baseras på områden som identifierades ha en nära anknytning till KM och vår problemställning; KM, kunskap, projektledare, lärande organisationer och företagskultur.