TitelSecond Life som marknadsföringsforum ? en kartläggning av marknadsföringen i den virtuella världenFörfattare                       Malin BandhLina BäckeHandledare                                           Susanne ÅbergNyckelord                        Varumärkeskapital, relationsmarknadsföring, viral marknadsföring, virtuella världar, Second LifeBakgrund och problem                      De virtuella världarna växer alltmer och antalet användare ökar. Företag är osäkra på hur marknadsföringen inom den virtuella världen fungerar och hur de kan etablera sig där.Syfte                                  Syftet med denna uppsats är att kartlägga marknadsföringen inom den virtuella världen Second Life idag, samt hur företag kan gå tillväga med sin marknadsföring i den virtuella världen.Problemformulering     Grundproblemet är att företag inte vet hur de ska marknadsföra sig i den virtuella världen Second Life i relation till den fysiska världen. Detta leder till frågeställningarna: Vilka faktorer bör företag ta i beaktning vid en etablering i Second Life? Använder företag Second Life för att skapa varumärkeskännedom eller för försäljning? Hur kan företag kommunicera ut sitt varumärke i den virtuella världen?Metod                               Uppsatsen är en kartläggning av den virtuella världen Second Life.

The cooperation between university and industry life in the region of Gävle is always a topic of importance. University and High schools have various roles to fulfill: except administrating the training and supporting research they should also - as a third role - contribute to cooperation between organizations, business companies and other associations. In addition to that, they should support individuals by local as well as regional development. The purpose of our paper is to make a critical review of the cooperation between the University of Gävle (HiG) and industry life until today and the consequences in order to encourage students to stay in the Gävle region during and after their period of studies.Initial we started with a preliminary inquiry with a questionnaire as a base for students in three programs at the Department of Economy; the program for Bachelor of Science, the program for estate agent and another economy program with direction estate economy. From this preliminary inquiry we got the picture of the way the students looked at the problem.

The purpose of this report was to increase knowledge regarding the co-operation between social services from the perspective of employees at a school. The focus was on the question: ?In the schools view, what is the relevance of co-operating with social services?? The problem was divided into three categories; the value of the co-operation, the schools discourse on co-operation and the balance of power in the co-operation. The scientific topic was addressed using a qualitative survey method at a school. Four people were interview; the principal, the welfare officer, and two teachers.

This is a qualitative study with a hermeneutic and partially inductive approach. The study?s purpose is to enhance the understanding of young adults experiences of unemployment and the importance of being employed. In this study, eight young adults participate in the project Framtid Kronoberg. The youths are 19-25 years of age.

Research shows that unemployed´s motivation to seek work affects their health and social life. Employment officer?s motivational work should be based on strengthening the individual's confidence in their abilities. Five motivational theories underpinning the study is Cognitive Theory, Self-determination theory, Expectancy Value Theory, need theory and Goal Theory. The purpose of this study was to investigate individuals' job motivation, and emotional experiences, also in relation to contact with the employment officer.

Most scientists believe that in the good times the peasant had the opportunity to follow fashion. Virestad parish does not follow fashion. My purpose is to try to understand something of the mechanism that made Virestad do so: that I will do by analyzing the results in relation to the concept of status. My main source is estate inventories. Here I examine the status markers and differences in what they invested in clothes and jewelry in relation to the estate's proceeds.The lower the balance, the more percentage they need to put on clothes.

The purpose of this qualitative study has been; how social bonds are interlaced between thesocial worlds contained within the analytical division of ?outside Internet? and ?withinInternet?. What happens with the social bond as the individual oscillate between this analyticbisection? This purpose raises important questions of the use of Internet in everyday life.A new stance is taken toward studying the Internets integration into everyday life. The focusis adjusted to the importance of emotions.

In the literature it is not possible to find something about Swedish UN Military Observers (MO) experience of life is changing after their service. The aim of this study was to investigate if this has happened. The selection is of type ?snowball?. Interviews were made with twelve MO by telephone, both male and female.

This essay aims to investigate the perceptions of responsible personnel in a primary school about the use and importance of EQ, emotional intelligence, in the school's early years. With a hermeneutic approach and by qualitative interviews, we have taken note of the respondents perceptions about EQ. The result shows that EQ can be understood in different ways. Instead of having a common understanding of what EQ is the respondents mention that there are different areas associated with EQ.  Two major results are 1.

The research objective of this thesis was to conduct a holistic evaluation of an operational information system. By holistic evaluation we mean that an equal focus was placed on both the system system perspective and its users user perspective, in the actual environment where the system and its users function contextuality. In addition, the methodological objective of the study was to test a new research approach in a real life setting. The participants of the study were twenty newspaper journalists employed at Göteborgs-Posten GP. The information system NewsLink is a manually indexed full-text database containing all articles published in GP since 1994.

AbstractMy aim for this study is to examine what the parent?s of the children attending pre-schoolwants to be a part of, by examining the parent?s description of the performance review andwhat their experience from them was. This study is based on earlier research and literature,which describes the pre-schools activities, how they work and the documented goals they tryto accomplish. I also did eight interviews with parents from two municipalities, which I theninterpreted based on my experience and understanding. The interviews focused on theparent?s description of their experience of how much influence on the work in their child'spre-school.

Background:Persons living with a mental illness often have to put up with a financial disadvantage. Their ability to work is often limited and because of that they have to rely on the welfare reform to get an income. This income is often low compared to other citizens which by itself is something strongly associated with mental illness. Purpose: The purpose in this study was to describe how people living with a mental illness experience that their economic situation has an impact on their daily life. Method: This study is a literature review containing nine scientific articles from previous research.

The overall aim with this study is to elucidate outdoor education as an education method and on the basis of that illustration to examine active educators vision on it as a way to motivate students' learning. This study is based on a literature component and a qualitative study through interviews five teachers.The results of the interviews show how to interpret the motivation and how to work with students' motivation. As well as outdoor education as part of the activity.  The interviews show the importance of outdoor education can be to increase students'motivation for learning. They also show the importance of outdoor education is for student learning and test scores have shown the effectiveness of student learning through outdoor education.

Kurs: Examensarbete i logistik för Civilekonomprogramet, 4FE05E, VT14Författare: Christian Sjöström och Joel Cederberg Handledare: Linnéuniversitetet: Åsa Gustavsson                       VCE i Braås: Cecilia Ekstrand och Carl Sigfridsson Examinator: Helena Forslund Titel: En studie om kvalitetsbrister samt förslag till förbättring av godshanteringsprocessen på VCE i Braås Bakgrund: Företag har skiftat fokus från priskonkurrens till fokus på kvalitet och leveransförmåga. Kvalitet är en nyckelfaktor för att kunna tillfredsställa kunden, skapa lönsamhet i företaget och skapa ekonomisk tillväxt. Om processer som finns för att tillfredställa kunden innehåller kvalitetsbrister orsakar det problem för hela företaget. Det är av vikt att effektivisera processerna som finns i företag genom verktyg som processkartläggning för att motverka kvalitetsbristerna. Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att, genom en kartläggning av godshanteringsprocessen från godsregistreringen till intern kund, identifiera kvalitetsbrister samt orsaker till dessa i processen samt föreslå åtgärder för minimering av dessa kvalitetsbrister. Metod: Studien är deduktiv och följer ett positivistiskt synsätt och empiri har samlats in genom en kvalitativ fallstudie där observationer, ostrukturerade och semi-strukturerade intervjuer har använts. Den teoretiska datainsamlingen har gjorts genom databaser och litteratur från Linnéuniversitetes universitetsbibliotek.

When drivers overnight in the truck lots of electric energy is consumed by heaters, fans, lights and other extra equipment. If the engine is not running, this energy is taken from the lead/acid batteries of the truck which then needs to be recharged during operating hours. The fact that the charge acceptance of the lead/acid batteries is dependent on the temperature makes it hard to fully recharge the batteries at lower temperatures. A negative charge balance can lead to starting problems within a few days use in cold climate.In this thesis work, the effects of different battery charging concept are evaluated on the most common Scania battery (175Ah). A battery model is implemented in Matlab and some simulations of charging are made.