In Trollhättan municipality approximately 700 school bus stops are in service. To ensure high quality of the performance of school bus operations, with focus on traffic safety, it was decided to conduct a survey of bus stops including assessments of risks.This master thesis aims to identify the factors affecting road safety at bus stops and pedestrian connections, and to conduct an inventory and analysis of selected sites in Trollhättan municipality. The work also aims to show examples of how risk assessment should be performed in future studies. A risk analysis model provided by the Swedish Transport Administration is supplemented and used in a field study. The risk assessment is based on, inter alia, traffic flow, visibility distance, lighting, speed of traffic and the presence of bus shelter.

Society has an obligation to offer parents support of various types, an example of such a support is ?parent support?. The purpose of this study has been to describe midwives and child health care nurses conceptions of the need for early parent support. The definition of early parent support in this study is the first two weeks after delivery. Since the 1970:ies the Swedish delivery and ?BB? care has changed in that the time in hospital care after delivery has been reduced from in average six days, till an average of two days.

In large organizations one can often find middle managers at several different levels within a company. Middle managers regularly experience their positions as complicated as they have both superiors as well as subordinates? to please. We have chosen to refer to this problem as ?the middle-management dilemma?.

Over time, species colonize new areas naturally or through humans. The colonizers areoften few and founded populations represent only a fraction of the genetic diversityexisting in the original population. If the established population becomes isolated afterthe colonization event genetic diversity will remain low and if the population, in addition,remains small in size for an extended period this will lead to increased inbreeding andpossibly inbreeding depression. Metrioptera roeselii is a common species with awidespread distribution in continental Europe. During the last century, it has expanded tothe Scandinavian Peninsula which is separated from continental Europe by the Baltic Sea.My aim was to test the hypothesis that individuals in isolated populations in Scandinaviaincluding Denmark and the Baltic Sea islands are smaller than individuals in thecontinuous part of its distribution due to low genetic diversity and lacking incoming geneflow.

Vår studie grundar sig på att undersöka hur rastverksamhet och meningsfulla aktiviteter kan skapas utifrån upplevelse- och äventyrspedagogik där fokus inriktas mot erfarenhets- upplevelsebaserat, experimentellt och utforskande förhållningssätt. Våra mål är att öka elevers motivation och attityd för vistelse ute på rasten samt synliggöra skolans utemiljö och olika områdens möjligheter för skapande av rastaktiviteter. Vår utgångspunkt i studien är en nulägesanalys som genomfördes i en intervju med tre verksamma fritidspedagoger och utifrån nulägesanalysen skapades syfte och mål. Utvecklingsarbetet grundar sig på rastaktiviteter och morgongymnastik som genomfördes under fem veckor i kombination med vår verksamhetsförlagda utbildning där vi medverkade båda två under rastaktiviteterna, en aktiv och passiv roll. De som fick delta i rastaktiviteterna var årskurs två och tre på frivillig grund.

At the Women?s House in Örebro, a children?s project has started where the work method ?Oasen? [Oasis] model has been developed by two children?s educationists. The aim of this study is, with the ?Oasen? model as a starting point, to deepen the knowledge of (1) how to meet children?s central needs while staying at a Women?s House and (2) what the ?Oasen? model may contribute to the children. The theoretical framework consists of a cognitive approach to the progress of children experiencing domestic violence and a presentation of conceptions concerning children?s needs.

Today Scania give a high priority to the continuous improvements on the quality of their vehicles. To follow up the flaws in product quality, which are recognized by the repairs at the local workshops, material requests are carried through to be able to analyze the defects at the plant in Södertälje ? in purpose to improve the product quality. The material requests are also carried through to compensate the workshop for their expenses and to check that they are working according to the company?s warranty manual.Due to local routines and different distribution structures at the different markets the lead times and the costs caused by the flow of material are hard to estimate.

In previous studies there has been indications that multilingualism has a delaying effect of the onset of dementia and damage on cognitive abilities (Bialystok et al., 2007; De Bot & Makoni, 2005, s. 58). Cognitive abilities refers to memory, attention, language, abstract thinking and understandings among other things (Läkemedelsverket). Other studies have seen that individuals with Alzheimer's disease (Swedish abbreviation AS from here on) have difficulties with managing a conversation (Hyltenstam & Stroud 1989). This study aims to describe the topic treatment in bilingual individuals with AS and compare their different languages.

Purpose: This study aims to examine the price transmission among ADRs (American Depositary Receipts) and their underlying shares, US market index and Hong Kong market index. We will attempt to capture how a shock in the home market is transmitted to the foreign (and vice versa). In addition we will attempt to assess the relative weight of each variable in the system generating unexpected variations of its own and other variables and at what speed the shocks are absorbed.Methodology: ADF unit root test, Johansen?s co-integration test, Granger causality test, VECM, impulse response, variance decomposition Empirical foundation: Five Chinese ADRs listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Each ADR represents a specific industry.

Abstract Title: Veckorevyn.com. A study from power relations in the world of blogs Author: Klara Sigfridsson Department for Media and Cultural Studies, Malmö Högskola Tutor: Kristoffer Gansing This is a report that aims to research upon Fairclough´s Critical discourse analysis to emphasise the power relationship between professional bloggers and former amateur bloggers at the fashion-entertainment web page Veckorevyn.com. Professional bloggers as they appear in the research object and their power within the Media seem to be a subject that is very relevant these days. This paper will look at different factors that make professional bloggers popular and as an example on their responsibility as a role model. However, amateur bloggers do have an importance in this discussion as they are more and more competing with the professionals.

Syftet med undersökningen var att studera lärares egna uppfattningar om hur de arbetar med att främja elevers positiva självbild samt studera om lärarnas egna uppfattningar om elevernas självbild påverkar bedömningen av eleverna i ämnet idrott och hälsa. Undersökningen är kvalitativ och utgörs av sex semistrukturerade intervjuer bland lärare inom idrott och hälsa i grundskolans senare år. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkter utgörs utav Meads spegelteori, teorier om sociala jämförelser samt Vygotsky och det sociokulturella perspektivet. Gemensamt för teorierna är deras betoning på omgivningens inverkan på en persons självutveckling. Därutöver redogör forskningsbakgrunden för litteratur och forskning som anses relevant för studiens syfte, där bland annat de nationella styrdokumenten, undervisningsklimatet samt flow belyses.

The financial crisis in the beginning of the 1990´s the financial crisis had a strong impact on the Swedish economy. Some of the main actors in the crisis were the largest banks of Sweden which brought a huge amount of losses on themselves. One of the main reasons for this was that the banks focused on volume increases rather than on credit losses. The credit analysis process is performed differently these days and it is the development of this process that is the focus for the authors.This thesis is about the credit analysis process in the four largest banks of Sweden. The purpose of the thesis is to highlight which factors the banks include in the credit analysis process and in how small and medium size companies are treated in this process.

Introduktion: För att en räddningsinsats på olycksplats skall lyckas är en väl fungerande kommunikation nödvändig. Kommunikationen har visat sig vara ett vanligt problem vid utvärderingar av allvarliga händelser. Patientsäkerheten kan äventyras om det brister i informationsflödet mellan aktörerna i vårdkedjan. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka ambulanspersonalens uppfattningar av informationsöverföringen mellan sjukvårdens personal på olycksplats. Studien gjordes för undersöka om det fanns omständigheter som försvårar respektive underlättar informationsöverföringen.

This thesis was performed at Zetterbergs Industri AB. Zetterbergs is designing, building and mounts body systems for trucks, including dumpers and tippers. The assignment for the thesis was to design a door hinge for a spreader gate. The spreader gate is the top of the two tailgates on a dumper or tipper and opens back and outwards when tipping the cargo. The spreader gate controls the mass flow of the material being tipped.

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att synliggöra vilka uppfattningar lärare och elever har om lust och motivation i textilslöjden. Forskning visar att slöjd upplevs som ett lustfyllt ämne och att lustfyllda situationer påverkar elevers inlärning och utveckling positivt. Frågeställningarna i detta examensarbete syftar därför till att synliggöra lärares och elevers uppfattningar om lustens roll i textilslöjdundervisning, orsaker till lust och motivation samt strategier för att skapa lust och motivation i textilslöjden.För att svara på dessa frågor har en undersökning med kvalitativ ansats utförts. Intervjuer med fyra lärare och fem elever på skolor i grundskolans senare år och på gymnasiet har analyserats och resulterat i flera kategorier som visar på lärares och elevers uppfattningar.Dessa kategorier beskriver uppfattningar kring lustens och motivationens roll i textilslöjdundervisning. De intervjuade menar att lust gör det lättare att lära sig.