In this master's thesis the problem of determining the uncertainty for an estimator of an unknown parameter is considered. The case we study is the estimation of gravity using a reversible pendulum. This involves the estimation of the point where two regression lines intersect. The estimated gravity is a function the coordinates of this point. One way to determine the uncertainty of this estimator is to use bootstrap Methods.

In recent years, agile software development Methods have become increasingly popular throughout the world. Today there are a number of different agile Methods and they all rest on the Agile Manifesto that was formulated in 2001 as a reaction to the traditional software processes.The aim of this thesis is to make a survey of some of the agile Methods used today and to see how they are being used in practice. It consists of two parts: a literature study and an interview study with people working in the software business. First, a definition of agile Methods is proposed and a number of different agile Methods are described. Second, the interviews are being analysed with special focus on communication, collaboration, expectations and results.

Product development cycles become shorter and shorter. The time from idea to market has become an important competitive factor. Despite this, Methods used for making the product development process faster are surrounded with uncertainty about their efficiency. The purpose of the thesis is to describe the pros and cons of ?best practice? Methods for shortening lead times and how these Methods effect the lead times in research and development.

Then the language learning process and the approach in a preparatory class differs itself from a general class. The Methods conducted in a preparatory class are not just focused on teaching as in a more traditional method. Achieving the objectives in a preparatory class depends on the individual student and the cohesion in the group. Students have different backgrounds and knowledge level, therefore it is extremely important that the teachers use different work Methods in order to achieve and to promote the students' language development. The aim with this survey is to get the knowledge about what education Methods is being used by teachers in a preparatory class.

Today, many veterinary hospitals offer rehabilitation as a service. We think that this is an interesting subject and therefore we want to find out what rehabilitation Methods that are available in Sweden for dogs and horses. We want to give animal nurses and other persons who have animals as an occupation an survey that shortly describes how the Methods are performed, what physical effect they have in the body and to give examples in what conditions they are used. To find out what rehabilitation Methods that are available we sent out two different questionnaires, one to hospitals/clinics for small animals and one to hospitals/clinics for horses and other companies that works with rehabilitation of horses. The information about the Methods described in our project we have found in literature and on the Internet.

Then the language learning process and the approach in a preparatory class differs itself from a general class. The Methods conducted in a preparatory class are not just focused on teaching as in a more traditional method. Achieving the objectives in a preparatory class depends on the individual student and the cohesion in the group. Students have different backgrounds and knowledge level, therefore it is extremely important that the teachers use different work Methods in order to achieve and to promote the students' language development. The aim with this survey is to get the knowledge about what education Methods is being used by teachers in a preparatory class.

The overall aim of this study is to achieve the increased knowledge of the use of the counselling Methods in the student counsellors' work and to find the possibilities for development. Two questions are used as guidelines:Which counselling Methods do student counsellors use in their work in schools?How can the current education for the student counsellors be supplemented?The analysis of the interviews with six counsellors in Stockholm's administrative province showed that even uneducated counsellors use the same counselling Methods as the educated ones. All these Methods which are used remind of the known counselling Methods that are the part of the current education for the student counsellors.In general counsellors experienced that the education for the counsellors should be supplemented within the field children with special needs and that conversation's methodology is the essence of the counselling work..

Due to fast growing and rapid changes in markets today, most of the organizationsthat are trying keep up with these changes have a high demand for software that areof high quality and comes with a low price. To meet these goals software companieshave to implement new Methods to develop software that are suited for rapidchanges. The concept of agile Methods can fulfill this need. Our purpose with thisthesis was to investigate how well agile Methods could be applied in organizationsthat could be identified as adhocracies. A case study was conducted in anorganization which we could identify as an adhocracy.

AbstractAbout 160 000 persons living inSwedensuffer from some form of dementia. Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia and affects mostly people in the age of 65 and older. People with some form of dementia have memory problems and may even have other problems as aphasia and behavioral disorders. This may lead to communication problems and difficulties for the people around them. The number of demented people is increasing; it is therefore important to study Methods for communication in order to improve the wellbeing for people with dementia.

The purpose of this paper is to describe Methods to computerize a library and to compare theory with a process in a school library. The case study is based on a school library called Sunnerbogymnasiet which is situated in Ljungby. My questions are;- Which Methods are parts of the process to computerize a library?- Which Methods are used in the process in Sunnerbogymnasiet?- What does the practical process look like compared to the Methods described in theory?In the paper I present the Methods in the process according to the studied literature and compare these with a process at Sunnerbogymnasiet. The most significant result is that cooperation between the school library and the community library was the most important reason for the choice of library computer system.

As changes occur more frequently in IT- and software development, it is important for the companies to meet the demands and needs of its customer. The companies have to be able to adapt themselves continuously in order till fulfill its customers changing needs in an effective way, which results in big changes of the companies? structures. The more traditional way of working is often replaced with more alternative approaches as a response to the reputable deficiencies of its predecessors. As an effect of the rapid change and development some companies now see big potential in switching to more Agile and flexible Methods and some companies have no choice but to change their way of working.

This paper is a literature study on search engine optimization (SEO) considering the leader of the search engine market: Google. There´s an introductory background description of Google and its Methods of  crawling the Internet and indexing the web pages, along with a brief review of the famous PageRank algorithm. The purpose of this paper is to describe the major important Methods for improved rankings on Google´s result lists. These Methods could be categorized as on-page Methods tied to the website to be optimized or off-page Methods that are external to the website such as link development. Furthermore the most common unethical Methods are described, known as ?black hat?, which is the secondary purpose of the text.

The e-commerce in Sweden has increased each year for the past several years, but still just over half of all the consumers feels worry about payment security. This could be the reason why over half of the consumers just shopped about one time on the Internet during the whole year of 2009. Another reason could be that the many consumers have a lack of trust to the different payment Methods that are available during payment on the Internet, because they might don't possess enough knowledge regarding the payment Methods and their security. If the consumers were to gain more knowledge about the payment Methods and their security, it may lead to that the they would feel more comfortable when shopping online, and do it more frequently. It is this that will be investigated in this paper.The purpose of the paper  is to research if consumers believed knowledge concerning the different payment Methods available on the web and their security influence the consumers trust in the payment Methods.

I have researched different Methods for practicing with the purpose of learning some useful ways to handle my performance anxiety issues, to better understand the phenomenon, and to be able to perform better under pressure. I chose or created nine Methods and used each during a decided period of time, each period ending with a performance. Afterwards I analyzed the Methods with the help of audio recordings and written concert evaluations to see if it was possible to alter my practicing techniques to be more directly focused on preparing for the concert situation..

A study has been conducted on how organizations in Sweden administer costs of facilities management services internally. There are three main theoretical Methods for administering costs. In the first method, costs are maintained on a central level; in the second method, costs are allocated and in the third method, internal transfer pricing is used. The aim of the study is to identify which Methods are applied in practice, to evaluate whether the Methods fulfill their intended purposes and to study the relationship between the Methods used and the cost level of facilites management services. In practice, a large diversity of Methods are used for facilities management costs.