Background: Chronic pain is a condition that approximately 18% of the Swedish population suffers from. This condition affects many aspects of a person´s life and causes psychological, physiological and social suffering. Multimodal treatment is considered the most effective treatment for patients with chronic pain. Patient participation and motivation are very important to treatment. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore patients´ experience of a multimodal chronic pain treatment program regarding their experience of patient participation and interaction with the rehabilitation team.

The aim of the study is to investigate how a teacher uses multimodal resources with an interactive whiteboard while teaching reading and writing. The aim is also to investigate what view the teacher has on using an interactive whiteboard while teaching reading and writing. Video-recorded observations and audio-recorded interviews are the methods used to collect data. The analysis was performed from a multimodal perspective and is also inspired by interaction analysis. The result of the analysis showed that the teacher uses several multimodal sign systems in combination with those found on the interactive whiteboard.

This paper presents a study of educational materials used in Swedish language education. The aim of the study is to understand in which way multimodal resources can be used in texts, to benefit in the process of meaning making among pupils in the nine-year compulsory school. The theoretical framework used as a basis for understanding and analysing these educational materials is the social semiotic multimodal perspective and the design theoretical multimodal perspective. The study is a multimodal text analysis but it also involves analyses of the syllabi connected to the subject of Swedish language education. The extended concept of text was introduced in the year of 2000 in the syllabus and today multimodal texts are supposed to be part of the Swedish language education.

Studien som utförts analyserar ur ett sociosemiotiskt och multimodalt perspektiv vilka resurser läromedlet "Insikter i svenska" använder sig av. Läromedlet är riktat mot ungdomar i första året på gymnasiet som läser en yrkesinriktad utbildning. Studien redogör för ett antal utgångspunkter för multimodal bildanalys och påvisar även att lärmedlet innehåll ett antal av dessa resurser. .

Jag har utfört en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av seriealbumet Bernadotte ? Vår franske kung (skapad 2009 av Kulturpoolen i Falun) utifrån ett socialsemiotiskt multimodalt perspektiv i vilken jag utforskar frågeställningen, vilka pedagogiska bildberättarverktyg står att finna och hur kan dessa användas? Analysmodellen är hämtad från Anders Björkvalls bok om multimodal analys Den visuella texten ? Multimodal analys i praktiken (2009) och innebär inventering och sortering av textelement och narrativa verktyg. Jag har lagt betoning på redovisning av Björkvalls modell och en rad kommunikativa serieverktyg. I själva analysen har jag funnit exempel på olika bildberättarverktyg under rubrikerna Interaktion, Representationer av världen, Komposition och Modalitet. Dessa har på olika vis använts för att förmedla kunskap, och jag redovisar exempel på detta i analysen som även innehåller bildexempel från den aktuella serien. Nyckelord: Tecknade serier, Bernadotte, Multimodal textanalys,.

This study aims to explore parents and treatment personnels experiences of the Marte meo methodat a family treatment home. Three retrospective interviews were made with parents whoexperienced Marte meo treatment, as well as four interviews with treatment personnel. The purposeof the Marte meo method is to develop the interaction between parent and child. Previous resultsfrom studies show that treatment with the Marte meo method could provide positive effects to theparent child relationship. The results in this study have been analyzed by using parts of attachmenttheory, the salutogenic perspective and the term intersubjectivity.

Studien använder sig av en Multimodal Kritisk Diskursanalys (MCDA) för att analysera vanliga människor i reality-TV ur ett klassperspektiv. Syftet är att undersöka huruvida programmet Ullared reproducerar idéer om klass och hur detta gör sig synligt genom konstruktionen av karaktären Morgan. Studien använder sig av ett teoretiskt ramverk bestående av vanlighet, klass, diskurs och skratt. I analysen undersöks utvalda sekvenser där semiotiska resurser granskas för att se hur de arbetar för att konstruera Morgan. Resultatet visar på att musik och videoredigering är två viktiga resurser i konstruktionen av Morgan, dock har allt som ses och hörs i bild en komplex samverkan med varandra som bidrar till slutkonstruktionen.

The aim for this paper has been to examine three textbooks designed for science education in upper secondary school in order to determine whether they convey any specific attitudes regarding what is considered to be ideal knowledge within the field of biology. The main focus has been to investigate if different types of design strategies have been used to emphasize certain values or attitudes and if this proves to be the case, how is this achieved specifically?                      For this purpose I have conducted several different qualitative linguistic analyses of the textbooks. The theoretical framework for the analyses lies within the main field of critical linguistics and more specifically in the context of systemic functional linguistics. The two main language models I have chosen to use for my investigations are functional grammar and multimodal text analysis.                      My results imply amongst other things that by conducting an overall assessment of the headlines in the textbooks a fair assessment can be made of which overall attitudes the books convey.

Uppsatsen undersöker hur språket, informationen och marknadsföringen på japanska kampkonsters hemsidor skiljer sig beroende på om målgruppen är svensk eller japansk inom den sportinriktade judon och den mer traditionellt och kulturellt inriktade bujinkan. Utifrån en multimodal analys undersöks relationen mellan texter och bilder, och utifrån ett språkligt perspektiv kommer hemsidornas text att analyseras.Dianne Cyrs forskning kring hemsidors lokalisering och anpassning efter olika kulturella bakgrunder utgör det teoretiska ramverket, liksom Anders Björkvalls teorier kring multimodala analyser.Undersökningen visar på tydliga skillnader i hur bujinkan respektive judo porträtterade sig själva och vad de lade vikt vid när de beskrev sin art. Dessutom kunde skillnader mellan Japan och Sverige påvisas beträffande informationsmängd, innehåll samt sätt att framställa samma art utefter de rådande kulturella och lingvistiska förhållanden som finns..

The purpose with this study was to investigate the client?s experience of Marte meo treatment and the procedure in the treatment from a responses and relational perspective, since the treatment occur within the social service frame. The theoretical framework consists of some central concepts. The concepts are experience of treatment, responses and relational perspective. The analysis of the empirical material has been carried out with the help of the concepts and earlier research.The method consisted of qualitative, semi-structured interviews with six informants.

In this study have I examined how treatment of girls with neuropsychological impairments is functioning? I have looked at the theories and methods of treatment on the base of the care program and how it is put into practice. In addition I have interviewed four girls who have undergone the treatment program.To gain perspective on institutional care as a social phenomenon, I have tried to give a brief historical retrospect in which particular care for women are described. I am also affecting certain gender aspects of institutional care. I have also tried to make a brief account of current research on the treatment.The study is a qualitative study in which I am apart from literature studies used participant observation in depth interviews as a method.My results indicate that a well structured treatment with CBT approach can work well to achieve lasting behavioural changes in students..

The main purpose of this thesis was to take part of girl?s descriptions and experiences of their treatment for deliberate self-harm and to investigate whether they still experience effects of the treatment today. Our main research questions where; how do the girls describe their experiences of the treatment method, do the girls describe that they still experience any effects of the treatment, and finally how do the girls look back on their treatment today? In order to answer these questions, we carried out eight qualitative telephone interviews with girls that had undergone treatment in a specific treatment centre. We chose to analyze the material from the salutogenic theory and the concepts of SOC (sense of coherence) and with a hermeneutic approach.

Bipolar disorder is a chronic affective disorder, characterized by episodes of mania and depression. Previous studies have shown beneficial results for CBT in conjunction with pharmacotherapy over pharmacological treatment alone. The aim of the present study was to evaluate a CBT treatment in group for patients with bipolar disorder, run by Norrlands universitetssjukhus. The treatment group consisted of pharmacologically stabilized patients (n=12) who received group CBT. They were compared to a control group (n=5) who received pharmacological treatment only.

Atlas Copco Tools develops and manufactures handheld industrial tools. Heat and surface treatments are used to provide the tools with certain properties. There are no routines for the choice of treatment or for how to specify treatment on drawings. Production documents that are sent for production abroad may not be clear enough. Some treatments are known as trademarks and there are no instructions for how to specify these on drawings and in CAD-models.The purpose of this master thesis work is to create recommendations for the procedure of choosing heat and surface treatment.

Det finns ett behov inom vårdsektorn att på ett mera effektivt sätt kunna bedöma om patienter med Parkinsons sjukdom har rätt medicinering. Behovet ligger i att se om det är möjligt att med hjälp av ett IT-system kunna göra bedömningen på distans och på så sätt effektivisera processen.I och med att Parkinsonpatienter har symptom som t.ex. överrörlighet är inte traditionella lösningar med styrenheter såsom mus och tangentbord lämpliga. Istället har ett användargränssnitt baserat på multimodal interaktion utformats, där användaren interagerar med systemet genom röststyrning och rörelseigenkänning.Detta har gjorts med hjälp av Microsofts Kinect kamera, som är ett verktyg som möjliggör bredare och mer betydelsefull multimodal interaktion mellan människa och dator. Design av gränssnittet har gjorts efter etablerade designprinciper där användbarhet har legat i fokus.