This master's thesis examines the use of blogs at public libraries to mediate music. With a methodological framework based on genre theory, developed by Sara Kjellberg, seven music blogs run by seven separate Swedish public libraries are studied in detail, within the context of Library 2.0 and Web 2.0. The questions that the study is set to answer are: "How do public libraries use digital

Få frågor är viktigare än hur man kan få utvecklingsländer att övergå från ett stadium av ekonomisk stagnation till ett stadium av ständig tillväxt. Teorin har visat att denna övergång kan inledas med en ökad utbildningsnivå. En avgörande faktor för utbildningstid har visat sig vara demografiska variabler. Därför har vi valt att empiriskt undersöka barnadödlighets effekt på utbildning. Resultatet

Endabarn, äldstabarn, mellanbarn och yngstabarns stereotypa syskonroller och hur dessa påverkar individen är välkända. Men i vilken utsträckning påverkar dessa oss egentligen? Denna studie undersökte huruvida nivån av självkänsla varierar beroende på placeringen i syskonskaran. Studien undersökte också skillnader mellan endabarn och ungdomar med syskon, samt åldersskillnader. I studien besvarade 4

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of the official corporate culture the one promoted from the parent company to its local units, in a company operating in a crisis environment. In particular, we ask to what extent this official culture is challenged by the financial crisis. The study was conducted in an IKEA store in Greece. The financial crisis, which had (and continues to have

There is limited research that investigates the relationship between M&A success and market valuation periods. Furthermore existing research deals primarily with the U.S. market. This paper explores whether acquisitions in Europe occurring during high market valuation periods are fundamentally different than those occurring during low market valuation periods. We find that acquisitions during

Five main components of political risk were extracted from the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) Rating model, this paper researches the elements: Government Stability, Socioeconomic Conditions, Investment Profile, Internal Conflict and External Conflict. We have chosen four countries to examine: the United Kingdom, Mexico, China and Iran from different economic worlds. We would like to inve

Föreställ er att vi i Sverige skulle legalisera det egna bruket av narkotika. Det skulle bli lagligt att snorta kokain, att skjuta upp heroin eller att röka marijuana. Vad skulle detta innebära för svensk Polis, sett ur ett tvångsmedelsperspektiv? Toleransen i Sverige gentemot droger är väldigt låg. Narkotikafrågan har under en längre tid varit, och är fortfarande, högprioriterad hos regering ochImagine that we, in Sweden, would legalise the personal use of drugs. It would be legal to snort cocaine, to shoot up some heroine or smoke marijuana. What would this mean for the Swedish law enforcement, from a "means of enforcement" point of view? The Swedish tolerance when it comes to drugs is very low. It has for a long time been, and still remains, a top priority for the governmen

Abstract Title: Victims or perpetrators – a qualitative study on professional social worker’s perception of young men’s situation in an honour context. This qualitative study is based on seven semi-structured interviews with professionals who encounter honour related issues in their work. The focus of the interviews and this study is the young men and their situation. Our intention was to see ho

Denna uppsats grundar sig på översättningen av de tre inledande kapitlen i Anatole Broyards Kafka Was the Rage – A Greenwich Village Memoir. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys som utgår ifrån Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledins modell (1997) samt Rune Ingos (2007) teorier om översättning. Här diskuteras även överväganden inför översättningen utifrån Lita Lundquist (2010) och Yvonne Lindqvists (20

In this paper I have investigated the construction of the professional social worker in Swedish journals and newspapers. My empiric material is a collection of major articles published in Sweden between 2002 and 2012. The thirteen articles analyzed in this paper is a selection from 1250 relevant articles found between these years. When analyzing the empirical material I have been working with a di

This study investigates the relationship between health and households’ decisions whether to participate in the stock market or not. We construct a set of health variables and out of these, we choose the most important health factors, such as self-assessed health, mobility limitations and mental health. To test empirically the hypothesis that healthier households are more likely to participate in

This thesis examines the effect of closing down police stations on crime in Sweden from 1996 to 2011. This is done by analyzing the relationship between the number of crimes in a municipality, the crime rate and the closing down of police stations in 288 Swedish municipalities from 1996 to 2011. A quantitative approach using a difference-in-difference estimator and monthly panel-data from question

Syftet med denna studie var att få en inblick i en grupp ungdomars individuella upplevelser och erfarenheter av att använda Facebook och hur detta påverkar identitetsutvecklingen. Det var även av intresse att undersöka om det fanns några könsskillnader gällande användandet av Facebook. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats, där fokusgruppintervjun användes som metod. Undersökningsdeltagarna bestod av e

Author: Fredrik Nilsson Title: To understand consensus – a study about Swedish social workers thoughts and experiences about consensus when planning treatment for clients with substance abuse [translated title] Supervisor: Arne Kristiansen Assessor: Ulrika Levander The aim for this study was to examine how Swedish social secretaries who worked with alcohol and drug addiction, viewed the consensus

Abstract Author: Da Sol, Jung and Rebecca Sundqvist Title: He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance – A study of professionals’ view on their attitude in meeting with clients and professionalism of the two organiations. Supervisor: Claes Levin Assessor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson The aim of our essay was to study if there were dif

En växande utmaning för dagens organisationer är hållbart företagande och införande av miljöledningssystem, dvs. strukturerat och systematiskt miljöarbete (Naturvårdsverket, 2003). Studien syftar till att empiriskt undersöka tre dimensioner av medarbetarskap (kunskap och lärande, demokratiska processer och lärande) och samt tre förändringsfaktorer kopplade till införande av miljöledningssystem (at

The thesis concentrates on the issue of bill of lading fraud and discusses legal remedies as to respective type of fraud. Due to complexity and difference of each jurisdiction, the thesis selects English law and Chinese law as targeted jurisdiction, under which the issue of bill of lading will be addressed and analyzed. In addition to domestic law, the recent-adopted international convention, name