The thesis interviews people who produce chipmusic - a music style that evolved in the 1980s from the use of computers and game consoles that featured primitive digital sounds. It has seen a renaissance in the past decade and is commonly understood as an act of nostalgia or a reappropriation of technology. The aim of the thesis is to achieve a deeper understanding of how and why people make chipmu

The purpose of this study was to examine the school counselors’ role in school, how they perceive their role and how much discretion they have. Who are the school staffs that can affect the counselors work? This is a qualitative study where we interviewed ten low-and high school counselors. The results showed that school counselors continuously have dialogues with students, parents, staff members,

Title: Finding optimal logistical hubs for Swedish export - A study of selecting global locations Authors: Cecilia Eskilsson and Fredrik Hansson Tutors: Andreas Norrman, Professor, Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Oskar Henkow, Lecturer, Department of Business Law, School of Economics and Management, Lund University Henrik Danielsson, He

This paper examines what the local impact of the research installation ESS might be on the region of Lund and its surroundings. Done by looking at literature concerning agglomeration and clustering, reports on large research installations and interviews with local actors. The impact of the ESS will be much dependent on whether the local actors respond correctly to the opportunities from the instal

In order to few an equal society is the important to work actively with equality work within all areas. Within the misuse care it has long been a discussion if the treatment staff sees different on female and male drug miss farmers and about they to be treated differently on the basis of its sex. The essay`s aim is to analyze how sexes to be designed within the misuse care. The survey bases itself

Hög personalomsättning har varit och är fortfarande ett stort problem inom ett flertal branscher. Tidigare forskning har visat på negativa konsekvenser såsom ekonomiska kostnader och ojämn kvalité i arbetet som utförts. Intressant var därför att undersöka ett företag inom en av branscherna med hög personalomsättning för att se vad konsekvensen innebar för företaget, samt vilka faktorer som påverka

This thesis analyzes how the Swedish organization Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning (in English, Swedish Association for Sexuality Education) constructs sexuality through the introduction of the word slidkrans. The word slidkrans (vaginal corona in English), was formally introduced by RFSU in 2009 as a replacement for the word for the hymen, mödomshinna, which literally means “virginity membran

This study was served to unfold partly students in upper (senior) level of compulsory school and policeofficers attitudes and point of views on the upcomming gowernment bill on young offenders in the age of 15 and younger that commits crimes. We chose to mainly focus on the procedure where policeofficers have the rights to drugtest children under the age of 15 years without their parents approval.

The focus of this research is to examine the basic factors affecting the West Sahrawi young refugees’ lives and survival strategies in their situation of exile in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria. The purpose is to answer the following questions: First, which are the main problems as perceived by the youth born in the refugee camps? Second, which are their coping strategies? And finally, whic

Studiens syfte är att undersöka om vapenfokuseringseffekten påverkar det visuella minnet allena eller om den även påverkar det auditiva minnet. Ett teoretiskt resonemang förs även huruvida vapenfokuseringseffekten påverkar arbetsminnets system selektivt. Efter bekvämlighetsurval utfördes experiment där den ena gruppen (30 personer) fick se en film på ett rån (experimentgruppen) och den andra grupp

The aim of our study is to examine how fathers with experience of addiction perceive paternity and community support systems for addiction fathers. To answer our question formulations we performed eleven qualitative interviews with fathers who have experience of addiction. The study shows that there is an ambivalence concerning the perception of paternity. This due to the fact that many fathers be

The purpose of this study was to examine how Romanian social workers, working with LGBT-people, experience their work situation and the conditions for their work. The questions at issue were; How do the social workers describe their work and the conditions for conducting this work? What kind of attitudes do they meet, regarding their work, from the surrounding society? What kinds of strategies are

Genuine forms of participation of the local people are integral to the success of government development projects implemented to curtail escalating insurgency against the State in the restive southern borders provinces of Thailand. This thesis aims to determine the form of participation that has manifested itself and the mechanisms of power that shape its parameters, given the centralized and hier

Idag är Grön IT ett hett debattämne, definitionerna är många och vi vill därför belysa ämnet bland IT-verksamma företag som har ett miljöarbete aktivt inom organisationen. Idag är intresset stort, både ur ett ekonomiskt perspektiv men också ett miljöperspektiv. I vår uppsats tar vi fram teorier och metoder kring olika definitioner av Grön IT, hur organisationer anammar nya ämnen, likt Grön IT, sam

This thesis is about the swedish suppliers to the car industry. During the last 20 years the car industry have changed dramatically because of globalisation and product fragmentation. It has created new markets, brands and productions systems. This paper discuss what the swedish suppliers have to change to be able to survive in a different and more demanding car industry. By comparing OECD´s numbe

Corruption is indisputably an immense obstacle for many developing countries in their endeavor to prosper economically. Zambia, a peaceful, politically stable democracy is still facing many of the problems connected with corruption. Corruption has so far mostly been measured on a state-level, but in our thesis we narrow the field of investigation down to the ministry-level. We use questionnaires t

The Swedish National Laboratory MAX-lab contains a facility for production of bremsstrahlung photons for photonuclear experiments. A so called "tagging technique" allows for a determination of the energy of the individual photons via a spectrometric measurement of the energy of the corresponding electron. Some of these photons are lost in a collimation process. The fraction of photons in

This paper presents the outcomes of an applied cultural study carried out during spring semester 2010 with more than 10 Chinese female postgraduate students in Swedish universities. The aims of this research were to investigate Chinese female postgraduates’ decision-making process, to understand university lives in Sweden with the main focus on their learning experiences and social activities, and

Studien vände sig till personal, olika yrkesgrupper, som arbetar med krigsskadade och torterade i Sverige. Syftet var att beskriva personalgruppens mående och tillväxt i relation till arbetet, inställning till död, ondska och förlåtelse samt bakgrundsvariabler (t.ex eget trauma och arbetssituation) och undersöka samband mellan dessa. 69 traumaarbetare svarade på ett frågeformulär som mätte dessa fThe 69 participants of this study were Swedish personnel of various occupations, working at centers for war and torture survivors. The aim was to describe the personnel’s reactions from their work, their background (e.g. trauma prevalence, work situation), their attitude towards death, evil, and forgiveness and the relationships between these. The results of this study show that the participants h

The purpose of this study was to examine the way of communication and sense of community on an online extreme virtual community called pro-ana. The pro-ana community consists of like-minded people who see Anorexia Nervosa as a choice of lifestyle and not a disease. Through qualitative observations of threads of dis-cussion the communication on a Swedish pro-ana forum has been the focus of the stud