This report is part of a master’s thesis in Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Design at Lund Institute of Technology. The project is performed in collaboration with the company Hantverksdesign & Rehabiliteringsprodukter, HD, at Lidingö in Stockholm. The purpose of this master’s thesis is to develop a product, which eases the situation for people with neck disorders, when sitting for long

The object aim of this study was to examine how the people that work on schools look upon their school programs against bullying. We also want to compare the circumstance and the differences between Olweus, an evidence-based practice, highly structured program, and other existing methods of program. Schools nowadays are by law obligated to work actively against discrimination, insults and bullying

Syfte: Vi ämnar att ur ett ledningsperspektiv undersöka de hot och möjligheter som teori, empiri samt praktikfall visar i samband med sammanslagningen av de två universitetssjukhusen i Skåne. Metod: Studien bygger på en kvalitativ metod med en iterativ forskningsansats. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Studien grundar sig på tidigare forskning av fusioner och motstånd vid fusionsprocesser samt vad forskning

Purpose: The aim of our paper is try to find out the relationship between exchange rate and corporate value. We are going to study the impact of exchange rate on automakers?value in automobile industry. Theoretical perspective: The theoretical framework mainly involves prior research in the area of exchange rate exposure and corporate value. Further, the relationship between corporate performance

The purpose of this study was to conduct an analysis in regards to how management staff and care staff at a group home for persons with mental illness present their mission, with a basis in the concepts of quality and competence. Empirical data was gathered through two group interviews, one with management staff and one with care staff, in which matters of quality and competence in relation to the

The study will be focusing specifically on the impacts that these entrepreneurs have had on the UK (regional) economy. In the last 20 years we have seen a wealth of studies analyzing the determinants of entrepreneurship. Though some of these studies are theoretical (e.g. Holmes and Schmitz, 1990), others are empirical (e.g. Evans and Leighton, 1990). The impacts of entrepreneurship, in terms of ec

Nigeria’s inability to use its resources to increase the country’s development status has raised questions about the leadership within the country. Investigations show though that there is a not much research performed on leadership within developing countries. The objective of this study is thus to contribute to existing leadership literature’s ability to understand leadership in Nigeria. This is

Efterbildning förekommer på alla plan i samhället. Inom immaterialrätten kan en näringsidkare erhålla omfattande ensamrätt för en prestation eller ett kännetecken. Marknadsföringslagen (MFL) fungerar i praktiken som ett komplement till immaterialrätten där användandet av en efterbildning vid marknadsföring kan utgöra otillbörlig marknadsföring. Det finns inget hinder mot att inneha ensamrättsligt Replication exists at every level in the society. Intellectual property law can give a businessman an extended sole right to a performance or a trademark. In effect the Marketing Act works as a complement various Intellectual Property Rights, where the use of a misleading replication also constitutes an unfair marketing practice. No right holder is precluded from starting legal proceedings both un

Today wind power developers are exploring the possibilities of establishing wind turbines in forest areas, therefore improved sound prediction models for complex terrains are valuable. The Swedish model used today is only applicable for hard flat ground without any vegetation, and is not adjustable to any meteorological parameters except the wind speed. The companies DELTA, DONG Energy and EMD Int

Denna uppsats handlar om ifall arkeologernas syn på allmänheten överensstämmer med bilden allmänheten har på sig själva. Genom att säkerställa detta går det att utveckla vår kommunikationsförmåga mellan grupperna, då det är mer givande att ha ett samtal med någon när man har samma föreställning om ämnet. Resultat av min undersökning visar att arkeologer och allmänheten är överens på de övervägande

Via comparing the processes of Japan’s and China’s industrialization, we work out the reasons why China chose a different way from Japan to conduct industrialization. Generally speaking, the different time they embarked on industrialization, their relationship with advanced industrialized countries, the industrial policies they adopted, amount & structure of FDI and expenditure on R&D are

I min studie problematiserar jag hur omhändertagandet av fornlämningar varierar, med utgångspunkt från kända och okända lämningar. Omhändertagandet har många olika aspekter; allt från röjning av vegetation, förhinder av slitage och publikanpassning till tillgängliggörande, synliggörande och bruk av fornlämningen. Jag jämför en känd lämning, Ales stenar, med mer okända lämningar; gravhögar ur varda

Located in the southern most part of Sweden, approximately five kilometres from Lund, is a small village called Uppåkra. However, for 1000 years during the Scandinavian Iron Age this was one of the largest settlements in Scandinavia. It is believed to have been a place of special significance, a religious and political centre as well as an important place for trading goods. Since the mid 1990’s, a

The present thesis is concerned with a descriptive analysis of a phenomenon in the Japanese language, the use as an imperative of two suffixes of tense and aspect, -ta and -tari. The use of the past tense form (or ta-form) as an imperative in modern Japanese has been touched upon by various scholars, but a detailed account of the construction, its diachrony, and its place in a cross-linguistic con

The aim of this essay was to illustrate how poor women with children in Nicaragua saw themselves and the role they played. For the realization of this study I used the qualitative method consisted in interviews of six women who live in a poor neighborhood in the city of León. To be able to reach this essay’s purpose, it was of the utmost importance to answer on what was their role, what conception

Teknologins utveckling har medfört att dagens kunder vill ha det som är enklare, snabbare och tryggare. Som kund på en bank vill man kunna göra sina bankärande vart man än befinner sig. Internetbanktjänster blir allt vanligare men bankkontoren finns fortfarande kvar. De största bankerna på den svenska bankmarknaden satsar stort på Interntbanktjänster men samtidigt väljer några av dem att fortfaran

The majority of poor people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Agriculture is one important tool for rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contract farming has been widely used in agribusiness and has potential to contribute to the development process in rural areas. This paper examines the main features of contract farming in SSA and analyse the consequences of

By transmissions of economic shocks from one country to another and through non-country specific shocks, the GDP growth of all countries might be more correlated than ever. This should have significant impact on individual countries’ stabilization policy. Therefore we want to know if there exists a world common cycle in output. To get more information about the cause for existence of these cycles

Utåt råder konsensus om att barn ska behandlas väl, de beslut som fattas rörande dess angelägenheter i fråga om vårdnad, boende och umgänge ska ha barnets bästa i centrum. Ingenting annat får överskugga denna princip och inga andra intressen ska få tillmätas större betydelse. I svensk lagstiftning är det tydligt föreskrivet att så ska vara fallet, emellertid fattas alltjämt beslut som uppenbart ärThe principal rule in Swedish legislation is that biological parents have custody over their child according to the presupposition that ”parents are best”. The presupposition applies not only after the death of one of the legal custodians if they had joint custody, but also when the deceased parent had sole legal custody. The rule applies even when the surviving parent has willingly killed the oth

Lokalt omhändertagande av dagvatten (LOD) har blivit allt vanligare i Sverige idag för att uppehålla och rena vårt dagvatten innan det släpps ut till recipienten. Vanliga anläggningar är dammar, våtmarker och svackdiken. En anläggning som inte har fått lika stort genomslag är översilningsytan. Trots att det inte anläggs så många rena översilningsytor så är det ett koncept som används mycket, och dLocal treatment of storm water has become more and more common in Sweden today, in order to retain and treat it before it is let out to the recipient. Common constructions are wet ponds, wetlands and swales, but one type of construction that has not had its break through yet is the vegetated filter strip. Even though there are few designed vegetated filter strips constructed the concept is widely