Choir singing is one of the most popular national movements in Sweden but the knowledge of the meaning of this activity for health and well being from the choir singers? own experiences is limited. The purpose of this study was therefore to develop useful knowledge about the meaning of choir singing for participating persons from a health perspective. The data was collected through qualitative int

The growing economic risk of relying primarily on fossil fuels with unstable prices and which availability highly depends on limited reserves and poor global distribution has increased the international interest on modern biofuels as an alternative energy source. Moreover, the growing awareness of energy-related pollution and of climate change consequences, and the international and national strat

This paper addresses the problem of urban transport management in Sofia ? the capital city of Bulgaria. It highlights the tensions and contradictions in the current policy and practice and suggests that the adoption of mobility management in policy making would elevate municipal capacity to deal with complex transport-environment conflicts and set the framework for a sustainable development of the

This thesis investigates the virtual meetings characteristics and policy intervention options in Chinese organizations. Virtual meetings can enable the communication of two or more parities in different locations with assistance of ICT technologies. It is thus possible for virtual meetings to substitute conventional physical face- o-face meetings without business travel and the associated environm

It is likely that a high degree of political support will be required to realise the biorefinery concept in reality, as capital intensive technology development and stimulation of the most promising technologies for biorefineries requires that government will need to invest heavily before industry has the confidence in biorefinery technologies and bio-based product markets to invest fully. However

No setting more clearly demonstrates human influences than metropolitan areas that live and breathe human diversity, novelty, intensity and choice, but also environmental and social burdens. Technological solutions offer one avenue of support to alleviating many urban environmental stresses. However, sincere sustainability in urban environments can only be achieved if citizens choose to utilize te

Attitudes towards violence were assessed using both implicit (The Single Category Implicit Association Test; Karpinski & Steinman, 2006) and explicit measurements (a Feeling Thermometer). A group of criminals showed more positive explicit and implicit attitudes towards violence than a group of non-criminals. In addition, The Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) revealed significan

Energy security is revealed to be one of the most urgent issues for the Ukraine and the key driver for the diversification of its energy sources. The country is shown to have significant potentials for renewable energy sources, and specifically for biomass. The development of bioenergy options is believed to help the Ukraine combat its energy security problem and bring a number of economic, social

Uppsatsen syftar till att söka svar på hur viktigt det är att människan i vårt samhälle ser på sig själv som en musikalisk individ och hur viktigt det är att andra också gör det. Spelar musikaliteten någon roll för oss människor eller är det kuriosa, något extra och roligt som vissa har stor glädje av men som andra inte saknar i någon större utsträckning? Forskningsfrågorna som använts är: Vad hän

Uppsatsen syftar till att ge en överskådlig bild av hur debatten kring eventuell kompensation för slaveriet och Jim Crow-segregationen i USA har vuxit fram, hur den ter sig vad gäller argument och retorik, vilka som för debatten samt en kort analys av ovannämnda företeelser. Uppsatsen är främst deskriptiv.

Ladugårdsmarken är en skola med hög energianvändning och det är främst elanvändningen som bidrar till de höga siffrorna. Eftersom byggnaden renoverades 1991 borde inte energianvändningen vara så hög som den är. Energiförlusterna beror till största delen på bristande isolering i byggnadens omslutande delar, dåligt U-värde på fönster och ett felaktigt konstruerat golvvärmesystem. Att belysningen oft

Att arbetssökandes etnicitet spelar en stor roll i chanserna att få ett arbete har tidigare visats (Arai, Schröder, Skogman Thoursie & Thoursie, 2006; Integrationsverket 2006). Kan en företagspolicy förespråkande lojalitet mot ingruppen leda till etnisk diskriminering? 96 studenter fick läsa en företagspresentation samt kravspecifikation angående en ekonomiassistenttjänst. Företagspresentation

I denna uppsats har jag fokuserat på konflikter och lärande. Konflikter är för oss oftast kopplat till något negativt och på så sätt kan det kännas jobbigt att sättas i situationer som känns ohanterbara och obehagliga. Jag har i en litteraturstudie försökt analysera konflikter ur ett mer positivt perspektiv. Mitt syfte har varit att undersöka hur konflikter kan leda till lärande och utveckling. Fö

The present study is a part-study of the EVEDMUS (evaluation of teacher education in music) project aiming to examine the music teacher education programmes across Europe and Latin America. The overarching objective of the EVEDMUS project is to learn about the different conditions and causes in which the musical and educational knowledge is being constructed and identify factors in the programmes

The purpose of this study is to make a close and critical scrutiny of the EU Lisbon Strategy and the assumption of `sustainable growth´. A basic question is to clarify what is meant by `sustainability´ in the economic and the environmental dimension respectively, and also, to analyse the meaning of `sustainable growth´. Secondly, I try to investigate the relationship between the economical and env

Min uppsats kommer att belysa subkulturer, hur och varför de uppkommer. Vad det är som driver människor till att agera mot lagstiftningen. (Etnometodologins "Against the law"). Jag ämnar än så länge se dels på de organisatoriska förhållanden under vilka beslut fattas, strukturella förändringar i samhället. Jag kommer att titta på sociala förhållanden dels människor emellan och dels deras

Abstract This thesis examines whether it is possible to ascertain a measurable difference between granted and refused grant applications with automatic methods. A corpus of project descriptions from the Swedish Science Council was examined with different classification techniques and using different linguistic features. A Naive Bayes classifier is shown to be a good predictor for this type of pro

China's accession to the WTO was perceived as the West integrating the East into the international economy with market economy reforming the planned economy. The major actors, the United States (US) and the Euorpean Union (EU), with similar economic structures and ideologies were expected to cooperate and bargain the best offers from China. However, while the US adopted a confrontational appro

The main purpose of this study is to clarify the underlying reasons as to why people choose to travel by car or taxi, and to do so by using people´s choice of transportation to and from Arlanda Airport as an example. Furthermore it is also in our interest to see what changes are needed to make more travellers use the available public transportation. Because of the increasing pollution rate from t

The aim of this study was to examine the infiltration rate of water and some parameters affecting it. Especially the land usage, the abundance of roots and macropores were investigated. A field study was carried out on western Java in Indonesia, on the slope of Mount Salak. The study compared four different land uses; i.e. forest, shrub areas, tree plantation and cropland since there was a high o