Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie är att belysa patienters upplevelse av akupunkturbehandling i vuxenpsykiatrisk öppenvård. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med tolv patienter och efter induktiv innehållsanalys framkom fem teman: förväntningar, behandlingstimmen, efter behandlingstimmen, faktorer som påverkar samt akupunktur som behandling. Resultatet visar att patienterna var nöjda med

Popular science summary: Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare disease but more commonly found in ethnic populations belonging to Europe and North America than in those of Asian or African ancestry. This disease causes loss of neurons in different areas of the brain, that gives rise to different behavioural changes and psychological disturbances including involuntary movements and depression. The

This Master’s Thesis shows how to model the kinematics and forward dynamics for the parallel kinematic robot from ABB, IRB340 FlexPicker, and how to implement the control using software and hardware from B&R Automation. With conventional methods the forward kinematics, inverse kinematics and the kinematics for the velocities and accelerations of the robot are modelled. The forward dynamics, ca

The advantages with infrared heating and the fact that the technology has become significantly more inexpensive opens up a bigger interest to develop products using infrared heaters further. What will the future kitchen look like? How can infrared technology develop and create more conventional and intellectual products processing our food? By pushing the limits of the technology today the main

Transboundary river basins provide inhabitance and water resources to millions of people around the globe and they are a source of dispute among neighbor countries also. This thesis focuses on the snow melt and runoff modeling of a small transboundary river, Talas; using a physically distributed rainfall-runoff model, TOPKAPI-ETH. Investigation on the use of remotely sensed precipitation estimates

Climatic condition is what ultimately frames all ecosystems and is now undergoing dramatic change. IPCC models predict, in 100 years, a temperature increase between 2-5 ˚C and, as a consequence of warmer and wetter conditions, increased humic content in northern temperate freshwater systems. To study the impact of increasing temperature and humic content on shallow freshwaters a long-term outdoor

In my essay, I try to explore and understand the importance of the physical body of actors. How common is “type casting”? Does actors get selected for different parts due to their looks? To investigate these questions I made interviews with actors, directors and other people who work with theater.

The aim of this thesis has been the examination of the productivity growth patterns through the process of structural change and within sectors productivity improvements for Finland over the period of 1975 to 2011. By connecting theories of “General Purpose Technologies”, “Creative Destruction”, and “Techno-economic paradigm” with the ICT emergence, the notion of ICT intensity sectors had emerged

Olika erfarenheter av musikskapande tillsammans med läroplanens kunskapskrav har bidragit till intresset för denna studie, som undersöker det digitala musikskapandets betydelse i musikundervisningen. Syftet med undersökningen är att se om det digitala musikskapandet kan vara ett bra alternativ och komplement till det mer traditionella och om det kan tillföra något till musikskapande i skolan. FrågDifferent experiences together with the new curriculum for elementary school, created an interest which partly lead to this thesis, examining the importance of digital music making in the musical education. The purpose is to examine digital music creation as an alternative way of creating music and the contribution of it to music creation in elementary school. The following questions were used in

Denna uppsats är dels en utvecklad verkkommentar till det praktiska iscensättningsarbete med titeln "Installagrafi scenotion" som jag genomförde under hösten 2013, och dels en undersökning i hur den dramaturgiska förståelsen av ett verk kan gestaltas i en grafisk modell.This essay is partly a commentary to my work with the staging of the project "Installagrafi scenotion" which I did in autumn 2013, and partly an investigation in how the dramaturgical understanding of a staged artwork can be displayed through a graphic model.

Studiens syfte är att ge en bild av hur lärare i gehörs- och musiklära 1 (GeMu 1) väljer och arbetar med läromedel till kursen. Studiens fokus ligger på hur lärares tolkning av styrdokumenten påverkar läromedelsurvalet, samt hur kollegiala samarbetsformer spelar in när lärare väljer läromedel. Studien består av fem intervjuer i vilka GeMu-lärare har berättat om deras val av läromedel samt hur styrThe study aims to provide a picture of how teachers in music theory and ear training choose and work with teaching material for the upper secondary school course “Gehörs- och musiklära 1”, which translates into “Ear training and music theory 1”. The focus of the study is on how the teachers' interpretations of the national governing documents affects the selection of teaching material, and how

Popular science summary: Climate change, and its effect on nature, is presently a hot research topic. Many studies have focused on the effect of recent climate change on breeding and spring migration in birds. Several bird populations have been shown to advance migration or breeding. It has been suggested that if they do not do this they might miss optimal breeding conditions such as peak food av

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur sångpedagoger i olika genrer förhåller sig till röstkategorisering av den kvinnliga sångrösten. Data har insamlats genom intervjuer med sex sångpedagoger verksamma på olika nivåer, från kulturskola till musikhögskola. Metoden som tillämpats är kvalitativ intervjuundersökning. Resultatet visar att de sex pedagogerna har olika syn på röstkategorisering. Tre aThe purpose of the study is to examine in what way singing teachers from different genres relate to categorization of the female singing voice. Information has been collected through interviews with six singing teachers, active at different levels. The method applied is qualitative interview inspection. The results show that the six singing teachers have different views of voice categorization of

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur förmedlare, i detta fall välutbildade och erfarna lärare, dansare och musiker inom de västafrikanska traditionerna Djembe och Sabar upplever sina möten med det svenska musiksamhället när de lär ut och praktiserar dessa traditioner i Sverige. Den viktigaste forskningsfrågan är därför: Vad berättar förmedlare av de västafrikanska musik- och danstraditioneThe purpose of the study is to explore how skilled mediators, i.e. teachers, musicians and dancers of the African traditions Djembe and Sabar experience their encounters with the Swedish musical society when they communicate these African traditions in Sweden. The main research question posed in this study is therefore articulated already in the subtitle of the thesis: How do mediators of West Afr

Syfte: Det som uppsatsen vill klarlägga är hur företag sätter sina diskonteringsräntor, om det finns korrelation mellan bolagens verkliga resultat och/eller goodwillpostens relativa storlek och om detta beror på opportunistiskt tänkande i bestämmandet av denna ganska väsentliga parameter. Metod: Med syftet som utgångspunkt har en kvantitativ metod valts. Data har samlats in från främst företagensPurpose: The paper sets out to research how companies determine their discount rate, if there’s correlation between companies’ profitability and/or the goodwill relative size and if it therefore can be established if there’s an opportunistic way of thinking when choosing the discount rate. Methodology: With the purpose as a starting point, a quantitative method has been chosen. Data has been gat

Examensarbetets titel: Att skapa en bättre vardag för de många anställda Seminariedatum: 2014-01-17 Ämne/kurs: FEKH19, Examensarbete kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng Författare: Valentina Chan, Björn Eng, Maher Hamid, Zuher Kiswani. Handledare: Rikard Larsson Nyckelord: Engagemang & Typ I I, Teori X & Y, Karriärmodellen, Principal- Agentteorin, Inre och yttre belöningar Syfte: Syftet är att

The aim of the Master's Thesis was to go in depth of Zimpls introductionary tutorial but also the writing itself on the keyboard. The weight of the study was on improving the current state of both introduction and the writing from an interaction design perspective. The project was divided into three major parts where each part was divided into even smaller parts. The first part concentrated on