In this study the reliability of dominance profiles as a method of establishing a person's learning style was tested. Eight students at Malmö Academy of Music tried three different ways to learn a short melody at the piano. In this way, their preferred way of learning things (either visual, auditive or kinestetic) was established. Five of the students did best when they used a visual cue to le

Sammanfattning Detta arbete handlar om att kritiskt belysa de aspekter av undervisning som är centrala för mig som pedagog. Som lärare vill jag nå fram till eleven, jag vill att eleven ska ha möjligheten att vara kreativ och att få uppleva det tillstånd som kallas flow. Arbetet har utgått från de upplevelser jag fick av musik när jag var yngre, då tänkte jag inte i termer och begrepp utan upplev

In 2010 there will be a political resolution to ensure that the Swedish society is accessible to all citizens including people with disabilities. For this purpose a national action plan for disability policy "From patient to citizen" (Govt. Bill 1999/2000:79) has been set out with the aim of ensuring that the disability perspective will permeate every sector of society and that the appro

High frequency words are easier to recall compared to low frequency words in lists of only one frequency-range. This effect disappears when words of different frequencies are mixed in a list. Word frequency effects have often been assumed to rely on associations between words. The relationship between word frequency and associations was investigated by controlling associations using Latent Semanti

Abstract: The world in which companies are acting today offers challenges in the sense that it is rapidly changing and that a vast amount of information is available. In order to ensure the competitiveness and survival of the company, an effective and efficient environmental scanning is essential to the company. Our aim with this Master's thesis is to investigate what factors constitutes impor

The complexity of a decision environment is determined by a number of factors. These factors include number of options, number of attributes, frequency of purchase and interattribute correlations. A consumer can adapt to complex decision environments in several ways. This study examined how consumers adapt to differences in complexity of the decision environment in the natural decision situation

Based on a minor field study in Azerbaijan, this thesis aims to explain the relation between advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) and development of democracy in Azerbaijan. Interviews have been conducted with representatives from the governmental and non-governmental sector in Baku. The semi-structured interviews were categorised into topics on ICT and democracy and ana

The purpose of this study is to investigate a segment of the process by which a film spectator extracts information from moving images and treats it cognitively to generate an integral experience of a film. A comparison is attempted between objectively measurable eye movement data and the participants? own reports of their impressions of a film sequence under three different task conditions. The

Based on a minor field study in Azerbaijan, this thesis aims to explain the relation between advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) and development of democracy in Azerbaijan. Interviews have been conducted with representatives from the governmental and non-governmental sector in Baku. The semi-structured interviews were categorised into topics on ICT and democracy and ana

The ability of emigrants to contribute to their homelands through the sending of remittances has been intensely recognised in recent years. This is especially true for developing countries for whom this money is seen to be an important source of funds from abroad. Eritrea is often mentioned in terms of success in the way they have mobilised the capacities of their diaspora. Since the Eritrean inde

Abstrakt I dagens mångkulturella Sverige, där invandringen har varit stor de senaste åren, är det mycket aktuellt att undersöka om det finns rasistiska fördomar bland svenska ungdomar. Vi bad skolungdomar på två skolor i Sydsverige fylla i en enkät för att undersöka hur egentligen ligger till på den fronten, då det inte finns så mycket forskning inom den åldersgruppen. Den ena skolan hade hög inv

Äldreomsorgen utgör i dag den största delen av Sveriges kommunala vård och omsorg och antalet äldre ökar i snabb takt. Samtidigt utsätts denna sektor för ständiga krav på nedskärningar och besparingar. Mot bakgrund av denna situation ökar också kraven på att verksamheten ska organiseras effektivt. Men vad som utgör en effektiv organisation inom omsorgssektorn är ingen självklarhet. Syftet med upp

The initiative to unite the economies of the Americas into a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is increasingly threatening the survival of the indigenous people making them coalesce into transnational coalitions with people throughout the region. The aim of this thesis is to examine how the threats posed by the proposed FTAA and the opportunities of transnational activism opposing it has infl

This thesis concerns the policy process of a proposed bill. The specific bill constitute a new penal law which is supposed to replace the old penal law from 1974. The questions asked considers what in the foregoing policy process that has proceeded, affected and also characterizes the proposed bill. In order to be able to produce a deep and reliable analysis to this question I use two different t

Uppsatsen handlar om negationens placering i huvudsats. Min hypotes är att negationens placering ändras under 1500-talet, från fundament till satsadverbialsplats. Undersökningens material består av sju texter, Järteckensboken är den äldsta och Johan Runis: Prosatexter på svenska är den yngsta.

Varför byter substantiv genus? Genus är i indoeuropeiska språk en semantisk nominalklassificering som är formellt implicerad. Detta innebär att varje genus har en semantisk kärna som tenderar att uttryckas genom ändelser hos substantivet (men bekräftas genom dess dependenter). Orsakerna till genusbyten kan således tänkas vara både semantiska och formella: de kan byta genus till följd av associatio

The aim of this Master's thesis is to examine the theories and visions of five futuristic projects at children's libraries in Sweden and Denmark to investigate if these projects have approaches that are significantly different from today's best practices of the libraries and the current theories behind the children's sections. More specific questions are also asked: Are the proje

In this thesis we investigate the level of deliberative democracy in the current implementation of the 24/7 Agency in the local government. We are interested in how the combination of the two seemingly opposing ideals of Demokratiutredningen and the 24/7 Agency is solved. Our analysis is based on interviews with civil servants from three kommuner in Skåne and a schematic overview of their websites