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This study investigated how the outdoor environments at nursing homes for older persons were experienced and used to gain knowledge with implications for design. Focus group methodology was used to explore staff's view of how the residents experienced and used the outdoors. Two main themes and ten sub-themes were the result when the focus group interviews were analyzed. Theme one, being comfortabl

Why does the rate of population growth decline in the face of economic growth? We show that growing product variety may induce a permanent reduction in the demand for children and a continuous rise in income and consumption. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The current research focuses on creating a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) fuel index suitable for comparing different fuels for HCCI operation. One way to characterize a fuel is to use the auto-ignition temperature (AIT). The AIT can be extracted from the pressure trace. Another potentially interesting parameter is the amount of low temperature heat release (LTHR) that is closely c

Students’ learning developments of limits were studied in a calculus course. Theiractions, such as problem solving and reasoning, were considered traces of theirmental representations of concepts and were used to describe the developmentsduring a semester. Several students went through the course with a vague conception of limits which in some cases was wrong. A higher awareness about their mental

The paper presents a work in progress which is part of a larger study. Studentslearning analysis was investigated with the aim to find out how their concept images changed from the beginning of an analysis course to a year after the course. Their links between concepts were studied after the year had passed. The influence of the students’ pre-knowledge was durable and sometimes prevented students

Den inre marknaden i EU karaktäriseras av ett antal friheter. Onlinespel faller under etableringsfrihet och friheten att tillhandahålla tjänster. Medlemsstaterna har med stöd av ett fördragsundantag, tenderat att vilja förbehålla sig rätten att erbjuda speltjänster inom respektive land. Internets framfart har dock lett till ett paradigmskifte på spelområdet där nu öppnare licenssystem ersätter monThe European internal market is characterised by a number of freedoms. Online gambling is the subject of the freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services. Member states tend to invoke an exception of the free movement, granting them exclusive rights to provide gambling services. The growth of the internet and its impact on the gambling industry has however created a shift in paradigm.

The VUCA world we face today, proposes challenges for individuals with a high Need for Closure (NFC) as they may experience decreased well-being when faced with uncertainty and ambiguity. This in turn creates a problem for organizations as their employees with a high NFC may struggle to come up with innovative solutions to the complexity they are facing, making it difficult for the organization to

Formativ bedömning (FB) är ett arbetssätt som bidrar till både främjandet av elevers lärande och utveckling av undervisningen. Tidigare forskning har rapporterat om bland annat missuppfattningar kring FB och såväl förtjänster som utmaningar med implementering av FB. I denna studie undersöker vi matematiklärares uppfattningar om och upplevelser av FB och utgår från Black och Wiliams modell för impl

Studiens fokus ligger på att utvärdera hur moderna intranät används för att stödja informat- ionshantering inom en organisation, och om ett sådant informations-system kan generera verksamhetsnytta. Syftet är att vi vill bidra till en djupare förståelse om hur informations- och kommunikationsteknologin används för att stödja informationshantering och verksamhets- nytta. Som undersökningsobjekt har

Sustainable development requires collaboration between governments, businesses, and citizens. However, economic models, sustainability practices, and global policies are currently not fit-for-purpose to maintain global temperatures to 1.5 degrees centigrade within the timescales required to maintain a safe space for humanity to thrive. This study maps the alignment of business values and practices

Payments for ecosystem services (PES), a mechanism of incentives or compensation to landowners for provision of ecosystem services, have grown as a tool for meeting conservation goals. The Costa Rican payments for ecosystem services (PSA) program is one of the best-known examples because of being one of the most established. Despite this, the PSA program and many other PES programs do not monitor

Background: An increased concern of environmental issues have made companies, including Haldex, look for new engineering and design practices to keep up with legislations and stakeholder pressure, often by analyzing products’ total environmental impact over their life cycles, in so called life cycle assessment studies. The Haldex Project Management Model is a company specific project model where H

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om en implementering av svensk kod för bolagsstyrning påverkar företagets värde (approximativa Tobins Q). Dessutom hoppas vi ge svar på huruvida enskilda bolagsstyrningsvariabler från tidigare studier påverkar företagets värde. Arbetet använder sig av en kvantitativ metod för insamling av data till regressionsanalysen. Studien omfattar de svenska bolag som

Uppsatsen handlar om svensk kod för bolagsstyrning och om den innehåller något nytt för företagen som är registrerade på Stockholmsbörsens A-lista. Är några av de viktigaste delarna i Koden redan implementerade och i så fall bland alla börsnoterade företag på A-listan? Vi har i Delstudie I tagit fram de delar vi anser vara de viktigaste nyheterna i Koden och därefter i Delstudie II undersökt utifa