<p>Ericsson has a very big and expensive test environment with a lot of GSM AXE equipment. In order to decrease the cost of testing Ericsson has developed a combination of simulated and real hardware, the Hybrid Test Environment (HTE). There is no formal supervision and testing of the HTE system today and this has left the HTE system unstable and the testers have been avoiding using HTE. It is important for Ericsson that the confidence for HTE will increase. The goal of this thesis is to produce a method for testing the HTE system. An automated test tool has been implemented in order to monitor and test the HTE system. During the two weeks that the test tool has been operational it has discovered 4 servers in 3 different HTE rigs that malfunctioned. These servers were fixed and were operational before the end-users could discover any problem.</p>

<p>Background:</p><p>SMEs are extremely important to the Swedish economy. But only 56% of the newly started companies in Sweden are still active three years after they start. One of the most important reasons for this happens in the strategic field which generally includes two issues- one is the applying strategy, another is the strategy process itself. The authors of this paper attach their importance into one of these two issues-strategy process and want to get the result if Mintzberg & Waters’ (1985) strategic process model is suited with Swedish IT-SMEs.</p><p>Purpose:</p><p>According to Karl Popper, people have to continuous try to falsify a hypotheses and each time you fail to do this the hypotheses or theories become stronger. If you succeed in falsifying the hypotheses it can be rejected as false and a new and better one will have to be created from the outcome of all these tests. Based on this kind of thought, our research chooses Swedish IT-SMEs to test Mintzberg & Waters’ (1985) model. After all, Mintzberg & Waters’ (1985) model has been put forward almost twenty years and furthermore, its standpoint is mostly based on the big enterprises. Our purpose is to see if this model is suited with the process of strategy of the three-premise (Swedish, IT, SME) companies. </p><p>Result:</p><p>We can say after getting the result, that Mintzberg & Waters’ (1985) model is suited with Swedish IT-SME, the model itself becomes stronger.</p>

<p>Denna undersökning handlar om elevers val av strategier när de löser matematiska textuppgifter i årskurs tre. I undersökningen har sammanlagt tolv elever medverkat från två landsbygdsskolor i Kalmar län. Studien genomfördes med hjälp av enkäter, intervjuer samt observationer. Enkätsvaren, intervjuerna samt observations-anteckningarna har analyserats för att finna de olika strategier som används av eleverna i årskurs tre. Bilder och huvudräkning var de två strategier som förekom i högre grad. Eleverna använde sig även av uppställningar. Det har även visat sig att elevernas erfarenheter av textuppgifter har varit begränsade.</p> / <p>This study is about pupils’ choice of strategies when they solve text tasks in mathematics in the third grade. In the study two classes participated with the total of twelve students from two rural schools in Kalmar County. The study was conducted using questionnaires, interviews and observations, which have been analyzed to identify the different strategies used by the students. It turned out that two strategies were more used than others, these were pictures and mental arithmetic, but used less of calculation. It has also shown that pupils’ experiences of text tasks have been limited.</p>

<p>Syftet med studien var att undersöka vilka strategier sjuksköterskor använder sig av för att upptäcka depression bland ungdomar i åldrarna 13-19 år, samt vilka strategier de använder sig av i mötet med dessa. Ett annat syfte var att undersöka hur sjuksköterskor upplever mötet med deprimerade ungdomar i åldrarna 13-19 år. Metoden<strong> </strong>var att intervjua 6 sjuksköterskor inom skola och barn och ungdomspsykiatrin. Intervjuerna genomfördes under hösten 2007. Intervjuerna spelades in på band och transkriberades ordagrant. Materialet analyserades och meningsbärande enheter plockades ut samt delades in kategorier, resultatet blev fyra huvudkategorier samt tio subkategorier. Resultatet visade på att alla skolsköterskor som intervjuades hade ett samarbete med kuratorer, rektorer och lärare för att upptäcka ungdomar som befann sig i riskzonen för depression. Dessa ansåg dessutom att hög frånvaro från skolan kan bindas till fysisk och psykisk ohälsa. Samtliga sjuksköterskor i studien använde sig av någon form av frågeformulär för att upptäcka depression. Alla sjuksköterskor var överrens om att det är viktigt att behandlingen planeras i samarbete med ungdomen. Alla sjuksköterskor i studien ansåg att det är mycket viktigt att informera ungdomarna om hur långt deras tystnadsplikt sträcker sig. Alla var även överrens om vikten att försöka involvera ungdomarnas föräldrar. Sjuksköterskorna i studien upplevde alla att de ibland tar jobbet med sig hem, dock har de med tiden blivit bättre på att distansera sig från arbetet.</p> / <p>The aim of this study was to examine which strategies nurses use to detect depression among adolescences in the ages 13 to19 and which strategies they use when meeting depressed adolescents. Another aim of this study was to examine the nurses' experience from that meeting. The method used was interviews with six school and psychiatric nurses. The interviews were recorded on tape and transcribed verbatim. Meaning units were extracted and the material was put into categories, which resulted in four main categories and ten subcategories. The result showed that all of the school nurses who participated in the study had cooperation with counsellors, principals and teachers to discover adolescence who where at risk of depression. Furthermore the nurses reckoned that a high amount of absence from school could be signs of physical or mental illness. The participants in this study used some form of questionnaire to detect depression. In addition all of the nurses agreed on the importance of planning the treatment together with the adolescence. Moreover the nurses in the study believed in the importance of informing the adolescence of their professional confidentiality and how far it reaches. Additionally every nurse who participated in this study agreed on the importance of involving the parents of the adolescences. The nurses in the current study experienced that they sometimes brought their work home with them, however distance oneself from work has become easier over time.</p>

<p>According to the World Health Organization(WHO) the most efficient and cost-effective strategies in the global fight of malaria are the Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) and the Insecticide Treated Nets ITNs). However, since the strategies include the use of synthetic insecticides, WHO reports that they sometimes meet opposition in the society. In a Global Malaria Programme report from 20061, WHO describes that concerns in the community regarding the safety of the IRS hinder its effective implementation. WHO states that the social acceptability of ITNs2 has to increase. This study aims at investigating if and where in the Ugandan society the antimalarial strategies meet opposition. The study analyzes whether authorities, non-governmental organizations and caretakers in one region in Uganda reject the antimalarial strategies recommended by WHO. The aim is further to investigate where focus should be put in order to meet the</p><p>opposition (if any) to current strategies and thus facilitate the implementation of the strategies. The methodology used is an empirical approach based on interviews with officials at authorities, representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and caretakers in the slum areas in Kawempe Division, which is an area highly exposed to malaria, in Uganda. The results show that the authorities and the NGOs in this study accept the current strategies but believe that they are not fully accepted by caretakers. Further, the authorities and the NGOs point out that current strategies, mainly IRS, meet great resistance among politicians and within the agricultural and environmental sector. Nevertheless, the majority of the caretakers in the interviews does accept the strategies and give other reasons for not having them implemented in their houses. Many of the households do not have the money neither to buy the ITNs nor to have the IRS implemented in their houses. Thus, this study implies that the opposition to the current strategies is not among authorities, NGOs or caretakers but in the political, environmental and agricultural</p><p>sphere. In order to fight malaria in the study area, WHO and stakeholders have to work with the change of attitudes among politicians and stakeholders within the environmental and agricultural sector in Uganda. They also have to provide poor households with ITNs or IRS for free, since lack of money is the reason for the studied group of caretakers not having the recommended strategies implemented in their houses.</p>

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<p>Abstract</p><p>When immigrants move to Sweden from their native country it is not unusual that they experience some kind of identity crises. Their own experience of their cultural identity can be very problematic and they often lose a part of what they previously saw as their own identity. To handle such crises the immigrants can use different strategies. They can for example accept their disparity, deny it or emphasize it. The aim of this study is to examine how immigrants in Sweden experience that their cultural identity has changed since they moved here from a country that has a culture that is different from the Swedish culture. To reach my goal with this study I interviewed immigrants/refugees from Chile, Lebanon and Thailand. Some of the results are that my presentation of the problem and the aim with the study were not profound enough. I intended to only write about cultural identity but I came to the conclusion that individual identity and different adaptation strategies were no less important. A further conclusion is that these three ingredients are completely different things; an immigrant can have one individual identity, another cultural identity and use a strategy that does not correspond with any of these. Moreover I also found that a person’s identity does not need to change when moving from their native country to Sweden. Finally I want to stress that my study is not about making sweeping statements, it is rather exemplifying. Identity and strategies are different from one person to another.</p><p>Keywords: individual identity, cultural identity, adaptation strategies</p>

<p>This essay deals with different survival strategies in Hemingway´s <em>The Sun Also Rises</em>, with a focus on three of the characters: Jake, Brett and Cohn. They all try to survive mentally in post-war Europe, and have different ways of handling their traumas.</p>

<p>The purpose of this research study is to explore the relationship between cultures and Human Resource Management Strategies in Swedish Multinational Corporations. In order to achieve this purpose, a multiple-methods research design is adopted. The study consists of two steps. The first step is a pilot study which aims to give a general picture and the direction for the further case study. A case study is the second step; here, three companies are studied by conducting interviews: ArtsNordica, TeliaSonera and Company A, with the intention of highlighting the important issues of cultures and HRM strategies.</p>

The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine how high school students managed their learning while working within the guidelines of a student-centered approach to teaching and learning. Data collected included interviews, questionnaires, participant observations, and Kolbe Conative Index scores supplied by the school. Seven teachers and forty students were interviewed. Student interviews were based on Zimmerman's (1995) self-regulation questionnaire. Teachers were interviewed using the Survey on Teaching Roles (Woolfolk, 1995). Analysis of the questionnaire on self-regulation was clustered into four categories representing Zimmerman's (1995) learning strategies. The open-ended questions dealt with strengths and weaknesses of the program and were analyzed for recurring themes. Patterns drawn from these categorized data sets were then triangulated with the Kolbe Conative Index for confirmation. It was concluded that the more productive students used four specific learning strategies: (1) organizing and transforming information, (2) goal setting and planning, (3) seeking help from peers, and (4) seeking help from adults. Less productive students were weak in two or more of these learning strategies along with one of two action modes as identified on the Kolbe. Students weak in Fact Finding or Follow Thru as identified by the Kolbe and that used all four learning strategies covered themselves with having the skills to learn. These same students talked about a fatigue factor involved in a student-centered approach. All students shared the importance of knowing themselves as learners and how that was a process learned over time. They also talked about the importance of the teacher-student relationship. Graduates of this program shared the perception that a student-centered curriculum provided more opportunity to develop the skills necessary for self-regulation than a traditional high school program. / Graduation date: 1997