<p>Vi har valt att testa It’s Learning - ett informationssystem som tillhandahålls studenter vid Karlstads universitet för informationshantering. Från början var det tänkt som ett redskap vid distansutbildningar men det används mer och mer av campuskurser. Men hur användbart är det? Ställer användarna andra krav på ett användbart informationssystem än vad de teoretiska reglerna och normerna säger och på vilket sätt uppfyller It’s Learning de teoretiska respektive de användarbaserade kraven? Det är det vi har försökt ta reda på i denna uppsats. För att få svar på våra frågor började vi med att samla in teorier om vad som anses vara god användbarhet från litteratur och via säkra internetkällor. Utifrån dessa teoretiska normer och regler skapade vi ett antal kriterier som vi sedan testade på It’s Learning. Dessa kriterier var bland annat hur man bäst uppnår god läsbarhet och hur en länk ska se ut och fungera för bästa möjliga navigation. Vid en genomgång av It’s Learning upptäcktes en del teoretiska brister. Några av dessa användes sedan i vårt användartest för att se om de även var brister ur användarsynpunkt. Dessa resultat analyserade vi sedan utifrån de teorier som vi funnit i litteratur och genom vår egen förståelse i ämnet. I slutsatsen visar vi exempel på hur It’s Learning till exempel kan förbättra sin sökfunktion och att användartester och teoretiska normer och regler kompletterar varandra mycket bra.</p> / <p>It’s Learning is an information system used on the University of Karlstad, by primarily students who study on a distance. It is also used nowadays by courses held at the university. We have chosen to work with this information system to see in what way we can amend the usability through theoretical and empirical studies, and in what way the students requirements differ from the requirements derived from the theoretical standards and rules. To answer these questions we started by collecting information about what literature and reliable internet sources say is good usability. From these theoretical standards and rules we created criterion that we later on tested on It’s Learning. For example how to achieve good readability and how to make a link functional both visibly and navigation wise. Looking through It’s Learning we discovered some theoretical shortages. We used some of these shortages in the user test to see whether they were also shortages user wise. We analyzed the results by going through the theoretical standards and rules and by our own understanding of the subject. In the conclusion, for example, we show how It’s Learning can meliorate their search engine and also how well theoretical studies and user tests work together to improve usability.</p>

Vi har valt att testa It’s Learning - ett informationssystem som tillhandahålls studenter vid Karlstads universitet för informationshantering. Från början var det tänkt som ett redskap vid distansutbildningar men det används mer och mer av campuskurser. Men hur användbart är det? Ställer användarna andra krav på ett användbart informationssystem än vad de teoretiska reglerna och normerna säger och på vilket sätt uppfyller It’s Learning de teoretiska respektive de användarbaserade kraven? Det är det vi har försökt ta reda på i denna uppsats. För att få svar på våra frågor började vi med att samla in teorier om vad som anses vara god användbarhet från litteratur och via säkra internetkällor. Utifrån dessa teoretiska normer och regler skapade vi ett antal kriterier som vi sedan testade på It’s Learning. Dessa kriterier var bland annat hur man bäst uppnår god läsbarhet och hur en länk ska se ut och fungera för bästa möjliga navigation. Vid en genomgång av It’s Learning upptäcktes en del teoretiska brister. Några av dessa användes sedan i vårt användartest för att se om de även var brister ur användarsynpunkt. Dessa resultat analyserade vi sedan utifrån de teorier som vi funnit i litteratur och genom vår egen förståelse i ämnet. I slutsatsen visar vi exempel på hur It’s Learning till exempel kan förbättra sin sökfunktion och att användartester och teoretiska normer och regler kompletterar varandra mycket bra. / It’s Learning is an information system used on the University of Karlstad, by primarily students who study on a distance. It is also used nowadays by courses held at the university. We have chosen to work with this information system to see in what way we can amend the usability through theoretical and empirical studies, and in what way the students requirements differ from the requirements derived from the theoretical standards and rules. To answer these questions we started by collecting information about what literature and reliable internet sources say is good usability. From these theoretical standards and rules we created criterion that we later on tested on It’s Learning. For example how to achieve good readability and how to make a link functional both visibly and navigation wise. Looking through It’s Learning we discovered some theoretical shortages. We used some of these shortages in the user test to see whether they were also shortages user wise. We analyzed the results by going through the theoretical standards and rules and by our own understanding of the subject. In the conclusion, for example, we show how It’s Learning can meliorate their search engine and also how well theoretical studies and user tests work together to improve usability.

Šiandieninis kaimo žmonių dvasinis pasaulis apsigaubęs dramatizmo šešėliu. Pernelyg sparčiai modernėjantis pasaulis modifikuoja dvasines vertybes ir jų reikšmę. Dvasinis gyvenimas yra būtinas kiekvieno sielai, reiškiantis gerovę, praturtinantis kasdieninį gyvenimą.Tyrimo duomenys rodo, kad bendruomeniniai santykiai tiek Dzūkijoje, tiek Suvalkijoje yra panašūs. Nėra jaučiama esminiai skirtumai tarp šių dviejų Lietuvos regionų. Bendruomeniniai ryšiai abiejuose regionuose yra opi, spręstina problema. Ir vienoje, ir kitoje bendruomenėje yra asmenų, kurie nesijaučia pilnaverčiais bendruomenės nariais, jaučiasi pastarosios atstumti. Vyraujančios žmogiškosios ydos bendruomenės viduje yra abiejuose regionuose tos pačios, tai žmonių pavydas, susvetimėjimas, esminės kultūros stoka. / Modern – day spiritual life of village people seems like in a fog. The world becomes more and more modern overmuch and modifies spiritual worths and their meaning. Material and pragmatic things strike the roots and shades the spiritual life of village folk and the entire meaning of beeing. Even religion modifies its primary functions and it is not a shelter for tired human soul. The changes of modern society, which destroy the limits between cultures and making a new of it, changes human relationship with the world. At this time it is hard to save a basic of folk culture, and without it succession and growing of it is impossible. In the following way, national culture and human interface is failing, as a background of spiritual growing, as a natural spiritual perfection seedbed. The theoretical part consist of lithuanian and foreign scholarly paperwork, which analyze the conditions of spiritual influence. Also it is appealed to periodical “The folk culture” and to the articles, which describes the problems of spiritual life of village people. Qualitative (deep) interview was used for empiric part. Dzukija and Suvalkija countryside’s inhabitants of various age layer were asked for this interview. The purpose of this interrogatory is to reveal lineaments of village people spiritual life in a those countrysides.

The Serbian-born, German university educated Nebojša Jovan Živković is a virtuoso percussionist and an acclaimed composer of a large body of innovative music. The concert percussion community has embraced several of these works and this document examines two solo pieces: “ULTIMATUM I for Solo Marimba,” Opus 24.1 (1990/91), and “Generally Spoken It Is Nothing But Rhythm for Percussion Solo,” Opus 21 (1994/95). The intention of this study is to be a practical performance guide to aid in making decisions that will inform expressive interpretation. Both works are examined in the context of the formal structure and how the motivic, thematic, and harmonic elements relate to the form. Performance aspects such as instrument selection, setup optimization, interpretation, utilization of expressive dynamics and articulations, dynamic balance, extended techniques, universal four-mallet techniques, practice strategies, and suggestions for preparation are included. Overall, the challenges of “ULTIMATUM I” are many—technical, musical, physical, and emotional. The composer’s comments concerning Opus 24.1 focus on an energetic and expressive attitude. The energy is written into the music, but the performer must communicate this ultimative energy to the audience. Opus 24.1 has an angular texture, complex rhythms, fast tempos, and extremely loud dynamics. The aggressivo middle section contains many of the greatest challenges of the piece. Inherent to any multi-percussion setup are technical challenges and these are compounded in “Generally Spoken“ due to the inclusion of the vibraphone. Opus 21 is an excellent addition to any percussion recital and a performance will captivate the audience—due in particular to the unique sonorities achieved between tuned almglocken, tuned toms, Chinese gongs, and vibraphone. The music of Živković may have limited appeal to listeners unaccustomed to solo concert percussion. More scholarly research into Živković’s personal history, Balkan heritage, and compositional concepts may help widen audience appreciation. / Literature review -- Ultimatum I for solo marimba opus 24.1 (1994/95) -- Generally spoken, it is nothing but rhythm for percussion solo opus 21 (1990/91) / School of Music

This thesis is a primer on the experimental independent animator Don Hertzfeldt, whose filmography—described by one critic as “a singular universe of stick figures in crisis”—has for more than two decades been engaging some of the larger questions of post-millennial existence, particularly with regard to consciousness, temporality, and death. First, I will briefly introduce who Hertzfeldt is as an auteur (where he comes from, where his primary interests lie, and what his impact has been); second, I will provide an overview of the historical context in which his oeuvre should be placed (i.e. the history of animation and of experimental cinema); third, I will closely analyze his work, examining questions of style and narrative, starting from his student films and continuing to his more recent films; and fourth, I will explore some of the philosophical implications of recurring Hertzfeldtian motifs and themes (particularly with regard to consciousness, temporality, and death) before concluding.

Sammanfattning:Lärplattformar har kommit att integrera informationsteknologi med det traditionella lärandet. Det ger ett flexibelt sätt att ta till sig kunskap för studenter, där de inte är lika beroende av tid, plats eller andra frågor som kan hindra deras lärande.Syftet med vår undersökning är att få en djupare förståelse om It's Learnings funktioner och dess utvecklingsprocess. Vidare undersöks om Malmö Högskolas användande och utformning av It's Learning möter studenternas krav på användbarhet och funktionalitet och om resultatet i så fall kan härledas till beprövad teori inom området. En av undersökningarna fokuserar på första- och tredjeårsstudenters erfarenheter vad gäller användning av It's Learning. För att besvara syftet används två olika metoder. Kvalitativa intervjuer används för att få all den information som behövs om It's Learning som lärplattform och kvantitativ enkätundersökning har används för att studera användbarhet och funktionalitet hos Malmö Högskolas lärplattform. Den kvantitativa undersökningen baseras på Jacob Nielsens användbarhetsheuristisk och Marc J. Rosenbergs centrala funktioner utifrån i vilken omfattning It's Learning följer dessa.\\ Resultatet som framkom från vår enkätundersökning visar att det finns skillnader mellan de båda studentgruppernas upplevelser av hur It's Learning uppfyller deras krav på användbarhet. En av de största skillnaderna som framkom var att förstaårsstudenterna upplever It's Learning både mer svår att hantera och förstå i förhållande till tredjeårsstudenterna. Båda studentgrupperna upplever att It's Learning följer de flesta riktlinjer utifrån Nielsens användbarhetsheuristik. Våra genomförda intervjuer visar vidare att It's Learning följer vissa riktlinjer utifrån Rosenbergs kärnfunktioner för en lärplattform. / Abstract:Learning platforms have emerged to integrate information technology with the traditional learning. This provides a flexible way of learning for students who would not be dependent on time, place or other issues that would prevent their learning. The purpose of this thesis is to gain knowledge about It's Learning and its developing process. And to investigate if Malmö University's learning platform, It's Learning, meets students' demands on usability and functionality and that could result in a case derived to a proven theory in the field. The investigation focuses on the first and third year students' experiences in the use of It's Learning.To answer the purpose, two methods are used. An interview is used as a qualitative method to get all needed information about It's Learning. Further, a questionnaire is used as a quantitative method to study the usability and functionality of Malmö University's learning platform. This investigation is based on theoretical perspective Jacob Nielsen's usability heuristic and Marc. J Rosenberg's core functions and how much It's Learning followed them. The results that were conducted from the survey and the interviews shows that there is a difference between the two student groups and their experiences also whether It's Learning meets their demands for usability. One of the biggest differences is that first year students experience It's Learning as more difficult to manage and understand in comparison to third years students. However, both case groups showed that It's Learning followed to a certain degree, Nielsen's usability heuristic. However, the results that are conducted from the interviews shows that It's Learning follows most of Rosenberg's core functions of a learning management system.

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Thesis advisor: Bonnie Jefferson / In 1984, a group of famous British musicians came together to form the megagroup called Band Aid and released the holiday song “Do They Know It‟s Christmas?” to increase public awareness of the Ethiopian famine. A few months later, American musicians under the name United Support of Artists for Africa (U.S.A. for Africa) released the song “We Are the World” to raise money for these famine victims. Both songs were immensely popular and together created a new rhetorical form, the international musical philanthropy genre. Over twenty-five years after the release of these two songs, Sudanese recording artist Emmanuel Jal released his own song “We Want Peace” to raise public awareness for the Southern Sudanese vote for independence. This study examines the creation of the international musical philanthropy genre by analyzing and comparing the songs “Do They Know It‟s Christmas?” and “We Are the World”. This analysis also discusses the implications of the international musical philanthropy genre. After examining the effects of this new genre, this analysis then examines how the new song “We Want Peace” challenges and expands the international musical philanthropy genre. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Communication Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication.

The main objective of my diploma thesis is to analyse customers perception of Pure Jatomi Fitness brand. Based on results of a questionnaire survey, I recommended improvements that the management of the company should take into consideration in order to reach better results. In the theoretical part, I defined the concepts of service marketing, mark and its elements. Then I also focused on terms such as segmentation, targeting and positioning. The next chapter is devoted to the qualitative and quantitative research methods. In the practical part, I mentioned characteristics of Pure Jatomi Fitness company as to it's history and philosophy. I analysed the competitive market of Prague fitness centers and I presented the SWOT analysis. In the research part, I defined target segment of this fitness center chain with emphasis on analysing the perception of the respondents. In the final chapter, I proposed appropriate improvements that would strenghten the accurate position of Pure Jatomi Fitness.

This graduation thesis is dedicated to the description and analysis of economic development in interwar Czechoslovakia during the Great Depression. Firstly, political and economical changes which occurred in the world after the World War I and which had subsequently the main influence on the collapse of world's economy will be described. Also oppinions on possible causes of origin of this crisis will be summarized. The main scope of this graduation thesis is to describe and analyze the penetration of the Great Depression into the Czechoslovak economy, it's course and consequences that this crisis caused. The penetration of the crisis is observed in three different periods according to it's power. A significant part of this thesis consists above all with an observation of development of the macroeconomic indicators during the Great Depression in particular sectors of the Czechoslovak economy and their confrontation with the situation before the crisis. This thesis also addresses the question of social impacts of the crisis in Czechoslovakia. One part is also dedicated to comparison of the main economic indicators with other selected countries affected by the crisis.