I denna rapport undersöker vi om en personal shopper tjänst är bra att införa i en modekedja med en bred målgrupp inom lågprissegmentet. Vi samarbetar med Gina Tricots huvudkontor där vi ska utveckla tjänsten tillsammans med Fredrik Appelqvist, retail ansvarig på Gina Tricot. I rapporten tar vi reda på om målgruppen är intresserad av tjänsten och hur de i så fall vill att den ska vara utformad. Detta för att se om det är ett strategiskt val för modekedjan Gina Tricot att starta upp en personal shopper tjänst ute i butik.I detta arbete har vi tillämpat några modeller för att undersöka på vilket sätt kunderna tar sina köpbeslut. Modellerna används för att se vart personal shoppern kan komma in och påverka kundens köpbeslut, för att kunden ska bli nöjd och sprida en positivitet om företaget. Vi hänvisar till en skräddarsydd enkät där vi har gjort ett urval av kunder som ftt svara på ett antal frågor om personal shopper tjänsten och vad dessa vill få ut av sitt besök i butiken. Vi beskriver modets roll i samhället och hur det påverkar oss. Där man allt tydligare ser hur viktigt det är att vara ”rätt” klädd idag. Undersökningen har givit oss en tydlig bild av att Gina Tricots kunder gärna ser att företaget inför en personal shopper tjänst i butikerna. Respondenterna har bland annat uttryckt att de vill få hjälp med stilval, samt att tjänsten ska vara lättåtkomlig och gratis. Materialet vi har fått fram under rapportens gång har vi aktivt delgett till Fredrik Appelqvist. Gina Tricot har nu beslutat att genomföra en testintroduktion av personal shopper tjänsten på Gina Tricot i Oslos flaggskeppsbutik som är belägen på gatan Grensen. In this report, we investigate whether a personal shopper service is good to introduce in a fashion chain with a broad audience in the low price segment. We work with Gina Tricot headquarters where we will develop the service along with Fredrik Appelqvist, retail manager at Gina Tricot. In this report, we want to find out if the target audience is interested in the position and how they want it to be designed. This is to see if there is a strategic choice for the fashion chain Gina Tricot to start up a personal shopper service in stores.In this work we have applied a few models to look at how customers make their buying decisions. The models used to see where personal shopper can come in and influence customer buying decisions, for the customer to be happy and spread a positive attitude about the company. We refer to a customized questionnaire, where we have made a selection of customers who are asked a series of questions about personal shopper service, and what they want out of their visit to the store. We describe the role of fashion in society and how it affect us. The importance to wear right clothes at the right time where you see even more clearly how important it is today.The survey has given us a clear picture of the Gina Tricot customers would like to see the company facing a personal shopper service in the stores. The respondents, in particular, expressed their wish to get help with personal style, and that the service should be easily accessible and free. The material we have been presented in the report once we have actively disclose to Fredrik Appelqvist. Gina Tricot has now decided to conduct a trial introduction of the personal shopper service at Gina Tricot in Oslo's flagship store on the street Grensen. / Program: Butikschef, textil och mode

Ingeniera Civil Industrial / El 19 de abril de 2017 se realiza el Primer Censo Abreviado de Población y Vivienda en Chile, lo que implica el mismo despliegue nacional de un censo tradicional, con la diferencia que el cuestionario posee un número menor de preguntas. Este proyecto pretende mitigar la falta de datos estadísticos, base para la realización de políticas públicas en Chile, provocado por la deshabilitación de los datos del Censo 2012, debido a fallas metodológicas en el proceso. El Área de Reclutamiento Censo debe obtener la cantidad óptima de censistas para lograr la cobertura geográfica a nivel nacional, demanda estimada en 524.442 personas. Para el diseño de los procesos, esta memoria utiliza el Censo del 2002, como base histórica de un Censo con un resultado exitoso. En primer lugar se identifican, cuantifican y caracterizan las instituciones involucradas como fuentes de reclutamiento en Chile, utilizadas también a nivel internacional, como empleados públicos (13%), profesores municipales (13%), estudiantes de 3° y 4° medio (45%), profesores educación subvencionada y particular (3%), estudiantes educación superior (25%), organizacionales sociales (1%) y ciudadanos en general. Se encuentran 18 comunas en Chile, las cuales no cuentan con colegios de enseñanza media o instituciones de educación para las cuales es necesaria la participación de empleados públicos u organizaciones sociales. Se proponen las funciones de los involucrados en el proceso de reclutamiento los cuales son la Coordinadora Nacional de Reclutamiento, reclutador R.M., los Jefes Comunales y los Reclutadores Regionales. Estos últimos se estiman serán 8 a nivel nacional, quienes tendrán asignados entre 1 a 3 regiones máximo. Se sugiere solicitar a los reclutadores regionales la elaboración de informes de avances y un sueldo variable en base a metas de desempeño, para controlar y motivar los niveles de avance por región. De igual forma se sugieren metas de desempeño para el área de capacitación. Esta memoria tiene por objetivo final, la posibilidad de documentar todas las actividades, eventos, procesos y diseños estratégicos y tácticos a través de los reportes semanales, las bases de datos de inscritos y la memoria censal institucional, que permitan llevar a cabo el éxito de los objetivos del Área de Reclutamiento y del proyecto Censo. La información documentada servirá como base de funcionamiento, para el siguiente Censo 2022, disminuyendo recursos destinados a la planificación previa y más recursos a la ejecución eficiente, aprendiendo y mejorando la experiencia pasada; sus éxitos y fracasos.

Tese de mestrado. Inovação e Empreendedorismo Tecnológico. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2010

Master of Applied Science / Research into rehabilitation outcomes shows that people recovering from stroke experience serious role loss. Despite this, many occupational therapists working in the area of stroke rehabilitation do not allocate time to therapy designed to achieve specific meaningful role resumption or development for their clients, instead focussing most of their therapy upon the restoration of function at the performance component level (Brodie, Holm, & Tomlin, 1994). Occupational role performance is an area of knowledge that has been neglected within the profession. Little is known about the use of the concept by the role performer. A naturalistic study was undertaken to provide descriptive information about the self-perceived occupational role performance of men over 65 who have had a stroke, and to investigate the possibility that occupational role was a construct used by the participants to organise their occupational performance (Chapparo and Ranka, 1997). Thirteen participants were interviewed in their own homes. Inductive analysis of the data produced the following findings. There was evidence that participants did use role as a construct to organise role performance in terms of meaning, personal abilities and time. This organisation incorporated a large degree of choice about how roles were performed. Choices were made in relation to perceptions of environmental demands and informed by previous experience and personal standards for role performance. A preliminary model of self-perceived occupational role performance was developed from the themes identified in the data. The constructs of the model represent the factors identified as contributing to the meaning, motivation, planning and performance of occupational roles by the participants in the study. Each major construct has a number of sub-constructs, and construct definitions were produced. The relationship between the constructs is thought to be complex, and were considered beyond the scope of this descriptive study. The three major constructs of this model are Active Engagement, Personal Meaning and Perceived Control. The three constructs relate to doing, knowing and being as described in the Occupational Performance Model (Australia) (Chapparo and Ranka, 1997). Active Engagement describes the nature of occupational role performance and is principally related to doing. The construct of Personal Meaning strongly influences Active Engagement and is principally related to being. The last construct of Perceived Control relates to the reasoning of the participant about his role performance, and is principally related to knowing. Perceived Control informs Personal Meaning in terms of the perceived outcomes of Active Engagement. The major outcome of this study has been the detailed identification and description of a number of constructs that relate to both the internal and external aspects of self-perceived occupational role performance for the study participants. These constructs extend the Occupational Performance Model (Australia) (Chapparo and Ranka, 1997) at the role level, and can form the basis of further research to develop a model of occupational role performance that would provide a valuable tool for research and for clinical practice.

This thesis concerns the contribution of Buddhism to sustainability. It explores the impacts of Buddhism on the lives of nine individuals and the implications of these impacts for a sustainable world. This thesis regards sustainability as the most pressing issue at this junction in human history. It believes that the shift to sustainability requires profound individual and social transformations throughout the world and that such transformations necessitate the involvement of the spiritual traditions of the world. As one such tradition, Buddhism has the ability to impart principles and practices that have been applied in daily living for over 2,500 years to contemporary sustainability discourse. The modern idea of sustainability first became prominent in the international arena in 1980s when the Brundtland Commission enunciated its vision of the path to sustainability and referred to it as 'sustainable development'. However, this thesis contends that the concept of sustainable development was flawed from the beginning because it was founded on the idea of perpetual economic growth as the solution to environmental and social problems. Instead, the thesis forwards a holistic, systems approach to sustainability that regards human well-being as the ultimate goal. It adopts two theoretical conceptions of sustainability developed by Donella Meadows - the pyramidal framework for sustainability and the scheme of leverage points - as tools to analyse the contribution of Buddhism to sustainability. This thesis examines the literature on Buddhism and sustainability. It finds that Buddhism espouses many ecological and social values conducive to a sustainable philosophy of life. In addition, Buddhist economics has experienced rich theoretical developments in recent years and provides an alternative to mainstream economics based on growth. Buddhist economics has helped propel two Buddhist developmental paradigms - Bhutan's Gross National Happiness and Thailand's Sufficiency Economy - to the forefront of national agendas in their respective countries, thus demonstrating the renaissance of the application of Buddhist thinking in society. At the micro level, many communities around the world are attempting to translate the most fundamental principles of Buddhism into ways for harmonious living and in an attempt to combat the tide of environmental and social degradation. Thus, Buddhism is making an impact on sustainability at many levels around the world. However, this thesis finds little empirical evidence to demonstrate the effect of Buddhism on forms of personal transformation that leads to sustainable behaviour. This is despite the importance of the idea of transformation and personal growth in Buddhism. This empirical void leads to the aim of the thesis, which is to explore the ways in which the beliefs, practices and transformational tools within Buddhism can contribute to living sustainably. To achieve this aim, the methodology of mindful inquiry was employed. Mindful inquiry is a methodological union of East and West and integrates four perspectives: critical theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology and Buddhism. It is appropriate for a values-based research such as this one where the orientation of the researcher is critical to the outcome of the research. A method consistent with mindful inquiry is the basic interpretive qualitative study. The basic interpretive qualitative study used in this study combines elements from ethnography, case study, phenomenology and critical research. It was used to explore the lifeworlds of nine Buddhist participants in order to understand the impact of Buddhism on their lives. The major data gathering technique was in-depth interviews although participant observation and document collection were also used. Analysis of data proceeded through the constant comparative method. The findings from this thesis are divided into three themes. Firstly, the idea of personal sustainability is forwarded as a concept to help understand the impact of Buddhism. Personal sustainability concerns the psychological 'integratedness' of individuals to enable the achievement of higher levels of well-being. The findings suggest that Buddhism has significantly enhanced the personal sustainability level of all nine participants. Secondly, Meadows' ideas of paradigm shift and paradigm transcendence are explored. The findings suggest that paradigm shifts or paradigm transcendence have occurred among the participants through the adoption of Buddhist principles and meditative practices. Thirdly, the notions of happiness and purpose in life are investigated. The findings highlight radical changes in the participants' understandings of these notions and the nature of these understandings that are significantly different from conventional views. As a result of these findings, the thesis argues that the contribution of Buddhism to sustainability can be considerable because Buddhism contributes to the protection of natural capital, the enrichment of social and human capitals, and a deepened understanding of well-being, which is divorced from simplistic ideas such as material accumulation and sensual gratification. The thesis concludes by highlighting the potentials of Buddhism to instigate profound personal and social transformations that could lead to a sustainable world.

When I first started thinking about writing Family Love I wanted to write it as an autobiographical novel. This meant a radical departure from my usual writing methods. For one thing, it was the first time in my writing life that I was interested in the conscious use of a period in my life as material for a novel. I had never before attempted this and felt a certain amount of apprehension in abandoning tried and true approaches for something so new and risky. Obviously there is an autobiographical basis to all my work but it expresses itself not in facts or events so much as oblique flashes, subconscious truths that arise out of the process of writing. In the creation of fictional characters in my novels, for example, I had never before set out to write about a particular person in the naturalistic sense. I have not been interested in telling someone’s story so much as becoming involved in the process of discovering and developing characters constructed from many sources including my own fantasies. A critic once described me as a method actor in the way I went about writing fiction, and, in particular, finding the voice of a character. This is an observation I find useful because there is something almost actorly about my immersion into fictional characters’ lives. It is a complete identification which results in what could be loosely described as super realism. I am writing from life but from my own intensely observed construction of a life a construction which has its own rules, logic and momentum and often bears little resemblance to the facts or the real people. / Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA)

University of Technology, Sydney. / This thesis focuses on individual memory and personally held objects as an essential source of orientation and coherence in history. The primary theoretical aim of this thesis is to interrogate the contention that conventional public forms of history do not always reflect how individuals negotiate with the past publicly or privately. Through the use of oral testimony to explore the memories attached to the material culture people keep I will consider why particular objects become sites of memory for individuals, how their significance changes as succeeding generations inscribe them with new meanings and speculate on the ways in which the materiality of the objects can contribute to how different generations construct their own sense of the past. Using the interrelationship between the objects and memories which emerge from the interviews I will discuss the establishment of family and cultural traditions, why people invest objects with particular meanings, the role of gender in the keeping of objects and raise issues regarding the place of personal memory and privately held objects in public history and museology.

University of Technology, Sydney. / This thesis focuses on individual memory and personally held objects as an essential source of orientation and coherence in history. The primary theoretical aim of this thesis is to interrogate the contention that conventional public forms of history do not always reflect how individuals negotiate with the past publicly or privately. Through the use of oral testimony to explore the memories attached to the material culture people keep I will consider why particular objects become sites of memory for individuals, how their significance changes as succeeding generations inscribe them with new meanings and speculate on the ways in which the materiality of the objects can contribute to how different generations construct their own sense of the past. Using the interrelationship between the objects and memories which emerge from the interviews I will discuss the establishment of family and cultural traditions, why people invest objects with particular meanings, the role of gender in the keeping of objects and raise issues regarding the place of personal memory and privately held objects in public history and museology.

<p>Patienter med diagnosen hjärtsvikt ökar i samhället, årligen beräknas ca 30 000 nya fall tillkomma. Egenvård är viktig för denna patientgrupp men för att bedriva egenvård krävs att patienten har tillräklig fysisk och psykisk kapacitet, kunskap och motivation. Råder brist på egenvårdsresurser är det ofta personalen på äldreboendet som måste stödja eller helt ta över egenvården. För detta krävs kunskap att se signaler och symtom vid en försämring. Syftet med denna studie var att kartlägga hur personalen i kommunens äldreboende uppfattar signaler och symtom hos patienten med hjärtsvikt samt vilka åtgärder som vidtas när patienten själv saknar egenvårdsförmåga. Studien genomfördes i en mellansvensk kommun under våren 2007. Enkäter (n=228) skickades ut till 8 kommunala äldreboenden. Enkäten vände sig till den personal som arbetade med omvårdnaden på boendet, kommunsköterskorna var exkluderade från studien. Enkäten omfattade både öppna frågor och frågor med fasta svarsalternativ. Resultatet visade att utbildningsnivån var hög, 96,7 % hade någon form av vårdutbildning, 3,3 % saknade helt utbildning. Studien visade att personalen kontaktar kommunsköterskan vid avvikande symtom men att personalen ofta inte vet vilken eller vilka sjukdomar de boende lider av. Om kunskap finns om vilken sjukdom den boende har samt vilken eller vilka symtom som ses vid en försämring så kan ett lidande förhindras för den boende. Finns kunskap att förhindra och förebygga finns även en vårdkvalitet att vinna och pengar att spara.</p>

Patienter med diagnosen hjärtsvikt ökar i samhället, årligen beräknas ca 30 000 nya fall tillkomma. Egenvård är viktig för denna patientgrupp men för att bedriva egenvård krävs att patienten har tillräklig fysisk och psykisk kapacitet, kunskap och motivation. Råder brist på egenvårdsresurser är det ofta personalen på äldreboendet som måste stödja eller helt ta över egenvården. För detta krävs kunskap att se signaler och symtom vid en försämring. Syftet med denna studie var att kartlägga hur personalen i kommunens äldreboende uppfattar signaler och symtom hos patienten med hjärtsvikt samt vilka åtgärder som vidtas när patienten själv saknar egenvårdsförmåga. Studien genomfördes i en mellansvensk kommun under våren 2007. Enkäter (n=228) skickades ut till 8 kommunala äldreboenden. Enkäten vände sig till den personal som arbetade med omvårdnaden på boendet, kommunsköterskorna var exkluderade från studien. Enkäten omfattade både öppna frågor och frågor med fasta svarsalternativ. Resultatet visade att utbildningsnivån var hög, 96,7 % hade någon form av vårdutbildning, 3,3 % saknade helt utbildning. Studien visade att personalen kontaktar kommunsköterskan vid avvikande symtom men att personalen ofta inte vet vilken eller vilka sjukdomar de boende lider av. Om kunskap finns om vilken sjukdom den boende har samt vilken eller vilka symtom som ses vid en försämring så kan ett lidande förhindras för den boende. Finns kunskap att förhindra och förebygga finns även en vårdkvalitet att vinna och pengar att spara.