BRP+ är ett ramverk som utvecklats för att mäta svensk regional utveckling utifrån ett livskvalitets- och hållbarhetsperspektiv. BRP+ omfattar ett antal temaområden som i sin tur omfattar olika aspekter och indikatorer. Den första genomförda mätningen med ramverket som grund presenterades 2018. För att studera förändring av regional utveckling över tid använder man ett jämförelseår fem år tillbaka i tiden. Detta examenarbete är en beslutsanalytisk granskning av aggregeringen av aspekter och indikatorer i BRP+, med särskilt fokus på vad en ökning eller en minskning inom en indikator motsvarar i förhållande till en ökning eller en minskning inom en annan indikator samt vilka konsekvenser ett byte av jämförelseår får för resultatet. Granskningen har avgränsats till temaområdet Medborgarengagemang och demokratisk delaktighet. Resultatet visar att konstruktionen av BRP+ medför att valet av jämförelseår får stor betydelse för hur skillnader i ett avseende värderas i förhållande till skillnader i ett annat avseende, vilket i sin tur leder till en viss problematik gällande rangordningsomkastning (eng. rank reversal) och får som konsekvens att den vägledning BRP+ kan ge beslutsfattare är begränsad. / BRP+ is a framework created to measure Swedish regional development from a quality of life and sustainability perspective. BRP + is compiled of several thematic areas which respectively include numerous aspects and indicators. To study how the regions have developed over time BRP+ uses an index year five years back in time as reference point. The first BRP+ composite index was released in 2018. This thesis is a decision-analytic review of the aggregation of aspects and indicators in BRP+. Focus lies on how the increase or decrease within one indicator corresponds to the increase or decrease within another indicator and the consequences of changing the reference year used when assessing development over time. This review has been limited to study the thematic area of Civic Engagement and Democratic Participation. The results show that the construction of BRP+ in conjunction with a change of reference year for assessing development over time has an impact on how the increase or decrease within one indicator is valued in relation to the increase or decrease within another indicator and leads to a rank reversal issue. Therefore, decision-makers may find a somewhat limited support from BRP+.

The purpose of this thesis was to examine how an information visualisation about what happens in the human body of type 1 diabetics for children can look like. Initially, theory about information visualisation, principles of information design, image rethorics and different theories around what makes a good information image was studied. Following, four pre studies were conducted to support the reason for the main study to be conducted, develop criteria for how an information visualisation should and must be, examine in what context children are used to see pictures and to get confirmation on what metaphors and explanations are used to explain diabetes type 1. The results from the pre studies were brought into a design process as foundation for the further work. The design process began with brainstorming, sketching and a valuation of the produced concepts. The two concepts which performed best during the valuation were designed and brought into another valuation fase with the target group of this thesis where one of the design solutions performed better. The conclusion of this thesis is that an information visualisation about what happens in the human body of type 1 diabetics for children can be a joyful children's book, where the pages are designed with help of design principles for information design. The images on the pages should be large enough for the children to understand what is illustrated. 15cm x 15cm has proven to be a reasonable size for the pages. / Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur en informationsvisualisering om vad som händer i kroppen vid diabetes typ 1 för barn kan se ut. Inledningsvis studerades teori gällande informationsvisualisering, principer inom informationsdesign, bildretorik och olika teorier kring vad som är en bra informationsbild. Sedan följde fyra stycken förstudier för att underbygga anledningen till varför denna studie skulle genomföras, ta fram kriterier för hur en informationsvisualisering måste vara, undersöka i vilka sammanhang barn brukar se bilder och få bekräftelse på vilka liknelser ochförklaringsmodeller som används för att förklara diabetes typ 1. Resultaten av förstudierna togs med in i en designprocess som underlag för det vidare arbetet. Designprocessen inleddes med brainstorming, skissering och värdering av de framtagna koncepten. De två koncept som presterade bäst under värderingen formgavs och togs vidare in i en värderingsfas med studiens målgrupp, där en designlösning presterade bättre. Slutsatsen av denna studie är att en informationsvisualisering om vad som händer i kroppen vid diabetes typ 1 för barn kan vara en lustfylld barnbok där sidorna är utformade med hjälp av designprinciper för informationsdesign. Bilderna på sidorna bör vara så pass stora att barnen kan förstå vad det är på bilderna. 15cm x 15cm har visat sig vara en bra storlek på sidor.

Due to current consumption and production patterns of products, pressure on already constrained natural resources, an increasing global population, increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and reduced access to clean water globally, studying manufacturing companies’ inclusion of sustainability aspects in their product development becomes important. The aim of this thesis is to expand current knowledge on the inclusion of sustainability aspects in product development at manufacturing companies. More specifically, the expansion of current knowledge covers how manufacturing companies include sustainability aspects in product development, the challenges manufacturing companies may face when including sustainability aspects in product development, and the reasons for these challenges. To fulfil this aim, a literature study and a multiple case study were conducted at two international, listed, manufacturing companies in Sweden. Empirical data was collected using semi-structured interviews with two employees at each company and by analyzing the companies’ latest sustainability report. Empirical results include two context-dependent descriptions of how manufacturing companies include sustainability aspects in product development, 21 challenges the companies face, and 14 reasons for those challenges. Conclusions include: (1) the role of conventional methods when including sustainability aspects in product development has been largely ignored in prior research; (2) a company’s product owner influences the inclusion of sustainability aspects in product development, and in product requirements in particular; (3) the following three challenges are proposed incorporated in a comprehensive framework of challenges that has been developed in prior research: Making suppliers fulfil the sustainability requirements that are placed on them. Transforming sustainability aspects, or general goals, into measurable requirements that contribute to reduced environmental impact from products while at the same time contributing to competitive profit. Identifying how to reach economic goals more efficiently with a more sustainable initiative or solution than other initiatives.

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Utah ranked nineteenth in the United States in the production of peaches for a ten year period 1940-49, producing 1.2 percent of the national total. Peach production is an important part of Utah's fruit industry. The 1951 peach crop estimated at 800,000 bushels, valued at $1,520,000 represents 32 percent of the value of all the fruit grown in Utah and 0.8 percent of the value of all agricultural commodities grown in the state.

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Innovators lacking a well-developed business model will fail to either deliver, or capture, value from their innovations (Teece, 2010). Today’s virtual world is rapidly expanding and the Internet has enabled new ways of conducting business by facilitating electronic commerce (e-commerce) between business and consumer. Actors in the grocery industry have therefore changed their business models by developing new Internet grocery solutions Contributions to business model literature have increased significantly in recent years, but the majority have had a rather static view of the business model innovation process, disregarding that business model innovation is subject to change and should therefore be treated as a dynamic concept. Little efforts have been invested in describing the actual process by which business model innovations have been achieved. This study contributes to business model literature by exploring the process of business model innovation in three descriptive cases in two different organizational contexts in the Internet grocery industry in Sweden. With the 4I-framework by Frankenberger et al. (2013) as a foundation and the four dimensions of a business model (Who, What, How and Why) as a lens to perceive the business model the main findings of study is that as the dynamics of business model innovation in these two organizational context differs from each other, they are also different from how the 4Iframework describes the business model innovation process.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur entreprenörskap i skolan formuleras i läroplaner och tolkas av de som är verksamma inom gymnasieskolans hantverksprogram. Med utgångspunkt i ett läroplansteoretiskt perspektiv (Dahlgren, 1990; Lindensjö och Lundgren, 1986; Lindlensjö och Lundgren, 2000; Linde, 2000; Englund, 1997; Englund, 2005; Bernstein, 1971; Bernstein, 1990; Bernstein, 2000) studeras läroplanens formulerings- och transformeringsarenor, och relationen mellan dessa. Då den svenska läroplanen inte är fri från påverkan utifrån studeras även relationen mellan transnationella och nationella utbildningsdokument inom ramen för formuleringsarenan. Mer specifikt ställs följande forskningsfrågor i relation till båda arenorna: Vad beskrivs vara mål och innehåll i entreprenörskap i skolan? Varför ska entreprenörskap finnas med i undervisningen? Hur beskrivs genomförandet av entreprenörskap i skolan?

This Bachelor thesis is about international students, who travelled to Uppsala to study abroad during the autumn exchange term, which took place between September 2021 and January 2022. Four students from different countries were interviewed about their cultural and social experiences when the students studied abroad and how they oriented themselves in a foreign environment. This thesis focuses on sensory anthropology, which is a subfield. The sensorial aspects are about the international student's experiences, and the primary ones are light and darkness, space, flavours, and memories. When it comes to local belonging and imagined communities, the sensory aspects are about the value of individual experiences as well as the collective aspect of establishing a new community. In the period where international students learned, they clarified whether they felt like locals belonging to Uppsala.  When it comes to whether the students feel a sense of local belonging in Uppsala, the students' own educational experiences, local belonging, and communities in their home countries are compared to the Swedish students' existing communities at Uppsala. Foreign students also describe their native languages and their encounters with the Swedish language, and how the contrast resulted in feelings of exclusion from Swedish society

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