This thesis aims to determine if there is a discourse of Swedish exceptionalism in the Swedish Government’s Statements of Foreign Policy between 2002 and 2018. Discourse analysis have been used to analyze eight statements, based on a constructivist framework and the theoretical concept of Swedish exceptionalism. Swedish exceptionalism is the idea of Sweden having a self-image of being superior to others, mainly based on the country’s understanding of itself as being a “moral superpower”.   The research question formulated was: Are the Swedish Government’s Statements of Foreign Policy, between 2002 and 2018, articulated through a discourse of Swedish exceptionalism?   To determine if there was a discourse of Swedish exceptionalism in the Statements of Foreign Policy, seven key representations of the concept were established. Those were   Sweden:   1.     being military non-aligned 2.     having an active foreign policy 3.     being pioneering or “leading the way” 4.     bringing security, stability, and peace 5.     being a champion of human rights and democracy 6.     acting as mediator and/or a bridge builder 7.     showing solidarity with “less fortune states” (developing, vulnerable and/or small)   The results of the empirical study were that all key representations were present in all of the statements analyzed, which lead to the conclusion is that the Statements of Foreign Policy between 2002 and 2018 were articulated through a discourse of Swedish exceptionalism.

Utöver kundernas förväntningar på produkter och tjänster är det också viktigt att ta hänsyn till medarbetarnas förväntningar på chefer och arbetsmiljö. Författarna analyserar hur dessa förväntningar påverkar medarbetarnas motivation, arbetsprestationer och arbetstillfredsställelse samt hur ledningen kan minska förväntningsgapet och de potentiella konsekvenserna. Genom en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod har författarna i denna uppsats undersökt hur medarbetarnas förväntningar och förväntningsgapet ser ut i en lågkostnadsorganisation. Författarna har även undersökt hur förväntningsgapet bemöts och behandlas i en lågkostnadsorganisation som valdes att nämnas för organisationen X. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka, analysera och bygga en förståelse för medarbetarnas förväntningar, förväntningsgap och dess konsekvenser i en lågkostnadsorganisation. Författarna studerade även hur ledningen hanterar olika situationer som uppstår på grund av medarbetarnas förväntningar. För att uppnå dessa mål valde författarna att använda en kombination av forskningsmetoder, de metoder som användes var semistrukturerade intervjuer, deltagarobservation och litteraturgenomgångar. Intervjuerna genomfördes med åtta respondenter sedan transkriberades och analyserades deras svar utifrån teorier. Som slutsats har författarna kommit fram till att medarbetarna har förväntningar på organisationen X, enligt sex av åtta respondenter handlar det om organisationens utveckling. Förväntningsgapet har lett till minskad motivation hos medarbetarna. Organisationen X möter inte upp anställdas förväntningar på ett positivt sätt, då det är en lång process att göra det. / In addition to customers' expectations of products and services, it is also important to consider employees' expectations of managers and the work environment. We analyze how these expectations affect employee motivation, work performance and job satisfaction, and how management can reduce the expectation gap and the potential consequences.  Through a qualitative research method, in this essay we have investigated what the employees' expectations and the expectation gap look like, as well as how the expectation gap is met and treated in a low-cost organization that we chose to name organization X.  The purpose of this study was to investigate, analyze and build an understanding of employee expectations, expectation gaps and their consequences in a low-cost company. We have also studied how management handles various situations that arise due to employee expectations. To achieve these goals, we chose to use a combination of research methods such as semi-structured interviews, participant observation and literature reviews. The interviews were conducted with eight respondents, transcribed, and analyzed based on theories. In conclusion, we have concluded that the employees have expectations of organization X which, according to six out of eight respondents, is about the organization's development.

This thesis contributes to our understanding of cognitive interoperability by explor-ing barriers, facilitators, and contextual factors to create a framework. With the ad-vent of the cognitive domain in warfighting, the adversary pursuit of military strate-gic advantage through cognitive science demands that we seize the initiative and seek cognitive superiority with allies and partners. Prior research acknowledges the importance of human interoperability but is limited to singular studies at the opera-tional and national level. This thesis shifts focus to the military strategic and multi-national level to uncover cognitive and cultural inhibitors and enablers of cognitive interoperability. The empirical data is drawn from a distinct case study that examines senior military officers during a combined exercise. The analysis explores compe-tencies that foster strategic empathy and collective intentionality with identity and human connectivity as major catalysts. Individuals are agents who collectively con-struct cognitive interoperability, setting conditions for cognitive dominance in future military competition.

Anxiety can be advantageous in terms of survival and well-being, yet atypically high levels may be maladaptive and result in the clinical diagnosis of an anxiety disorder. Several risk factors have been implicated in the manifestation of clinical anxiety, including cognitive biases. In recent years, a plethora of research has emerged demonstrating that anxious adults exhibit biases of attention for threatening stimuli, especially that which is biologically relevant (e.g., facial expressions). Specific components of attentional bias have also been identified, namely facilitated engagement, impaired disengagement, and avoidance. However, the majority of studies have focused on the spatial domain of attention. Furthermore, the area is under-researched in children, despite research demonstrating that symptoms relating to clinical and non-clinical anxiety follow a stable course from childhood through to adolescence and adulthood. Consequently, the aim of this thesis was to investigate how anxiety affects children’s visual attention for emotive, particularly angry, faces. In order to provide a more comprehensive understanding, the current research involved examining the role of temporal and spatial attention utilising rapid serial visual presentation with the attentional blink, and the visual probe paradigm, respectively. The main hypothesis was that high state and/or trait anxiety would be associated with an attentional bias for angry, relative to positive or neutral faces in both the temporal and spatial domains. In relation to the temporal domain, key findings demonstrated that high levels of trait anxiety were associated with facilitated engagement towards both angry and neutral faces. It was further found that all children rapidly disengaged attention away from angry faces. Findings related to the processing of angry faces accorded with the main hypothesis stated in this thesis, as well as research and theory in the area. The finding that anxious children preferentially processed neutral faces in an attentional blink investigation was unexpected. This was argued to potentially reflect this stimulus type being interpreted as threatening. Key findings regarding the spatial domain were that high trait anxious children displayed an early covert bias of attention away from happy faces and a later, overt bias of attention away from angry faces. The finding that high trait anxiety was linked to an attentional bias away from happy faces in a visual probe task was also unexpected. This was argued to potentially reflect smiling faces being interpreted as signifying social dominance, thus resulting in the viewer experiencing feelings of subordination and becoming avoidant and/or submissive. To conclude, this thesis has enhanced current knowledge of attentional bias in both the temporal and spatial domains for emotive stimuli in anxious children. It has demonstrated that higher levels of trait anxiety moderate children’s allocation of attentional resources to different stimulus types, whether these are threatening, positive, or neutral. This has important implications for evaluating past research in adults and children, and for further developing theoretical models of attentional bias and anxiety. It also offers important clinical implications, since attending towards or away from specific stimuli may affect the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Recently, a treatment that aims to modify attentional bias in anxious individuals has begun to be developed. In light of the present findings, it may be necessary to review this treatment so that anxious children are re-trained in the specific biases of attention demonstrated here.

Burundi became a German protectorate in August 1884. Prior to the establishment of a protectorate, the territory was ruled by Mwamis (kings) who exercised a kind of quasi-divine system of administration. Conflictual relations were quickly dealt with within this complex structure. During the German and later Belgian colonial administrations, these political structures were redefined and a social class structure based on wealth was created. Forced class division became entrenched in the social fabric of Burundian society and the hierarchical system became even more prominent at independence in July 1962. Successive post-colonial regimes have failed to bridge the social gap. The International Community, through initiatives by the United Nations, the Africa Union, Jimmy Carter, Julius Nyerere and Nelson Mandela have attempted to resolve the political impasse. The dissertation is an attempt to reconstruct the causes of the various crises since 1962 and to reassess whether the various facilitators has succeeded in their tasks. / History / M.A.

Male youths ages 13-18 incarcerated at two minimum security detention facilities participated in a program to determine if Alfred Adler's concept of social interest could be developed through group interactions led by non-professionals. The youths answered a self-report attitudinal scale, the Sulliman Scale of Social Interest and were rated by their classroom teachers on the Behavior Dimensions Rating Scale as pre-test measures. Volunteers from a liberal arts college sociology classes were randomly assigned to work in male-female pairs over a ten week period of time with the experimental population. These pairs led their constant group of incarcerated youths in ninety minute discussion sessions once per week for the duration of the program. Structured human relations exercises specifically designed to encourage elements of social interest; belonging, cooperation, and significance were assigned for each of the sessions. At the end of ten weeks, the youths in the experimental groups and the control population were tested again on the two scales. The results of Pearson Product Moment Correlations Test indicated no relationship between attitude and behavior for either the experimental or control groups on the pre-test and the post-test. A Mann Whitney U t-test indicated a highly significant increase in the social interest of the experimental group at the end of the program. While the control group showed no change over the course of the ten weeks, those who participated in the developmental groups increased their scores on the Sulliman Scale of Social Interest by an average of 12 points. Another Mann Whitney U t-test indicated that there was no difference between the social interest of Caucasian and non-Caucasian youths.

A soja é uma cultura de importância econômica fundamental e o Brasil está entre os principais produtores mundiais. A ferrugem asiática, causada pelo fungo Phakopsora pachyrhizi, é uma doença relativamente recente no Brasil e pode causar grandes perdas na cultura da soja, representadas pela diminuição da produtividade e pelas despesas com aquisição e aplicação de fungicidas. Já existem algumas fontes de genes de resistência vertical para esta doença, mas também já existem casos de quebra de resistência de alguns destes genes principais. A tolerância, definida como a capacidade da planta em suportar o ataque do patógeno sem apresentar perdas significativas, é uma estratégia complementar que pode ser utilizada no controle da ferrugem. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi estudar a tolerância à ferrugem asiática em genótipos experimentais derivados de 45 cruzamentos em dialelo 10 x 10 do Setor de Genética Aplicada às Espécies Autógamas do Departamento de Genética/ESALQ/USP por meio de métodos de estimação do efeito ferrugem e da estabilidade fenotípica em combinações de manejos de fungicidas, locais e anos agrícolas, além de identificar linhagens promissoras para inclusão em futuros programas de melhoramento. Os delineamentos experimentais utilizados foram blocos aumentados de Federer nos anos 2011/12 e 2012/13 e blocos ao acaso estratificados em conjuntos em 2013/14. Em cada ano e local foram realizados dois experimentos: manejo 1, com aplicações de fungicidas para o controle da ferrugem e outras doenças fúngicas, incluindo as doenças de final de ciclo; manejo 2, com apenas o controle de outras doenças fúngicas, excluindo-se a ferrugem. O contraste entre estes dois manejos com fungicidas permitiu uma estimativa da tolerância. Além disso, foram utilizadas as medidas de estabilidade-bmg (Pi) e ecovalência (Wi) para quantificar a tolerância relativa entre genótipos. Foram pesquisadas 225 progênies F2:7 em 2011/12; 675 linhagens F7:8 em 2012/13 e as melhores 225 linhagens F7:9 em 2013/14. Os resultados obtidos permitiram concluir que: a) houve evidências claras de tolerância à ferrugem asiática entre e dentro de cruzamentos; b) a estratégia de utilizar a comparação entre diferentes manejos de fungicidas para estimar a tolerância (efeito ferrugem) foi útil para a seleção, mas sofreu instabilidade, apresentando baixas correlações entre anos agrícolas; c) os métodos da estabilidade baseada no melhor genótipo (bmg) e da ecovalência complementaram as informações obtidas do efeito ferrugem e auxiliaram na seleção de linhagens tolerantes; d) avaliações iniciais da severidade de ferrugem (nota de ferrugem NF1) apresentaram baixa precisão, tornando recomendável concentrar as avaliações da severidade após maior tempo de infecção (NF2 e NF3) para melhor eficácia na estimação da tolerância; e) a tolerância estimada pelo peso de cem sementes mostrou baixa correlação com a tolerância estimada para produtividade de grãos, de maneira que o uso combinado dos dois critérios melhorou a eficiência da seleção para tolerância e produtividade; f) na seleção simulada foram identificadas 48 linhagens promissoras para tolerância à ferrugem e produtividade, correspondente a um porcentual de seleção de cerca de 22%. / Soybean is an economically important culture and Brazil is among the largest world producers. Asian rust, caused by the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi, is a relatively new disease in Brazil and can cause large losses in this culture, represented by yield decreases and increases in costs for fungicide applications. There are some sources of vertical resistance genes for this disease, but there are also cases of resistance breakdown for some of these main genes. Tolerance, defined as the capacity of plants to endure a pathogen attack without significant losses, is a complementary strategy that can be used to control rust. The objective of this research was to study tolerance to Asian rust in experimental genotypes derived from 45 crosses in a 10 x 10 diallel design developed at the Sector of Applied Genetics to Self- Pollinated Crops, Department of Genetics/ESALQ/USP through methods of estimation of the rust effect and of phenotypic stability in combinations of fungicide managements, locations and years, besides identifing promising lines for inclusion in future breeding programs. The experimental designs used were Federer\'s augmented blocks in 2011/12 and 2012/13 and a randomized block design stratified in sets in 2013/14. In each year and location two experiments were performed: management 1, with the application of fungicides to control rust and other fungal diseases, including late season leaf diseases; management 2, only controlling other fungal disease, excluding rust. The contrast between these two managements allowed for an estimate of tolerance. Besides that, the stability based on the best genotype (Pi) and ecovalence (Wi) measurements were also used to estimate relative tolerance between genotypes. In 2011/12 225 F2:7 progenies were evaluated; in 2012/13 675 F7:8 lines were evaluated and the best 225 F7:9 lines were evaluated in 2013/14. The results let to the following conclusions: a) there was clear evidence of tolerance to Asian rust among and within crosses; b) the strategy of comparing different fungicide managements to estimate tolerance (rust effect) was useful, but suffered instability, presenting low correlations among years; c) the methods of superiority or stability based on the best genotype (bmg) and ecovalence complemented the information based on the rust effect and aided in the selection of tolerant lines; d) initial evaluations for rust severity (rust score NF1) had low precision and it was recommended to concentrate on rust tolerance evaluations after longer periods of infection (NF2 and NF3); e) tolerance estimated by means of hundred-seed weights had low correlation with tolerance estimated by seed yield, therefore the combined use of both criteria improved the efficiency of selection for tolerance and seed yield; f) in the simulated selection 48 promising lines were identified for rust tolerance and seed yield, corresponding to approximately 22% selection percentage.

John A. Warden III is one the most mentioned air power theoretic of his time.He has written a number of theories concerning air power and the best way to use this to win wars.The author of this paper gives a short resume of what he consider are the central thoughts in John Warden´s theories. These thoughts result in four factors; Enemy as a system, centre of gravity, parallel attack/concentration and finally air superiority. These factors are then being used to inves-tigate if NATO used Wardens theories during the Kosovo war in 1999.The reason for the author to choose the Kosovo war specifically is due to the fact that NATO during the war only used air power as an instrument to get Serbia´s president Milosevic to the negotiation table but also the fact that this would turn out to be quite a challenge for NATO.The conclusion is that out of the four factors only one is traceable throughout the entire operation, and that is air superiority. Regarding the other three factors they can only be found in parts of the operation. / John A. Warden III är en av de mest omskrivna luftmaktsteoretikerna under sin tid. Han har lagt fram ett antal teorier för vad han anser är bästa sättet att använda luftmakt för att vinna krig. I uppsatsen ges en sammanfattning av vad författaren anser vara de centrala tankarna i hans teorier. Dessa utmynnar i fyra begrepp; fienden som ett system, tyngdpunktsbegreppet,parallell attack och kraftsamling samt luftrumskontroll. Dessa begrepp står sedan somutgångspunkt för en fallstudie av NATO:s luftmaktsanvändning under Kosovokriget 1999.Undersökningen syftar till att undersöka om NATO använde sig av John Wardens luftmaktsteorier under kriget.Varför författaren har valt just Kosovokriget beror bland annat på att NATO under kriget enbart använde sig av luftmakt för att få Serbiens president Milosevic till förhandlingsbordet samt att det också visade sig bli en stor prövning för dem.Slutsatsen blev att av de fyra utvalda faktorerna så var det endast en som NATO visade sig foku-sera på under hela operationen, detta var luftrumskontroll. Vad gäller de övriga tre faktorerna finner författaren att NATO använt sig av dessa i stort sett bara under slutskedet av operationen.

The influence factors which lead business to success or failure could be very different because of the different times¡Bdifferent industries and different competitive environment. People can also find out the different competitive capacity coming from different organizational cultural¡Adifferent business team structure or different leadership of the business. Up the present , there were so many scholars and experts of business management advocated unanimously the importance of ¡uknowledge innovation¡v ¡B ¡ustrategic human resource management¡v and ¡uorganization competence¡v. Those theories initiated my highly attempt to find out the practical situation of those theories on the rubber industries. This is the origin of writing this thesis. After further research about the rubber industries and according to the interviews and analysis of the company A¡AI am trying to approach the following subjects from the angles of the knowledge innovation¡Bthe strategic human resource management and the organization competitive capacity. 1. The relevance of the knowledge innovation and the strategic human resource management. 2. The relevance of the knowledge innovation and the organization competence. 3. The relevance of the strategic human resource management and the organization competence. 4. The relevance between the knowledge innovation¡Bthe strategic human resource management and the organization competence. 5. The practical applied model for building up the business competitive capacity. This study is using three methods to approach the studying purpose which including¡G1. literature study and sort out 2. the case study 3. interviews. There are four final conclusions of this study which are¡G 1. The strategic human resource management supply qualified manpower to all departments of the organization which also help the progress of the benign cycle of innovation. 1. The balanced development of innovation capacity of every single department the the organization causes continued and long term expanding on it¡¦s entire business competitive capacity. 2. The strategic human resource management directly and strongly relate the business competitive capacity. 4. The Lean strategic human resource management promote the organizational innovation capacity and strengthen itself with continued competitive capacity. In the meanwhile, also discovering five valuable theories as below: 1. The leader of a organization is the rudder of continued innovation spiral. 2. The strategic human resource management prevent the organization from grim or in-harmony atmosphere. 3. The business competitive capacity basic on good strategic human resource management, and be driven by balanced innovation capacity. 4. The management which meets the human demands is the source of innovation. The education which fills up the human lackness strengthen the business competitive capacity. 5. The relevant between the innovation capacity¡Bthe strategic human resource management and the business competitive capacity could be converted due to differences of countries, races, religious believes, generations, personnel structure¡Ketc.

This study explored the relationship between self-development as evidenced in the domain of narcissism and the process of vocational development as evidenced in career values, planning, and decisiveness/self-efficacy. It was suggested that this relationship would be impacted by family birth order and gender. Heinz Kohut's theory of self-psychology was utilized to understand narcissism from both an adaptive and maladaptive, developmental perspective. A review of narcissism and self-development theories was included to provide a comparative and comprehensive approach. Literature indicated that the development of narcissism was influenced by birth order and gender. Additionally, a review of the literature suggested a connection between Kohut's theory of the self and narcissism and aspects of the career development process, such as planning, decision-making, and occupational values. The sample consisted of 346 undergraduate students. Structural Equation Modeling was performed to test causal hypotheses. The major findings of the current study were that superiority (a measure of grandiosity) predicts altruistic career values and career decisiveness. Superiority is a slightly better predictor of altruistic career values than decisiveness. Additionally, goal instability (idealizing) predicts altruistic career values and career decisiveness. Goal instability had a predictive value that was nearly three times stronger for decisiveness. The results indicated that birth order and gender were not moderator variables in examining the relationship between goal instability and superiority. This study provided insight into the relationship between narcissism and the vocational/career development processes. These relationships may be important for career counselors and other related professionals. These findings may encourage counselors to assess and understand a client's narcissistic tendencies and individual representations when assisting in the career development process. A client's values regarding career options, along with his/her associated self-efficacy and ability to make important decisions, appear to be factors to consider when counseling an individual through vocational/career development. Limitations of the study were addressed and directions for further research discussed.