The Catholic Church launched several crusades during the medieval ages in order to regain the holy lands and spread the word of God. Their main enemy, the Muslims had grown stronger and needed to be suppressed. This common enemy united Europe under the banner of the Catholic Church. In order to fund these crusades the church turned to the wealthy European kings and lords and asked for funding.

I aim to examine what should be demanded of a constructivistic theory trying to describe the construction of a human belief-system. My claim is that such a theory cannot allow entities in the description of how a human being constructs the world he or she lives, that are not allowed in the act of constructing the life-world. I will argue that the only coherent theories describing this activity ar

A model of the human stereopsis mechanism is presented. As foundation for the model lies a number of ideas that has arisen from redefining the correspondence problem. Instead of establishing potential matches by the detection and matching of some set of ?predefined? features, e.g. edges (zero-crossings) or bars (peaks/throughs), matches are sought by comparing the overall configuration of contrast

Medborgarsammanslutningar har funnits i Sverige sedan 1800-talet och delas upp i folkrörelser, som är av mer ideell karaktär, och intresseorganisationer som sätter de egna medlemmarnas bästa i första rummet. Medborgerligt deltagande i det politiska systemet motiveras med att demokratin ökar då medborgarna tillåts uttrycka sina åsikter. Det svenska systemet har länge präglats av en hög grad av korp

This study is a part of the research project Learning in the ICT-extended university (LiEU), which is conducted by Centre for Learning Lund at Lund University. The purpose of this study is to describe and analyse how upper secondary school students have experienced the Young Masters Program (YMP) and their learning process in the field of sustainable development in the ICT-mediated course with iss

Med utgångspunkt i Malmö Brandkårs jämställdhetsprojekt "Kvinnlig brandman" vill vi genom denna uppsats exemplifiera hur en sådan satsning aktualiserar föreställningar om jämställdhet och kön inom organisationen. Uppfattningarna kring kön och jämställdhet var många, och resonemangen ofta paradoxala. Samtidigt fanns det en slående likhet mellan åsikterna hos en majoritet av personalen i d

The rapid development of China's outbound tourism in European countries is receiving more and more attention from the European tourism industry. The improvements of the national economy, the characteristics of Chinese culture and the strengthening of the economic and cultural bonds between China and European Union countries have all played roles in its growth. This master thesis summarizes Chi

Utifrån hur fritidsgården diskuteras idag vill denna uppsats problematisera och diskutera fritidsgårdens verksamhet. Syftet med uppsatsen är att med en meningskonstitutionsanalys analysera och tolka fyra fritidsledares syn på sitt yrke i en intervjukontext. Denna analys syftar till att finna en kärna i denna specifika fritidsgårdsverksamhet, som nås genom ett sökande i intervjupersonernas subjekt

The subject for this Master's thesis is the mission of the public library concerning target group everybody. Control documents, traditions, norms and trends influence how this is interpreted and how the library's service is being formed. The often very abstract terms used to describe the public library's mission makes it open for different interpretations. We are of the opinion that th

Den 1 januari 2002 bildades myndigheten "Nationellt centrum för flexibelt lärande" i Hässleholm. Myndighetens bildande innebar att flexibelt lärande på allvar etablerades som ett begrepp inom den svenska pedagogiska diskussionen. Syftet med uppsatsen är att studera innebörden av begreppet och undersöka hur begreppet etablerades. Arbetet med att undersöka hur begreppet etablerades ledde

The purpose of this essay was to describe and analyse the tension/conflict between external demands and actual conditions, as experienced (and told in interviews) by employees at two social insurance offices in Scania, concerning their roles in the process of working life rehabilitation. The theoretical starting point is the theory of street-level bureaucrats, as defined by Lipsky. The comprehensi

Utredningshemmet in Hässleholm, Sweden, is a special residential home for acute management and investigative evaluation of juvenile delinquents. Utredningshemmet has, since 1991, used an investigative model, which is based on systems theory. The investigative work is done in close co-operation with social workers, youths and their parents. This study takes into account the youths, who have had a

Our purpose was to investigate which readiness, different sectors in a minor city has to meet honour-related problems. We wanted to investigate how they manage honour-related problems and how the co-operation in these cases is between different authorities. Our questions at issue were: Which knowledge's, experiences there are about the culture of honour, which resources has the authorities and

Japanese animation is a vast new field for the Western scholars of Japanese culture for it is a fairly modern popular culture phenomenon. Being a multi-dimensional cultural medium, anime (as it is known both in Japan and in the West) pays homage to one particular kind of animation, which has been made notorious due to its explicit content and violence in relation to female characters, - "hent

If hedonism is taken to be the view that all and only pleasures are the bearers of intrinsic value whilst also saying that complex things, such as states of affairs, can be ascribed intrinsic value, the hedonic thesis seems to be contradictory. Furthermore it has been argued that the hedonic thesis is inconsistent in its treatment of the notion of intrinsic value in another sense, namely that if t

Problem: Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) is an office within United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that handles procurement for governments, non-governmental organizations (NGO's), United Nations agencies, international finance institutions etc. Annually all UNDP offices and organizations are measured for performance and customer satisfaction in a quantitative Bureau of

The purpose of the essay is to, in retrospect, take a closer look at how the young people experienced their placement for assessment at Albogården and what it resulted in. With this purpose I inadvertently came to look at other aspects, for instance their lives before and after the placement. The underlying questions were: * The young people social situations before the placement? * The experie

Den här studien bygger på semistrukturerad intervjuer med föreståndare inom föräldrakooperativa daghem för att analysera vad styrformen har för påverkan på ledarskapet och hur detta utövas. Bakgrunden till studien är en undran i varför föreståndare uppfattar relationen till föräldrar inom den föräldrakooperativa barnomsorgen som problematisk. Det grundläggande antagandet utgår därmed ifrån att sjä

I denna uppsats behandlas ordföljdsvariationen mellan VSO och VOS i enkla satser i de oceaniska språken samoanska, tonganska och niueanska. En av dessa ordföljder är härledd (deriverad) ur den andra. Denna variation påminner om de syntaktiska fenomenen object shift(objektsflytt) och noun incorporation(nomen-inkorporering). Vid OS har objektet flyttat ur VP, vilket också har hänt i VSO-ordföljden,

The purpose with our essay was to increase our knowledge about what social workers, with experience from working with drug addicts, perceive as the explanations to a person stopping the abuse and succeed in staying drug free. Our framing of the question was: - How do social workers define the term drug free? - How big a roll do the social worker believes she/he has in the process in which a pers