A trend in modern landscape architecture is to design pedestrian streets so that vehicles and people move in the same area. By doing this, traffic tends to slow down. On the market though, there is a lack of furniture that corresponds to the requirements of these kinds of public places. Therefore, I have designed this furniture, called VOX, which is planned to be used on streets, schoolyards and squares. One objective has been to promote the product to the industry.To achieve this, I have been in contact with people from different professions, which have all influenced my designprocess.

This thesis has the overall objective to develop the optimum sealing system between the retarder and transmission. Today, there is a pressure-relief and two radial seals separation between the retarder and transmission. It has been found that carbon residue formation may occur between retarder axle and seal lips with, in some cases, leakage as a result.We have in this thesis tried to explain the phenomenon of carbon residue, how it is formed and why it can be seen just on the seals? A rig test was conducted where we show how friction, speed, transmission temperature and mitigation phases of the retarder affects temperatures in the sealing environment. Factors affecting the coke structure are reported, together with proposals for measures that provide a mitigating seal environment.

Several studies have investigated the relationship between different measures of innovative activity, such as patent statistics and R&D expenditures and some have looked deeper into the differences between large and small firms regarding number of patents issued per employee or per R&D dollar. In this paper, the objective is to find out if there are any indications of a barrier to entry (due to economical factors, lack of knowledge etc) for small firms to get into the field of patent handling. The approach is to first set up a hypothesis based on some simple assumptions about how firms would make decisions about whether to apply for a patent or not and thereafter use econometric methods in an empirical investigation. The data used for this study are figures on number of employees, number of patents granted and R&D expenditures for the Swedish firms in the pulp and paper industry. The main conclusion is that, based on the analysis of the data from this rather limited group of firms, no such barrier can be seen..

The purpose of this thesis is to construct a marketing model to be used both theoretically and practically when working with marketing in Swedish public libraries. This objective is achieved by first making a literature review of the written works on the marketing of libraries, and then studying the marketing activities at the public library in Bollebygd, Sweden. The theory is based on the marketing mix model the 7 ps, which serves as a framework for the presentation of the empirical result and the analysis. One of the questions posed in the beginning of the paper is how the library has worked with marketing over the past ten years. Through a combination of methods observation, textual studies and interviews the marketing activities employed at Bollebygds library are noted.

Bakgrund och problem: H?llbarhet och milj? har de senaste ?ren kommit att bli en alltmer aktuell och central del av f?retagens strategi och aff?rsid?. Det har blivit mer relevant i takt med att f?rst?elsen kring hur konsumtion och produktion p?verkar milj?n har ?kat. Som en f?ljd av det har cirkul?r ekonomi kommit att bli en process som f?retag till?mpar f?r att f?rb?ttra sitt klimatavtryck.

En av de frågor som diskuteras allra mest i politiken är hur man bäst gör för att öka sysselsättningen och minska arbetslösheten. Den nuvarande regeringen har som mål att Sverige ska ha lägst arbetslöshet i EU 2020, genom en ?modern och aktiv näringspolitik? (Regeringskansliet, 2014). Att detta hänger samman med ekonomisk tillväxt ifrågasätts sällan i den politiska debatten, vilket empirin talar för att det inte heller behöver göras i de flesta fall. Men under vissa perioder har det visat sig att det inte alls är självklart att dessa hänger ihop, då normal eller hög tillväxt inte har inneburit högre sysselsättning eller lägre arbetslöshet.1993 släppte UNDP sin årliga Human Development Report där de beskrev att läget i världsekonomin kunde beskrivas med vad de kallar för ?a new phenomenon ? jobless growth? (UNDP, 1993:36).

The objective of this study was to bring further knowledge to the subject as to what influences students motivation and self-esteem. The study had focus on role that the teachers play in these aspects. The study was done by using both a qualitative and quantitative approach. The qualitative method was interviews based on six interviews with two teachers and four students from two different classes. The quantitative method was a questionnaire study that was done in both classes.

I den politiska debatten är jämställdhetsfrågan ett ständigt diskussionsämne. Även EU uppmärksammar detta och lägger fram ett förslag som innebär att minst 40 % av styrelseledamöterna ska vara kvinnor år 2020. Det finns flertalet internationella studier som undersöker om det finns något samband mellan kvinnor i bolagsstyrelsen och bolagens lönsamhet, resultaten är varierande. Med detta i åtanke inriktar sig studiens syfte åt att undersöka om det finns något samband mellan de två variablerna i de svenska aktiebolagen noterade på Large Cap-listan. Denna uppsats använder sig av en kvantitativ metod. Lönsamhetsmåttet som granskas i denna studie är räntabilitet på totalt kapital och jämställdhetsmåttet är andelen kvinnor, denna information hämtas ifrån bolagens årsredovisningar.

The objective of this study was to investigate how the local newspaper readers felt about reading the local newspaper in a tablet device, such as the iPad. We wanted to study the attitudes from consumers towards tablets and if the traditional local newspaper can be substituted with a tablet device. We decided to use qualitative interviews as our method. The selection of respondents was based upon age, whether or not they had a subscription and if they owned a tablet device or not. We accomplished fifteen interviews with respondents living within the area where the newspapers of Barometern and Oskarshamnstidningen are spread. The study shows that the majority of the respondents who already had a subscription tended to lack interest in changing their traditional newspaper consumption. Their habits of reading the local news on paper were strong.

The purpose of this thesis was to analyse, model and finally generate dynamic vehicular motions in a train. The objective with the analysis was to find important motions for a realistic train experience. The motions from the analysis were then weighted against possibilities for generation in a motion platform.A dynamic motion model was created to model the selected motions. The model was implemented in a simulation environment, more specifically MATLAB/Simulink. The simulation environment was used to simulate the model and to generate outputs to control a motion platform.

Detta projekt görs på uppdrag av Stockholms Hamnar.  Företaget har ett mål att fram till år 2020 reducera sitt beroende av elnätet med 50 procent. Ett led i denna utveckling är den solcellsanläggning som sedan juni 2013 är i bruk på taket till fastigheten Magasin 6 i Frihamnen i Stockholm. Stockholms Hamnar ska nu uppföra två nya anläggningar i Stockholm och Kapellskär.Rapportens syfte är att rekommendera möjliga placeringar av de nya anläggningarna samt att utvärdera den befintliga anläggningen på Magasin 6. Dessutom undersöks optimal lutning på solcellsmoduler och vilken påverkan nedsmutsning har på solcellers effekt.Rapportens första del redogör för begreppet solinstrålning, solcellens princip samt hur nedsmutsning och modullutning inverkar på effektleverans.

Vindkraften är en snabbt växande energikälla i Sverige och hjälper till att uppnå det uppsatta målet att 50 % av den slutgiltiga energianvändningen ska vara från förnybar energi 2020. Den snabbt expanderande vindkraften kräver en god planering då en ändring av markanvändningen sker. I denna rapport synliggörs och diskuteras konflikten mellan vindkraftsetablering och skyddad natur i fjällområden med hjälp av en litteraturstudie, GIS-analys och intervjuer. Som exempel används Västerbottens och Jämtlands län. Även vindkraftsplaneringens framtid tas upp och diskuteras.

Gender is a universal factor that is unavoidable in classroom interaction between pupils and teachers. The principle aim of this essay is to illustrate whether, during the interaction between pupil and teachers still occurs behavior that expresses a gender order. We also want to establish if the ones who attract attention from the teachers is the individual, or if teachers still on a subconscious or conscious level, think of the pupils gender and ascribes him or her some characteristics or qualities. Especially we want to bring out the pupils thoughts and sights of there is a difference on how teachers treat boys and girls. Another purpose we wanted to achieve was to illustrate how teachers work with the concept of equivalence between the sexes, according to Lpo94.Our essay is built on our studies around what teachers think on how they treat the pupils, on the basis of gender perspective.

This essay is an analysis of a three-day participant observation with sensitive people in a house with entity continuity. The purpose was to investigate the possible experiences participants had during their stay. The method used was modified based theory with Jungian application. The investigation showed that the core category was a peculiar atmosphere which the participants related to a different world than the physical. The place? atmosphere influenced the participants and led to transcendent experiences related to a spirit realm.

The aim of this study is to investigate how a number of fathers read and what their perceptions of both their own readingand the reading they experience with their child/children look like. I also want to investigate their thoughts about the importance of reading to children. The study is based upon qualitative interviewswith four fathers who are active readers and have children between 3-6 years of age. The analysis does not offer any generalizations. As a conceptual framework for this study, I used Sten Furhammar?s categories of different types of reading to find out what fathers reading habits look like and what they wish to obtain.