Det kom allt fler signaler att ensamheten bland äldre har ökat, även att äldres känslor av ensamhet har blivit ett problem som påverkar den ensamme psykiskt negativt. Sveriges äldre generation över 65 år beräknas att öka med ca 22 procent mellan åren, 2005-2010. Ett ökat behov av socialt umgänge bland de äldre i kommunen blev anledningen till att Röda Korset engagerade sig i uppsökande verksamhet. Detta sker med hjälp av frivilliga medmänniskor som besöker äldre som lever i ensamhet. Syftet med studien var att utvärdera hur Röda Korsets uppsökande verksamhet har fungerat för de berörda äldre i Karlskrona kommun.

The scope of this investigation is to decide how and to what extent the energy consumption of apassive house is affected by the users? knowledge and habits. To achieve this a literary study hasbeen made and as a complement the planning of a passive house was completed.The result of a primary study of the rules and regulations that effect passive houses in Swedenshows that the user?s influence on passive houses is a completely unregulated area. Even thoughthere is no regulation, a need for some general knowledge of the passive house concept has beenexpressed.To further investigate how the users? knowledge and habits affect the energy consumption and ifthere is a difference between different households? energy consumption , three main factors havebeen identified.

With the new generation of smartphones the boundaries for what is a mobile phone and whatis a computer becomes more subtle. 2009 the shipment of smartphones with touchscreen morethan double the 2008 figure and the total amount of smartphones is now over 10 % of the totalworldwide shipments of mobile phones. There?s still one problem to solve and that is the lackof web content specifically adapted for smartphones.The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze from a user and usability perspective howto make a successful migration and design of a user interface for an existing web basedsystem so that it also fit smartphones.The paper starts with a theoretical reference material containing examples of differentapproaches for design and migration of an interface.A case study is performed and prototypes are designed with support from guidelines andrecommendations in the theory part.The conclusion stipulates that in the present situation there are no shortcuts when it comes tomigration of an existing web based system for the mobile web. The recommendation is aspecific interface for each different unit that are going to interact with the system.Research that analyzes differences between all mobile web browsers would be of greatinterest, a research that hopefully leads to guidelines for what level of mobile web standardthey should at least support.

The aim of the present literature study was to describe the significant factors contributing to the development of moral distress and the consequences of moral distress can lead to in the nurse profession. A literature search was performed in the databases Medline through PubMed and Academic Search Elite on the basis of in advanced defined criterions. A total of 19 articles was reviewed and included in the study. The main result revealed that nurses experience moral distress and that it is frequent within the nurse profession. The findings revealed that there seem to be several significant factors in the development of moral distress, such as providing life-sustaining care, competing loyalties, conflicts with the physician, communication barriers, emotional barriers, cultural barriers, regulation and rules and working environment that gives the nurse difficult or unsolved ethical dilemmas.

The waste fractions offered to households in Sweden differ depending on where you live. The responsibility for the waste are grounded by the Swedish law where the municipality are responsible for the collection of household waste and FTI are responsible for collecting all packages and papers that the households sorts out. A new waste regulation is under consideration where the responsibility for the household waste may change. The bulky waste from households is collected at recycling centers where the households leave it in different containers for different fractions. These recycling centers are formed different and the fractions offered in them also differ depending on in what municipality they are located.

In February 2002 the European commission put forward a proposal for a new directive on The patentability of computer-implemented inventions, but which during my work on this essay has not been decided on yet. The directive has divided the decision-makers in the union, the commission and parliament, into two different positions regarding by which range computer-implemented inventions should be patentable. The parliament has amended the commissions proposal in a substantial way and the legal process has caused a heated debate both within the unions administration and among various interest groups both in favour of and against a patent on computer-implemented inventions. The loudest protests have come from a group that feels threatened by a possible software patent: Open Source. In this study I examine both the arguments by the decision-makers and by the lobbying for and against the proposal.

En av de vanligaste parasitsjukdomarna med dödlig utgång i världen idag är amöbadysenteri. Sjukdomen orsakas av parasiten Entamoeba histolytica. Den sprids huvudsakligen feco-oralt och förekommer endemiskt i utvecklingsländer med otillräckliga sanitära faciliteter och dåliga hygienkunskaper. På senare tid har den även spridit sig till länder i väst. Man kan urskilja två typer av riskfaktorer; dels de som predisponerar för en infektion, och dels de som ökar risken för att utveckla allvarlig sjukdom till följd av en sådan.

The aim of this thesis was to investigate the possibility of integrating an item tracking systemwith a monitoring system currently under development at Fifth Generation Technologies (P) Ltd.A literature study of RFID technology and the networks ZigBee and MiWi was done. Based onthe literature study a concept for a distributed system was developed.The concept is to have several RFID readers placed in the area where tracking is to be performedand allow them to communicate with each other through wireless communication. The RFIDreaders shall be able to form zones and filter the data that is forwarded from the zones to theservers and thus perform some of the work that the server would normally have to do. Theconcept has been evaluated by prototype development and testing. The prototype uses an ultrahigh frequency RFID reader and a MiWi network.The test indicated some limitations with the selected technologies.

AbstractKlimatpiloterna är ett projekt utformat av Kalmars kommun. Projektets mål är att skapa kunskap kring en klimatsmart livsstil. Studien syftar till att skapa en fördjupad förståelse för deltagarna i projektet klimatpiloterna. Förståelse för deltagarnas attityder och värderingar kring miljöfrågor utifrån moral, ansvar och livspolitik. Klimatpiloternas miljömedvetenhet undersöks genom kvalitativa intervjuer.

The purpose of this thesis is to create a greater understanding of relationships and networks on regulated markets. This includes what the climate are like on such a market and how different aspects within relationships and networks are affected by regulations. By the use of a deductive approach, a qualitative study was performed. This was carried out by interviewing different actors on the Swedish market of alcoholicbeverages. The theoretical framework includes relationship quality, consisting of power and dependence, cooperation,adaptation and trust.

Att involvera användare vid systemutveckling kan bidra till att informationssystem som utvecklas i större grad accepteras av användarna samt blir lättare att använda. Det finns olika tekniker för att involvera användare i systemutvecklingsarbetet. Att dessa tekniker existerar medför dock inte nödvändigtvis att de används. Syftet med arbetet är att identifiera huruvida tekniker som framkommit från forskning används och om de inte används hur användarna då involveras rent praktiskt i systemutvecklingsarbetet. Om tekniker inte används undersöks vidare vilka orsakerna till det kan vara samt om systemutvecklare eventuellt utvecklar egna tekniker.För att undersöka problemområdet har ett antal intervjuer genomförts med systemutvecklare.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explain which factors that affects Swedish listed companies choice of placement for the corporate governance report when the regulation gives different options.Methodology: The chosen research philosophy is positive, research strategy is deductive and methodology is quantitative.Theoretical Perspectives: As support for the dependent (placement) and independent factors agency theory, positive accounting theory, accounting choice, legitimacy-, stakeholder-, and institutional theory are used.                  Empirical foundation:The sample consists of 249 companies. The empirical data consists of the companies Annual reports and Corporate Governance reports for financial year 2011 or when split financial year, 2010/2011. Limitations: A limitation of the study is that it is based on observations from only one year why it is not certain that the results should have been the same if a comparison between several years had been done.Conclusions: The factors size and growth explain the placement of the Corporate Governance Report in Swedish listed companies..

Examensarbetet undersöker hur mastering påverkar den subjektiva musikuppfattningen. Detta har undersökts med hjälp av ett lyssningstest där testdeltagare i två grupper, ?vana lyssnare? och ?ovana lyssnare?, lyssnat till tre versioner av tre olika produktioner i olika genrer. De tre versionerna är en professionell, en semiprofessionell samt en omastradversion. Testdeltagarna har sedan fått betygsätta produktionen ur ett rent ljudkvalitetsmässigt perspektiv samt motivera varför de betygsatt som de gjort.Resultatet tyder på att musikuppfattningen påverkas beroende på om produktionen är mastrad eller ej för såväl ?vana lyssnare? som ?ovana lyssnare?.

Skogen räknas som en förnybar resurs, men avskogning kan ändå drabba även de tidigare mest skogsbeklädda områdena. Avskogning ger upphov till stora koldioxidutsläpp och förlust av ekosystemtjänster. Med återplantering kan dock ny skog kompensera för tidigare uttag och en god skogsskötsel kan ge en resurs som gynnar både dagens och kommande generationer. Investeringskostnader i skogen kan upplevas som en stor utgift för dagens generation, då avkastningen kan komma att infalla flera generationer senare. I Sverige styrs dock skogsbruket av Skogsvårdslagen (1979:429) och i denna studie riktas uppmärksamheten framförallt på återplanteringsskyldigheten.

This thesis was performed at Indusec ABin Stockholm. Indusec AB is a companythat develops security solutions.Together with the Police of Sweden theyhave gotten the assignment to develop anapplication based on one of theiralready existing product Inferno soundbarrier. This application is supposed tobe mounted on a ballistic shield thatthe police use, the application consistsof a speaker box (the sound barrier) anda trigger with wire. The trigger withwire is the part that will be addressedin this thesis. The application willthen be used as a tool to surprise atarget at various skirmishes.The project consists of three majorphases, pre-study, concept generationand modeling.