The EU market is being deregulated, which sees Swedish farmers that have traditionally been governed by different support systems being forced to adapt to a free market system and having to deal with the concept of supply and demand. The farming sector has during the past several years experienced harder conditions and the deregulation of the market has directly affected farmers. The need for entrepreneurs and that way of thinking has been identified (McElwee, 2006). Swedish farmers are neither familiar with a free market or being required to think in an entrepreneurial manner, does this therefore implicate that Swedish farmers are not entrepreneurs?LRF is a national farmers? organization in Sweden and functions as a support for Swedish farmers.

Summary:The Clinical Training Center at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala uses new methods for educating and training veterinary students. Among these methods are computer programs. The aim of this study was to create an interactive application based on data from horses CT-scanned at the Center for Medical Image and Visualization at Linköping University Hospital. The purpose of this application is for veterinary students to be able to use multidimensional visualization to study equine anatomy. The resulting application named "EQUINE VIRTUAL ANATOMY - Flash in the Tunnel" consists of data from six heads, one left foreleg and a wooden dalahorse.

Objective: In this thesis, we assume that the organizations' interests are governing their behavior/positions. It seems possible to draw conclusions about organizations'interests on the basis of the behavior / positions that will appear in the givenopinions on Swedish Public Investigations. The purpose of this thesis is toidentify self-interests of the studied organizations as they appear in their givenopinions.Method: The authors have made a qualitative and quantitative study of the opinions.Theoretical perspective: The basis of the study is the organization theories that focus the self-interest oforganizations.Empiric: Information is taken from four Swedish Public Investigations: the New Company Act, International Accounting for Swedish companies, Abolition of the audit requirement for small and medium sized enterprise and Simplified accounting. Altogether 310 opinions have been given on these, out of which we have studied 59. Furthermore, we have collected information on tasks, activities and objectives from the websites of the opinion giving organizations.Conclusions: In the literature, we found, as mentioned, that organizations havet hree self- interests which we define as general self-interests.

This thesis attempts to describe the application of variation theory, as developed by Ference Marton, at a Swedish primary school, intermediate level. The aim of the thesis was to investigate some aspects of a learning process. The students were introduced with the theme of ?sustainable ecological development?. This included theoretical and practical knowledge of the art of sustainable living.

The purpose of this report was to investigate to which extent local presence of large herbivore mammals (Alces alces, Cervus elaphus, Capreolus capreolus, Dama dama and Sus scrofa) covaries with small rodents (Myodes glaerolus, Apodemus flavicollis and Apodemus sylvaticus? The hypothesis was that high abundance of wild ungulates would inhibit the density of small forest rodents. The data was collected during field work within FoMA (Environmental Monitoring Assessment)/SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Science). The Ungulate dropping inventory and rodent trappings, which is the base in this report, where performed 2012 ? 2014 in Gnesta/Nyköping municipalities (G/N) with a relatively high density of wild ungulates and Vetlanda/Växjö municipalities (V/V) with relatively lower wild ungulate density.

Den forskningsgrupp som vid Högskolan i Skövde bedriver forskning om neurala nätverk, har nyligen köpt in en ny beräkningsmaskin, dedikerad för simuleringar av dessa neurala nätverk. Maskinen är en Sun Enterprise 4000, en MIMD-maskin med 6 st UltraSparc CPUer.Det finns behov av nya verktyg, som underlättar utveckling av ANN modeller till denna maskin, och som dessutom utnyttjar maskinens parallellitet. Detta verktyg ska uppvisa så god prestanda som möjligt. I denna rapport studeras förutsättningarna för ett sådant verktyg.Av de tänkbara metoder som kan användas för att parallellisera en nätverksimulator, är troligtvis epokbaserad parallellisering den som ger högst prestandaökning på en MIMD-maskin. Detta beror på att den inte kräver lika täta synkroniseringar som exempelvis en neuronbaserad parallellisering.En implementation av den epokbaserade metoden har skett, både med och utan parallelliserad summering av viktförändringar.

Headwater streams are affected by anthropogenic impacts at multiple scales. One aspect of human impact is sediment transport associated to the abundance of stream structures as large woody debris and the composition of the riparian zone from forest to agricultural landscapes. Riparian buffer zones and stream structures like dead wood are considered as generally important structures for protection against an increasing amount of sediment particles in the water. Hence, in this study these structures were quantified in thirty different stream segments on land and in the water. To measure the transport of sediment Whitlock-Vibert boxes were used in three different types of landscapes; forest, transition and fields. The boxes were left in the stream segments for three months, the taken up and dried and weighed. The results showed that the transition-land in Frösvidalsån had the highest sediment transport. The second highest transport of sediment was in Blackstaån at the fields.

What attribute affects salience on a political agenda? How come some reforms are implemented while others are not? These are essential and central questions for our society. Our society, our democracy and our everyday life are dependent of these factors; communication is the condition. In the 2011 budget from the Swedish conservative government, the question of lowering the VAT on restaurant- and catering services was the single most debated reform. This was occasioned from 2009 when the European Union allowed, for the first time since Swedish entry in 2005, a lower VAT on restaurant services.

Immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia (IMHA) is an immune-mediated destruction of erythrocytes and is one of the most common haematological diseases diagnosed in dogs. The haemolysis is a type II immunoreaction and is initiated by IgG or IgM antibodies or complements. This retrospective study includes 63 dogs suffering from primary IMHA. The study was based on information from records from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences in Uppsala and from the Animal Hospital in Strömsholm. The aim of the study was to evaluate the progress of the disease, treatment and the prognostic factors in different breeds, gender and age. Following criteria were used for the dogs to be allowed in the study: the dogs were diagnosed with anaemia, the anaemia was regenerative and autoagglutination and/or spherocytes were seen in the blood. About 50 % of the dogs in the study were diagnosed with IMHA within 2-6 years of age. Wire-haired dachshund was remarkably one of the most common breeds in this study together with Cocker and Springer spaniel.

A Biogas plant in SLU?s (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) management sustains to behave in con-nection with the new animal stables at Lövsta. There will primarily manure from stables that rot to biogas. The biogas plant will also have the capacity that rot others substrates that can arise in the farm operation. The aim with the biogas plant is to produce non fossil electrical and gas heat for own customs, to reduce smell impact from stables and to make possible different types of research investments within the area.This study has implemented multiple cases study of different investment scenarios.

Under hösten 2003 skrev jag tillsammans med en annan student vid Lunds universitet en C-uppsats om hur långtidsarbetslösa upplever sin situation. I denna uppsats nystar jag vidare på denna tråd för att undersöka några arbetslösas upplevelser av sina behov av stöd och hjälp som arbetssökande och sätta detta i relation till deras upplevelse av de arbetsmarknadspolitiska åtgärder de möter och intentionerna bakom dessa åtgärder.För att närma mig en förståelse angående detta har jag utgått från arbets- och utvecklingscentra som idag arbetar för att slussa arbetslösa personer genom rådgivning och praktik till arbete.Då jag är intresserad av att lyfta fram arbetslösas beskrivningar och önskemål vad gäller arbetsmarknadsåtgärder har en kvalitativ studie utförts. Åtta djupintervjuer har genomförts, sex med arbetslösa personer inskrivna på arbets- och utvecklingscentra, resterande två med tjänstemän som arbetar med arbetsmarknadsfrågor. Utifrån utarbetat material har analysen delats upp i olika teman. Det teoretiska perspektiv som anlagts på denna studie är hämtat i Göran Ahrnes teori om vardagsverklighet och struktur, nätverksmodellen så som den beskrivits av Marianne Liedholm och Göran Lindberg, samt två processer presenterade av Bengt Furåker; dekommodifiering och rekommodifiering.Arbetet med att skapa program och förberedande insatser för individer som står utanför arbetsmarknaden är en process som hela tiden står under förändring.

Plant survival, plant damage and height growth were studied in nine wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) plantations in southern Sweden established between 2000 and 2002. All stands were located to the county of Småland. The survey was conducted during May and June in 2007. During the survey the height, diameter and quality of the cherry trees were recorded. In one stand, red ? berried Elder (Sambucus racemosa L.) was a dominant species.

This is a bachelor thesis about arable land in Varberg, from sustainability and it?s relation to local government and management. Arable land has become more important as a natural resource from a global point of view and in concerns of higher demands of food supply, as a result of population growth, higher consumption worldwide and climate change. But the arable land in Sweden is being exploited an increasingly rapid pace and the arable land in Varberg is not an exception of this development. The issue is most topical and the discussion holds questions about a declining agricultural sector, the formal and administrative protection of arable land and because other interests of land use often is given higher priority in community development and planning.

I sin iver att förbli konkurrenskraftiga väljer idag många företag att outsourca de aktiviteter man inte anser tillhöra kärnverksamheten. Human Resources (HR), dvs. en organisations olika personalfunktioner, är en av de verksamheter som numera i allt större utsträckning läggs ut till externa leverantörer.Denna studies syfte var att ur ett arbetslivspedagogiskt perspektiv, problematisera företeelsen outsourcing av HR, vilket har genomförts genom en kvalitativ litteraturstudie. En kritisk och ifrågasättande inläsning av forskning på området, med fokusering på kompetensbegreppet, har kompletterats med teorier kring lärande och kontextuella villkor.Detta har bland annat utmynnat i slutsatser som att outsourcing av HR rymmer både potentialer och paradoxer. Den främsta potentialen ligger i att man genom outsourcing möjliggör för ett samarbete som kan ge ett vidgat perspektiv på verksamheten och dess medarbetare för både moderföretaget och dess leverantör.

En systemarkitekts praktik besta?r till stor del av att tolka, beskriva och strukturera verksamhetsprocesser och -information som underlag fo?r fo?ra?ndrings- och utvecklingsarbete, oftast med sto?d av it-system. Professionen betraktas traditionellt som en teknisk ingenjo?rskonst. Men de problem jag sta?lls info?r som arkitekt handlar inte enbart om att designa tekniska system och kommunikation mellan maskiner, utan minst lika ofta om att hantera utmaningar relaterade till mellanma?nsklig kommunikation i komplexa situationer.Vad ha?nder om vi fokuserar pa? denna andra del av arkitektens praktiska kunskap? Denna magister- uppsats handlar om spra?kets och kommunikationens roll i kontexten av ett systemutvecklingsprojekt.