LKAB är en av världens ledande producenter av högförädlade järnmalmsprodukter och en växande leverantör av industrimineraler. För närvarande bryter LKAB malm i Kiruna och Malmberget. Gruvan i Kiruna kallas Kiirunavaara och är världens största järnmalmsgruva under jord. Den består av en sträcka som ungefär motsvarar avståndet mellan Göteborg och Stockholm. I gruvan finns allt ifrån matsalar, kontor, personalutrymme till verkstäder, krossar, styrcentraler samt transporthissar.

The hospital in Varberg has a somewhat outmoded solution regarding the state of preparedness in its water sustentation. Today?s solution is both cause to a number of mishaps and high energy consumption.The report is initiated by looking into the present situation to get an insight to the problem.Today?s media depletion is measured and analyzed.Furthermore, it also looks into some earlier performed studies. These studies are followed up in order to see if measures have been taken.The report presents a number of arrangements which should be taken, amongst those a minor re-build of the current solution and a number of arrangements which leads to decreased water consumption..

AbstractSurface-water includes different kinds of pollutants from traffic and roads. To prevent these pollutants to reach nearby lakes one can construct surface-water ponds on locations with heavy traffic. At Bergviks shopping centre in Karlstad, two ponds, one smaller and one bigger has been constructed in order to decrease the pollutant pressure from the receiving waters of Kattfjorden. Several heavy metals are essential for plants and animals in low concentration but when they occur in higher concentrations, they become toxic to the organism. The larger pond at Bergviks shopping centre has a sedimentation function so the heavy metals sink to the bottom thereby not releasing directly in to Kattfjorden.

Works on transparent paper, also commonly known as tracing paper, have been described as ephemeral or temporary working documents and they usually number large quantities in archival and museum collections. They have therefore previously been considered of lower priority and can be found in poor condition due to a lack of treatment or suitable storage prospects. In addition, transparent paper can be very sensitive to moisture and reacts by deformation or loss of transparency. Due to the volume of these works and the necessity of treatment, there is a call for simple and efficient conservation methods. A common solution in archives for the treatment of water-sensitive works on paper has been the use of heat-activated tissues as they can be applied without the introduction of solvents. There is little published about the use of heat-activated tissues on transparent paper and is mentioned only briefly in existing literature.

Background: Nerve mobilisation is a controversial subject which has undergone great development in recent decades. Nerve mobilisation is based on a concept of both examination and treatment of the nervous system. Purpose: To study nerve mobilisation as a treatment in physical therapy with emphasis on evidence regarding the method. Method: A literature review. The search was made through the databases: PubMed/Medline, Academic search, PEDro and CINAHL/webspirs.

Xylem Water Solutions AB är en stor del av Xylem Inc. som har totalt ca 12000 anställda i hela världen, Xylem Water Solutions AB huvudkontor i Sundbyberg har ca 400 anställda och ca 50 servrar i en serverhall. Målet med examensarbetet är att som projektledare utföra en förstudie, planera samt genomföra ett switchbyte i en blandad klient och servermiljö med flera huvudmål: Att minska befintlig offertkostnad, minska det dagliga underhållet, se till att de nätverkskopplingar som används verkligen används, säkra upp redundans för både server- och klientnätverkskopplingarna, se till att dagens och framtidens krav för klientsidan samt serverhallen uppfylls på huvudkontoret för Xylem Water Solutions AB i Sundbyberg.Under projektets gång formades en plan och den följdes sedan till att byta från Nortelprodukter till ett nytt, stabilt nätverk uppbyggt av Ciscoprodukter, Nexus 5548P och 2248 för core/serveraccess-switchar och Catalyst C2960S-switchar för klientaccess..

Wastewater handling of private sewage systems has become an all increasing matter. In Stockholm region the 90 000 private sewage systems contribute with larger phosphorus flows to the Baltic Sea than the two biggest sewage plants in the area, Henriksdal and Käppala, contribute together, even though these two plants purify wastewater from more than one million inhabitants. When summer house areas turn into areas for permanent living ? transition areas ? the load on the existing systems increases, systems that already often are unsatisfying. In those areas it is not clear what the best system choice is; On-site systems for single households; Local collective systems or Connection to central systems.

Vattendirektivets (2000/60/EG) krav på skydd och bevarande av vattenkvalitet i vattenförekomster har kraftigt ökat medvetenheten om vattenhänsyn och vattenvård i det svenska skogsbruket. Världsnaturfonden lanserade hösten 2011 tillsammans med skogsägarföreningarna (Södra skogsägarna, Mellanskog, Norrskog och Norra skogsägarna) vattenhänsynsverktygen NPK+ (Naturvärde, Påverkan, Känslighet och Plusvärde) och blå målklassning som hjälpmedel till skogsägare för att ta och synliggöra vattenhänsynen. Relevansen hos verktygen NPK+ och blå målklassning att identifiera och klassificera vattendrag efter vattenkvalitet undersöktes med antalet fiskarter som indikator på vattenkvaliteten. 55 vattendrag i Krycklanåns avrinningsområde strax utanför Vindeln i Västerbottens inland inventerades med NPK+ och blå målklassning i mitten av september 2011. Fältinventeringsdata analyserades statistiskt med fiskartsförekomst från en tidigare elfiskeinventering i vattendragen.

There are two species of voles that cause damage in Swedish fruit production: the water vole (Arvicola terrestris) and the field vole (Microtus agrestis). Both species make the most damage during the winter season. The water vole makes subterranean burrows and cause serious damage by gnawing on the tree roots. The field vole seldom makes burrows and gnaws the bark at the base of the tree trunk. In recent years there have been several reports about increasing vole damage.

The present study discusses the metabolism of ethanol in the human body from the ingestion of ethanol to the excretion of its break down products water and carbon dioxide. Ethanol is a small molecule, soluble in water as well as in organic solutions. It is quickly distributed to every section in the body, where it exerts a direct toxic effect on the cells. Ethanol cannot directly leave the body efficiently so it needs other metabolic pathways. The molecule is metabolized by oxidation, predominately in the liver.

Det här examensarbetet är gjort på Avdelningen för Konstruktionsteknik på Luleå Tekniska Universitet. Det gjordes som en förstudie för vidare produktutveckling åt betongtillverkaren Betongindustri AB. Bakgrunden till examensarbetet är det ökade behovet/intresset av att ersätta naturballast med krossadballast, dels på grund av att naturballast är en bristvara på många ställen men även pga punktbeskattningen av naturmaterial. Det är den självkompakterande betongens färska egenskaper som studeras i form av arbetbarhet samt reologi. Arbetbarheten har mätts på ett par olika sätt så som flyttsättmått medan reologin mättes med hjälp av en ConTec 4 viskometer anpassad för självkompakterande betong.

This master thesis has been performed at the department of Machine Design at KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology. The thesis has been a part of a global development project in collaboration with Luleå University of Technology, Lund Faculty of Engineering and Stanford University. Corporate liaison and sponsor has been Immerse Global Inc. The project was also performed on sponsorship from the Product Innovation Engineering Program, PIEp. The thesis is a representation of some of the contributions made by the authors.The lack of clean drinking water is one of the key issues facing the world today.

Heart failure is a condition where the heart is incapable of providing adequate blood supply to different organs in the body. The underlying causes of heart failure is some kind of disorder in the heart function, and require careful diagnostics. The basic symptoms that arise from heart failure is difficulty in breathing, that aggravate when lying down, and fatigue. The patients? symptoms and impaired quality of life can be in different stages depending on the severity of the heart failure.

Cultural objects may become wet by deliberate water cleaning, water disaster or watersoaked for other reasons. Air drying textile objects and even other organic materials from awater wet state, involves many problems depending on the strong capillarity action of water.Damages and changes such as bleeding of dyes, stains or lines of impurities from watermovement, shrinking or stiffness can occur. Freeze-drying as an alternative drying methodhas often been used for wet archaeological and marine objects, but more seldom for historicalmaterials.This bachelor thesis addresses the issue of whether freeze-drying can be an alternative controlleddrying method for historic costumes. Costumes and related objects are often compositeobjects, consisting of multiple materials, as well as being three dimensional, all of whichwill complicate drying. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether it is possible tohandle costume objects after wet cleaning for drying by freeze-drying, and if damages due tosurface tension of water, can be avoided in this way.

1999 beslutade riksdagen om 15 nationella miljökvalitetsmål. Miljömål 15 heter God bebyggd miljö och det har ett delmål, nummer 4, som heter Uttag av naturgrus. Delmålet strävar mot att uttaget av naturgrus ska vara högst 12 miljoner ton per år. Detta ska vara uppnått år 2010. Definitionen på naturgrus är: Naturligt sorterad jordart som består av sten, grus och sand och har bildats under eller efter inlandsisens avsmältning.