In this report a study is carried out with the aim to identify added values of EPC projects implemented in schools in order to increase the interest of EPC projects on the market. The report examines how the planned maintenance, supervision, maintenance and corrective maintenance is affected, how insurance premiums and terms are affected, the indoor environment and how the tasks of the operating staff is changing. A literature study of energy savings, energy use in schools, maintenance and insurance as well as how energy efficiency improvements are related to the Swedish environmental objectives has been made. Visits were carried out in Ludvika, interviews were also carried out with operation technicians and local strategists in Ludvika as well as employees of insurance companies.Schools often have neglected maintenance and problems with ventilation and indoor environment. Schools also have a large energy saving potential due to their low utilization, mainly because they are empty parts of the year.

In Kenya the Maasai pastoralists have based their livelihoods on dairy production and the production goal is to maintain a sufficient milk supply throughout the year. The pastoral dairy production has two vital characteristics; breeding and milking. Traditionally, breeding is the men?s responsibility, while milking is the duty of women. Depending on this partition of chores between men and women, they also have different management routines, ambitions and strategies regarding the milk production.

There is now a trend to move closer to the customer in the form of long-term and lastingrelationships. The market today is characterized by growing competition with new playersconstantly arising. In order to gain competitive advantage with the increasingly challengingmarket, companies require to place the customer in the centre. Being close to the customerand engage in successful efforts to create customer loyalty has become a critical successfactor in many businesses. Especially when the customers in today's market is becomingincreasingly unfaithful and continuously looking for new companies with new productofferings.Many companies have now also realized the importance of trying to retain existing customersas it is more profitable than constantly trying to acquire new ones.

Gastric and intestinal disorders are common and costly human health problems worldwide. Helicobacter pylori are a gram-negative, pathogen bacteria and the most common cause of duodenal and gastric ulcer in the stomach the intestinal mucosa. Prolonged infection and colonization can lead to chronic gastritis and stomach cancer. H. pylori are present in the gastric and intestinal mucosa of half of the world population and a relation between infection and low socioeconomic status has been shown.

SAMMANDRAGDenna rapport är en del i ett examensarbete på byggingenjörsutbildningen vid Chalmers Tekniska Högskola. Som komplement till rapporten finns ritningar på idéförslag samt ett program som beskriver byggnadens nutida utformning samt kraven på en ombyggnad.I denna rapport utreder vi möjligheterna att bygga om den befintliga järnvägsstationen i Mellerud till ett modernt resecentrum, på uppdrag av Melleruds kommun. Rapporten behandlar flera olika grundläggande lösningarav utformningen. Med dessa som utgångspunkt utformas sedan de olika delarna i den bästa av de grundläggande lösningarna. Målet med rapporten är att utforma ett resecentrum som tillgodoser resenärernas behov.

Arbetet handlar om stationssamhället Vinslöv som står inför en förändring. Förändringen innebär att det kommer ske en försämring av kollektivtrafikens utbud. I dagsläget erbjuds både buss- och tågtrafik, men inom en snar framtid kommer tåget att utgöra enda möjligheten. Problematiken kring kollektivtrafiken har stort inflytande på studien och var också utgångspunkt till valet av Vinslöv. Järnvägen är återigen i fokus i samhällsplaneringen och Trafikverket har framställt många genomarbetade dokument för att försäkra sig om att järnvägen utvecklas till ett hållbart, säkert och smidigt transportmedel. Det finns också mål på nationell nivå som måste uppfyllas när det gäller tågtrafiken. Detta arbete ger en sammanfattande bild av den problematik och de regler som finns utmed järnvägen.

About 80 % of all Swedish dairy cows are kept in tie-stalls, but loose housing is increasing, probably because it is more profitable for the farmer. The design of the floors is of cruicial importance to the cows well-being. Traditionally, the most common type of floor in the alleys of a cubicle system still is a slatted manure-draining floor made of concrete. The typical Swedish design has 125-mm slats and 40-mm slots, maximally. With too wide slots, there is an increased risk of injuries to the claws when the cow makes a hasty move.

The milk production has developed rapidly the last years. The milk production per cow is increasing and the production units are larger with an increasing number of animals and a decreasing number of workers. Many milk producers invest in automatic milking systems (AM) to meet this change. In these systems the cows can voluntary decide milking frequency and usually the milking frequency are higher than two times per day. But how does the milking frequency effect the composition of the milk? The aim of the present study was to study the effect of milking frequency on the milk composition and the milk fat quality.

Horses are by nature herbivores, specialized on grass, and graze during the main part of the day. The horse has neither changed this basic behaviour nor the function of gastro-intestinal tract, when the horse was domesticated by man. A horse on pasture has an even production of saliva and gastric acids. The buffering effect of the saliva makes the pH in the stomach above four throughout most of the day. With abnormal long breaks of eating, the pH may decrease, causing an increased risk of gastric ulcer.

A shorter dry period length has in studies abroad showed some positive effects among high yielding dairy cows. Among other things it has been suggested that the periparturient metabolic stress becomes lower, that the fertility is improved and dry off becomes gentler for the udder, due to a lower milk yield. The milk yield is generally reduced during the first period after calving, especially among primiparous cows. The aim of this master thesis was to investigate how Swedish cows were affected by a shortened dry period, regarding milk yield, metabolism, health, body condition and body weight from two months before calving to some weeks after calving. Also plasma concentration of lactose during the period before calving was determined.

Outdoor advertising is not very often discussed within city planning even though the commercial messages occupy much of public space. The advertising signs affects not only the physical environment but also social life. In this report I would like to acknowledge and question the presence of advertising in our everyday environment. Outdoor advertising is not a new phenomena, technical progress however, results constantly in new expansions in the environment. Today advertising occurs in all sorts of shapes in the cities, both as free standing signs and as signs attached to facades, incorporated in city furniture such as bus shelters and on vehicles moving along the city streets. Grouping advertising into two categories; local and national, reveals that the different categories have different impact on public space.

The Baltic Sea is threatened by eutrophication that largely is due to nutrient leaching from farmland within the catchment area. To solve this problem the surrounding countries cooperate within various configurations such as HELCOM and the EU-financed project Baltic Compass. Poor manure management in Russia has been discussed frequently the last couple of years. A literature review of different types of reports and legal acts is the core of this degree project which has been performed in connection to two ongoing research projects financed by EU (Baltic Compass) and SIDA. It is supplemented with interviews with Swedish agricultural consultants and travel reports from two occasions when I had the opportunity to discuss with Russians active within the agricultural sector. Different hypotheses were investigated and discussed. The environmental debate in Russia is quiet and there is a widespread approach that economic profit always trumps environmental concern ? a Soviet heritage that influence the Russian agriculture considerably. The Russian legal acts on stable manure management focus mainly on sanitary questions and only secondary on nutrient leaching.

IntroduktionKvinnor som bär på hemofilianlaget har inte tidigare uppmärksammats i någon större grad avsjukvården. När kvinnan har fött ett barn med hemofili har hon tät kontakt medKoagulationscentrum och är själv djupt involverad i barnets behandling. Då det finns mycket begränsat med kvalitativa studier om den anlagsbärande kvinnans situation är det av betydelseatt sådan forskning genomförs. När större förståelse för kvinnans erfarenheter och hennes livssituation uppnåtts finns möjlighet att kvalitetssäkra vården till de anlagsbärande kvinnorna. Utifrån resultatet som kan komma fram av studien hoppas författaren att det skallfinnas underlag för att i framtiden strukturera upp patientundervisning, bemötande och stödtill de anlagsbärande kvinnorna.

Lake Bornsjön is situated 30 km southwest of Stockholm in a rift valley lake and consist three basins outstretched in northwest-southeast direction. The surface area is 6,7 km2 with a maximum depth of 18,3 meters, a mean depth of 9,8 meters and a retention time of the water of 6,5 years. The drainage area is 42 km2 and consists mainly of arable land (ca 1000 ha) and productive forestry land (2500 ha), but in the drainage area there are also restored and fairly newly constructed wetlands.Today the Stockholm area receives its drinking water from Lake Mälaren, but if there would be any pollution of this source, Lake Bornsjön would act as the water source. The area surrounding the lake was bought already in 1899 by Stockholm Stad for protection of the lake and was taken over 1993 by Stockholm Vatten AB. It has been a water protection area from 1988 and it was also accepted as a nature reserve in 1995.

Uppsatsen behandlar frågan om inom vilken jurisdiktion ett insolvensförfarande ska inledas avseende en gäldenär som har sitt säte i ett annat europeiskt medlemsland än gäldenärens moderbolag enligt Rådets förordning nr 1346/2000 av den 29 maj 2000 om insolvensförfaranden (IF) art 3.1.Kortfattat ska ett huvudinsolvensförfarande inledas i den medlemsstat inom vars territorium platsen för gäldenärens huvudsakliga intressen (COMI) finns och detta presumeras vara gäldenärens säte, IF art 3.1. Enligt förordningens ingresspunkt 13 bör COMI motsvara den plats där gäldenären vanligtvis förvaltar sina intressen och därför är fastställbar för tredje man. Detta innebär enligt EU-domstolen (Mål C-341/04 Eurofood IFSC Ltd [2006] ECR I-3813) att COMI ska bestämmas utifrån kriterier som är objektiva och fastställbara för tredje man. På så sätt ska rättssäkerheten och förutsebarhet avseende var insolvensförfaranden inleds säkerställas. Domstolen anger vidare att det inte i sig är tillräckligt att moderbolaget kontrollerar, eller kan kontrollera, dotterbolagets ekonomiska val för att sätespresumtionen ska frångås, förutsatt att dotterbolaget bedriver verksamhet på platsen för sitt säte.IF och EU-domstolens avgörande har diskuterats livligt på senare år och det finns stora skillnader i uppfattning om vilken betydelse det ska få att en gäldenär är ett dotterbolag vid bestämmandet av forum för insolvensförfarandet.