Actinomycosis is a rare, deep-seated infection of the jaw of cattle that include the progressive enlargement of bone structures. It is caused by Actinomyces bovis, a gram-positive rod found as a normal commensal of the alimentary canal in otherwise healthy animals. This paper shortly describes Actinomyces bovis and its ability to cause "lumpy jaw" or actinomycosis in cattle. It will describe its pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and some clinical presentations. The incidence of symptomatic actinomycosis infection is quite low in Sweden today.

It has become more popular to work abroad and companies have become more global than they used to. A big reason for this is due to globalization and the progress done within the field of technology. Because of this aloofness that occurs, a gap between the expatriates? personal life and his or her working life develops. The cases focused on in this paper includes people who are distanced from their private lives at least a few consecutive months but are all aiming to get back when they are done with their individual errands.

We have a business proposal. Instead of the consumers visit the country side in order to purshase we are interested in starting a shop with only regional produced products in the city. We have our base in a part of Sweden called Östergötland, therefore we have investigated the market for such a store in Östergötlands biggest city, called Linköping. The conclusion is that the store must sell food produced in the region. Another conlusion is that the store must be located near a bigger supermarket. Our main selling points are quality and that the food is produced in the near region.

This study focuses on nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe. Anchored in theories that this region historically has been characterized by a nationalism that is based on the ethnic group rather than on liberal or civic concepts, it is the purpose of this study to explore whether these theories still apply in recent times when the region has been liberalized, for example manifested in the entry to the European Union. The research question has been tested through analysis of the constitutions of a number of Central and Eastern European countries in order to investigate what type of nationalism that the states have codified in their basic political documents. The results show that some of the states give expression to the historical ethnic nationalism in their constitutions, which indicates that the theories still are relevant..

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the political ambitions regarding culture inVärmland, and the situation for artists living on the countryside in Värmland. This meansthat the conditions surronding the artists situation will be looked upon. I have chosen thepolitical document Kulturplanen, created by Region Värmland, as my guideline to whatkind of political view there is on art and cultures role in the region. Furthermore, I havechosen Pierre Bourdieu`s theory about art as a field controlled by and under the influenceof different rules within the filed itself and what or whom has the power to act and be apart of the filed. I also use interviews as my method for this study.

The purpose of this study is to examine the accessibility with public transportation in the case of the Umeå Region in northern Sweden. This is done by GIS network analysis where both access to transit stops, as well as access by public transport from stops to destinations is examined. An accessibility index is created from transit frequency and travel times to destinations. The results is compared with population register data to calculate what shares of the population has which levels of accessibility with public transportation. In the Umeå Region there are different levels of accessibility by public transport for different parts of the region, where transit stops in the most densely populated areas has the highest levels of accessibility, as well as stations along the railroads.

ABSTRACTThis C-essay in political science is written by Ingrid Karlsson, autumn 06. Advisers: Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Susan Marton.? The identity of Tornedalen, a study about identities and its affect on the view of the Swedish state.?The purpose of this essay is to investigate the identification amongst the population in Tornedalen and if their identity affects the view of the Swedish state. I am going to look into how people from that region looks upon their identity. Do they consider themselves as Swedish, Tornedaling or Finnish? I have two research questions on this topic: 1) What does a person from Tornedalen consider their identity? 2) If the way the Swedish state treated Tornedalen, from around the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, has affected the way people from this region looks upon their own culture, and if the treatment has affected peoples view of the Swedish state.

The aim of this essey was to find out what kind of help problem gamblers can get at social service offices in the region Västra Götaland in Sweden. We also examined the knowledge regarding gambling problems at social sevice offices and who the head of the social service offices regarded having the responsibility for the question of helping problem gamblers. As a last question we wanted to know if the size of the population in the community had an impact on these questions. Central questions in our essey asked are:How much help does the social service offices in the region Väsra Götaland offer problem gamblers? Who has the responsabilety to help problem gamblers according to social service offices?What knowledge does the social service offices have concerning problem gambling?Does the population of the community have an impact on theese questions?This is a quantitative study made as a webbservey to the head of the social service offices in the region Västra Götaland.

Because of a more globalised world the national states have been forced to make structural changes at both national, regional and local level to cope with different challenges. The regional community has become an important area which has resulted in a policy of more self governing, both for the regional and the local level.The aim of the thesis is to study the relation between regional and local level in the partnerships organisation. To fulfil the aim of the thesis, a case study of Region Skåne is used. The analyse is based on expressions such as cooperation, conflict, power and influence.The result of the thesis confirms that the opinion between the regional and the local level is very different. The representatives from Region Skåne experience the cooperation as quite good because it creates an opportunity for discussions and a possibility to learn from the other actors which in turn creates a qualification in the exchange of knowledge.

Platsvarumärkesbyggande är ett växande område inom platsmarknadsföring som handlar om att etablera varumärken för geografiskt avgränsade områden. Tidigare forskning inom detta område studerar främst länder och städer, och det finns en del outforskade områden. Vi vill därför undersöka hur en diversifierad region kan skapa ett effektivt varumärke genom att finna svar på vår problemformulering som lyder:Hur kan en varumärkesidentitet konstrueras för en diversifierad region och vilken roll bör varumärket ha för att vara till nytta för dess intressenter?Vårt syfte med studien är därmed att ta reda på hur en region bör hantera en diversifierad miljö med många inblandade intressenter för att kunna bygga ett effektivt varumärke. Vi hade också som mål att utveckla en modell som kan ge rekommendationer för hur en diversifierad region kan arbeta med och förbättra sitt varumärke.Med en kvalitativ metod utför vi en fallstudie av varumärket Västerbotten, som innefattar flera underliggande platsvarumärken som orter och mindre regioner.

I Sverige idag pratas det flitigt om hur företagandet kan förbättras och blickarna har i allt större utsträckning riktats mot Norditaliens industriella distrikt där företag samverkar i dynamiska kluster och nätverk. I fronten för dessa står ett så kallat lokomotivföretag. Karakteristiskt för denna aktör är att den är mycket framgångsrik och är djupt rotade i den lokala dimensionen, samtidigt som den är ledande på en global marknad. De viktigaste egenskaperna är omsorgen för den lokala miljön och den sociala funktionen, gedigna yrkeskunskaper samt betydelse för företagens kompetensutveckling. Syftet med studien var att på ett induktivt, aktörsorienterat metodsynsätt studera vad som kan känneteckna ett Norrbottniskt lokomotivföretag och vilken nytta dessa skapar i sin region.

The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline has been a controversial project. The debate was primarily escalated by Poland's strong negative reaction to the project in the spring of 2006 over safety and security and then alternated back and forth in Europe until the approval by the nations most concerned in the Baltic region during the autumn of 2009.In the case study an approach is used that primarily maps out the media image of the various viewpoints that deal with the pipeline and how these viewpoints position themselves, primarily through political and environmental dimensions. Simultaneously there?s an attempt to map out the spatial spread of the media image views as to the proximity and distance to the pipeline in Sweden, Poland and Germany. A key question is whether distance or proximity to a large facility can affect people's attitudes.A parallel focus of the study is to explore the role of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the cross-border hinterland region of Szczecin-?winouj?cie.

Hälsoförordningar som presenteras i styrdokument är ett exempel på styrningsmentalitet och folkhälsoarbetets pedagogik, som avser förändra folkhälsan. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att synliggöra och analysera vilka diskurser om hälsoförordningar som framkommer i Region Hallands interna och externa styrdokument som behandlar mål, strategier, policyer och riktlinjer i det regionala folkhälsoarbetet för år 2014. Analysen av diskurser fokuserades kring individens identitetskonstruktion och subjektivation via maktstyrning från texternas innebörds- och interpersonella aspekter, i avseende att påvisa styrningsmentaliteter och hälsoförordningar som betydelsefulla bestämningsfaktorer för individers hälsa.Med kvalitativ diskursteori och Foucaldiansk textanalys har föreliggande studie analyserat 6st styrdokument, utgivna av Region Halland.Resultatet visar de fyra diskurser som kom till uttryck, genom dessa diskurser antyds det att regionala hälsoförordningar är mål- och vision -fokuserade om en god och jämlik hälsa för alla, där arbetet för att nå idyllen om det hälsosamma folket sker med proaktivt arbete och delaktighet mellan samhälleliga hälsopromotionsinsatser och individers egna levnadsval. Det anses att individens förändringar av levnadsvanor skapas i samklang med autonomi och hög kunskap, och arbetet förutsätter att hälsosamma alternativ finns tillgängliga och genomsyrar Hallands samhällsplanering, budget och samhällsvision. Uppsatsen präglas av en individfokuserad skildring i Regionens folkhälsoarbete, i uppsatsens avslutande diskussion lyfts däremot de textanalytiska diskurserna i ett högre skikt och problematiserar den möjliga samhälleliga konsekvens som diskurser kan ge och hur det kan tolkas ur ett nationellt perspektiv..

I denna D-uppsats studeras förslaget att ersätta dagens län med 6-9 storregioner. Studien syftar till att analysera och diskutera hur detta förslag kommer påverka Norrbottens län, samt jämföra förslagets förväntade effekt med resultatet som har påvisats av försöksverksamheten i Region Skåne och Region Västra Götaland. De frågeställningar som uppsatsen behandlar studerar vad regionaliseringen skulle innebära för Norrbottens län, vad gäller demokratiska och ekonomiska aspekter, med utgångspunkt från Ansvarskommitténs del- och slutbetänkanden, samt Statskontorets utvärdering av försöksverksamheten i de ovan nämnda regionerna. Två regionindelningsförslag identifieras, bestående av antingen Norrbottens och Västerbottens län, eller dessa tillsammans med Jämtlands och Västernorrlands län. Uppsatsen resulterar i att effekter på samordning och resursutnyttjande inte är tillräckliga argument för eller emot regionalt självstyre, att det är oklart om decentraliseringsprocessens effekt på Norrbotten kommer ha den effekt som regeringskansliet ämnar, nämligen att verksamhetsansvar och beslutsfattande ska ligga så nära de människor som berörs av besluten som möjligt.

This study will chart the changeover work, with a standpoint in the SMED-theory, at the company Peter Ernst AB in Värnamo. They are suppliers in plastic moulding industry and delivers to amongst other Saab in Trollhättan and Scania. The company are in a very competitive market, and they have to make manufacturing more efficient and rationalise their costs to be able to compete. A big problem, which the company has identified, is their long changeovers. It brings higher costs, a more stressful work climate and holds back the company from becoming more efficient.Field studies will be conducted on the changeover, which will be observed and filmed.