A large part of Sweden?s green, urban landscape is covered by lawns. Approximately 80 000 ha of maintained grass lawns are part of public courtyards, schoolyards, parks, golf courses, sport fields and traffic environments. Beyond this figure, the lawn is also an essential element in most private villa-gardens. Lawns have become a universal phenomenon through the dispersion of landscape aesthetics from the Western world.

Det finns ett problem angående vilka undervisningsmetoder som ska användas för att lyckas höja elevers kunskapsnivå i matematik. Denna studie görs för att undersöka math trails plats i matematikundervisning och då utifrån tre aspekter: de fem förmågorna, verklighetsanknytning och motivation. Math trail är en promenad där olika uppgifter genomförs längs vägen i syfte att upptäcka matematiken som finns runt omkring oss. Math trail kan ses vara en del av utomhuspedagogiken. På grund av att ingen forskning presenterats inom math trail väljer vi därför att lyfta fram forskning kring utomhuspedagogik.

Syftet med studien är att utvärdera hur olika typer av undervisningsformer påverkar begreppsförståelsen och inlärningen. Här jämförs datorsimuleringar med demonstrationer.Studien genomfördes på två grupper i Fysik A i årskurs 2 på gymnasiet, NV-programmet. Innan studien påbörjades hade eleverna haft kontakt med det fysikaliska begreppet rörelse endast på högstadiet. Det vill säga, det som undersöktes var första kontakten på gymnasienivå. Samma diagnos användes före och efter studien.

People have used forest resources in northern Sweden for different purposes. Before the 20th century the forest was used for many different reasons, but during the past 200 years it has become an industrial raw material. The presence of people in the forest has left different kinds of traces in the forests. One example is culturally modified trees (CMT´s). The aim of this study was to study and document how people have used the forest resources during the last centuries in Brännlidens nature reserve, and what kind of traces this land use has left.

This thesis is a part of the DySCAS (Dynamically Self-Configuring Automotive System)project which has the overall purpose of creating a middleware for the electronics in an automotive environment. The thesis has been made with collaboration with ENEA AB who is a member of the DySCAS project. ENEA AB has developed a demonstration platform to test the fundamental ideas which the DySCAS project is built on.The purpose of this thesis was to design and implement a GPS application to be added to the demonstration platform. This was done by adding a GPS receiver to the original DySCAS demonstration platform and designing and implementing an application to be able to extract the information from it. The resulting application is able to present cur- rent position and absolute time to the DySCAS networks as services to be used by other applications or by the network it self.

The knowledge development regarding in-store marketing has shown that influencing a consumer in a store setting is a powerful tool to change the consumer?s buying patterns. However, the store as a marketing channel lacks, in many ways, conducted academic research and according to marketing theory investments into in-store marketing tend to be taken without advanced marketing consideration. As a consequence, we have chosen to generate new insights into the field of in-store marketing by studying in-store demonstrations both from a behavioral and a mental dimension. Furthermore, we have also chosen to study how different consumers with different degree of loyalty and buying patterns are influenced by an in-store demonstration.This study aimed to obtain a better understanding of in-store demonstrations through breaking down the demonstration into its core elements and from these elements construct different types of demonstrations.

The use of vision applications are growing and the demand for integration and connectivity with other industrial automation control devices is increasing. Some businesses that are using vision technology follow US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) regulation concerning audit trail. This thesis investigates the possibility to use vision technology for counting objects, achieving connectivity and to follow FDAs audit trail regulation. A market survey has been used to select suitable hardware and software to be used in the design of an application that is able to count objects and that uses standard industrial network connection i.e. OPC data access and Microsoft?s .NET components over Ethernet.

This thesis is a feasibility study for a future product development project. The purpose ofthis project is to evaluate the possibilities and difficulties associated with the design of anelectric power assist servo for all terrain vehicles (ATVs). The project has been carriedout in collaboration with Nira Control AB. Nira designs and manufactures electric andelectro mechanic products mainly for the motor sport market segment.Nira Control AB is developing a fuel injection system for a new line of large ATVs oncommission. To be able to compete with manufacturers like Yamaha and Honda thecommissioner should be able to offer optional power assist steering.

Syftet med undersökningen är att jämföra elevers förståelse i fysikämnet efter en laboration respektive en demonstration, samt att undersöka elevers uppfattningar om laborationer och demonstrationer. Som grund till arbetet har olika kunskapstest, en enkätundersökning och korta lärarintervjuer använts. Undersökningen genomfördes på 56 elever i grundskolans senare år. Resultaten visar att både laborationer och demonstrationer bidrar till att elever skaffar sig en förståelse för de moment som bearbetas i undervisningen. Dock kan det vara nödvändigt att som lärare välja den metod som lämpar sig bäst till varje undervisningssituation och tänka på att demonstrationer måste planeras väl för att uppnå syftet med dem.

The background to this paper is the fact that many products are demonstrated to show the consumer value of the product. This is generally the fact when it comes to agricultural products, such as tractors. The growing number of models makes this even more import for the retailer to perform a demonstration that really catches the interest of a prospect customer. One problem is that these demonstrations are expensive and many small retailers have difficulties to afford demonstrations of every model. Together with Åhmans Traktorcentrum AB a market investigation was conducted. The company has its primary sales area in the region of Östergötland and north part of Småland. Åhmans Traktorcentrum AB is a John Deere dealer.

Konstruktion av mobil pressutrustning med tillhörande stans- och klippverktyg för demonstrationsändamål..

I alla typer av möten mellan människor kan brist på kommunikation leda till missförstånd och konflikter av olika slag. En situation, där vi tror att detta kan vara särskilt påtagligt, är när polisen möter demonstranter vid en opinionsyttring. Detta arbete undersöker och belyser vilka möjligheter som finns till kommunikation för den enskilde polismannen vid en demonstration. För att ta reda på detta har vi utfört djupintervjuer med representanter inom polisen. Vi har även tittat på vad polisens utbildning i det kommunikativa förhållningssättet innehåller.

Humans have inhabited mountainous areas in northern Sweden since the end of the last glacial period, ca 8000 B.P., and their presence has marked the landscape in various ways. Older traces include the remains of hearths and dwelling sites, but there are also remains, such as culturally modified trees (CMT's), resulting from more recent activities in forested areas. This study aimed to document how people, both indigenous Sami's and Swedish settlers, have used an area northwest of Ammarnäs in Västerbotten, during the last 300 years, and what traces their activities have left in the area. I used historical records as well as an inventory of CMT's in the area to address this aim. Historical records of Sami activity are meagre, but it is clear that the people of the Ran and Gran Sami villages utilized the area long before 1500 A.D.

This report is a description of a developed educational simulator over rail vehicles and its components. The simulator is a hardware-based prototype over a door system on rail vehi- cles. System specialists and technicians will use the prototype. The Simulator should give the user a technical demonstration on how components work in a door system. The proto- type consists of motor, switch, relay and sensor.

Modern agriculture equipment are more computer based today, and many equipments use a terminal in the tractor where the driver have the opportunity to make adjustments to the equipment. This is the reason why ISO developed a new standard called ISOBUS. It is a communication standard based on CAN specially adapted for griculture equipments. The purpose of the standard is that it should be ossible to equip a tractor with a standard terminal called Virtual Terminal that can be used to control the equipment. The use of the terminal should be independent of the manufacturer of the tractor as well as of the equipment.The purpose of this report is to ?nd a solution of how to use CC Systems on-board computer, CCP XS, as a Virtual Terminal.