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.

Bakgrund: Kommunala skolplaner är ett måldokument som ska dra upp riktlinjerna för hur utbildningsväsendet i den aktuella kommunen ska bedriva skolarbetet. En genomgång av skolplaner med textanalytiska förtecken kan avslöja några av de diskursrelaterade föreställningar som ligger till grund för de utbildnings- och elevideal som jag menar framträder i skolplanerna.Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att ge en bild av diskursrelaterade föreställningar och ideal gällande skolans roll i elevens utveckling såsom de framträder i tre kommunala skolplaner.Metod: En kritisk diskursanalys, som ger de textanalytiska verktygen för att skapa en grund för att resonera kring kompetens- och performansmodeller, diskursens förhållande till sanning med mera.Huvudresultat: Den pedagogiska diskurs som framträder i skolplanerna är en där kompetensmodellens ideal hålls högt. Visionen är en skola där man förutom ?traditionellt? lärande, d.v.s. lärande av stoff, utvecklar sina personliga egenskaper: sin kompetens.

Relationen arv/miljö, som orsakande faktorer till sjukdom och mänskliga egenskaper, är oftast komplex. Kartläggningen av människans gener aktualiserar detta förhållande i massmedierna. Denna studie, med utgångspunkt från pressetiska regler, visar att bilden som ges i dagspressen, varken är tillräckligt allsidig eller gör tillräcklig åtskillnad mellan fakta och kommentarer. Det finns en stark tendens till uppdelning, dikotomisering, när orsaksförhållanden beskrivs. Det är antingen generna eller miljön som ger upphov till sjukdom eller mänskliga karaktärsdrag, inte båda.

Introduktion:Den ökade globaliseringen bidrar till ett hårdare företagsklimat i Sverige. Denna utveckling återspeglar sig hos de svenska underleverantörer och legotillverkare som befinner sig i globala försörjningskedjor. För att kunna behålla sin position i dessa försörjningskedjor måste dessa underleverantörer och legotillverkare identifiera vilka aktiviteter och egenskaper som värdesätts av deras kunder.Syfte:Rapportens syfte är att identifiera och belysa de aktiviteter och faktorer som kan ge en svensk legotillverkare konkur-rensfördelar, genom att undersöka legotillverkarens nuvarande relationer och situationer med strategiskt viktiga kunder.Metod:Rapporten bygger på en fallstudie där ett företag har varit utgångspunkt. Fallstudien bygger på en kvalitativ metod som består av intervjuer med fallföretags kunder. Intervjuerna utgör det empiriska materialet som tillsammans med den teoretiska referensramen har legat till grund för analysen.Slutsats:Rapporten slutsats är att det finns möjligheter för en svensk legotillverkare att fortsätta vara konkurrenskraftig trots den globala konkurrensen.

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.

The use of renewable resources is rapidly increasing in Sweden, especially the use of fuel pellets. Through pelletizing the energy content per volume unit is greatly increased and the pellets are more homogeneous with regard to moisture content, particle size and density compared to unrefined fuels like forest residues and chips. For further development of the Swedish pellet industry, the use of different assortments from lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. var. latifolia) is of particular interest, mainly because of its high volume production.

Företag behöver information om kundpreferenser för att kunna bedriva produktutveckling. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur konsumentgruppen svenska studenter upplever känslan av olika textilmaterial samt vilken miljöpåverkan de tror att råvaruframställningen till olika textilmaterial har. Studien utfördes i form av ett taktilt test där 30 försökspersoner jämförde känslan hos 8 olika textilier. Fem av dessa textilier fanns i fyra olika tvättningsgrader. Under testet fick personer-na sortera in proverna i grupper efter liknande egenskaper samt ge dessa grupper en komfort-poäng samt adjektiv som de tyckte beskrev känslan i gruppen.

Studiens tvådelade syfte motiveras utifrån rådande oenighet och förvirring kring hur gruppkohesion bör definieras och mätas. Det första syftet var att konstruera och testa ett formulär avsett att mäta olika typer av kohesion. Formuläret kom att innehålla 12 olika aspekter av kohesion baserade på tidigare studiers konceptualiseringar av begreppet. Formuläret undersöktes (N=404) utifrån frågeställningen: Vilka psykometriska egenskaper har kohesionsaspekterna i formuläret? Formuläret uppvisade acceptabla psykometriska egenskaper.

Barnlitteraturen är en av barnets första massmediala kontakter. Den tillsammans med annan media påverkar individen i samhället stor som liten. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur barn och vuxna gestaltas i bilderboken, sett ur ett genusperspektiv. Vår ambition var att se hur flickor och pojkar, kvinnor och män presenteras, både med egenskaper och till utseende i bilderboken, då det i resterande samhälle och kultur existerar en könsmaktsordning som bland annat polariserar könen genom att tillskriva dem olika egenskaper, beteenden och utseenden.Vi har gjort en kvalitativ studie och använt oss utav bibliotekets topplistor, under augusti och september månad 2012 i Umeå regionen. Dessa böcker granskades för att sen sammanställas med hjälp utav tematisk analys.Ur empirin gick det att utläsa att i majoriteten av böckerna finns ett tydligt isärhållande av kön och de traditionella könsrollerna lever på så sätt kvar.

The tomato is an important crop worldwide, and in recent years it has received great attention due to its rich content of carotenoids, which in studies indicate to have health benefiting properties. Many studies have been done in this area of research and in how to optimize the carotenoid content in tomatoes and tomato products. The objectives of this essay were to summarize present data in this field. The results were as follows:There are nine different carotenoids identified in tomatoes. Lycopene and ?-carotene are the ones that have been given the greatest attention.

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.

The aim of this Master of Science Thesis is to develop guidelines and improvementsuggestions of RiNOVA Traffic AB?s dynamic speed bump. The project started with athorough pre study of the design and its function to find out how passing vehiclesaffects the dynamic speed bump. The majority part of the pre study was to createnecessary mathematical models to explain the arisen forces and strains.The results of the mathematical models gave necessary information about the designregarding weaknesses and flaws. The most critical ones where those which interferedwith the design?s performance and reliability, and therefore needed to be corrected.These problems where more thorough analysed and discussed with experts before thefinal guidelines and improvement suggestions where developed.The parts of the design that had to be redesigned were the extension springs and thebearing that enables the dynamic properties.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate which apple cultivars are best suited for production of juice and cider. The study was limited to 41 cultivars. Common as well as uncommon apple cultivars were selected from available cultivars in the cold storage at Balsgård, Department of Horticultural Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, SLU.The practical part of the study consisted of the apples being pressed, and then the juice characteristics being assessed by appropriate criteria and methods of analysis. The analyses consisted of measurment of soluble sugars with a refractometer (Brix), titration of total acidity, determination of total phenolic content with a spectrophotometer, estimation of alcohol content by density meters and qualitative taste tests.The study did not account for different maturity of cultivars. Different apple cultivars were pressed on separate occasions, before and after Christmas 2010.

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.

During the 20th century a significant proportion (about 15 %) of the peat-covered wetlands in Sweden were drained to improve forest productivity. Area wise, most of the forest drainage was done in northern Sweden, but relatively speaking a larger part of the wetlands have been drained in the southern parts of the country. Most often, the forest drainage resulted in increased forest growth, but failures were not unusual, and harmful effects, e.g. on species richness, have been a common cause for draining. Ditch cleaning is necessary for maintaining the ditches in good condition.