Strömstad is a small city located on the Swedish west coast. Urbanization and development is acurrent issue for the municipally, as for many other in the current situation. The municipal housingcompany Strömstadsbyggen is one of the parties involved in the extensive development that mustbe implemented to meet the changes and developments which the issue holds.One area that is of interest in the discussion is Rådhusberget - this due to the existing infrastructureand unique qualities that the area holds. In order to achieve the best solutions possible for the area,Strömstadsbyggen wishes to listen to what the existing tenants at Rådhusberget thinks and feelsregarding the area and its future potential.This thesis has therefore been carried out in collaboration with Strömstadsbyggen and has beenaimed at identifying the current tenants' thoughts and opinions in the existing area of developmentand infill potential. The aim of this work was also to investigate how the tenants value their homeand local environment in its current state, and what their wishes are for the possible futuredevelopment of Rådhusberget.To achieve analyzable results concerning how the tenants perceive these aspects, an extensivesurvey have been carried out which were sent out to all tenants in the area.

This study analyzes how civil society contributes to the democratic development in a Nicaragua governed by the sandinist party FSLN. The empirical focus lays at the relationship between state and the civil society. By using a conceptual framework outlined by Caroline Boussard, the civil society is being analyzed as an actor with a democracy-building potential that is supported or constrained by a political context.The civil society is divided between traditional social movement and more newly borned NGOs. Social movements tend to approach the government comparatively to NGOs, which adopt a highly critical attitude. In contrast to NGOs, the traditional social movements are improving their democratic functions as a counterpart while NGOs confine its democratic potential to an agenda setter drawing attention to democratic deficits.

It appears that it has never been easier for the marketer to create and distribute advertising messages. The technical development has created new possible channels, which in addition to the traditional advertising media has resulted in consumers encountering loads of commercial messages every day. Unfortunately for the marketer, the overload of messages has contributed to an extensive advertising avoidance. This forces him to think outside the box in order to come up with attention-grabbing and innovative methods to reach out to consumers. This paper aims to examine if facilities for group exercise classes at fitness centres could be a potential advertising medium due to the unexpectedness of encountering advertising in those premises.

En stor del av spelkänslan ingår i hur saker beter sig och hur karaktärer rör sig. Animering är ett viktigt verktyg för att åstadkomma realistiska rörelser men räcker i många sammanhang inte för att leverera en fulländad känsla av realism. I fall interaktion med omvärlden är av stor vikt kan det vara nödvändigt tillämpa tekniker för dynamisk animation, ett komplext område som har potential att öka interaktivitet i datorspel.Detta arbete presenterar en teknik för att tillåta animation att påverkas av externa krafter såsom gravitation, friktion, kollision och annat. Tekniken bygger på simulerad fysik i form av trasdockor (eng. ragdolls) som animeras genom data från animation och fysikberäkningar presenterade häri.Tekniken testades i en applikation där trasdockorna animeras samtidigt som de utsätts för externa krafter.

In Uppsala, Sweden, Vattenfall has a combined heat and power plant. On the premises there is an engineering workshop with old fluorescent and mercury lamps that need to be replaced. This provides a great opportunity to save energy and money by installing more efficient lighting. The main purpose of this study was to present two functional and energy efficient lighting systems including control system. The lighting systems were designed by investigating the working environment, measuring illuminance and by simulations in the software DIALux.

BDX har en affärsidé avseende återvinning och upparbetning av avfall och restprodukter och har genom BDX Industri en 40 årig lång erfarenhet av återvinning och upparbetning av bi- och restprodukter från SSAB:s ståltillverkning i Luleå. Med denna kunskap vill BDX utveckla nya lösningar inom andra områden i avfallsbranschen. Att hitta nya sätt att återvinna och upparbeta gummidäck är en av dessa både gällande material- såsom energiåtervinning. Målet med detta projekt var att undersöka hur gummidäck kan energiåtervinnas genom förbränning inom regionen och om det är ekonomiskt möjligt att med gummidäck kunna optimera och förbättra nuvarande bränslemixar i avfallsbränslepannor.Till att börja med undersöktes avfallsmarknaden och dess uppbyggnad, vilka regler som finns att förhålla sig till vid förbränning av avfall och vilka egenskaper de aktuella bränslena har. En nulägesanalys av hur insamling och avsättning av gummidäck ser ut togs fram, även hur de avfallsanläggningar som finns i Norr- och Västerbotten drivs och vilken syn de har på däckförbränning undersöktes genom intervjuer och studiebesök.

Human existence and welfare depend on functional ecosystems. Ecosystems are critical to sustain life-support services for human well-being. One method that visualizes that humanity requires ecosystem services for resource consumption and assimilation of produced waste is ecological footprints. This study focuses on the ecosystem service carbon sequestering. A quantification of this ecosystem service showed the potential for accumulation of carbon in different ecosystems in Stockholm and Norrbotten County for the years of 1995 and 2004.

The aim of this study is to review the commercial quail production for eggs and meat in the world. Another aim is to review the potential for increased production. Globally the quail production is very small, except in China where it is the second largest poultry industry. The production globally is small despite the quail's rapid growth, early sexual maturity and its high feed efficiency. The quail is also used as a laboratory animal and can be reared to be released in hunting areas.

2011 Praktik med examensarbete i idrottspedagogik inom Idrottsvetenskapliga programmet, 15 hpSofia Pettersson (2011). Miljön kring Dalarnas damfotbollsspelare ? Vad påverkar deras möjligheter till utveckling? (The environment surrounding female football players in Dalarna, Sweden ? What factors affect their opportunities to develop?) Bachelor Essay in Swedish. Umeå: Umeå university, Department of EducationThe following study investigated the environment in which female football players in the district of Dalarna in Sweden operate. The aim was to identify the elements that affect the players? ability to develop according to their own potential, values and differences.

An attempt was made to GFP-tag the effector proteins of AvrLm6 and AvrLm4-7 using the GFP-tagging gene knockout method (GGKO) developed by Saitoh et al. (2008) in order to determine whether or not they are secreted. Successful pETHG-(target)KO vectors were not generated. The protocol was examined for potential errors. Fatal errors were pinpointed to the ligation reaction and the transformation required to generate and propagate the desired vector pETGH-(target)KO.

This study was performed in collaboration with Moelven Skog AB, Örebro district. The purpose of the study was to review existing literature in order to describe the current status of harvester based measurement technology as the way to provide information for calculating payment to the forest owners. In addition to this, a short survey was conducted to find out how a switch to harvester based measurement would affect the administrative workload on timber purchasers working for the district. The literature study shows that the harvester measurement technology is ready to use if it is combined with well-established routines for control of the harvesters, methods for automatic quality indexing of the timber and ways of creating pricelists specially adapted for harvester measurement. Pricing each stem seems to be the most promising method. Stem pricing has several benefits.

Enligt uppskattningar byggs 40 % av alla projekten på Skanska Jönköping med en prefabricerad betongstomme. Detta kan anses lite i förhållande till Skanska Sverige där ca 70 % av alla projekt byggs med en prefabricerad stomme. I resterande projekt byggs betongstommarna på plats, d.v.s. de är platsgjutna stommar.I och med detta så finns det en stor potentiell utveckling för prefabricerade betongstommar inom Skanska Jönköping, men även för resterande Svenska byggföretag då 2/3 av alla flerbostadshus uppförs med en platsgjuten stomme. I rapporten tas de ekonomiska för- och nackdelarna för de olika stomtillvägagångs sätten upp, hur yttre förutsättningar kan påverka projekten och hur de mjuka parametrarna påverkar den utförande organisationen.

De flesta företag är beroende av att gå med ekonomiskt vinst för att överleva, och vid en medial kris är det därför nödvändigt att minska risken för negativ medial rapportering. Detta för att kunna behålla varumärkets kundförtroende. Syftet med undersökningen var att ta reda på om konsumenten uppfattar CSR som en motverkande faktor för kris om företaget Samsung Electronics hamnar i en medial kris, samt hur en kris kan tänkas påverka företagsförtroendet för Samsung hos kvinnor och män. Seungho Cho och Yong-Chan Kims (2011) studerade CSR och de fann att CSR-aktiviteter samt bolagets nationalitet har huvudsakliga effekter på företagets anseende. De är båda positiva faktorer som dämpade deltagarnas och individers vilja att vidta åtgärder mot företaget vid kris (Cho & Kim, 2011).

A group of companies that only recently has caught the attention of Swedish designers, enterprises and media are the so -called "furniture pirates". In Sweden it?s mainly two companies that have ended up in the spotlight. The online stores Ikon M and Designers Revolt are two companies which currently sell replicas of famous Swedish and foreign designers. Although the designs sold are copyright protected in Sweden, and most other European countries, the right holders can only stand by and watch as more or less exact copies are sold for a fraction of the price of the originals.The business model - to exploit the EU?s free movement of goods and the UK's short term of copyright protection in matter of mass-produced art (industrial design) - has proven successful for the companies that practice it.

The purpose of this project is to analyze earthing systems for houses. By practical measurements and theoretical analyzes consequences of possible faults, that can occur within the facility and in the low-voltage distribution network, is illustrated.  The reason for this project is that nowadays one has to arrange with a main equipotential bonding system for buildings. Apart from that, if necessary, bathrooms must be provided with a supplementary equipotential bonding system.The practical measurements verify that potential differences in facilities may be due to voltage drops in the PEN conductor between the origin of the electrical installation and the power transformer.Based on the theoretical analyzes of possible faults, it is considered that the requirement for  supplementary equipotential bonding systems for bathrooms in most cases can be questioned, when basic insulation, fault protection, residual current devise and main equipotential bonding system already provides an adequate level of protection.A PEN conductor loss may result in a situation where metallic parts attached to the equipotential bonding system starts working as earth electrodes. Equipotential bonding system may also increase the incidence of stray currents. If TN-C-S systems is provided with a local connection to earth a redundant system against PEN conductor loss is obtained.