As EU?s authority increased the number of lobbies in Brussels grew. Today there are approximately 15 000 lobbyists in Brussels. EU decisions and EU directives can have a huge impact on companies and organizations. They can however influence these decisions and directives through lobbying.

Since the middle of the 1980´s the Swedish bank market has experienced a change concerning structure and pressure of competition. Before the year 1985, the market was characterized as a market with few operators but have changed to a market with many operators and seen as one of the most intense in Europe where the four major banks; Nordea, Handelsbanken, SEB and Föreningssparbanken together have a strong position. Their market share has recently decreased, mostly for the benefit of foreign banks and niche banks. The Swedish market has experienced difficulties in generating profits which mostly depends on new establishments that have increased the pressure on competition, a low growth as well as weakened customer relations. The development has resulted in a growing importance of market segmentation, mainly by the fact that costumers have become more disloyal as a result of the increased competition.Students are a market segment of interest for the financial market, mainly because of the expectations of their positive financial situation in the future.

Sweden?s tourism increases and new hotel opens. Since 1978 to 2011, the hotel rooms in Sweden doubled. International congresses, sports- and artistic events are a few examples of what affects the hotel industry. Sweden is seen as an attractive destination and future forecast looks to have a positive trend.

Vaccination of fish can be assumed to cause pain. This study was designed to see if we can minimize the suffering of fish following vaccination. Fishes are cold-blooded animals and thus more primitive than warm-blooded animals. Despite this, many organs, e.g. the nervous system, have the same basic structure as that of other vertebrates. The fibre system for conducting pain is more diffuse than in humans.

The Swedish agricultural sector is currently experiencing substantial structural changes, where the number of agricultural enterprises continuously decreases and the average farm size increases. In order to maintain competitiveness, it is important to be aware and adapt to changes concerning the surroundings of the company (Johnson et al., 2011). Agricultural commodity prices sharply fluctuate on the global market in recent years, affecting the profitability of farmers. High volatility market requires tools to reduce price variations and increases the need of decision-making (Bouder & Beth, 2003). Farm-based grain handling facilities increases the sale options regarding agricultural commodities; a flexible strategy to get additional compensation for the storing the grain produced on the farm (Edling, 2002; Edwards, 2013).

Bakgrund: Palliativ vård i hemmet är en ökande företeelse. Närstående vill ofta delta i vården som informella vårdgivare trots att det innebär stor påverkan på deras livssituation. Den palliativa vårdens uppgift är att i livets slutskede lindra och möjliggöra ett så bra liv som möjligt inte bara för patienten utan också för dennes närstående.Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa hur närstående upplever sin situation i den palliativa hemsjukvården.Metod: En litteraturstudie har genomförts med sökning i databaserna Cinahl, Pubmed och Medline. Tolv artiklar valdes ut för resultatet. I sju av de utvalda artiklarna användes kvalitativ metod, i två artiklar kvantitativ metod och i tre både kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod.

Rapid urbanisation is putting strains on both the landscape and the city dwellers and the pressure on planning for sustainable and equitable cities is crucial. As many cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are expanding, city planning has trouble keeping up to meet the needs of the growing amount of urban dwellers. Many cities have also been planned with the cars in focus and the needs and comfort of the pedestrians have been overlooked. The capacity of institutions is limited due to centralized government and bureaucracy, as well as corruption. Planning is erratically implemented and it is difficult to know what will happen.

Syftet med rapporten a?r att beskriva hur fastighetsbolaget, Varbergs Fastighets AB och energibolaget, Halmstad Energi och Miljo? hanterar de risk-, och osa?kerhetsfaktorer som fo?rekommer vid solcellsinvesteringar.Fo?r att energisamha?llet skall na? en ha?llbar framtid kra?vs att elproduktionen kommer ifra?n fo?rnybara energika?llor. Sedan a?r 2008 har installationstakten fo?r solceller i Sverige o?kat. A?r 2012 installerades 8,3 MW solceller och a?r 2013 mer a?n fo?rdubblades den installerade effekten till 19 MW (Lindahl, 2014).

The aim of this study is to investigate how Swedish listed real estate companies use quantitative sustainability measures - mainly sustainability index with a financial focus. Sustainability management is a controversial issue that is used more and more constructive. A sustainable management approach in corporate cunduct is complex and based on a number of aspects of business visions, objectives and daily procedures. The study identifies aspects that are considered relevant in real estate companies where the selection of sustainability indicators is based on the support of scientific research in this field. The study intendeds to clarify how Swedish listed real estate companies have selected aspects and indicators of sustainability management and how these work towards a sustainable development.

We have made a qualitative study where we have chosen to interview a number of respondents consisting of ophthalmologists, eye nurses and patients. The purpose of the study was to examine employees' perceptions of patient-related status and treatment and quality, and meaningful participation in the work. The conducted interviews, we then sat in relation to how patients experienced the visit to the eye clinic and their perception of accessibility and hospitality. The result is then compared against the policy of the Title use of internally and we have also tried to explain what is happening with the help of various theorists. Theorist that we made use of is Maslow, Foucault, Deming (TQM) and Herzberg.

Abstract Titel: Viktiga vardagsmöten - om pedagogens yrkesetiska ansvar i mötet med förskolebarnen. (Important everyday encounters - Teachers Ethical Responsibilities during contact with Preschool children.) Författare: Anette Nilsson Bakgrund: Fokuserar på ?det nära? mötet med barnet, ansvaret i yrkesrollen, i vilka situationer pedagogen kan ställas inför val som utgör etiska dilemman, samt om betydelsen av den vuxnes personliga erfarenhet som redskap i förskolevardagen. Dessutom tas upp vad som är skrivet i styrdokument och i lärares yrkesetiska regler. Problemområdet: Etik och ansvar i mötet med förskolebarnen Syfte: Att undersöka hur pedagogerna tänker om etik, etisk och professionellt ansvar, om viktiga faktorer i mötet med barnen i vardagen samt om betydelsen av tidigare erfarenheter. Frågeställningar: Vad anser pedagogen vara viktigt i bemötandet av barnen? Hur tänker pedagogen om professionellt respektive privat ansvar? Vilka etiska konflikter/dilemman uppfattar pedagogen som svåra? Hur beskriver pedagogen förhållandet mellan egna erfarenheter (bakåt i livet) och sitt handlande i vardagen i verksamheten på förskolan? Metod: Intervjuer med förskollärare i två steg - en skriftlig och en med hjälp av ljudupptagning.

The projects objective is to find an alternative method of heating (the current method being via electric heating) the sewage treatment plant on the island Utö in Stockholm?s archipelago in order to reduce the energy consumption and ultimately the cost for heating the plant. The project is given by ?Skärgårdsstiftelsen? (The Archipelago Foundation) and is a part of the larger EU-project ?Green Islands?.A model for the plants total heating demand is established in order to get a good perception of how much money can be saved using alternative heating methods. The heating demand model gives an annual heating demand of approximately 32 500 kWh and a maximum heating power demand of around 24,7 kW.

This thesis aims at determining the heat losses in a property vent stack and its roof valve. Upon request of a company, the vent stack is analysed for possible heat recovering solutions to be implemented, while relining of the drain system is executed and with a suitable payback time for the economic investments. The heat loss calculations are based on data for properties that are located in the Stockholm region, but also easy to change depending on the situation. The calculations are done on pipes made out of cast iron, which still is the most common type of drain pipe in Sweden, and these are the pipes that relining is usually made on. The calculations that needed to take several variables into account have been done in MatlabR2014a and the thermos dynamical properties that were used in those calculations have been extracted from EES.Three different types of heat losses in the vent stack have been taken into consideration in this thesis.

Introduktion: I det hälsofrämjande arbetet, som är en del av distriktssköterskansspecialistkompetens, är rådgivning en grundläggande arbetsuppgift. Socialstyrelsen menar att hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal i sitt hälsofrämjande arbete behöver ställa frågor om levnadsvanor i större utsträckning än vad som görs idag. Ibland kan det dock finnas skäl till att inte ta upp dessa frågor med en patient. Om frågorna inte känns relevanta finns det en risk att de upplevs som kränkande, vilket i förlängningen skulle kunna leda till skuldbeläggning och obehag och därigenom skapa ytterligare ohälsa. Fysisk aktivitet på Recept (FaR) är enmetod som innebär att patienten får ett recept förskrivet på individuellt anpassad fysisk aktivitet.

AbstractTitle: Environmental demand solutions - a study within real-estate business.Problem statement:Today, the society stands before a permanent accelerated environmental threat. Companiesbecome increasingly over the environmental problems and more companies look over theiractivity and how it influences the environment. Historical the environmental issue has been forgotten and it is first during the end of 1990 the environmental issue intensive has been noticed. Earlier the environmental work?s high costs was the cause, but now the companies realized the weight and the importance of imposing focus on environment commitments and sees it, as an investment.