The equine hoof is often manipulated in purpose to achieve a better stride or to reduce the weight on damaged tissue. The living tissue in the hoof can?t store energy as glycogen and is therefore depending on a continuous supply of glucose for its energy production. The purpose of the study was to determine if wedging (i.e. elevating) the heel could influence the hooves glucose and lactate consumption/production. Five standardbred horses were trained to trot on a treadmill without getting physical or mentally tired.

Background: Sweden and the rest of the world went through the biggest financial crisis at the end of 2008 since the 1930s. The major Swedish banks have goodwill related to their acquisitions inside and outside Scandinavia. Swedbank, SEB and Nordea has acquired in the Baltic countries and Russia, however Handelsbanken has established itself in Great Britain. The crisis in the Baltic countries led that real wages fell, unemployment rose, real estate prices collapsed and the number of borrowers who had trouble repaying their loans increased rapidly. All this led to the problem of impairment of goodwill in the Swedish banks that had expanded rapidly in the Baltic countries.Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the application of IFRS 3 in Swedish banks before, during and after the financial crisis, and to investigate the low-downs in the four majorSwedish banks in 2006-2010.Completion: The study is primarily based on the case studies by the examination of the annual reports from all banks as well as evaluation of the interviews.The authors have chosen to makea strategic choice of a small number of cases through the concentration on the impairment of goodwill in the bank sector of Sweden.Results: The result of this study is that there are problems for banks in implementation of IFRS 3 in practice because of insufficient information in the banks' financial statements.Generous estimates used in the calculation of impairment testing.

The Swedish old-age care will in the near future face an extensive need to recruit enrolled nurses by virtues of the demographical development. The generation born in the 1940s will soon retire, and at the same time the rest of the population is growing older. One thing that becomes more important in how to draw more people to the old-age care, is to understand how the ones who allready work there experience their own worksituation.The purpose of this study was to find out how enrolled nurses from two different generations experienced their own occupational role and make similarities and differences between the two generations experiences visible. The topics of interest in our study are the respondents own thoughts about their education, their worksituation today, what they think of the future and how they believe others regard their work. To fulfill the purpose of our study we used qualitative interviews.

Dragonflies are fascinating. The larvae stays larvae from a couple of weeks up to 5 years, it depends on the species (Hansen, 1981). The temperature, nourishment and time of the year also play a role for the growing factor for the larvae. Both Sahlén (1985) and Begon a.o (1990) say so. My report contains information about the branched setae on the front legs from the family damselflies (Zygoptera) and the species Coenagrion.

Mo?ten som forum fo?r att tra?ffas, sprida information eller lo?sa problem har alltid funnits och det a?r en fo?reteelse som finns pa? alla arbetsplatser idag. Da?rfo?r a?r det ocksa? vanligt att alla har en a?sikt om just mo?ten och hur de fungerar pa? deras arbetsplats. Enligt tidigare studier a?r upplevelsen av effektivitet under mo?ten viktigt fo?r positiva jobbattityder och just attityder och emotionella upplevelser av ett mo?te pa?verkar deltagande och da?rmed hur mo?tets ma?l uppna?s.

This study includes a life cycle assessment, LCA, on an ecological produced cotton shirt for the company Reflective Circle, which designs ethical and ecological clothes.Initially were cotton farming and textile production studied to gather basic knowledge about the processes. Since this shirt is being ecological produced in the whole production chain, we studied what an ecological production means, but also how a conventional production works. When this was done we could start to discuss the differences and similarities between the production of the shirt and general conventional production.When the LCA was first initiated, the main focus was on the green house gas emissions from the manure at the cultivation. Thereafter the process steps such as picking, ginning, carding, spinning, weaving and sewing were being studied. The picking is done by hand, but the rest of the processes are handed by machines which consumes energy.

The purpose of this study is to analyze which communication strategies andinformation- and communication channels that Gällivare municipality should useunder the urban transformation to communicate with the citizens. The studyconcentrates on the age-groups 16 ? 24, 25 ? 44, 45 ? 64 and people that are 65 yearsand older. This selection has been made as a segmentation of the citizens and is oneof the essay questions which refers to study the channels that each age-groups prefer.The study is a quantitative one and is based on a questionnaire survey directed to thecitizens and it?s 85 people who participated.

Syfte: Syftet med studien ?r att unders?ka hur ?tta l?rare uppfattar arbetet med ?verg?ngar mellan aktiviteter under skoldagen f?r elever i ?rskurs 1?3 i anpassad grundskola. F?ljande fr?gest?llningar har anv?nts i studien: Hur uppfattar l?rarna att de arbetar med eleverna vid ?verg?ngar mellan aktiviteter i anpassad grundskola? Vilka m?jligheter och utmaningar uppfattar l?rarna i arbetet med elevernas ?verg?ngar mellan aktiviteter i anpassad grundskola? Hur uppfattar l?rarna att de vill utveckla sitt arbete med elevernas ?verg?ngar mellan aktiviteter i anpassad grundskola? Teori: Studiens teoretiska utg?ngspunkter ?r det relationella perspektivet som fokuserar p? l?rmilj?ns utformning i m?tet med eleven. Dilemmaperspektivet lyfts ocks? fram utifr?n att utbildningssystemet st?r inf?r vissa grundl?ggande dilemman som hela tiden kr?ver olika for mer av beslut. Metod: En kvalitativ intervjustudie d?r semistrukturerad intervju och fenomenografi anv?nds som metodologi och metod.

I dagens allt mer virtuella samha?lle sker en stor del av interaktionen mellan individer i forum som inte la?ngre kra?ver fysisk na?rvaro. Vi bildar oss digitala identiteter och kan pa? ett enkelt tillva?gaga?ngssa?tt styra de intryck vi vill fo?rmedla. Denna uppsats bygger pa? materialinsamling fra?n en fokusgrupp, samt enskilda intervjuer da?r fiktiva Facebook-profiler tilla?mpas som stimulusmaterial.

Syftet med följande uppsats är att ta reda på om det ligger någon sanning i Olaus Petris anklagelser mot nunnorna om att de skulle vara fåfänga och att de levde i lättja. Dessutom är syftet med denna uppsats att ge en bild av de faktiska förhållanden och värderingar som levandegjort deras miljö.Med det här arbetet vill jag försöka belysa den ideologiska grundstrukturen i den medeltida klosterrörelsen i Västeuropa för att ge arbetet en bra bakgrund. Det är viktigt att beakta nunneklostrens framväxt i det medeltida Sverige och utifrån detta skapa en bild av hur nunnorna levde där, för att sen försöka se om det ligger någon sanning i Olaus Petris påståenden om att nunnorna i de svenska klostren var fåfänga och levde i lättja. Kan det helt enkelt vara så att synen på det asketiska idealet har varierat? Kan andra värderingar än den importerade asketiska idealismen ha dominerat i nunneklostren?I detta arbete kommer huvudsakligen Vadstena kloster att behandlas.

Mo?ten som forum fo?r att tra?ffas, sprida information eller lo?sa problem har alltid funnits och det a?r en fo?reteelse som finns pa? alla arbetsplatser idag. Da?rfo?r a?r det ocksa? vanligt att alla har en a?sikt om just mo?ten och hur de fungerar pa? deras arbetsplats. Enligt tidigare studier a?r upplevelsen av effektivitet under mo?ten viktigt fo?r positiva jobbattityder och just attityder och emotionella upplevelser av ett mo?te pa?verkar deltagande och da?rmed hur mo?tets ma?l uppna?s.

Kra?nkande behandling och mobbning a?r ett stort problem i skolorna idag, na?got som ba?de Skolverket (2002), Myndigheten fo?r skolutveckling (2003) och barnombudsmannen Lena Nyberg (2005) har uppma?rksammat. Syftet med studien a?r, mot denna bakgrund, att underso?ka na?gra fo?ra?ldrars erfarenheter av samverkan med skolan i arbetet att fo?rhindra kra?nkande behandling och mobbning av deras egna barn. Studien syftar a?ven till att belysa fo?ra?ldrars roll som en resurs i va?rdegrundsarbetet generellt.

Artificiella solljusbilder kan ge positiva ka?nslor och upplevas som naturligt solljus i interio?ra miljo?er. I en tid da?r ljusniva?er och standardva?rden prioriteras blir det unika och intressanta allt viktigare i ljusdesignen. Utifra?n ma?nniskans tendens att fo?redra det naturliga kan ett artificiellt ljus som imiterar det naturliga ocksa? ge va?lma?ende och harmoni fo?r oss.

Heart failure is an illness that requires life-long treatment and often affects everyday aspects of a person?s life. Self-care is a significant part of the treatment. Good self-care resources make it possible for people with heart failure to make the lifestyle changes they often need to maintain or improve their level of health. Self-care means having knowledge of and being able to recognize the symptoms and signs of deterioration that can occur with heart failure, so that the person can take appropriate measures ? and it also means knowing when it is time to seek professional help.

The previous research in the field of new religious movements has mostly focused on the spectacular parts where phenomena such as ?brainwashing? and the ?charismatic leader? have attracted both media and the scientific studies of religion. Professor Liselotte Frisks has done several enquiries about sects and new religious movements in Sweden. One of her main conclusions is that the relation between these new religious movements and the rest of society has changed; a relation that used to be characterized by conflicts and tension is now becoming more open as both parts are changing.This study does not focus on the spectacular parts. Instead I have studied something more common and general.