In this work an assessment of the compressed air system in the facilities of Vattenfall Heat Uppsala has been conducted. The facilities constitutes, among others, a combined heat and power plant, and two waste incineration plants. The compressed air is supplied primarily by seven rotary screw compressors and yearly electric energy consumption in these has been determined. Furthermore, the usage of compressed air has been mapped in order to find processes with energy savings potential. Several suggestions how to reduce the usage of compressed air have been presented, resulting in decreased need of electric energy and reduced CO2-emissions.The results show that total need of electric energy in the compressors, during a standard production year, amounts to 5.83 GWh.

The purpose of this study was to examine how food managers of Östergötland County disucss around their possibilities of reaching the government´s orientation towards 25 per cent of the food - procured, prepared and cooked in the school meal - coming from certified organic production. The study was a cross-sectional study in wich a qualitative approach was used. The sample consisted six food managers in Östergötland. Data processing was done through a semantic content analysis.  The result showed that involvment and intrest were significant factors for the introduction of organic food in the school meal. The three municipalities with the highest percentage of organic food used the SMART - concept.

This thesis will address a problem concerning availability of information systems at an enterprise within the financial sector and its external suppliers, so called trusted third party. The information system resides on the internal network of the enterprise and must be available to both employees of the enterprise and the trusted third party simultaneously. This contradicts the company policy which disallows third parties access to the internal network. The HAVECA-model introduced in this thesis provides a framework of methods, each solving a sub problem identified in the model. The identified methods are hardening, verification, control and assurance, together supplying a method for continuously securing the internal network against a trusted third party.

This study aims to build a deeper understanding of how differences in identities and communication can affect the possibilities of achieving a successful merger between companies from different type of industries. Our study is of qualitative nature and looks into the specific merger between Företagshälsovården AB and Managementkonsulterna AB. The study builds upon 16 semi structured interviews which are carried out with employees from both parts of the organization and with management personnel. Firstly our study shows that the different identities existing within the different parts of the organization, highly affect the integration process after a merger. Secondly we show that the level of communication transmitted from the management, but also between the different parts of the organization, affects the possibilities of creating a successful merger.

Denna studie undersöker äldre människors upplevelser av bemötande och delaktighet i samband med biståndsbeslut gällande hemtjänst. Våra resultat visar att personerna kände stort förtroende för biståndshandläggaren och var delaktiga i sin ansökan om hemtjänst utifrån deras synpunkter och önskemål. Personerna har tagit kontakt med biståndshandläggaren i det skede av livet som hjälp har varit nödvändigt för att klara vardagen i hemmet. Teorin som tillämpades var symboliskt kapital och är baserad på kulturella, sociala och ekonomiska kapital som ger status i samhället, beroende på sammanhanget..

Examensarbetet har handlat om hur man med produktdesign kan öka synligheten hos tjejer i åldrarna 18-25 år som rör sig i urbana, trafikerade miljöer under de mörka delarna av dygnet. Genom intervjuer, frågeformulär och litteraturstudie urskönjdes att målgruppen var väl medveten om nyttan med reflexanvändning men att detta trots allt inte var ett starkt nog motiv till att använda reflexer då existerande produkter ansågs löjliga, opraktiska och fula. Vad som huvudsakligen har bearbetats är mjuka värden såsom status och estetik samt yttre krav på ett optimerat reflexbärande. Resultatet är en väska som med sin multifunktionalitet och sobra estetik medger synlighet för brukaren. Det är en reflexprodukt som målgruppen kan identifiera sig med och bära vid många tillfällen..

När EU:s ramdirektiv för vatten (2000/60/EG) antogs 2000 fick medlemsstaterna ett ansvar att uppnå god ekologisk och kemisk status i alla vatten 2015 med vissa undantag. Vattendirektivet införlivades i Sverige genom förordningen om förvaltning av kvaliteten på vattenmiljön (2004:660) 2004, där det stod att det, för varje vattendistrikt, ska finnas en länsstyrelse som ska utgöra vattenmyndighet för distriktet. De fem vattenmyndigheterna har, på grund av föreskrifter i Miljöbalken och förordningen om förvaltningen av kvaliteten på vattenmiljön, utfärdat åtgärdsprogram. I åtgärdsprogrammen finns 7 punkter av 38 riktade åt kommuner, varav punkt 37 lyder: ?Kommunerna behöver, i samverkan med länsstyrelserna, utveckla vatten- och avloppsvattenplaner, särskilt i områden med vattenförekomster som inte uppnår, eller riskerar att inte uppnå, god ekologisk status, god kemisk status eller god kvantitativ status? Även om kommuner ska få stöd av länsstyrelser, vattenmyndigheter och Havs- och vattenmyndigheten när det gäller vattenfrågor har handledning och riktlinjer för att utforma kommunala vattenplaner inte funnits.

The Swedish bank Handelsbanken has, according to their own way of measuring, been more successful than a weighted average of their competitors during the last 38 years. They have also handled the recent financial crisis, as well as the one in the 1990´s, better than most other banks. This paper studies their management control system at branch level in order to identify the controls which have been enforced to ensure that a low risk level is retained in the lending. The controls that have been identified are; (1) A decentralized organization with the offices as profit centers where the manager has restrictions regarding risk level and the results are measured as K/I (cost/revenue). (2) The absence of bonuses and individual follow-up regarding performance measurement.

In this thesis we focus on the issue of crowdfunding and especially how a project relates to and embraces its community. While a lot of related research focus on what makes people give, our research instead delve into whether a creator looks upon the sponsors as something more than just a financial resource. To manage this task we used a triangular perspective consisting of a case study, a questionnaire and a netnographic study. The goal was to gain the perspectives of creators, crowdfunding platforms and sponsors on how the communication between the community and the project works and can be improved.       The three crowdfunding platforms we reviewed (Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Rockethub) all had fairly similar models on how to attract sponsors and make them involved in the project, while the questionnaire and netnographic study demonstrated how a community could contribute in different ways.

Title: Predictions and explanation models for bankruptcy in stock-companies ? A study of three failed Swedish companies Author: Tim Svanberg Supervisor: Emil Numminen Department: School of Management, Blekinge Institute of technology Course: Bachelor?s thesis in business administration, 10 credits Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to find explanation for bankruptcy with the help of prediction models. The purpose is also to add explanation by using Behavioral analysis Method: Quantitative research of bankruptcies using financial prediction models and qualitative study of psychological pitfalls. The study is deductive. Results: I found that it is possible to explain the bankruptcies using the prediction models. The behavioural perspective adds further explanation.

Inbyggda system förekommer överallt i dagens samhälle i allt från mobiltelefoner tillsatelliter. Teknikens utveckling går mot att fler produkter kommunicerar värdefulladata till användaren och i takt med att komponenter minskar i storlek och pris, blirde allt lättare att implementera i redan befintliga produkter.Målet med det här projektet var att tillföra mervärde till ett redan befintligtproduktionsverktyg inom träindustrin. Genom att implementera ett inbyggt systemkan verktyget kommunicera en aktuell status till operatören för att förebyggaoväntade tillbud och optimera produktionsflödet.Resultatet av det här projektet tyder på att implementationen är fullt möjlig trots tuffamiljöer, men det återstår att utföra fullvärdiga test och utvärderingar ute på industrin..

Inbyggda system förekommer överallt i dagens samhälle i allt från mobiltelefoner tillsatelliter. Teknikens utveckling går mot att fler produkter kommunicerar värdefulladata till användaren och i takt med att komponenter minskar i storlek och pris, blirde allt lättare att implementera i redan befintliga produkter.Målet med det här projektet var att tillföra mervärde till ett redan befintligtproduktionsverktyg inom träindustrin. Genom att implementera ett inbyggt systemkan verktyget kommunicera en aktuell status till operatören för att förebyggaoväntade tillbud och optimera produktionsflödet.Resultatet av det här projektet tyder på att implementationen är fullt möjlig trots tuffamiljöer, men det återstår att utföra fullvärdiga test och utvärderingar ute på industrin..

Iron deficiency is one of the most frequent micronutrient deficiencies around the world. Low iron bioavailability simultaneously with a high iron requirement is a high risk factor for developing iron deficiency. Probiotics are microorganisms that confer a health benefit on the host. Prebiotics are oligosaccharides which provide a health benefit on the host due to a positive modulation of the microflora in the gut. The aim of this paper is to evaluate if there is a connection between pro-and/or prebiotics and iron bioavailability.

This master's thesis is about alternative career opportunities for library and information science graduates. Ever since the beginning of our education we have been interested in working outside of the traditional libraries. Now that we are about to receive our degrees in library and information science we are doubtful if the competence we have obtained is enough to meet the demands of the labour market. The employment field we have been studying in this master's thesis is information management, since this is a field that we find comparable to library and information science. Our study involves a qualitative survey amongst recruiting companies to investigate how the recruiters value different educations, competences and personal skills when they employ staff within the field of information management.

AbstractIn the secondary-school program for hotel and restaurant complete courses or parts of courses are placed in workplaces so called workplace education (APU), this means that the content in the course plan must be discussed and be divided in a proper way between the school and the workplace, so that the students is gaining all the parts that is prescribed in the goals for the course.Interviews with tutors and teachers have been performed, with the purpose of investigating how the collaboration between the school and the workplaces should look like so that the APU fulfills the content and quality that are prescribed in the specifications of the education. The study shows that a better structure for collaboration between the school and the workplaces is needed. Lack of time and financial resources are the factors that according to the study reduces the possibility?s to (among other things) perform education of tutors, and for the teachers to plan and follow-up the APU-period..