To be able to secure a safe and reliable power supply is becoming increasingly important since society depends on services and functions that need continuous power supply. The delivery rate in Swedish power supply is 99.98 % which insists on a high availability. During the past decade several storms has passed Sweden which resulted in large amount of tree felling leading to extended power outages. During these storms many socially critical activities, such as electric utility company Fortum, experienced disruption in mobile communication which affected the crisis management. This paper has investigated Swedish mobile operators? crisis management at Hi3G, Tele2 and TeliaSonera with a case study of the storm Dagmar that hit Sweden during December in 2011.

In this report the two authors, and project contributors alike, describe their work withdeveloping a solar cooker intended for usage in the developing countries of the world.Specifically, the work aims at developing a new, solar heat driven cooking device, possiblybased upon the current product. This should, in comparison to the current product, be lighter,easier to transport and to produce. Also, the new product?s production mustn?t be more costlythan today and the included materials and components must be obtainable from within theBolivian national borders where the product is currently produced. During the project, certainadvantages with a more efficient, and, above all, a more moderately priced product, werediscovered.

Sheep production is the only animal production in Sweden that is increasing. Therefore,increasing knowledge of the production is of great interest. In order to run a viable sheepproduction, producers needs to be successful in the breeding of the animals and achievean economic surplus in the end. Lambs that are born healthy and vital have greaterconditions to perform high lamb weight gains and thus a successful production. Thereare many factors affect the survival, birth weight and early weight gain of the new bornlamb.

Örebro UniversityDepartment of Social SciencesSociology and social psychology, Continuation course, 61-90 p.Essay 15 p, Spring -08.Title: ?Youth (work)seekers?Author: Karolina LindellAbstractThis essay focuses on young people?s social background when they apply for their first job. I have interviewed four young people from a small town in Sweden, to see how social background and identity affects their vital conditions in general. I?m interested understanding the relationship between structure and agency.

Swedish farmers have the possibility to be subsidized by EU rural development programme for grazing animals on pastures to promote the biodiversity of flora and fauna. The environmental remedy sometimes does not allow supplementary feed and at the same time the Swedish Animal Welfare Act and the Swedish Agricultural Board?s regulations for animal welfare and protection states that animals, in this case horses, shall be fed with food of good quality and adapted for the species. The regulations also state that they should have an individual feeding regime that enables them to maintain a normal body condition. The aim with this master thesis has been to investigate if it is possible to keep Gotland ponies on extensive pastures, during late spring and summer and still maintain animal welfare. The horses were assessed every fourth week using a welfare assessment protocol developed in line with the Welfare Quality® project (submitted, Viksten et al) where physical, behavioural and resourcebased parameters were observed. Twelve one-year old stallions of the breed Gotland ponies purchased from different breeders were used in the study.

Sheep production is the only animal production in Sweden that is increasing. Therefore,increasing knowledge of the production is of great interest. In order to run a viable sheepproduction, producers needs to be successful in the breeding of the animals and achievean economic surplus in the end. Lambs that are born healthy and vital have greaterconditions to perform high lamb weight gains and thus a successful production. Thereare many factors affect the survival, birth weight and early weight gain of the new bornlamb.

De flytande hus som producerades av Aquavilla AB i början av sekelskiftet har problem medotätheter i konstruktionen. Detta har gjort att boende i Aquavillorna i förekommande fall harklagat över drag och att värmen inte går att få upp ordentligt i husen. Frågeställningen för dettaexamensarbete blir således:Hur ska man göra för att få en erforderlig täthet i nästa generation Aquavillor och hur får manin en kontroll av tätheten i produktionen?Metoden som användes var trycktäthetsprovning på tre Aquavillor för att få en uppfattning omhur pass otäta de är och med en värmekamera ta reda på var otätheterna finns. Utöver dettautfördes även en litteraturstudie och diskussioner med personer erfarna inom lufttätningfördes för att kunna föreslå förbättringar i konstruktionen för att förhindra luftläckage.I en byggnad med FTX-system som är otät kommer inte ventilationssystemet kunna utnyttjassom det ska, då frånluften istället för att värma upp den inkommande kalla uteluften, kommeratt passera genom otätheter i klimatskalet.

Several technical solutions are ready to step forward as the new generation of propellant, and this report aims to explore the possibility of commercializing fuel cell cars. The report is based on current research and data from today's technology and engineering solutions that are estimated to be commercially realized before 2020.A mapping of today?s different fuel cell options has shown that the most suitable fuel cell option is the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell, which uses hydrogen as fuel. The report is focusing on a techno-economic well-to-wheel analysis of hydrogen and the energy balance and costs in a system perspective. The basis for this analysis consists of two centralized methods of production, steam methane reforming (SMR), and alkaline water electrolysis.

I vår undersökning ville vi belysa unga förtagenerations-invandrarkvinnors identitets förändring. Dessa unga kvinnor lever under inflytande av två kulturer där deras identitetstillhörighet till sitt ursprung oftast bestäms av ett essentialistiskt synsätt, vilket innebär att den definieras av ett gemensamt ursprung och en speciell kulturtillhörighet. Men kvinnorna i vår studie visar att deras identitet egentligen bygger mer på ett konstruktivistiskt synsätt där den kulturella identiteten inte bestäms av en gemensam tillhörighet utan att identiteten förändras och omskapas hela tiden beroende på den situation man befinner sig i. Vi har gjort ett urval där vi har valt aktiva och kvinnor som har ansträngt sig för att integreras i det svenska samhället och inte valt ?den traditionella hemmafrun?.

This paper is a qualitative study on the influence of the residents in a special communitydwelling within the care system for elderly. The purpose of the study is to describe and analyse with a user perspective how particularly staff members but also a group of retired people living in this dwelling interpret and articulate the concept of resident influence. How the retirees can influence the design and the content of the activities and the organization. How today the residents influence is carried out with the ideas and visions of the future.My methods include qualitative structured, semi-structured and non-structured interviews within a general frame of a resident questionnaire. The staff members present the current situation and reflect on the reasons for obstacles for resident influence.The group of retired people who lives in structures originating in the Swedish long-term care system and homes for the elderly tends to adjust to given routines and express a low-voiced wish for increased influence.

Det vi med detta arbete vill belysa är hur den samiska traditionella kunskapen om naturen som funnits och finns bland samerna som folk kan lyftas in den i en institution som den samiska förskolan. Uppsatsen är vårt utvecklingsarbete kring traditionell kunskap i naturen som en del i forskningsprojektet ?Gal dat oahppa go stuorrola?. Teorierna som vi lutat oss mot är från Mikkel Nils Saras (2004) lära om naturen från ett samiskt perspektiv, Asta Baltos (1997) teori om samisk barnsuppfostran samt Linda Smiths (1999) och Rauna Kuokkanens (2000) skrivningar om kolonisering och dekolonisering. Sara har systematiserat och kategoriserat natur utifrån ett samiskt perspektiv.

Solid waste management is one of the most essential functions in a country to achieve asustainable development. In India, it has been one of the least prioritized functions during thelast decades. The most common ways to treat waste in India today are open dumping anduncontrolled burning. These methods are causing severe environmental pollution and healthproblems. India is one of the world?s largest emitter of methane gas from waste disposal.Since methane is a strong greenhouse gas, even small emissions have large impact on theclimate.

What is a city? What do we mean when we describe something as urban? In what way should we build the city so that we can achieve a good environment for our own generation and for generations to come? These questions are constantly of interest and they are frequently discussed. It is also important to have considered these questions when working with city-planning. This essay contains a description of and reflections about the recurrent questions in today?s debate about the city and city-planning.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka faktorer två akademiska studentgrupper ? blivande socionomer och civilingenjörer ? värdesätter hos en potentiell arbetsgivare samt utreda om det föreligger skillnader i värdesättning av dessa faktorer utifrån utbildningstillhörighet. Syftet är även att undersöka hur kvinnor och män värdesätter dessa faktorer.skning Om en organisation har kunskap om vilka arbetsgivarfaktorer potentiella medarbetare finner attraktiva finns större chans att det strategiska arbetet med Employer Branding når framgång (Moroko& Uncles, 2008). Både privat och offentlig sektor arbetar idag för att bli ett attraktiv arbetsgivare (Parment, Wetterberg & Myrén,2009) De individer som nu gör entré på dagens arbetsmarknad tillhör Generation Y (Parment, 2008). En förutsättning för att bli en attraktiv arbetsgivare är att organisationen har kunskap om vad som attraherar unga (Franzon & Lundgren, 2003).I studien användes webb- och postenkät som tillvägagångssätt för insamling av datamaterial.

I want to find the meaning of food ?potato in today?s society. How about marketing and how does potato consumes? What can be done to achieve better competitiveness towards other products now and in the future? I will build this project on a statistic ground ?now and then? as well as a study to people outside various food- markets. The consumers answers will state my foundation in this project.