Nuts of all kinds are common ingredients in food. For nut allergy sufferers the frequent use of nuts cause problems and "hidden" nuts in food products may elicit allergic reaction when such foods are consumed. Methods for detecting and quantifying walnut (and other nuts) with high sensitivity and specificity are therefore very important.The objective of this project was to verify the specificity of a rabbit antiserum against walnut with immunodiffusion and to determine the size of the dominant walnut antigens with Western blotting. In addition, a commercial sandwich ELISA for walnut quantification was validated and compared with a qualitative real-time PCR.The rabbit antiserum proved to be less specific but after absorption with cross-reacting nuts and seeds it showed high specificity. The ELISA kit reacted, except for walnut, with pecan and slightly with other nuts and seeds tested.

Formgivning och organsiering av ett nytt operahus. Strukturering av befintligt program, val av material, konstruktion och struktur, klimat, hållbarhet..

 This essay has been investigate a Hindu swaminarayantempel in central Sweden, its activities and function from a diaspora perspective. Also to investigate the relationship between Hindu diaspora groups and in relation to South Asia. An ethnographic method was used.The result of this study shows that the key activities temple provides the puja. Pujan is the most frequent activity in the investigated Temple. The temple also provides other activities that often are linked to anniversaries and celebrations of festive calendar, such as Diwali or gods' birthdays.The investigated temple has a similar function as other diaspora groups.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur kunskapsprov överensstämmer med de övergripande styrdokumenten och vilken kunskapssyn testerna förmedlar.Mina två frågor som jag hade för avsikt att få besvarade var dessa.? Hur överensstämmer de kunskapsprov som genomförs i ett yrkesförberedande program med intentionerna i läroplan och programmål?? Vilken kunskapssyn förmedlar testerna?Jag har sammanlagt undersökt 16 olika prov i olika examinationsformer, som skriftliga prov, prov i projektform, praktiska prov och övriga prov.Jag har analyserat testerna utifrån begrepp ur läroplan och kunskapssyn. Dessa är: kreativitet, integrerat, kommunikativt arbetssätt, fakta/memorerande, samarbete, reflektion, autentiska svar, elevaktiva arbetssätt, utrustning, estetisk, etik, tillgång till läromedel, bedömning av process/produkt, bedömning utifrån vem som gör bedömningen. Jag har efter analysen funnit att alla begrepp förekommer någon gång, men ingen provform är heltäckande för samtliga begrepp.De skriftliga proven som mäter fakta och memorerande kan klart hänföras till behaviorismen och förmedlingspedagogiken.I de övriga proven finns inslag av socialkonstruktivistiskt lärande, progressiv pedagogik och en del av Piagets teorier om lärande..

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The use of technology in today's society is frequent and often necessary, but how, when and where are we supposed to learn how to use it? And if it is such a big and important part of our society, then why don?t teachers get more training in how to use the technology? The purpose of this paper is to examine whether teachers attitudes to technology affects their use of technology in their teaching. In school technology can be a complementary to other material, if teachers have the necessary skills to use technology in a pedagogical way. I have chosen to do a qualitative study in form of interviews and observations at a school outside of Stockholm. The results show that both school and teachers must want to work with technology if anyone will be getting something out of it.

Inledning: Elektrisk stimulering kan öka både spinala vägar och kortikal plasticitet, vilken leder till förbättring i motorfunktion och spasticitet hos stroke patienter. Elektrisk simulering modaliteter (ES) är en relativt riskfri och enkel att implementeras vid rehabilitering. Syftet: En kunskapssammanställning som undersöker effekten av klinisk tillämpning av elektrisk stimulerings modaliteter på post-stroke spasticitet och motor funktion. Metod: En systematisk kunskap sammansättning för att skapa en överblick över kunskapsläget inom elektrisk stimulerings effekt på post-stroke spasticitet och motorfunktion. Inkluderade studier har identifierats via sökning databaser.

The aim of this masters thesis is to examine the supply of magazines and periodicals for young people at the library. We also examine young peoples reading of magazines and periodicals and compare the librarys selection with what young people read. The main questions of this thesis are: What do young people do at the library on their spare time? What weekly magazines and periodicals do young people read? What range of magazines and periodicals do the city- and the school library have? Where is the department located and how is it designed? What kind of relationship is there between young peoples reading and the selection? To answer these questions we have done an interview with a librarian and a questionnaire among 13-16 year old children. We found that it is not often that young people read their magazines and periodicals at the library.

Today equal representation between the genders in parliament is something to be desired. One way to reach the goal of equal representation is by using quotas. The purpose of the study is to research the lack of equality in elected institutions by using a perspective on qoutas.  The study also seeks to find answers to if using quotas is a good method according to gender studies. A text analysis is being used to find reasonable solutions to the study´s presented complivations.  By analyzing different texts about quotas some of the more common arguments in the discussion about using quotas in parliaments were highlighted. Some of the more frequent arguments to implement quotas are that it would be more just but also that women and men may have different interests, experiences and therefore equal representation would be a question of resources.

På SWECO VBB har ett projekt som kallas Geomodellen pågått ett antal år, projektet syftar till att integrera geotekniska, geohydrologiska, topografiska och miljötekniska förhållanden i en och samma 3D-modell. SWECO VBBs vision med Geomodellen är att skapa ett verktyg där all geoteknisk data i projektet presenteras på ett lättöverskådligt sätt. Detta examensarbete är ett steg i den utvecklingen, arbetets syfte är att undersöka vilka datorverktyg som finns tillgängliga på marknaden, samt att studera vilka av dessa program som kan vara lämpliga att använda för att göra geotekniska 3D-modeller. Med en geoteknisk 3D-modell menas en modell där olika jordlager i ett undersökningsområde representeras av ytor i en 3D- miljö. Önskemålet med dessa modeller är att de i ett projekt skall verka som projekteringsunderlag när förstärkningsåtgärder och dylikt skall dimensioneras, exempelvis pållängder och sponter.

The aim of this study was to look into why children receive the interventions contact person and contact family. This was done by studying case-files. The main questions were:-       How common is it that there are reasons for the intervention linked to parents and which are the most common?-       How common is it that there are reasons for the intervention and problems linked to children and which are the most common?-       Is there any indication of connections between reasons, age, gender or type of intervention? If so, what are the connections?The main results of this study were that most of the children lived with a single mother, often with a weak social network, and in need of relief. It was more common that reasons were linked to children then parents and the most common reasons indicated a need for an extra adult.

This report describes how to process audio signals in real time with a digital signalprocessor. The digital signal processor used in the thesis and described in the reportare the Blackfin processor ADSP-BF537 from Analog Devices.In the body of this report there is theory of the processor characteristics and thevarious programming languages used. All experiments that were made on theprocessor are described, these descriptions also help in understanding the annexeswhere the experiments will be presented. The body of this report also describes theprogram used to do experiments. Testing the CPU limit was done and the results arepresented to get a good view of what it can handle.

Automatisk sparning i datorprogram underso?ks fra?n perspektivet hur anva?ndare upplever tryggheten till att deras arbete ska finnas kvar na?r de arbetar med en dator, och hur de reagerar pa? en ny typ av design. Det finns ett problem som ligger i hur datorer rent tekniskt a?r uppbyggda, ja?mfo?rt med hur datoranva?ndare a?r vana att objekt fungerar i verkligheten. Nuvarande och gamla dator- program har tittats pa? fo?r att se hur de har lo?st funktionerna kring sparning.

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Hepatitis E virus, HEV, is a frequent causative agent behind, especially waterborne, infections in developing countries such as India. However, during the last years the number of non-travel-associated infections in industrialised countries, for example US, Germany and Sweden, has increased. The symptoms vary from mild with nausea to icterus and it can even be lethal. There are four different genotypes of HEV and many studies consider HEV infection to be a zoonosis. Scientists have by using phylogenetic analyses found great genetic similarity between strains isolated from humans, pigs and food, such as pork and liver, especially among viruses belonging to genotype 3.