Travelling by train has increased during the last decades in Sweden. This has put pressure on the existing infrastructure and has created problems with delays and cancelled departures. The railway is a complex system with mutual dependencies and high vulnerability for disruptions. The situation for the railway system in the Stockholm region is today strained. The capacity is fully used.

The demand for environmental assessments on buildings and energy consumption is increasing as well as the energy performance requirements for buildings. At the same time it is increasingly common with self-producers of heat and electricity generation.The main purpose with this master thesis is to investigate how time resolution affects the environmental assessment of energy consumption in office buildings connected to district heating (DH). Environmental assessments were done with both attributional LCA and consequential LCA with system expansion.Fortum´s DH system in Stockholm was analyzed and district heating production was simulated in a Matlab-model. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the production were calculated. The heat demand of the office Gångaren 16 in Stockholm was simulated in IDA ICE.

I december 2003 antogs Sveriges politik för global utveckling (PGU). Målet förpolitiken är att bidra till en rättvis och hållbar global utveckling genom att all politik som bedrivs ska genomsyras av ett rättighetsperspektiv samt de fattigas perspektiv på utveckling. Uppsatsen utreder vilka förutsättningar det finns för en lyckas implementering av PGU med avseende på handel. Sverige utgör ett exportinriktat land och de senaste åren har Sveriges biståndspolitik svängt från det traditionella biståndet till att handelspolitiken får allt större del av biståndspengarna, med motiveringen att handel gynnar fattigdomsbekämpning.I implementeringsprocessen av PGU är näringslivet en viktig aktör. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur långt implementeringsprocessen sipprar ner.

SYFTE: Syftet med denna uppsats är att med Decuma som utgångspunkt kartlägga de möjligheter och svårigheter, som är specifika för ett born globalföretags förmåga att skapa en konkurrenskraftig position. METOD: Uppsatsen bygger på en fallstudie av Decuma för att få djupare insikt i problematiken kring born globals och hur de kan uppnå konkurrensfördelar genom strategiska relationer. Vi presenterar en bred fallstudie som sedan analyseras med utgångspunkt från vår teoretiska referensram som berör internationaliseringsprocessen för små hig-tech företag med behov av samarbeten och relationer. SLUTSATSER: För att ett born globalföretag ska kunna skapa möjligheter på en global marknad är det viktigt att de har förmåga att bibehålla sin flexibilitet trots att de får större krav från marknaden i takt med att de växer. Det är även viktigt att företaget kan erbjuda en specialiserad och kundanpassad produkt.

What impact and effects are created by the placement of an international ranking? Could it be that a top rank is detrimental to an entire country's efforts to fight corruption?This bachelor thesis in political science is about Swedish corruption. In essence, so questioning the Transparency International's indexed rankings that placed Sweden in third place. Issues concern since if the third placement has created nonchalance and a careless mentality in Swedish government and in particular in the municipal operations. Research results show that Transparency International's rankings have low validity and low reliability and that the government is not acting sufficiently to prevent and fight corruption.

The objective of this study was to get a better understanding of how the cultivation methods influence the vitality in Prunus avium. The purpose was also to examine if there was any differences in shoot growth and trunk expansion depending on the method of cultivation. To find the answer to this question a literature study and a case study has been done. The literature study concerns the concepts vitality and stress. Different definitions of these concepts are shown and their connection whit establishment is explained. In the background the species Prunus avium, and the four method of cultivation that are included in this case study are described. Measurements of the shoot growth and trunk expansion were made in this study, and as a complement to these methods, a visual estimate of the vitality was made.

We live in a world where the resources are not equally divided and that is why charity work is needed. The United Nations Children?s Fund, UNICEF, is a global organization that works for children?s human rights around the world. But perhaps even charity work, which´s often glorified in the society, need to be looked at from different directions. Research about intercultural education, globalization and charity shows that even good deeds can end up reproducing the problem that was supposed to be solved in the first place.

Background: Thanks to the globalization and the EU the international trade is growing faster than ever and companies are able to change ownership across the borders of the nations. Today one can talk about global marketplace with a deeper integration of the economies of the world. The rapidly growing list of mergers of Swedish companies since the last 10 years indicates that the global companies of today is using mergers as a strategic tool for continue their growth. However the number of unsuccessful mergers is big. The need of understanding and knowledge about different cultures is growing in the global business climate of today, since the collaborations across de national borders are increasing.Problem formulation: Which international strategies are fortunate in international mergers with Swedish companies?Purpose: The purpose is to analyze the integration of the three mergers; Vin&Sprit ? Pernod Ricard, Astra - Zeneca and Telia ? Sonera.Method: This study is a case study with a qualitative approach.

Today there is an even higher demand on IT-projects success rate compared to a few years ago. IT-projects must be handled more efficiently and result in a more profitable investment. In order to make the handling of IT-projects more efficient and create profitability the developers must have a broad understanding of the IT-projects characteristics and which factors that affect the result of the projects. Changes within IT-projects are often carried out through the development of a system. Since this change is more common when it comes to IT-projects it is important to handle risk and change within these kinds of projects in order to prevent and avoid uncontrolled changes.

Studier har visat att sjuksköterskors arbetsmiljö kan påverka dem i deras omvårdnadsarbete. Studien ämnade intervjua sjuksköterskor om hur de upplevde att deras arbetsmiljö påverkade deras omvårdnadsarbete. Intervjuer genomfördes med sju sjuksköterskor på ett sjukhus i Västsverige. Intervjuerna analyserades och manifesta meningsenheter, kopplade till studiens syfte, identifierades och kondenserades. Resultatet visade att det finns flera faktorer i sjuksköterskornas arbetsmiljö som de upplever påverkar dem i deras omvårdnadsarbete.

I denna uppsats redovisas en jämförelse av den skriftliga delen mellan tio godkända uppsatser från nationella provet i Svenska som andraspråk B och tio godkända uppsatser från Test i svenska för universitets- och högskolestudier (Tisus). I uppsatsen görs först en analys av två syntaktiska konstruktioner, därefter en undersökning av förekommande bisatstyper och till sist en global bedömning av texternas funktionalitet. Analyserna visar att majoriteten av testtagarna har god behärskning av syntaktiska strukturer i svenskan. Skillnaderna som förekommer, på en syntaktisk nivå, mellan uppsatserna handlar om individuella informanters brister och några generella slutsatser kan inte dras. Däremot finns större skillnader gällande den globala bedömningen.

In this Masters thesis we investigate query expansion using an electronic thesaurus. We formed 30 topics from the library and information science field. For each topic three searches were made in the bibliographic database LISA Library and Information Science Abstracts via CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. LISA has an electronic thesaurus attached. We used this thesaurus to form baseline queries, baseline queries expanded with synonyms, and baseline queries expanded with both synonyms and related terms.

Mammary tumors are the most frequent type of tumors in bitches in Sweden. Many studies have been published concerning mammary tumors, but there is still much to be learned about this disease. One has, since some time ago, had the knowledge that addition to or removal of methyl groups to genes can inhibit or activate gene-expression. Methylation and demethylation is a normal phenomenon in the body and it is essential for the development and survival of the individual. The risk of developing a tumor disease is increased if the global methylationstatus is changed; if oncogenes demethylates (activates) or if tumor suppressor genes methylates (inactivates). In the human medicine one has seen that there are differences in methylationstatus between different tumors. In this study tumor and normal tissue from ten dogs were examined with regard to methylationstatus.

Al Gore may have helped put global warming on the agenda. However, it is not a new subject. Neither is so called green marketing a new phenomenon within branding and communication. As more and more companies establish environmental strategies there exist beliefs that the environmental focus is becoming a triviality, which is the reason for this study. Implementation of words such as ?environmentally friendly?, ?green? and ?global warming? is becoming more and more widespread and frequently used within marketing communication.

Detaljhandelsmarknaden i Europa har vuxit sig allt starkare samtidigt har konkurrenssituationen ökat. Globaliseringen har medfört att gränsdragningen mellan länder minskat och internationalisering av detaljhandelsföretag har blivit allt vanligare. Clas Ohlson har med sin expansion i Norden stärkt sitt varumärke. För att ytterligare stärka sina positioner samt öka omsättningen har företaget valt att etablera sig på den brittiska marknaden med en första satsning i London. Clas Ohlson ser expansionen som ett steg att utvecklas från en nordisk- till en europeisk aktör. Den framtida utvecklingen av expansionen är svår att förutspå vilket gör det svårt att prognostisera den framtida lönsamheten.