Bygg- och fastighetssektorn står för ungefär halva miljöbelastningen i Sverige och 40 procent av energianvändningen. Att minska den skulle därför bidra mycket till att minska miljöbelastningen och nå ett mer hållbart samhälle.I skånska Glumslöv har AB Landskronahem byggt kvarteret Nornan, som består av 35 lägenheter i form utav 11 rad- och parhus med vision om en bra inomhusmiljö och hög komfort utan fast uppvärmningssystem. I den här studien har byggnaderna granskats och miljöbedömts, framför allt ur energi- och innemiljösynpunkt. De metoder som använts för analysen är Miljöklassningsmetoden och EcoEffect-metoden. Till grund för dessa ligger fältstudier i form av mätningar på plats, ritningsunderlag samt en enkätundersökning bland de boende.Resultatet av miljöbedömningen visar på en överlag god innemiljö i kvarteret.

The meaning of being someone and standing for something is getting more important today in the Swedish business market. Our thesis has a qualitative approach that aims to study the usage of personal branding in the upper-management of Swedish organizations. Theories collected from literature and articles include marketing branding, personal branding and leadership. Our main target is to identify components that obtain usage of personal branding which are, attributes and strengths, communication, values, and vision and mission. The empirical data is gathered from six personal interviews with managers.

In this project the focus has been on the system for recombination at Oskarshamn 2. The recombining systems have on several occasions switched paths due to low pressure before the last ejector that?s feeding the recombiner. Of the mentioned reason, events and several measuring points have been analyzed in this report since the installation of the recombining systems.In order to prove theories and demonstrate what may be the cause of this problem, we used heat balance calculations by the program Probera. Using the program, we can demonstrate that the catalytic process does not reach the desired temperature with the amount of combustible substance.

Background: Elderly people with visual impairment increases in the society. To measure vision with visual acuity charts doesn?t indicate how patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) experience their disease. Aim: The aim of the literature review was to describe patients? experiences of living with age-related macular degeneration.

The purpose of the study was to examine how TalkingMats® canbe used to support communication in a group of people with aphasia. Fourpeople with aphasia and their group leader participated. Comparison wasmade between group discussion with and without Talking Mats. Theparticipants used one Talking Mat each. The group discussions werevideotaped and analysed.

Green public procurement (GPP) can be used as an instrument to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and consideration of environmental aspects within public procurement is becoming more common in Sweden and internationally. Two product groups that have been pointed out as especially important are transports and electricity, where the opportunities for public purchasers to reduce emissions are relatively large. This paper studies GPP which aims at reducing emissions, primarily of carbon dioxide, through environmental requirements within these two product groups. A theoretical analysis of cost-effectiveness, transaction costs and effects on technological development is performed, followed by a closer study of how these aspects appear in practice within GPP. The results indicate that a cost-effective allocation of reductions between the two product groups is most likely to be attained if the main part of emission reduction is achieved through environmental requirements on electricity. The cost for emission reduction within transports is relatively high, especially for heavy transports. For transportation services, more generally focused requirements on emission reductions could probably give greater environmental gains, but the existence of transaction costs steer the environmental requirements towards more technology specific types.

The aim of the study is to examine how religion legitimates outrages and it what ways we can regard religion as politics. The study uses the theory that Eickelman and Piscatori present in their book Muslim politics. They use the term ?Muslim politics? to describe the relation between Islam and politics. Eickelman and Piscatori divide Muslim politics in five elements that the essay uses to structure the analysis.

Democracy is a term that has been researched, and still is researched, a lot. In my education to become a teacher it has been the subject that interests me the most and I would like to be able to contribute to this research. The starting point of this essay is that in my experience there is a difference in how the national curriculum describes democracy and how the students I have met describes it. Therefore I wanted to investigate whether this also applies to a wider context than the students that I meet in my everyday life. The purpose of this essay is; to examine whether students in the ninth grade has the same view on democracy as the national means of control. The result I have attained through my work is that they somewhat share the same vision.

This study is primarily an account of my examination work in archival science which took place in the archive of Margareta Böttiger, the state epidemiologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control Stockholm. The records are from Böttigers period of work, mainly divided into three parts, polio, HIVS/AIDS and vaccination. Of these I have focused on polio with was the area she got renowned for. Moreover, owing to the uniqueness of the material this study has focused on the properties of the archive as a working-life archive which I propose as a special type of personal archive with unique attributes. To summarize, a working-life archive has in comparison with other personal archives a more fluid process of archiving where the profession is important, not the personal production of records.

Styr is a computer program that the construction company NCC use in their construction projects. The program is used to keep the economy of their projects in a good order and things for the best in an early phase. The problem is a low extent of utilization. During the latest decade NCC has put a lot of job and money trying to develop the program. The question is how to get the employees to use the program in a greater extent.

Det har inte gått att undvika mångfald i dagens samhälle. Det talas och skrivs om det i media, det förekommer i jobbannonser och man pratar om det såväl som offentligt som privat. Ordet mångfald är ett ord som ofta dyker upp i denna uppsats. Det är ett ord som för många betyder ett positivt sådant. Även om mångfald är ett ord som betyder mycket och betyder olika för olika människor framkommer det i denna uppsats att mångfald innehåller två viktiga begrepp, nämligen etnicitet och kön.

Flygets utsläpp skall reduceras med 50 % till år 2050, ? flygbranschen måste därför möjligöra för alternativa lösningar. Taxfreevarornas hanter-ing är en av flera behjälpliga lösningar som kan innebära miljö- och eko-nomiska vinster för flygbolagen Ett annat kontribut av en förändring är säkrare flygningar, både för kabinpersonalen och resenärerna. Uppsatsen forskningsfrågor är följande:Vilka orsaker bidrar till att taxfreehantering-en inte har förändrats? Hur kan innehållet och utvecklingen av tilläggs-tjänsten beskrivas och förstås? Hur ser konsumtionsbeteendet ut hos svenska flygresenärerna beträffande taxfreevaror? SyfteUppsatsens syfte är att bidra med kunskap om varför taxfreehanteringen inte har förändrats.

Ett examensarbete som undersöker relationen mellan social stigmatisering och hjälpmedelsformgivning, med en vision om att ta fram en funktionell kryckkäpp anpassad för lågtidsanvändning där formen och det visuella uttrycket inte uppfattas som ett handikapp.Genom analys av standardkryckan från Swereco, intervjuer med sjukgymnaster, hjälpmedelsansvariga och långtidsanvändare av kryckkäppar lades en grund för formgivningsarbetet. Designprocessen ITK (Identity Tool Kit) har utgjort diskussions- och intervjuunderlag och en nära kontakt med en extern mentor som uteslutande jobbar i avancerade kompositmaterial har gett stöd åt produktion- och formgivningsprocess.Resultatet blev en avskalad, organisk och genusneutral kryckkäpp i ett avancerat kompositmaterial, Thermoplastic Composites. Materialet och tillverkningsmetoden hos ett företag som heter Fiberforge tillåter en inbyggd svikt i handtaget, vilket i sin tur förhoppningsvis kan vara ett steg i ledet att minska risken för nervskadan "ulnar nerve compression" som lätt uppstår mellan tumme och pekfinger..

This survey has as its aim to see how two local newspapers in the city Växjö and the region of Kronoberg in Sweden reported and acted in connection to the referendum taking place in 1922 whether or not alcoholic beverages should be prohibited. In order to do this we analyzed Smålandsposten and Nya Växjöbladet to see their reporting. We found that the numbers of articles and debate contributions increased during the months closer to the referendum. We also found that Nya Växjöbladet where slightly supporting the prohibition of alcohol while Smålandsposten where against it. The arguments used by both sides during the debate were also analyzed.

Agencies towards Sustainable Development ? A Study of Environmental Management Systems in Governmental Agencies 2005A vision of the Swedish government is to build an ecologically sustainable society. A tool in this effort is to implement environmental management systems (EMS). The aim of the thesis is to present in which phase of the implementation of EMS Swedish governmental agencies are. This will be done by compilation and evaluation of agencies? yearly environmental reports.The thesis is written in co-operation with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Swedish EPA).