The obesity problem in the world is growing bigger and today even our companion animals are becoming heavier. In this paper the importance of a balanced diet for the companion animal is emphasised. There are many disadvantages for the animal and for the owner if the animal becomes obese and it is important to stress the facts on what the consequences might be. There are several medical conditions connected to obesity and a short summary of these will be discussed. It is often easier to prevent obesity rather than loosing the overweight and some ideas of how to do this is looked in to. In many veterinary clinics today, the veterinary nurse is the first and sometimes the only person to see the animal.

The running of gas turbines with low emissions causes high pressure pulsations to arise in the combustion chamber. These pulsations are high amplitude sound vibrations. At some frequencies these are harmful to the gas turbine. Hence these pulsations are monitored to avoid operating conditions where pulsations are specifically harmful. It is necessary to expose the system of known pulsations to verify the functionality of the monitoring process.

Studien syftar till att identifiera faktorer vilka kan främja ett ökat turismföretagande.Det är en kvalitativ studie som främst baseras på 21 intervjuer som genomförts inomdet område som den empiriska delen av studien omfattar, Destination Läckö Kinnekulle,vilket innefattar Götene och Lidköping med omnejd.Studien visar att de flesta insatser som genomförts har viss positiv inverkan förturismnäringen, men på olika sätt. Turismnäringen är omfattande och påverkas av mångaaspekter i samhället. De som främst startat turismföretag är inom studien kvinnor som drivsav ett brinnande intresse och som ser företagandet mer som en livsstil. Turismföretagarnabesitter själva kunskap, kreativitet och förmåga att driva verksamheten. De efterfrågar stödoch konkreta nätverk främst rörande marknadsföring, finansiering och alla de regelverk somomgärdar turismföretagare.

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the special services for immigrants which are offered by Swedish libraries on their different levels regional, local and school as well as immigrants experiences of the library services and how these services and experiences conduct themselves to the development of the harmonic multicultural society. The methods used were interpreting reflexive interviews with immigrants and librarians. The guiding theory in this study was a three-phase model by Gillis Herlitz according to which a newcomer goes through three stages in an adaptation period. Phase 1 is a positive honeymoon phase, that later is replaced by phase 2, a critical disappointment period, which then ideally should be resolved in phase 3, where the individual reaches a balancing stage of cultural adaptation. The results of my observations indicate that the performances of the different libraries seem to operate in a way that corresponds to the different phases in this model.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine what part and importance electronic games play in the life of girls, how the girls use electronic games and what the girls think and say about their use of electronic games. We also intend to examine what girls have to say about electronic games at the public library. Our attempt is to illuminate and bring knowledge to those who work within the library with the selection, purchase and conveyance of electronic games. Method used in the survey is focusgroup-interviews with girls in the age between 12-14 years in three different schools. The findings are related to four different perspectives, theory of child development, from a gender perspective, theories of understanding how young people use computer games and theories to understand the purpose of public libraries.

I den h?r studien unders?ker f?rfattaren hur man kan bli ?kta i sitt s?nguttryck. Dels genom en lyssningsanalys d?r f?rfattaren lyssnar p? s?ngare som hon anser ?r ?kta. S?ngarnas uttryck analyseras sedan f?r att komma fram till de kvaliteter och f?rm?gor de besitter och, till stor del, har gemensamt f?r att upplevas autentiska.

Baserad på en enkätundersökning som besvarades av 55 olika restaurangägare i Uppsala undersöker denna uppsats frågan; vilka motiv har varit mest inflytande för personer som har startat en restaurang i Uppsala stad? Efter en genomgång av tidigare teoretisk litteratur ochstudier av motivation för entreprenörer, samt en kvalitativ- undersökning, identifierades 8 motiverande psykiska faktorer. De motiverande faktorerna undersöktes med frågor som ställdestill respondenterna i studien. En analys av insamlat data visar att de fyra mest motiverande faktorerna var (rangordnat) självständighet, passion, materiell rikedom och att utvecklas som person. Även de faktorerna som fick lågt resultat är av intresse.

Feberboken, written by Stina Aronson and published in 1931, is a fragmentary meta literary autobiographical work told and written by the pseudonymous female author Mimmi Palm. The novel tells about a literary-erotic passion causing female subordination, fever and sick-ness. It balances between biography and fiction and consistently decontructs itself through its meta literary prespective. This essay finds that the structure of the novel and its thematical confusion of literature and erotique, fiction and reality, woman and man, derives from a struggle for definitions. Thus, the essay attempts to a close reading focusing on ambivalence and resistance and in order to determine the nature of the fever, it tries to analyze Feberboken in the light of early Swedish literary modernism.

The majority of all power cuts that affects individuals and communities are caused by earth faults on the power transmission lines at 10kV and 20kV level [1]. If these power cuts could be eliminated, less disturbances and interrupts would lead to large amounts of money savings.Swedish Neutral has developed such a protection system. When an earth fault occurs power is injected into the neutral point of the transformer. The RCC (Residual Current Compensation) protection calculates a compensation current exactly 180 degrees out of phase to the fault current. Doing this, the voltage at the fault location becomes very close to zero, without affecting the power transmission.The protection system can only compensate automatically for the fundamental frequency (50Hz), and manually for the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th harmonics.

Tack vare mitt intresse fo?r livemusik och den magi som kan skapas i kontakten mellan artister och publik har jag i det har examensarbetet genomfo?rt tva? musikproduktioner, i konsertform, som handlar om dro?mmar. Mitt syfte med dessa musikproduktioner har prima?rt varit att underso?ka hur man som artist, genom musik och interfolierade mellanpartier - alltsa? den verbala kommunikationen mellan la?tar under en konsert som kommunikationsmedel, na?r ut till sin publik. De tva? musikproduktioner som jag genomfo?rt och som utgo?r mitt examensarbetes praktiska del har sin utga?ngspunkt i ett manus som jag skrev och en given la?tlista.

This essay deals with the individual collecting of four individuals with different backgrounds and lives. The essay investigates what, how and why people collect. It provides a stepping-stone in moving closer to understanding one, in human nature, deeply rooted phenomenon - collecting.The essay is based on a list of questions made by the Nordic Museum in Stockholm. It also includes in-depth examinations of four person?s passion of collecting, in which four individuals were interviewed: a pig collector, a collector of Mickey Mouse items, a multi-collector of objects from other cultures and one collector of items related to the artist Madonna.

This thesis presents an adaptive tuning system that can be described as a dynamic Just Intonation tuning system, being compatible with equally tempered instruments. The tuning system is called Hermode Tuning (HMT) and the tuning used as comparison for evaluation is the standardized western tuning, the equal tempered tuning. This study investigates preferences for these two musical tuning systems, depending on whether the tunings are presented on a piano or with woodwind instruments. A listening test was done with students at the Falun Conservatory of Music, including both a vertical listening (intervalls) and a horizontal listening (cadenses and musical compositions) of Hermode tuned musical material. Overall the results showed no significant preferences for either tuning system irrespectively of what instrument it was presented with.

This work aims to improve our knowledge about Swedish video game journalists, a new occupation in a quickly expanding business. Through a survey sent out to over 50 Swedish video game journalists, the result indicate some unexpected facts. Men largely dominate the profession; just 10 % of the work forces are females. This relation was notable in our survey, as well as in earlier studies. Video game journalists between 26 and 35 years old seems to be the largest age group, which we think is a bit surprising considering how new this form of journalism is, and the fact the internet provides opportunities for every enthusiastic video game writer.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate and assess, with Clausewitz?s theory as thebackground, how different military theorists interpret and relate to the nature of war.This essay illustrates the state of research into Clausewitz?s philosophical influences.Clausewitz?s theory of the nature of war is subjected to a qualitative text analysis that is followedby a critique of other military theorists interpretations of his theory. Subsequently a descriptive,comparative qualitative text analysis is performed where the factors identified by Clausewitz asbeing part of the nature of war (?rational thought?, ?passion? and ?chance?) are used as a meansto interpret and assess how other military theorists relate to Clausewitz theory. This essay ismainly founded on analysis of the works of Jomini, Delbrück, Fuller, Liddell Hart, Handel,Roxborough, van Creveld and Keegan.

Syfte: Uppsatsen behandlar tillämpligheten av teorin om den varumärkesorienterade organisationen inom detaljhandeln. Vilka är de specifika krav som ställs på varumärkesbyggande inom detaljhandel. Om några specifika krav ställs på detaljhandeln är det uppsatsens syfte att vara teoriutvecklande för att se hur dessa specifika krav kan användas i modellen. Metod: Uppsatsen bygger på en deduktivmetod. Den tar sin utgångspunkt i Mats Urdes teori om den varumärkesorienterade organisationen, denna förs sedan ner till en nivå som är specifik för Gröna Konsum.