I dagens samhälle är bröstcancer en folksjukdom och allt fler yngre kvinnor får diagnosen. Kvinnor reagerar känslomässigt starkt när sjukdomen hotar deras liv. Det är därför naturligt att kvinnan vid diagnosbeskedet kommer in i en chockfas vilket kan göra att viktig information om cancern blockeras. Syftet med denna studie är att belysa yngre kvinnors psykiska påverkan vid diagnosen bröstcancer. Metoden som användes var en litteraturstudie där resultatet var baserad på åtta kvalitativa artiklar vars innehåll granskades, tolkades och analyserades.

The aim of this study was to see if an increased amount of gas could be seen in the small bowel of cats subjected to trauma and if measuring the amount of gas could be of any use in the clinical evaluation of the patient. When the peristaltic waves in the small bowel decreases due to neurological damage or chock the microorganisms of the gut grow in number and possibly produce more gas and toxins. When the cat is stressed it can swallow more air then usual, and the air that is in solution with the chyme in the lumen of the gut separates from the ingesta. When the bowel isn?t moving it becomes easier for bacteria and toxins to penetrate the wall of the gut, and then get access to the bloodstream.

In developing countries such as Vietnam the population consumes more animal products for example milk and meat than before which requires greater livestock production. Ruminants contributes to more methane emission which creates a dilemma between food production and its environmental impact. By feeding ruminants with nutritive crops which humans can not assimilate the animal performance will increase in terms of better growth and milk production without inpinging on food that can be consumed directly by humans. Increasing animal performance reduces methane emission in terms of amount of methane in kg-1 milk and meat which today is much greater in developing countries than developed countries. The aim of the study was to investigate tropical tannin-rich legumes for their potential as a feed supplement for ruminants made in vitro.

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyse the consequences of being diagnosed with Asperger syndrome during adulthood. My ambition was to investigate the participants? perspective on how the diagnosis affected their lives and relationships with their partners. To answer the purpose three questions were formulated: (1) How did the participants experience being diagnosed with Asperger syndrome? (2) What have the diagnosis meant to the participants? self-image and self understanding? (3) Have the diagnosis influenced the participants? understanding of their partners and have the diagnosis influenced the partners? understanding of the participants? The study is based on qualitative interviews with two men and two women living in Stockholm, Sweden.

By using steady-state measurements for predicting emissions under a dynamic drive cycle wouldsave a lot of time and money for the exhaust aftertreatment specialists at Volvo cars. The idea forthis thesis has been to investigate if statistical regression models can be used with good accuracy.Questions included are for example if common operating variables such as engine speed, air-fuelratio etc. is sufficient to predict engine-out emissions over the engine operating range with goodaccuracy. Focus was set on the modelling of warm engine, but also the more complex engineheat-up phase was investigated since it is a great contributor to total emissions. While NOxcouldnot be measured because of malfunctioning measurement equipment, only HC, CO andtemperature at inlet of first catalytic converter has been modelled.

At Sandvik Materials Technology, Argon gas is used as furnace atmosphere when heattreating hot rolled wire. Upon heating chromium steel wire, a rich oxidelayer forms on the wire surface. The abstract of this masters thesis is to enhance the understanding of the constitution of the oxidelayers and the influence of the furnace atmosphere. This will be achieved by performing a number of annealing experiments on laboratory level. Also, the aim is to understand the chemical reactions and physical mecanisms controlling the pickling process.

Understensho?jden is Stockholm's largest eco-village which was built in the early 1990s with the vision of enabling ecological living for people. However the ecovillage is no longer considered as environmentally friendly because of its relatively high energy consumption, and non-updated energy system. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate how Understensho?jden should reduce their energy consumption and upgrade its energy system by using Blower-Door, IR-camera and Design Builder.

Miljonprogram is a Swedish building program from 1964 to 1975. During that time about a million homes were constructed. Now, almost 50 years later, they are in desperate need of renovation. In order to fulfil the Swedish environmental objective to decrease energy consumption 50 per cent until 2050, considerable housing stock built under the Miljonprogram has to be renovated.Focus in this thesis is on the building services and theirs profitability that can decrease energy consumption in households build during the Miljonprogram. Building construction is not considered in this report.

Background: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is a chronical disease that often occurs early in life. In 2005 around 7000 children in Sweden was estimated with type 1 diabetes. When a child gets a chronical disease it affects the whole family. The parents will be the ones who take the main responsible for the child´s care. Purpose: The aim of this literature review was to describe the parents experiences of living with a child with type 1 diabetes.

This paper describes the work done trying to diminish the noise present in the signal from an IR-detector. The project was aiming towards two different kinds of applications; heat protection and presence detection. The hypothesis was that the signal-noise ratio would decrease if a filter and a proper installation were used for the detector. Some experiments were executed to determine what kind of filter were the most suitable for each application and how these could be installed. After executing the experiments and evaluate the results we recommend to use a specific filter for each application.

Att ha genomgått en hjärtinfarkt kan väcka många olika känslor så som chock, rädsla, osäkerhet och känsla av att kroppen aldrig kommer att bli densamma. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva personers upplevelser av livet efter en hjärtinfarkt. I litteraturstudien analyserades 17 studier med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys och med en manifest ansats. Analysen resulterade i fyra kategorier. I resultatet framkom att kroppen kändes förändrad på många sätt och personerna var tvungna att genomföra livsstilsförändringar till följd av hjärtinfarkten.

The Swedish building and property management sector are responsible for about 30 % of the total energy use. In order to take environmental consideration, different environmental assessment tools and standards are used. Miljo?byggnad, Svanen, FEBY12 and PHI are some of these. There has been increased interest to certify buildings and therefore it is of interest to evaluate the assessment of the energy field to see if relevant energy aspects are assessed.

Uvån Hagfors Teknologi AB (UHT) has developed a process ? GRANSHOT® ? for quicksolidification of metals in water baths. In the process liquid metal is splintered ? granulated ?into small drops. The drops are rapidly cooled in a water bath where all the heat energy from theliquid metal is transferred into the water.

För människor som fått en hjärtdefibrillator implanterad (ICD) i sin kropp gällde det att försöka acceptera livet som det var och göra det bästa av sin situation. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva upplevelsen att leva med implanterad hjärtdefibrillator. 8 vetenskapliga artiklar har analyserats med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys med manifest ansats. Analysen resulterade i tre kategorier: Att återfå livskvalité och känna kontroll trots begränsningar i dagligt liv. Att känna fruktan och osäkerhet.

Bakgrund: Stroke är en vanlig sjukdom i Sverige och varje år drabbas ca 30 000 personer. En stroke kan medföra både fysiska och kognitiva funktionsnedsättningar hos den som drabbats. När livskamraten drabbas av stroke kan det för den närstående komma som en chock och en ny livssituation kan uppstå. Närstående får ta på sig ett stort ansvar när livskamraten kommer hem. Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva närståendes upplevelser av att leva med sin livskamrat som drabbats av stroke.