The objective of this paper is to estimate monetary and non-monetary costs for the huntercaused by deer-vehicle collisions in Sweden. These costs include losses in hunting value as wellas time and money efforts related to the handling of wildlife casualties. The calculations arebased on available statistics from 2004 on deer-vehicle collisions involving moose, deer, roedeerand wild boar and on telephone interviews with hunters involved in the tracking of injuredanimals. Altogether, the annual loss in hunting value for moose was assessed to approximately30 million SEK based on the 2004 accident statistics. For roe-deer and fallow deer, thecorresponding figure was approximately 56 million SEK and 1.2 million SEK, while wild boaraccounted for 1.3 million SEK, respectively.

The purpose of this thesis is to study how today?s consumer society can be understood from ananalysis of the phenomenon Every Day Carry (EDC). The aim is thus to problematize the daily useof the artifacts that surrounds us and investigate how these can be understood as networks of humanand non-human actors, aswell as identity- and meaning-making practices in today?s consumersociety.The theoretical and methodical framework is built upon an eclectic variety of consumptiontheories,Michel Callon?s, John Law?s and Bruno Latour?s work on Actor-Network-Theory,Discourse analysis inspired by Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and anethnographic methodology specifically adapted for online research. The empirical material consistsof photographs and commentaries from two EDC blogs aswell as commentaries regarding EDCfrom a commentary field on Youtube.com.

Syfte/problemställningar: Att med en kvalitativ undersökning studera om det tydligt via text och bild går att urskilja några globala och kulturella influenser i utvalda reportage från magasinet Elle Decoration, från fem olika länder. Vi studerar även skiljelinjerna mellan vad som är privat och vad som är offentligt genom framställningen av hemmet och dess inredning. Teori: Birgit Öbergs kulturperspektiv, John Tomlinsons globaliseringsperspektiv, Anja Hirdman, Madeleine Kleberg och Kristina Widestedts teorier kring intimiseringen av journalistiken och Jürgen Habermas offentlighetsteori. Metod: Semiotisk bildanalys och textuell diskursanalys. Resultat och slutsats: Via undersökningen har vi kommit fram till att det globala kan ses som ett nytt ideal inom heminredning där en gemensam underliggande mall ligger till grund för hemmens utformning och framställning.

TitleSystems, Stability and Power. The Discourse of Information in Organizing Knowledge.AbstractThe aim of this Master's thesis is to inquire into the consequences of an unequal distribution of power between information discourses in the field of knowledge organisation. A deconstruction of Jennifer Rowley's and John Farrows introductory textbook Organizing Knowledge from 2000 is related to the major discourses of information in LIS. Questions posed in this study are: What meaning is ascribed to information in the material studied? Which information discourses are given a dominant position? Which are excluded? and: How does this affect the construction of the library and information science student's identity, in relation to practices of knowledge organisation? The theoretical framework is provided by Ernesto Laclau's and Chantal Mouffe's theory of discourse and combined with techniques for text analysis originating from the work of Norman Fairclough.The analysis reveals a strong domination of a cognitive discourse of information that underlines the importance of information systems for the organisation of knowledge.

Syfte: Syftet med denna undersökning har varit att studera hur elevers förståelse för ämnet matematik påverkas av att skriva en reflektionsdagbok där de även får återkoppling inför nästa lektion. De frågeställningar som har fokus i undersökningen är:1) Hur påverkas elevernas förståelse av att få reflektera och tänka över vad de lärt sig eller inte lärt sig, och att formulera detta med egna ord i en dagbok?2) Hur påverkas elevernas förståelse av att få återkoppling på det de skrev inför nästa lektion?3) Hur påverkas elevernas förståelse av att bli mer medvetna om sitt eget lärande?Teori: Den huvudsakliga inriktningen av vald litteratur i arbetet handlar om hur elever kan göras delaktiga i sitt lärande på bästa sätt. Den teoretiska inriktningen som författaren Lisa Björklund Boistrup representerar är socialsemiotik och fokuserar på tre metafunktioner med beteckningarna interpersonell, ideationell samt textuell. Den teoretiska inriktning som författaren John Hattie utgår från är Jean Piagets utvecklingspsykologi när han diskuterar vikten av att lärare förstår hur elever tänker och lär.Metod: Den valda metoden har en kvalitativ ansats och är inspirerad av aktionsforskning.

Investment in hedge funds is a relatively new phenomenon for investors compared with other forms of savings. In recent years, the interest has increased among investors in investing their money in hedge funds, given the protection against declines in the market they are aiming for. Their main purpose is to generate a high return at a low risk regardless of market trends. This they can achieve by having fewer restrictions that offer more flexible investment strategies and freer investment opportunities.The purpose of this paper is to identify how the selected hedge fund strategies have performed during the recent economic downturn. We also want to clarify the claim that hedge funds exhibit a positive absolute return regardless of what the market is performing.In order to answer the purpose of the essay and its problems, we have used a quantitative method with a deductive approach in the processing of data.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka på vilket sätt Hemsökta hus och Det okända konstruerar förekomsten av övernaturliga fenomen. Detta genom att påvisa skillnader och likheter mellan två episoder av respektive program. De frågor som ligger till grund för undersökningen är: Vilka skillnader och likheter finns mellan programmens narrativa strukturer? Hur gestaltas de övernaturliga fenomenens relation till medium kontra övriga deltagare i programmen? Hur konstrueras bilden av de övernaturliga fenomenen i respektive program?För att besvara frågeställningarna och uppfylla studiens syfte har jag gjort en narrativ analys enligt Alexa Robertsons anpassade modell samt semiotisk analys och läran och Televisionens koder med hjälp av Selby och Crowdys bok How to study television samt John Fiskes Television culture. Den teoretiska ramen består av fyra områden: Narratologi, Reality-TV, Autenticitet samt Döden och övernaturliga fenomen i medierna.Resultatet visar på att även om båda programmen ger anspråk på att övernaturliga fenomen faktiskt existerar så är framställningen av dessa spöken, andar och gastar avsevärt olika i sin konstruktion.

The construction industry works today with a time limit, therefore it is important to have rational tools to improve the efficiency in the building process. That?s the reason for this report, where a standard for interior finishes has been developed for Sandvik. The standard for interior finishes is designed as a program for room functions and includes office space and sanitary areas. It is a proposal showing how Sandvik can design their premises in the future.

A possible way to reduce pollution and slow down the process of global warming is to increase the usage of renewable energy sources. One of these renewable energy sources is solar power. With the aid of solar panels and solar cells the energy from the sun can be transformed into both heating and electricity. The requirement to use the sun in this fashion is a suitable surface, for example a big roof, an angle between 40-60 degrees and that the surface should be exposed to the south. Almost every farm meets these requirements.

One of our reasons is that we think the subject usability is interesting, is that we think it is an important. Usability is maybe the most important element when you develop or choose a system because it can save money for the companies and give the users a more delightful and better work environment. The aim of the investigation is to find out if the implementation of a web portal is a direction to reach higher usability in a complex system that consists of several different interacting applications. The objective of our investigation is to show if the implementation of a web portal is a direction to reach higher usability in a complex system that consists of several different interacting applications. In our case we will try to see if Karlshamns AB:s recently implemented web portal is more useful than their previous application (Movex with interacting programs) One thought with the report is to give the system developers a perspective of how the usability can be in-house made applications versus standard applications. Also companies that not have any computer- or department for development and which are thinking of get hold of, change, replace or complement their system and applications, may have some interest in our thesis. We have used a qualitative investigation method in our study to answer our hypothesis.

Stormwater run-off from surfaces such as roads or rooftops is often polluted with heavy metals and nutrients. Many of these substances can cause great damage in biota if they end up in the recipient. In Sweden constructed wetlands and ponds for treatment of stormwater are frequently used, since research has shown that these treatment ponds are reducing stormwater pollution considerably to a low cost. The knowledge of these pollutant removal mechanisms and how follow-up and assessment of the ponds should be performed is still limited.To determine the pollutant removal efficiency of the stormwater ponds it is recommended that flow-weighted water samples are collected from both the inflow and the outflow of the pond. This method demands considerable resources of time and money for installations and analysis.

SammanfattningBåde Läroplanen för förskolan (Lpfö98/2010) och den forskning vi i vår studie tagit del av framhäver vikten av barns inflytande i förskolan. Bland annat poängterar filosofen och pragmatikern John Dewey (1916/1999) att vägen till ett demokratiskt samhälle bör starta med de yngre barnen, och att de genom miljön ska få erfara allas lika värde. Vi har genomfört en kvalitativ studie på två förskolor, empirin omfattar både intervjuer och observationer. Förskollärarna vi intervjuat har mellan 12 till 34 års pedagogisk erfarenhet, och vår ambition har varit att undersöka pedagogernas uppfattningar om barns inflytande i förskolan, samt hur de tar till vara på och uppmuntrar barnen till att vilja och kunna ha inflytande. I vår teoridel har vi lagt fokus på kommunikation och vuxnas barnsyn som betydelsefulla aspekter för barns möjligheter till inflytande i förskolan. Resultatet av vår studie visar att det till största delen är i den fria leken som barns inflytande kommer till uttryck.

The globalization of political and economic processes is a growing moral concern for theologians and political philosophers alike. My thesis aims to outline, analyze, and compare church studies of globalization with global theories of justice.To do this, I draw upon recent studies of globalization made by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). The WCC and LWF are two global reaching church organizations. They have a common aim of uniting churches for ecumenical dialogue and are involved in social, economic, political, and ecological questions. The WCC and LWF analyze globalization by applying biblical and theological principles from the Christian tradition.

SummaryHerbal remedies have been used for many years to alleviate various symptoms. They were used in ritual acts to reassure the Gods and as medication. Plants as rhubarb and ginseng were used in China long time ago. The Egyptians had knowledge of herbal medicine such as aloe, myrrh and henbane, 1550 BC. The father of medicine Hippocrates used a large number of herbal medicines, and had many theories on the subject.Different parts of the plant can be used to extract the active ingredients.

The demand for food, feed, fibre and fuel has increased in Uganda over the past 50 years due to population growth. Recurring extreme climate events such as drought and flooding, in combination with large-scale land degradation, have led to declining crop yields. Lack of equipment, money and socio-economic issues has contributed to low yields. However, the soils in Uganda have the potential to produce much higher yields than they do today. This study, which was carried out in April-June 2013 in Kkingo District, south-east Uganda, examined the effects of agroforestry on yield of cooking bananas in small-holder farming systems. Six farms practising agroforestry and six farms with no agroforestry, which were chosen in cooperation with the NGO Vi Agroforestry, were compared.