There are currently 2160 buildings in Sweden that are protected by law with the designation as a cultural heritage building, which is the strongest protection that can be obtained for a building of cultural historic significance. The purpose of this thesis is to research how strong and sustainable the protection of such a designation is and how you can motivate a revocation. Furthermore, this thesis aims to give an overall insight into all cases where there has been a revocation.To achieve the protection of a designation as a cultural heritage building, the object has to be of outstanding interest on account of its cultural historic value. In the first part, this thesis gives a short historic background of the cultural heritage law and its terms, like outstanding interest and cultural historic value. The County Administrative Board's documents about revocation are the main source for this research.There have been 24 cases of revocation and the frequency of such cases has increased in the past ten years.

The aim with this independent degree project of master thesis is to find what the user opinions of the intranet in a county council is. The paper seeks how the question about how the culture in the organisation was affected by the use of the intranet. An important part is to explore the expectations and acceptance of the intranet and get a picture of which functions and services support day-to-day work with good quality. One goal is to find out how the intranet users feel that the communication, information and usability can be developed.The focus group interview is a qualitative method that has been applied for gathering data from the respondents, who participate in the investigation from the county council. The used method is unstructured focus groups containing the three dominating categories of staff in the county council.

On commission of the County administrative board in Värmland County a method was developed for analysis of the occurrence of artificial land use at lakes and watercourses. With artificial land use is meant land significantly affected by man. Two bases have been used to carry out the analysis. In one of the analysis the vegetation database and in the other GSD¹-Marktäckedata (land cover data) was used (this method has been used by County administrative board in Jönköping County).The analysis comprises all watercourses within Alsterälven river basin. The digital water bodies are created by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute on the basis of GSD-Översiktskartan (general map).

Syfte: Att studera prevalensen av samsynsproblem hos förstaårselever på optikerprogrammet, och jämföra med förstaårselever från ekonomihögskolan. Denna studie är tänkt att ligga till grund för en longitudinell studie av samsynsproblem hos optikerstudenter samt ekonomistudenter vid Linnéuniversitetet i Kalmar.Metod: I studien deltog 15 optikerstudenter samt 15 ekonomistudenter, som läser första året vid Linneuniversitetet i Kalmar. Undersökningen inleddes med en anamnesenkät och sedan utfördes en binokulär synundersökning innehållandes tester av samsynen. Resultaten analyserades och jämfördes med normalvärden för att bestämma studentens eventuella vergens- eller ackommodationssyndrom.Resultat: Bland optikerstudenterna hade 6 studenter av 15 tendens till något av vergens- eller ackommodationssyndromen, och bland ekonomistudenterna hade 9 studenter av 15 tendens till något av vergens- eller ackommodationssyndromen.Slutsats: Denna studie visade en prevalens av samsynsproblem hos optikerstudenter på 40 % och hos ekonomistudenter på 60 %, vilket är något högre än tidigare studier. Att optikerstudenter skulle vara mer utsatta för samsynsproblem än andra studenter är något denna studie inte tyder på.

I detta examensarbete har vi undersökt vad som motiverar individer till att studera friluftslivskurser vid Högskolan i Kalmar, vi ville också ta reda på om det fanns några skillnader till motivationen om vi ser på kön eller åldersskillnader. Studien är tänkt som en del av ett forskningsarbete som kommer att bedrivas på Högskolan i Kalmar (Blivande Linneuniversitetet) vi har i denna studie valt att uppmärksamma vilken form av motivation som driver studenterna under utbildningen.I bakgrunden berörs tidigare forskning gällande olika motivationsteorier med anknytning till lärande. Vidare lyfter vi också fram forskning om vuxenutbildning och vad som motiverar till aktiviteter inom friluftsliv. Undersökningen bedrevs kvantitativt och data samlades in i form av en enkätundersökning. I vår kvantitativa undersökning bearbetade vi 70 enkäter som var fullständigt ifyllda. I undersökningen deltog 38 kvinnor och 32män mellan 19 år och 51 år. Resultatet redovisas i form av diagram som antingen berör inre motivation eller amotivation.

This essay is about how Östergötland County Museum and Gotland museum use the social network Facebook to connect and communicate with their visitors/followers. It is also about the followers and the experience they get. Two interviews were made with staff from the museums to answer why and how the museums use Facebook. There were also two questionnaires sent to the museums' Facebook followers. The Facebook followers have given answers about why they follow the museums but it also sheds light on age and gender of the followers.

In Sweden, the County Administration board is responsible for improving the water quality in lakes and watercourses according to the European Union Water Framework Directive. In Västmanland county, where river Lillån is situated, the County Administration of Västmanland have the main responsibility for the aquatic environment in that area. The knowledge about the different watercourses in the chatchment of river Lillån is today limited. The aim with this study was to evaluate the ecological quality of River Lillån based on water chemistry analyses and benthic fauna investigations. The aim was also for the benthic fauna to compere different samplingsites and sampling methods with each other in order to see how the species composition changes in the river, and to see the advantages and disadvantages with different sampling tecniques.

In this study we have investigated how local journalists in Kalmar think when they choose their sources to interview. We have also studied several factors that can affect their choices of sources.We have interviewed eight news journalists from the two largest local news papers Barometern and Östran in Kalmar.The journalists were asked about the sources they often use as interview objects. They were supposed to tell about how they think when choosing sources and define which sources they commonly use. There are different factors that can affect the choices and we have narrowed them down to ethics, source critics, credibility, stress, hard production conditions, public and their own interest and if they consider themselves to be individualistic or controlled by the news desks. Furthermore the journalists were asked to characterize what changes they would make when choosing sources in a perfect world.All of the journalists had not reflected prominently on the subject of sources before our research.

AbstractBruzelius, E. (2010). Adolescents and sexuality ? Attitudes among employees at Juvenile receptions in Gävleborgs län. Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för hälsa och arbetsliv.The aim of the current study was to examine and describe what perceptions and values of em-ployees at Juvenile receptions in the county of Gävleborg have about adolescents? sexual and general health.

Denna studies syfte var att undersöka hälsokoordinatorernas beredskap och upplevda kompetens att arbeta med alkoholriskbruk i primärvården i Landstinget i Kalmar Län och hur de upplevde arbetet. Metodansatsen som användes var triangulering, där enkäter skickades till alla hälsokoordinatorer i länet. Därefter utfördes semistrukturerade, kvalitativa intervjuer med tre strategiskt utvalda hälsokoordinatorer Det användes deskriptiv metod för enkäterna och innehållsanalys för intervjuerna. Resultatet var att arbetet med riskbruk av alkohol var ett känsligt område där hälsokoordinatorerna upplevde att de främsta hindrande faktorerna var brist på utbildning och instruktioner på hur det rent praktiskt skulle arbetas med riskbruk av alkohol. Utbildningsnivån stod inte i proportion till beredskapen att arbeta med frågan.

This thesis examines the reasons to why railway projects conducted by Banverket (Swedish National Rail Administration) could be expected to cause significant effects on the environment, on which grounds the County Administrative Board and Swedish National Rail Administration base their decisions/assumptions and highlight regional differences between the different Swedish national rail administrations regions. Total 24 railway projects, conducted or being conducted, during the time period 2001 - January 2010 have been analyzed and studied. These projects represent eight different measures/activities which are dispersed throughout all five of the Swedish National Rail Administration´s different regions. Swedish legislations demands that the planner of a new railway project shall first conduct a pre-study and then conduct a public consultation which provides the participants an opportunity to provide input. The County Administrative Board shall then decide if the project could cause significant effects on the environment.

AbstractBruzelius, E. (2010). Adolescents and sexuality ? Attitudes among employees at Juvenile receptions in Gävleborgs län. Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för hälsa och arbetsliv.The aim of the current study was to examine and describe what perceptions and values of em-ployees at Juvenile receptions in the county of Gävleborg have about adolescents? sexual and general health.

Viklund, J. & Älgamo, D. (2011).Fysisk aktivitet och idrott för vuxna individer i Västerbottens län ? möjligheter och utmaningar för en framtida aktivitetskatalog. (Physical activity and sports for adults in the county of Västerbotten ? opportunities and challenges for a future activity directory).

The lake Spexhultasjön is a moderate humic mesotrophic lake that is not acidified. The fish fauna was investigated by using a standard method for sampling freshwater fish with multi mesh gill nets. The fish fauna was diverse with perch, pike, tench, common whitefish, and roach. Perch and roach dominated. There were few pikes.

AbstractIntroductionOccurrence of bacteraemia and fungemia is a serious condition with high mortality and the incidence is increasing worldwide. The aim of this study was to survey the occurrence of bacteria and fungi in blood cultures from adult patients domiciled in the county of Gävleborg during one year and also to calculate the incidence and mortality in the same geographical area.MethodThis is a descriptive epidemiologic study, based on all episodes of blood cultures analyzed at the Microbiology laboratory, Gävle hospital during 2005. Patients from 20 years of age, domiciled in the county of Gävleborg at the date of drawing the blood culture, where included in the study. Criteria of exclusion were negative blood cultures and cultures which were classified as contaminants.ResultsAltogether there were 4 564 blood cultures analyzed, resulting in 524 (11 %) positive cultures for further study. There were 442 patients (48 % women) involved in 499 episodes with confirmed bacteraemia or fungemia.