Title: Process description of round timber transports ? a case study at Tra?frakt Go?taland ABAuthors: Karl ? Johan Tern, Christian Johansson and Andreas IvarssonTutor: Anders JerrelingExaminer: Fredrik KarlssonBackground: Today the profitability of forest haulers is unsatisfactory. Negotiations on prices are more about the relative strength of the negotiation parties rather than a discussion about actual costs. Adding extensive changes in the forest haulers cost structure has led to insufficient knowledge of whether the negotiated prices really correspond to their costs.Methodology: We decided to carry out a case study at Tra?frakt Go?taland AB, a special interest organisation whose members represent the majority of forest haulers in Go?taland.Purpose: To describe the processes and underlying activities of round timber transports.

This is a pattern project for textiles, with main purpose to develop and challenge my design process and to experiment with a mix of different printing techniques. The goal of the project was to create three textile individuals as representatives of my experiments, inspired by natural surfaces.The world of fashion have been an inspiration and has been the model for these textiles, with its powerful and playful patterns. With the world of fashion as a model, I also chose to work with the materials habotai silk and silk velvet. The qualities of these materials has also been influential in my design language.The work has been very focused on experiementation and exploration, and resulted in three printed fabrics that I have chosen to call Björkalm, Lindstam and Lavbädd..

Rapporten Designstudie av beställningsautomat -anpassad för drive through- behandlararbetet från produktutveckling till modellframställning. Den uppgift som gruppen tagit sig angäller utveckling och design av en automat anpassad för användning i en drive through. Helaarbetet är ett examensarbete inom Produkt och Processutveckling (kurskod: KN1060) vidInstitutionen för Design och Produktutveckling på Mälardalens högskola.Produktutvecklingen gäller en automat anpassad för användning i en drive through, iproduktutvecklingen ingår val av material, produktionsmetod, utformning samtkonceptmodeller. Arbetet har utförts med en funktionsanalys och intervjuer som grund.Utifrån dessa dokument har sedan flertalet koncept kunnat utvecklas. Med stöd av ett antalutvecklingsverktyg har ett urval kunnat göras för att slutligen mynna ut i ett enda slutgiltigtkoncept.Jämförelser och urval av koncept har genomförts med hjälp av ett antal utvecklingsverktyg;QFD-analys (Quality Function Deployment), FMEA-analys (Failure Mode Effect Analysis)och Pugh-matris.

This study aims to examine preschool teachers' thoughts about the child libraries functions. The purpose is to highlight preschool children's early read and writing skills, before they even can read and write, which is a theory called emergent literacy.This is made by conducting five qualitative interviews, with the intention to investigate how the preschool teachers think about the cooperation and the function of the child library, partly for their own work with the children and partly for their organization. By using a tablechart which shows each preschool teachers mostly common thoughts in the interview and by using a model based upon Harrysson and Joelsson (2006) model, which shows the functions of the public library in the society. The results of the study are presented in the four categories of the model which are; to borrow, to learn, to ask and to find, to reside. These are functions that the preschool teachers see with the library, for their work with the childrens' early literacy.

This study presents a methodology that enables the annual average power of a wind turbine to be increased by automatically optimizing it?s airfoil, twist and chord dis- tribution. As a part of the study the software SiteOpt has been developed. This software connects the open source software XFOIL with the blade element momen- tum theory. XFOIL gives lift and drag coefficients which enable the blade element momentum theory to predict the power of a wind turbine at different wind and ro- tational speeds.

Bergvik Skog is one of the leading forest companies in Sweden who use airborne laser scanning for forestry information. They utilize laser data retrieved by the Swedish National Land Survey to describe the forest holdings and facilitate planning for thinning and final felling operations. However, the possibility to identify stands with clearing needs by using laser scanning data has not been tested in a large scale. The data used in the current study are field data from The Swedish National Forest Inventory in combination with laser data from the Swedish National Land Survey acquired in 2009. The collected data is used to find one or several laser variables that best describe the relationship of the field measured samples with clearing needs.

The problems with train-induced vibrations are increasing with heavier and faster trains. Therefore the work with propagating vibrations is of outmost importance, and that is what this thesis relates to.To get a sensible idea of the propagation, calculation models are often used. Propagation calculation models takes into account factors such as distance to the railway, the ground material and the velocity and weight of the train. This work is mainly about finding suitable existing models and, if necessary, adjust them to be more useful with modern trains and railways.The report contains the work of adjusting one such model and does, despite the fully functional adjusted model, describe how much more there can be done within this topic. Finally, a few tips about specific areas that preferably should be studied to get even further knowledge about the troublesome problems from railways..

AbstractTitle: When book becomes film... ? a comparative analysis of the book and film Catch me if you can (När bok blir till film?En jämförande analys av boken och filmen Catch me if you can)Number of pages: 46Author: Majlinda JunikuTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Autumn term 2007University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University.Purpose/Aim: To study what model of dramaturgy belongs to the film Catch me if you can and to see what has been crossed out, altered and added from the book so the narrative will fit this model.Material/Method: The film Catch me if you can and the book with the same name has been used to analyze the differences between them. I have divided the differences into three categories: Crossed out, Altered and Added. In the analysis section these have been presented in each section of the film.Main results: Catch me if you can is definetly a film made with the design of the Anglosaxon model, mostly because of its timestructure and that it portrays an action and not just a condition which is normal in the epic-lyric model.

Title: Process description of round timber transports ? a case study at Tra?frakt Go?taland ABAuthors: Karl ? Johan Tern, Christian Johansson and Andreas IvarssonTutor: Anders JerrelingExaminer: Fredrik KarlssonBackground: Today the profitability of forest haulers is unsatisfactory. Negotiations on prices are more about the relative strength of the negotiation parties rather than a discussion about actual costs. Adding extensive changes in the forest haulers cost structure has led to insufficient knowledge of whether the negotiated prices really correspond to their costs.Methodology: We decided to carry out a case study at Tra?frakt Go?taland AB, a special interest organisation whose members represent the majority of forest haulers in Go?taland.Purpose: To describe the processes and underlying activities of round timber transports.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the possibility to identify the FRBR entity expression from existing catalogue records performed within the context of Swedish cataloguing rules. The empirical study uses a sample of records from the catalogue within the library at the University College of Borås. To begin with, the thesis reports some of the earlier discussion about the FRBR model. That gives an understanding of which problems the model has and justifies the study?s delimitation towards expression.

For nearly twenty years people have been talking about Product models, but given that the building industry is so conservative, it is hard to implement new working methods. Product models are these days known as Building Information Modeling, BIM. People often say they work with BIM but they often forget the most important part, the information. A 3D model should be linked with characteristics and information. Information that can be invaluable for the facility manager.We have a vision that in the best of worlds the facility manager would be able to "walk" into the model and see what kind of installations are inside the wall or in the roof.

I denna rapport redogörs för ett examensarbete av Susanna Lundholm-Jonsson i samarbete med företaget Naturlek. Arbetet har bestått i att ta fram en ny lekprodukt med ett nytt tänkande, men ändå inom ramen för Naturleks filosofi/profil. Naturlek framställer lekprodukter i massivt svenskt ekträ, produkter som är tänkta att passa i de flesta lekmiljöer och som inte ska fordra något underhåll.Arbetets tyngdpunkt har legat på att ta fram en lekprodukt som har ett mjukt och naturligt formspråk och som på något sätt symboliserar det enkla och naturliga.Syftet med själva ?Lektrappan? är att den ska inspirera och locka till lek, och att den ska erbjuda barnen ett alternativ till de lekprodukter som finns idag. Fokus har även legat på att den ska vara möjlig att tillverka till en rimlig kostnad.Brukargrupper har intervjuats bestående av förskollärare, lärare, skolbarn och förskolebarn.

Allt fler bor på en liten yta av olika orsaker. Vanligast är det bland unga vilket kan leda till att boendet blir väldigt trångt. Compact Living är ett begrepp inom inredning som syftar på att effektivisera boendet utan att hemtrevnaden blir lidande för bostadens yta. Ur ett Compact Living perspektiv och dagens trender har olika kreativa koncept tagits fram.En förklaring till att trång­boddhet är vanligast bland yngre är att unga i större utsträckning studerar, eller just kommit in på arbets­marknaden, och därför inte har ekonomiska förut­sättningar för att köpa eller hyra en större bostad. Att många yngre räknas som trång­bodda då de bor i ett student­rum eller i en en­rums­lägenhet är kanske heller inte att betrakta som något problem, utan en naturlig fas i livet.Utifrån ett identifierat problem av produktutvecklingsföretaget PlusFunction har vi gemensamt tagit fram ett examensarbete med syfte att utveckla ett koncept på ett nattygsbord.

SammanfattningSyftet med detta projekt var att undersöka vilka krafter och yttre förhållanden som verkar på en rörkoppling som ligger nergrävd i marken, samt vilka förbättringar som kan göras gällande vikten och hållfastheten på dagens kopplingar. Målet har varit att förbättra den befintliga rörkopplingen ?MULTI/JOINT® 3007 Wide Range Coupling? från företaget Georg Fischer Piping Systems.Med hjälp av en litteraturstudie, beräkningar och muntliga källor undersöktes vad det är för villkor en rörkoppling måste klara av. Utifrån detta arbetades en kravspecifikation fram, som sedan låg till grund för analysen av kopplingarna. En CAD-modell av rörkopplingen skapades som sedan analyserades i ANSYS där det undersöktes hur bra den uppfyllde de uppsatta hållfasthetskraven.Då det visade sig att spänningarna som uppstod i kopplingen hamnade precis under sträckgränsen för materialet togs beslutet att ta fram tre förslag på hur rörkopplingen kunde förbättras för att minska spänningarna.Det första konceptet har förstärkningar på öronen eftersom det var i just de regionerna som de högsta spänningarna uppkom.

Objective: In recent years there has been an increasing interest within the clinical (medical) science in measuring people?s health. When estimating quality of life, present practise is to use the EQ-5D questionnaire and an index which weighs the different questions. The question is what happens if the individuals estimate there own health, would it differ from the public preferences? The aim is to make a new prediction model based on the opinion of patients and compare it to the present model based on public preferences.Method: A sample of 362 patients with unstable coronary artery disease from the Frisc II trial, valued their quality of life in the acute phase and after 3, 6 and 12 months.