Most studies regarding wolf (Canis lupus) predation on moose (Alces alces) have focused on the total annual consumption of moose within a wolf territory but few have tried to describe the spatial impact of wolf predation on a local scale. In this study I have analyzed wolf movement data, wolf predation, moose hunting statistics and moose hunter observations to investigate how wolf predation affects the human harvest of moose in Scandinavia. Since wolves prey on mostly juvenile moose during summer, analysis of their summer movement patterns is crucial to understand its impact on the human harvest later during autumn. In this study both reproducing (n = 45) and non-reproducing wolves (n = 12) reduced their movement range during summer to 66% and 67% of their annual movement range, respectively. Reproducing wolves increased their movement range from early to late summer while non reproducing wolves did not.

Sammanfattning Titel: LÄgkonjunktur ? En studie i vilka skillnader som finns för variationen i antal anstÀllda inom IT- respektive industribranschen Författare: Emilio Nilsson, Oscar Kacprzak Handledare: Emil Numminen Institution: Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Kurs: Kandidatarbete i Företagsekonomi Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen Àr att undersöka och analysera för hur företagets ekonomiska data för den relativt unga IT-sektorn förklarar antal anstÀllda gentemot hur företagets ekonomiska data förklarar nyckeltalet för en Àldre mer erfaren bransch som industrisektorn. Metod: Vi har samlat ihop kvartalsrapporter frÄn 1999 Ärs första kvartal till 2009 Ärs första kvartal för totalt 10 stycken företag som vi bedömt lÀmpliga för studien, 5 företag frÄn IT-branschen samt 5 företag frÄn industribranschen. Vi har dÀrefter fört regressionsanalyser med antal anstÀllda som Y-variabel och totala intÀkter, aktienivÄ, rörelsekostnader samt rörelseresultat som X-variabler för att finna korrelationen dÀremellan. Slutsats: De framkomna resultaten frÄn regressionsanalyserna pekar pÄ att det finns skillnader branscherna emellan.

Pine twisting rust (Melampsora pinitorqua) is a parasitic rust fungus found all across Sweden causing damage resulting in lower quality and reduced tree growth in pine stands. In Sweden, the fungus is dependent on two alternate hosts; European aspen (Populus tremula) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). Pine twisting rust has five different spore stages, two of them (uredinio- and teliospores) on the leaves of aspen. Injures on aspen caused by pine twisting rust is not extensive. On the other hand, when it infects the annual shoots of Scots pine it often results in a bent steam or even a top shoot breakage.

The purpose of this thesis is to ascertain the main determinable factors of Swedish SMEs capital structure decisions and to investigate whether existing capital structure theories are applicable on Swedish SME financing. We have used panel data to run regressions of various capital structure determinants on three measures of capital structure; short- term debt, long-term debt and total debt. We found that growth opportunities, profitability and age are the most important capitalstructures determinants for our sample. Firm size shows a small explanatory result but the effective tax rate and the asset tangibility do not seem to explain the capital structure at all. Thematurity matching principle is considered significant..

This thesis aims at determining the heat losses in a property vent stack and its roof valve. Upon request of a company, the vent stack is analysed for possible heat recovering solutions to be implemented, while relining of the drain system is executed and with a suitable payback time for the economic investments. The heat loss calculations are based on data for properties that are located in the Stockholm region, but also easy to change depending on the situation. The calculations are done on pipes made out of cast iron, which still is the most common type of drain pipe in Sweden, and these are the pipes that relining is usually made on. The calculations that needed to take several variables into account have been done in MatlabR2014a and the thermos dynamical properties that were used in those calculations have been extracted from EES.Three different types of heat losses in the vent stack have been taken into consideration in this thesis.

Different Perspectives is a study of detainees' and guards' experiences of the remand prison. The result of the study shows that the remand prison brings forth the individuals anxiety, stress and fear. The individual detained in remand prison have a great need for contact with their families, but also with the guards. In the remand prison there is always a great level of control and always some kind of power practised. It is the guards who have the power and the competences to make the individuals detained in remand prison follow the rules and do what they have been told.

Using the Introductory Carbon Balance Model, ICBM, five different crop rotations with rye 1. Rye-Ley-Ley-Rye-Beans-Rye 2. Rye-Rye-Rapeseed-Rapeseed 3. Rye-Ley-Ley-Rye-Potatoes-Rye 4. Rye-Rye-Potatoes-Wheat 5. Rye-Rye-Potatoes-Beans-Wheat-Rye-Potatoes-Rapeseed were tested theoretically in four different cultivation scenarios ? Straw left on the field, biogas digestate added as fertilizer. Labelled ?+straw+BD?. ? Straw left on the field, only synthetic fertilizer. Labelled ?+straw-BD?. ? Straw harvested, biogas digestate added as fertilizer.

Att vara sjuksköterskestudent innebÀr mycket klinisk praktik. Möjlighet erbjuds att kÀnna pÄ hur det dagliga arbetet organiseras pÄ klinikerna. Erfarenheter av detta gav inspiration till denna studie. Hur upplever mÀnniskor att vara del av en organisation? Syftet med studien var att sammanstÀlla beskrivningar av upplevelser frÄn beprövade sÀtt att organisera omvÄrdnadsarbetet inom sjuksköterskans omrÄde.

Syftet med va?r underso?kning var att underso?ka hur va?l fastighetsma?klarfo?retag lyckats skapa en medvetenhet, acceptans och engagemang fo?r fo?retagets varuma?rke hos sina ansta?llda. Vi har i studien a?ven studerat organisationskulturens roll i byggandet av ?corporate identity?. Va?r underso?kning har skett genom en kvalitativ metod och med halvstrukturerade intervjuer.

In early January 2010 the authors participated in a meeting with the chief engineer for a company in which a central part is manufacturing of printed circuit boards (PCB). At this meeting it emerged that the machinery and production methods have changed substantially since the early 1990's. The spreadsheet for preliminary production time calculations by the company is today based on conditions from almost 20 years ago. The company has over the years been trying to adjust the spreadsheet template. The result of these adjustments has filled it with historical residue, something which makes the template difficult and time consuming when the primary user tries to handle it.The purpose of this study was to help the company increase its accuracy in the representation of the production times for the different PCB-based products by developing a new costing model based on an already existing but inadequate spreadsheet template. The company also expressed the wish that the new costing model would be less time consuming to work with.The methods used to achieve the goal are interviewing, participatory observations and meetings with relevant persons. The data obtained were analyzed using the theory on PCB production and visualization of data.

We got in contact with Marco AB, who we?ve had contact with before concerning earlier projects, to find out if they were interested in arranging a larger project for our last class (Examensarbete 15hp). They were very positive to this proposition, and soon they offered us a project regarding reconstruction of their current mechanical device that absorbs all the force from the lift itself when it is at a predefined level (sv. sjunkspÀrr). The current solution does fulfill the requirements that are given, however it is not a solution that gives a high level of satisfactory.

Ett företag med ett flertal leverantörer mÄste pÄ sikt vÀlja ut vilka leverantörer man önskar arbeta aktivt/passivt med. För att kunna göra detta krÀvs att man tar fram konkurrenskraftiga leverantörsstrategier som bygger pÄ vÀlgenomtÀnkta beslut. Dessa beslut mÄste ta hÀnsyn till inköpets totala risk för leverantör och komponent. Den totala risken Àr oftast vÀldigt specifik för varje företag och bygger pÄ ett flertal olika parametrar. Författarna ger i denna uppsats förslag pÄ tre parametrar som kan hjÀlpa företag att ta fram effektiva leverantörsstrategier.

The aim of this study is to understand the collaboration at a child investigation and the actions that may be encountered as a result of the investigation, based on the Social Secretaries experiences of collaboration with other agencies such as schools, police, health visitor and child psychiatry. In the study, eight social workers from different municipalities was interviewed at a total of six occasions. One of the occasions was a group interview with three social workers at the same time. Through the interviews, it appears that the collaboration has an important role in social work and the necessity is something that manifests itself in the social secretaries stories but also in the earlier research done in this area. The results show that social workers extensively want to interact but that the purpose of interaction varies depending on the nature of the matter.

The purpose of this work is to find out what female students think about SkogsmÀstarprogrammet (Forest Management ? Bachelor?s Programme) at the Swedish University of Agriculture. The programme has existed since 1945 and in total over the years 1974 - 2007 about 10 % females have been studying at the programme. Today 15 % of the students are women, and the goal is to reach at least 30 %. The central question in the present work is to investigate how it is possible to increase the proportion of women.

Ma?nniskor tenderar att motiveras av olika saker och svarar pa? sa? vis olika pa? motivationsfo?rso?k. Det a?r da?rfo?r viktigt fo?r ledningen inom organisationer att ha kunskap kring dessa olikheter. Ekonomer och ingenjo?rer a?r tva? grupper av akademiker som ofta figurerar pa? samma typer av arbetsplatser, da?rfo?r blir skillnaderna mellan ekonomer och ingenjo?rer och hur de tenderar att motiveras en viktig fra?ga.