The purpose of this study is to investigate how important computers are for text production in upper secondary school level, and to find out what attitudes some students have towards computers in writing classes. I have let 44 students in the Swedish gymnasium course Swedish B write an argumentative essay. Half of the group wrote using paper and pencil, and the other half used computers. The essays were graded, and the language and length of the texts were analyzed. The students also filled in a questionnaire with questions on computer aided writing classes.The results showed that the texts that were written with computers contained a significant larger amount of words and fewer spelling mistakes.

The aim was to examine writing ability and some of its underlyingfunctions in adults with intellectual or communicative disabilities at dailyactivity centres by comparisons with children and adults without disabilities.66 adults with intellectual or communicative disabilities, 39 children and 14adults without disabilities were included. The following tests/tasks wereexecuted: Test for Reception of Grammar-2, graphomotor task, nonwordrepetition, Rapid Automatized Naming and Writing elicited by pictures. Thepicture elicited narratives were examined regarding length, spelling,syntactic complexity, interpunctuation, content and general impression. Theresults demonstrated that adults at daily activity centres performed lowerscores than adults without disabilities. The group generally didn?t differ fromthe children, but they made a smaller proportion of phonologicallyacceptable misspellings and achieved lower scores on nonword repetitionand Rapid Automatized Naming, which could indicate limitations inphonological processing ability.

As the globalization of companies increases day by day, the need for a clear and comprehensible legislation to overcome the problems with transfer pricing transactions increases as well. Incorrect pricing in transfer pricing situations between companies with close economic ties to each other makes countries risk parts of their taxation income.Swedish legislation uses the internationally accepted arm?s length principle to regulate the transfer pricing transactions. Through the correction rule, the rule is upheld that the pricing between two companies with close economic ties to each other must apply to the same conditions as it would have been if it was between two companies without close economic ties to each other.To ensure that enough material is provided to base the assumption whether or not the correction rule has been followed or not, Swedish legislation provides a number of paragraphs to regulate the matter. The legislation is spread all over and is hard to interpret.

The state of health in Sweden demonstrates a high average length of life at the same time as diseases, due to luxurious living, grew into more and more widespread public health problems. Finding out that information is not enough to get man to live healthy has been conducive to a pedagogic based health education. An illustration of such an education is Public health pedagogy at the University of Kristianstad. The question is, does this education correspond to the new claims that society lays to health work? Our purpose was to throw light upon how individuals, qualified as public health pedagogues, look upon their work on one hand and how different clusters of thought from their study programme are conceived as activated in their professional exercise on the other.

During the work at Gateway Security AB in Motala I began examining available antenna models to get a wider perspective, this have given knowledge of their structure, and an understanding of their function. All my necessary fact is based on my observations and notes of these measurings. New antenna models, and available models were examined where measurements at different heights and different distances on the antenna were performed with the help of an oscilloscope and a measure probe, peak ? to - peak was brought on the signal. The measurements are presented in a line diagram.

Detta examensarbete är en konceptuell fartygsprojektering av en ny serie fartyg åt Sjöräddningssällskapet. Rapporten presenterar ett förslag till en ny sjöräddningsbåt som kan ersätta två äldre fartygstyper, i storleksordningen tio meter, och det behov som täcks av dem. Fartygets huvuduppgifter fastställs vara bogsering och sjuktransport och det opererar mestadels i skyddade vatten under sommarhalvåret. Examensarbetet är handlett av Thore Hagman, Sjöräddningssällskapet och examinator Karl Garme, KTH,Marina System. Mycket arbete har lagts på att skapa ett kostnadseffektivt förslag vilket gav att en befintlig skrovform anpassades för att passa den kravställning som togs fram tillsammans med Sjöräddningssällskapets ledning och räddningsbesättningar.Huvuddata:Loa 9,95 mBoa 4,2 mT 0,65 mDeplacement 5,65 ton fullastatMotorer 2x350 hk utombordareFart 42 knopBunker 1,5 m2 bensinRäckvidd +280 Nm i 35 knopFartyget har ett fristående däckshus som, om det dimensioneras och byggs vattentätt, gör fartyget självrätande.

Reflections är en stämningslampa som med hjälp av invävd fiberoptik lockar fram nya visuella och taktila uttrycksvärdeni en textil. Under arbetets gång har jag utforskat mängden ljus som fiberoptisk textil sprider längsmed fiberlängden samt undersökt naturfiberns egenskaper när den vävs samman med fiberoptik.En stor utmaning var att hitta balans mellan tekniska begränsningar och det uttryck jag sökte. Lampans formspråkär min reflektion över dagens stadslandskap där arkitekturens geometriska former möterfordons strömlinjeform. Med stämningslampan hoppas jag att hitta och inspirera till nya användningsområdenför fiberoptisk textil.Reflections is a mood light using interwoven fiber optics witch brings out new visual and tactile expressionvalues in a textile. During the work, I have explored the amount of light fiber optic textile spreads along thefiber length and examined properties of nature fiber when it is interwoven with fiber optics.A major challenge was finding a balance between technical constraints and expressions I was looking for.

The New National Elevation Model (NNH) is a new high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) of Sweden from airborne laser scanning. It creates many new opportunities, particularly in the area of flood mapping. NNH is provided by Lantmäteriet in two formats, both in raw LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data and in grid format with two meter resolution. These alternatives have advantages and disadvantages and the aim of this thesis research is to identify these. One of the focuses of the study is data storage and thus data structure analysis, resolution and storage facilities. The research questions are:Why and in what context the different NNH-products from the National Land Survey are used (DEM 2+ or point cloud)?What constraints and opportunities are created by the different options, mainly in terms of different software, resolution, and data storage?The study area is Kärsön in Ekerö municipality located in Stockholms län and has an approximate area of 25 square kilometers. The study is divided into two parts. The first objective is to identify the consequences of using different software to create DEM from pointcloud compared to the DEM2+ model. Height models with a two meter resolution are created in FME and ArcGIS. The models are then compared with the grid from Lantmäteriet, created in TerraScan. The second objective is to examine the impact of the change in resolution, both the storage aspect and both the accuracy aspect. Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) is an interpolation method which in previous studies proved to have the best results on high resolution LIDAR data. This model was tested and compared with a model from FMEs built-in function and the model from Lantmäteriet wich are based on triangulation (also proved a good method in previous studies). The grid created in TerraScan has good properties such as accuracy.

Buller och vibrationsstörningar anses vara ett av järnvägens allvarligaste miljöproblem. I Banverkets mål och riktlinjer för buller och vibrationer (Banverket, 2002) återfinns målet att boende vid järnvägen maximalt ska utsättas för 70dB(A) ljudnivå vid uteplats i anslutning till bostad. Vid speciellt utsatta fastigheter där detta mål överträds kan uteplatsen skärmas in för att komma till rätta med problemet. Detta examensarbete behandlar hur en bullerskärms prestanda och dess omgivning kan simuleras och analyseras med hjälp av Boundary Element- programvara. Boundary Element-Metoden är en numerisk liknande den mer kända Finita Element-Metoden.

Navigering med UAV:er kräver att farkostens och eventuellt ett måls position går att mäta ut under flygtillfället. I det allra flesta fall önskas en så hög noggrannhet som möjligt på positionen. DECCA är ett pensionerat system som var konstruerat för att läsa av fasförändringar mellan multiplar av en grundfrekvens. Systemet hade analoga mätare som gav utslag på förändringen av fasen och positionen kunde mätas ut på speciella kartor med inteferenslinjer som motsvarade en viss fasskillnad. GPS ger idag en precision ner på ett par meter, men med optimeringstekniker DGPS går det att komma ner i centimeternoggrannhet.

Rapporten beskriver konstruktionsarbetet av det vertikala vindkraftverket V3 från prototyp till produkt. Det är det nystartade företaget Windforce som arbetar med att ta fram smarta hybridsystem där V3 är en del i konceptet. En serieproduktion av V3 är planerad till hösten 2010. V3 är klassat som ett litet vindkraftverk, har en rotordiameter på 3 meter och en kapacitet på 5 kW. Vindkraftverket kräver inget bygglov i Sverige och ska säljas till gemene man som vill bli självförsörjande på el.

Navigering med UAV:er kräver att farkostens och eventuellt ett måls position går att mäta ut under flygtillfället. I det allra flesta fall önskas en så hög noggrannhet som möjligt på positionen. DECCA är ett pensionerat system som var konstruerat för att läsa av fasförändringar mellan multiplar av en grundfrekvens. Systemet hade analoga mätare som gav utslag på förändringen av fasen och positionen kunde mätas ut på speciella kartor med inteferenslinjer som motsvarade en viss fasskillnad. GPS ger idag en precision ner på ett par meter, men med optimeringstekniker DGPS går det att komma ner i centimeternoggrannhet.

SammanfattningUndersökningens syfte är att förstå hur noggrann UAS-fotogrammetrin i dagsläget (2013) är.  Frågeställningarna som undersökningen utgick ifrån var: kan UAS-fotogrammetri i dagsläget ge precisa punkter med hjälp av att mäta in centrum av 1x1 meter utlagda plattor som kan ses i ortofoto?;  Kan det ge snarlik noggrannhet med pixelstorleken? samt Kan UAS-tekniken idag användas för att producera pålitliga höjdmodeller?För att uppnå syftet har en undersökning utförts med jämförelse på koordinater insamlade med totalstation och insamlade med UAS-fotogrammetriska metoder. Resultatet visade att medelfelet var drygt 1 pixel på plana koordinater samt på koordinater i höjd. Pixlarnas storlek var mellan 4.7-9.3 cm. Största felkällan ser ut att vara upplösningen på bilderna, men tekniken utvecklas fort.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate contents in the news in order to search for similarities between the two television news reports, Rapport and Nyheterna. The news features that I examined in my investigation were broadcast in April and May 2006.SVT and TV4 are two Television channels both belonging to the analogue television network in Sweden, which means that they reach out to almost the whole country. Hence I thought it was interesting to investigate their reports on similar news.The question:- Which are the similarities and differences between how the two programmes describe their reporting on similar news?When I put together the information from the two programmes in the schedule I based my analysis on the following questions: topic, place, length, type of reporting and per-sons/sources.The method for this investigation is a quantitative content analysis. However, some part of the collection of information and description/interpretation of the material is qualita-tive.Rapport and Nyheterna had an average of 15 similar news features per week, of which foreign news dominated.

Animal-assisted therapy had its large breakthrough in the 1960-ties when a psychiatrist named Boris Levinson discovered the great advantages of involving animals in the treatment of patients. Therapy with animals involves that animals are used in a systematic way, in a person's process of treatment. The most distinguished companion animal used within this area is the dog, but horses, cats, rabbits, birds, dolphins and the most common farm animals are used in animal-assisted therapy. Most animals that are to be used for this specific purpose need to be trained in order to maintain their physical and mental health, but also to minimize the risks for the people that are involved. Most studies within this research area are focused on the positive effects on the patients and less on the effects on the animals.