According to the study [1] several firefighters are killed in action each year. This happens naturally in various ways. One of the major factors is that firefighters often do not know how the environment looks like, for example that a building in an industrial area contains hazardous gas cylinders. Without a solution, fire-fighters will continue to die in duty. It is therefore important to solve this problem so that we can minimize the risks and save lives.The goal of this project was a control system for pneumatic artificial muscles.

This study aims to explain the Stuxnet-attack against Iran in 2009-2010 by using the IR-theory of structural realism. By doing so the theory also faces the challenge of the impact of the information revolution on security and international relations. The structural realism that is at hand is that of Kenneth Waltz and his Theory of International Politics from 1979.The study reaches the conclusion that Waltzs focus on the structure of the international system and the distribution of capabilities applies well to the case of Stuxnet as a cyber attack. The creators of the sophisticated Stuxnet, USA and Israel, also indicates that when it comes to this certain aspect of the information revolution and IR, states seem to still be the main actor. Finally the character of one of the major features of the Stuxnet-attack; the internet, is shown to have an anarchic structure that fits well as an extension of the realist view of the international system..

Investigations concerning adolescent mental health shows a negative development. Many pre-vious studies have focused on young women's mental health. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate young men's (17-19 years) experience of their mental health. Qualitative interviews were used as a method. The participants were six young men who all go to high school in a major municipality in the county of Gävleborg.

Kvinnor som genomgår en inducerad abort är inte en homogen grupp, utan var och en har en egen personlighet och historia som påverkar deras upplevelse. Syftet med studien var att belysa kvinnors upplevelse av sin inducerade abort. Metoden var litteraturstudie med kvalitativ ansats. Artiklarna kvalitetsgranskades och analyserades. Resultatet visade att kvinnor upplevde negativa känslor i samband med sin abort, de vanligaste känslorna som uttrycktes i ord var; orättvisa, sorg, vemod, tomhet, ånger, upprördhet, depression, skuld och förtvivlan.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to research how the Göteborg City Museum places their organization in a context of culture policies andmuseology.The discursive analysis constitutes the methodical frame for this thesis. According to the analysis of this thesis, since an increasing influence of a market-­oriented discourse, an antagonism between a sociological pathos and a market-­oriented instrumentality seems to be the major theoretical clash at the museum. Inside the organization though, the personnel lacks broader insights concerning these theoretical conflicts, but the stressed economic situation creates no room for further theorization. There is a risk to get caught in a market-oriented discourse where there is no time to reflect on the effects of the discourse because of the lack of time that the discourse itself generates.

Background: Patients with cancer of the lung have to endure a quantity of physical, psychological and social difficulties. In their exposed position they are in need of help and support to pull through the situation. With the knowledge of factors effecting lung cancer patients? quality of life, it will be easier to give the help and support they need. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe factors effecting lung cancer patients quality of life from the patient?s perspective.

The purpose behind this study is to explore and explain the role of fear arousal when combined with the concept of customer satisfaction and retention in one marketing strategy. The major theories applied are the concept of fear appeals and the concept of customer satisfaction & customer retention. We chose to conduct our research through an ethnographic case study of KM. We did a qualitative study where we collected 10 interviews and we conducted observations. Our empirical data consists of academic articles from scientific journals, interviews andobservations.

Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur personer som har drabbats av stroke upplever sin livskvalitet samt vilka faktorer som associeras med livskvalitet. Designen var en beskrivande litteraturstudie och litteratur söktes i databaserna Medline (via PubMed) och Cinahl. Efter urvalet återstod 15 artiklar som inkluderades i studien. Artiklarna granskades och fyra huvudkategorier kunde utrönas: livskvalitet efter stroke, fysiska, psykiska och sociala faktorer som associeras med livskvalitet. Resultatet visade att personer som har drabbats av stroke ofta uppvisar sänkt livskvalitet.

This paper is a literature study on search engine optimization (SEO) considering the leader of the search engine market: Google. There´s an introductory background description of Google and its methods of  crawling the Internet and indexing the web pages, along with a brief review of the famous PageRank algorithm. The purpose of this paper is to describe the major important methods for improved rankings on Google´s result lists. These methods could be categorized as on-page methods tied to the website to be optimized or off-page methods that are external to the website such as link development. Furthermore the most common unethical methods are described, known as ?black hat?, which is the secondary purpose of the text.

800 000 människor runt om i världen, beräknas avsluta sitt liv 2014. I de flesta fall, är den bakomliggande förklaringen, psykiatrisk. Depression och missbruk hör till de vanligaste orsakerna till suicidförsök eller fullbordat suicid, och i många fall har den suicidala patienten haft kontakt med psykiatrin kort innan suicidförsöket. Att arbeta med suicidbenägna patienter kräver specialiserad kunskap inom psykiatrisk omvårdvårdnad, och goda kunskaper kring det preventiva arbetet inom slutenvården. Syftet med studien var att utforska sjuksköterskans upplevelser kring preventionsarbetet med suicidbenägna patienter inom slutenvården.

Access to correct and updated intelligence about our environment is in an increasingly degree considered important in the private as well as in the public sector. At Mälardalens University, competitive intelligence as an area of research is closely related to Information Design - a multidisciplinary consideration which goal is to improve the receiver´s understanding of intended messages. This study was conducted in order to find out how Information Design was representedin different kinds of literature regarding Competitive Intelligence. Also, it describes the main focus areas concerning Competitive Intelligence in the same literature. Through an explorative "pearl-growing" method combined with searches through referrals, 60 different sources provide a broad basis for analysis.

Skam och skuld är två emotioner som empiriskt kopplats ihop med en rad olika psykopatologiska tillstånd, såsom depression, ångest, tvångssyndrom och social fobi. För att undersöka skam- och skuldbenägenhet hos klienter med social fobi samt studera om behandling med KBT påverkar graden av dessa emotioner distribuerades the Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA) hos 67 patienter med social fobi samt hos 73 friska studenter i en kontrollgrupp. Resultaten visar ingen skillnad i skambenägenhet, men för skuldbenägenhet visade kontrollgruppen högre värden än den kliniska gruppen. Skambenägenheten hade minskat signifikant efter behandling med individuell KBT. För skuldbenägenhet visades ingen skillnad efter behandling.

Syfte: Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva om det fanns ett samband mellan skiftarbetande sjuksköterskor och fysisk och psykisk trötthet samt sömnsvårigheter.Metod: Examensarbetet utfördes som en deskriptiv litteraturstudie där 13 vetenskapliga artiklar inkluderades. Datainsamling gjordes via databasen CINAHL. Huvudresultat: Studierna visade att skiftarbetande sjuksköterskor kunde drabbas av fysisk och psykisk trötthet relaterat till skiftarbete. Tolv av tretton studier beskrev att skiftarbete är ett negativt arbetssätt där fysisk och psykisk trötthet och sömnsvårigheter är vanligt förekommande bland sjuksköterskor. Majoriteten av de medverkande skiftarbetande sjuksköterskorna led av sömnstörningar relaterat till arbetet.

In this paper the discourseand social practice of the Swedish culture funding system Skapande Skola hasbeen mapped out and examined. The material for analysis was takenfrom regulating documents, information texts and media texts, and alsofrom four interviews that were conducted. The theoretical foundation is builton theories from Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault and the theoretical frameworkof New Public Management. The survey has resulted in three major points ofinterest. They are presented throughout the text.

Peritonitis is a potentially life-threatening disease in horses. With no published work from Sweden, the objective of the study was to describe the occurrence and demographics of horses with peritonitis and to evaluate the outcome of treatment in terms of short-term survival during a ten-year period in a large clinic in Sweden. Data were examined in a retrospective manner in 69 horses diagnosed with and treated for peritonitis at Universitetsdjursjukhuset (UDS) in Uppsala between 2002-2012. Demographic data examined included age, breed, gender, history, duration of illness before arriving at UDS, reason for seeking veterinary care, initial clinical findings (general state of health, heart rate, respiratory rate, mucous membrane appearance, rectal temperature, abdominal sounds, rectal examination, nasogastric tube results), abdominocentesis results (abdominal fluid analysis including visual inspection, leukocytes and protein, cytology, bacterial culture and sensitivity pattern), complete blood count (CBC), Serum amyloid-A (SAA) upon presentation and a follow up, plasma fibrinogen, plasma protein and albumin, treatments, length of hospitalisation and outcome. All medical records with the diagnosis of peritonitis were extracted from the medical records system Trofast. All records with any other diagnosis code referring to trauma such as rectal tear or ruptured uterus, recent abdominal surgery, external trauma or rupture in the gastrointestinal tract were excluded. To be included in the study, the peritoneal fluid should contain more than 20.000 cells/?L, have a peritoneal protein value of >30 g/L; or have a significantly changed peritoneal fluid sample (orange with increased turbidity or worse) in cases where no data on cells or protein were available. The horses were divided into two groups; one where the peritonitis was deemed to have an idiopathic aetiology (primary peritonitis) and the other group where the peritonitis had a possible aetiology such as intestinal parasites, impaction etc.