The aim of this study is to show how some persons with one of the Swedish national minority languages as mother tongue use a library with regard to their mother tongue and culture. The research questions are: How do Sami-speaking, Finnish-speaking and Meänkieli-speaking (Tornedalen Finnish-speaking) persons use a library with regard to their mother tongue and their culture? What aspects do they find important in this use? As a theoretical frame I have used Marianne Andersson and Dorte Skot-Hansen?s model of the functions of the local library and Will Kymlicka?s theory of the value of maintenance of minority cultures. The study is a qualitative user study. Deep interviews have been conducted with 9 persons with Finnish, Meänkieli or Sami as mother tongue.The results show that the main use of the library is as a cultural centre and the most frequently used service is borrowing of literature.

Introduction: In January 2005, a nationwide mandatory bicycle helmet law for children under the age of 15 was introduced in Sweden. In the current study, the effect of this law was evaluated by analyzing national trends in hospital admissions due to bicycle-related head injuries during the period 1998-2011.Methods: An interrupted time-series design with segmented regression analysis was used to evaluate the intervention effect on head injuries as a percentage of all injuries (%HI) among cyclists in age- and sex-specific groups. Effect was measured as a change in level and/or slope of the trend at the time of legislation.Results: A total of 35261 cyclists (0-54 years) were hospitalized due to a bicycle injury during the study period. Linear regression analyses of the entire study period (not segmented) showed significant year-to-year decreases in the %HI of 1.3-1.7% in all age and sex-specific groups (p < .0001). Results from the segmented regression analysis showed that, at the time of legislation, a significant drop in level occurred among males under 15 years (-4.5% [95% CI: -7.7% to -1.3%], p = .01) and a significant change in slope occurred among females aged 30-54 years (-1.6% [95% CI: -2.9% to -0.2%], p = .025).Conclusions: The law seems to have had an effect on males in the target population (<15 years).

City of Malmö has ambitions for the district Hyllie to become a demonstrative area ofsustainable urban development. As a part of this the following report aims to investigate the potential in using noise barriers combined with photovoltaics along Annetorpsvägen to generate solar electricity. To quantify the losses that shadows from buildings along the roadmight cause, a 3D-model of the area was constructed in SketchUp. This digital model made it possible to simulate shadows and how they change over the year. A reference model of a photovoltaic noise barrier (PVNB) was constructed and used to find the dates on which the solar cells are shadowed depending on building heights and positioning of the barrier.The results show that two lengths with a total distance of 400 meters is appropriate for applying photovoltaic noise barriers.

In Sweden there is scepticism if there really is a difference between the two biggest political parties, the Moderate/Conservative party and the Swedish Social Democrats. The voters feels that the arguments used by both parties are more or less the same and that it does not matter on whom you vote. Hence I am going to compare the parties? policy programs, developed by the members in each party, by an analysis of ideas to see if the two parties are so similar that they hardly are two different options, or if there is a divergence between the two. My choosing of the parties? policy programs comes from a decision to look at the members? party, they are the authors of the programs, the core. I have to admit I am not unbiased in this work.

Aitikgruvan är Sveriges största dagbrottsgruva som bryter kopparkis. Kopparkisen bryts i dagbrottet och transporteras under jord i ett underjordsortssystem till ett anrikningsverk. I ortssystemet finns ett ventilationssystem som i dagsläget styrs utan hänsyn till ventilationsbehovet i orterna. Boliden har för avsikt att göra energibesparingar inom dess verksamhet och ett sätt att göra det är att styra ventilationssystemet i ortssystemet efter behov. För att styra ventilationen skall applikationen ?Ventilation on demand?, en produkt utvecklad av ABB, implementeras i det nuvarande styrsystemet 800xA.

The anatomy and physiology of reptiles and mammals are in many ways different, and will therefore possibly complicate anesthetic administration. Lizards are ectothermic and one should keep in mind that a decrease in the lizard?s environmental temperature may result in reductions in anesthetic metabolism. Respiratory depression is a profound problem because lizards lack a diaphragm, making inhalation and expiration completely active processes. This, in combination with cardiac shunting and breath holding makes the effects of anesthesia unpredictable.

När infrastukturen i dagens samhälle måste utökas görs det i redan tätbebyggdaområden, vilket kräver att nya anläggningarna utförs under markytan. Dettaresulterar i stora och tidskrävande bergtunnelprojekt. Under byggtiden skabefintliga anläggningar som påverkas kunna vara i drift utan att något skadasker. Det medför många restriktioner för byggentreprenörerna för att klara avdessa krav, allt för att minimera påverkan på omgivningen.Vid de allra svåraste platserna kan det vara ett alternativ att byta ut denkonventionella drivningsmetoden, borrning och sprängning, mot en alternativmetod. I detta examensarbete har den alternativa metoden vajersågningstuderats för att utvärdera metoden när den används inomberganläggningsprojekt.Fallstudien utfördes på Norrströmstunneln som är en del av Citybanan sombyggs i Stockholm.

Authors: Daniel Kirby & Émelie Vangen LindgrenTitle: Controlling the WordLevel: Bachelor of JournalismLocation: University of GothenburgLanguage: SwedishNumber of pages: 29The largest arena for public debate in Sweden is the television show Debatt, airing every week on SVT: Sweden?s public service network. Every episode has an audience at around 500.000 viewers. Because the channel is under the rules of the public service agreement, strict rules of diversity are applied.The purpose of this study is to examine the gender representation in Debatt; to investigate how men and women behave in the context of the televised debate and to see if the programme has managed to reflect an equal representation of the voices of men and women.We did this by performing a quantitative content analysis of four different episodes of Debatt, with 4 different hosts ? two women hosts and two men.

Live exports of animals began during the late 19th century and are nowadays a valuable alternative to the slaughter industry in Australia. About four million sheep and half a million to one million cattle are exported annually from Australia to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Most of these animals are exported for slaughter, but some cattle are exported with the purpose of breeding. One factor that has been the driving force for the live export industry is that countries through tariffs and other barriers have favored the import of live animals rather than the import of meat.The export means that animals with a great cognitive ability are exposed to a long chain of production from the farm to the market and there are many factors that can affect the welfare of the animals in a negative way. Some of the most serious are high temperatures and a high stocking density, although seasickness, noises and handling can also have a negative impact on the welfare of animals.

Långvarig stress ger hos djur precis som hos människor psykisk och fysisk ohälsa. Upptäckt och bedömning av stress är därför av stor vikt. Det finns flera stressindikatorer som förhöjd hjärtfrekvens och stressbeteenden men kortisol anses idag vara huvudindikatorn. Kortisol är involverat i immunförsvaret, stressvaret och energiregleringen. Frisättning stimuleras av exempelvis fysisk aktivitet, födointag och stress. Hos hund varierar kortisolnivån med fysiologiska parametrar som ras, ålder och eventuellt kön, men saknar en tydlig dygnsrytm. Stressvaret varierar mellan individer och efter typ av stresstimuli.

AbstractThe real estate sector is today responsible for 40 per cent of the total amount of energy consumption within the members of the EU. All over the world there are collaborations within research and projects to find ways of reducing the amount of energy consumed by the real estate sector. In Sweden, a directive from the European Union has posed demands on authorities as well as on the private sector to reduce the amount of energy consumed by new building constructions. Together with the directive from the EU there are also new requirements and demands from Boverket for the real estate sector.  These requirements mostly concern the energy consumption of kilowatt-hour per square metre and that the consumed energy also should be renewable.  The aim of this study is to explain what kind of value municipalities experience in using certifications and environmental investments for new and existing buildings. Within the chapter theory, essential areas are described such as; environmental certification systems, economical viability, proceeds connected to building green, difficulties with building green, the performance of green buildings when affected by the behaviour of tenants and customer value.  The following chapter describes the methodology with which we have conducted this study.

Bakgrund: Det finns tre grundprinciper för strålskydd; berättigande, optimering och dosgränser. Utifrån detta ska röntgenundersökningarna balansera kraven på tillräcklig bildkvalitet för diagnostiseringsbara bilder och minimal patientstråldos. De dosbegrepp som används för att uppskatta stråldosen är bland annat; Dos-Area-produkt är produkten av dosen i luft och arean på strålfältet i samma position, enheten är graykvadratcentimeter (Gycm2), används vid konventionell röntgen och genomlysning. Dos-Längd-Produkten används vid datortomografi med enheten milliGraycentimeter (mGycm). Diagnostisk referensnivå (DRN) bestäms av Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten utifrån 75%-percentilvärdet för uppmätta stråldoser för vuxna.

I Sverige skapas årligen stora mängder biprodukter från den inhemska stålindustrin. Enbart från ljusbågsugnarna uppgår mängden producerad slagg till drygt 400 000 ton, av vilket 80 procent går direkt på deponi. För att minimera mängden deponerad slagg finns i dagsläget planer på att i stället använda slaggen som byggnadsmaterial i bland annat vägar. Problemet med slaggen är dock dess tungmetallinnehåll. Tungmetaller som krom och molybden lakar lätt ut i naturen då de inte är stabilt bundna.

Bakgrund: Det finns tre grundprinciper för strålskydd; berättigande, optimering och dosgränser. Utifrån detta ska röntgenundersökningarna balansera kraven på tillräcklig bildkvalitet för diagnostiseringsbara bilder och minimal patientstråldos. De dosbegrepp som används för att uppskatta stråldosen är bland annat; Dos-Area-produkt är produkten av dosen i luft och arean på strålfältet i samma position, enheten är graykvadratcentimeter (Gycm2), används vid konventionell röntgen och genomlysning. Dos-Längd-Produkten används vid datortomografi med enheten milliGraycentimeter (mGycm). Diagnostisk referensnivå (DRN) bestäms av Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten utifrån 75%-percentilvärdet för uppmätta stråldoser för vuxna.

As emission legislations across the world continuously pushes engine development forward,engineers constantly need to come up with and implement fuel saving technologies. During thelast decade, variable cam phasing has become a popular solution to increase gas exchangeefficiency. This configuration is typically mechanically constrained by camshaft limitations, anda solution to circumvent this problem would be to use a different valve actuation principle.One example of this is to use pressurized air controlled by electrical solenoids. Such a systemhas been developed byCargine Engineering and this provides the starting point for this work. Tobe able to operate the valvetrain on an actual engine, a control system is needed.