AimThe aim of this study is to examine students' previous experiences of stay in the nature and their experiences of nature in the context of teaching situations in friluftsliv at GIH. It also aims to elucidate how the teaching of friluftsliv at GIH affects their former interpretation about nature. The questions of the study are: What past experiences of stay in the nature elucidate GIH-students? Have the students approach to nature changed according to the education? If yes ? how? What affects students' perception of nature? MethodTo answer the questions, a quantitative approach (questionnaire survey) and qualitative methods (interview study) was used. The qualitative method is based on phenomenology and hermeneutics.

Wavecraft AB develops medical equipment for heating of organic synthesises. The heating is done with microwaves, which improves the process in both speed and accuracy compared to the more traditional methods where heating elements are used. This report discusses the developement of an automatic lid mechanism for one of Wavecraft's product prototypes. The company assumes that the final product will be integrated by customers into fully automated systems, and the upgrade from a manually to an automatically controlled lid is therefore an important step in the product's developement process.The first stage och the project was an idea generation process. The ideas generated here were organized into five different concepts of which the best one was selected through the use of a concept matrix.

Vid skärande bearbetning uppstår vassa grader och skarpa kanter. Det måste finnas en operation i tillverkningsprocessen som tar bort dessa. Syftet med projektet har varit att ta fram en säker och stabil gradningsutrustning till en industrirobot, då den utrustning som används idag har brister i både stabilitet och effektivitet. När den automatiska gradningen fungerar tillfredsställande kan ett stort antal mantimmar sparas, eftersom personal inte behöver korrigera och grada detaljerna manuellt. Undersökningar av miljön kring den befintliga gradningsutrustningen samt en djupgående analys av konstruktionen visar på svagheter i både konstruktion och luftförsörjning.

Syftet med detta arbete var att ta fram en arbetsmetod som underlättar arbetsgången med verktygsoptimering på Scanias produktionsenhet för motorkomponenter. Metoden ska beskriva hur arbetet ska ske internt såväl som hur arbetet ska ske med verktygsleverantörer. Arbetsmetoden ska både behandla hur optimering av befintliga bearbetningsprocesser ska gå till samt hur tillvägagångssättet för verktygsoptimering vid anskaffning av nya verkstadsmaskiner.Som metod valdes att studera befintliga arbetsprocesser på Scania samt att utföra semistrukturerade intervjuer med personer i funktioner inom motor som idag arbetar med dessa frågor. Dessa funktioner har främst varit bearbetningstekniker, beredare, metodlabb, inköp, produktionstekniker, produktionsledare och operatörer.Intervjuer genomfördes också med representanter för de tre mest anlitade verktygsleverantörerna.Resultatet blev att en befintlig tidigare okänd väl fungerande arbetsprocess har identifierats. Processen lider idag av vissa svårigheter vid dels initieringen av nya uppdrag samt vid införandet av framtagna lösningar.

The nitrogen cycle in freshwater bodies is complex and consists of many separate processes affected by a number of important factors for example oxygen concentration in the water, temperature and circulation. Knowledge of the different components of the nitrogen cycle exists; however, a complete and comprehensive picture is difficult conceptually as well as theoretically. The available literature illustrates that the research on nitrogen and the related freshwater processes is still associated with high uncertainty of how much of the supplied nitrogen from the catchment is transported with the water versus and how much is lost due to denitrification, sedimentation or uptake by plants. This report is an interdisciplinary survey of Nitrogen discharge permitting. The research focuses in particular on the decision-making process, the levels of scientific standard and the administrative framework.Application for Nitrogen discharge permits are decided by the Environmental Court with council from their own experts as well as relevant government authorities and organisations.

BAE Systems Hägglunds AB tillverkar ett antal fordon för den militära marknaden, däribland två bandvagnstyper varav den ena, Bandvagn S10 behandlas i detta examensarbete. Drivkällan hos BvS10 består av en sexcylindrig dieselmotor med en slagvolym på 5.9 liter från den brittiska tillverkaren Cummins. Denna motor överladdas med hjälp av en turbo och luften kyls därefter med hjälp av en laddluftkylare. Genom att använda en laddluftkylare införs ett tryckfall i systemet. Det befintliga tryckfallet är för stort enligt motortillverkarens specifikationer.

Fusarium head blight is a large problem world wide which reduces the yields and the quality of small grains. Shrunken kernels with decreased thousand kernel weight as an effect and pro-duction of mycotoxins are some of the problems caused by infection of Fusarium spp. To avoid toxin contaminated bulks to enter the food and feed chain it is important to have tools for prediction and analysis of the fungi and toxins. Good prediction methods are also impor-tant in the breeding industry since early identification in trials of lines with high resistance or susceptibility simplify the work. To compare different techniques for these objectives this project was initiated.

The aim of this study is investigating how some Elementary School teachers of special classes describe how they use iPad as an educational tool when teaching Swedish. To find out I have carried out an interview investigation. I have analyzed results using theoretical concepts from the sociocultural perspective, scaffolding and artefacts.The cummulative result shows that teachers describe that they practice linguistic consciousness and that pupils are trained in writing Swedish in this subject. Another result shows how all teachers describe that they work face-to-face with pupils using iPads in Swedish lessons. Further results show how teachers present possibilities of using iPad as an educational tool when teaching Swedish.

Vid kärnkraftverket Ringhals AB utför det årliga kontroller av systemen för att säkerställa en säker drift. Dessa är i många fall visuella kontroller där videoprober, som manuellt skjuts in i rören och tankarna, används. Då systemen många gånger innefattar rörböjar och trånga utrymmen, har vissa delar av systemen inte varit åtkomliga med befintlig utrustning. Detta har föranlett det behov som renderat i detta examensarbete. Kravspecifieringen av lösningen innefattade följande:? Damm-, vatten- och strålskyddad? Tåla vardagligt bruk? Enkel att använda, enkel att ta av och sätta fast på befintlig utrustning vid behov? Kompakt, för att kunna användas till så många applikationer som möjligtEn drivenhet till ett befintligt inspektionssystem togs fram.

The Motor Group of the European Council was commissioned in the autumn of 1997 to prepare a proposal for a new European Bus and Coach Directive. In the beginning, most of the Member States did not have the accessibility requirements as their main concern; still a smaller network with actors from the National delegations from Britain, Germany and Sweden would influence the other National delegations in the Council group to finally agree to retain the requirement of accessibility of the Directive. Within the EU decision process, the European Disability movement acted as a strong player during the whole negotiation process using the proposal to a new Bus and Coach Directive as a tool to influence key actors to go towards a Directive with a strong approach for accessibility.Policy Transfer and Policy Transfer Network are used as analytical tools to understand and structure the transfer of the question of accessibility during the negotiation process. Actors understanding how the bureaucratic process works within the EU decision system have a chance to contributing for the changes in the directions they wishes for within a range of policy areas. The principal aim of the Directive was to guarantee the safety of passengers and to provide technical prescription in particular to wheelchair users.

Huvudsyftet med detta examensarbete var att ta fram ett regelverk för hur Hägglunds Drives AB kan effektivisera framtagningen av kundanpassade axeladaptrar för montering mellan utgående motoraxel till kundaxel. Ett beräkningsprogram skapades i Excel som guidar konstruktören genom skapandandet av en adapter. Till beräkningsprogrammet kopplades en parametriserad CAD modell av en adapter. På så sätt går det med en knapptryckning i beräkningsprogrammet skapa en CAD modell med den av beräkningsprogrammet föreslagna utformningen med rätt toleranser och mått. Möjligheten finns även att automatiskt generera ett ritningsunderlag på en 2D ritning.

Fusarium head blight is a large problem world wide which reduces the yields and the quality of small grains. Shrunken kernels with decreased thousand kernel weight as an effect and pro-duction of mycotoxins are some of the problems caused by infection of Fusarium spp. To avoid toxin contaminated bulks to enter the food and feed chain it is important to have tools for prediction and analysis of the fungi and toxins. Good prediction methods are also impor-tant in the breeding industry since early identification in trials of lines with high resistance or susceptibility simplify the work. To compare different techniques for these objectives this project was initiated.

Neurography is the most objective and reliable measure of the peripheral nerve function, and it is used to diagnose both local and generalized neuropathies. Neurography can measure both motor and sensory nerve functions. The principle for sensory neurgraphy is to stimulate over the nerve and record proximal or distal from the stimulated electrode.At the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Hospital Uppsala, a problem has been identified, in that young adult patients tend to show unexpected abnormal neurography values in relation to the expected, indicated by the reference limits, without clinical correlates. This concerns foremost the sensory amplitudes in median and ulnar nerves. The hypothesis is that the requirement of young adults? amplitudes is too high.

This thesis was carried out at Atlas Copco Tools and Assembly Systems. The purpose hasbeen to develop a design tool to be used for development of new electric motors for AtlasCopcos electric nutrunners. The focus of the thesis has been to increase productivity bydecreasing the power losses in an electric tool. The productivity is defined as themaximum number of tightenings a nutrunner can perform without becoming too hot.Before starting the development of this design tool an existing Matlab script, whichcalculates the losses in a slotless electric motor, has been studied and modified torepresent the real losses in a better way. The modification has been made by performingpractical studies of different losses and then adjusting existing parameters in the Matlabscript.Because design changes in one part of a mechatronic system can lead to a decrease inperformance of another part the choice of parameters that can be changed has been madeso that other parts of the system is affected as little as possible.A study of the existing tools efficiency during an entire tightening has been made toincrease the understanding of when and where the different losses appear and to comparethe modified Matlab script with the measured values.The design tool was formed so that it executes the Matlab script, that calculates thelosses, for a number of different design options and stores the alternative which producesthe least losses.

This thesis constitutes a long term (100 year) ecological landscape management plan for the estate Götebo 1:5. The estate is situated close to Gothenburg and is owned by Skogssällskapet. The planning has been made by dividing the estate into different areas (zones). In each zone one of the goals nature conservation, recreation or economical yield has been prioritized. Nature conservation is one of the main goals for the forest management plan.