Passive houses are a relatively new concept in Sweden and by that it is meant a house without a traditional heating system. The most acknowledged passive house project is the terrace houses in Lindås, Gothenburg, which we have used as a reference. This project concerns a square apartment block. So far, no square apartment block has been built as a passive house in Sweden.The common opinion in the construction industry is that it is not economical to build extremely energy efficient houses. With Peab as commissioner our task was to investigate if that is true, if regarding the construction of a multi storey house as a passive houseMidroc, now owned by Peab, constructed in the block of Preussen in Jönköping during 2004-2005 four houses, with 132 apartments distributed on seven floors.

Den stora majo­riteten av de vårdrelaterade infektionerna överförs i mötet mellan vård­per­sonal och pati­ent. Flertalet bakterier har idag ut­vecklat resistens mot många antibiotika, vilket inne­bär att basala hygienrutiner blivit en mycket viktig patientsäkerhetsfråga. Hälso- och sjukvår­den har kommit till den punkt, då det snart inte finns några ytterligare medel att ta till i kam­pen mot de multi­resistenta bakterierna och den enda hållbara långsiktiga lösningen, är att för­hindra smittspridning genom strikt tillämpning av basala hygienrutiner. Syftet var att beskriva vårdpersonals följsamhet till basala hygienrutiner. Metoden är en litte­raturstudie till vilken 14 artiklar inkluderats, både kvantita­tiva och kvalitativa. Artiklarna framkom genom en struktu­rerad sökning i data­baserna CINAHL, Med­line och PubMed. Litteraturstudiens resultat visar överlag att vårdpersonals följsamhet till ba­sala hygienruti­ner är låg, trots mycket god kunskap i många fall.

Sweden is today often defined as a multicultural society. The implications on organizing and providing information in public libraries are many, since the systems presently used in the western hemisphere are not adapted to multi-cultural information. This thesis aims to outline ethical and practical problems that arise when organising and providing information concerning cultures other than western, and not least, when dealing with material in other scripts. With this theoretical framework the thesis examines the website of the International Library in Stockholm, a website built to serve users of different languages and scripts than Swedish. The research questions in this thesis are: 1, what specific problems can be distinguished within library work in a multicultural and multilingual environment? 2, what problems and needs were considered in the creation and design of the International Library?s website? And 3, can examples of problems and possible solutions of these be seen in the information and it?s organisation on the International Library?s website? The empiric material consists of the International Library?s website, and interviews with three informants involved in developing it.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate, analyse and interpret the educational ideals of the ABF (Workers Educational Association) as they are understood by five members within ABF. The paper also examines how the educational ideals are represented in the national guidelines and statues of the ABF. The basic theoretical perspectives are intercultural theory and theories about Bildung and adult liberal education in a multi-cultural pedagogical environment presented by Bernt Gustavsson and Hans Lorentz respectively.The empirical study consists of five semi-structured interviews and a text study of the official documents of the ABF. The data is interpreted with hermeneutic and semiotic tools. Organisational theory focusing on organizational culture has also contributed to the study.The result of the study, when analysed in accordance to the methods, shows mainly four things.

Introduktion: Patienter är ibland mer oroade för biverkningarna av ordinerad medicin än för själva sjukdomen. Om patienten överskattar risken att drabbas kan följsamheten till ordinationen påverkas negativt. Flera studier har därför gjorts över hur biverkningar presenteras i bipacksedlar, produktresumé, FASS, patient-FASS och Apotekets Terminal System (MOD). En slutsats är att patienter lättare förstår frekvensen av biverkningar om de presenteras verbalt istället för numeriskt. Bättre texter kan därigenom bidra till en rationellare läkemedelsanvändning och högre följsamhet.

When a decision is to be made on what long term strategic forest management plan to use, consideration must often be taken to multiple objectives. Such decisions are very complex and a promising approach to handle them is by Multiple Criteria Decision Analyses (MCDA). The study is based on the problem that the MCDA that have been implemented into forest management planning have only had capacity to compare and evaluate a limited number of management plans; which means that there is a risk the most suitable plan is missed. The aim with this study was to test the applicability of combining the MCDA tools: the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for including consideration to multi-objectives into strategic forest management planning. The study was based on the process of creating and selecting a management plan, using Heureka PlanWise, suitable for all the major objectives found in the forest holdings of a municipality in northern Sweden.

What is the European Union (EU) and which countries should be part of it in the future? These questions became topical during the first part of the 21st century when political and geographical changes hasten the need to decide the nature of the European cooperation. In the European Constitution, that never come into force, the European values that a key role but was taken away in the succeeding Lisbon Treaty. Nevertheless EU continues to expand, recently to the East and non-European countries asTurkey are now on the ?waiting-list?.

Bakgrund: Transportsektorns miljöpåverkan är stor och ett trafikslagsskifte är önskvärt för att få en mer hållbar lösning. Ett sätt att flytta över gods till järnvägen är genom intermodala transporter. Det kräver dock ett effektivt byte av transportslag på en kombiterminal. I dagsläget ligger en kombiterminal i Gullbergsvassområdet i Göteborg, men planer finns på att den ska flyttas. I en tidigare studie har möjliga nya placeringar för en terminal undersökts.Syfte: Att undersöka hur intresset bland de berörda aktörerna ser ut för ett logistikcentrum i anslutning till den nya kombiterminalen i Göteborg och koppla det till tidigare föreslagna platser.Metod: Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär och vi har använt oss av halvstrukturerade intervjuer för att göra vår undersökning.

 Inledning: Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vilket förhållningssätt och vilka uppfattningar fritidspedagoger har kring barn och matvanor ur ett mångkulturellt perspektiv. Metod: Intervjuer genomfördes på tre olika fritidsverksamheter med fyra fritidspedagoger som har erfarenhet av arbete med invandrarbarn. Vid intervjutillfällena användes en mall med förskrivna frågor. Den valda ansatsen är fenomenografisk inspirerad studie för att kunna skildra uppfattningar om fenomen. Vid bearbetningen av resultatet skildrades fyra beskrivningskategorier som utvunnits utifrån informanternas utsagor.

Climate change is expected to lead to increased rainfall and higher temperatures, among other things. This will have a major impact on our cities. Floods can lead to property damage as well as damages to human and animal health. Higher temperatures will increase the frequency of heat-related health risks and premature deaths. The consequences of climate change will be particularly large in our cities because of the city's morphology with a high amount of paved surfaces and buildings that affect the natural processes in areas such as drainage and absorption of solar radiation.

Mjältbrand är den arketypiska zoonosen, ingen annan infektiös sjukdom drabbar så många olika arter med så allvarliga konsekvenser. I Västvärlden är mjältbrand numera endast ett sporadiskt problem men i Afrika är sjukdomen fortfarande endemisk och anses ha stor påverkan på både populationer av vilda djur och tamboskap. Sjukdomen orsakas av Bacillus anthracis vars sporer är mycket resistenta och kan överleva i miljön under lång tid. Bland vilda djur är det framförallt gräsätare som drabbas och transmissionen sker oftast genom oralt intag av sporer eller parenteral inokulation av sporer. Intaget sker vanligen genom att djuret dricker kontaminerat vatten eller betar gräs som är förorenat med sporer.

Problem: The corrugated board industry is highly affected by customer uncertainty, various demands and short delivery times. In combination with a complex multi-step production process managers have to be able to identify bottle-necks and gain knowledge and understanding of how different changes in process will affect the production output. <br/><br/>Purpose: The purpose of this master thesis is twofold, (1) to examine applicability of complexity theory through agent-based modelling on a production process (2) to identify improvement areas in order to increase the production output at SKS production site in Eslöv, by modelling and simulating the production process through an agent-based model. <br/><br/>Method: The chosen method of this study is a combination of a case study and a complex system approach. The empirical data was collected through interviews, observation and document studies which were analysed through an agent-based simulation model.

The work covered in this report includes a literature study of the diesel dual fuel technology(hereinafter referred to as DDF). The literature study covers earlier work that has been doneregarding the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) and diesel in a DDF system. Moreover a onecylinder research diesel engine was fitted with a CNG fuel system for experimental testing. Theinstallation of the engine and the test cell is described. Results from the tests are presentedcovering emissions, heat release and pressure traces from the DDF-concept.During the literature study it was found that most research was related to heavy duty dieselengines.

The purpose of my task was to map the pallet flows at Findus and put together as well as analyze the problems. My work has also included finding out what alternatives there are to the present pallet exchange system and suggest measures to reduce the problems.The problems can be divided into poor quality and hygiene issues. The poor quality, for instance poor strength is due to arbitrary judgements and the fact that there are companies that make a system of manufacturing forged pallets of an inferior quality compared to the EUR-pallets. These pallets are marked with stamps more or less similar to the EUR-mark and taken into the exchange system. Of course there are rules how to judge a pallet but these rules are many and sometimes indistinct and there are a lot of marks to keep track of.The most dangerous part is when the pallets lack the prescribed carrying capacity.

Conjunctival swabs from 12 cats in a Swedish animal shelter were analyzed by real-time PCR for FHV-1, Mycoplasma felis and chlamydiae. The purpose of this study was to see whether and to what extent these agents can be detected and if they were detected from cats housed in quarantine or in the adoption department. Samples were first taken upon arrival at the quarantine and then a second sample was taken two weeks after moving to the adoption department, or upon presentation of signs of disease. The cats spent the quarantine period in two separate quarantines: five in a new quarantine (quarantine A) and seven in a room in the old shelter (quarantine B). The difference between these quarantines was that in B the cats were often mixed together ant the hygiene routines were not as good as in quarantine A.