The translation of financial records of foreign subsidiaries gives rise to currency translation adjustments that affect total group equity. If unwanted, fluctuations in translation adjustments can be avoided using net investment hedges. This study aims to find the extent of net investment hedging in Sweden today and in a short historical perspective, and find explanations to varying levels of hedging and firms' decisions to hedge. Based on annual reports, we determine Swedish firms' net investment hedging policies and their level of hedging. The 32 largest companies listed on the Stockholm stock exchange in the years 1993, 2004, 2006, and 2009 are studied.

Being a patient in intensive care can be experienced terrifying. Studies have demonstrated the link between unpleasant memories of hospitalization in the ICU and the development of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and perception of quality of life in its aftermath. Placed on a ventilator, the patient is exposed to multiple invasive procedures. The aim was to describe critical care patients' experience of being intubated or tracheostomated. Method: Literature review using conventional content analysis.

A possible explanation for the inability of the governments of the world to implement necessary environmental policies is that they are worried of being punished by voters for implementing too forceful policies. But do voters actually punish governments that implement more stringent environmental policies? Few studies have explored this question directly. Parts of the literature on environmental policy and public opinion indicate that voters would predominantly reward governments that implement more stringent environmental policies, while other parts indicate that voters would predominantly punish them. It is also possible that voters punish governments that implement more stringent environmental policies in some contexts, but reward them in others.

In this degree project I have tried to analyse thoughts about what?s important in the future work among students that are leaving the Land and animal husbandry programme. I have also asked employer to understand to what degree they knew about the coming employees thoughts about the future. The method was a questionnaire which was sent to 14 schools of Land and animal husbandry. The questionnaire was answered by students in their last schoolterm. I got 167 answers from students. 11 employer also were asked about their ideas conserning the students thoughts about their coming work. The questions where about wages, working environement, responsibility and further education. The questions were multiple choise.

Each student in elementary school will under current policy documents have an individual development plan (IEP) from 1 January 2006. The plan should primarily aim for a higher goal achievement, but also to the student to gain a greater understanding of their own learning process and knowledge. My experience is that some students, despite efforts IUP have difficulty seeing their own learning process and it has been the starting point of my study. The aim of the study has been to investigate and analyze teachers work with individual development plans from the first grade to the sixth grade from a teacher's perspective. The goal was to identify strategies and techniques that could help develop IUP as a tool for the student's learning and understanding of their own learning process.

Because of the currently large recruitment needs within the Swedish nuclear powerindustry, it is necessary to recruit trainers from other recruitment groups than that ofexperienced operators at nuclear power plants. The foundation for a trainingprogram regarding these recruitment groups, here called ?aspirants?, has in this thesisbeen prepared. It contains a suggestion for main topics in the program. It also includesdiscussion on the balance between forms of education and a concrete example ofhow a lesson could be performed.These suggestions has been developed through analysis of interviews and surveyresponses from student groups most suited for the propositioned trainee program,and individuals with service as a trainer or closely linked to training activities withinthe industry.The analysis suggests that the candidates gets, besides the opportunity to practice asoperating staff before the theoretical training begins, a training program, tightly boundto the power plant with multiple instances of practice and the chance of going intothe power plant and see how things that are being raised in theory, look in real life.The practice, in addition to helping to create an understanding of the plant, it will facilitate networking with the operations staff to build a relationship and trust.Candidates should have plenty of opportunity to educate and see both other aspirantsand experienced trainers train.

To be able to hinder the global warming the emissions of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide foremost, must decrease. By switching to green electricity, it is possible to reduce the emissions from electricity producing sources.In 1999, Swedenergy conducted a study about whether or not Swedish households would consider buying green electricity. According to the study, about 75 percent were willing to buy green electricity. 40 percent of these were prepared to pay a premium for green electricity. However, according to the results from the study, only one percent actually bought green electricity, and since 1999, this proportion has merely increased slightly.

Amyotrofisk lateralskleros och multipel skleros är båda neurologiska sjukdomar som orsakar fysiska begränsningar och påverkar vardagslivet. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur vardagslivet gestaltar sig för dessa patienter. Studien baseras på en kvalitativ metod utifrån sex självbiografier och en biografi, vilket ger en insyn i patienternas egna upplevelser av hur det är att leva med ALS eller MS. Resultatet består av fyra huvudteman; Relationer, Begränsningar, Psykisk hälsa och Tankar. I samband med sjukdomen blir relationer mer betydelsefulla samtidigt som den för med sig påfrestningar i förhållandet.

Amyotrofisk lateralskleros och multipel skleros är båda neurologiska sjukdomar som orsakar fysiska begränsningar och påverkar vardagslivet. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur vardagslivet gestaltar sig för dessa patienter. Studien baseras på en kvalitativ metod utifrån sex självbiografier och en biografi, vilket ger en insyn i patienternas egna upplevelser av hur det är att leva med ALS eller MS. Resultatet består av fyra huvudteman; Relationer, Begränsningar, Psykisk hälsa och Tankar. I samband med sjukdomen blir relationer mer betydelsefulla samtidigt som den för med sig påfrestningar i förhållandet.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan växelvis boende och socioekonomisk bakgrund. Uppsatsens frågeställning är hur föräldrarnas socioekonomiska bakgrund påverkar sannolikheten att barnen har ett växelvis boende, konstanthållet för relevanta kontrollvariabler. Detta kopplas till den andra demografiska transitionen samt till de socioekonomiska följderna för barn. Datamaterialet som använts i uppsatsen samlades in åren 2001-2003 och kommer från Statistiska centralbyråns Barn-ULF. Utifrån det har bivariata och multivariata analyser skapats genom logistisk regression.I resultatet framgår att det finns ett samband mellan växelvis boende och socioekonomisk grupp.

Denna uppsats syftar till att studera hur könslönegapet, med kontroll för sedvanliga humankapitalvariabler samt sektortillhörighet, påverkas av matchningsprocessen på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Detta har gjorts med hjälp av linjär regression och metoden minstakvadratskattningen, även kallad OLS (ordinary least squares). Den data som ligger till grund för undersökningen är tvärsnittsdata från Levnadsnivåundersökningen år 2010. Det teoretiska ramverk som studien tar avstamp i är den klassiska humankapitalteorin vars antagande är att utbildning är en investering för individen som höjer dennes produktivitet och därigenom leder till en högre framtida lön. Dock har tidigare forskning visat att utbildningens avkastning står i relation till arbetets utbildningskrav, där en överutbildad person får avsevärt lägre avkastning för de år som dennes utbildning överskrider arbetskravet i jämförelse med en rätt matchad person.

This diploma work has been carried out in collaboration with the building contractor Sh Bygg Fastighetsutveckling AB in Uppsala with the intention to investigate how the height of a building affects various energy aspects such as transmission losses, infiltration, and the specific energy usage. Three different reference objects have been studied. The reference objects have been simulated for four different heights in the calculation program VIP-Energy.The results show that an increase in floor number can lead to both advantages and disadvantages. As the number of floors increases, transmission losses per square meter floor area decreases. However, as the height of the building increases, the reduction rate decreases.

This paper aims to analyze how child restraint systems (CRS) in cars should be positioned to protect children at the ages 1 to 5. The study is preformed in co-operation with the Swedish insurance company Folksam. Data from Folksam´s database on car crashes in the years 1999-2004 is being used in this study. Every child in the ages 1 to 5 was searched for in the database, which resulted in 184 observations. To perform the analysis, categorical data analysis is suitable.

Undersökningen handlade om att ta fram en modell med variabler för att avgöra om det finns några variabler som påverkar inflyttningen till en kommun i Stockholmsområdet och i så fall vilka dessa är.Undersökningen gjordes med hjälp av regressionsanalys av variablerna och metoden som användes var stepwise regression.På så sätt erhölls koefficienterna till modellen och med hjälp utav dessa kunde man tolka om variablerna hade positiv eller negativ inverkan samt testa huruvida väntevärdet skulle kunna vara negativt eller positivt med hjälp av hypotestest med konfidensintervall.Vid tolkning av variablerna så erhöll man att dem flesta variablerna betedde sig enligt dem hypoteserna man slagit fast vid tidigare.Det visade sig att dem flesta utav variablernas väntevärde vid 95% konfidens intervall faktiskt låg inom ett område där det kunde anta både positivt och negativt tecken.Dessutom gjordes residualplottar för att undersöka hur bra modellen var och om det förekom några mönster i variansen, det slogs fast vid observation att inga mönster förekom i plottarna.Slutsatsen man kom fram till att även om vissa variabler betedde sig enligt dem uppskattade hypoteserna så tar modellen inte hänsyn till en del faktorer som kan ändra inflyttningen, samt att det finns fler variabler som kan ha större betydelse för hur folk väljer sin hemkommun..

Title: Collaboration in BoDa-units. A qualitative study about collaboration regarding people with disabilities. The purpose of this thesis was to internally examine the cooperation between different professions in municipal BoDa-units. By doing a qualitative study using focus-group-interviews in three municipalities, we were able to examine the personnel?s experience of cooperation issues and opportunities in BoDa-units.