Risk management has become a key ingredient for businesses all over the world. High Reliability Organizations (HRO) has distinguished themselves as experts in this area. By continuously focusing on improving their ability to manage risks they?ve been able to successfully avoid catastrophes in environments where normal accidents can be expected due to complexity and risk factors.The aim of the thesis is to improve the risk management at Apotekens Service by applying theories from HRO and safety culture. In July 2009, following the re-regulation of the Swedish pharmacy market, Apotekens Service AB was appointed national pharmacy infrastructure supplier for the Swedish health care system.

Bakgrund: Lungcancer är den femte vanligaste cancerformen i Sverige, med dålig prognos och leder ofta till döden. Då bot inte längre är möjligt blir palliativ vård aktuellt. Detta betyder att patienten bör vara fri från smärta och plågsamma symtom, att man varken påskyndar eller skjuter upp döden och att döendet ska ses som en normal process. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av att leva med lungcancer i den palliativa fasen. Metod: Studien genomfördes som en litteraturstudie (overview), baserad på empiriska studier inom det valda ämnet.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how homosexuality and homosexual adoptions are manifested in children's comic "Bamse" and study the result in the light of a brief background about the western society and gay history. The study has a historical gender perspective and focus homosexuality primarily in modern times. Drawing on critical theory and semiotic analysis, the study shows how ideas and ideology surrounding same-sex relations and parenting are negotiated in the ?Bamse? comic. 2010 was the year when the Bamse cartoon took a step into the gender debate and introduced two gay rabbits who adopted an infant.The study shows that despite the obvious intent to anchor homosexuality as normal and integrated in the society there are hidden ideologies that reveals homosexuality as abnormal and excluded.

An increasing number of health problems in the population and an uneven distribution of health between different groups in the society, have been identified as a problems and has therefore been put on the political agenda in Sweden. Thus, the purpose of this thesis is to estimate and discuss the significance an individual?s behaviour, in a number of areas, has on his/her level of health.The empirical material for this thesis is taken from a nationwide inquiry conducted in 2004,which was called ?Hälsa på lika villkor?? (Health on equal terms?) The material used consists of the answers and records from individuals living in the administrative district of Kronoberg. 9972 individuals were included in the sample and the answering frequency was 63,2%. To map and analyse the material, which was done mainly through crosstabs, chi-square tests and logistic regressions, the statistics software SPSS 11.5 was used.The parameter used to measure the health level is the individual?s own perception of his or her general health.

Joint injury (inflammation) or osteoarthritis is the most common cause of poor performance in the athletic horse. Osteoarthritis is the ensuing degeneration of joint cartilage due to inflammation/injury. The single most important factor in the inflammation cascade of joint injuries is interleukin-1 (IL-1). Until recently, these injuries have been treated with products like hyaluronic acid, cortisone and polysulphated glycosaminoglycans (PSGAG). Several studies have not been able to demonstrate a significant difference in the clinical improvement of joint injuries treated with hyaluronic acid or PSGAG and saline.

In this paper Swedish hedge funds and strategies are discussed and analysed. These new financial forms seem to draw recently a huge attention both in media, press and the academic world. The fact is that hedge funds have existed already for a long time but it is still known too little about them. After the introduction of hedge funds, different asset pricing models are discussed including the most basic of all ? CAPM and further Fama and French three factor model as well as the expanding model with conditioning approach.

Mobilnotifikationer är ett relativt nytt fenomen och mobilanvändare idag får allt fler notifikationer skickade till sig per dag. Hur de faktiskt påverkar användare, både sett till mobilanvändning och användarbeteenden, är fortfarande ett tämligen outforskat område. Denna studie utforskar hur mobilnotifikationer påverkar studenters upplevda stressnivåer och fokus under schemalagda skolaktiviteter. För att undersöka detta jämfördes en normal vecka med en vecka då notifikationer tystades med hjälp av stör-ej-funktionen i mobiltelefonen. Under denna period loggades mobilanvändningen och deltagarna fick föra en dagbok för reflektioner kring sitt beteende under dagen.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur stor effekt kombinationsbehandling med naproxen och sumatriptan har vid migrän hos vuxna människor jämfört med monoterapi med naproxen eller sumatriptan samt placebo. Studien utformades som en litteraturstudie och sökningar skedde i PubMed via Linnéuniversitetets bibliotek med sökorden ?migraine AND triptan* AND NSAID AND efficacy?, ?migraine AND sumatriptan AND naproxen AND combination AND efficacy? samt ?naproxen AND sumatriptan?. Sökningarna ledde till granskning av 6 studier.     Sammanfattningsvis hade kombinationsbehandlingen statistiskt signifikanta fördelar gällande flera effektmått vid behandling av migrän, bland annat smärtfrihet 2 timmar efter behandling och ihållande smärtfrihet upp till 24 timmar efter behandling, jämfört med såväl monoterapierna som placebo, medan biverkningsrisken inte ökade statistiskt signifikant med kombinationsterapin.

AimThe specific questions in the theoretic part were:What is contained in the terms "balance and balance skill" and how can this skill be measured?The specific questions in the empirical part were:How does balance skill in different age categories of children correlate with biological and physiological parameters such as age, gender, body height, weight and level of physical activity?MethodsLiterature search based on books and scientific papers related to the questions posed above. Selection was made at libraries and on?line through "Pubmed". Specific search words were used.

Lipider är en viktig energikälla och olösliga i vatten. De transporteras med hjälp av lipoproteiner ut till kroppens celler. Exempel på lipoproteiner är low density lipoproteins (LDL) och high density lipoproteins (HDL). LDL och HDL kan delas in i sju respektive tio subklasser beroende på storlek. Det har visat sig att en stor andel små LDL-partiklar i blodet ökar risken för hjärt- och kärlsjukdom.

This is a study on the electronic reference work of some Swedish university and university college libraries. The purpose of the study has been to find out how the service works at the different libraries, to study the electronic reference interview and to find what is important when you start a new electronic reference service in the light of Brenda Dervin's sense-making theory study. Furthermore, we examine the aims of the electronic services offered and the differences between electronic and traditional reference interviews. In the background to the study we place electronic reference services in a context by describing the role of information technology and electronic mail in the libraries. The electronic reference interview is studied with the help of literature on the traditional reference interview.

Världshandeln växer kraftigt och det vanligaste sättet atttransportera gods mellan landsgränser är genom sjöfart. I takt med attvärldshandeln växer, ökar också storleken på fartygen. Detta innebär att enstörre mängd gods anländer samtidigt när ett fartyg förtöjer vid en hamn. Föratt hantera denna ökade mängd gods måste godsnav och hamnar ständigt utvecklaoch effektivisera verksamheten. Detta innebär att långsiktiga prognoser ochplaner måste utvecklas för hur större fartyg skall kunna hanteras.

The chow-chow breed is considered to have a low fertility and this report is an in depth study of the reproductive functions of this breed in Sweden. Only 53 % of the Chow-chow matings results in litters. Previous studies of other breeds in commercial kennels shows mating results around 85-90 %, but this has not been investigated in hobby kennels and most Chow-chows which are bred from in Sweden, are kept as family pets. Contrary to most other breeds, Chow-chows show a seasonal reproductive pattern and most litters are born in the autumn. The influence of the month of mating on pregnancy rate and litter size was found to be not significant, but can be considered a trend. Thirty-nine females with previous known fertility problems where studied. Some of them had reached puberty extremely early, at an age between 4-5 months, and many of the bitches showed great fluctuations in intervals between oestrus cycles. Some of the females showed abnormalities such as very short oestrus intervals of only 2-3 months, probably without ovulating.

I byggbranschen försöker man hela tiden hitta nya lösningar för att effektivisera och förbättra arbetet. Denna rapport handlar om att undersöka just en sådan möjlighet till att förnya och effektivisera arbetet. Företaget Picab produktion som sysslar med byggmätning vill utvärdera om bilburen skanning är den rätta vägen för att nå denna förnyelse.Examensarbetet går ut på att bedöma om Topcons bilburna skanner IP-S2 är en bra teknik för effektivisering. Systemet består av satellitmottagare, gyro, rotationssensorer, kameror och laserskannrar. Dessa komponenter skapar tillsammans en komplett inmätning av omgivningen och mätningen kan ske i normal hastighet med en helt vanlig bil.För att bedöma detta har olika frågeställningar ställts upp och olika vägar har prövats för att finna svar på dessa frågor.

This essay discusses the students? thoughts about the teacher's response to their gender identity. The students discuss their right to have an intergender identity which means that they don?t identify themselves in the traditional sexes, man and woman, and the gender role each category has. They want to be called with a neutral pronoun and not be seen like boys or girls.