The European Council agreed in 2008 on a climate and energy package to combat global warming. This package is valid for each EU member country and means that greenhouse gas emissions must fall by at least 20% and the EU's energy use to 20%, consisting of Renewable Energy in 2020. The Swedish Government has set stringent climate and energy with the intention to set an example for the rest of Europe. For example, renewable energy sources account for at least 50% of energy use and our climate emissions to fall by 40% by 2020. A combination of these goals and a steadily rising oil price has led to an increased demand for wood fuel in the form of such branches and tops.

Is it possible to convey spirituality through art and material culture? Is it possible to renew art within the traditional church so that it appeals and is understandable for the modern man? These are the fundamental questions of my master´s work, which has it´s starting point in a public commission for an artistic contribution to the new Pentecostal church in Kalmar. The work also addresses the question whether there is a need for symbolism, art and sacred objects also within the Pentecostal movement, a traditionally strong image hosting environment. If so, how is it possible to bring this in to the church without completely breaking with the tradition and ideology of the movement? I want to communicate the Christian message in a renewed way, and in this particular project also highlight the importance of using images also within the Pentecostal movement.

The purpose of this study is to examine the accessibility with public transportation in the case of the Umeå Region in northern Sweden. This is done by GIS network analysis where both access to transit stops, as well as access by public transport from stops to destinations is examined. An accessibility index is created from transit frequency and travel times to destinations. The results is compared with population register data to calculate what shares of the population has which levels of accessibility with public transportation. In the Umeå Region there are different levels of accessibility by public transport for different parts of the region, where transit stops in the most densely populated areas has the highest levels of accessibility, as well as stations along the railroads.

This essay follows a Media Teacher in her work as a coordinator and an artistic leader for a European project called Legalopoli concerning laws and ethics in a senior level school for 13-16 year-olds in Mora, Sweden. The students write film stories about how their characters have to make choices in ethical dilemma situations. Then the learners create interactive computer games together through practical film work. At the same time we can see how the educator also gets into difficult ethical situations, when she is working with the students. This forces her to self-reflection.

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka vad som påverkar Drömer Selecteds kunders uppfattning av tjänstekvalitet vid köp av den erbjudna tjänsten. Undersökningen har genomförts med hjälp av tjänstekvalitetsmodellen SERVQUAL, utformad av Parasuraman et al. och primärdata har samlats in genom intervjuer med Magnus Drömer, ägare till Drömer Selected, samt med fyra av företagets befintliga kunder. En jämförelse mellan vad kunden förväntar sig av förstklassiga klädföretag och vad de sedan upplever att Drömer Selected levererar görs i undersökningen och beskrivs sedan i empirin. Data har sedan analyserats genom en sammanfogning mellan SERVQUAL-modellens fem dimensioner och Grönroos? modell för upplevd tjänstekvalitet.

Syftet med denna studie var att göra en jämförelse mellan kommunalt och privat arbetsgivaransvar vid personlig assistans ur ett personalperspektiv. En viktig dimension av assistansyrket är om och i så fall hur kommunen och ett privat assistansbolag skiljer sig åt som arbetsgivare. Arbetsgivarens organisering kan få betydelse för vad de erbjuder de personliga assistenterna i form av exempelvis fortbildning, handledning och annat stöd. Studien bygger på litteratur som skrivits inom området samt personliga intervjuer, vilka har analyserats. Frågeområden som berörts är: yrket personlig assistans, introduktion och utbildning, handledning, inflytande och påverkansmöjligheter samt anställning.

News value is an essential part of which event media chooses to report about. Political events consider to bee news with potentional large value. Media has an enormous power and possibility to create news and construct there own reality and where the readers is given a false expression of what really happened. Today the media must show profit and that indirect affects how the media choose to describe political events. In the Kenya case is it therefore possible to draw the conclusion that the two news paper has different construction of the political event in Kenya.

I vårt examensarbete har vi experimenterat medtraditionella hantverkstekniker i syfte att hitta nya sättatt använda oss av dem i inredningar och på möbler.Som tapetserare var vi intresserade av att utgå ifråndessa tekniker för att upptäcka nya sätt att skapaspännande strukturer i klädselarbetet på möbler.I den inledande delen går vi in på de frågor vi villundersöka samt vad som är målet med vårt arbete.Därefter följer huvuddelen där de praktiska testernaredovisas. Här har vi praktiskt testat och arbetatutifrån ett stort antal tekniker för att se vilka som harpotential att användas för vårt syfte. Dessa har tillstörsta delen varit väl beprövade hantverksteknikersom vi har försökt förnya till exempel genom attanvända oss av andra material än vad som vanligtvisanvänds, ändra dimension eller enbart genom attsätta in tekniken i ett nytt sammanhang. I denavslutande delen beskriver vi utvecklingen ochresultatet av ett fåtal tekniker som vi arbetat vidaremed. Vi avslutar med en sammanfattning och enreflekterande diskussion.Det har varit en otroligt spännande och kreativprocess som har utmynnat i många intressanta idéeroch objekt..

This essay examines the Swedish missionary association Bible Faithful Friends? (Bibeltrogna Vänner, BV) ecclesiological development between the years 1911 ? 1986 and their relation to the Church of Sweden. This essay?s three main questions are:- How did the ecclesiology of BV develop during the years 1911 ? 1986, with certain focus on 1967-1986?- In what way was this ecclesiology imprinted bya) the structure of the missionary association?b) and the ecclesiological standpoint of the leader Axel B. Svensson?As regards the first question, the study shows that BV's ecclesiology, particularly in the years 1967 ? 1986, is characterized by a church debate between BV's board and the promoters and founders of the Lutheran Confessional Church (Lutherska Bekännelsekyrkan, LBK).

The integration of the Internet in our society has shaped alot of the things we do in our lives. The Web allows us to achieve certain things directly through our computers, such as reading the paper and paying our bills. But this integration has also lead to another interesting change. Activists have begun to unload their operations onto the Net instead of holding on to the more traditional demonstrations performed in squares. This study aims to look into the world of cyberactivism and examine how cyberactivists experience the way activism has changed as a result of using the Internet.

White-Nose Syndrome, WNS, is an emerging fungal disease in the Northern American bat population causing mass mortality in infected hibernacula. Geomyces destructans is a newly discovered psychrophilic fungus causing WNS but the pathogenesis and epidemiology of the disease is not yet fully clarified. Geomyces destructans has been found in Europe but has not been a cause of mass mortality there. This study is the first investigation done to see if G. destructans is present in Sweden.

Regionalism is a concept of extensive proportions and as such is complex to define. This phenomenon becomes much clearer by studying it from different perspectives. This paper focuses on regional political parties and description of their political ideas. The goal of this paper is to examine and compare regional political parties in two Swedish regions: Norrbotten and Skåne. By studying two biggest regional parties in these regions, namely Norrbottensparti and Skånepartiet, I will try to get an insight into the regional politics, as well as illustrate regionalism and its meaning.

The Sand Catcher                                                       The thesis project The Sand Catcher investigates the encounter between permanent structures and an ever-changing landscape. The migrating sand dune Råbjerg Mile in northern Denmark is 40 meters high and moves more than 15 meters every year. By introducing a solid structure on the site, the fast movement of the sand dune is emphasised and thereby our view of time and space.Through intuitively building models with varied openings and densities I investigated how architectural elements react with sand. From these experiments a series of spatial features and effects were found, generated from the meeting with the sand.The Sand Catcher is a solid and permanent structure. The sand is the liquid element that generates new spaces, circulations and experiences.

In the year 1783 a fissure eruption from Laki in the southern part of Iceland produced a large amount of volcanic gases during a period of eight months. The volcanic gases and aerosols spread across the northern hem sphere due to ideal weather conditions and had a substantial impact on the environment, human health and also climate effects. This, so called dry fog, caused severe health problems, which led to death casualties, killing animals, crops and other vegetation. The consequence was a widespread famine which was aggravated by a hard and long winter in 1783/84. Analysis shows that the Icelandic volcanoes are the primary risk to produce dry fog that can affect Sweden.

This thesis is based on an exhibition at the county museum Upplandsmuseet in Uppsala, Sweden. During an internship at this museum I got a chance to produce an exhibition, with some guidance from the museum staff. This exhibition was created with the purpose of teaching about agriculture in the late 19th century and also about the magnificent workmanship of Alrik Klingberg, who have carved these wooden objects for over 50 years. Each one of the objects possesses a story and a memory. The memories that Alrik Klingberg has incorporated into the objects are mainly from his childhood at a croft in northern Uppland.