Aquatic organisms are usually not exposed to single substances but rather to mixtures of toxicants in streams located in agricultural areas. The transport of pesticides used in the agricultural area in Sweden is monitored with continuous environmental supervision every year. During 2002-2008 an average of 10 pesticides were found in each sample and 40% of the samples contained substances with concentrations higher than the Water Quality Standards. Chemical risk management is normally based on single-test evaluations. A problem when assessing mixture toxicities is that the constituents and concentrations of pollutants in the environment vary greatly.

The purpose of this article is to examine issues concerning quality assurance in the Swedish family counselling. To obtain the purpose following factors have been analysed: what kind of requirements/criteria are put on the companies/practitioners, what the respondents think about the lack of common standards and criteria and their opinions concerning ?Lagen om valfrihetssystemet?. Monitoring of criteria, privatisation and increased competition are other factors that have been analyzed. The material was obtained from the family counsellors own association and was analyzed in the light of previous research and theories regarding the quality of family counselling however we also considered theories about quality within social work in general.

In Sweden, exercise takes a great part in people?s lives. Health and a good conditioned body go hand in hand. Many Swedes exercise in groups, with aerobics or a similar form of workout at a training facility. A regular workout lasts for about an hour and is accompanied by music.

Opioids are considered the "golden standard" in pain management for both humans and small animals, but is used less often in equine medicine - probably for fear of side effects. Are there any studies that suggest that side effects are a major problem, or is it lack of experience which is the greatest obstacle to use? As early as 1937 it was shown that morphine and morphine derivatives provide analgesia in horses. For species other than horses used opioids often both pre-, intra-and postoperatively. They relieve pain effectively and are often included in the anesthesia protocol.

BACKGROUND: Pressure ulcers are unpleasant and painful and causes anxiety not only patient but also for the relatives. It also results in longer hospital stay and increased costs for health care sector and because of this it?s important to identify and survery the origin and what preventive measures there are to prevent pressure ulcer. AIM: To illustrate the nurses´ work to prevent the origin of pressure ulcers. METHOD: A general literary study where scientific articles were searched and found in electronic databases and through manual searches.

Bakgrund Övervikt och fetma är en folksjukdom och ett av de största globala hälsoproblemen i vår tid. Det är den femte största orsaken till dödsfall världen över och är en riskfaktor för utvecklandet av ett flertal kroniska sjukdomar. I USA har fetma ökat i epidemiska proportioner bland både barn och vuxna och Mississippi är den delstat med störst prevalens. Delstaten har en befolkning på nästan tre miljoner invånare och hälften av befolkningen lider av fetma. Skolan har identifierats som en fördelaktig plats att arbeta med förebyggande och tidig identifiering av övervikt och fetma.

Antalet människor med diabetes i världen ökar, vilket anses bero på den ökadebefolkningsmängden, att befolkningen blir äldre, urbaniseringen samt att allt fler rör sigmindre och är överviktiga. Diabetes typ 2 är den vanligaste formen av diabetes i Sverigeidag och är kopplad till vår livsstil. Därför är kost och motion grundläggande ibehandlingen. Det är ett problem att individer inte vet vilka rekommendationer om kost deska följa och att de inte får tillräckligt med riktlinjer och utbildning om nutrition. Syftetmed litteraturstudien var att ur ett patientperspektiv identifiera faktorer som är av betydelseför valet av kost hos individer med diabetes typ 2.

The aim of this study was to evaluate parents and course leaders'perceptions of ComHome, a course in communication for parents. Thecourse aims to change the interaction between the parent and the child in aselected play activity based on a defined goal and agreed methodology. Thedata consisted of four group interviews and an individual interview with atotal of 12 parents and course leaders. The interviews were transcribed andcontent analyzed. The study showed that parents and course leadersconsidered goal attainment scaling as a rewarding approach.

Bakgrund: Trycksår är ett vanligt problem inom sjukvården, både i Sverige och internationellt. Riskfaktorerna är många, och särskilt äldre och multisjuka patienter är drabbade. Många äldre har ett otillräckligt näringsintag vilket kan leda till malnutrition och oönskad viktnedgång.Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva kunskapsläget angående relationen mellan näringstillstånd, trycksår och trycksårsläkning.Metod: Vald metod var litteraturstudie med deskriptiv design.Resultat: Resultatet visade att patienter med trycksår ofta var malnutrierade, hade haft oönskad viktnedgång och ett lågt BMI. Ett näringstillskott innehållande vitaminerna A, C, E, proteiner och mineraler, och ett kaloritillskott för att täcka kroppens energibehov gav en förbättrad sårläkning.Slutsatser: Nutrition påverkade trycksårsförekomst och trycksårsläkning hos både malnutrierade och icke malnutrierade patienter. Sjuksköterskans arbetsuppgift innebär att tillgodose ett adekvat näringsintag hos patienter med trycksår..

The purpose of the literature study was to describe older people´s difficulties and attitudes to take several drugs. Literature has been sought in two large databases and included literature is selected, quality assessed and analyzed, based on the study purpose and questions. The authors conducted a descriptive literature review of qualitative and quantitative articles. Difficulties to access different types of pharmaceutical packaging, or to remember when to take their medicines are difficulties the elderly encounter. Cultural and socioeconomic differences become apparent.

Account receivables tie up large amounts of capital in. Various reports show that the actual time for customer to pay their invoices is getting longer. This is a problem both from a society and a business economic perspective. The purpose of the essay is to find out if Swedish companies have longer credit days than normal contractual terms of payment and if so, can the business cycle or the geographical distribution of sales have an impact and does it make a difference if the companies have an active monitoring of the actual customer credit days. To answer this, we studied 12 listed companies in four different sectors between the years 2000-2008. In the analysis, we reason about the results of the study and how the various factors may have influenced the outcome.

The concentration of acute phase proteins in serum is altered as a response to inflammation, infection or trauma. this makes these proteins potential biomarkers of unspecific pathological processes. In cattle, haptoglobin and serum amyloid A are the two acute phase proteins that show the largest increase in serum concentration as a result of inflammatory processes. The haptoglobin concentration has been shown to correlate to clinical signs as well as inflammatory processes found at post mortem examination. This feature could be useful prognosis of the individual as well as for monitoring the health status of a herd or identifying carcasses that shold be examined closer at the slaughter-house.

All companies wants? to be as profitable as possible. The company in question is one of the leaders in it´s field in Sweden. In order to increase profits as much as possible it is important to identify and eliminate eventual quality defect cost as far as possible.This study was performed in Huddig AB, and the purpose of this study is to try to develop a routine for monitoring the quality defect costs, and to improve communication and create feedback between production and aftermarket.In addition to an extensive literature review on quality defect costs most of the work have been conducted at the company. Own observations and interviews have been done with the staff to get a picture of the current situation and to try to come up with improvement proposals.During the study it was proved that much of the quality defect costs in essence, derived from the production, which is seen as positive because it is the easiest part of the company to improve.

In today?s industry it is starting to get more and more interesting with wireless systems and solutions for applications. To be able to reduce the amount of cables drawn to various machines which takes both space and an extra fee for every cable drawn. Some systems might require the user to use a handheld device that is directly connected by a cable which in some machines might be inelegant for the user.The goal with this bachelor thesis is to develop wireless monitoring of the machine operators position that is working with heavy industrial machinery. The thesis started out with researching different techniques for positioning a transmitter indoors, this was done in order to get a better understanding on how to go about.

Malnutrition är vanligt förekommande hos personer med demenssjukdomar och för denna utsatta grupp är det av vikt att fokusera på nutrition och omvårdnadsåtgärder. Syftet med ddenna litteraturstudie är att belysa malnutrition och riskfaktorer ho dementa personer samt beskriva vad sjuksköterskan bör vara uppmärksam på i sitt arbete för att förebygga malnutrition och hur bättre nutritionsstatus kan uppnås. Metoden i arbetet är en litteraturstudie i vilken 9 kvantitativa artiklar och 1 kantitativ/kvalitativ studie granskats ur ett vetenskapligt perspektiv. Resultatet presenteras utifrån tre huvudområden: nutritionsproblem och tillhörande faktorer,utbildning samt interventioner. Tillsammans visar de på förekomst av malnutrition och att det via utbildning och åtgärder går att påverka nutritionsstatus hos dementa personer.