Transportation of pigs might be a welfare problem. Stress during and after transportation can negatively affect the meat quality or cause carcass damages, which leads to major economic losses every year. The transportation chain can be divided into several stages; loading, transport and unloading. This literature review focuses on unloading of pigs from a transport. When arriving at an abattoir pigs can be fatigued and need to be as smoothly unloaded as possible.

Fuel pellets are a refined bio fuel mostly consisting of residues from sawmills and wood industry. At Rindi Västerdala AB's combined bio energy plant in Vansbro fuel pellets are produced, while the waste heat from the process is used for district heating. The pellets are produced from sawdust, wood shavings and dry wood chips that is dried, milled and pressed into small cylindrical rods. The advantage of refining the wood material in this manner is that the energy value is greater per unit volume and unit weight, thereby the cost of transportation per energy unit is reduced. Also, less storage space is needed.Pellet manufacturing is a complex process since many parameters affects the final results.

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen ?r att ?ka f?rst?elsen f?r samverkan mellan offentlig sektor och civilsamh?llet. Teori: F?r att ?ka f?rst?elsen f?r samverkan mellan civilsamh?llet och offentlig sektor tar denna studie avstamp i nyinstitutionell teori. F?r att diskutera och analysera det samverkande arrangemanget har forskning om tv?rsektionell samverkan och projektifiering av relevans anv?nts f?r att diskutera och besvara v?ra forskningsfr?gor. Metod: Vi har genomf?rt en fallstudie av ett samverkande arrangemang mellan offentlig sektor och civilsamh?llet som h?r utg?rs av en statlig myndighet, en kommun och flera Arbetsintegrerade sociala f?retag (ASF). Den huvudsakliga datainsamlingen f?r studien ?r semistrukturerade intervjuer vilket genomf?rts med akt?rer ur samverkansarrangemanget.

The environmental debate is more intensive than ever before and the demands on companies increase. There are a number of methods to make it easier for the companies to fulfil the demands. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) end ecodesign are some of the methods that can be used. Syntronic AB has the possibility to reduce the products´ environmental impact in the design phase. Therefore it is important for the company to make it possible to visualize the negative environmental impacts a product can cause in an easy way. It is also important to visualize for there clients if any improvement is possible. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a simplified model.

Ossification of the collateral cartilages of the distal phalanx has been studied primarily in cold blooded horses. The clinical relevance of this condition is unknown. Despite this fact, since 1939, all Swedish Ardenner stallions have had to be classified as being free from this ossification to be approved for breeding. Initially, palpation was used as a diagnostic method, but since 1982 radiology has been the only method used. The aim of this study was to assess the outcome of 68 years of breeding program. Dorsopalmar radiographs were taken of the front feet of 58 Ardenners (30 mares, 8 geldings and 20 stallions) and the ossification of the collateral cartilages was evaluated and graded according to three different scales; - Ruohoniemi (grade 0-5), - Swedish University of Agricultural Science (grade 0-3), - and a new scale (grade 0-3), developed for this study.

There are widespread discussions about the use of retouched models in media, ranging from bloggers to legal decision-makers. Research shows that there are negative psychological effects on especially females being exposed to idealized, retouched model images. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of using retouched models in advertising from a marketing perspective, based on attitudes, perceived quality and purchase intentions.Based on theories about attractiveness, halo-effects and social comparison, an experimental study was done, investigating the different responses on above mentioned parameters to advertisements showing either retouched model images or non-retouched model images. Initially it was also tested if the retouched models were seen as more attractive than the non-retouched models. The results showed almost no differences between the reactions to the advertisements with retouched models compared to the advertisements with non-retouched models, when all respondent groups were analyzed together.

Bakgrund: Demens ?r en obotlig sjukdom som utvecklas fr?n mild kognitiv funktionsneds?ttning till avancerad sjukdom med stora behov av st?d. P? v?rd- och omsorgsboenden har sjuksk?terskan stort ansvar f?r att bibeh?lla livskvalitet och ge en god palliativ v?rd som enligt nationella riktlinjer ska vara personcentrerad. Den palliativa v?rden av personer med demenssjukdom har visat sig ha l?gre kvalitet ?n den palliativa v?rden av personer med andra diagnoser. Syfte: Att belysa sjuksk?terskans upplevelse av att v?rda personer med demenssjukdom i livets slutskede p? v?rd- och omsorgsboende. Metod: Strukturerad litteratur?versikt d?r kvalitativa studier och studier av mixad metod s?ktes via databaserna Cinahl, PubMed, PsycInfo och genom manuell s?kning.

This thesis presents a system which has been implemented to satisfy a need in theresearch on how speech planning interacts with syntactic and prosodic structure inspontaneous speech. The long-term purpose of the research is to provide models forautomatic parsing of spontaneous speech and for psycholinguistical modelling of speechproduction. Identification of inhalation pauses is an important step in the developmentof automatic methods for spontaneous speech parsing.Identification of inhalation pauses is considered to be a keyword-spotting speechrecognition problem. Hybrid HMM(Hidden Markov Models)/ANN(Artificial NeuralNetworks) approach is applied to this problem. Method gets 90,8% in Recall, 66,4% inPrecision and 76,7% in F-score.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of the discipline Design Thinking in a project that aims to strengthen Sweden as a brand. The study will generate knowledge about Design Thinking, with the purpose to increase the understanding of how the discipline can be used as a strategic tool in the processes of strengthening Nation Branding. The authors have used a descriptive and qualitative approach where the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 was examined. The theoretical framework contains previous research in the field, data has been analysed in relation to Lockwood's ten principles of how an organization can become more design-minded and Anholt?s hexagon, which features the parameters that creates a country's Nation Branding.

Handledare: Johanna HanssonExaminator: Per ForsbergTitel: Da?rfo?r va?ljer fo?retagare aktiebolag idagBakgrund: Denna uppsats har sin utga?ngspunkt i de fo?ra?ndringar som skett fra?n statens sida vad ga?ller aktiekapital och revisorsplikt. Detta skapade en tanke om vad det a?r som faktiskt pa?verkar fo?retagarnas beslut att va?lja aktiebolag.Syfte: Studiens syfte a?r att beskriva vilka faktorer som a?r viktigast i fo?retagares val av bolagsformen aktiebolag efter de fo?ra?ndringar i lagar och regler som skedde a?r 2010. Detta ska go?ras genom en ja?mfo?relse av svar fra?n respektive respondent fo?r att sedan ta fram de viktigaste kategorierna utifra?n den teori som tagits fram.

Syftet med den fo?religgande underso?kningen a?r att fa? kunskap om hur undervisning kan fo?rba?ttra elevers la?rande vad det ga?ller elevers historiemedvetande. Metoden som under- so?kningen anva?nde sig av a?r en learning study, ett kollektivt samarbete mellan historiela?rare som riktar fokus pa? elevers la?rande. Genom utva?rderingen av det samlade datamaterialet besvarades underso?kningens fra?gesta?llningar Vilka a?r de kritiska aspekterna fo?r att elever i a?rskurs 8 ska kunna utveckla en ho?gre grad av historiemedvetande, och Vilka centrala punkter i undervisningens uppla?gg go?r positiv skillnad fo?r elevers la?rande? Resultatet visar att de deltagande pedagogerna identifierade tre kritiska aspekter som anses vara avgo?rande fo?r en undervisning med ma?let att utveckla elevers historiemedvetande: 1.

The purpose of this thesis work was to develop an automatic fault detection system for surveillance of bearing temperature in hydropower turbines. The parameters used except the bearing temperature were cooling water temperature and cooling water flow. A simple static model based on data sampled every minute was developed to estimate the bearing temperature. Then a detector for detection of change in bearing temperature based on the CUSUM-algorithm was designed. Since the amount of data was very small the developed model was too uncertain to be used in a working system.The designed fault detection system showed to work well for the available data.

Antalet miljo?direktiv fortsa?tter att o?ka och de befintliga kompletteras regelbundet med nya krav och regler. A?F har tillsammans med industrin och dess leveranto?rer utvecklat ett verktyg, A?F PRS, fo?r att handskas med de problem direktiven skapar fo?r fo?retagen. Syftet med detta arbete var att identifiera fo?retags nuvarande processer fo?r hantering av direktiven REACH, RoHS och ErP och fo?resla? fo?rba?ttringar av PRS i linje med det som identifierats.10 fo?retag valdes ut baserat pa? omsa?ttning och antalet ansta?llda.

Fortum has in a pilot project installed metering equipment with wireless communication in secondary substations in Stockholm. So far, the collected data are used only in specific projects.This master thesis was carried out at Fortum Distribution AB in Stockholm during 2013. The purpose of this study is to simplify and enhance the use of data in for example network planning process, by giving suggestions on how data can be managed and giving examples of analyzes that collected data can be used for.The electricity meter which Fortum has installed is a EDMI-Mk10A which is set to measure max/average/min values with a one hour time resolution of the following parameters: voltage (per phase), current (per phase) andactive power and active and reactive energy.In order to analyze the collected data an analysis tool is required. During this thesis two customized tools in Microsoft Excel have been developed, one for sorting data and one for analyzing.One aim of the thesis is to show examples of what collected measurement data can be used for. This work shows an example of analysis of active power, power factor, voltage, occurrence of interrupts and the relationship between outdoor temperature and power.This master thesis has among others resulted in the following advice: Expand the number of secondary substations with measuring equipment.

This Master Thesis discusses the development of bids for regulation power with consideration of change of discharge. The study was initiated by Vattenfall PD and is a limited part of a substantial development project at the same division. The background of the project is the new demands from SvK, which among other things includes more detailed regulation bids. As from the 1st of November 2008, the regulation bids are supposed to be calculated regarding each specific regulation object, something that is defined by SvK. These new demands changes Vattenfall?s conditions and will increase the need for detailed knowledge about available regulation power and costs for regulation.In this study a strategy for regulation bids was developed.