This report deals with the performance of a batch flow treatment of landfillleachate compared with a continuous flow system. The parameters in focus were total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), BOD5 and COD. The pilot-scale experiment used eight barrels with a volume of 150 liters. Each barrel was constructed differently concerning its flow, its bed material grain size and its presence of plants or not. Four of the barrels worked in batch mode, thus four in continuous flow mode.

The purpose of this thesis is to study and determine how working in cross functional teams can generate value in an effort to facilitate innovation. An inductive scientific perspective is chosen as the research approach. A single case is investigated with the theoretical framework based on Resource Based View, Intellectual Capital, Innovation theory and theories concerning Cross Functional Teams. The empirical material has been collected through primary data; surveys, interviews and secondary data; literature, websites and further complementary data. The practice of using Cross Functional Teams will enhance organizational learning, knowledge transfer, increase communication and innovation, which in turn will increase the speed and performance of the new product development process.

Voltage sag indices are a way of quantifying the performance of the power supply, as far as voltage sags are concerned. Indices can be defined for individual events, for individual sites, and for a whole system. A standard method for single-event methods is part of IEC standard 61000-4-30.This thesis emphasizes the importance of voltage sag indices and different methods for calculating three-phase voltage sag characteristics. Three-phase events measured in a medium network voltage over period of one month were analyzed, results examined and statistically evaluated. An algorithm for calculating voltage sag characteristics and indices was created in Matlab.

During recent years, the trend of Swedish students? negative performance and results in mathematics has been discussed. It is agreed that a change in teaching methods is necessary in order to solve this issue. Thus we found it interesting to take a closer look at an alternative way of teaching. The purpose of this study was to find out what teachers and students associate concrete mathematics with and make a comparison between them.

Musical improvisation is an infinite artistic well. It helps the musician to make a personal performance and lets the music reflect the inner feelings. It is a language with which the performer can adapt the formulation to the specific situation. Yet so many have fear and respect when facing the phenomenon. In this study Dan Alkenäs discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using musical improvisation as a pedagogical method in school education.

This "cross-culture" study deals entirely on awareness and attitudes among Kenyan andSwedish teachers in terms of gender equality. Parts of this study were conducted in Kenya,where I spent a month living and visited a school in a multi-million city. There, I conductedsemi-structured interviews with teachers and gathered material for my thesis. The purpose ofthis study is to see how teachers in Kenya relate to gender and then compare this withSwedish teachers. The study also includes a review of national policy documents for schoolregarding gender equality.

Syfte: Syftet i denna studie uppkom ur vårt intresse för nyckeltalsanvändning inom ett relativt nytt område som hållbarhet. Vi läste på om hållbarhetsnyckeltal och ur denna tidigare forskning inom ämnet så blev vårt syfte att skapa en ökad förståelse kring den praktiska användningen samt nyttan med hållbarhetsnyckeltal, med avseende på TBL-modellen.Metod: Studien bygger på en kvalitativ forsningsmetod inom vilken personliga intervjuer har utförts på fem fallföretag. Intervjuerna spelades in och sedan jämfördes samt analyserades resultatet av dessa med det teoretiska ramverket inom studien.           Resultat & slutsats: Studien har visat på vilken praktisk användning samt nytta hållbarhetsnyckeltal har eller skulle kunna ha för företag eller organisationer. Studien har därutöver också visat på att företag och organisationer aktivt talar om hållbarhet samt att hållbarhetsfrågor är integrerade i den dagliga verksamheten..

Introduction and background: The 1990s crisis and the global financial crisis year 2008 shows the same indications that the property market was affected negative. The Swedish Property companies had a difficult time on the market when the crisis led to decreased property trade and financing problems for the Property companies. The Swedish property companies became less attractive on the market and contributed to a drop in prices on investment property.Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to examine if there is any relation between the Swedish Property companies impairments on their investment property and the global financial crisis year 2008.Method: The essay is based on a quantitative study where we examined Swedish Property companies? annual reports. We answered our questions and our purpose from the empirical data that we collected from the annual reports.Conclusions: The study resulted in that we found a correlation between the Swedish Property companies? impairments on their investment properties and the global financial crisis year 2008.

Cirkus Cirkörs nya byggnad Ljusband består av det befintliga betongskelettet och nya takband med tunnfilmssolceller vilket fungerar som ett nytt klimatskal. Det nya takbandstillägget visar invändigt en synlig konstruktion med stålfackverk för upphängningsanordningar inom cirkusverksamheten samt ger ett lätt uttryck för att kunna liknas vid ett cirkustält som spänns upp med vajrar. Kultur och en långsiktigt ekonomisk och hållbar utveckling går hand i hand. Dessa takband är indelade efter de befintliga pelarnas placering och varierar i höjd och sidled för att påminna om Subtopias verksamhet som just präglas av flexibilitet och föränderlighet. En gemensam foajédel kopplar samman hela byggnaden och definieras av en installationsvägg som även fungerar som en informationsdel.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka skillnader mellan individuella- och lagidrottares upplevda self-efficacy samt skillnader mellan män och kvinnors self-efficacy. I studien undersöktes även samband mellan socialt stöd, anxiety, motivation, prestation och self-efficacy. Totalt deltog 117 stycken olika idrottare, 53 stycken individuella idrottare och 64 stycken lagidrottare samt varav 53 var kvinnor och 64 stycken var män, i åldrarna 19-52. Metoden som användes var kvantitativ och bestod av flera sammansatta enkäter (TEOSQ, GSE, SCAT och MSPSS) till en hel. Tillsamman med enkäterna följde även fem frågor rörande typ av idrott, ålder, kön, prestation på träning och prestation på tävling.

Vårat syfte är att undersöka vad konsumenterna har för inställning till Falu stadskärna?Vi har i vår uppsats använt oss av både kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod. I den kvalitativa metoden har vi utfört en observation över Falu stadskärna och den låg sedan till grund för vår kvantitativa metod, det vill säga vår enkät. Enkäten har utförts i Falu stadskärna och 200 respondenter deltog enkätintervju. Vi har även intervjuat personer som är väl insatta i Faluns centrumhandel, dels 2 butiksägare och även Faluns centrumledare.

Vårat syfte är att undersöka vad konsumenterna har för inställning till Falu stadskärna? Vi har i vår uppsats använt oss av både kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod. I den kvalitativa metoden har vi utfört en observation över Falu stadskärna och den låg sedan till grund för vår kvantitativa metod, det vill säga vår enkät. Enkäten har utförts i Falu stadskärna och 200 respondenter deltog enkätintervju. Vi har även intervjuat personer som är väl insatta i Faluns centrumhandel, dels 2 butiksägare och även Faluns centrumledare.

In recent years, customer profitability has become a focal point of academic discussions on business performance. However, researchers remain divided as to how evaluation of customers ought to be conducted, resulting in uncertainty of how accounting systems should be adapted to prevailing conditions. This paper aims to investigate the application of customer accounting techniques and the role they play in the organisational and commercial context in which they take place. In a case study of Billerud, a Swedish company providing materials and services for packaging solutions, the interplay between customer accounting techniques and customer relationship characteristics has been examined through the application of a theoretical framework developed by Lind and Strömsten. Particular emphasis has been put on deviations from the prescribed pattern of the framework.

A systematic quality work is essential for anyone working in preschool, school,kindergarten and adult education to give children and students an equal education.Skollagen (2010:800) indicates that quality work should be focused on the nationalgoals of education. According to Skolverkets allmänna råd med kommentarer omsystematiskt kvalitetsarbete - för skolväsendet (2012) is the work to develop quality acontinuous process. Everyone's involvement and participation is therefore essential.Systematic quality work means to systematically and continuously monitor theactivities, analyze performance against national targets and based on that plan anddevelop. Although the work has been driven outside governmental policy documentssince 1997 shows, among others, Skolinspektionens audits of municipalities andschools that there is major deficiencies in the obligation to conduct a systematicquality work. It appears that more than half of the surveyed schools had deficienciesin its system quality work.This is the starting position this study takes on to and through literature review,document studies and interviews of principals is the subject problematized.

The purpose of this study was to estimate the removal of biomass in connection with thinning operations in young stands that are dominated by small diameter trees. The economy of such operations depends on the products generated as well as the performance of the harvesting systems. Conversion tables designed to predict the outcome based on harvesting method was another goal of this study. Removal of biomass affects the nutrient composition of the site. Therefore it is a purpose that this study will provide researchers with some variables that can be utilized when studying this aspect. Trees were harvested and divided into bunches based on diameter.