The latest thing in the area of environmental building today is energy-plus-house. The idea behind the energy-plus-house is to create a house that produces more energy than it consumes. To accomplish this, the house uses renewable energy, in this particular case solar energy. With the help from a proper construction and thoughtfully projected installations you can achieve a surplus of energy. The surplus energy can then be sold to the surrounding buildings and thereby conduce to a financial profit for the household.

The purpose with the work is to study Fortums activities with hydro power plants, dams and reservoirs mainly in a premise jurisdictional perspective and to show how GIS would be a helpful tool for the future.A great deal of the information that the Generation Hydro-division at Fortum are managing have a spatial element. That means that it is possible to spatially join this information to a geographical polygon, line or point. This information is today gathered from several different sources, such as files, paper maps and digital data of several kinds. A Geographic Information System (GIS), as and aid besides the ordinary tools should be an effective support in the everyday work with questions of a premise jurisdictional nature.The goal of this work is to account for how to organize, present and analyse geographic information. We will show how to link from the map to traditional tools such as calculation- and register programs.

Companies in the apparel industry are becoming increasingly responsible with regards to the social and environmental issues related to textile production. Despite these tendencies, there are great insecurities surrounding the concept of CSR and the effects on consumers of CSR communication. There is currently no model for breaking the concept of CSR down into smaller elements, specific for the apparel industry. In the first part of this thesis, we create such a model, applicable in a consumer communication context. In the second part, we investigate the effects on consumer attitudes and intentions of communicating the different elements of CSR presented in the model.

Resultat från epidemiologiska studier har antytt att flavonolrik kakao sänker blodtrycket. Detta sker troligen genom att flavonoider i kakao leder till aktivering av eNOS som sedan katalyserar NO-syntesen i kärlendotel vilket leder till vasodilation och sänkt blodtryck. En nyare studie har funnit att kakao dessutom inhiberar enzymet ACE. Mycket tyder även på att NO-koncentrationen är kopplad till ACE-aktiviteten då dessa faktorer visat sig följa varandra inverst vid varierande doser. Det finns också ett samband mellan ACE-genotyp och serumnivåer av ACE.

Introduction. Infection Prevention is one of the surgical nurses' main responsibilities. One of the steps which patients undergo in this purpose before surgery is the preoperative skin desinfektion. Background. The patient washes the day before surgery with Descutan cutaneous sponge 4 %, a sponge containing chlorhexidine.

Bakgrund: Sjukskrivningsstatistiken för nack- och ryggsmärta är hög både i Sverige och andra västländer. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka om personer som har statiska och eller stillasittande arbeten eller utför tunga lyft upplever att de känner mindre smärta i rygg och nacke efter att de deltagit i ett styrketräningsprogram jämfört med hur de kände sig innan träningen startade. Metod: Vi använde oss av kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med fem deltagare. Vi valde kvalitativ metod för att deltagarna skulle få berätta om sina upplevelser med egna ord och tala fritt kring ämnet.Resultat: Nästan alla deltagarna upplevde positiva effekter av styrketräningen såsom minskad smärta och mer ork. Diskussion: En del deltagare märkte skillnad i minskad smärta väldigt snabbt. Anmärkningsvärt var också att nästan alla dessa unga deltagare i studien hade upplevt rygg- och nacksmärta.

The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention stipulerade att länder med McDonald's inte bekrigar varandra. Uppsatsen undersöker varför denna hypotes falsifierades efter att ha varit giltig i 32 år. Med i första hand kvantitativa metoder identifieras ett antal utslagsgivande faktorer för att ett land ska få McDonald?s. Det konstateras att demokrati förr var en mycket viktig faktor men idag helt upphört att var det, medan närheten till USA idag är viktigare än någonsin förr.

In school, pupils learn to critically relate to sources of various texts. In the course of time they also learn how to make references and cite properly. Yet, alarming reports show increasing cheating and plagiarism in colleges and universities. Plagiarism prevention services are used today in Swedish high schools. We are questioning how this relates to the sociocultural perspective and curriculum view of imitation as a natural part of the learning process, communication and language.Material from depth interviews, with four teachers in the school subject Swedish about their theoretical and practical approach to students' writing process and writing development are used to deal with the issues of this thesis.

Canine herpes virus 1 (CHV-1) är en vitt utbredd smittsam patogen. Viruset tycks verka enzootiskt i hundpopulationer och ger upphov till en livslång latens hos infekterade djur. CHV-1 kan sedan reaktiveras vid exempelvis stress, som vid dräktighet. Hos vuxna hundar får infektionen ofta ett subkliniskt uttryck, men kan också ge upphov till respiratoriska symtom samt genitala blåsor och ögoninfektioner. Dräktiga tikar kan drabbas av fertilitetsproblem, med mumifikation, resorption, dödfödsel samt abort av foster.

Suicidology deals a lot with taking into consideration significant symptoms, risk factors and establishing causal relationships which inevitably are very important for suicide prevention. But do we understand the suicide attempters better thereby? The aim with the study is to elucidate the meaning of the lived suicidal experience that is expressed by participants on an Internet forum. Ten participants' texts which concerned own suicidality were chosen out from this Internet forum and were analyzed and interpreted on the basis of a phenomenological hermeneutical method inspired by Ricoeur (1976). The result established twelve themes that with the aid of Heidegger (1993) and Derrida (1978, 1991) led to that the following conclusions could be drawn about the meaning of the suicidal lifeworld: suicidal concern and care in itself reduces the sense of identity, practical suicidal doing in itself reduces the world, sense of identity is more affected by the future than the present and the past, the death is escaped from through a calculating determination to have the death at one's disposal, inability to turn away from the death increases oscillating between states of emotions, the surrounding world's requirement to avoiding death becomes to a compulsion to isolate one self; and finally: to both feel anxiety in front of one self's own death and dread when escaping from it..

AbstractIt is unclear how L2 students acquire vocabulary ? how is it taught ? or wheather it can even be taught. In an SSL (Swedish as second language) program for young adults the ambition has been to integrate the L2 students? into the national high school (gymnasium) courses as quickly as possible, in order to meet the students? demands for subject education and to challenge them on an appropriate knowledge level. Teachers noticed quite early that the course ? integrated L2 students seemed to have a deeper understanding of words and an easier flow in their speech.

Agency theory describes the conflict of interest between the principal (stockholders) and the agent (CEO). Aligning the incentives of executives with those of the owners is the most direct way to mitigate the agency problem. If there is no meaningful link between CEO compensation and company performance, it is doubtful that the large sums of assets in public corporations are being managed efficiently. In theory the solution is simple reward the CEO when shareholders wealth increases. The purpose of this paper is to investigate if there is a relationship between company performance and CEO compensation among Swedish companies, in materials and information technology industry.

Syftet med studien är att beskriva och analysera lärares upplevelser av socialt arbete med fokus på barn i utsatta livssituationer. Följande frågeställningar har formulerats; Hur ser lärare på sin roll i arbetet med elever i utsatta livssituationer eller livsmiljöer? Vilket utrymme upplever lärare att dessa frågor får och har i skolan? Vilka framgångsfaktorer och hinder upplever lärare i sitt arbete med elever i utsatta lägen? Studien bygger på en kvalitativ ansats med semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer som metod. Elva lärare har intervjuats om sina upplevelser av sitt arbete. Lärarnas berättelser om deras upplevelser av arbetet handlar om komplexitet i arbetet med förväntningar från olika håll, relationsskapande, stöd av kollegor och medarbetare, tidsbrist, otillräckliga resurser, krav på att eleverna ska ha full måluppfyllelse, krävande eller oengagerade vårdnadshavare, skillnader mellan skolor och stadsdelar, gränssättning, prioriteringar och ett tidskrävande dokumentationsarbete.

Bakgrund: Det blir allt vanligare med suicid och risken att utsättas för en patients suicid är något vårdpersonal inte kan bortse från. Enligt Nationellt centrum för suicidforskning och prevention av psykisk ohälsa, begicks 1523 suicid år 2012. Flertalet suicid kännetecknas av kaos och förtvivlan och för de som suiciderar ter sig handlingen rationell då deras tankebanor låst sig. Då suicid sker plötsligt, är det viktigt både bland anhöriga och vårdpersonal att få hjälp med att bearbeta incidensen Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa vårdpersonals upplevelser efter patients suicid. Metod: En allmän litteraturstudie som består av 12 vetenskapliga artiklar med både kvalitativ och kvantitativ ansatser.

The Energy Performance Certification in Sweden was developed as a tool to achieve the Government's target to reduce Sweden's energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020. The Energy Performance Certificate has previously received some criticism for not fulfilling its purpose. Questions that formed the basis for this report is how the energy performance certification provides support to buyers of single-family houses and if the energy performance improved in terms of reliability. The report begins with a background description that describes how the energy declaration works and some of the findings of previous evaluations and surveys. A survey to investigate the broker's position to energy performance have been conducted as well as interviews with buyers and sellers of houses. An investigation whether the energy performance can vary between different calculation programs, depending on various assumptions made by the energy declarant, has been made.Brokers and sellers have proved negative attitudes towards energy performance, particularly brokers.