Syftet med föreliggande litteraturstudie var att beskriva olika smärtbeteenden hos äldre personer med demens samt smärtskattningsinstrument som är avsedda att användas för äldre personer med demens. Vetenskapliga artiklar söktes i Medline och CINAHL och arton artiklar inkluderades. Huvudresultatet i föreliggande litteraturstudie var att det finns tillförlitliga och enkla smärtskattningsverktyg för äldre personer med demens att använda för vårdpersonalen. De 4 valda smärtskattningsskalorna, PAINAD, MOBID, DOLOPLUS och PACSLAC hade alla höga psykometriska egenskaper vilket gör att de på ett säkert och tillförlitligt sätt kan användas av vårdpersonalen. Resultatet visade också på problemen att särskilja smärta hos en äldre person med demens från andra psykosociala problem som till exempel hunger, törst eller behov att gå på toaletten.

There are several methods avaliable to find areas of interest, but most fail at detecting such areas in cluttered scenes. In this paper two methods will be presented and tested in a qualitative perspective. The first is the darg operator, which is used to detect three dimensional convex or concave objects by calculating the derivative of the argument of the gradient in one direction of four rotated versions. The four versions are thereafter added together in their original orientation. A multi scale version is recommended to avoid the problem that the standard deviation of the Gaussians, combined with the derivatives, controls the scale of the object, which is detected.

The purpose of this thesis is to develop an application for mobile phones that simplifies communication. The company Doberman wanted to look at possibilities to develop such an application that uses Bluetooth? technol-ogy to communicate in ad-hoc networks. The aim has been an application to run on mobile phones in which you can send messages and files to other devices and also add a user profile with personal information to share with others. The communication will take place in temporary networks created when Bluetooth enabled devices is in range of each other.The market for mobile phones has grown rapidly over the past years and is still growing.

Sedan hydroformning började användas inom plåtformning i början av 90-talet har den dragit mer och mer uppmärksamhet till sig framför allt inom bil- och flygindustrin. Processen kan med fördel användas istället för konventionell teknik dvs mekanisk stansning eftersom den kan skapa delar med bättre egenskaper till lägre kostnad. I hydroformningsprocessen pressar en hydraulisk vätska ut ämnet mot formen samtidigt som cylindrar trycker på vid ändarna av ämnet för att tillföra material där det behövs. Förhållandet mellan vätskans tryckökning och cylindrarnas axiella kraftökning är en mycket viktig del i processen. Två versioner av finita elementprogrammet DYNA3D användes för att simulera processen: en standardversion och en version med en adaptiv tryckökningsalgoritm.

Studien är en undersökning om hur olika delar av konsumentbeteendet bland applikationsanvändare ser ut. En applikation är ett program eller en tjänst som tillför en ny funktion i mobiltelefonen. Studiens syfte och problemformulering hur olika delar av konsumentbeteendet ser ut och utifrån det ta fram den typiske applikationsanvändaren. Som teoretisk referensram används en bearbetad version av Peter & Olsons (2008) Wheel of consumer analysis som vi kallar konsumenthjulet. Konsumenthjulet består av affekt och kognition, konsumenters omgivning och beteende.

The population over 65 years of age is increasing and health in elderly has been a subject of research for decades but voice function and vocal health has not been prioritized. The purpose of this study is to obtain reference value for the Swedish version of Voice Handicap Index (RHI) and the Throat Scale among people over 65 years of age and assess voice function and vocal health for this age group. The questions were as followed:1) What is the reference value of RHI for people over 65 years of age? 2) What is the reference value of the Throat Scale for people over 65 years of age? 3) Is there a correlation between a self-rated VA-scale on the perceived degree of voice problems, and the self-rated RHI-/Throat Scale result? 4) Does age, gender or previous profession matter for the self-perceived voice?In total 100 individuals participated in the study, 50 women and 50 men, between 65 and 92 years old. The reference value of RHI for people over 65 years of age was 13,4 points and the reference value for the Throat Scale was 7,7 points.

Cykelstölder är ett stort problem i dagens samhälle. I Sverige polisanmäldes 65 700 cykelstölder under 2011. De cykellås som finns på marknaden kan på ett eller annat sätt brytas upp och efter det är cykeln fullt brukbar. Examensarbetets uppdragsgivare hade idéer om ett nytt cykellås som förhindrade cykelns brukbarhet efter uppbrytning av låset. Idén ledde till ett samarbete med uppdragsgivaren, mig och teknikkonsultföretaget, Cross Design.

This thesis describes possibilities for Metso Paper to lower their costs of spray pipes for their pulp wash press TRPE, with maintained good functionality and quality.Information that can be used by competitors has been censored in this version of the essay.To find solutions, alternative suppliers have been contacted and asked to quote. There has also been a new spray pipe designed. The manufacturing costs of the new design have been calculated.The thesis also contains a concept generation of an alternative product to the spray pipes in installations where a high pressure washer is used.To be able to ask other manufacturers of spray pipes to quote, a demand specification based on the currently used spray pipe was made. This was then sent to two alternative suppliers.An investigation of earlier used spray pipes, and the currently used, shows that the nozzles are a big part of the total costs of the spray pipes. To attempt to reduce the nozzles high cost an concept generation was made to find the best solution for a new design.There was a request that it should be possible to change the internal brushes in the spray pipe without cutting and welding.

This thesis describes possibilities for Metso Paper to lower their costs of spray pipes for their pulp wash press TRPE, with maintained good functionality and quality.Information that can be used by competitors has been censored in this version of the essay.To find solutions, alternative suppliers have been contacted and asked to quote. There has also been a new spray pipe designed. The manufacturing costs of the new design have been calculated.The thesis also contains a concept generation of an alternative product to the spray pipes in installations where a high pressure washer is used.To be able to ask other manufacturers of spray pipes to quote, a demand specification based on the currently used spray pipe was made. This was then sent to two alternative suppliers.An investigation of earlier used spray pipes, and the currently used, shows that the nozzles are a big part of the total costs of the spray pipes. To attempt to reduce the nozzles high cost an concept generation was made to find the best solution for a new design.There was a request that it should be possible to change the internal brushes in the spray pipe without cutting and welding.

Bakgrund: Ambulanspersonal har en arbetsmiljö som skiljer sig från arbetsmiljön hos annan vårdpersonal. Miljön har betydelse för hur omvårdnaden förmedlas och för hur den upplevs av patienten. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka ambulanspersonalens erfarenheter av hur prehospital arbetsmiljö kan påverka möjligheten att utföra god omvårdnad. Metod: En kvantitativ enkätundersökning genomfördes på 2 ambulansstationer. Insamlad data sammanställdes via statistikprogrammet Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 19.0 och analyserades deskriptivt.

The aim of this study was to study how Swedish youth national football players handle stressful events in sports. A longitudinal questionnaire diary was constructed from a revised version of Nicholls and Polmans (2007) design with the intention of recording in-sport and psychosocial stress, choice of coping strategy and coping effectiveness. The participants were 59 Swedish youth national football players born 1992 observed during a four day national training camp held by the Swedish Football Association. Data were drawn from a quantifying analyzing method. The main result showed that the most common stressors reported were, physical injury or pain, experiencing teammates or opponents to perform better and feeling generally insecure during training camp.

Libraries are often associated with positive values such as democracy and equal rights. The contents of the literature on offer should therefore be of great interest to the librarian, the supplier of said literature. The topic of this Master?s thesis is the popular literary genre known as chick lit. The purpose is to investigate the love theme in Swedish chick lit, and how it relates to Anthony Giddens? theory on love in late modernity.

In the government's bill on infrastructure for 2010-2021, the government presents that road investments should be prioritized before investments in the railway. The grants for operation and maintenance of the railways are much higher then in the last government's bill. Furthermore the current founding of investment in railways is higher then for road investment which is in opposite of the bill on infrastructure's directives. Therefore the purpose with my thesis is to find which factors that can explain how come the government has chosen to take these actions. As a model to help me achieve my purpose I have been using a modified version of the DBO-theory, where the basic factors to explain an action is Desire, Belief and Opportunities.

1 January 2005 came the new reconstructed version of IAS 40. It came to compensate the earlier ÅRL and FAR who was applied within the European Union. These new standards came to be called as IAS/IFRS. The standards? are supposed to make sure that the differences between the different countries won?t be so split.

Vardagen kan innebära en dramatisk förändring för människor som drabbas av venösa bensår. Bensår kan förekomma från några månader upp till många år. Svårläkta venösa bensår är ofta mycket smärtsamma och avsöndrar kraftig lukt och läckage vilket kan påverka de drabbades livskvalitet negativt. Syftet med studien är att beskriva människors upplevelse av lukt, läckage och smärta vid venösa bensår och hur det påverkar det dagliga livet. Åtta kvalitativa studier analyserades med kvalitativ manifest innehållanalys.