The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the retrieval effectiveness on the European Unions official website EUROPA, depending on which language is used to formulate the search question. Our main concern were if you get access to the same information depending on which language is used to search information The European Union has so far eleven official languages, and with the forthcoming expansion with negotiations with thirteen new countries to affiliate to the union by May 1:st 2004, the official languages will be even more. We have made a comparison between Swedish and English, using 29 different topics from which we formulated 2x29 queries. The topics used were found at the Swedish Governments FAQ about the European Union, EUsvar. We wanted the topics to be as authentic as possible to avoid bias.

Globalisering har idag blivit ett centralt begrepp över hela världen, med bakgrund avatt takten i handelsutbyten mellan länder har ökat dramatiskt på senare tid, i kombination med minskade handelshinder. Idag exporterar svenska företag varor och tjänster till den internationella marknaden, som motsvarar ett värde av halva Sveriges BNP. Att fler SMF i Sverige internationaliserar sig medför inte enbart möjligheter utan kan också innebära vissa svårigheter. En ökad ekonomisk integration bland världens företag och utökade globala värdekedjor. Detta innebär att händelser som utspelas på utländska marknaden medför konsekvenser för svenska företag.

In the last few years the environment becomes more watchful, even for us farmers. All agricultural enterprises that exceed 200 animal units must be tested according to regulation of environment. A farm business with 200 animal units and more is classed ?environmentally hazardous activities? and has to make an environmental impact assessment for the business you have today, and the activity after expansion. Before you can construct a building and expand the numbers of animals is a lot of applications to make. I have in this project restricted me to establish a environmental impact assessment and a consultation foundation. To make a environmental impact assessment is the big part of the application. The environmental impact assessment take a lot of time and you need skills for all the rules in the environmental code to be abele to make an environmental impact assessment approved. The environment codes purposes (1 kap 1 § Miljöbalken) is to rule the laws. The purpose of the environment code is to promote sustainable development which will assure a healthy and sound environment for present and future generations. Definitions of a ?environmentally hazardous activities? 9 kap 1§ Miljöbalken) shall mean the discharges of wastewater, solid matter or gas from land, buildings or structures onto land or into water areas or ground water.

Sweden is a world leader in listed private equity and ranked fifth in the world in market capitalization. The sector is attracting increasing interest from the investment community. However, the private equity industry in Sweden has historically poor reputation and is criticized for creating value through high leverage, multiple riding and severe cuts. This study analyzes value creation drivers in buyouts from the perspective of the private equity firm using a dataset of 15 realized buyouts by private equity firms listed on NASDAQ OMX Nordic Stockholm. The methodology used separates the value contribution of leverage on the private equity firm's return from internal operational improvements and external variations in transaction multiples.

 Background and aim: Media development and digitalization has expanded the PR industry's working area. More participants are on the media market and it is becoming more and more difficult to define what PR really is and what the PR agencies/departments really do. Is PR marketing, information, event marketing or maybe propaganda? We believe that the complexity to define the term PR can lead to a loss of critical approach to the business, especially among young people. Has the PR industry managed to eliminate their negative image among students in upper secondary school and what do they associate with PR today? The aim of this essay is to examine what a selection of students associate with the term PR and if they are critical to the PR industry or not.Method/Material: The method is a quantitative survey.

During the past years Building Information Modelling (BIM), which is a digital way to work, has begun to spread amongst the parts of the construction process. At the construction phase the larger companies has started using the new way to work. This expansion has not been developed amongst smaller companies leading to the purpose of this report, to investigate in which ways the smaller companies can implement BIM by changing their way to work. The thesis is delimited to work preperations with the objective to define how the work preperations should be structured to enable the implementation of BIM. To achieve the objective of the report, information about the subject has been collected by interviews and literature studies.

The electric car has existed for over a century and producers has tried to commercialize it earlier but has not succeeded. In recent years, however, a change occurred that may be significant for the electric car and it is now to commercialize in the market of passenger cars. The technology has in recent years elaborated as more car manufacturers have started to invest in development in the subject field. This thesis aims to compile an action plan for the development of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Uppsalahem ABs residential areas. It is based on a survey of different residential areas and a survey of charging infrastructure.

Syfte: Vårt syfte med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur vårt fallföretag Jayway, går tillväga för att möjliggöra sitt högt uppsatta mål om att ha en personalomsättning lika med noll. Vi vill därigenom med denna studie försöka få en bild av hur mindre företag kan göra för att minimera sin personalomsättning. Metod: Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod och genomfört ett flertal intervjuer med vårt fallföretag. Teoretiskt perspektiv: För att förstå grunden till problemet att behålla personal för mindre företag har vi tagit till oss teorier om personalomsättningen och dess relation till stora och små företag. Empiri: Vårt fallföretag Jayway är ett IT-baserat företag under expansion.

This essay shows how natural areas in Älta, a part of Nacka municipality southeast from Stockholm, been changed quantitatively and qualitative as a result of the increased housing construction in the area. Three issues are discussed. Namely: how has Ältas green areas been changed in sizes and quality in line with the settlement's expansion, what is the reason or the reasons to building of different types of accommodations, what has been and is the operators in connection with building of the different types of accommodations?The essay shows that the green areas has been decreased with over 2 km from 1901 to 2000 and in addition to these areas of approximately 1,1km been converted to a planned green structure. Älta has during the years gone through four eras of building types an era of small family houses ? an era of building one million houses on a national scale ? an era of terrace houses ? an era of sporadic building of different housing types (one family houses, pair houses, terrace houses and small blocks of flats).

SammanfattningBostadsmarknaden för äldre har vuxit de senaste åren i och med att andelen äldre ökar allt mer och en boendeform som har blivit populär är seniorboendet. Många äldre är köpstarka vilket har gjort dem till en attraktiv målgrupp på bostadsmarknaden. Seniorboendet kan erbjuda en social gemenskap och ökad trygget där de boende inte behöver ägna tid och energi åt att sköta underhållet som snöskottning och underhåll vilket många inte längre vill ta hand om själva. Att driva ett seniorboende är en kapitalkrävande verksamhet och för att lyckas med att skapa ett seniorboende som går med vinst är en affärsplan en hjälp då studier har visat att affärsplanering är ett sätt att få finslipa iden, organisera företaget och minska risker förknippade med projektet. Affärsplaner efterfrågas även allt mer av investerare och andra intressenter.Författaren har i den här studien sökt ett svar på problemformuleringen: Hur kan en affärsplan utformas med inriktning på etablering av seniorboende?Huvudsyftet med studien är att diskutera hur företag som driver seniorboende affärsplanerar.

The print- and mailroom at Gefle Dagblad (GD-tyck) is handling an increasing amount of commercial jobsalong with the newspaper production. Investments have above all been done in the mailroom to be able tooffer commercial costumers a higher degree of finishing and there are plans to expand further in the commercialmarket. GD-tryck is of the opinion that they need to secure the quality of their production to be ableto do such expansion, which is the reason why a quality system of some kind may be appropriate. Howeverthere are no plans to certify such a quality system according to ISO 9001:2000.In this exam report the present methods of working have been analysed from a quality perspective.Suggestions on how GD-tryck should be working with quality development is presented in the fields whereshortage of quality has been discovered. The suggestions taken together do not form a quality system butcan be looked at as ideas of approach to quality fields that have to be developed if a working quality systemshall be accomplished.Many of the quality fields that have been discussed do not have anything to do with technical qualitydirectly but are in some degree requirements for a working quality system.

The last hundred years humans have drastically changed the amount of available nitrogen in nature. Today human activities release twice as much available nitrogen as all natural processes are doing together. We also have degraded nature´s possibilities to take care of nitrogen through the draining of wetlands and straightening of rivers. In order to regain the potential of nitrogen retention in the water systems there now requires a reshape of the landscape we live in. A planned expansion of the mining activities in Garpenberg, Dalarna, would double the content of nitrogen in the waters below the mine.

Världen har ?krympt? i takt med globaliseringen och länders handel har integrerats alltmer.Trots detta finns det idag fortfarande stora skillnader mellan exempelvis Sverige och Frankrike. Den här studien kommer att undersöka hur tidigare erfarenheter påverkar företags internationaliseringsprocess. Uppsatsen skrivs på uppdrag av ett franskt företag som bedriver sin verksamhet i konsultbranschen där de hjälper andra företag att bli mer kostnadseffektiva.Som modell till undersökningen används teorier om företags internationalisering samt om lärande i organisationer. Metoden som används är att i en fallstudie granska detta konsultföretag, genom att samla in data via intervjuer, telefonintervjuer samt sekundär data.

This master thesis is intended to give an increased understanding of the stress state in an axle, which is assembled in one of Atlas Copco?s mountain drilling rigs. The main problems investigated were how the axle is affected when the bearing is worn, when the pretension is varied, and how to dimension the axle. Answers to these questions were found by using hand calculations, practical testing and with Finite Element analyzes. The dimensioning of the axle is currently based on the bending stress, but the author?s opinion is that the axle should be dimensioned considering the equivalent stress.

This essay is about use, misuse and non-use of history in politics. To recognize genocide is a use of history that has been established in politics, but also sparked debate. The position of non-use of history in international policy towards Turkey's denial policy has increasingly been replaced by recognition of genocide as a matter of making up with the story, moral consider, and where fundamental issues of culture, identity, history and morality has become guiding element in the discourse behind European expansion and integration policies. A breakthrough for this change is due to the Cold War's end; since the 1980s it has become possible to realize the humanitarianism which has its roots in the Enlightenment humanism underlying the United Nations, and later the EU conventions on human rights and genocide conventions. A genocide concept has become an important discourse in world politics that puts moral pressure on states to act.