Uppsatsen har syftat till att belysa Sveriges närområde ur ett säkerhetspolitiskt perspektiv och samtidigt finna faktorer som påverkat Sveriges säkerhetspolitiska rollval. Vidare ämnade uppsatsen att förklara, det vill säga hitta orsaksförklaringar till varför den säkerhetspolitiska miljön i Sveriges närområde ser ut som den gör. Då uppsatsen är att se som teorikonsumerande har svaren sökts genom vald teori som utgår från en regional säkerhetspolitisk analys. Vidare har även ansatser gjort ur Nils Andréns säkerhetspolitiska struktur. De teoretiska ansatserna har sedan använts som analysmodell där fyra nivåer har applicerats på empirin.

Problemet med övergödning har länge varit uppmärksammat i Sverige. De åtgärder som har satts in för att minska problemet har inte fungerat tillfredsställande och därför är det extra viktigt att följa upp och utvärdera målet Ingen övergödning. En central del i arbetet med miljömålen är utvärdering och uppföljning, som görs för att bedöma om vi närmar oss de uppsatta miljömålen. I det svenska miljömålsarbetet har så kallade miljöindikatorer fått en betydande roll. De fungerar som ett verktyg för att operationalisera, implementera, följa upp och utvärdera hållbar utveckling.

The fungus Gremmeniella abietina causes damage to conifers that can lead to tree death. In 1999 and 2001 the pathogen caused severe attacks in Sweden, where about 500 000 ha of pine forest were affected. Trees of all ages were attacked, but mainly forests between 30-60 years that were ready for their first commercial thinning. After recommendations from the forest agency, sanitary fellings were made to trees that had more needle loss than 85%, a total of about 50 000 ha. Economic losses have been estimated to more than one billion SEK.

This thesis presents the work of developing and testing a programming tool specially designed for children. The purpose of this tool is to make children capable of creating visual simulations and games that consist of actors interacting in a virtual world. The name of the programming tool is Behavior Cards, which comes from the fact that actors are programmed by giving them cards representing different kinds of behaviors. Behaviors are to some extent pre-programmed and can include general events specifying how the actors should act in different situations, in contrast to specifying every possible situation that can occur. The idea is that Behavior Cards should be easier to use than a more traditional text based programming tool, but it should also be expressive within the domain of visual games.

Foreseeing future changes in economic activity is of up most importance to a wide array of actors. The time lag in the presentation of official GDP statistics means that to somewhat accurately capture a tendency of where the business cycle is heading one need turn to qualitative sentiment indicators such as Purchasing Managers? Index (PMI) and official sentiment indicators for valuable clues. This thesis uses in-sample and out-of-sample methods to evaluate how well PMI and official Business Tendency Surveys (BTS) in Sweden and Denmark fair against the year-on-year growth rate of industrial production. Moreover, various Swedish regional sentiment indicators get examined and a case study of the indicator for the Öresund region is performed.

Den här uppsatsen behandlar den fysiska dimensionen i svensk regional planering och hur den påverkar sambandet mellan det regionala tillväxtarbetet och den kommunala översiktsplaneringen. Problembeskrivningen är baserad på Boverkets rapporter Rumslig utvecklingsplanering ? länken mellan regionalt tillväxtarbete och kommunal översiktsplanering (Rapport 2011:3) och Sambandet mellan det regionala tillväxtarbetet och kommunernas översiktsplanering (Rapport 2014:15). I dessa rapporter konstateras att en av anledningarna till att sambandet mellan de båda sektorerna idag är så svagt är att det regionala tillväxtarbetet och främst de regionala utvecklingsprogrammen saknar en fysisk dimension vilket gör det svårare för de kommunala planerarna att omsätta utvecklingsprogrammen och dess innehåll i fysisk planering (Boverket 2011, Boverket 2014a).Med utgångspunkt i det konstaterandet är uppsatsens syfte att undersöka möjligheten att använda sig av regionplanering enligt PBL för att stärka sambandet mellan det regionala tillväxtarbetet och den kommunala översiktsplaneringen.I avsnittet Teoretiskt perspektiv presenteras och diskuteras en möjlighet att tolka den diskrepans som finns mellan det regionala tillväxtarbetet och den kommunala översiktsplaneringen som utgår från en tolkning Jan-Evert Nilsson har presenterat av regionalpolitiken inom EU. Nilsson menar att det finns ett ekonomiskt/socialt perspektiv och ett territoriellt perspektiv och att dessa representerar två olika sätt att se på och hantera regional utveckling.

Det här examensarbetet har syftet till att undersöka hur integrerad trafik- och samhällsplanering kan bidra till ett mer hållbart transportsystem. I uppsatsen diskuteras olika hinder och barriärer som uppkommer i en integrerad planering. Examensarbetet är i huvudsak av kvalitativ karaktär. En litteraturstudie har genomförts om hur trafik- och samhällsplaneringen kan integreras. Det empiriska materialet består av en fallstudie genomfördes i Örebro regionen, i kommunerna Örebro, Kumla och Hallsberg.

This empirical work and base has been to analyze the government?s investigation (SOU 2008:27): the future road ? a reformed high school, which led to the high school reform that the Swedish government introduced as proposition (2008/09:199) about: Higher demand and quality within the high school. Skolverket (part of the Swedish government) has worked with the development of this steering document within their own mission Gy2011 in connection with the high schools during the transition. The reform comes into effect 1 of July 2011. This led to the main purpose to ask questions what high school principals and teachers think of the reform and to what extent it effects the high school programs, the examination system, what impact they see on the individual and the demand from society, and to some extent what the respondent´s answers about the government?s definition of what the higher demand and quality in the reform signify.

This report was written by Sofia Ericson and describes the degree thesis with the title: ?Connections between the growing site of bio fuel, the chemical composition of bio fuel ash and the deposit growth in a bio fuel fired boiler.? The purpose of this degree thesis was to avoid melted deposit growth in the bio fuel fired boiler at ENA Kraft in Enköping. Potassium and sodium are known to lower the melting point of bio fuel ashes and are therefore not wanted in the trees in higher amounts than necessary for the growth. Silicon is also known to be important for the deposit growth but it is not possible to say in general if higher or lower contents of silicon is better. The relation between silicon and other chemical substances is more important than the total amount of silicon.

Urban planning in Sweden goes back to a prolonged tradition, and even since the beginning of the 16th century there´s been general plans for urban planning for cities in Sweden.Nowadays every municipality has a directive from the government to establish or re-new the general master plan covering the whole municipality every 4th year.The aim of this paper is to illustrate and shed light on the extent for the planning document and guidelines, and how they change from every active period and in what extent the provisional planning reaches its visions regarding the outcome of the actual city growth. This study was completed by studying the position of every apartment building that?s been constructed for the chosen area over the years of 2000 - 2014 and draw comparisons between the current master plan main visions regarding constructions ? and comparing the two separate visions to pin out the differences in the same subject.The result shows that there are some deviations from the plans but not as much as one would have thought in the city growth, and some deviations from the different planning documents. Some of the deviations was greater than others but overall the visions was about the same..

Although known and feared for thousands of years, rabies remains a real and present threat to thousands of people, especially in low- and middle income countries. In India, rabies is an endemic disease, causing human deaths every year. The primary mode of transmission is through the bite of an infected dog. Fighting the disease in the dog population through vaccinations remains the most efficient way to eradicate the disease. The knowledge of rabies in India is unsatisfactory, as a lot of people lack awareness about the severity of the disease and the importance of washing the bitten area and seeking medical attention for post exposure prophylaxis when bitten by a dog.

Aim: The aim of this study was to study through papers if early intervention of children and adolescents with deaf-blindness can be facilitated through early intervention programs, cochlear implants (CI) and communication strategies.Method: The method that we used was a literature study of scientific articles through Pubmed and Cinahl databases. The articles reference lists were also studied which lead to that more papers were found.Results: Children and adolescents with deaf-blindness can benefit from early intervention programs, when their caregivers were educated to give appropriate response to the children?s behavior. The interaction between children and their caregivers can improve through an early intervention model. Children and adolescents with Deafblindness have variable results from CI.

Sverige är ett stort land där förutsättningarna för ekonomisk utveckling varierar mellan de olika regionerna. I flera årtionden har regionalpolitik bedrivits för att jämna ut dessa skillnader. Politiken har inte alltid fått det förväntade resultatet och det beror, enligt kritikerna till top-down- tänkandet, på att det inte går att skapa utveckling uppifrån. De menar att policy skapas på lokal nivå i samhället i så kallade policynätverk. Enligt Burts teori bör ett sådant nätverk vara väl integrerat internt och aktörerna måste ha många kontakter utanför nätverket för att det ska vara maximalt presterande.

Dagkirurgiska operationer står för en stor del av den operativa verksamheten i dag. Många patienter upplever det fördelaktigt att opereras dagkirurgiskt eftersom det påverkar deras vardag i mindre grad. Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva patienters upplevelse av att vara vaken under en operation i regional anestesi. Inklussionskriterierna var att de skulle ha varit vaken under sin operation, komma ihåg operationen samt vara över 18 år. Tio av de femton tillfrågade valde att delta, åtta var kvinnor och två män i ålder mellan 36 och 72.

Author: Gabriella Agné and Helena LarssonTitle: Disability policy program ? a case study of a municipals implementation of UNs Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.Supervisor: Marianne Westring-NordhAssessor: Ulf DruggeThis study aims to examine how a small municipal in southern Sweden works with the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and examine the assistant officers knowledge about this work and user organizations inclusion and user involvement.The study operates from a qualitative approach based on the results of nine semi-structured interviews with local politicians, assistance officers and representatives from three different user organizations.The results show that the municipal has chosen to work with the implementation of the convention by creating policy programs for their departments through dialogue with user organizations, and by mapping the accessibility to public places. The results also show that the assistant officers have been given no information regarding the convention or the policy programs from their employers and instead operate from national legislations and prepositions. The user organizations feel that they were initially included in the process, but that their impact has later been removed due to structural reorganization..