The first part of this essay is about a single-family house that we have planned and projected. Thesecond part is a deeper study in ways to further insulate windows when they are not in use.In the first part the building?s design and its most important construction elements are described.The planning of all major installations (heating, domestic water, ventilation, sanitation, electricity)are reported so that one can in principle start construction of the house. In addition there arecalculations done on the building?s energy management.The result is a two stored house angled toward the south.

This thesis for the Master of Science degree was performed at Oppunda Electronics AB. The assignment was to further develop an existing prototype of a dispensing equipment. The dispensing equipment doses a kind of glue, bonding which dentist use to mend teeth. The dispensing equipment is adjusted to dose 12 micro litres of bonding. With the dispensing equipment SafeBond Electronic the user can reduce the bonding consumption with approximately 50 percent.

Background: Sleep-disturbances in persons with Alzheimer´s disease are prevalent. They are characterized as increased frequency and duration of awakenings, decreased slow-wave sleep, REM-sleep and increase of day-time napping. Depression and lower quality of life are associated with sleep-disturbances. Altogether a significant source of stress for caregivers and an important factor in institutionalization. Non-pharmacological treatment alternatives are rare.Method: Single-case A-B-C design, with non-concurrent multiple baselines, a pilotstudy.Aim: To explore if an educational program on sleep, sleep disturbances and behavioural change directed towards caregivers improved sleep, depression and quality of life in persons with Alzheimer´s disease living at home.

 The Swedish school of today reflect the society we live in. We live in a multi cultural society and in our schools there are pupils with different backgrounds, cultures and mother tongue, which make it necessary for every teacher to treat every single pupil?s need and condition. The education in Sweden must be equivalent, according to Skollagen, 1 kap. 2§.

In this thesis, a computer program that in a simple way can calculate the performance of control loops at the refinery Preemraff Lysekil has been created. The computer program has been adapted to the environment at Preemraff Lysekil. Theories for evaluation has been studied in aspect of reliability and of automatic implementation. The evaluation has been carried out from data collected directly from control loops at the refinery and from simulated control loops with implemented errors. Among the studied methods are Harris index and Stattin´s oscillation index.

Studien undersöker barntidningen Lyckoslantens visuella representationer, med ett fokus på serien Spara och Slösa samt omslagsbilderna. Åren mellan 1939 och 1945 granskas med hänsyn till det pågående kriget i Europa för att söka synliggöra symboler för kriget. Symbolerna visar sig vara nästintill obefintliga och bidrar till den idylliserade värld som gestaltas. Studiens huvudsakliga syfte är att diskursanalytiskt ringa in det specifika bildspråk som används för att uppmuntra barn till sparsamhet. Genom bildernas uttryck och vidare betydelser diskuteras framträdande ideal utifrån analytiska kategorier som genus, klass och etnicitet. Teman som återkommer i de båda bildtyperna och som knyts till en allmän sparandediskurs är mode och skönhet, idrott och hälsa, föreningsliv, flit och arbete, nöjen samt natur.

Abstract Title: PR consultants and bloggers; a win-win situation? -  A study of PR consultants? new adaptations in the labour market due to the emergence of fashion bloggers. Authors: Cecilia Girell, Sandra Kjellstro?m Tutor: Ylva Ekstro?mPurpose: With the expansion of the Internet, fashion bloggers have gotten more power. A few companies have understood this powerful and reasonable cheap marketing channel. Despite this, most companies still feel powerless, but what has happened to the work of PR consultants in this constant changing media environment? The ones whos purpose is to act as intermediaries between companies and various media channels.

Problem Då genusframställningen i medierna tenderar att bidra till att skapa stereotyper och en möjligt felaktig bild av kvinnor finns ett behov av att studera på vilket sätt en medietext har möjlighet att skapa kvinnliga konstruktioner ? positiva och negativa. Genom att studera Förkvälls språk ville vi komma fram vad innehållet förmedlade, vad som sägs varför. Syfte Uppsatsens syfte är att studera om och hur konstruktioner av kvinnan och kvinnlighet förmedlas genom språket i programmet Förkväll.Bakgrund Förkväll sänds på TV4 måndag till fredag på kvällstid. Programmet leds av fyra kvinnliga programledare och sänds från andra våningen på T-centralen i Stockholm.

Projektet Precious utforskar narrativa lagningar av artefakter. I arbetet diskuteras människans komplexa förhållande till artefakter. Komplexiteten som behandlas i arbetet är fokuserad kring att artefakter förutom rent praktiska funktioner; även fungerar som verktyg i den sociala interaktionen människor emellan. Industrialism i kombination med bland annat den fria marknadsekonomin har särskilt efter Andra Världskriget bringat välfärd och accelererande konsumtionstempo i det moderna västsamhället. Konsumtionsvanorna är numera mer sammanlänkade med varumärken och social status än behovet av praktisk funktion.

In today?s school in Sweden the assignment of community encompasses mediated values and education of democracy as well of single subject matters. What does it mean then, that teachers have a certain kind of idea of democracy, and what implications may biology have for the assignment of community? In upper secondary school there are quite many courses in biology with a national curriculum, and findings show that students of teaching perceive or think of biology as helping to promote the dual-purpose of teaching. In this study, the author of the paper has interviewed four future teachers of upper secondary school with biology as one of their main subjects.

This Master?s thesis is a comparative study of information retrieval results between three distinct search strategies in simulated automatic query expansion in a bibliographic database. Our purpose is to investigate which of the search strategies score the most effective precision and to what extent the same relevant documents are retrieved (overlapped). A thesaurus attached to the database is used to select appropriate descriptors for the baseline query formulations which subsequently are expanded with hierarchical relations. The search strategies are s1: A baseline query with two or three descriptors, s2: The baseline descriptors combined with at least one Narrower Term, s3: The baseline descriptors combined with Narrower Term and at least one Broader Term.

Inom de flesta branscher finns det yrken som få utomstående känner till. När det kommer till modeindustrin så är mönsterkonstruktör ett sådant yrke. Mönsterkonstruktören är den som från en platt skiss skapar plaggets tredimensionella form och får det att passa på en kropp.Jag har utifrån Bourdieus fältteori undersökt hur det är att arbeta som mönsterkonstruktör. Materialet består av fem semi-strukturerade intervjuer med yrkesverksamma mönsterkonstruktörer som genomförts i Göteborg och Stockholm under november 2014. Utifrån dessa har jag försökt ge svar på hur de själva ser på sin yrkesroll och hur de uppfattar att andra på arbetsplatsen ser dem och deras roll.Min analys består av tre delar där olika aspekter av yrket och yrkeslivet står i fokus.

Cross-suckling, i.e. when an offspring nurses a female other than their own mother, occurs in pig production systems where sows are group housed during lactation. As production systems where several sows and their litters are housed together during lactation are getting more common, the need of knowledge regarding cross-suckling increases. The overall aims with this thesis was to investigate how sow behaviour and productivity are associated with the occurrence of cross-suckling, and to investigate consistency in sow nursing behaviour related to cross-suckling. The study included information about the first 4 parities of 40 LxY sows kept in outdoor and indoor production environments. Sows were single housed the first 2 weeks after farrowing and group housed (4 or 5 sows per group) from 2 weeks after farrowing until weaning, 7 weeks after farrowing.

Uppsatsens ämne berör karaktärer i tv-serien Downton Abbey och deras förhållande till kläder. Tre karaktärer jag tolkar som konservativa ställs i kontrast till tre karaktärer som i högre grad förespråkar moderniteten. Genom att jämföra hur karaktärerna via kläder medvetet och omedvetet gestaltar sin syn på samhällsutvecklingen undersöker jag hur stora likheter som framkommer mellan dem. Syftet är att analysera hur individens samhällssyn gestaltas genom kläderna. Analysen utförs med en metod inspirerad av ikonografi där nyckelscener från serien betraktas utifrån en rent beskrivande vinkel såväl som i relation till samtida kontexter.

The study focuses on mapping how well prepared the counties in the west region of Sweden is in case of restructuring. The study explores what kind of activities and routines that contributes to prepare the organization for restructuring. The study also aims to investigate the effect of precedent restructuring, and if the counties who experienced restructuring are more prepared than others.The research within the field of restructuring characterizes of an evaluating nature and the focus has been after the restructuring occurred. There have also been a lot of studies of the negative consequences on individual and organizational level. Since downsizing is a frequently used method by management despite its consequences is it important to investigate how organizations can learn and thereby be more prepared for restructuring.