Completed durability testing of gearshift gaiters at Kongsberg Automotive in Mullsjö, is sometimes leading to discussions regarding whether or not a gaiter is supposed to be a pass or a fail. That is because the current pass/fail-criterion are a bit vague. A durability test takes around 4-5 weeks to complete which is a long time if the tested material does not pass the test and a new material has to be tested instead. Stricter pass/fail-criterions and a faster testing method for the materials are therefore desired.In order to develop a durable pass/fail criteria, seven already judged gaiters were chosen. Every one of the gaiters was put through detailed analysis, after which there were a new assessment of the gaiters.

Fastighetsregistret (The Cadastre) is a large and important information sourcesupplied by Lantmäteriet (the Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registrationauthority). Fastighetsregistret provides geographical information about the 3.2 millionestates in use in Sweden. Fastighetsregistret has a large number of users who trustthat the provided data is reliable, but experience shows that the data can have varyingquality. As a user it is not always possible to access more detailed information inorder to assess to what extent the data in Fastighetsregistret is reliable.The purpose of this master's thesis is to investigate the possibilities of a system with agraphical user interface that present, classify and visualize the quality of the data inFastighetsregistret. The defined user group for this suggestion is internal users atLantmäteriet who have a good understanding of Fastighetsregistret.

The aim with this thesis is to highlight components regarding small children?s reading environment in preschool and see how these affect their meeting with literature. The study is based on J. A. Appleyard?s theory on man?s development as a reader.

Rapporten undersöker om det är möjligt att använda Clonezilla för distribuerad installation av Windows Vista som alternativ till Symantec Ghost. Ett ytterligare krav är att installationen ska vara automatiserad och inte kräva något extra arbete efter installationens slut. Dessutom ska datorerna vara redo att användas i en Windows-domän efter en färdig installation.Programmet Clonezilla är av typen open source och är fritt att använda medan Symantec Ghost är en kommersiell produkt som kräver flertalet licenser beroende på antalet datorer. Clonezilla körs i Linux och saknar grafiskt gränssnitt, Symantec däremot har ett eget gränssnitt för att överskådligt hantera datorer och distribuera operativsystem i välkänd Windows-miljö. Båda lösningarna testas under flera praktiska experiment i labbmiljö.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the habits of borrowing books among third-grade pupils. My aim is also to study what significance their teacher and the librarian have on the pupils? borrowing habits. Based on the results from an experiment, two observations, interviews and by compiling a list of short summaries of literature relevant to my thesis. I wanted to compare earlier research with my own results and also reflect on remarks made by librarians and teachers concerning the children?s reading and use of the library.

The aim of this paper is to study whether the way directioners (One Direction fans) on Twitter express self-understandings denote fandom as a sacred experience. For this purpose, the data was analyzed in relation to Nicholas Jay Demerath III typology of the varieties of the sacred experience. The method used was discursive psychology. The data was analyzed by how the fans draw the line between ?us? and ?them?, when expressing their self-understandings and their position in relation to others. Five themes were identified: (1) positioning and demarcation for membership, (2) group identity, (3) conflict, (4) the norms for behavior, opinions and language and (5) the group?s role and function.

I Sverige kan individer antingen bedömas begränsat eller obegränsat skattskyl- diga. Anses individen bosatt, stadigvarande vistas eller väsentligt anknuten fö- religger obegränsad skattskyldighet och svensk beskattningsrätt för samtliga in- komster. IL räknar upp olika grunder på vilka individen kan bedömas väsent- ligt anknuten på. Antalet rättsfall på området påvisar dock stora tolkningspro- blem. Studier visar emellertid att tre faktorer i synnerhet har tillmätts större uppmärksamhet och betydelse än övriga och uppsatsen avser att undersöka om de tre bedöms tillräckligt starka att ensamma medföra väsentlig anknytning.

The aim of this study was to understand how evaluations are implemented and used in procured nursing homes for elderly. Our methodological approach consisted of a single-case study research. The case in this study was Växjö municipality. Three procured nursing homes for elderly were chosen in the municipality as examples of implementation and use of evaluation. The method for retrieving empirical data and the analyzing of it was based on triangulation.

The accounting scandals that have attracted attention in recent years have led to internal control becoming a more central part of business activity. Doubts about what firms actually do have increased, all caused by the attention of accounting scandals. To counter this, frameworks and laws evolved and gained a significant role in the organization and its surroundings. The aim of the present study is to find out how four companies in the Kristianstad region are working to ensure its internal control and how they work to minimize risk and reduce uncertainty. We have used a qualitative method and interviewed a person in a senior position in each company.

Syftet med studien är att öka kunskap om socialsekreterarnas motiveringar bakom gällande beslut om barns återförening med sina föräldrar, som tidigare bedömts ha en bristande föräldraförmåga.Min frågeställning består av tre frågor: Vilka faktorer kan påverka ett beslut om ett återkallande av placering av barn enligt SoL eller LVU 2 §? Hur förhåller sig socialsekreterarna till möjligheten om utveckling av föräldraförmågan efter placering? Hur stor andel av föräldrar, vars barn blivit placerade enligt SOL eller LVU 2§, har fått omhändertagandet återkallat?Frågorna besvaras med den kvalitativa forskningsintervjun. Halvstrukturerade intervjuer och dokument valdes som huvudsakliga datainsamlingstekniker. Sju socialsekreterare, var av en enhetschef deltog i undersökningen. Två av informanterna intervjuades tillsammans.För analys av empirin har studien använt sig av: anknytnings teori, lagar och riktlinjer, tidigare forskning om placerade barn och deras föräldrar.Resultatet visade en tvetydighet gällande socialsekreterarnas tillämpning av lagar; ett övervägande fokus på vårdnadsöverflyttningar och bristfälliga insatserna kring återförening.

The existence of social networks on the Internet is today seen as broad, and the number of users of the network is increasing. There seems to be many reasons to which people are using the social networks. Within the network, users can for various reasons create groups with different objectives. One of the reasons is that groups are created in order to influence a company. With a perceived feeling that companies handle the problem differently, we assume the source is the uncertainty about what the groups really are.

The thesis aims at, from a user perspective, examining how a group of industrial researchers understand the information seeking in their every day work. A qualitative method is employed. The empirical material consists of open-ended interviews with in all ten researchers. All of them work at the Swiss-Swedish Technology Company ABB's research laboratory in Västerås. The thesis is based on the opinion that the scientific knowledge production has become commercialised and that the scientific communication is going through certain changes.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate international students? views regarding information seeking and use of information sources. A further aim is also to investigate the possible factors influencing information seeking in relation to everyday life for international students. Interviews were carried out with eight international students, 20-35 years old from three continents. They were to stay in Sweden for at least five months for the purpose of studying.

Two elementary schools are now being built in Gråbo (in the municipality of Lerum),Röselidsskolan and Ljungviksskolan, which are both designed with solar thermalcollectors for the schools domestic water heating. During the summer while thelargest amount of solar heat can be generated, the activity hence the domestic wateruse in the schools are heavily reduced. Both schools are connected to the local districtheating system which makes it possible to use the solar collectors to deliver heat tothe district heating.The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the two systems mentioned above and todetermine which system is more suitable to apply on a school. The building whichconditions were used for this evaluation is Röselidsskolan.A solar heating plant of each system type was dimensioned from the expected andknown conditions of the building. The purpose with the dimensioning was to makethe solar plants replace the ordinary energy source as much as possible.

Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att undersöka förutsättningarna för mjölkproduktion från renar (Rangifer tarandus) som en del av den moderna renskötseln. Frågeställningar som inkluderades i litteraturstudien var renmjölkens sammansättning, hur mycket en vaja kunde producera, hur mjölkproduktionen påverkades av faktorer som mjölkningssystem, mjölkningsmiljö och oxytocininjektioner, mjölkproduktionens koppling till nutrition, kalvens betydelse, problem som kan tänkas uppstå och om renen som ett framtida mjölkproduktionsdjur skulle vara ekonomiskt hållbart. Mjölkning av renar har tidigare förekommit ganska allmänt inom samisk renskötsel men det upphörde under 1900-talet på grund av bland annat att sjukdomar spreds när renarna hölls på mindre ytor. Faktorer som är centrala inom mjölkproduktionen hos renar är den totala mjölkavkastningen under laktationen och mjölknedsläppsgraden. Mjölkavkastningen hos vajor varierar mellan individer och påverkas bland annat av separation från kalven, injektioner av oxytocin och mjölkningsmiljön.