For several years Uppsala University together with several companies has been involved in a WISENET project aimed at improving railway transport security. By placing a sensor system near the wheels of each wagon, the temperature of the bearings can be measured and transmitted to a collector placed centrally on the wagon. This in turn transmits the collected data to RFID receivers placed intermittently along the railway.As the signals are transmitted wirelessly, problems may occur as the antennas get dirty or coated with ice and snow. To determine the effects of these coatings, several tests were performed examining the reflection coefficient S11, the impedance Z11 and the efficiency eta of an antenna, and how they varied when various coatings were placed over the antenna. Examined coatings were ice, snow and water to determine the effects of weather, and various metal-based coatings: powdered iron both pure and partially oxidized, and iron ore granules.

PSI-N is one of the subunits in eukaryotic Photosystem I (PSI) and is located on the lumenal side of the thylakoid membrane. It is known to interact in the electron transport chain between plastocyanin and PSI, but the mechanism behind the interaction is still unclear. To achieve a better understanding of PSI-N´s role in the photosynthesis it is necessary to develop a method for purification of PSI-N. The goal with this project was to design a plasmid that encodes a fusion protein containing PSI-N. With use of proteases the fusion protein can be cleaved into purified PSI-N.

PSI-N is one of the subunits in eukaryotic Photosystem I (PSI) and is located on the lumenal side of the thylakoid membrane. It is known to interact in the electron transport chain between plastocyanin and PSI, but the mechanism behind the interaction is still unclear. To achieve a better understanding of PSI-N´s role in the photosynthesis it is necessary to develop a method for purification of PSI-N. The goal with this project was to design a plasmid that encodes a fusion protein containing PSI-N. With use of proteases the fusion protein can be cleaved into purified PSI-N.

This report is a result of a degree thesis at Luleå University of Technology together with Stram AB in Växjö. The project aimed to develop a size reducible bed, that gets small when folded and has a new slim design. The development of the new folding bed had the purpose to give Stram AB new ideas of how guest beds can look like and be used in the future. Information about Stram´s products and also information of other similar products on the market was gathered. A visit at a store, internet and interviews gave grater insight of the market, and of customer needs.

Syfte: Att ur ett intensivvårds- och röntgensjuksköterskeperspektivbeskriva och jämföra upplevelser och erfarenheter av att utföra CT-hjärna på enneurointensivvårdsavdelning. Metod: En deskriptiv intervjustudie medkvalitativ design användes, där åtta sjuksköterskor inom professionernaröntgen- och intensivvård deltog. Resultat:Intensivvårdssjuksköterskorna såg fram emot att apparaten skulle börja användaspå avdelningen, medan röntgensjuksköterskorna upplevde en frustration över attför lite tid och resurser avsatts för att kunna utföra undersökningen påavdelningen på ett bra sätt.  Intensivvårdssjuksköterskornaupplevde en tidsbesparing att kunna utföra undersökningen på avdelningen medanröntgensjuksköterskornas uppfattning var att man hann undersöka färre patientertotalt under samma tid. Resultatet visar också att sjuksköterskorna i bådagrupperna är medvetna om riskerna med intrahospitala transporter och ansermöjligheterna att utföra CT-hjärna på avdelningen som fördelaktigt förpatienten ur säkerhetssynpunkt.

This thesis is about making a support for barcode readers and RFID readers on a computermounted in heavy vehicles. The computer has several applications designed for heavyvehicles such as an order handling application. The goal was to suggest an architecture toimplement a support for the readers. The architecture should be independent of whichmanufacturer who has made the reader hardware that was connected to the computer.At first a theoretically study was made around RFID technology and standards for thetransport and supply sector. Then the architecture was developed and a demo implementationwas made.The conclusion of this thesis is to implement support for barcode readers with a wedgeapplication.

Undersökningar visar att det är mycket problem att tillgodose djurens välfärd vid konventionell slakt gällande transport, uppstallning och hantering (Broom, 1993). Därför är det intressant att ta reda på vilka alternativ det finns till konventionell slakt. Ett exempel är mobila slakterier. Det här arbetet tar upp dess för- och nackdelar ur djurvälfärdssynpunkt. Det finns idag många rapporter, som tar upp mobil slakt ur en ekonomisk synvinkel (Helgesson & Pettersson 2000) och den praktiska hanteringen (Benfalk et al., 2002) efter avlivningsmomentet men mindre om hur djurens välfärd påverkas. Det finns olika utformningar på mobila slakterier.

This master thesis has three purposes. The first purpose is to give a theoretical background of how to divide up forest estates and to study how the legal system for these matters works. A literature study has been carried out to give the background and a theoretical model has been made for analysing the law cases. The first purpose also partly touched the decision process in dividing up forest estates from point of view of the law of land parcelling (FBL), point of view. The second purpose is to examine effects of a change of production requirements in 3 cap.7 § FBL as regards dividing up forest estates of private forest owners.

This plan of multiple-use is made on the private owned forestproperty Äspinge 2:2 in the middle of Skåne. The term ?multiple-use? came to Sweden in the beginning of the twentieth century and has slowly grown until about 30 years ago when the laws of nature conservation and sustainability was written into the forest law. The so called ecoturism got more and more popular and people began to seek space and silence in difference to the life in the highly populated areas. This also encouraged foreign tourists to come to Sweden. Mostly danish, german, and dutch people.

I denna studie intervjuades fem gymnasielärare i naturvetenskapliga ämnen kring att undervisa och lära utanför klassrummet. Frågeställningarna i detta arbete är; Varför skall man undervisa och lära utanför klassrummet? Vad finns det för hinder eller nackdelar med att undervisa utanför klassrummet? Alla lärare var positiva till att använda sig av undervisning utanför klassrummet men de framförde alla att de inte tyckte att de gjorde det tillräckligt mycket. Fördelar som dessa lärare kunde se med att välja att ha undervisning på en annan plats än klassrummet var att det gav en bättre verklighetsanknytning, var lättare att arbeta ämnesövergripande, gav en god variation i undervisningen, platsen har positiv betydelse för minnet, det kunde öka motivationen och intresset hos eleverna att lära, och slutligen att det förbättrar sociala interaktioner mellan såväl elever som mellan elever och lärare. De hinder eller nackdelar lärarna kunde se med att använda sig av undervisning på en annan plats än i klassrummet hade hos de flesta sin grund i tidsmässiga och schemamässiga problem men de var även en tveksamhet kring den pedagogiska vinningen, karaktären på de naturvetenskapliga ämnena och deras kursplaner, att eleverna var ovana och att lärarna inte kände sig trygga och bekväma i att ha undervisning utanför klassrummet. Skolans geografiska läge, väder, transport, riskbedömningar, saknat lärarsamarbete och saknad av lämpliga läromiljöer utanför klassrummet uttrycktes också vara hinder för att ha undervisning utanför klassrummet..

ABSTRACTDuring the last decades, environmental impacts have increased significantly, much due to the great traffic flows within cities. Therefore, to reduce these impacts and encourage a healthy way of living, it has in recent years become vital to generate safer and more sustainable and flexible modes of transportation. In order to do so, authorities and physical planners must work together to find viable solutions to incorporate in the infrastructure and offer alternative transport modes ? such as walking, cycling and public transportation. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the development of the cycling infrastructure in the city of Västerås and whether it is possible to expand bicycle commuting alongside public transportation. The thesis consequently aims to study how different physical planners within Västerås municipality work with traffic related questions.

The debate about women and equality is a very burning issue in the Swedish society today. There are a lot of articles, TV-programs, books and web sites treating the position of female leaders today. There are also a lot of myths strongly attached to our minds hindering the equalization process between men and women.The main purpose of our study was to look at women as leaders and identify potential tendencies in businesses sectors dominated by mainly men or women. We also wanted to find out whether leadership behavior is more or less oriented towards relations- or task in any of the chosen sectors. It was even in our interest to see if our chosen respondents supported the myths in our society about male and female qualities.We interviewed 20 women in four different sectors, two dominated by men (Computer/It, Transport) and two dominated by women (School, Healthcare).

The building and plant sectors represent a large part of Sweden?s energy use. Putting energy requirements in public procurement as a tool for reducing energy consumption in the building and plant sectors is therefor an opportunity that operators can take advantage of. The aim of this thesis was to map the energy requirements in procurement that operators in the public sector use today in building and plant projects. The analysis was made with respect to if the energy requirements corresponded to the parts with large energy use in building and plant projects and also in which way energy requirements in procurement are written in the contract.

A?gare av aktier i privata bolag har sa?mre mo?jlighet att avyttra sina aktier a?n a?gare av aktier i publika bolag, allt annat lika. Da?rfo?r anva?nds en generell rabatt vid va?rdering av privata bolag, en privat bolagsrabatt, fo?r att kompensera ko?pare fo?r den reducerade mo?jligheten att avyttra sina aktier i ett senare skede. Underso?kningen a?mnade da?rfo?r underso?ka huruvida en generell rabatt a?r applicerbar pa? samtliga bolag genom att underso?ka skillnader i den privata bolagsrabatten mellan olika branscher i Norden.Genom att anva?nda publika aktietransaktioner skapades publika referensportfo?ljer som kunde ja?mfo?ras med privata bolagstransaktioner i Norden under perioden 2006- 2013.

Rundvik sågverk ingår i SCA Timber och producerar sågade och hyvlade trävaror. Sågverket har ett integrerat hyvleri som producerar ca 85 000 m3 hyvlade produkter årligen. För att minska kostnaden för hyvlade produkter vill man öka andelen integrerad råvara till hyvleriet, dvs råvara som inte passerat justerverket. Denna ökande andel integrerad råvara kom att leda till en större andel lägre kvaliteter i hyvleriet och för att kompensera detta planerades en investering av en automatoptimerande kaplinje. Syftet med denna undersökning var att utreda vilken kapacitet och buffert kapmaskinen i en sådan investering skulle behöva för att inte utgöra någon begränsning i hyvellinjen.