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.

The interaction between the driver, the car and the road is essential for the road safety. This case study focuses on the road condition and its effect regarding road safety issues. By studying and isolating the road condition aspect and its contributing role to the accident occurrence, the aim is to explore their relationship, as well as highlight the road parameters that are commonly associated with accident occurrence. This result will be used to develop and increase awareness of the impact of poor road alignment and poor road surface conditions on traffic safety, in order to prevent these accidents from occurring. The road parameters chosen for this study include side friction, cross slope and rut bottom cross slope, road texture, curvature, drainage gradient and rutting.The case study was limited to lv 360 in Va?sterbotten, where all accidents with an unclear cause of the accident were studied, between 2003 and 2012 were carefully studied and assessed based on the condition of the road at the time of the accident.

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.

The essay's aim is to explain how responsibility distribution between private and public bodies, primarily within three important service areas, can be visualised in light of the fact that they have experienced different forms of readjustment. We have chosen to study this by looking at the restoration work taking place after the hurricane Gudrun swept across southern Sweden on January 8-9, 2005; and we have chosen to concentrate on the service areas of electricity- and telephone supply, and public transport. The responsibility distribution has been depicted by carrying out qualitative interviews with employees within both private and public bodies included in the restoration work. The conclusion produced is that there were obscurities in the formal responsibility distribution between private and public actors taking place in conjunction with the hurricane restoration work.In a deeper analysis, the result can be explained by a ?several hands? problem arising since the number of actors has increased as the public sphere has adopted leadership forms influenced by the private business sector.

?Development of Norway spruce, Douglas fir beech and Scots pine with a larch shelter wood? is a report written by Per-Olof Magnusson. The thesis is a compulsory part of forest engineer program at ?Skogsmästarskolan?, SLU, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden. The purpose of this report is to describe and evaluate an experiment with hybrid larch (Larix x eurolepis) as shelter wood, and different tree species growth and survival depending on the density of the shelter wood. The experiment is conducted by southern Swedish forest research centre, faculty of forestry, SLU in Alnarp. The hybrid larch ought to be an interesting alternative to birch (Betula sp.) as shelterwood on suitable sites in southern Sweden.

The trend in the transport sector is moving towards eco-friendly, fast and convenient transportation,this results in higher demands on railway transports. To meet the demand and quality requirements,the Swedish railway network will have to expand. The cheapest way is to expand little by little butwhat impact do these small steps actually have on the capacity?This thesis examines the interactions of different improvement for the capacity on a single-trackrailway. Through simulations in the software tool RailSys this report studies what effect block signals,extra meeting stations and rebuilding existing two track passing loops to three track loops have onthe capacity.

Today in Sweden, apples are mostly cultivated for direct consumption, i.e. dessert apples. Apple breeding aims at developing cultivars with new and improved qualities in order to meet the demands of different target groups and to increase the interest in apples on the market. Different target groups have different views on the qualities of an apple. The consumer, for instance, wants an apple that is tasty and beautiful, while the grower, in addition, wants an apple cultivar that is healthy, has good winter hardiness and a predictable, annual productivity.