Smoking is a health problem with a negative impact on virtually all body organs. Smoking can cause, for example, lung cancer, cancers in other organs and cardiovascular disease. There is also a social aspect of smoking. If individuals have many smokers in their environment, the risk to start smoking is increased, and for those who already smoke the chance of quitting will be less. Many municipalities today face smoke-free working to reduce smoking and passive smoking adverse effects.

I denna uppsats tillämpas multipel regressionsanalys med syfte attpredikera huspriser i Falun. Data som består av dels priset vid ett antalhusförsäljningar och dels ett antal eventuellt samvarierande förklarandevariabler analyseras. Två lämpliga, modeller som på ett så precist ochenkelt sätt som möjligt förutsäger en kommande försäljning av ett hus tasfram. I den första finns en mäklarfirmas utropspris med som förklarandevariabel i den andra inte. Prediktionsförmågan för de båda modellernablir inte användbar i praktiken men bättre då utropspris finns med.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate the factors of children?s voluntarily reading in their spare time. We also want to know if the children choose non-fiction books for their voluntarily reading. The method as well as the empirical basis of this study is qualitative, with interviews of twenty-eight children in ages between 9 and 12 years. We conducted nine interviews with 3?4 children in each group.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate the factors of children?s voluntarily reading in their spare time. We also want to know if the children choose non-fiction books for their voluntarily reading. The method as well as the empirical basis of this study is qualitative, with interviews of twenty-eight children in ages between 9 and 12 years. We conducted nine interviews with 3?4 children in each group.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate the factors of children?s voluntarily reading in their spare time. We also want to know if the children choose non-fiction books for their voluntarily reading. The method as well as the empirical basis of this study is qualitative, with interviews of twenty-eight children in ages between 9 and 12 years. We conducted nine interviews with 3?4 children in each group.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate the factors of children?s voluntarily reading in their spare time. We also want to know if the children choose non-fiction books for their voluntarily reading. The method as well as the empirical basis of this study is qualitative, with interviews of twenty-eight children in ages between 9 and 12 years. We conducted nine interviews with 3?4 children in each group.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate the factors of children?s voluntarily reading in their spare time. We also want to know if the children choose non-fiction books for their voluntarily reading. The method as well as the empirical basis of this study is qualitative, with interviews of twenty-eight children in ages between 9 and 12 years. We conducted nine interviews with 3?4 children in each group.

Rapporten behandlar arbetet med att förfina, utveckla och dokumentera en beräkningsmodell för simulering av biologisk nedbrytning och temperaturförhållanden i luftade dammar. En luftad damm är en enkel typ av biologisk rening där mikroorganismernas biologiska nedbrytningen av oganiskt material påskyndas genom att syre tillförs ? vanligen med hjälp av ytluftare.  Arbetet är ett examensarbete inom ramen för högskoleingenjörsutbildning i kemiteknik vid KTH och har utförts på uppdrag av ÅF Industry AB som har använt beräkningsmodellen sedan 1970-talet. Modellen togs fram med hjälp av tidigare forskning, data från befintliga anläggningar och nedbrytningsförsök utförda i laboratorieskala.I arbetet har ingått att sammanställa och dokumentera erfarenheter och bakgrund till de beräkningsformler och konstanter som används i modellen. Vissa förenklingar har gjorts genom att lösa ut parametrar ur ingående beräkningssamband och genom att avläsningar ur diagram och successiv anpassning har ersatts med beräkning från en kurvekvation.

Breaking through the clutter and getting consumers? attention is a constant battle for marketers. Could consumer magazines be the solution to the problem? It is not a new marketing method but consumer magazines do not look like traditional marketing and they offer consumers value. Since these are qualities that could increase consumers? will to take part of commercial messages, it might be a method that deserves more attention.

In today?s society there is a discussion regarding students? level of knowledge and personalisation. The classrooms consist of heterogenic groups of students with different learning needs and levels of knowledge. The purpose of the present study is to find out how the students who participated perceive the teaching of English as an additional language with regards to personalisation, and how they believe differentiation can help develop and deepen their learning. This study has been conducted using a qualitative method with interviews as the core, complemented by observations. The results have been analysed and interpreted hermeneutically. The results show that those students who have a positive attitude to English education, irrespective of their grade, are those who see the benefit of knowing English outside the classroom, and thereby create a connection between reality and studying English.

The aim of the study is to elucidate how teachers in middle school work with reading literature aloud and their attitudes to their working methods. The research questions concern how the teachers work before, during and after the reading aloud, and also the advantages the teachers find in their method and the obstacles they discover in the work of reading aloud. A qualitative method was used for the study, applying semi-structured interviews. The selection consists of two teachers who have worked in the profession for 23?24 years (Teachers Andersson and Bergström) and two who have worked as teachers for 3?4 years (Teachers Cederqvist and Davidsson).

Enligt den deklarativa/procedurella modellen av språket (DP-modellen), utvecklad av M. T. Ullman, antas de neurala system som underligger det deklarativa minnet också understödja det mentala lexikonet, medan de neurala system som underligger det procedurella minnet antas understödja den mentala grammatiken. Det huvudsakliga syftet med denna studie var att skapa referensdata för två datorbaserade test som avsåg att pröva icke-språklig deklarativ och procedurell inlärnings- och minnesförmåga. Ytterligare ett syfte var att undersöka huruvida könsskillnader i testresultat kunde påvisas, eftersom tidigare forskning har funnit att kvinnor tenderar att ha en fördel när det gäller deklarativt minne.

Over the period as a student at the Master's Program for Educational Leadership, I have learned thatsometimes the participants School?s management shows concern regarding the purpose of studyingat such a program. The curiosity of what that might devolve upon got me to immerse myself in theapproach to and attitude towards competence development within educational leadership.The essence of what I wanted to examine was how the students from the above mentioned Master'sProgram perceived the treatment they received from supervisors and colleagues and if it waspossible to explain the attitude that the participants in the study reported. I also wanted to examinewhat issues, related to competence development and leadership within the school system, highlightsthe treatment of participants in educational leadership.The results are based on questionnaires and interviews and are divided into four categories; thesupportive, the unaffected, the discouraged and finally a side category to explain how to handle thediscouraged?s lack of support.

The study will examine how teachers relate to religious studies for middle school students. Religious studies are the oldest but also the most contested subject undergoing the most changes over time. The subject is far from being obvious. Politicians and people within the school community disagree about the subject?s content and its name, some within the school system but also politicians like to call it topic of life studies or belief studies, while others want to keep the name religion studies.

När ett haveri inträffar uppstår direkt en mängd olika kostnader i form av underhållsinsatser, reparationsmaterial och administrationsinsatser. Utöver dessa kostnader förloras även de intäkter som maskinen genererar samt täckningen för de fasta och rörliga kostnaderna. Alla dessa kostnader skall täckas av de värdeskapande enheterna på företaget och påverkar det finansiella resultatet negativt. För att förbättra ett företags lönsamhet ökas antingen intäkterna eller så reduceras kostnaderna. Trots detta är det för många företag okänt hur stor kostnaden faktiskt är då en maskin står stilla.Arbetets uppdragsgivare är Konecranes Machine Tool Service (MTS), ett företag som erbjuder underhållstjänster och underhållslösningar till företag inom verkstadsindustrin.