On board ships different type of maintenance activities take place. Some of those require working with vibrating handheld tools. Traditionally there is a high awareness of the risks with different type of duties such as protecting the skin from oil or other chemicals, the eyes from splashes and hearing from high noise levels. The experience we have from our time as on-board cadets are that there is less information about vibration hazards available compared to the information concerning other hazards on board.There are threshold values that workers, by law, are not allowed to exceed when working with handheld vibrating tools. The purpose of this study is to investigate how common the use of this type of equipment that can cause damage by vibrations, to the hands and arm amongst the deck crew, and if the crew informed about the risks involved.

The female dog has a unique reproductive endocrinology, with high levels of progesterone throughout the 70-day long luteal phase. In this project, markers of glucose metabolism were studied and compared from the aspects of breed group and time in oestral cycle. The parameters studied were: glucose, insulin, progesterone, fructosamine and the newly introduced analysis of HbA1c. Hba1c was also further evaluated and discussed as a diagnostic tool in canine medicine.No differences in terms of glucose markers were found between a group of purebreed dogs of various breeds compared to a group of dogs with high risk of dioestrus diabetes, namely the Norwegian and Swedish elkhounds.No differences were found between the two sample occasions, anoestrus and dioestrus, concluding that there is no need for relating test results to the time of the oestrous cycle in middle-aged intact female dogs.There were statistically significant higher values of all glucose markers in diabetic dogs than in non-diabetic dogs. When it came to HbA1c, however, there was a larger overlap between the two groups, compared to fructosamine.

Children and youth inactivity and sedentary at school is increasing. This means that some of the students have a significant unhealthy lifestyle with physical inactivity, which in turn implies risks of suffering from various diseases, including obesity, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, all related to a sedentary lifestyle. To prevent illness, it is important that children and young people early get a positive attitude towards physical activity.The purpose of this study was to study the causes of child and adolescent physical inactivity in school, based on teachers 'and parents' perspectives.A qualitative research has been selected. To achieve the study objectives, the author has conducted seven semi-structured interviews, with an appropriate choice of five teachers and two parents with children in school. Data was analyzed with a manifest content analysis.The results show that teachers and parents felt that physical activity is a protective factor for children's health.

During the last decade a number of studies have been published that investigate how the most fundamental aspect of political organization, the regime type, affects population health. The results unanimously show that citizens of democracies live longer and healthier lives than citizens of non-democracies. Many explanations for this have been suggested, among these are that democracies redistribute more and invest more in salutogenic resources, and that the tendency of dictatorships to control the media negatively affects the ability to spread information crucial to public health. When these mechanisms are controlled for, however, it turns out that democracy has a large residual correlation with for example life expectancy, which suggests that other mechanisms are also involved.In this paper two new mechanisms regarding the possible psychosocially mediated health effects of the regime type are investigated, namely political repression, and the possible negative effects this might have on the levels of chronic stress, and autonomy, which connects to a large previous literature in social epidemiology. In the paper an ecological cross-country design is used and country-level data, provided mainly by the World Bank and Freedom House, is analyzed with a simple multiple OLS-regression model.

Diabetes typ-2 är en sjukdom som kräver regelbunden medicinering för att patienten ska ha möjlighet att leva ett normalt liv med så få komplikationer som möjligt. Den här studien undersöker följsamheten till orala diabetesläkemedel bland patienter i åldern 70-79 år. Följsam anses en patient vara som tar medicin mellan 80-120 procent av ordinationen och i denna studie har vi likställt det med mängd uthämtat läkemedel i förhållande till ordinationen och utköpsfrekvensen. Avsikten med projektet är att med hjälp av det nya nationella läkemedelsregistret studera följsamheten samt bedöma om de som har indikationen utskriven på receptet har bättre följsamhet än de som inte har det. Materialet till studien kommer från data som registrerats på apoteken i Sverige.

This bachelor thesis contains the findings of an investigation into the laying of wedge sawn wood flooring. The advantage of wedge sawn wood flooring is the usage of more material from each board reducing waste. The boards follow the natural profile of the tree where the root part of the board is wider, and the top part is narrower. The technique involves placing boards side by side with adjacent boards in opposite directions. The thick base of one board is neighbored by the narrow top of another, this creates a pattern of wedges in alternating directions, known as a ?root and top? system. Existing literature into this type of flooring is sparce.

Introduktion: Diabetes Typ 2 är ett världsomfattande hälsoproblem. Sjukdomen är ärftligmen beror till största del på levnadsvanor. Livstilen påverkar allvarlighetsgraden avsjukdomen. Denna rapport fokuserar uteslutande på typ 2-diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Hur välegenvården fungerar påverkar prognosen hos personer med T2DM.

Denna uppsatssyfte var att ta reda på vilken kännedom som finns om de svenskanäringsrekommendationerna hos människor på ett antal svenska arbetsplatser. Syftet har även inne-fattat att ta reda på huruvida man använder sig av denna kännedom eller inte.Metod: Enkvantitativ ansats i en tvärsnittsstudie har använts i denna undersökning och hundratio enkäter har blivit besvarade. Dessa enkäter har analyserats både kvantitativt och kvalitativt.Resultatetvisade att majoriteten av respondenterna inte kände till de svenska näringsrekom-mendationerna. Majoriteten var också omedvetna om hur den procentuella energifördelningen såg ut. Jämförbart med tidigare studier så underskattade männen rekommendationerna för grönsaker medan kvinnorna hade mer kännedom om rekommendationerna som helhet.

Staphylococcus aureus is the most clinically important Staphylococcus species and is associated with high mortality in patients with positive blood cultures. S. aureus bacteria may cause a variety of disease manifestations ranging from minor skin infections to life-threatening conditions such as pneumonia, meningitis, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and sepsis. This microorganism belonging to the gram positive cocci may also be part of the normal flora. In Sweden, penicillinase-stable penicillins are the primary alternatives to treat S.

Introduktion: Diabetes Typ 2 är ett världsomfattande hälsoproblem. Sjukdomen är ärftligmen beror till största del på levnadsvanor. Livstilen påverkar allvarlighetsgraden avsjukdomen. Denna rapport fokuserar uteslutande på typ 2-diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Hur välegenvården fungerar påverkar prognosen hos personer med T2DM.

The Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) has for a long time been the subject of study by political scientists. In the meantime they have been categorized as National Socialists, Fascists, right-wing extremists and more recently radical right populists. But it has not been categorized according to the theories that I expect. The purpose of this essay is to study how well Sweden Democrats policies match with ideas that are typical for radical right populist parties. The main research question is:- Are Sweden Democrats showing details which are typical for radical right populist parties?To be able to answer those questions, I have used an ideal type analysis and developed an analysis instrument according the theoretical approach and the methods in Bergström & Boréus book.

This is a report about accessibility. For this project the accessibility of a building in the city of Halmstad was evaluated. It´s a three storey building with five apartments on each floor divided by two stairwells. These five apartments have since been divided into three different types of apartments. Each type of apartment has been assessed separately.

This project has aim to examine how students experience their concentration ability during mathematics lessons in the mornings and afternoons, and how students? learning can be in-fluenced by the concentration ability during mathematics lesson in the morning and after-noons respectively? Which role do the methods of learning play in mathematic depending on which time it is carried out during mornings or afternoons with regard to student concentra-tion ability? In order to find out those issues, I used two methods; (interview and observa-tion).Interview with 4 students and 3 teachers and observations of 4 mathematics lessons based on a qualitative method. In order to measure students' concentration ability during ma-thematics education on various times, I distributed questions to 23 students and repeated it during each lesson that I have observed from a quantitative approach in two classes in a sec-ondary school. In the literature I discuss the definition of concentration, and factors affecting the concentration negatively and positively. What is the relationship between concentration, learning and type of activity and how individuals can improve their learning and attention? In addition I studied two earlier studies on the concentration.

Svensk föreningsidrott är idag en stor arena för ungdomar, där de erbjuds en meningsfylld och hälsosam fritid.  Fotboll är en av de största idrotterna i landet, och det finns ett stort antal föreningar som bedriver verksamhet inom idrotten. Samtliga av dessa föreningar använder sig av stadgar för att styra sin verksamhet, men det finns också klubbar som har tagit styrningen ett steg längre, och skapat dokument för hur utbildningen av ungdomarna ska se ut.Studien syftar till att undersöka hur en specifik förening använder sig av en så kallad spelarutbildningsplan, med huvudinriktning på tränarnas arbete. Huvudmotiv till studien är att fylla en lucka vad gäller forskning inriktad mot implementeringsarbete av styrdokument inom idrottsvärlden.  Med hjälp av kvalitativa metoder som textanalys, intervjuer och observationer har studien resulterat i att man kan se brister i föreningens kontroll av tränarna, men att detta nödvändigtvis inte behöver vara negativt ur tränarnas synpunkt.Sammanfattningsvis kan det sägas att fotboll inte bara styrs av de dokument som finns, utan till stor del av de människor som aktivt arbetar inom idrotten. Likt den forskning som gjorts inom företagsekonomin finns i vår studie tecken på att bristande implementering kan förekomma även inom idrottsföreningar.

Diabetes är en mycket vanlig sjukdom världen över och antalet insjuknande ökar, vilket mycket beror på samhällets modernisering och livsstilsförändringar. Underliggande behov bör lyftas fram för att tillgodogöra sig betydande kunskap. Sjukdomen medför även komplikationer, så som neuropati som drabbar nerver och perifera blodkärl, vilket ofta resulterar i sår. Genom undervisning gällande egenvård kan patient och sjukvårdspersonal tillsammans arbeta förebyggande så att komplikationer undviks eller förbättras. Det har dock visat sig att undervisningen inte tas in på ett effektivt sätt av patienterna.