This thesis gives suggestions as to how to design a wooden-based wave-power buoy. The thesiswas carried out at Uppsala University in collaboration with the Division of Electricity and AppliedMechanical Engineering. The product was conceived and developed taking into consideration anumber of requirements put forward by the supervisor, Magnus Rahm. The most importantdemands were that the material used should be able to withstand pressure from the sea withoutbeing damaged and that the production costs should be low.Department of Engineering Sciences, Division of Electricity at Uppsala University was visitedseveral times to discuss issues including the various ideas with the supervisor Magnus Rahm, andwith several people in the department.The work started by studying available literature in order to get background information aboutsuitable methods available for the project and to see how similar projects were carried out. Thereason for this was to get a better understanding of this particular problem and how to solve it.After consulting the supervisor, the group decided to construct four different buoys using fourdifferent materials.

This thesis gives suggestions as to how to design a wooden-based wave-power buoy. The thesiswas carried out at Uppsala University in collaboration with the Division of Electricity and AppliedMechanical Engineering. The product was conceived and developed taking into consideration anumber of requirements put forward by the supervisor, Magnus Rahm. The most importantdemands were that the material used should be able to withstand pressure from the sea withoutbeing damaged and that the production costs should be low.Department of Engineering Sciences, Division of Electricity at Uppsala University was visitedseveral times to discuss issues including the various ideas with the supervisor Magnus Rahm, andwith several people in the department.The work started by studying available literature in order to get background information aboutsuitable methods available for the project and to see how similar projects were carried out. Thereason for this was to get a better understanding of this particular problem and how to solve it.After consulting the supervisor, the group decided to construct four different buoys using fourdifferent materials.

In September of year 2006, a young boy was brutally killed by a girl, age sixteen, in Örebro, Sweden. Girlgangs became a frequent subject in media. Professionals? working with adolescents claims that girlgangs notis an existing phenomena in Sweden as it is in for example in the United States. The aim of this thesis was to investigate if teenage girls in Sweden have a tendency to join gangs as they do in the United States.

AbstractWhen immigrants move to Sweden from their native country it is not unusual that they experience some kind of identity crises. Their own experience of their cultural identity can be very problematic and they often lose a part of what they previously saw as their own identity. To handle such crises the immigrants can use different strategies. They can for example accept their disparity, deny it or emphasize it. The aim of this study is to examine how immigrants in Sweden experience that their cultural identity has changed since they moved here from a country that has a culture that is different from the Swedish culture.

Denna uppsats syftar till att, utifrån kunskaper om det offentliga rummet och människors användning av det, ge idéförslag till utformning av en busshållplats vid Stadshuset i centrala Uppsala. Meningen är att designen ska stimulera till fler upplevelser i människors vardag. Med upplevelser menar vi bland annat möten mellan människor samt sinnesstimulans som bidrar till återhämtning och aktivering. Eftersom människor naturligt måste uppehålla sig här, ser vi en stor potential i att busshållplatser genom attraktiv design kan erbjuda mer än att vara en väntplats mellan två destinationer. För att ta reda på vilka faktorer som påverkar människans upplevelse av omgivningen gjordes en litteraturstudie. Vi använde oss av boken Svensk Miljöpsykologi samt Jan Gehls och Jane Jacobs teorier om hur människor använder det offentliga rummet. För att förankra denna kunskap till vår busshållplats valde vi att observera människors beteenden på platsen.

During a long period of time, rental doctors have created a vast debate in Sweden. Currently, there is a shortage of doctors working in Sweden and to guarantee the lawful right to healthcare of high quality the counties must hire doctors through employment agencies. There are different opinions about rental doctors, some thinks the temporary employment results in a negative work environment and furthermore puts the patients at risk. Other people consider the Swedish healthcare to not function without rental doctors.  The purpose of this essay is to investigate rental doctors through a legal perspective and how temporary employment actually affects the patients? security and the work environment in Sweden?s healthcare.

The purpose of this thesis was to increase our understanding of how the social service in Sweden deals with reported incidents of addiction to medicines. Another purpose was to point out the different opinions concerning addiction to medicines amongst actors as well as possible ways to handle the problem.We have conducted a quantitative and qualitative e-mail survey targeting all communities in Sweden, with the ambition of gaining further knowledge about the role and responsibility of the social service concerning reports of addiction to medicines. Two quantitative questions were one asked about how many clients requested/were reported for needing help with their drug abuse alone, and the second question about how many clients needing help for drug abuse as a part of a wider addiction.The survey revealed that the social services judge their role/responsibility differently; some take the main responsibility while others think that drug abuse is created by the general health care and should be handled by this organization as well. In relation to the estimated amount of drug addicts in Sweden only a small part are in contact with the social service..

This project is a collaboration with Ett Klick för Skogen, a foundation that buys and preserves endangered forests in Sweden. There are several ways of helping the foundation, e.g. buy a tree and for this the buyer obtains a symbolic diploma. Many organisations uses this method to collect money and for me the lack of a thorough expressions are consistent. The objective with this project has been to renew these diplomas for Ett Klick för Skogen and in the long run increase the collections and preservation of endangered forests in Sweden.The idea has been to vivify hardwood trees in a new and rather poetic than pedagogic manner.

The aim of this essay is to show if and how group identities are being constructed in maindocuments from three political parties in the Swedish parliament, focusing on class, genderand ethnic identities. The three parties who?s documents are being analyzed are theModerate Party, the Sweden Democrats and the Left Party. The conclusion of the essay isthat the Moderate Party is so focused on the individual that they are not promoting groupidentity based on class, gender or ethnicity. The Sweden Democrats are mostly discussing,and therefore creating a discourse of, cultural identity, where Swedish, Nordic, Europeanand Western culture are being created as the ?us?, and others are being created as ?them?.They are also promoting difference between men and women, therefore dividing the sexesin groups.

As birch is one of the most common trees in Sweden, and probably one of the easiest for someone who lives here to identify, it is interesting to note that most people do not know how variable the genus is and how widely it is distributed across the northern hemisphere. One can find birch growing at both high and low elevations, demanding different soil conditions and preferring varying amounts of sunlight. Many people may also be surprised to hear that the colour of the bark can vary from bight white to almost black, and different shades of pink, orange and red can also be displayed. This, together with the astonishing beauty of the genus, the important role as a pioneer in many ecological systems and the difficulty in sorting out the taxonomy of the genus, constitutes the background of this thesis. The thesis is written at the Department of Landscape Development in Alnarp, Sweden with Kenneth Lorentzon, researcher at the Swedish University of Agriculture as a supervisor. The aim of this thesis is to highlight which species and cultivars within the genus Betula could be appropriate for horticultural use in Sweden.

Syfte: Att undersöka hur nöjda patienter 75 år och äldre är med vården som bedrivs på akutmottagningen på Akademiska sjukhuset i Uppsala avseende väntetid, miljö, kompetens, förtroende, tillgänglighet, bemötande, information, kommunikation och smärtlindring.Metod: Deskriptiv tvärsnittstudie. 38 patienter 75 år och äldre som besökt Akademiska sjukhusets akutmottagning svarade på en enkät avseende hur nöjda de var med sitt besök.Resultat: Patienter 75 år och äldre var i stort mycket nöjda över vården som bedrivs på Akademiska sjukhusets akutmottagning. Patienterna var minst nöjda över väntetiden som ibland ansågs vara för lång i relation till deras besvär. Ingen skillnad gick att utläsa mellan hur nöjda män och kvinnor var med vården avseende väntetid, miljö, kompetens, förtroende, tillgänglighet, bemötande, information, kommunikation och smärtlindring. Någon skillnad gick inte heller att utläsa mellan hur nöjda patienterna var med vården och vilken typ av besvär; medicinskt, kirurgiskt eller ortopediskt som patienten hade sökt för.Slutsats: Studien visar att de patienter 75 år och äldre som besvarade enkäten i stort är mycket nöjda med vården som bedrivs på Akademiska sjukhusets akutmottagning avseende väntetid, miljö, kompetens, förtroende, tillgänglighet, bemötande, information, kommunikation och smärtlindring.

AbstractAim: The aim of this study was to describe cancer patients? experiences of quality of life and wellbeing in relation to yoga practice.Method: A descriptive qualitative study with semi structured interviews was carried out during the fall of 2009 at the University of Uppsala. Informants in the study were cancer patients who were participating in the yoga/psychotherapy group at the clinic of oncology at the Akademiska hospital in Uppsala.Result: Five out of six informants experienced that their quality of life and their wellbeing improved by practicing yoga. One informant had mixed feelings which were not due to the yoga practicing, but to the place where it was practiced. For her this place was associated with illness.

Att kunna nå ut med sitt budskap och att budskapet uppfattas på rätt sätt blir allt viktigare inom marknadsföringen i vissa branscher i och med den ökande konkurrensen mellan företag och då företag försöker differentiera sig gentemot konkurrenterna. Det är viktigt för vissa företag att redan under studenternas studietid försöka förmedla sina budskap, som studenter sedan kan ta med sig ut i arbetslivet då de exempelvis ska söka arbete eller då de kanske kommer att inneha beslutsfattande positioner i olika företag.Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka kommunikationen som två valda företag, KPMG och Lindebergs Grant Thornton, använder sig av för att marknadsföra sig som potentiella arbetsgivare till ekonomistudenter i Uppsala. Uppsatsen undersöker hur väl företagen förmedlar sina budskap samt hur budskapet tas emot av målgruppen, det vill säga studenterna. Utgångspunkten är dock studenternas uppfattning av viktiga budskap, detta jämförs sedan med skickade budskap. Om diskrepans mellan förmedlat budskap och uppfattat budskap föreligger kommer en diskussion att föras om vad detta kan bero på.

Gender mainstreaming has been an internationally dominant policy since the mid 1990?s. In 2004, the Swedish government decided to implement gender mainstreaming within the Government Offices of Sweden. However, little research seems to have focused on the reasons for an organization's decision to implement gender mainstreaming. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to answer the question why the Government Offices of Sweden have decided to use gender mainstreaming.

Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) is about women, peace and security. Since the resolution was adopted several countries has made their own National Action Plan for implementation of the resolution.Sweden and Denmark are two of these countries. Resolution 1325 is one of the documents that each countries armed force has to relate to in international work.These countries can get to work together in international operations within the framework of the Nordic Defense Cooperation, NORDEFCO. This study is done by looking at similarities and differences in the action plans and whether they can be an obstacle for the countries to cooperate in an international operation.In this paper a comparative analysis of Sweden and Denmark's plans for the Security Council resolution 1325 will be done. The comparison is made based on the clauses of the resolution relating to the member states actions.In this paper, a qualitative text analysis to be carried out with sections of Resolution 1325 as a model for the comparison..