40 research outputs found
Valo is / Light on : Kierrätyslasivalaisimen suunnitteluprosessi ja valmistaminen
No full textTämän opinnäytetyön aiheena oli suunnitella ja valmistaa valaisin kierrätetyistä 2dl:n Granini lasipulloista. Samalla tutkittiin onko kierrätetyn pakkauslasin käyttö järkevää ja perusteltua tällaisessa työssä. Valaisimen suunnittelussa, materiaalivalinnoissa ja teossa on pyritty tuotteen ja sen valmistamisen ekologisuuteen.
Opinnäytetyön tekeminen lähti liikkeelle tausta-aineistoon tutustumisella sekä valaisimen ulkomuodon suunnittelulla. Suunnitteluun kuului tutustuminen amerikka-laisen lasitaiteilija Dale Chihulyn tuotantoon sekä kierrätyslasin uusiokäyttöön.
Yhteistyökumppanina opinnäytetyössä toimi Jan Torstensson kiikoislaisesta Lasistudio Jan Torstensson Oy:stä. Valaisin valmistettiin Lasistudion tiloissa.
Opinnäytetyön raportissa kuvataan työn keskeisimmät vaiheet lähtökohdista, suunnittelusta sekä valaisimen valmistuksesta. Lopuksi opinnäytetyöntekijä arvioi työtään ja tavoitteiden saavuttamista.The objective of the final project with thesis was to design and manufacture a lamp made of recycled Granini glass bottles. It was also studied if using recycled packaging glass would be reasonable in this kind of a project. Ecological sustainability was pursued in the design and manufacture of the lamp.
The making of this final project with thesis was begun by searching background material and designing the lamp’s appearance. Part of the design-ing project was getting acquainted with the works of the American glass artist Dale Chihuly and the use of recycled glass.
Jan Torstensson from Lasistudio Jan Torstensson worked as a partner in cooperation. The lamp was manufactured in the premises of Lasistudio.
The thesis describes the main phases of the project from the starting point to the design and manufacture of the lamp. At the end of the thesis the author evaluates the outcome and how the goals were reached
Effective weight loss with a larger energy intake early in the day
No full textTitle: Effective weight loss with a larger energy intake early in the day
Author: Nadia Andersson & Terese Torstensson
Supervisor: Heléne Bertéus Forslund
Examiner: Frode Slinde
Programme: Programme in dietetics, 180/240 ECTS
Type of paper: Bachelor’s thesis in clinical nutrition, 15 higher education credits
Date: May 23, 2018
Background: Today overweight and obesity is one of the most serious public health issues in the world. The main cause of obesity and overweight is an energy intake that exceeds the energy consumption. A high BMI is related to an increased risk of many sequelae and mortality. Obesity is a disease difficult to treat where the treatment result is rarely lasting. Today’s nutrition treatment is
focused on the amount of calories and food composition. Science has shown a connection between
the meal time and obesity.
Objective: To review and compile existing scientific research of whether the time of the day’s
largest energy intake affects weight loss in adults with overweight or obesity.
Search strategy: A literature study was performed by searching the scientific databases Pubmed
and Scopus. The used search terms were: Overweight, Obese, Obesity, “Meal time”, “Meal timing”,
Time, Meal, Late, Early, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Weight loss .
Selection criteria: Only randomized controlled trials on adults with overweight or obesity were
included. The intervention was supposed to evaluate two weight loss diets where the majority of
the energy intake was ingested early or late in the day. The selection was restricted to studies
published in Swedish or English.
Data collection and analysis: The papers found in the literature study were systematically
reviewed by title, abstract and full text. Three articles fulfilled the requirements to be included and
were examined according to the template “Quality control of randomized controlled trials” by SBU. All assessments were united to a common evidence grading through “Basis for united assessment according to GRADE”.
Main results: All the studies indicated a weight loss both in the intervention group and the control group. The intervention group showed a greater weight loss in all three studies, however it was only significant in two of them.
Conclusions: There is a moderate (+++) scientific evidence that eating the largest amount of the daily energy to breakfast or lunch will give a greater weight loss after a hypocaloric diet in adult women with overweight or obesity.
Keywords: Overweight, obese, obesity, weight loss, meal timing, energy distributionTitel: Effektivare viktnedgång med ett större energiintag tidigt på dagen
Författare: Nadia Andersson & Terese Torstensson
Handledare: Heléne Bertéus Forslund
Examinator: Frode Slinde
Linje: Dietistprogrammet, 180/240 hp
Typ av arbete: Självständigt arbete i klinisk nutrition, 15 hp
Datum: 2018-05-23
Bakgrund: Övervikt och obesitas är idag ett av världens allvarligaste folkhälsoproblem. Den
grundläggande orsaken till övervikt och obesitas är ett energiintag som överstiger
energiförbrukning. Ett högt BMI medför en ökad risk för ett flertal följdsjukdomar samt dödlighet.
Obesitas är en svårbehandlad sjukdom där behandlingsresultatet sällan är bestående. Dagens nutritionsbehandling fokuserar på energirestriktion samt kostens sammansättning. Vetenskapliga studier har visat på ett samband mellan tidpunkt för ätande och obesitas.
Syfte: Att systematisk granska och sammanställa befintlig vetenskaplig forskning om tidpunkten
för största energiintaget är av betydelse vid viktnedgång hos vuxna med övervikt eller obesitas.
Sökväg: Litteratursökning genomfördes i de vetenskapliga databaserna Pubmed och Scopus.
Sökorden var: Overweight, Obese, Obesity, “Meal time”, “Meal timing”, Time, Meal, Late, Early,
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, och Weight loss .
Urvalskriterier: Endast randomiserade kontrollerade studier utförda på vuxna med övervikt eller obesitas inkluderades. Interventionen skulle undersöka två viktminskningsdieter där majoriteten av
energiintaget intas tidigt respektive sent på dagen. Urvalet begränsades till studier skrivna på
svenska eller engelska.
Datainsamling och analys: Litteratursökningens träffar granskades systematiskt via titel, abstract
och fulltext. Tre artiklar uppfyllde inklusionskriterierna och granskades enligt SBUs mall “Kvalitetsgranskning av randomiserade kontrollerade studier”. Samtliga kvalitetsgranskningar vägdes samman med hjälp av “Underlag för sammanvägd bedömning enligt GRADE” till en sammanvägd evidensstyrka.
Resultat: Samtliga studier visade på en viktnedgång i både interventionsgruppen och
kontrollgruppen. I alla tre studier hade interventionsgruppen en större viktnedgång, dock var den endast signifikant i två av studierna.
Slutsats: Det finns måttligt (+++) vetenskaplig evidens att inta den största delen av totala dagliga energiintaget till frukost eller lunch för en effektivare viktnedgång vid en hypokalorisk diet hos vuxna kvinnor med övervikt eller obesitas.
Nyckelord: Övervikt, obesitas, fetma, viktnedgång, tidpunkt för ätande, energifördelnin
Between a Rock and a Strange Place: Fear of Crime and the Well-being of Deported Migrants in Jamaica
No full textDeported migrants in Jamaica face a plethora of integration and rehabilitation issues that have been exacerbated by the society’s negative perception of the population. Though previous research has highlighted the counterproductive implications of the negative attitudes (Headley, 2006), it is still evident in the Jamaican society. The current study examines the relationship between the migrant’s fear of crime and their well-being post-deportation. Therein, eight semi-structured interviews facilitated by the National Organisation of Deported Migrants were used to collect data over two weeks. A thematic analysis indicated that visibility impacted the extent to which deported migrants had a perceived risk of victimisation. The population's reduced mobility and lack of integration as a result of increased visibility and distrust of the wider society influenced their exhibition of isolating behaviours which were identified as incubators for physical and mental health effects, potential substance use disorders (SUD) and recidivism. Additionally, migrants residing in communities with reported criminal activities were identified to be at an increased risk of the adverse effects highlighted. The presence of several protective factors, including less time away from Jamaica and familial support mitigated these factors. The author highlights that social education, in addition to effective long-term reintegration and rehabilitation programs that focus on health are necessary implementations to reduce the risks associated with fear of crime and improve reintegration
Inbound Marketing – en framgångsstrategi? En kvalitativ studie på premiumbilar som högengagemangsköp utifrån konsumenter och Mercedes-Benz
No full textExamensarbetets titel: Inbound Marketing – en framgångsstrategi? En kvalitativ studie på premiumbilar som högengagemangsköp utifrån konsumenter och Mercedes-Benz Seminariedatum: 2018-06-01 Ämne/kurs: FEKH29 Företagsekonomi: Examensarbete i marknadsföring på kandidatnivå Författare: Alice Beckman, Clara Michélsen, Julia Torstensson Handledare: Clara Gustafsson Nyckelord: Inbound Marketing, Köpprocessen, Digitalisering, Högengagemangsprodukt, Premiumbil Syfte: Syftet med studien är att, med anledning av ett förändrat medielandskap, utvärdera Inbound Marketing som digital marknadsföringsstrategi vid premiumbilköp som högengagemangsprodukt. Metod: En kvalitativ studie har genomförts med ett hermeneutistiskt fenomenologiskt perspektiv. Studiens forskningsansats är abduktiv och alternerar således mellan teori och empiri för att låta förståelsen växa fram successivt. Teori hämtas från sekundära källor såsom böcker, hemsidor och vetenskapliga artiklar medan primära källor avser tolv djupintervjuer. Teoretiska perspektiv: Den teoretiska referensramen innefattar köpprocessen vid högengagemangsköp, där tidigare slutsatser av digitaliseringens inverkan samt faktorer vilka är specifika för premiumbilköpet inkluderas vid varje steg av köpprocessen. Vidare presenteras konceptet Inbound Marketing och den process som används för att attrahera, konvertera och bygga relationer med kunder. Empiri: Det empiriska materialet består av tolv djupintervjuer. Djupintervjuerna är semistrukturerade och baseras på ett strategiskt urval. Elva intervjuer avser konsumenter där kravet var att man under de senaste åren köpt en premiumbil. Den tolfte djupintervjun genomfördes med marknadschefen på Mercedes-Benz, Malmö. Intervjuernas omfattning varierade från 32 minuter till 92 minuter. Det empiriska materialet presenteras i samband med analys. Resultat: Digitaliseringens inverkan på köpprocessen är anmärkningsvärd med inverkan på samtliga steg, vilket resulterar i en kortare och mindre komplex köpprocess. Stor del av Inbound Marketing är fortsättningsvis i linje med konsumenternas beteende vid bilköp såväl som deras preferenser avseende reklam. Mercedes-Benz arbetar i dagsläget till viss del med Inbound Marketing, men prioriterar push-strategier med anledning av ett upplevt positivt genomslag. Inbound Marketing lämpar sig som strategi, men bör kombineras med push-strategier för att nå konsumenter under attraktionsstadiet samt för generellt varumärkesbyggandeTitle: Inbound Marketing – A strategy for success? A qualitative study based on high involvement products from the perspective of consumers and Mercedes-Benz Seminar date: 2018-06-01 Course: FEKH29 Business Administration: Bachelor Degree Project in Marketing Undergraduate Level Author: Alice Beckman, Clara Michélsen, Julia Torstensson Advisor: Clara Gustafsson Key words: Inbound Marketing, The buying process, Digitalisation, High involvement products, Premium car Purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate Inbound Marketing as a digital marketing strategy for premium car purchases as a high involvement product due to a changed media landscape. Methodology: Based on a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, a qualitative study has been conducted. The thesis scientific approach is abductive and thus alternate between theory and empiry, allowing understanding to emerge gradually. Theory is derived from secondary sources such as books, websites and academic journals while primary sources refer to twelve in-depth interviews. Theoretical Perspectives: The theoretical perspective include the buying process for high involvement products, where previous findings regarding the digitalisation and elements specific for a premium car purchase has been included. Henceforth, the process and components of Inbound Marketing is presented. Empirical Foundation: The empirical material is based on twelve in-depth interviews. The in-depth interviews are semi structured and based on a strategic selection. Eleven of the interviews pertains to consumers with the restrictions to those who in recent years has bought a premium car. The twelfth in-depth interview was conducted with the marketing manager of Mercedes-Benz, Malmö. The interviews ranged from 32 minutes to 92 minutes. The empirical material is presented in relation with analysis. Conclusions: The impact of digitalisation on the buying process is apparent with impact on all stages, resulting in a shorter and less complex buying process. Furthermore, a big part of the Inbound Marketing strategy is in line with consumer behaviour in car purchases as well as their preferences regarding advertising. Mercedes-Benz currently works partially with Inbound Marketing but prioritizes push-strategies due to an experienced positive impact. Inbound Marketing is suitable as a strategy but should be combined with push-strategies to attract consumers as well as for brandin
Fiction as Reality, Reality as Fiction : An Analysis of the Dissolving of Boundaries between Reality and Fiction in Carina Rydberg’s Djävulsformeln
No full textThe way we socialize today is radically different from how it was only twenty years ago. Since the arrival of the Internet more and more of what we know about the lives of our friends comes from text-based social networks, or blogs. This means that we all, more or less, have become authors of our own life stories and that the reality we live in have become fictionalized. In this paper I explore what effects this postmodern process of dissolving boundaries has had on the autobiographical genre, where the line between fiction and reality is traditionally stressed. By analysing Carina Rydberg’s (b. 1962) autobiographical novel Djävulsformeln (2000) I reveal how the autobiographical genre has evolved during the postmodernist era and how Philippe Lejeune’s autobiographical contract now commonly is replaced by a double contract (Poul Behrendt). This means that the contemporary autobiographical novel claims to be both a true story and made up, or, as Christian Lenemark calls it, true lies. To understand the mixed signals about whether the literary text is fiction or a true story the contemporary reader turns to the media and therefore authors more and more often choose to comment on and explain their works in interviews and articles to regain some control over how the text is perceived, thus overstepping the boundary of fiction. We have, as Lenemark puts it, a medialization of the role of the author. With the distinction between what is a depiction of reality and what is fiction, in a state of dissolution the traditional genre classifications have become dated. My claim is that the boundary between fiction and reality has imploded as an effect of the post- modern process and that readers today, like cultural consumers in general, look for "the real thing" but want a better reality than the one they get in real life. Traditional classifications like "autobiography", "reality" and "fiction" thereby no longer apply to contemporary literature
"Hade jag inte börjat skriva så skulle han och jag och kärleken ha levt lyckliga till vår död." : Om konflikten mellan konstnärskap och en heteronormativ kärleksdikotomi
No full textThrough the example of author couple Märta and Henrik Tikkanen, this article explores the conditions of artistic work related to gender roles, especially in relation to domestic work and parenting. Traditionally, to engage in creative work has been coded as a masculine activity that absorbs the artist’s whole person. “To be an artist” is often considered to have more to do with one’s identity than with one’s profession. This makes it difficult – sometimes even impossible – to combine with parenting, especially with motherhood, which is also thought to entail the whole being of a person; something that female artists have long attested to. The Tikkanens are unique in that that they write in dialogue with one another, so that they, through their separate individual work create a joint, yet conflicting, story of life together. Märta Tikkanen’s work centers the difficulties of combining the role of wife/mother with that of the artist. She describes her responsibilities towards her loved ones as a barrier, blocking her possibilities to work and be creative. Henrik Tikkanen, on the other hand, portrays love as a means to enhance one’s persona. In his work, love is a helping force, not a hinder. The differences in ability to devote oneself to art characterised by the Tikkanens’ work highlight the importance of understanding symbolic structures of gendered conditions in the art world, rather than understanding artists’ conditions in solely economic-structural terms
Mänsklig värdighet och den döda kroppen
No full textAbstract The human person has a certain dignity. This is a key understanding of Christian anthropology and a fundamental for The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Created in the image of God, the human person is different from the rest of created life. But like every form of life, human life is finite. Mortality is a defining fact and through her embodiedness, the human person is limited. This, however, does not alter or lessen her dignity; rather, the limitations of the body is an integrated part of what it is to be human and to have dignity. But what does that mean in relation to the dead body? What can be said about human dignity after life ends? And what does it mean to treat a dead body with respect? This study aims to relate a contemporary understanding of human dignity to ethical thought in Christian theology as it appears in two recent documents. One is from the Roman Catholic Church: Dignitas Infinita: On Human Dignity, and the other from Church of Sweden: Livets början och livets slut: Redskap för orientering i etiska vägval. The purpose is to clarify how dignity can be understood in a way that also has relevance for the dead body. Three aspects of dignity will be used to analyze the teaching in the documents. These aspects - dignity as worth, as virtue/character, and dignity as standing - will each help me interpret dignity as it appears in the presented texts. I will also employ an understanding of dignity found in the Catholic ethicist Jean Porter’s article Torture and the Christian Conscience- a Reply to Jeremy Walderon. In the article, the author elaborates a certain understanding of dignity, coming from the reversed perspective of what it means to harm or destroy human dignity through torture. I will then proceed to a discussion of how the found theological understanding of dignity, can inform ethical considerations on what it means to respect the dead body. I will argue that dignity means to honor the Image of God in each person, especially in situations of vulnerability. In my understanding, being dead is to be considered an extreme state of vulnerability for the body. When the image of God is disrespected in the vulnerable, it is also injured in the person not taking responsibility. To safeguard the image of God in the dead person, is to keep it alive in the living. Regarding the dead body, this means a responsibility not to leave the person alone and to treat the body of a deceased person with due respect
"Hade jag inte börjat skriva så skulle han och jag och kärleken ha levt lyckliga till vår död." <em></em> [Elektronisk resurs] : Om konflikten mellan konstnärskap och en heteronormativ kärleksdikotomi
No full textThrough the example of author couple Märta and Henrik Tikkanen, this article explores the conditions of artistic work related to gender roles, especially in relation to domestic work and parenting. Traditionally, to engage in creative work has been coded as a masculine activity that absorbs the artist’s whole person. “To be an artist” is often considered to have more to do with one’s identity than with one’s profession. This makes it difficult – sometimes even impossible – to combine with parenting, especially with motherhood, which is also thought to entail the whole being of a person; something that female artists have long attested to. The Tikkanens are unique in that that they write in dialogue with one another, so that they, through their separate individual work create a joint, yet conflicting, story of life together. Märta Tikkanen’s work centers the difficulties of combining the role of wife/mother with that of the artist. She describes her responsibilities towards her loved ones as a barrier, blocking her possibilities to work and be creative. Henrik Tikkanen, on the other hand, portrays love as a means to enhance one’s persona. In his work, love is a helping force, not a hinder. The differences in ability to devote oneself to art characterised by the Tikkanens’ work highlight the importance of understanding symbolic structures of gendered conditions in the art world, rather than understanding artists’ conditions in solely economic-structural terms.</p
Interna barriärer i strävan mot cirkularitet -Ett industriellt perspektiv
No full textFör organisationer som siktar på att bli hållbara är det hävdat att en organisatorisk övergång snarare än en optimering av den nuvarande organisationen är nödvändig (Loorbach & Wijsman, 2013). Detta leder till att när en Cirkulär Ekonomi (CE) modell appliceras och materialflöden sluts innebär det förändringar som påverkar affärsmodeller, logistik, tillhandahålla erbjudanden, service, tillverkning och processer. Företag idag brottas med att applicera CE eftersom det idag saknas en generell bild av hur firmor borde inkludera hållbarhet i sina affärsmodeller, på grund av en brist på kunskap inom fältet (Bocken, Short, Rana, & Evans, 2013). För att kunna röra sig mot en hållbar cirkulär affärsmodell så behöver organisationer övervinna interna barriärer för att genomföra förändringen och hitta transformeringsstrategier för att övervinna dem. Baserat på omfattande litteratur genomfördes elva explorativa djupintervjuer inom ett stort, moget, tillverknings business-to-business företag i Sverige. Företaget har ett intresse av CE men är fortfarande nya på området och har deras affärer baserade på en linjär ekonomi. Den här studien bidrar till att förstå de barriärer som stora mogna organisationer står inför när dom applicerar CE. Studien presenterar en intervju utredning som utforskar ett företags styrkor och svagheter kopplade till deras kapacitet att applicera CE, genom att identifiera barriärer i syfte att kunna använda som en grund för företag att bemöta utmaningarna med en transformation, att ge dom riktningar av var och ge dom riktningar om var och hur dom kan påbörja en transformering. Genom att identifiera barriärer mot en förändring så blir det möjligt att identifiera möjligheter att överkomma dem (Grant, 2010). Studien presenterar sedan områden barriärer befinner sig inom, som författaren anser viktigast, samt förslag på hur man kan bemöta dem. Den här studiens främsta bidrag till forskningen är en detaljerad och övergripande inblick i ett inflytelserikt företags inställning till Cirkulär Ekonomi, samt de barriärer de kan stå inför vid en eventuell övergång.For organizations that aim to become sustainable, it is argued that an organizational transition is required rather than an optimization of the existing firm (Loorbach & Wijsman, 2013). Hence, applying a Circular Economy (CE) model and closing material loops implies changes that affects business models, logistics, offerings provided, services and manufacturing processes. Companies are currently struggling with applying CE since there is no general view today of how firms should include sustainability into their business models due to a lack of knowledge within the field (Bocken, Short, Rana, & Evans, 2013). In order to move into a sustainable circular business model, organizations needs to overcome internal barriers for performing the change and find transformation strategies for overcoming them. Based on extent literature eleven explorative in-depth interviews were conducted within one large, mature manufacturing business-to-business company in Sweden. The investigated company (hereinafter the Company) has an interest in CE but is still novel in the area and has its businesses based on a linear economy. This paper contributes to understanding the barriers that large mature organizations face when applying CE. The paper presents an interview investigation which explores a company’s strengths and weaknesses based on its capacity to apply CE. The aim is to provide a base for companies to tackle the challenges of transformation, to give them directions of where and how to start. By identifying the barriers of change it becomes possible to identify opportunities to overcome them (Grant, 2010). The study presents areas where barriers are located which the author considers most important, and provide suggestions for how to meet them. The foremost contribution of this study to science is a detailed and all-embracing insight into a powerful company’s attitude to CE, and barriers they might face in a potential transition
Utredning och provning av kostnadseffektiva metoder för bullerminimering av spårfordon [Elektronisk resurs]
No full textDen här artikeln avser att för ett befintligt spårtrafiksystem översiktligt beskriva olika bullerreducerande åtgärders effekt, deras ekonomiska aspekter samt indirekt inverkan på systemet och dess omgivning. SL (AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik) arbetar aktivt för att minska tågtrafikens störning till omgivningen, med den långsiktiga strävan att hela SLs spårsystem ska innehålla riktvärden för ny- och ombyggd järnväg enligt infrastrukturpropositionen. Ett viktigt medel för att nå denna ambition är succesivt byte av fordonsparken till nya och tystare fordon, detta kommer dock inte ge tillräcklig bullerreduktion, ytterligare åtgärder kommer att krävas. Beroende på problembilden kan det innebära att en enstaka åtgärd eller flera åtgärder i kombination behöver tas till. För att kartlägga, utvärdera och skapa kunskap om olika åtgärdsalternativ har SL därför arbetat långsiktigt och systematiskt med att utvärdera ett antal olika metoder. En viktig aspekt i sammanhanget är att då SLs spår till stor del går mycket nära bostäder är det önskvärt att hitta effektiva bullerskyddsåtgärder med så liten påverkan som möjligt avseende landskapsbild och barriäreffekt. Med hänsyn till ägardirektivet om ekonomi i balans är det även viktigt att se till total nytta relativt total kostnad vid val av åtgärd.</p
