I skuggan av det glada studentlivet- En kvalitativ studie om psykisk ohälsa bland studenter ur kuratorer inom studenthälsovårdens perspekiv

Authors: Johanna Lantz and Josefine Karlsson Title: In the shade of the happy student life: A qualitative study of mental illness among students from the perspective of counselors in student health centers Supervisor: Anders Olsson Mental illness is a recognized and controversial public health problem both nation-ally and internationally and a highly relevant topic in social work. A large group of people who suffer from this phenomenon are students, who forms the basis of our thesis. The purpose of this study was to investigate how counselors who work with student's healthcare are describing, explaining and working with mental health problems among students. To obtain our results, we have used a qualitative method and conducted semi-structured interviews with seven counselors in three different student health clinics in southern Sweden. We analyzed our material based on the theories Sence Of Coherence, coping and empowerment. Our results indicate that the counselors perceive mental illness among students as a broad phenomenon which is bound to its context and rather can be seen as normal life crises. It is found that high demands, coming from students themselves as well as from society, can be seen as contributing elements that affect mental health among students as well as lack of structure, changes in life and a high consumption of alcohol. At the student health centers counselors mainly work with individual counseling and attaches great importance to the relationship with the students which indicate that their work is inspired by empowerment. They also work with courses based on student needs and believe that prevention is important to counter problems from occurring

För regionen i tiden - regionalpolitikens nya förutsättningar och den interregionala konkurrensen

Med införandet av den gemensamma marknaden i EU ändrades förutsättningarna för regionalpolitiken. I den här undersökningen är syftet att synliggöra dessa förändringar genom att fokusera på två fenomen: regional samverkan och sub-nationell representation. I två fallstudier - E20-projektet i Västra Götaland och Region Skånes representationskontor i Bryssel - genomförs en textanalys baserad på teorier om nyregionalism och interregional konkurrens för att förklara dessa fenomen. I undersökningen går det att utläsa hur regioner fått ett större ansvar för att själva skapa förutsättningar för utveckling och tillväxt. De två fenomen som vi undersökt framstår efter studien som regionernas sätt att anpassa sig till de nya förutsättningarna. Slutsatsen är att det vi valt att kalla den interregionala konkurrensen framträder som drivkraften bakom anpassningarna och kan förklara fenomenen. Efter studien framträder en bild av regionen som en aktör på en konkurrensutsatt politisk arena där en anpassning till de nya förutsättningarna är nödvändig

Demand-Orientated Power Production from Biogas: Modeling and Simulations under Swedish Conditions

The total share of intermittent renewable electricity is increasing, intensifying the need for power balancing in future electricity systems. Demand-orientated combined heat and power (CHP) production from biogas has potential for this purpose. An agricultural biogas plant, using cattle manure and sugar beet for biogas and CHP production, was analyzed here. The model Dynamic Biogas plant Model (DyBiM) was developed and connected to the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1). Flexible scenarios were simulated and compared against a reference scenario with continuous production, to evaluate the technical requirements and economic implications of demand-orientated production. The study was set in Swedish conditions regarding electricity and heat price, and the flexibility approaches assessed were increased CHP and gas storage capacity and feeding management. The results showed that larger gas storage capacity was needed for demand-orientated CHP production but that feeding management reduced the storage requirement because of fast biogas production response to feeding. Income from electricity increased by 10%, applying simple electricity production strategies to a doubled CHP capacity. However, as a result of the currently low Swedish diurnal electricity price variation and lack of subsidies for demand-orientated electricity production, the increase in income was too low to cover the investment costs. Nevertheless, DyBiM proved to be a useful modeling tool for assessing the economic outcome of different flexibility scenarios for demand-orientated CHP production

Searching for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with LIGO

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has performed the fourth science run, S4, with significantly improved interferometer sensitivities with respect to previous runs. Using data acquired during this science run, we place a limit on the amplitude of a stochastic background of gravitational waves. For a frequency independent spectrum, the new limit is $\Omega_{\rm GW} < 6.5 \times 10^{-5}$. This is currently the most sensitive result in the frequency range 51-150 Hz, with a factor of 13 improvement over the previous LIGO result. We discuss complementarity of the new result with other constraints on a stochastic background of gravitational waves, and we investigate implications of the new result for different models of this background.Comment: 37 pages, 16 figure

The state of the Martian climate

60°N was +2.0°C, relative to the 1981–2010 average value (Fig. 5.1). This marks a new high for the record. The average annual surface air temperature (SAT) anomaly for 2016 for land stations north of starting in 1900, and is a significant increase over the previous highest value of +1.2°C, which was observed in 2007, 2011, and 2015. Average global annual temperatures also showed record values in 2015 and 2016. Currently, the Arctic is warming at more than twice the rate of lower latitudes