Industrial robots are very popular in now day’s automation factories, industrial robots can perform jobs that people are not willing or able to perform. Industrial robots can repeat the same work at the exactly same way, resulting a higher quality of production.  Industrial robots can work in several areas, each robot must have a specific tool for each area. This thesis includes design of a gripper tool for an industrial robot for picking and placing different laser notched generator-parts. The product is being designed for the division of electricity in Uppsala University. A gripper tool prototype might be built in the future. The report begins with a theoretical comparison between lifting and gripping techniques for later deciding which technique is most suitable for picking and placing the different parts. A pre-study and a short description about different transporting systems have been made. After the pre-study different concepts were developed, the best suitable concept was selected for further development and final construction. The final design of the gripper tool was used in the robot cell-simulation program ABB Robot Studio for choosing a proper cell design. The gripper tool was designed in light weight material aluminium, and uses electromagnets for picking and releasing the different notched part.  The gripper tool is assembled on an industrial robot from ABB, IRB 7600 with a handling capacity of 150 kg and 3.5m reach. / I dagens automatiserade fabriker är industrirobotar väldigt populära, då industrirobotar kan utföra arbeten som människor inte vill eller kan utföra.  Industrirobotar kan utföra samma arbete flera gånger om på exakt samma sätt, vilket medför en högre kvalitet på produktionen. Industrirobotar kan arbeta inom flera olika områden, för varje område måste industrirobotarna vara utrustade med ett speciellt verktyg. I detta examensarbete designas ett gripdon för en industrirobot som skall plocka och placera olika laserskurna generatordetaljer. Produkten designas för Avdelningen för Elektricitetslära vid Uppsala Universitet. En prototyp av gripdonet kan bli aktuellt i framtiden. Arbetet inleddes med en teoretisk jämförelse mellan olika grepp- och lyfttekniker för att sedan avgöra vilken grepp- respektive lyftteknik passar bäst för plockning och placering av de olika detaljerna. Förstudie och en kort beskrivning av olika transportmetoder ingår. Efter förstudien togs olika möjliga koncept fram för att sedan välja ut det bäst passande konceptet för ytterligare utveckling och en slutlig konstruktion. Den slutliga designen användes seden i robotcellsimuleringsprogrammet ABB Robot Studio för utförandet av experimenten. Gripdonet designades i aluminium och använder elektromagneter som lyftteknik för plockning och placering av de olika skurna plåtdetaljerna. Gripdonet monteras sedan på en industrirobot från ABB, IRB 7600 med lastkapaciteten 150 kg och en räckvidd på 3.5 m.

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No / The medial temporal lobe (MTL) memory system is damaged early in Alzheimer's disease. Cognitive tests designed to help diagnose the disease must detect dysfunction in this system, but must also be insensitive to the cognitive slowing that characterizes normal ageing. On the assumption that the MTL system forms new memories by binding together the many informational aspects of events into units, The Placing Test was designed to index this function by measuring the ability to remember associations between faces and their locations. The influence of normal ageing was minimized by using procedures that compensate for the difficulties in learning and retrieval caused by the cognitive slowing of normal ageing. In two experiments The Placing Test was administered as part of a battery of neuropsychological tests to a group of healthy older people. In both studies, performance in The Placing Test correlated significantly with other measures of memory, but had weaker associations than standard memory measures with other types of cognitive function. The Placing Test appeared not to be biased by age, education or gender, although a larger sample is needed to verify this. A final study examined the performance of 16 patients with suspected Alzheimer's disease. These patients showed clear impairment in The Placing Test, with 81% scoring below the 5th percentile, despite the majority having normal MMSE scores. It is concluded that The Placing Test provides a quick, simple and sensitive measure of memory that has potential to be useful in routine diagnostic investigations for Alzheimer's disease.

Published Article / This paper investigates the challenges of employing Van der Waals forces in micro-material handling since these forces are dominant in micro-material handling systems. The problems include the creation of a dust-free environment, accurate measurement of the micro-force, and the efficient picking and placing of micro-work pieces. The use of vacuum suction, micro-gripper's surface roughness, geometrical configuration and material type are presented as alternatives to overcome the challenges. An atomic force microscope is proposed for the accurate measurement of the Van der Waals force between the gripper and the micro-work piece.

Följande är en kvalitativ studie som analyserar bloggskribenter och bloggläsare. Studiens syfteär att undersöka hur presentationen av ett inlägg på en blogg och relationen som en bloggläsarehar till bloggskribenten kan påverka bloggläsarens konsumtion. Vidare syftar studien till attbidra till en bättre förståelse av bloggfenomenet och dess effekt på generationen millenierna,personer födda under år 1991-1998.Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer på millenierna och insamlad teori är slutsatsen attpresentationen av ett blogginlägg och relationen som bloggläsaren har till bloggskribenten haren stor påverkan på deras konsumtion. Relationen är enligt bloggläsaren grundat på vissafaktorer samt så har presentationen av ett inlägg en påverkan på läsarens konsumtion. Dettaanalyseras i studiens diskussion och avslutas med förslag till vidare forskning inom ämnet. / The following study is a qualitative analysis between blog writers and blog readers. Thepurpose of this study is to investigate how the presentation of post on blogs and the relationshipthe blog readers have to the blog author can affect blog reader’s consumption. This willcontribute to a better understanding for the blog phenomena and its effect on the generationmillennial, born between 1991-1998.By semi-structured interviews on millennial and gathered information from academic literaturea conclusion have been made that the presentation of a post and the relationship the blog readershave to the blog author have a big impact on the behaviour for consumption. Furthermore therelationship is being established on some conditions, by the reader’s point of view. How well apost will affect a reader is based on how posts are presented in the blog by the author. This isbeing analysed and discussed in this study. We finish the study with proposals for furtherresearch in this subject

Human functional laterality, typically involving a right-sided preference in most sensory-motor activities, is still a poorly understood issue. This is perhaps particularly true in terms of what underlying mechanisms that may govern lateral biases, as well as the developmental origins and course of events. The present thesis aims at investigating functional asymmetries in the upper and lower body movements of young human infants. In Study I, the presence of side biases in the stepping and placing responses and head turning in healthy fullterm newborns were explored. No evident lateral bias for the leg responses in terms of the first foot moved or direction of head turning was found. However, a lateral bias was revealed for onset latency in relation to the first foot moved in both stepping and placing. Asymmetries in head turning did not correspond to asymmetries in leg movements. In Study II, functional asymmetries in the stepping response of newborn infants were investigated in more detail by means of 3-D kinematic movement registration. Evident side differences were found in relation to smoother movement trajectories of the right leg by means of less movement segmentation compared to the left leg. Side differences were also found in relation to intralimb coordination in terms of stronger ankle-knee couplings and smaller phase shifts in the right leg than the left. In Study III, using the same movement registration technique, the kinematics of left and right arm movements during goal-directed reaching in infants were prospectively studied over the ages 6, 9, 12, and 36 months. Main findings included side differences and developmental trends related to the segmentation of the reaching movements and the reaching trajectory, as well as the distribution of arm-hand-use frequency. The results from Study I and II are discussed in relation to underlying neural mechanisms for lateral biases in leg movements and the important role of a thorough methodology in investigating newborn responses. Findings from Study III are discussed in terms of what they imply about the developmental origins for hand preference. An emphasis is also put on developmental differences between fullterm and preterm infants. Overall, the studies of the present thesis show that an increased understanding of subtle expressions of early functional asymmetries in the upper and lower body movements of young infants may be gained by means of refined measurements. Furthermore, such knowledge may provide an insight into the underlying neural mechanisms subserving asymmetries in the movements of young infants. The present studies also add new information to the current understanding of the development of human lateralized functions, in particular the findings derived from the longitudinal data. Apart from theoretical implications, the present thesis also involves a discussion with regard to the clinical relevance of investigating functional asymmetries in the movements of young infants.

<p>The purpose of this study was investigating the means which rule the social worker’s choice of institution placing youths and how they match the youth’s individual need compared with the type of home. The questions were: Which significance has the characteristics of the youth and their family for the placing? Which significance has the characteristics of the institution? Which significance has the social workers’ way of working, investigation, theories, economy etc.? A qualitative way of interviewing has been used. Eight interviews were done; six with social welfare secretaries who place youths and two social workers who work with coun­selling and placement. The choice of respondents was made from a systematic selection be­cause they were considered having knowledge of the subject. The interviews were taped, which enabled several revisions. Then concentrations and structural analysis were made in order to look for both common and deviant patterns in the material. The analysis and inter­pretation is based upon the theory of risk, behaviour, response and systems alongside with earlier studies in the subject. The conclusions were that there was a combination of factors which ruled the choice: the need of the youth, earlier experience of institutions, and pro­fes­sional network connections. The social welfare secretary realized the importance of matching but saw difficulties in acute placing and shortage of places. In order to facilitate for the social welfare secretary there is a need for a system where they can get objective informa­tion about the institutions for example from a co-ordinating authority.</p> / <p>Syftet med studien var att undersöka vad som styr socialarbetarens val av institution vid pla­cering av ungdomar och hur de matchar behandlingshem utifrån ungdomens individuella be­hov. Frågeställningarna var: Vilken betydelse för placeringen har egenskaper hos ungdomarna och deras familjer? Vilken betydelse för placeringen har egenskaper hos institutionen? Vilken betydelse för placeringen har socialtjänstens arbetssätt, utredningar, teorier, ekonomi mm? En kvalitativ intervjumetod har använts. Åtta stycken intervjuer gjordes varav sex med pla­ce­rande socialsekreterare och två socialarbetare med rådgivnings- och placeringsfunktion. Ur­valet av respondenterna gjordes utifrån ett systemiskt urval då respondenterna antogs be­sitta relevant kunskap i ämnet. Till grund för analys och tolkning ligger risk-, behovs- och respon­sivitetsteorin, systemteorin samt tidigare forskning i och omkring ämnet. Slutsatsen blev att det som styr valen av institution var en kombination av barnets behov, tidigare erfaren­het av institutioner och professionellt kontaktnät. Socialarbetaren insåg vikten av matchning men såg svårigheter vid akuta placeringar och platsbrist. För att underlätta för social­arbetaren behövs ett fungerande system där de kan få objektiv information om institu­tionerna som exempelvis en samordnande instans.</p>

The purpose of this study was investigating the means which rule the social worker’s choice of institution placing youths and how they match the youth’s individual need compared with the type of home. The questions were: Which significance has the characteristics of the youth and their family for the placing? Which significance has the characteristics of the institution? Which significance has the social workers’ way of working, investigation, theories, economy etc.? A qualitative way of interviewing has been used. Eight interviews were done; six with social welfare secretaries who place youths and two social workers who work with coun­selling and placement. The choice of respondents was made from a systematic selection be­cause they were considered having knowledge of the subject. The interviews were taped, which enabled several revisions. Then concentrations and structural analysis were made in order to look for both common and deviant patterns in the material. The analysis and inter­pretation is based upon the theory of risk, behaviour, response and systems alongside with earlier studies in the subject. The conclusions were that there was a combination of factors which ruled the choice: the need of the youth, earlier experience of institutions, and pro­fes­sional network connections. The social welfare secretary realized the importance of matching but saw difficulties in acute placing and shortage of places. In order to facilitate for the social welfare secretary there is a need for a system where they can get objective informa­tion about the institutions for example from a co-ordinating authority. / Syftet med studien var att undersöka vad som styr socialarbetarens val av institution vid pla­cering av ungdomar och hur de matchar behandlingshem utifrån ungdomens individuella be­hov. Frågeställningarna var: Vilken betydelse för placeringen har egenskaper hos ungdomarna och deras familjer? Vilken betydelse för placeringen har egenskaper hos institutionen? Vilken betydelse för placeringen har socialtjänstens arbetssätt, utredningar, teorier, ekonomi mm? En kvalitativ intervjumetod har använts. Åtta stycken intervjuer gjordes varav sex med pla­ce­rande socialsekreterare och två socialarbetare med rådgivnings- och placeringsfunktion. Ur­valet av respondenterna gjordes utifrån ett systemiskt urval då respondenterna antogs be­sitta relevant kunskap i ämnet. Till grund för analys och tolkning ligger risk-, behovs- och respon­sivitetsteorin, systemteorin samt tidigare forskning i och omkring ämnet. Slutsatsen blev att det som styr valen av institution var en kombination av barnets behov, tidigare erfaren­het av institutioner och professionellt kontaktnät. Socialarbetaren insåg vikten av matchning men såg svårigheter vid akuta placeringar och platsbrist. För att underlätta för social­arbetaren behövs ett fungerande system där de kan få objektiv information om institu­tionerna som exempelvis en samordnande instans.

This document mainly deals with financial placing of an insurance company. First it wrote about insurance and next about assets of insurance company generally. After it wrote about financial placing in commercial insurance company according to Czech law and according to IFRS. It includes also a practical example , how to change from czech law to IFRS influenced balance-sheet of an insurance company.