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Tanny, Oceane. "Technology and the Police." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/429.
Full textToft, P. N. "Management of innovation in school technology." Thesis, University of Salford, 1988. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14795/.
Full textStump, Christina M. "Leaves From Other Worlds." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu158618674890876.
Full textTowler, Gary. "Attitudes and other important factors affecting food choice." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292259.
Full textRandell, Heather Eve. "Applications of stress from boron doping and other challenges in silicon technology." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010292.
Full textHa, Nguyen Manh. "Gateways between ad hoc and other networks." Thesis, KTH, Kommunikationssystem, CoS, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-92026.
Full textMesseri, Lisa Rebecca. "Placing outer space : an earthly ethnography of other worlds." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69451.
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This dissertation concerns the role of place in scientific practice. Ideas of place, I argue, shape and are shaped by science. I specifically look at the community of planetary scientists who, though they cannot step foot on the objects they study, transform planets into places. This is an ethnographic work that draws on 18 months of fieldwork during which time I encountered several different communities of planetary scientists. At MIT, I worked alongside astronomers looking for planets around other stars. These "exoplanet" astronomers transformed numerical counts of photons into complex worlds with atmospheres and weather. Data visualizations characterized the work of a community learning to see unseen planets in specific, place-based ways. I also traveled with an astronomer to a Chilean observatory where she studied the night sky hoping to find a "habitable planet." Many other astronomers share this goal and have designed various ways to detect a planet like Earth. The importance of these projects signifies that exoplanet astronomers are more interested in finding planetary kin - planets that are familiar places - than exotic aliens. To determine how the planetary places created by exoplanet astronomers differ from those in our own Solar System, I spent time at the NASA Ames Research Center with a group of computer scientists who create high resolution and three-dimensional maps of Mars. These maps reflect the kind of place Mars is today: it is available to everyone to explore, it is displayed such that you can imagine standing on the surface, and it is presented as geologically dynamic in ways similar to Earth. Even though these maps help give Mars a sense of place, Martian science is still stymied by the inability to send humans to its surface. Instead, planetary scientists travel to terrestrial sites deemed to be "Mars-like" to approximate performing geologic fieldwork on Mars. I went to one of these locations to see how, during these outings, Mars and Earth become entwined as scientists forge connections between two planetary places. These diverse scientific activities, I conclude, are transforming our view of the cosmos. Outer space is becoming outer place.
by Lisa Rebecca Messeri.
Ph.D.in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS
Powless, Seth J. "College Student Satisfaction: The Impact of Facebook and Other Factors." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1296829879.
Full textHosseyndoust, Foomany Farbod. "Analysis of voiceprint and other biometrics for criminological and security applications." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2010. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9635/.
Full textLi, Xiaojie. "First-principles study of materials for advanced energy technology." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Tillämpad materialfysik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-234895.
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Hagberg, Anna. "Industrial wastewater treatment and other environmental problems in Wuhan : Is Swedish technology a solution?" Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-88828.
Full textÅr 2000 startades ett samarbete mellan Wuhan i Kina och Borlänge Energi i Sverige. De två parterna bestämde år 2005 tillsammans med IVL, Svenska Miljöinstitutet, att samarbeta inom följande områden; hållbar energiproduktion, hållbar avfallsproduktion samt grundandet av ett miljöteknikcentrum i Wuhan. Miljöteknikcentrumet är till för att vara en plattform för svensk miljöteknik och expertis. Som ett första steg inför grundandet av ett miljöteknikcentrum gjordes en undersökning för att se inom vilka sektorer svensk miljöteknik kan etableras.
Undersökningen var inriktat på industriell avloppsvattenrening i Wuhan; bedömning av vilka typer av industrier/företag som har problem med avloppsvattenreningen och i vilken utsträckning det finns svenska tekniklösningar på problemen. Undersökningen genomfördes genom intervjuer med myndigheter och en del utvalda företag. Det var svårt att få fram information om vilka företag som inte följer de kinesiska gränsvärdena, varför en del besök gjordes till företag som lever upp till gränsvärdena. På grund av detta togs även andra problem med miljön som företagen hade upp. Några kommunala reningsverk besöktes och intervjuades också för att få en bättre bild av den kommunala vattenreningssituationen. En generell beskrivning av Wuhans miljösituation utfördes också samt en beskrivning av de viktigaste miljömyndigheterna och institutionerna.
Wuhans största utmaning är att konstruera reningsverk till alla de 3.5 miljoner som fortfarande släpper sitt avloppsvatten rätt ut till sjöar och floder, snarare än att ytterligare rena det industriella avloppsvattnet. Behandlingsgraden av det industriella avloppsvattnet har nått 97 % medan behandlingsgraden av det kommunala avloppsvattnet endast nått 70 %.
Besök vid de utvalda företagen och kommunala reningsverk ledde till slutsatsen att svensk teknik och expertis kan införas i följande områden: hantering av slam från reningsverk, byggandet av förbränningsanläggningar för sopor och hur man löser problemet med att rena luften från gaser som SO2 och dioxiner. De flesta företagen kunde följa de kinesiska gränsvärdena för utsläpp av avloppsvatten men mycket kan göras för att förbättra företagens tekniker ytterligare. Detta utförs dock nästan aldrig eftersom det är en ekonomisk fråga. Det är möjligt för Wuhan att sätta lokala, hårdare gränsvärlden för att tvinga företagen att förbättra sina reningstekniker ytterligare.
In 2000 a co-operation between Wuhan in China and Borlänge Energi in Sweden started. The two parts decided in 2005 together with IVL, the Swedish Research Institute, to co-operate in the fields of sustainable energy production, sustainable waste management and the establishment of an Environmental Technology Centre, supplying Swedish environmental expertise to companies in Wuhan. As a first step for the establishment of an Environmental Technology Centre in Wuhan, an investigation was made to find out in which sectors Swedish environmental technology could be established.
The investigation took aim at observing the industrial wastewater treatment in Wuhan and to see which types of companies that have problems with the wastewater treatment and if there existed Swedish technology that could solve the problems. The investigation was performed through interviews with the authorities and some selected companies. It was difficult to get information about companies that did not comply with the National Chinese wastewater standards. This meant that some of the visits were made to companies that comply with the standards, also taking into consideration other problems with the environment that the companies might have. Visits were also paid to municipal wastewater treatment plants to get an overview over the municipal wastewater treatment situation. An overall survey of the environmental situation in Wuhan was also made and a presentation of the most important environmental departments and institutions is given.
The greatest challenge for Wuhan is to construct wastewater treatment plants for the around 3.5 million people that still discharge their wastewater directly to rivers and lakes, rather than to improve the industrial wastewater treatment further. The treatment rate of the industrial wastewater has reached 97%, but the municipal wastewater treatment rate has only reached 70%.
After the visits to the selected companies and municipal wastewater treatment plants the conclusion was made that Swedish technologies and expertise can be applied to the following areas; handling sludge from the wastewater treatment plants, construction of waste incineration plants and handling flue gas and dioxins. Most of the visited companies could follow the wastewater standards. Although much can be done to improve their technologies further, this is not done since it is too expensive. It is possible for Wuhan to apply stricter local wastewater treatment standards. This could be used as a tool to make companies invest more money in improvements of their technologies.
Dunstheimer, Markus. "Idea Management in Technology Development : Evaluation Criteria for Value Proposition, Technology and Strategy." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Centrum för innovations-, entreprenörskaps- och lärandeforskning (CIEL), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40790.
Full textColeman, Hollie Brianne. "The Effect of Viewing Advertisements Depicting Information and Communication Technology on Older Adults' Technology Self-Efficacy." TopSCHOLAR®, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3164.
Full textAbdullah, Jwan. "Viability of autoclaved municipal solid waste as a source for biofuels and other products." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38500/.
Full textKutlakhmedov, Yuri O., and Irina V. Matveeva. "Evaluation of distribution in the landscape of radionuclides and other pollutants using analytical GIS technology." Thesis, L'Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), 2017. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/32530.
Full textAl-Khafaf, Tanya, Persson Björn Ancker, Johanna Cederblad, Albert Häggström, Reneh Kostines, Lina Löfström, and Ella Schleimann-Jensen. "Technology Development in the Field of Ligand Binding Assays : Comparison between ELISA and other methods." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412000.
Full textHall, Kenneth. "Technology and the Grail in Fringe, In Search of Klingsor and Other Nazi Scientist Tales." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7809.
Full textAttia, Mariam Mohamed. "Teacher cognition and the use of technology in teaching Arabic to speakers of other languages." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/teacher-cognition-and-the-use-of-technology-in-teaching-arabic-to-speakers-of-other-languages(74dd167b-9da6-4e00-b6c0-cb2e7be3e782).html.
Full textJohansson, Marcus. "Soil Moisture Monitoring System Using LoRaWAN Technology." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105670.
Full textSilander, Hagström Theresia, and Carl Carlström. "IoT in Food Retail : New Technology, New Opportunities." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Marknadsföring och Entreprenörskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-209567.
Full textNilsson, Mathilda. "Experimentell studie av det mekaniska beteendet hos upphängningskrokar för pulvermålning." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5431.
Full textTörestorps Tråd AB är ett företag vars viktigaste produkt är engångskrokar för användning vid pulvermålning av olika detaljer t.ex. inom bilindustrin. För att öka kunskapen om hur olika parametrar påverkar krokarnas mekaniska beteende har dragtester utförts. Dessa tester har utförts med hjälp av en dragprovmaskin och en ugn.
För att se vad som händer när konsumenterna avlägsnar färgen på krokarna som uppkommer vid pulvermålning, har krokarna utsatts för värmning i 450°C resp. 600°C, i båda fallen under tiderna 30 resp. 60 minuter. Resultaten från proven visar att maxbelastningen sjunker med hela 40 % när krokarna har utsatts för temperaturen 600°C. En sådan behandling är därför inte att rekommendera. Dock ökar maxbelastningen något vid en värmning vid 450°C.
Dragprov har också gjorts på icke värmda krokar för att få fram hur parametrar som längd, diameter, form, bockningsavstånd, material och storleken på detaljen påverkar det mekaniska beteendet. Resultaten visar tydligt att den viktigaste parametern är diametern, och genom att dubbla denna från 2 mm till 4 mm kan kraften ökas hela 6 gånger. Andra parametrar som orsakar styrkeförändringar är materialet och formen på kroken.
Austin-Crowe, Joseph W. "Analogue-to-digital conversion and image enhancement using neuron-mos technology." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1342.
Full textRodriguez, Galvez Borja. "The Information Bottleneck : Connections to Other Problems, Learning and Exploration of the IB Curve." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254421.
Full textI den här avhandligen studerar vi the information bottleneck method. Detta är ettinformations-teoretiskt ramvärk som tar itu med vilka som är de relevanta faktorerna av enstokastisk variabel X som förklarar en annan, statistiskt beroende, stokastisk variabel Y .Dessa faktorer är inbäddade i en bottleneck variable T, vilken uppfyller Markov-villkoretY $ X $ T.Bidraget av denna avhandling är trefaldigt: (i)Avhandlingen fungerar som en undersökningav existerande kopplingar mellan information bottleneck method och rate distortiontheory samt minimal sufficient statistics. Vi utökar den kända teorin om dessa kopplingargenom att bevisa nya resultat och härleda nya kopplingar. (ii) Avhandlingen fungerar ocksåsom en undersökning av information bottleneck and learning. Vi återfår huvudresultatenom sample bounds for learning, bevisar att de är otillräckliga för moderna problem och visarvikten av de nyligen funna kopplingarna mellan information och generalisering. Vi presenterardessutom en intuition för varför the information bottleneck är en bra målfunktionför supervised learning. Dessutom så hittar vi en ny information-teoretisk generaliseringsgränsför linjära modeller som, så vitt vi vet, är den första sådana som inte beror på kardinalitetenav den stokastiska variabeln. (iii) Slutligen, avhandligens huvudsakliga bidragär resultat angående utforskningen av IB-kurvan. IB-kurvan är mängden av punkter sombeskriver lösningarna av information bottleneck optimiseringen i form av kompression avinsignalerna och förklarlighet av utsignalerna. Vi introducerar the convex IB Lagrangian,en målfunktion som låter oss utforska IB-kurvan (till skillnad från den tidigare användaIB Lagrangian). Vi bevisar dessutom att det finns en bijective mapping mellan de användalagrangemultiplikatorerna och den erhållna punkten på IB-kurvan, så vida IB-kurvansform är känd. Detta innebär att det är möjligt att konstruera lagrangemultiplikatorn så attman för en önskad nivå på kompression och förklarlighet.
Forkapa, Dan. "The Other Side of Fun." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1513106622529833.
Full textGilliland, John E. "Analyzing Department of Defense's use of other transactions as a method for accessing non-traditional technology." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA401332.
Full textThesis advisors, David V. Lamm, Richard B. Doyle. "December 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-116). Also available in print.
Abdur, Rahman Hafiz Md. "Modelling and simulation of interdependencies between the communication and information technology infrastructure and other critical infrastructures." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13797.
Full textRai, Sahara. "The effect of exercise on oxidative stress and other health markers : exploring new technology and methodology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7429/.
Full textEl-Bannany, Magdi Ahmed. "Investment in information technology systems and other determinants of bank performance in the UK and Egypt." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521756.
Full textMatsoukas, Nikitas P. "A comparative study of Greek wheats with other wheats of approved performance in bread-making." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304900.
Full textZhou, Dao Min. "An investigation of some electrochemical characteristics of enzyme based disposable biosensors and other relevant electrodes." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242072.
Full textJunered, Marcus. "Enabling hardware technology for GNSS software radio research." Licentiate thesis, Luleå : Luleå University of Technology, 2007. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1757/2007/32/.
Full textGranström, Rikard. "Maintenance for improved punctuality : a study of condition monitoring technology for the Swedish railway sector." Licentiate thesis, Luleå, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-25769.
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Johansson, Lovisa, and Jesper Johansson. "TICaP : Technology Improvement for Care Planing." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42668.
Full textA majority of today's caretakers are older people and most of them want to be able to stay in their own homes for as long as possible. That which usually prevents them is their different needs and disabilities, which means that they are constantly in need of someone else's help. This leads to an insecurity among the elderly and a reduced quality of life in contribution with anxiety and the fact that they cannot be as independent as before. Also, the home healthcare system in Sweden is highly burdened. A combination of these factors makes the resources available to the home healthcare system insufficient to meet the existing needs of the caretakers. With the help from information- and communications technology you can streamline the home healthcare system and contribute to make better use of existing resources. This should make the work more effective for the caregivers and increase the quality of the home healthcare system. The effect of digitalized solutions in home healthcare systems should increase the independence for the caretakers, raise the standard of living and create greater security among them and their relatives. With help of the application Trixxa and Halmstad Intelligent Home, TICaP has been developed, a communications platform with implemented sensors and functions. With the help of TICaP, caregivers, caretakers and their relatives can communicate with each other, set up different tasks and get real-time information about the current caretaker. With the help of this service you can solve many different needs that exist among caretakers who are dependent on the home healthcare system. You can also get a better understanding of how the situation is for the caretaker in their own home. You can immediately get a notification if the caretaker needs help, if the caretaker has taken his medicine, or on what you want basically, you decide for yourself what the notification should say. This leads to an increased sense of security for the caretaker as he or she knows that the relatives and caregivers receive direct information, as well as an increased sense of security for the relatives who easily can oversee the general condition of the caretaker through the application.
Morgan, Leah H. "Computer art methodologies for teachers how two art teachers learned to use technology and disseminate that knowledge to other teachers /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3273563.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 21, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2767. Adviser: Enid Zimmerman.
Candefjord, Stefan. "Towards new sensors for prostate cancer detection : combining Raman spectroscopy and resonance sensor technology." Licentiate thesis, Luleå : Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 2009. http://pure.ltu.se/ws/fbspretrieve/2763685.
Full textBERG, WINCENT BOEL. "Gångavstånd för resor med elsparkcykel : En studie baserat på elsparkcykelaktören Voi Technology i Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Transportplanering, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-255689.
Full textVang, Nar. "A CONCEPT VALIDATION OF A MAGNETOMETRY-BASED TECHNOLOGY FOR DETECTING CONCEALED WEAPONS IN VEHICLE DOOR PANELS." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2015. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1475.
Full textDamant, Andrew P. "An investigation into the stability of azo food colours to other food additives in soft drinks." Thesis, University of Reading, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304519.
Full textWongmaha, Kusuma. "Feasibility Study of a Technology for Catalytic Low Pressure Depolymerization of Biomass to Diesel in Thailand." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-228359.
Full textAviolat, Hubert. "Development of new high-throughput technology and combinatorial therapeutic strategy applicable to Huntington's disease and other amyloidoses." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAJ037.
Full textModulating amyloid proteins aggregation is therapeutically relevant (e.g. the familial amyloid polyneuropathy treated with Tafamidis). However, for many amyloidoses, there is yet no efficient aggregation modulator for therapy. It was recently shown that combining compounds that modulate the aggregation of amyloids can result in synergistic effects. A combinatorial screening strategy to identify synergistic cocktails of compounds could thus lead to a therapeutic break through for many amyloidoses. However, existing high-throughput technologies are not adapted for combinatorial screening.I developed SynAggreg - a very sensitive, accurate, reproducible, cost effective, flexible and high-throughput in vitro technology - which allows identifying both aggregation inhibitors and accelerators, characterizing their mechanism of action on aggregation kinetics and ranking them by their efficiency. SynAggreg is also the first technology suitable for combinatorial screening and for studying reliably synergistic effects of combinations of compounds. Finally, this new technology can be easily adapted to several amyloidoses by replacing the amyloid part of the fusion protein with molecular biology techniques. Thus, SynAggreg appears as a toolbox for fundamental and applied research, and has a high potential for valorization
Kvist, Jonathan, and Pontus Mathiasson. "Progressive Web Apps and other mobile developing techniques: a comparison." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20450.
Full textGil, Besi Manuel, and Palomar Delia Villatoro. "Design of a CAD and Rapid Prototyping based production process for porcelain." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Technology and Society, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-2344.
Full textThe present work has as aim implementing a CAD and rapid prototyping based production process in a porcelain company. There is considerable interest in ceramic companies in implementing new digital technologies in an old-fashioned industry, where traditional handscraft predominate.
The work is carried out in collaboration with Rörstrand Kulturforum AB, whose current process is analyzed, pointing out strengths and weaknesses, to define where to set the focus and the actions to perform. This analysis goes from early stages of product design to slipcasting clay bodies, the forming process of porcelain that uses plaster moulds.
As a result of this analysis, some alternatives including rapid prototyping and CNC milling techniques are defined and compared to one another. Eventually, the definitive solution features CNC milling as the main prototyping system, shaping the mother moulds out of a polyurethane block. This process skips some initial steps, such as manual modelling and mould casting, resulting saving in the new product development. Anyhow, the new process is yet to be tested in the company’s own environment to fully implement it, regarding to various parameters such as the size of the production and the complexity of the products to be manufactured.
Bäckstrand, Jenny. "Levels of Interaction in Supply Chain Relations." Licentiate thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping University, JTH, Industrial Engineering and Management, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-842.
Full textTo be able to retain the manufacturing industry durably, in Europe in general and in Sweden in specific, manufacturing companies have to be competitive also on the global market. One way for companies to realize this ambition is to interact with suppliers and customers in different kinds of supply chains. In the dyadic relation between two companies, three different levels of interaction have been identified. To be able to enhance the competitiveness instead of requiring excess workload, the level of interaction has to be adequate for the specific company and their market conditions.
The aim of this thesis is to clarify the characteristics of supply chain interaction, both in terms of different levels of interaction and concerning the factors affecting the appropriate level of interaction. A basic prerequisite to enable companies to select an appropriate level of interaction within their supply chain is also to clarify the present use of terminology.
This research is conducted through theoretical studies. The theoretical findings are synthesized in order to fulfill the research objective.
Characteristics of supply chain interaction in terms of affecting categories and factors are identified. The factors are sorted according to the category they support. An interaction framework that can be used to gain an overview over the categories and factors affecting the level of interaction in a specific situation is developed.
The resulting interaction framework is aiming at industry applicability but is based only on theoretical studies (which in turn are based on empirical data).
The aim is to support the interaction level decision for, primarily, small and medium sized manufacturing companies in order to increase their competitiveness.
Despite the amount of research within the supply chain area, the question how companies should select the way to interact within their supply chain has so far been left unanswered. In this thesis, a number of categories and factors that affects the appropriate level of interaction are identified and listed.
Asp, Daniel. "Kvalitetsbristkostnader i monteringshallen : Vad beror de på, hur stora är de och vad går det att göra åt dem?" Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-366.
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Monteringshallen hos Metso Paper Karlstad är beroende av många utomstående funktioner och processer. De som jobbar med montering och utcheckning måste koordinera sina arbeten med tillverkningen, underleverantörer, inköp, konstruktion och skeppning.
Alla är medvetna om att det finns problem i monteringshallen och att det måste det göras något för att komma till rätta med dem. Men vilka orsakerna är till problemen finns det olika uppfattningar om. En del upplever det också som att problemen återkommer gång på gång. Få försök har gjorts för att på metodiskt sätt få en gemensam syn på problematiken eller ta fram fakta som kan ligga till grund för beslut om förbättringsområden. Dessutom finns en attityd om att kvalitetsarbete mest tar tid. Problemen anses inte härröra från montaget utan de får helt enkelt finna sig att vara de som städar upp efter andra.
Syftet med detta examensarbete har varit att svara på frågeställningar om problemens orsaker, dess kostnadsstorlekar och vilka åtgärder som kan vara lämpliga för att minska kvalitetsbristkostnaderna i monteringshallen. Det övergripande målet har varit monteringshallens utveckling av kvalitetsarbetet. Rapporten är baserad på de anställdas erfarenheter som framkommit vid intervjuer. Teorin är vald med fokus på de olika delar som krävs för långsiktigt och kontinuerligt kvalitetsarbete.
Intervjuerna visar att medvetenheten om sin egen del i problem och problemlösning är låg. De betraktar sig själva som om de inte har del i problemen. Detta är mindre bra eftersom det finns många beroenden till andra funktioner. Dessutom behandlas det många varianter av maskiner vilket än mer ökar behovet av väl fungerande processer. Därför är den nuvarande attityden och kvalitetstänkandet ett stort hinder mot nödvändigt förbättringsarbete. Orsakerna till omarbetningar lagras inte vilket försvårar möjligheterna att på ett effektivt sätt finna lösningar på problemen.
Rapportens resultat är en genomgång av de nödvändiga byggstenar som krävs för att långsiktigt kunna bedriva framgångsrikt kvalitetsarbete. Det rekommenderas att personer med chefsbefattning tar in de synpunkter som har påpekats och gör en prioritering av det som behöver åtgärdas. Nedanför listas förslag på åtgärder för ett förbättrat kvalitetsarbete i monteringshallen.
1. Tillsätt en resurs som jobbar aktivt med förbättrings- och kvalitetsfrågor (förbättringssamordnare/ledare).
2. Börja med pilotgrupp/avdelning som får utbildning i kvalitetsmetoder och verktyg parallellt med förbättringsarbetet.
3. Informera och utbilda personalen i grunderna inom kvalitet för att få ett gemensamt språk
4. Våga genomföra förändringar.
5. Börja med att åtgärda saker som ger tydliga förbättringar med hjälp av 5S
6. Förbättra Baan-systemet så att det går att spara felorsaker
7. Kartläggning och förbättring av processerna
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This report is the result of an examination work at the University of Karlstad. The purpose of this project is to examine how the condition of the steam affects the efficiency of the steam consumers and how variations in that condition affect a pulp and paper mill.
This report is meant to describe the main components regarding steam production, steam conditioning and steam consumption. It should also be able to give basic information about the significance of steam conditioning in the pulp and paper industry. It is aimed to people working with steam conditioning to increase their understanding and knowledge about it.
The aim of this report is to:
• Describe the function of the most commonly used steam generators and the difference between these.
• Identify the main steam consumers and describe their function.
• Give an introduction to steam conditioning and its role at a pulp and paper mill.
This report will try to answer the following questions:
• How does the generated power from back-pressure steam turbines vary with grade of superheat of outlet steam?
• What are the advantages with steam conditioning?
• Are the steam conditioners at Gruvöns bruk able to deliver steam at the right condition?
The conclusions from this report are that;
• If the steam conditioning valves are able to reduce small steam flows to the correct temperature, more power can be produced. The design condition of the steam turbines can than be nearer saturation.
• The temperature variations are more critical at the turbine inlet than downstream the steam conditioning valves. The valves at Gruvöns bruk who are studied in this report, are fully functioning.
• Common for the main steam consumers at pulp- and paper mills are that they are all sensitive for variations of steam temperature, especially high temperature.
Batsos, Epameinondas, and Atta Rabbi. "Clustering and cartographic simplification of point data set." Thesis, KTH, Geodesi och geoinformatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-79892.
Full textRanjith, H. M. P. "Assessment of some properties of calcium-reduced milk and milk products from heat treatment and other processes." Thesis, University of Reading, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283635.
Full textMittal, Neeraj. "Efficiency enhancing effects of IT investment on other factor inputs and accounting identity approach to value of IT." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1085362216.
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McRae, Brad Marcus. "Technology and Organizational Decision-Making: A Qualitative Case Study Approach." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7490.
Full textMacy, Michelle. "Technology Use as Transformative Pedagogy: Using Video Editing Technology to Learn About Teaching." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3227.
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