This chapter begins with the assumption that political organisations are stable institutions which contain biases to benefit certain issues and actors in society. The European Union’s Fifth Environmental Action Programme was finally adopted by the Council in February of 1993. The programme is entitled Toward Sustainability and will guide the European Union’s environmental legislation into the next

Concerns latest isotopic results of tin metal, tin foils and tin ingots from the Aegean Bronze Age

The subjects of this thesis are (as indicated by the title) truth, grounding and dependence. The thesis consists of an introduction and five free-standing essays. The purpose of the introduction is not merely to summarize the papers, but to provide a general background to the discussions in the essays. The introduction is divided into four chapters, each of which splits into a number of sections a

Adaptive predistortion is one of the most promising methods to linearize RF power amplifiers (PAs). Its linearity performance is, however, limited by various memory effects existing in the system. In this paper, we study the effects of anti-aliasing filters in the feedback path of adaptive predistortion. Different filter approximations are examined with a class AB power amplifier by means of simul

Authoritative survey of the importance of altered consciousness throughout history and in various disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, the arts and the humanities.

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Servicearbetets förvandlingar och förhandlingar tar sin utgångspunkt i de ständigt föränderliga villkor som service- arbetet står inför. detta temanummer har sin upprinnelse i en workshop med temat ”Service på marginalen” med deltagare från institutionen för service management och tjänstevetenskap och inbjudna gäster. En kritisk och reflekterande ansats, grundad i empiriska studier som sätter serv

Syftet med denna undersökning var att bestämma en 1 kg isvästs kylverkan på kroppen vid brandmansarbete. Testerna genomfördes i en klimatkammare, i en container med extrem strålningsvärme och i ett rökdykningshus med värme och tungt arbete. Den faktiska kylverkan mättes också med en termisk docka. Fyra erfarna brandmän deltog i försöken. I alla tester bar försökspersonerna standardklädsel för branThe aim of the present study was to examine the effects of wearing a light-weight ice-vest (1kg, water) on physiological and subjective responses in fire fighter’s work. The experiments were carried out in a climatic chamber, in a container under extreme radiant heat, and during simulated smoke-diving. In addition, the physical cooling effect of the ice-vest was measured with a thermal mannequin.

A model for evolution of cracks as a result of strain-assisted corrosion is presented. The considered cracks possess a realistic geometry, where the tip region is an integral part of the crack surface instead of being a singular point. This geometry is either implicitly defined or is a consequence of crack nucleation from surface irregularities. The evolution model poses a moving boundary value pr

In this research project public library Facebook use is explored and analyzed in relation to Henry Jenkin’s work on participatory cultures and literacy.

This thesis presents a study of DX center related phenomena in silicon doped AlGaAs and in GaAs/AlGaAs multi-layer structures. A variety of experimental techniques such as capacitance-voltage (C-V), deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS), single shot capacitance, thermally stimulated capacitance (TSCAP), admittance spectroscopy, photocapacitance, and photoconductivity have been used. The main re