Search for dissertations about: "Commitment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 479 swedish dissertations containing the word Commitment.

  2. 1. Unit Commitment : Computational Performance, System Representation and Wind Uncertainty Management

    Author : Germán Morales-España; Lennart Söder; Andres Ramos; Paulien M. Herder; Michel Rivier; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Electrical Engineering; Elektro- och systemteknik; Mathematics; Matematik;

    Abstract : In recent years, high penetration of variable generating sources, such as wind power, has challenged independent system operators (ISO) in keeping a cheap and reliable power system operation. Any deviation between expected and real wind production must be absorbed by the power system resources (reserves), which must be available and ready to be deployed in real time. READ MORE

  4. 2. Shaping Social Commitment : Architecture and Intellectuality in the 1970s and ’80s

    Author : Sebastiaan Loosen; Leuven Arenberg doctoral school; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : The overall research question that guides this dissertation, together with that of my colleague Elke Couchez, revolves around the formative years of architectural theory in Flanders. What conditions allowed architectural theory to mature into a self-aware and recognized discipline in the 1980s and 1990s? To this aim, the notion of ’architectural theory’ is broadened to that of ’architecture intellectuality’, which simply refers to ’thinking about architecture’. READ MORE

  5. 3. Rational union commitment : the psychological dimension in membership participation

    Author : Magnus Sverke; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Fackligt arbete; psykologiska aspekter; Sverige; Fackföreningar;

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  6. 4. Commitment as art : a marxist critique of a selection of Alan Sillitoe's political fiction

    Author : Ronald Dee Vaverka; Erik Frykman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket; Literature;

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  7. 5. The way we conform to paid labour : Commitment to employment and organization from a comparative perspective

    Author : Carl Hult; Stefan Svallfors; Arne Kalleberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Employment Commitment; Job Satisfaction; Organizational Commitment; Person-Environment Fit; Political Values; Production Regimes; Work Rewards; Work Values; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : This thesis compares work orientations in six Western countries (the USA, Great Britain, New Zealand, Germany, Norway, and Sweden), using data from the 1997 International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The main issue examined is whether different ‘production regimes’ correspond to levels and patterns of employment and organizational commitment among the working population. READ MORE