Search for dissertations about: "Avesta"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word Avesta.

  2. 1. Hope and rust : Reinterpreting the industrial place in the late 20th century

    Author : Anna Storm; Sverker Sörlin; Tim Edensor; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; industrial history; history of technology; cultural history; industrial heritage; hermeneutics; museology; Sweden; Avesta; Ironbridge; Duisburg; 20th century; reuse; place; materiality; authenticity; History of technology and industry; Teknik- och industrihistoria;

    Abstract : Industrial society has changed thoroughly during the last half a century. In many Western cities and towns, new patterns of production and consumption entailed that centrally located industrial areas became redundant. The once lively workplace and urban core became silent and abandoned, gradually falling into decay. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Pahlavi translation technique as illustrated by Hōm Yašt

    Author : Judith Josephson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iranian languages; Iranska språk;

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  5. 3. Decision Making in Fire Risk Management

    Author : Henrik Tehler; Avdelningen för Brandteknik; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Abstract : Various normative decision theories are discussed in the context of fire risk management. A method suitable for practical decision making in respect to fire safety investments is presented and exemplified. The method involves the use of second-order probabilities to represent uncertainty regarding probability values. READ MORE

  6. 4. Time Warps : Refugees and the Experience of Waiting in Rural Sweden

    Author : Rikard Engblom; Oscar Pripp; Don Kulick; Mahmoud Keshavarz; Kristine Synnøve Nepstad Bendixsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; refugees; migration studies; rural studies; waiting; temporality; humanitarianism; securitization; ethnology; ethnography; integration; immigration control; hospitality; vulnerability; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the ways in which refugees’ experience of time is warped when they come to Sweden. It is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Avesta, a small municipality in rural Sweden. READ MORE

  7. 5. Passivation of Austenitic Stainless Steel

    Author : Lena Wegrelius; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; stainless steel; chloride; molybdenum; passivation; hydrochloric acid; nitrogen; ESCA; dissolution;

    Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to study the corrosion resistance and passivation of high alloyed austenitic stainless steels exposed to hydrochloric acid. The introductory section gives a background to the subject; electrochemical measurements and surface analysis by the ESCA-technique (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis). READ MORE