Search for dissertations about: "Contracting Forms"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Contracting Forms.

2. 1. Mixed-Integer Optimization Modeling for the Simultaneous Scheduling of Component Replacement and Repair

   Author : Gabrijela Obradovic; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Mathematical Modeling; Workshop Scheduling; Maintenance Optimization; Simultaneous Scheduling; Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization; Multi-Objective Optimization; Contracting Forms;

   Abstract : Maintenance is a critical aspect of many industries, playing an indispensable role in ensuring the optimal functionality, reliability, and longevity of various assets, equipment, and infrastructure. For a system to remain operational, maintenance of its components is required, and for the industry to optimize its operations, establishment of good maintenance policies and practices is vital. READ MORE

4. 2. Mathematical Modeling, Optimization and Scheduling of Aircraft's Components Maintenance and of the Maintenance Workshop

   Author : Gabrijela Obradovic; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Simultaneous Scheduling; Contracting Forms; Mathematical modelling; Maintenance Optimization; Workshop Scheduling; Multi-Objective Optimization; Mixed-Binary Linear Optimization Model;

   Abstract : This research concerns the simultaneous scheduling of preventive maintenance for a fleet of aircraft and their common components along with the maintenance workshop, to which the components are sent for repair. The problem arises from an industrial project with the Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab. READ MORE

5. 3. The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States

   Author : Mathias Kristiansen; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Neoliberalism; economization; independent contracting; economic anthropology; capitalism; The United States; network marketing;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist economic order. In order to understand how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, I conducted one year of ethnographic fieldwork among people participating in network marketing, a form of sales that also includes the recruitment of additional salespeople – what is known as building a network. READ MORE

6. 4. Conflicts in Building Projets in Tanzania : Analysis of Causes and Management Approaches

   Author : Stanslaus Karoli Ntiyakunze; Stellan Lundström; Anne Landin; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Conflict; building project; Transaction cost economics theory; systems theory; Business and economics; Ekonomi; Social sciences; Socialvetenskap;

   Abstract : The prime objective of a client in a building project is to attain a successful project, a project that has been properly planned, designed and constructed in accordance with plans and specifications, and completed within time and cost originally anticipated. However the success of a building project depends on a number of variables one of them is the way the building team approach conflicts facing the project. READ MORE

7. 5. Journalism Worthy of the Name: A Human Rights Perspective on Freedom within the Press

   Author : Herdis Thorgeirsdottir; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; positive requirements; dignity; democracy; Public Watchdog; European Convention on Human Rights; Article 10; journalism; freedom within the press;

   Abstract : There is much tension between the conception of the press as a private enterprise subject to the logic of the market and the press as an instrument of democracy. One of the broken promises of democracy is the failure of the market in guaranteeing a vigorous political debate. READ MORE