Search for dissertations about: "Passive"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 1018 swedish dissertations containing the word Passive.
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1. Passive voices : be-, get- and prepositional passives in recent American English
Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American English. Empirical, corpus methods are employed in order to examine the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic preferences of three English passive constructions across time and genre in American English. READ MORE
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2. Mainstreaming passive houses : A study of energy efficient residential buildings in Sweden
Abstract : The passive house concept has become increasingly popular in the building sector in the lost twenty years ond is deemed to ploy on important role in aligning the housing sector with climate and environmental policy objectives. However, for such buildings to ploy this port they need to be more widespread, more common and more accepted by mainstream actors and institutions. READ MORE
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3. The Autonomous and the Passive Progressive in 20th-Century Irish
Abstract : The present study deals with the use of two Irish verb constructions, the autonomous (e.g. cuireadh litreacha chun bealaigh, ‘letters were dispatched’) and the passive progressive (e.g. READ MORE
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4. Optimization and Physical Bounds for Passive and Non-passive Systems
Abstract : Physical bounds in electromagnetic field theory have been of interest for more than a decade. Considering electromagnetic structures from the system theory perspective, as systems satisfying linearity, time-invariance, causality and passivity, it is possible to characterize their transfer functions via Herglotz functions. READ MORE
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5. Dynamic response reconstruction using passive components
Abstract : In many testing applications within the field of structural dynamics, such as noise and vibration harshness, rattle and squeak, or durability testing in the automotive and truck industries, large hydraulic or electromagnetic actuators are used to excite the tested structure. Such actuators are mounted in the laboratory in a fixed configuration referred to here as a test rig. READ MORE