Search for dissertations about: "S Jackson"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words S Jackson.

2. 1. Factory-in-a-Box : an Enabler for Flexibility in Manufacturing Systems

   Author : Andréas Ask; Mats Jackson; Björn Fagerström; Björn Langbeck; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Factory-in-a-Box; Flexibility; Mobility; Manufacturing; Production; Mass Customization; Manufacturing engineering; Produktionsteknik; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

   Abstract : AT PRESENT, many markets are characterized by a fast pace of change, as well as a high internationally enlarged competition. Since the conception of Mass Customization emerged in the late 1980´s, many companies within the manufacturing industry have been striving to fulfill this vision by increasing the flexibility within their manufacturing system. READ MORE

4. 2. Tectonic History and Present-Day Deformation in the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt

   Author : Khaled Hessami; James Jackson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Earth sciences; Zagros; Orogeny; Unconformities; Iran; Growth folds; Middel East; Tectonics; Models; GPS; basement; Seismicity; Geovetenskap; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap; mineralogi; petrologi och tektonik; Mineral Chemistry; Petrology and Tectonics;

   Abstract : This thesis uses various approaches such as observation of satellite images, field investigations, analogue modeling and GPS measurements to constrain deformation of the basement and sedimentary cover of the Zagros fold-thrust belt in time and space.Focal mechanism solutions of most earthquakes indicate that deformation in the Zagros basement is due to shortening and thickening through numerous thrust faults. READ MORE

5. 3. Geophysical Studies Bearing on the Origin of the Arctic Basin

   Author : Nina Lebedeva-Ivanova; Christopher Juhlin; David Gee; Ruth Jackson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : refraction seismic; reflection seismic; crustal structure; Arctic Ocean; Amerasia Basin.; Geofysik med inriktning mot seismologi; Geophysics with specialization in Seismology;

   Abstract : Deep troughs and ridges of the Arctic Basin are some of the least known features of the Earth's crust. Some of the ridges, eg. Chukchi and Nordwind, are connected directly to the continental shelves and are certainly submarine promontories of the latter. READ MORE

6. 4. Fredrika Bremer and the Writing of America

   Author : Laurel Ann Lofsvold; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; women; slavery; homes; America; Catharine M. Sedgwick; Anne C. Lynch; James Russell Lowell; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; A. J. Downing; Lydia Maria Child; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Fredrika Bremer; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Abstract : Hemmen i den nya verlden(1853-4) is novelist Fredrika Bremer's 3-volume travel diary in letter form, a literary account of her two years' travel in the United States and Cuba. Bremer wove, into the America she "wrote," a number of American authors and their works. Novelist Catharine Sedgwick and poet and socialite Anne C. READ MORE

7. 5. Artifacts and Supraphysical Worlds : A Conceptual Analysis of Religion

   Author : Johan Modée; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy of special sciences; Two-dimensionality; Supraphysical worlds; Possible worlds; Global supervenience; Physicalism; Tools; Symbols; Rituals; Representations; Proper funtion; Artifacts; Definition of religion; Conceptual analysis; Särskilda vetenskapers filosofi; religion;

   Abstract : It is a contested question in contemporary theories of religion whether the concept of religion can be defined in a sound way or not. Many theorists maintain that a universal but delimiting definition is impossible. READ MORE