Search for dissertations about: "ambition"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 270 swedish dissertations containing the word ambition.
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6. Making Interoperability Visible : A Novel Approach to Understand Interoperability in Cyber-Physical Systems Toolchains
Abstract : In CPS development and production environments, tightly integrated processes include different engineering disciplines, development and production departments, and software tools working together, where all of the technical engineering processes become strictly intertwined. CPS development and production toolchains have a highly heterogeneous nature, and supporting toolchain architects is necessary for improving the understanding of the interrelationships between tools. READ MORE
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7. A Matter of Amusement : The Material Culture of Philipp Hainhofer’s Games in Early Modern Princely Collections
Abstract : Games were important to the Augsburg art agent Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647), and this ludic category was included in most of his art cabinets, procured over period of thirty years during the first half of the seventeenth century. It offered amusement (Kurzweil) as part of an overall ambition for the cabinets to be of service and use (“nutzen vnd dienst”). READ MORE
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8. Computational Studies of Chemical Interactions: Molecules, Surfaces and Copper Corrosion
Abstract : The chemical bond – a corner stone in science and a prerequisite for life – is the focus of this thesis. Fundamental and applied aspects of chemical bonding are covered including the development of new computational methods for the characterization and rationalization of chemical interactions. READ MORE
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9. Democratisation, Traditional Leadership and Reform Politics in South Africa
Abstract : The aim of this study of democratisation and traditional leadership in South Africa is to understand why government efforts to democratise areas under traditional leadership surprisingly resulted in the maintenance of certain aspects of hereditary rule in official governance. Theory suggests that the answer is found in a dilemma faced by politicians, as they have to undertake reform with a view to advance four potentially contradictory political goals: democracy, state efficiency, state unity and, finally, re-election. READ MORE
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10. On the Robustness of Air Pollution Policy Cost-Benefit Analysis
Abstract : In December 2013 the European Commission proposed an amendment of the National Emissions Ceilings Directive with new ambition levels for harmful emissions of SO2, NOx, NH3, PM2.5, and Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds. READ MORE
