Search for dissertations about: "real essence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words real essence.

2. 1. Persons : their identity and individuation

   Author : Roger Melin; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; person; personal identity; criterion of identity; sortal concept; individuation; perdurance view; endurance view; Criterianism; Animalism; Non- Criterianism; animal attribute view; basic sortal; real essence; sort; natural kind;

   Abstract : This study is about the nature of persons and personal identity. It belongs to a tradition that maintains that in order to understand what it is to be a person we must clarify what personal identity consists in. READ MORE

4. 2. Of Affliction : The Experience of Thought in Gilles Deleuze by way of Marcel Proust

   Author : Johan Sehlberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Ingemar Haag; Catarina Pombo Nabais; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gilles Deleuze; Marcel Proust; Plato; thinking; experience; affliction; temporality; essence; literature; apprenticeship; pathology; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

   Abstract : The aim of the present thesis is to explicate the experience of thought corresponding to the critical undertaking characteristic of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy between Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962) and Difference and Repetition (1968), from within the conjunction of Deleuze’s Proust and Signs (1964) and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927). The importance of Proust for the development of Deleuze’s two major themes at the time, the overturning of Platonism and transcendental empiricism, has generally not been sufficiently recognised and investigated in Deleuze scholarship. READ MORE

5. 3. A real-time simulation-based optimisation environment for industrial scheduling

   Author : Marcus Frantzén; Philip Moore; David Stockton; Amos Ng; Stephen Newman; Riham Khalil; Högskolan i Skövde; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Scheduling system; Simulation; Scheduling; simulation-based optimisation; Technology; Teknik; Production and Automation Engineering; Produktion och automatiseringsteknik;

   Abstract : In order to cope with the challenges in industry today, such as changes in product diversity and production volume, manufacturing companies are forced to react more flexibly and swiftly. Furthermore, in order for them to survive in an ever-changing market, they also need to be highly competitive by achieving near optimal efficiency in their operations. READ MORE

6. 4. Paradigms for Real-Time Video Communication and for Video Distribution

   Author : Ermin Kozica; W. Bastiaan Kleijn; Fernando Pereira; KTH; []
   Keywords : TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIKVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : The use of new information technologies has drastically changed the way that we lead our lives. Communication technologies in particular have had a great impact on our day-to-day behavior. READ MORE

7. 5. Strategies, Methods and Tools for Solving Long-term Transmission Expansion Planning in Large-scale Power Systems

   Author : Desta Zahlay Fitiwi; Lennart Söder; Michel Rivier; Fernando de Cuadra; Andres Ramos; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Transmission expansion planning; uncertainty and variability; optimization; stochastic programming; moments technique; clustering; Electrical Engineering; Elektro- och systemteknik;

   Abstract : Driven by a number of factors, the electric power industry is expected to undergo a paradigm shift with a considerably increased level of variable energy sources. A significant integration of such sources requires heavy transmission investments over geographically wide and large-scale networks. READ MORE