Search for dissertations about: "sufficiency"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 58 swedish dissertations containing the word sufficiency.

  2. 16. Decentralised energy systems based on biomass : a life cycle perspective on climate impact and energy balance

    Author : Marie Kimming; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources is recognised as an important measure to mitigate climate change. Residual biomass from agriculture and forestry and short-rotation coppice grown on unused land can be converted to heat, power and fuel without directly compromising production of edible crops. READ MORE

  4. 17. Ways of Being Free : Authenticity and Community in Selected Works of Rushdie, Ondaatje and Okri

    Author : Adnan Mahmutovic; Paul Schreiber; Claudia Egerer; Louise Bethlehem; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; existential angst; death; freedom; authenticity; individualism; communalism; orthodoxy; heritage; community; inoperative community; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : Iconized migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential “nervous conditions,” caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. This existential thread in their works has been largely ignored or left undeveloped in literary criticism. READ MORE

  5. 18. Integration of Battery and Hydrogen Storage with a Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System in Buildings

    Author : Yang Zhang; Jinyue Yan; Jianzhong Wu; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Photovoltaic; Grid; Building; Battery; Hydrogen Storage; Operation Strategy; Optimization; Energiteknik; Energy Technology;

    Abstract :     The integration of Photovoltaic (PV) with buildings changes the previous electricity consumers into prosumers. The reduced PV subsidies and the grid stable operation requirements are pushing prosumers from direct exportation to self-consumption of the produced electricity. READ MORE

  6. 19. Manual ability classification system (MACS) : development, evaluation and applicability

    Author : Ann-Marie Öhrvall; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : cerebral palsy;

    Abstract : The ability to use our hands affects how we carry out almost all daily activities. Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have varying degrees of difficulties using their hands, ranging from minor clumsiness to major problems with any voluntary movements. READ MORE

  7. 20. The Europeanization of Defence Industry Policy

    Author : Malena Britz; Ulrika Mörth; Ulf Sverdrup; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Europeanization; europeanisation; defence industry; defence industry policy; equipment supply; arms supply; arms; Sweden; France; The United Kingdom; European integration theory; new institutional organisation theory; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Political science;

    Abstract : Drawing from both European integration theory and new institutional organisation theory, this study investigates the Europeanization of the defence industry policy area from 1989-2001, with a special focus on developments in Sweden. Among other things, the study shows how a European defence industry market has begun to emerge as an industrially-led but politically-sanctioned process, made possible through a re-structuring of the defence industry at the same time as European rules have been created in order to facilitate the common production of defence equipment. READ MORE