I den här rapporten redovisas processen och resultatet av mitt examensarbete på Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies. Möbeltapetsering är ett brett och omfattande område vilket förmedlas och tydliggörs under utbildningens tre år. Förutom hantverket som praktiskt arbete har insikt om en långt mer komplex och mångfacetterad bild av området gjort sig gällande. I den här rapporten presenteras arbetet med att ta fram ett underlag till tapetserarverkstaden på Skansen för att utveckla det pedagogiska uppdrag som utförs i verkstaden. Arbetet har resulterat i historieberättande med utgångspunkt i den aktuella tiden i verkstaden,det vill säga 1800-talets andra hälft. Historieberättandet utgår från en möbel som jag valt utifrån den information och de historier som är väsentliga för tiden och som bör synliggöras. Fokus ligger främst på att lyfta fram tapetseraren och dennes betydelse för utformandet av stoppmöbler. Även de tekniker, material och rådande trender som var aktuella under 1800-andra hälft har lyfts fram och satts in i sammanhang som knyter ihop dem med samhället och omvärlden. Arbetet har även resulterat i en skissav en möbel som ska fungera som utgångspunkt för historieberättandet där alla moment i en tillverkningsprocess ska kunna demonstreras. I mitt examensarbete vill jag visa på sidor av hantverket som ligger utanför det rent praktiska och undersöka hur hantverket kan användas som ett hjälpmedel i historieberättandet och informationsspridningen på Skansen. / This report presents the process and results of my bachelor thesis at Carl Malmsten- Furniture Studies. Upholstery is a broad and comprehensive field which has been made clear during three years of education.In addition to the craft as a practical work, insight into a far more complex and nuanced picture of the field has asserted itself. This report presents the work of developing a basis for the pedagogical tasks carried out in upholstery workshop at Skansen. The work has resulted in storytelling about the current time in the workshop, the late 19th century. The storytelling is based on a piece of furniture which I have found most relevent in reference to the information and stories that are essential for its time and that should be noticed. The focus is primarily on highlighting the upholsterer and her or his importance to the design of upholstered furniture. The techniques, materials and trends that were current in the second half of the 19th century has been highlighted and deployed in the context that connects them with society and the surrounding world. This work has also resulted in an outline of a piece of furniture that will serve as the basis for storytelling in which all steps of a production process can be demonstrated. In my thesis, I want to show aspects of the craft beyond the purely practical and investigate in what way the craft can be used as an aid in storytelling and the spreading of knowledge at Skansen.

Der Bericht dokumentiert Ort, Datum, Magnitude und Tiefe der Erdbeben in Sachsen über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahren. Bei der Auswertung der Registrierungen werden zusätzlich zu den Online-Stationen des seismologischen Sachsennetzes auch die Stationen der Nachbarländer einbezogen, deren Standorte in der Veröffentlichung dargestellt sind. Ein besonderes Ereignis stellt dabei der Erdbebenschwarm von Oktober bis Dezember 2008 dar. Das Kapitel »Induzierte Seismizität« befasst sich mit den Untersuchungen zur bergbauinduzierten Seismizität der Uranerzgrube Schlema-Alberoda und zur Böschungsbewegung des ehemaligen Braunkohletagebaues Nachterstedt.

This essay – Discourse and Dissonance – deals with Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818). The focal point is the construction of “Them and Us”, as defined by scholars such as Stuart Hall, viewed in terms of the following categories: race, gender and family, class, and sexuality. Rather than applying an outside perspective, e.g. a feminist or Marxist one, to the text, I use Cultural Criticism as described by Arthur Asa Berger in order to deconstruct and reconstruct the discourse, as explained by Michel Foucault, within Shelley’s work. In doing so, I view the hermeneutics of suspicion as the starting point due to its recognition of every text’s hidden truth. Stephen Greenblatt’s term dissonance is useful for the study’s aim of finding the differences and similarities in the voices of the novel’s characters. Intersectionality functions as the tool with which I intertwine the above categories in my analysis.     In conclusion Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus does not convey a message of conformity. Its class-, race- and gender-bound discourse is reproduced in the text, but simultaneously challenged. The dissonant voices of the novel show the discourse from different perspectives and make it obvious that there are cracks on the surface of the discourse, which Shelley deepens by putting it into writing – whether she was aware of it or not.

This thesis is a study of the colony of Italian anarchists who found refuge in London in the years between the Paris Commune and the outbreak of the First World War. The first chapter is an introduction to the sources and to the main problems analysed. The second chapter reconstructs the settlement of the Italian anarchists in London and their relationship with the colony of Italian emigrants. Chapter three deals with the activities that the Italian anarchists organised in London, such as demonstrations, conferences, and meetings. It likewise examines the ideological differences that characterised the two main groups in which the anarchists were divided: organisationalists and anti-organisationalists. Italian authorities were extremely concerned about the danger represented by the anarchists. The fourth chapter of the thesis provides a detailed investigation of the surveillance of the anarchists that the Italian embassy and the Italian Minster of Interior organised in London by using spies and informers. At the same time, it describes the contradictory attitude held by British police forces toward political refugees. The following two chapters are dedicated to the analysis of the main instruments of propaganda used by the Italian anarchists: chapter five reviews the newspapers they published in those years, and chapter six reconstructs social and political activities that were organised in their clubs. Chapter seven examines the impact that the outbreak of First World Word had on the anarchist movement, particularly in dividing it between interventionists and anti-interventionists; a split that destroyed the network of international solidarity that had been hitherto the core of the experience of political exile. Chapter eight summarises the main arguments of the dissertation.

This thesis reflects on the Lettres sur l'Architechure of Viel de Saint-Maux, published in Paris in 1787. This period represents a crisis point at which classical architechure and a traditional means of relating-to-the-world had exhausted themselves. In the Lettres, St.-Maux privileges original agrarian societies who worship the natural force of fecundity and the agricultural bounty that results from it. He claims that this worship supplied the radical base for their iconographic and symbolic forms as applied to architecture. Viel de St.-Maux's privileging of the generative forces of nature as a site for sacred imagining and ritual constructions of the agricultural environment belie a relation to the methodology and epistemology of Natural History as formulated by the Comte de Buffon. / Viel de Saint-Maux sought to resist the threat of an overweening rationality by valuing the wonderment cast by the discoveries of Science. He put his faith in natural science and applied this same compulsion to the ancient primitives who, he believed, knew divinely how to propitiate Nature and its fecundity. Fecundity and Agriculture become metaphors for cultural harmony, enlightenment and a re-fusion of the mystery of vitality into everyday life.

In this thesis, the theory of three dimensional numerical modeling of transport and re-suspension of fine sediments is studied and a computer program is develped for simulation of the three dimensional suspended sediment transport. The computer program solves the three dimensional advection-diffusion equation simultaneously with a computer program prepared earlier for the simulation of three dimensional current systems. This computer program computes the velocity vectors, eddy viscosities and water surface elavations which are used as inputs by the program of fine sediment transport. The model is applied to Bay of Izmir for different wind conditions.

The Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) is established as an advisory body within the Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) framework, in order to provide advice on programs and prepare recommendations for the Contracting Parties. The MCSD identifies and evaluates major economic, environmental and social problems specified in Agenda MED 21. It aims to track the implementation of the proposals it submits to the Contracting Parties. Furthermore, the MCSD is open to participation from the main groups of the society, which have equal footing alongside government representatives. Within the limits imposed upon it, the MCSD provides a regional forum for dialogue and a promising framework for defining a regional sustainable development strategy in the Mediterranean. Its regional nature and its composition constitute an innovative contribution to promote the integration of environmental concerns in development policies. The object of this study is to evaluate the work that has been carried out by MCSD and understand the complex structure of an institution through which international and regional cooperation and coordination is achieved.

In recent years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been applied to estimate in many areas of hydrology and hydraulic engineering. In this thesis, multilayered feedforward backpropagation algorithm was used to establish for the prediction of unit discharge q (m3/s/m) in a rectangular free overfall. Researchers&rsquo / experimental data were used to train and validate the network with high reliability. First, an appropriate ANN model has been established by considering determination of hidden layer and node numbers related to training function and training epoch number. Then by applying sensitivity analysis, parameters involved in and their effectiveness relatively has been determined in the phenomenon. In the scope of the thesis, there are two case studies. In the first case study, ANN models reliability has been investigated according to the training data clustered and the results are given by comparing to regression analysis. In the second case, ANN models&rsquo / ability in establishing relations with different data clusters is investigated and effectiveness of ANN is scrutinized.

Diss. Umeå : Univ., 2003.

Diss. Stockholm : Univ., 2004.