As a method to manage the large amounts of waste produced in developing India, andsimultaneously give the lower income households a sustainable and simple technique to lightthe houses, this article aims to study, compare, and evaluate three different techniques. It isbased on a literature review and the physical study of a model. Three techniques were chosen:building blocks with glass bottles, building blocks with plastic bottles and a so called solarlight bulb. A literature review showed that the second option was the most suitablealternative, and a model was constructed. Our model showed that the light transmission of ourmodel is significantly lower compared to a conventional window. The masonry block dohowever allow an indoor illuminance higher than 200 lux as recommended by the SwedishWork Environment Authority. The research also showed that the masonry block has lowerisolation properties rather than a conventional window. More research is needed to evaluatethis method with potential. / Den här rapporten undersöker, jämför och utvärderar tre simpla tekniker som potentiellt gerljusinsläpp för låginkomsthushåll och samtidigt är metoder för avfallshantering i Indien. Detre metoderna är cementblock med ingjutna glasflaskor, cementblock med ingjutnaplastflaskor, eller flaskor som insätts i taket och sprider solljus, med såkallad refraktion.Rapporten inleds med en litteraturstudie som sedan kompletteras med en experimentell deldär ett cementblock med ingjutna plastflaskor konstrueras och undersöks. Resultaten visar attljustransmissionen är väsentligt lägre än för konventionella fönster, men dock tillräcklig föratt ge en illuminans över 200 lux inomhus som rekommenderat av svenska arbetsmiljöverket.Utöver detta visade resultaten modellen har lägre isolerande effekt i jämförelse medkonventionella fönster. Detta är en metod med potential, som skulle gynnas av med forskning. / के रूप में एक विधि विकसित कर भारत में उत्पादित कचरे की बड़ी मात्रा का प्रबंिन करने के सिए, औरएक ही िमय में कम आय िािे पररिारों के एक स्थाय़ी और िरि तकऩीक घरों में प्रकाश के सिए िेनेके सिए, इि िेख, अध्ययन की तुिना, और त़ीन अिग-अिग तकऩीकों का मूलयांकन करना है। यहएक िादहत्य की िम़ीक्षा और एक मॉडि के भौततक अध्ययन पर आिाररत है। त़ीन तकऩीकों चुनागया: कांच की बोतिों के िाथ ब्िॉक तनमााण, प्िास्स्िक की बोतिें और एक तथाकधथत िौर प्रकाशबलब के िाथ ब्िॉक का तनमााण। एक िादहत्य की िम़ीक्षा िे पता चिा कक िूिरा विकलप िबिेउपयुक्त विकलप था, और एक मॉडि का तनमााण ककया गया था। हमारे मॉडि है कक हमारे मॉडि केप्रकाश िंचरण काफी कम एक पारंपररक खखडकी की तुिना में है पता चिा है। धचनाई ब्िॉक हािांककएक इनडोर रोशऩी २०० िक्ि िे अधिक की अनुमतत है। और अधिक शोि की क्षमता के िाथ इिविधि का मूलयांकन करने की जरूरत है।

The automotive sector has been the most happening industry in terms of development ever since its creation. With markets emerging across the globe in the automotive sector there are newer challenges in terms of providing new products at lesser cost but without compromising on quality. Testing cost of electromechanical components (HMI) is high and which in turn has a direct impact on the final price of the product, which they are selling it to their customers. One way to counter this issue is to outsource. The aim of this thesis is to actually provide business intelligence where by the midsize segmented automotive suppliers are benefited and the cost of testing can be reduced. The product in focus here is an electromechanical component (HMI) for commercial vehicles. The main contribution in this thesis has been the analysis & implementation of the outsourcing strategy. There were two approaches one being a theoretical approach where a market research was done to get an overview of the current trend and studying the demands of different customer for testing. The second half has been practicality implementing this data collected. Here no assumptions have been taken and the data collected has been obtained purely based on interaction with various test vendors across Europe. Cost optimization analysis was further done in order to arrive at a conclusion of preferred suppliers. Also another strategy used was by investigating possibilities for making some test in house and defining standardized test plan procedures for them. Thereby providing an overall strategy for testing with cost optimization as the main focus also leading to an edge over their competitors and increasing their market share.

This master thesis is the documented work of the construction process and testing of a three hour laboratory session in mathematics aimed at high school level students. The purpose of the thesis was to create an interesting laboratory session for the science education center ”The House of Science” that could be used as a part of their regular program directed to schools. The thesis explores the possibilities for how one can construct a laboratory session on the topic ”molecular symmetry” as well as the underlying pedagogical theories used to describe learning processes in creative contexts. A model for such a session is proposed, an evaluation is conducted and its results and implications are appropriately discussed. An important review of the mathematical background of symmetries, group theory and linear representations of finite groups was written and can be found in the appendices.

This project uses the program of a house on Claytor Lake as a vehicle for exploring the role of turning in protecting and uniting adjacent spaces.  Drawing was the primary means for this process of exploration, and can be read wholly and without the support of related text.  Figures at various scales -- from column to tree, resident to house -- both inhabit and articulate the project.  This house celebrates the preeminence of the hallway, and emphasizes its authority with the presence of subordinate figures and an agonistic landscape. / Master of Architecture

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This study investigates the privileges and hermeneutical advantages enjoyed by a Phalo interpreter of practices in the bilbical text that are similiar to or the same as those found in Phalo's patriarchal culture. The study therefore probes the extent to which the Phalo interpreter could take advantage of these presumed similarities and sameness, the legitimacy and validity of claims of patriarchal bias attributed to the Phalo interpreter , and the extent to which such claims should be taken seriously by the house of Phalo

Today we live in a society where almost everything is or has been reduced to the quantitative state of being a commodity of some kind. We find ourselves searching for something within architecture that is not necessarily tangible or quantifiable. Searching for something more implicit to human experience This thesis is an attempt to explore and document the fundamental idea of dwelling. / Master of Architecture

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In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, an environment of historically low interest rates and extensive household indebtedness in the OECD countries have triggered a vivid debate on whether central banks should react to house price fluctuations in their pursuit of monetary policy. In Sweden, a period of low policy rates and house price inflation was halted when the central bank increased the interest rates in 2010. This paper studies whether the Riksbank reacted to house prices in 1993-2013. Using Bayesian methods and quarterly data, I estimate a DSGE model with patient and impatient households, where the central bank reacts to house price inflation. The results suggest that the Riksbank did respond to house prices during the sample period. The findings are robust and plausible from an economic point of view.

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Since its foundation, revenue management techniques on aggregate have added billions of dollars to many firms' bottom lines, while using existing products or services and existing sets of consumers (Cross, Higbie, and Cross, 2010). The recent rapid changes in the business environment have forced firms to adopt strategies that will fit their overall strategies to aid in their survival and success (Pechlaner and Sauerwein, 2002). As a result of the modern reality of business, academic literature has not yet been able to address many important considerations. An example is RM implementation strategies and the performance outcomes as a result of these decisions. This study investigated the advantages and disadvantages of implementation of RM strategies; in-house, centralized, and outsourced. This was followed by the make or buy decision, specifically focusing on Transaction Cost Economics and the Resource Based View to investigate antecedents of outsourcing intention, and if and how these different strategies affect hotel properties' performance. Data were collected using an online survey of lodging properties located in the U.S. in October 2014. A total of 374 usable responses for outsourcing intention study and 591 usable responses for the performance study were collected. Factor analysis, hierarchical multiple regression, repeated measures ANOVA, regression analysis, and pairwise comparison analysis were the statistical analyses used in the study. The results found that specificity is significant and negatively associated with outsourcing intention. In addition, uncertainty is significant and positively associated with outsourcing intention as proposed. The moderating effect of organizational capability is significant and changes from base model to final model with the moderator being statistically significant. The findings of regression and a pairwise comparison test confirmed the difference in strategy choice on performance for US hotels, giving us insights into the importance of selecting the strategy that is optimal for a given property. / Ph. D.