In realizing a portable chemical analysis system, adequate partitioning of a reusable component and a disposable is required. For successful implementation of micromachined sensors in an instrument, reliable methods for interconnection and interface are in great demand between these two major parts. This thesis work investigates interconnection methods of micromachined chip devices, a hybrid fluidic interface system, and measurement circuitry for completing instrumentation. The interconnection method based on micromachining and injection molding techniques was developed and an interconnecting microfluidic package was designed, fabricated and tested. Alternatively, a plug-in type design for a large amount of sample flow was designed and demonstrated. For the hybrid interface, sequencing of the chemical analysis was examined and accordingly, syringe containers, a peristaltic pump and pinch valves were assembled to compose a reliable meso-scale fluidic control unit. A potentiostat circuit was modeled using a simulation tool. The simulated output showed its usability toward three-electrode electrochemical microsensors. Using separately fabricated microsensors, the final instrument with two different designs--flow-through and plug-in type was tested for chlorine detection in water samples. The chemical concentration of chlorine ions could be determined from linearly dependent current signals from the instrument.

Protection of consumers - customers against the insolvency of tour operators - in EU law This thesis examines the legal regulation of consumer protection in the cases of the bankruptcy of travel agencies. In the event of the insolvency of a travel agency, a problem arises as to who will ensure that the consumers are repatriated from summer resorts and their expenses for the unperformed travel services are reimbursed. This issue was first dealt with by Directive No. 90/314 on package travel. The Directive 90/314 will be analyzed in the second chapter of this paper. The Directive leaves a large margin of discretion for national legislators as to how they achieve the required consumer protection standard. However, the EU Member States must ensure that consumers recover the entire loss they have incurred due to the failure of tour operators to provide services. The Member States have come up with a number of implementation solutions - e.g. insurance of the guarantee for the case of insolvency, bank guarantee or guarantee fund of the travel operators. This implementation into national legal systems is described in the third chapter of this thesis. That chapter further introduces the Czech implementation affected in Act No. 159/1999 Coll. This Act has opted for insurance of travel agencies as the means...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has ushered in an age where low-power sensors generate data which are communicated to a back-end cloud for massive data computation tasks. From the hardware perspective this implies co-existence of several power-efficient sub-systems working harmoniously at the sensor nodes capable of communication and high-speed processors in the cloud back-end. The package-board system-level design plays a crucial role in determining the performance of such low-power sensors and high-speed computing and communication systems. Although there exist several commercial solutions for electromagnetic and circuit analysis and verification, problem diagnosis and design tools are lacking leading to longer design cycles and non-optimal system designs. This work aims at developing methodologies for faster analysis, sensitivity based diagnosis and multi-objective design towards signal integrity and power integrity of such package-board system layouts. The first part of this work aims at developing a methodology to enable faster and more exhaustive design space analysis. Electromagnetic analysis of packages and boards can be performed in time domain, resulting in metrics like eye-height/width and in frequency domain resulting in metrics like s-parameters and z-parameters. The generation of eye-height/width at higher bit error rates require longer bit sequences in time domain circuit simulation, which is compute-time intensive. This work explores learning based modelling techniques that rapidly map relevant frequency domain metrics like differential insertion-loss and cross-talk, to eye-height/width therefore facilitating a full-factorial design space sweep. Numerical results performed with artificial neural network as well as least square support vector machine on SATA 3.0 and PCIe Gen 3 interfaces generate less than 2% average error with order of magnitude speed-up in eye-height/width computation. Accurate power distribution network design is crucial for low-power sensors as well as a cloud sever boards that require multiple power level supplies. Achieving target power-ground noise levels for low power complex power distribution networks require several design and analysis cycles. Although various classes of analysis tools, 2.5D and 3D, are commercially available, the presence of design tools is limited. In the second part of the thesis, a frequency domain mesh-based sensitivity formulation for DC and AC impedance (z-parameters) is proposed. This formulation enables diagnosis of layout for maximum impact in achieving target specifications. This sensitivity information is also used for linear approximation of impedance profile updates for small mesh variations, enabling faster analysis. To enable designing of power delivery networks for achieving target impedance, a mesh-based decoupling capacitor sensitivity formulation is presented. Such an analytical gradient is used in gradient based optimization techniques to achieve an optimal set of decoupling capacitors with appropriate values and placement information in package/boards, for a given target impedance profile. Gradient based techniques are far less expensive than the state of the art evolutionary optimization techniques used presently for a decoupling capacitor network design. In the last part of this work, the functional similarities between package-board design and radio frequency imaging are explored. Qualitative inverse-solution methods common to the radio frequency imaging community, like Tikhonov regularization and Landweber methods are applied to solve multi-objective, multi-variable signal integrity package design problems. Consequently a novel Hierarchical Search Linear Back Projection algorithm is developed for an efficient solution in the design space using piecewise linear approximations. The presented algorithm is demonstrated to converge to the desired signal integrity specifications with minimum full wave 3D solve iterations.

<p>Generally, heavier noise control treatments are favored over lighter ones since heavier acoustical materials tend to insulate (block) noise sources more effectively than do lighter materials. In automotive applications, however, heavier materials cannot always be adopted because of concerns over the total weight of the vehicle. Thus, it would be useful to identify lightweight acoustical treatments that can mitigate vehicle interior noise. Automotive sound packages have both absorption and barrier characteristics, and there is inevitably a trade-off between these two. Therefore, it is important to study the exchange between the absorption and transmission of acoustical materials particularly as it pertains to weight. Here, a procedure based on plane wave analysis is described that can be used to identify weight reduction opportunities by adjusting the acoustical properties of a generic sound package, consisting of a fibrous layer and a flexible microperforated panel surface treatment, so that it meets a target sound pressure level in a downstream interior space. It has been found, for the configuration studied here, that there are lightweight sound package configurations that can maintain acoustical performance equivalent to that of heavier noise treatments, and further, it has been found that the lightest treatments tend to favor barrier performance rather than absorption. Further, the impact of acoustical leaks has been considered, and it has been found that even very small leaks can result in a very substantial weight penalty if a specified level of acoustical performance is to be ensured. Further, the impact of changing the underlying panel mass and altering the frequency weighting used in the optimization process has also been considered.</p> <p>The optimizer used in the proposed procedure requires considerable calculation time; hence, the acoustic pressure calculation time needs to be minimized to enhance the efficiency of the solution process. Thus, the transfer matrix method (TMM) for a two-dimensional case was used to calculate the interior acoustic pressure for a simple geometry as a starting point in the process of identifying the minimum-weight sound packages. The TMM is a widely used analytical approach to predicting the sound pressure (and particle velocity) for a system that can be represented as a series of subsystems. Although the TMM can offer fast and simple calculations for the acoustic system, its application is limited to a plane-wave-based model. Thus, the TMM is not the best option for the acoustic pressure prediction in a complex geometry such as a vehicle interior, that involves non-planar wave propagation. Therefore, a hybrid TMM-FEA method is proposed in this research to evaluate the acoustical performance of the sound package in more complex geometries (here, a vehicle-like cavity). So, in this research, the TMM was introduced to obtain the initial solutions that can be used in conjunction with the FEA tool to calculate the sound pressure field in the complex geometry case. The correlation between the results of these two approaches was then analyzed to develop a space-averaged pressure prediction model for various absorptive cases in the interior space. Finally, this SAP prediction model was used to generate an acoustic map that can be used to graphically estimate the SAPs in the complex geometry case.</p> <p>In order to validate the usage of the developed equation for different sets of boundary conditions, several case studies were performed to study the effects of the surface impedance arrangements, geometrical shapes, and, lastly, the presence of extra features in the interior space. Finally, the SAP difference between the area near the driver’s right ear and the total interior cavity was studied to show that the SAP of the total cavity can be adjusted to evaluate the acoustic performance of the sound packages along the lines of conventional industry practice. </p>

Statistikos duomenys liudija apie didėjantį turizmo paslaugų teikimo srityje atsirandančių visuomeninių santykių aktualumą. Vis aktualesnis tampa ir tinkamas šių visuomeninių santykių teisinis reglamentavimas. Šio darbo tikslas - įvertinti turizmo paslaugų teikimo teisinio reglamentavimo turinį, specifiką bei veiksmingumą Lietuvos Respublikoje. Darbe analizuojami pagrindiniai teisės norminiai aktai, reglamentuojantys turizmo paslaugų teikimą Lietuvoje, trumpai aptariant jų reglamentavimo sferą, pagrindines nuostatas, jų tikslus, tarptautinių ir Europos Sąjungos teisės norminių aktų ryšį su nacionaline teise. Daug dėmesio skiriama praktiniam turizmo paslaugas reglamentuojančių normų įgyvendinimui. Teisės aktai aptariami atskleidžiant su jais susijusias turizmo paslaugų teikimo aktualijas bei teismų praktiką šioje srityje. Lietuvos įstatymų normos lyginamos su kaimyninių Baltijos ir Skandinavijos bei Vokietijos šalių teisės norminiais aktais, vertinamas Europos Sąjungos teisės normų perkėlimas į nacionalinę teisę. Darbe nagrinėjimui pasirinkti opiausi praktikoje klausimai, svarbūs tiek turizmo paslaugų teikėjams, tiek gavėjams. Pasitaikantys teisės normų pažeidimai, skirtingas teisės normų interpretavimas, kartais pačių teisės normų netobulumas lemia ginčų tarp sutarties šalių atsiradimą. Darbas užbaigiamas turizmo paslaugų teikimą reglamentuojančių teisės normų įgyvendinimo užtikrinimo mechanizmo nagrinėjimu. Apibendrinant darbe išdėstytą medžiagą daroma išvada, kad turizmo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Statistics reflect the growth of the importance of the social relations stemming from the field of the provision of tourist services and leads to the growth of relevance of the proper legal regulation of these social relations. The main object of this study is to estimate the substance, peculiarities and effectiveness of the legal regulation of the provision of tourist services in the Republic of Lithuania. Main legal acts that regulate the provision of tourist services in Lithuania are analyzed in the study. Flied of regulation of these legal acts, most important provisions, their evolution, objects, interconnections between national, international law and law of the European Union are discussed. A lot of attention is paid to the research of practical implementation of the legal norms. Legal acts are discussed in the light of the related topicalities and decisions of the courts in the field of the provision of tourist services. Lithuanian legal norms are compared with neighbouring Baltic, Scandinavian and Germany countries legal norms, European Union legal norms transference to the national law is estimated. Topical issues from the practice of the provision of the tourist services, important both to the providers of the servines and to the consumers are chosen to examine. Contraventions, different interpretation and sometimes imperfection of the very legal norms lead to the legal disputes between the parties of the contract. The study is finished with the review of the... [to full text]

Magister Scientiae - MSc (Earth Science) / This study area is situated within the Eastern Bushveld complex at Dwarsrivier chrome mine, which is approximately 30 km from Steelpoort and 60km from Lydenburg in the Mpumalanga province. The primary aim of the project is to identify the petrological and geochemical characteristics that can be used to distinguish the various rock types of feldspathic pyroxenites, chromitites, anorthosites and chromitite pyroxenites and determine whether the various rock types are from the MG2 package and MG3 package were formed from a single or multiple magma pulses. The geochemical and mineralogical variation studies were carried out using cores from borehole DWR74 and DWR172 located on the farm Dwarsrivier 372 KT. Using the combination of various multivariate statistical techniques (factor, cluster and discriminant analysis) multi element diagrams and trace element ratios, the outcome of the study demonstrated that each of the four rock types can be sub-divided into two groups.

Orientador: Leila Peres / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T09:28:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nogueira_FernandaCunhaClementoni_M.pdf: 3177527 bytes, checksum: f32df709760fd5cc5454138d0affb90d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Estudos indicam que o principal fator a ser controlado para garantir a qualidade de produtos embalados é a concentração de oxigênio. Este controle poderá ser determinante na vida de prateleira do produto. Neste trabalho sistema (¿célula de absorção¿) e metodologia foram desenvolvidos para caracterizar um filme ativo contendo polietileno de baixa densidade e aditivo absorvedor de oxigênio disperso em sua matriz polimérica, o qual, na aplicação, compõe um sistema de embalagens multicamadas. Este aditivo é ativado pelo contato com a umidade e age de forma a seqüestrar o oxigênio dentro da embalagem. A caracterização do filme consistiu na determinação da capacidade e da velocidade de absorção de oxigênio pelo filme ativo, que foi acondicionado na célula, onde se realizou o controle da concentração de oxigênio via análises cromatográficas. O estudo da influência da temperatura e da umidade relativa na absorção do oxigênio foi conduzido segundo um planejamento fatorial composto 22. A dispersão do aditivo na matriz polimérica (microscopia óptica), a rugosidade da superfície do filme (MEV), a transmissão de luz (espectrofotometria UV-visível) e o grau de cristalização da resina (DSC) também foram estudadas. Os resultados indicaram que a variável de maior influencia na absorção de oxigênio é a umidade e que o filme apresenta sua máxima absorção e altas velocidades em temperaturas acima de 15°C e umidade acima de 81,2%. A dispersão do aditivo e a rugosidade na superfície do filme indicam melhores resultados em filmes em concentrações de aditivo acima de 5%. O filme ativo apresenta perda de transparência mesmo em baixas concentrações de aditivo (1%). O grau de cristalização do filme diminui com o aumento da concentração de aditivo, o que pode promover a difusão do oxigênio na resina favorecendo o contato entre o oxigênio e o aditivo, e assim, aumentar a absorção pelo filme / Abstract: Studies indicate that the main factor to be controlled to warrant the quality in packaged products is the oxygen concentration. This controlling can be determinant in the products shelf life. In this work, system (¿absorption cell¿) and methodology had been developed for characterize an active film containing low density polyethylene and a kind of oxygen scavenger additive dispersed throughout the polymer carrier, that, in the application, is part of a multilayer system packaging. This additive is activated by humidity contact and acts in a way of scavenging oxygen inside the packaging. The active film characterization consisted in determining the capacity and speed of oxygen scavenging by the film, that was kept inside the cell, where was carried out the oxygen concentration controlling by gas chromatography. The study of the temperature and the relative humidity influence in the oxygen scavenging was conducted by an experimental design composite 22. The additive dispersion in the polymer carrier (Optical microscopy), the surface roughness (MEV), the light transmission (spectrophotometry UV-visible) and the resin crystallization degree (DSC) were studied as well. The results indicated that the variable with the most influence in the oxygen scavenging was the relative humidity and the film showed the maxim scavenging and speed in temperatures above 15°C and relative humidity above 81,2%. The additive dispersion and the film surface roughness showed better results in film with concentrations above 5%. The film shows transparence lost even for low additive concentration (1%). The film crystallization degree reduces with the increase of additive concentration, this can promote the oxygen diffusion in the resin benefiting the contact between the additive and the oxygen and, though, it increases the scavenging by the film / Mestrado / Ciencia e Tecnologia de Materiais / Mestre em Engenharia Química

Le packaging des MEMS-RF est un sujet de recherche qui a été étudié de manière intensive ces dernières années. En effet, la fiabilité des composants micromécaniques est directement dépendante de l’humidité et de la poussière avoisinant la structure. C’est pourquoi la recherche d'un package parfaitement hermétique à très faible coût, sans influence sur les performances RF reste d’actualité, même si un grand nombre de publications et de solutions ont été présentées auparavant. Ces travaux de recherche porte sur la conception, la réalisation et la caractérisation de commutateurs MEMS-RF ohmiques packagés par deux techniques différentes. La première partie de cette thèse a été consacrée d’étudier une encapsulation par film mince. Une couche métallique d’or électrolysée est utilisée pour former le capot, ensuite le nitrure de silicium est utilisé pour sceller le capot. Cette technique a présenté plusieurs avantages où nous obtenons une petite taille, l’augmentation du nombre de composants par substrat tout en réduisant le cout de fabrication. Malgré tous ces avantages, cette technique engendre aux composants des faibles effets parasites sur leurs performances RF. La deuxième technique qui a été étudié dans ce travail, est l’encapsulation par collage de tranche. Le principe de cette encapsulation est de sceller un substrat de capots micro-usinés en silicium avec un substrat contenant les composants MEMS-RF. Ensuite, une découpe de deux substrats est nécessaire pour obtenir les commutateurs MEMS-RF encapsulés. Le scellement utilisé durant cette thèse était le glass frit qui garantit une très bonne herméticité. Des mesures d’herméticité sont faites par le cnes montrent que les commutateurs mems-rf sont encapsulés hermétiquement en indiquant un taux de fuite de 8.8e-12 atm.cc/s. Les performances RF du commutateur MEMS-RF sont déjà présentées et qui montrent que cette technique d’encapsulation ne présente aucune influence sur ces performances. / RF MEMS packaging is an important research topic that is intensively studied for years. Indeed, Micro-mechanical devices that are protected from humidity, dust and working in a clean controlled atmosphere consequently improve their reliability. Meanwhile, the search for a perfectly hermetic package at very low cost with no influence on the RF performances is still a challenge even if a lot of publications and solutions have been presented so far. This research focuses on the design, realization and characterization of encapsulated RF MEMS switches using two different techniques. The first part of this thesis has been to study a Wafer Level Thin Film Packaging (WLTFP) using a metallic cap, then we have utilize the silicon nitride to seal this cap. This encapsulation technique presents several advantages where we have extremely small volume cavity, no double-wafer alignment required, and substantial increase in the number of devices per wafer reducing cost. Despite all these advantages, this technique generates to the components a low parasitic effects on their RF performances. Another type of packaging has been studied during this thesis is Wafer to Wafer Packaging. The principle of this encapsulation is to seal a micro-machined wafer of caps on the wafer containing RF MEMS switches to be protected. The both wafers are then cut together and we obtain directly the packaged switches. The RF MEMS packaging using this technique permits to obtain a hermetic package (leak rate of 8.8e-12 atm.cc/s measured by the French Space Agency-CNES) with no influence on the device characteristics. The RF characterization of the switch having a silicon cap bonded using a dielectric sealing paste have shown that the insertion loss in the ON state and the isolation in the OFF state is practically the same before and after capping.

This Master´s thesis is about ways of packages of integration circuits and modules. Especially it´s about non-hermetic types of packages. One part of this paper are basic information about packaging and aspects in design of package. Next parts are design of test samples, which are package to epoxide powder material. Based on the results of the tests method, it will propose, where the technology will be used.

Sales market in process industry, especially for chemical, pharmaceutical and food industry, is becoming more and more volatile. Furthermore, the global availability of alternative products shortens the product life cycle. At the same time, the requested volumes depend on strong regional and temporal fluctuations, which are increasingly difficult to predict. To be able to bring product innovations successfully to market, rapid series-production readiness of the prototype is needed. However, the competition after successful approval is increasingly getting tougher. As soon as the product has been accepted by the market, the time necessary to reach sufficient product quantities with required product quality is essential for its profitability. By the end of the product life cycle, the production should be close to the largest remaining sales markets, which means that the production can be shifted accordingly. Classical production processes in process industry do not fulfil these requirements jet. Conti-systems are optimized for a certain production quantity per unit of time, which should not be changed for years, if possible. The higher flexibility of conventional batch plants is associated with unproductive times, for example during conversion. However, modularization of process plants with flexible combinatory design would allow faster turnover times and higher productivity. Individual modules realize standardized production steps and can be combined according to the requested product. Changes to the product are achieved by the exchange of modules, the production quantity can be increased by adding more of the same modules. The integration of a module into an upper classic process control system is laborious using the information models and tools available today. Various aspects of automation, such as human machine interfaces, statuses of sequences or interlocks must be added manually for the visualization and guidance of the module in an upper process control system. However, today's control systems are not prepared to provide the required flexibility of a system based on different modules. This drawback requires a modular plug-and-production methodology. Therefore, an outright modeling of information, beginning with modular and function-oriented integrated engineering is needed. On the one hand, this work considers with a selection of integration aspects, a detailed modeling of this aspects in an information carrier and the integration into the process control level. On the other hand, the concrete selection of one or more descriptive formats is analyzed. For this purpose, a uniform integration architecture and an integration process is described, this allows integration into an upper process control system level. This analysis shows that, with the available descriptive formats, a mapping of the individual integration aspects into an information carrier is possible. It is important to distinguish whether a separate mapping is chosen for each aspect, as chosen by GrapML in the second practical implementation, or whether a uniform format is used for the entire information carrier. The evaluation of the description formats suggests for the use in the information carrier AutomationML. The practical implementation and investigation with AutomationML are already in the scope of the Namur MTP developments and couldn’t therefore investigated deeply in this work. For the most important aspects, the human machine interface as well as the process management, detailed information modeling is available and was checked during implementation. Two different possibilities were presented and discussed for the selection of description formats. To allow flexible extensibility, it is advantageous to choose a description means in which the integration aspects are described separately from each other, independently of the specifically chosen format. A uniform interface within automation systems is required for the needs of the so-called industry 4.0 for the networking and consistency of all components involved throughout the entire life cycle. This work provides the first building blocks of this approach and enables application in process industry but also manufacturing industry.