This master‘s thesis pertains to the design of a garbage truck. The presented design offers a solution which respects the technical requirements of this vehicle, ergonomic needs of its crew and demands on the aesthetics of a modern vehicle for collecting and disposal of waste. The design cames from the knowledge gained in research part, historical, technical and design analysis. This work is generally set in to the present, so it respects today‘s technologies and manufacturing possibilities.

Les réseaux de collecte de l’IoT soulèvent de nombreux problèmes d'optimisation, à cause des capacités limitées des capteurs en énergie, en traitement et en mémoire. Dans l'optique d’améliorer la performance du réseau, nous nous intéressons à une contribution liée à l'optimisation du déploiement 3D d’intérieur des nœuds sur les réseaux de capteurs sans fil en utilisant des méta-heuristiques hybrides se basant sur des modèles mathématiques multi-objectif. L’objectif principal est donc de proposer des hybridations et modifications des algorithmes d’optimisation dans le but de réaliser le positionnement 3D adéquat des nœuds dans les réseaux de capteurs sans fil avec satisfaction d’un ensemble de contraintes et objectifs qui sont souvent antagonistes. Nous proposons d'axer notre contribution sur les méta-heuristiques hybrides et combinés avec des procédures de réduction de dimentionalité et d’incorporation de préférences des utilisateurs. Ces schémas d’hybridation sont tous validés par des résultats numériques de test. Ensuite, des simulations complétées par; et confrontées à ; des expérimentations sur des testbeds réelles. / IoT collection networks raise many optimization problems; in particular because the sensors have limited capacity in energy, processing and memory. In order to improve the performance of the network, we are interested in a contribution related to the optimization of the 3D indoor deployment of nodes using multi-objective mathematics models relying on hybrid meta-heuristics. Therefore, our main objective is to propose hybridizations and modifications of the optimization algorithms to achieve the appropriate 3D positioning of the nodes in the wireless sensor networks with satisfaction of a set of constraints and objectives that are often antagonistic. We propose to focus our contribution on meta-heuristics hybridized and combined with procedures to reduce dimensionality and to incorporate user preferences. These hybridization schemes are all validated by numerical tests. Then, we proposed simulations that are completed by, and confronted with experiments on real testbeds.

During his sojourn on earth man leaves traces behind. Subsequent generations can follow these traces through research in order to find out more about his forebears. The term document can be interpreted much wider than referring to written material so that different types of material can serve as source from which this knowledge can be drawn. Pictorial sources is one subsection underneath which photographic material in turn resorts. This study looks at the use of historical photographs as source from which the cultural historian can draw information .. Historical photographs are often merely seen and used as illustration material while they are sources in own right. It is the only source which captures and eternalises a moment in time visually. Unfortunately it is still a human with all his faults and deficiencies who stands behind the camera. That means that although the photograph as source is generally speaking very reliable and objective, historical criticism still has to be applied. To err is human, over and above wilful misrepresentation. Furthermore there are certain pitfalls and limitations inherent to the photograph. At the Sammy Marks Museum just east of Pretoria, a large collection of photographs has been preserved which shows the everyday life of the Marks family over a long period of time. By examining these photographs a clear picture can be formed of the everyday life of a well-to-do Victorian family in the Transvaal during the period 1890 to 1920. The actual images captured by the camera tell the story of these people's weal and woe like words cannot do. No source can be all-revealing .on its own. The photographs and the information drawn from them, are supported and confirmed by references and quotations from the personal correspondence of the family of which much has also been preserved. It is kept at the University of Cape Town. The biography of Sammy Marks by Richard Mendelsohn (Cape Town, 1991) as well as other literary sources has been studied and applied. The study also contains a broad background sketch of the period and its spirit. By making comparisons between the findings about the lives of Sammy Marks and his family and what is known generally about the people of the time, one can see to what degree they conformed or differed. The development of photography itself is also. briefly discussed. The historical photographs which were preserved by the Marks family, serve as example of how valuable such photographs are for our knowledge and the eventual reconstruction of the past. Without them the task of the physical restoration of the house, outbuildings and garden to their original shape would have been much more difficult. At the same time and even more important, they breathe life into the house through the information they contain about the people who used to inhabit it. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 1996. / gm2014 / Historical and Heritage Studies / unrestricted

MA (English Literature) / Department of English / See the attached abstract below

Durch Günter Grass’ Erzählung „Das Treffen in Telgte“ (1979) ist der bei Münster gelegene Wallfahrtsort an der B 51 zum Schauplatz einer „rückwärts gewandten Utopie“ (Marcel Reich- Ranicki) geworden: 1647, gegen Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges, versammeln sich auf Einladung von Simon Dach, dem Haupt des Königsberger Poetenzirkels, etwa zwanzig deutsche Dichter in Wirtin Libuschkas Telgter Brückenhof. Die Teilnehmerliste erstreckt sich von Heinrich Albert über Paul Gerhardt, Georg Greflinger und Andreas Gryphius bis zu Philipp von Zesen. Überraschungsgast ist Heinrich Schütz.

The main aim of this thesis was to create a set of problems in Quantum Mechanics, which would be included in a collection of solved problems in Physics available online on the website http://www.fyzikalniulohy.cz. As a result, thirty nine problems were completed, covering seven thematic areas partially of high school and mostly of introductory college Quantum Mechanics course. In general, the collection is mainly designed for college students as an exercise in basic quantum-mechanical problems and also for high school students, who have a desire to deal with some special problems. A detailed description of content, structure, and technical execution of this collection can be found in chapter 1 of this thesis. Another task was to review existing online collections of applets dealing with Quantum Mechanics. A selection of them is introduced in chapter 2 of this thesis.

Personal media collections are becoming increasingly digitised with physical representations of music, film, games and books being replaced by virtual counterparts. Through qualitative fieldwork, this thesis examines the relationship that people have with traditional collections, and therein seeks to outline the aspects of which we find to be meaningful and enjoyable. Furthermore, this project attempts to apply these qualities to the design of digital media collection services. The research reveals that elements pertaining to identity, curation, presence, sharing, preservation and status are key. In addition to the fieldwork, a market analysis of current digital media collection services is carried out and drawn upon in the development of a design concept. The concept is used as a platform to discuss potential solutions addressing the unfavourable characteristics of digital media collections.

More and more Swedish municipalities are adopting approaches that target ‘vulnerable EU citizens’ and the ‘passive collection of money’. This thesis analyses begging permits, bans, and other approaches, motivated by the positions supported in Eskilstuna, Katrineholm and Norrköping. The approaches analysed are irrespective of the municipalitiesthat implemented them. This thesis follows a ‘problem’ questioning approach, taking into consideration the context and the system under which the ‘problems’ are constructed and aims to find the implicit and explicit aims of the various approaches.

A data acquisition system was set up to measure gas temperatures and pressures at various points on a liquid-nitrogen-powered vehicle. The experiment was attempted to develop a data acquisition method for applications on engines that use liquid air as the fuel. Two thermocouples and a pressure transducer were connected using data acquisition instruments interfaced to a laptop computer to acquire data.

From the days of Antonio Meucci and Alexander Graham Bell when the telephone was invented, people have been looking for ways to communicate with each other through the use of technology. With the introduction of the Internet new possibilities were created to communicate with other persons around the world. As more and more individuals got access to the Internet more and more data got sent through the network. As with any platform where number of individuals keeps growing, business is to be made. Different companies offer different types of services, and many of these companies are niched in services where people in some way interact with each other. Social communities are some of the largest websites that are used and on these websites a lot of data is being shared. Pictures, life stories and interests are shared and this data is something that advertisement companies pay money to obtain. We can see this since a large part of revenues from social communities come from ad companies. Since these websites save data about individuals one could collect this data to sum up how an individual act online. In this thesis, we wanted to see if there was any interest in collecting this type of data to develop a business model where the data of individuals would be sold to a third party, and how individuals feel about this type data collection. To get an understanding of what type of data that can be collected, different companies that gather data were looked into. To get an understanding if this business model is something wanted recruiters of different IT companies were contacted for interviews. Focus groups and surveys were used to see how individuals close to their college graduation feel about data collection and the business model that is under construction. From the data collected, we saw that recruiters were not interested in a business model that gathered personal data, but rather professional data such as education, projects and other job related facts that can prove what the job applicant have done. And from the public we got the response that data collection of this sort is not something that is desirable. With the data collected we saw that our business model did not fit our targeted audience, but rather that a modified business model aimed on professional data rather than social data is something that could be developed. / Ända sedan den dagen telefonen skapades av Antonio Meucci och Alexander Graham Bell har människan letat efter nya sätt att kommunicera med varandra via teknologin som finns idag. Internet har introducerade nya sätt att dela olika typer av data världen över. Varje dag får fler och fler människor tillgång till internet det betyder då också att mer data skickas via nätet. Som med alla plattform där antalet individer växer skapas då nya affärsmodeller. Olika företag erbjuder olika typer av tjänster och många av dessa företag fördjupar sig inom kommunikationssektorn så att människor kan integrera med varandra. Socialmedia är bland de populäraste webbsidorna idag och här kan användarna dela data och information med varandra. Dessa data är viktiga för annonseringsföretagen då de vill rikta rätt reklam till användarna. Detta ser vi nu eftersom sociala mediernas största inkomstkälla kommer ifrån säljandet av data till annonsering bolagen. Man skulle kunna ta all data som dessa företag har sparat på sina användare för att sammanställa hur de använder tjänsten. I vår rapport ville vi se om det dann något intresse för att samla in denna typ av data för att utveckla vår affärsmodell där individens data och information säljes till en tredje part. Vi ville även undersöka hur användaren känner när det gäller datasamling på internet. För att få en uppfattning på vad för data som kan samlas in på internet har vi undersökt två företag för att se vad för data de tar. När det gäller vår affärsmodell har vi kontaktat och intervjuat rekryterare från olika företag för att se om vår affärsmodell är något som de behöver. Focused Groups och enkäter skickades ut till studenter som nästan har sin examen för att höra vad de har för åsikt är gällande datainsamling och vår affärsmodell. Vår undersökning visade att datainsamling inte var eftertraktad, men de ville däremot samla kompetens information istället. Information så som utbildning, projekt och arbetskarriär. Enkäten och Focused Groups visade även där att personlig datainsamling inte var något som de ville ha. Med de data vi fått under vår undersökning tydde det på att vår affärside inte var riktad mot rätt målgrupp, men en justering av vår affärsmodell i form av datainsamling av kompetens information var något de ville ha.