Denna uppsats söker besvara frågan ”Hur tolkas Jesu mor i nutida bibelkommentarer till Johannesevangeliet, utifrån de exegetiska forskningsfälten historicitet, litterärkritik och teologi?”. Syftet är att bidra till ett kritiskt och reflekterande samtal kring den exegetiska bibelkommentaren som genre, och i synnerhet bidra till en ökad förståelse av hur nutida exegetiska bibelkommentarer behandlar en teologiskt omstridd biblisk gestalt. Uppsatsen utgår från en teoretisk utgångspunkt som innebär att exegetik inte kan bedrivas opåverkad av exegetens egna föreställningar, varför skillnader mellan olika tolkningar är att förvänta. Uppsatsen har en kvalitativ, hermeneutisk metodansats. Det metodologiska tillvägagångssättet är att med hjälp av problemformuleringen och arbetsfrågorna analysera och diskutera hur Jesu moders historiska, litterära och teologiska roll i bibeltexterna Joh 2:1-11 och 19:25-27 tolkas i nio utvalda exegetiska kommentarer till Johannesevangeliet.I kapitel 1 introduceras teori, metod, avgränsningar, begrepp, angränsande forskning, material och disposition. I kapitel 2 presenteras de grekiska texterna till de aktuella perikoperna 2:1-11 och 19:25-27, som ett stöd för läsaren. I kapitel 3 analyseras de nio bibelkommentarerna i tur och ordning enligt arbetsfrågorna. I kapitel 4 sätts bibelkommentarernas respektive tolkningar i relation till varandra; och en diskussion kring likheter, skillnader och mönster förs. I samma kapitel presenteras en sammanfattande diskussion, uppsatsens slutsatser och förslag till framtida forskning.Uppsatsens slutsatser är (1) att Jesu mor som historisk gestalt är indirekt föremål för diskussion, genom en mer övergripande diskussion om Johannesevangeliet som ögonvittnesskildring eller ej, (2) att Jesu mor i allmänhet framstår som en rund, statisk (se 1.3 Teori och metod för en förklaring av dessa begrepp) karaktär i de analyserade kommentarerna, och (3) att Jesu mor av de flesta anses som en viktig teologisk gestalt, framförallt som en del i en uppfattad johanneisk teologi om en familj av troende som instiftas av Jesus; en ståndpunkt som dock väcker debatt och möter motstånd

The aim of this thesis was to verify the success of previous reintroduction of noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) in main streams and selected reservoirs in the protected area Třeboňsko. Further expansion took place monitoring invasive signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) and spiny cheek crayfish (Orconectes limosus) in these streams. Both are a carrier of crayfish plague. Thus, where they already exist, would not make sense to try to strengthen further the population of noble crayfish.

Selon l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), les agonistes du récepteur opioïde Mu (MOR) sont la première ligne de traitement pour le soulagement des douleurs aiguës modérées à sévères. Cependant, ces derniers induisent de nombreux effets indésirables, tels que la dépression respiratoire et la constipation, qui limitent leur utilisation pour une gestion appropriée de la douleur. Chacun des effets indésirables des agonistes du MOR est médié par des mécanismes cellulaires et moléculaires complexes. C’est pourquoi un nombre considérable de recherches précliniques ont été menées afin de découvrir des opioïdes qui induiraient moins d’effets indésirables. Plus particulièrement, de nombreuses études se sont concentrées sur le développement d’agonistes biaisés du MOR qui ont peu ou pas de recrutement de β-arrestine 2 et qui activent préférentiellement les protéines G. Néanmoins, ces recherches n’ont pas réussi à identifier des agonistes biaisés avec un profil amélioré d’effets indésirables en clinique. Nous proposons dans cette thèse que la caractérisation des similarités signalétiques des agonistes du MOR serait une bonne alternative à l’agonisme biaisé pour l’identification d’opioïdes avec des profils d’effets indésirables distincts. Pour ce faire, nous avons développé une méthode basée sur l’utilisation de l’apprentissage non supervisé par clustering pour classifier les ligands du MOR en des catégories pharmacodynamiques. Cette classification s’est faite à l'aide des paramètres qui caractérisaient une panoplie de voies de signalisation médiées par les protéines G et par les β-arrestines. Nous avons pu associer ces différentes catégories pharmacodynamiques avec différentes fréquences de rapport d’effets indésirables d’opioïdes cliniques au programme de pharmacovigilance de la FDA (Food and drug administration) tels que des effets respiratoires et gastro-intestinaux. Nous avons également montré que cette méthode peut être plus généralement appliquée à d’autres sous-types et types de récepteurs couplés aux protéines G (RCPG). L’efficacité et l’innocuité des agonistes du MOR pour le soulagement des douleurs chroniques non cancéreuses, telles que les douleurs neuropathiques, est un sujet controversé et plusieurs essais cliniques ne sont pas en faveur de leur utilisation. Or, la douleur neuropathique est une maladie fréquente qui est associée à une très pauvre qualité de vie du patient et pour laquelle seulement 30 à 40% des patients rapportent un soulagement adéquat de la douleur avec les traitements actuels. Dans les modèles précliniques, les cannabinoïdes sont capables de moduler des processus impliqués dans le développement des douleurs neuropathiques. Ceci les rend des candidats prometteurs pour le soulagement de ces douleurs en clinique. Néanmoins, peu de médicaments à base de cannabis sont présentement approuvés sur le marché pour un usage thérapeutique. Ces derniers sont régulés selon leur contenu en Δ9-tétrahydrocannabinol (THC) et cannabidiol (CBD) et il existe une présomption selon laquelle les quantités de THC et les ratio THC:CBD permettraient de décrire l’activité biologique du cannabis médical. Or, les extraits commerciaux peuvent contenir jusqu’à 23 phytocannabinoïdes et de nombreux autres composés chimiques. La description de ces derniers uniquement en termes de contenus en THC et en CBD ne prend pas en considération les interactions potentielles qui peuvent arriver entre les multiples autres composants et qui peuvent aboutir à des effets cliniques différents. Nous avons donc testé dans cette thèse s’il y avait réellement une équivalence entre l’activité biologique d’un extrait de cannabis et des traitements cannabinoïdes avec des contenus en THC et/ou en CBD équivalents Nous avons démontré que les réponses analgésiques du THC et du CBD seuls, d’une combinaison THC:CBD (1 :1) et d’un extrait de cannabis de chémotype II (avec un ratio THC:CBD ≈ 1 :1) ne sont pas équivalentes dans un modèle de neuropathie diabétique chez les rats. Aux hautes doses testées, l’extrait était plus efficace à soulager la douleur que la combinaison THC:CBD (1 :1) qui, elle-même, était plus efficace que le THC et le CBD seuls. De plus, ces différents traitements engageaient les cibles moléculaires du système endocannabinoïde CB1 (récepteur cannabinoïde 1), CB2 (récepteur cannabinoïde 2) et TRPV1 de façon distincte. Ensemble ces résultats suggèrent qu’une équivalence au niveau des contenus en THC et des ratios THC:CBD ne se traduit pas par une équivalence d’activité biologique telle que l’analgésie. Dans son ensemble, cette thèse propose dans un premier temps une méthode basée sur la classification pharmacodynamique de ligands de RCPG qui pourrait être utile pour l’identification de nouveaux candidats opioïdes avec un profil d’effets indésirables amélioré. Dans un second temps, nous avons démontré que les cannabinoïdes induisent des effets analgésiques à travers différentes cibles pharmacodynamiques et que ces dernières étaient engagées de façon distincte par les différents traitements. Notre intention future est de décrire in vitro les profils signalétiques des cannabinoïdes sur ces différentes cibles et d'utiliser notre outil de classification pharmacodynamique afin de corréler ces réponses signalétiques avec leurs effets analgésiques et indésirables in vivo. Ces travaux fournissent des éléments pertinents pour le développement rationnel d’analgésiques plus efficaces et mieux tolérés en clinique. / According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Mu opioid receptor agonists (MOR) are the first line of treatment for the relief of moderate to severe acute pain. However, they induce numerous adverse effects, such as respiratory depression and constipation, which limit their use for appropriate pain management. Each of the adverse effects of MOR agonists is mediated by complex cellular and molecular mechanisms. As a result, a considerable amount of preclinical research has been conducted to discover opioids that would induce fewer adverse effects. Specifically, many studies have focused on developing biased MOR agonists that have little or no β-arrestin 2 recruitment and preferentially activate G proteins. Despite these investigations, efforts to identify biased agonists with an improved adverse event profile in the clinic have been unsuccessful. In this thesis, we propose that characterizing the signaling similarities of MOR agonists would be a good alternative to biased agonism for identifying opioids with distinct adverse effect profiles. To this end, we developed a method based on the use of unsupervised clustering learning to classify MOR ligands into pharmacodynamic categories. This classification was done using parameters that characterized a panoply of G protein- and β-arrestin-mediated signaling pathways. We were able to associate these different pharmacodynamic categories with different frequencies of clinical opioid adverse event reported to the FDA pharmacovigilance program such as respiratory and gastrointestinal effects. We have also shown that this method can be more generally applied to other subtypes and types of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The efficacy and safety of MOR agonists for the relief of chronic non-cancer pain, such as neuropathic pain, is a controversial topic and several clinical trials do not support their use. Neuropathic pain is a common condition that is associated with very poor patient quality of life and for which only 30-40% of patients report adequate pain relief with current treatments. In preclinical models, cannabinoids are able to modulate processes involved in the development of neuropathic pain. This makes them promising candidates for the relief of such pain in the clinic. However, few cannabis-based medications are currently approved for therapeutic use. For safety reasons, these are regulated according to their Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) content under the presumption that THC amounts and THC:CBD ratios would adequately describe the biological activity of medical cannabis. Commercial extracts of medical cannabis may contain up to 23 phytocannabinoids and many other chemical compounds. Describing these products only in terms of THC and CBD content does not take into consideration the potential interactions that may occur between these multiple components and that may result in different clinical effects. We therefore tested in this thesis whether there was really an equivalence between the biological activity of a cannabis extract and cannabinoid treatments with equivalent THC and/or CBD contents. We demonstrated that the analgesic responses of pure THC and CBD, a THC:CBD (1:1) combination, and a chemotype II cannabis extract (with a THC:CBD ratio ≈ 1:1) were not equivalent in a rat model of diabetic neuropathy. At the high doses tested, the extract was more efficacious than the THC:CBD (1:1) combination which, in turn, was more efficacious than pure THC and CBD. Furthermore, these different treatments engaged the molecular targets of the endocannabinoid system CB1 (cannabinoid receptor 1), CB2 (cannabinoid receptor 2), and TRPV1 in distinct ways. Together, these results suggest that equivalence in THC content and THC:CBD ratios does not translate into equivalence in biological activity such as analgesia. Overall, this thesis firstly proposes a pharmacodynamic-based method of GPCR ligand classification that could be useful for the identification of new opioid candidates with an improved adverse effect profile. Secondly, we demonstrated that cannabinoids produced their analgesic effects via different pharmacodynamic targets and that these targets were distinctively engaged by the different treatments. Our future intention is to describe the in vitro signaling profiles of cannabinoids at these different targets, and to use our pharmacodynamic clustering tool to correlate these signaling responses with their in vivo their analgesic and adverse effects. This work provides relevant insights for the rational development of more effective and better tolerated analgesics in the clinic.

Syfte med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka färgens och gestikens påverkan på altarskåpets iscensättning av berättelserna och därmed även budskapet. Uppsatsen har ett bildsemiotiskt perspektiv som en utgångspunkt. Materialet för undersökningen är ett flandriskt altarskåp från Skånela kyrka som finns idag i Uppsala domkyrka. Skåpet är tillägnat Joakim och Sankta Anna. Undersökningen har avgränsats till att enbart analysera de sex skulpterade scenerna i korpusen. Analyserna har utförts genom en formell beskrivning och diskussion med hjälp av Lena Liepes lågikonografiska analys och med Norbert Ottos trestegsmetod för gestfunktioner. Lena Liepes metod och teori används som underlag för undersökningen. Undersökningen ansluter till Virginia Nixons forskningsarbete om Jesu mormor i kyrkokonsten. Det har konstaterats att färg- och gestikanalyserna möjliggör en nyanserad tolkning. Undersökningen har visat att färgen och gestiken är ett påverkningsmedel i syfte att leda betraktaren mot ett dolt budskap i bilden. Och att det finns en koppling mellan Skånelaskåpets budskap och den medeltida kvinnofientlighet som var rådande då. Annaskåpet innehåller budskap som präglas av den dåvarande barn- och kvinnosyner. / Purpose of this essay has been to examine the color's and gesticulation's impact on the altarpiece staging of the stories and thus the message. The essay has a semiotic perspective as a starting point. The material for the study is a flemish altarpiece from Skånela church that exists today in Uppsala Cathedral. The altarpiece is dedicated to Joachim and St. Anne. The study has been limited to only analyze the six sculptured scenes in the corpus. The analyzes have been performed through a formal description and discussion by Lena Liepes low iconographycal analysis and with Norbert Otto's three-step approach for gesture features. Lena Liepe's method and theory was used as a basis for the investigation. The study connects to Virginia Nixon's research on Jesus' grandmother in church art. It was found that the color and gesticulation analyzes enables a nuanced interpretation. The investigation has shown that the color and gestures are an actuation in order to lead the viewer towards a hidden message in the picture. And that there is a link between Skånela altarpiece's messages and the medieval misogyny that prevailed then. Anne-altarpiece contains messages that are characterized by the contemporary child and female visions.

This thesis is composed of two parts - research part, focused on field research of occurence and abundance of the Stone Crayfish and the Noble Crayfish in the basin of Zákolanský stream, and a pedagogical part, project Crayfish in the Czech Republic and their protection, aimed for grammar school students. The literature outline summarizes contemporary knowledge about all five species of crayfish in the Czech Republic. Our native species are the Stone Crayfish (Austropotamobius torrentium) and Noble Crayfish (Astacus astacus). The non-native are Narrow-clawed Crayfish (Astacus leptodactylus), Spiny-cheek Crayfish (Orconectes limosus) and Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus). Aside from the chapters concerning the particular species and their determination, the literature outline also contains general information about the life and endangerment of crayfish. I have conducted the field research from April to September 2009. I also noted and evaluated the environmental conditions of the crayfish habitats. Based on the adjusted AOPK ČR methodology, I selected eight 100-meter long brook-sections of the Europe-important locality of Zákolanský stream, with the previously confirmed occurrence of crayfish. From the eight sections, I found crayfish only in three. All the captured specimens were of the...

The purpose of this thesis was to develop an economical, sustainable, and environmentally friendly straw Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) process, capable of full-scale manufacturing and to produce MDF of requested quality. The investigated straw was based on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rice (Oryzae sativa L.). In this thesis three different methods were taken for manufacture of straw MDF; (A) wheat-straw fibre was blowline blended with melamine-modified urea-formaldehyde (MUF), (B) rice-straw fibre was mixed with methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) in a resin drum-blender, and (C) wheat-straw fibre was activated in the blowline by the addition of Fenton’s reagent (H2O2/Fe2+) for production of non-resin MDF panels.  The MUF/wheat straw MDF panels were approved according to the requirements of the EN standard for MDF (EN 622-5, 2006). The MDI/rice-straw MDF panels were approved according to requirements of the standard for MDF of the American National Standard Institute (ANSI A208.2-2002). The non-resin wheat-straw panels showed mediocre MDF panel properties and were not approved according to the requirements in the MDF standard. The dry process for wood-based MDF was modified for production of straw MDF. The straw MDF process was divided into seven main process steps. 1.       Size-reduction (hammer-milling) and screening of straw 2.       Wetting and heating of straw 3.       Defibration 4.       Resination of straw fibre 5.       Mat forming 6.       Pre-pressing 7.       Hot-pressing       The primary results were that the straw MDF process was capable of providing satisfactory straw MDF panels based on different types of straw species and adhesives. Moreover, the straw MDF process was performed in pilot-plant scale and demonstrated as a suitable method for producing straw MDF from straw bales to finished straw MDF panels. In the environmental perspective the agricultural straw-waste is a suitable source for producing MDF to avoid open field burning and to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), the biological sink for extended time into MDF panels, instead of converting straw directly into bio energy or applying straw fibre a few times as recycled paper. Additionally, the straw MDF panels can be recycled or converted to energy after utilization. A relationship between water retention value (WRV) of resinated straw fibres, the thickness swelling of corresponding straw MDF panels, and the amount of applied adhesive was determined. WRV of the straw fibre increased and the TS of straw MDF declined as a function of the resin content. The empirical models developed were of acceptable significance and the R2 values were 0.69 (WRV) and 0.75 (TS), respectively. Reduced thickness swelling of MDF as the resin content is increased is well-known. The increase of WRV as a function of added polymers is not completely established within the science of fibre swelling. Fortunately, more fundamental research can be initiated and likely a simple method for prediction of thickness swelling of MDF by analysis of the dried and resinated MDF fibres is possible. / Syftet med denna avhandling var att lägga grunden för en ekonomisk, hållbar och miljövänlig MDF process för halmråvara, kapabel för fullskalig produktion av MDF och goda skivegenskaper. Framställningen av MDF skivor utgick från halm av vete (Triticum aestivum L.) och ris (Oryzae sativa L.). Tre olika metoder användes för att producera MDF av halm; (A) fibrer av vetehalm belimmades i blåsledning med ett melaminmodifierat urea-formaldehydlim (MUF), (B) fibrer av rishalm belimmades i en limblandare med metylen difenyl diisocyanate (MDI), (C) Limfria MDF skivor av vetehalm framställdes med aktivering av fibrer genom tillsats av Fenton´s reagens (H2O2/Fe2+) i blåsledning utan någon tillsats av syntetiskt lim. Sammanfattningsvis kan det understrykas att framställda MDF-skivor av MUF/vetehalm var godkända enligt standard för MDF (EN 622-5, 2006). Dessutom var framställda MDF skivor av MDI/rishalm också godkända enligt krav i standard för MDF ”American National Standard Institute” (ANSI A2008.2-2002). Limfria vetehalmskivor visade på måttliga skivegenskaper och klarade inte kraven i MDF standard.   Fiberframställningsprocessen för MDF modifierades till en produktion utgående från halm. MDF processen för halm delades upp i sju primära processoperationer.   (1)            Storleksreducering och sållning av halm (2)            Vätning och uppvärmning av halm (3)            Defibrering (4)            Belimning av halmfiber (5)            Mattformning (6)            Förpressning (7)            Pressning   De viktigaste resultaten från denna studie är att MDF av halm kunde produceras utgående från olika typer av halmsorter och lim. Dessutom utfördes MDF-processen i pilotskala och visade på en lämplig metod för framställning av MDF-skivor från halmbalar till färdiga halmfiberskivor. Det miljömässiga perspektivet på att använda jordbruksavfall till framställning av halmskivor är att undvika förbränning av halm ute på fältet, men det är även möjligt att binda koldioxid (CO2) i halmskivor under längre tid än att omsätta halmråvaran omedelbart som bioenergi eller använda halmfiber som returpapper några få gånger. Dessutom kan MDF återanvändas eller bli omsatt till energi efter användning.   Ett förhållande mellan ”water retention value” (WRV), av belimmade halmfiber, tjocklekssvällning för motsvarande MDF av halmskivor och mängden av tillsatt lim vid olika nivåer har undersökts. Med ökande limhalt tilltog WRV fibersvällning, vidare minskade tjocklekssvällning för motsvarande MDF skivor. De framtagna empiriska modellerna var godtagbara och beräknade R2 värden var 0.69 (WRV) och 0.75 (TS). Minskad tjocklekssvällning med ökad limhalt är dokumenterad sen tidigare. Ökad fibersvällning WRV vid tillsats av polymerer (limmer) är inte fullständigt etablerad inom vetenskapen för fibersvällning. Lyckligtvis kan grundläggande forskning initieras och sannolikt föreligger en enkel metod för att prediktera tjocklekssvällning av MDF genom analyser av torkade och belimmad MDF fiber.

A two-step model order reduction method is investigated in order to overcome problems of certain one-step methods. Not only optimal combinations of one-step reductions are considered but also the selection of a suitable intermediate dimension (ID) is described. Several automated selection methods are presented and their application tested on a gear box model. The implementation is realized using a Matlab-based Software MORPACK. Several recommendations are given towards the selection of a suitable ID, and problems in Model Order Reduction (MOR) combinations are pointed out. A pseudo two-step is suggested to reduce the full system without any modal information. A new node selection approach is proposed to enhance the SEREP approximation of the system’s response for small reduced representations. / Mehrschrittverfahren der Modellreduktion werden untersucht, um spezielle Probleme konventioneller Einschrittverfahren zu lösen. Eine optimale Kombination von strukturmechanischen Reduktionsverfahren und die Auswahl einer geeigneten Zwischendimension wird untersucht. Dafür werden automatische Verfahren in Matlab implementiert, in die Software MORPACK integriert und anhand des Finite Elemente Modells eines Getriebegehäuses ausgewertet. Zur Auswahl der Zwischendimension werden Empfehlungen genannt und auf Probleme bei der Kombinationen bestimmter Reduktionsverfahren hingewiesen. Ein Pseudo- Zweischrittverfahren wird vorgestellt, welches eine Reduktion ohne Kenntnis der modalen Größen bei ähnlicher Genauigkeit im Vergleich zu modalen Unterraumverfahren durchführt. Für kleine Reduktionsdimensionen wird ein Knotenauswahlverfahren vorgeschlagen, um die Approximation des Frequenzganges durch die System Equivalent Reduction Expansion Process (SEREP)-Reduktion zu verbessern.

The thesis "Zbraslavsko in sources of collective character 17.-19. century" treats informations from the register of births, marriages and deaths of the church St. James the Greater in Zbraslav in 1652-1800 years. The purpose of this thesis next to basic demographical data is the first name question - what (or who) had a bearing on this selection. Here are writing out all first names of this time together with the main factors, which have been able to decide on bearing the first name.

A two-step model order reduction method is investigated in order to overcome problems of certain one-step methods. Not only optimal combinations of one-step reductions are considered but also the selection of a suitable intermediate dimension (ID) is described. Several automated selection methods are presented and their application tested on a gear box model. The implementation is realized using a Matlab-based Software MORPACK. Several recommendations are given towards the selection of a suitable ID, and problems in Model Order Reduction (MOR) combinations are pointed out. A pseudo two-step is suggested to reduce the full system without any modal information. A new node selection approach is proposed to enhance the SEREP approximation of the system’s response for small reduced representations.:Contents Kurzfassung..........................................................................................iv Abstract.................................................................................................iv Nomenclature........................................................................................ix 1 Introduction........................................................................................1 1.1 Motivation........................................................................................1 1.2 Objectives........................................................................................1 1.3 Outline of the Thesis........................................................................2 2 Theoretical Background.......................................................................3 2.1 Finite Element Method......................................................................3 2.1.1 Modal Analysis...............................................................................4 2.1.2 Frequency Response Function.......................................................4 2.2 Model Order Reduction.....................................................................5 2.3 Physical Subspace Reduction Methods.............................................7 2.3.1 Guyan Reduction...........................................................................7 2.3.2 Improved Reduced System Method...............................................8 2.4 Modal Subspace Reduction Methods...............................................10 2.4.1 Modal Reduction...........................................................................11 2.4.2 Exact Modal Reduction..................................................................11 2.4.3 System Equivalent Reduction Expansion Process.........................13 2.5 Krylov Subspace Reduction Methods...............................................14 2.6 Hybrid Subspace Reduction Methods..............................................15 2.6.1 Component Mode Synthesis........................................................16 2.6.2 Hybrid Exact Modal Reduction......................................................19 2.7 Model Correlation Methods.............................................................21 2.7.1 Normalized Relative Frequency Difference...................................21 2.7.2 Modified Modal Assurance Criterion.............................................22 2.7.3 Pseudo-Orthogonality Check.......................................................22 2.7.4 Comparison of Frequency Response Function.............................23 3 Selection of Active Degrees of Freedom............................................25 3.1 Non-Iterative Methods...................................................................26 3.1.1 Modal Kinetic Energy and Variants..............................................26 3.1.2 Driving Point Residue and Variants..............................................27 3.1.3 Eigenvector Component Product..................................................28 3.2 Iterative Reduction Methods...........................................................29 3.2.1 Effective Independence Distribution.............................................29 3.2.2 Mass-Weighted Effective Independence.......................................32 3.2.3 Variance Based Selection Method.................................................33 3.2.4 Singular Value Decomposition Based Selection Method................34 3.2.5 Stiffness-to-Mass Ratio Selection Method.....................................34 3.3 Iterative Expansion Methods...........................................................35 3.3.1 Modal-Geometrical Selection Criterion...........................................36 3.3.2 Triaxial Effective Independence Expansion...................................36 3.4 Measure of Goodness for Selected Active Set..................................39 3.4.1 Determinant and Rank of the Fisher Information Matrix................39 3.4.2 Condition Number of the Partitioned Modal Matrix........................40 3.4.3 Measured Energy per Mode..........................................................40 3.4.4 Root Mean Square Error of Pseudo-Orthogonality Check.............41 3.4.5 Eigenvalue Comparison................................................................41 4 Two-Step Reduction in MORPACK.......................................................42 4.1 Structure of MORPACK.....................................................................42 4.2 Selection of an Intermediate Dimension.........................................43 4.2.1 Intermediate Dimension Requirements........................................44 4.2.2 Implemented Selection Methods..................................................45 4.2.3 Recommended Selection of an Intermediate Dimension...............48 4.3 Combination of Reduction Methods.................................................49 4.3.1 Overview of All Candidates..........................................................50 4.3.2 Combinations with Modal Information.........................................54 4.3.3 Combinations without Modal Information....................................54 5 Applications........................................................................................57 5.1 Gear Box Model...............................................................................57 5.2 Selection of Additional Active Nodes................................................58 5.3 Optimal Intermediate Dimension......................................................64 5.4 Two-Step Model Order Reduction Results........................................66 5.5 Comparison to One-Step Model Order Reduction Methods..............70 5.6 Comparison to One-Step Hybrid Model Order Reduction Methods...72 5.7 Proposal of a New Approach for Additional Node Selection..............73 6 Summary and Conclusions...................................................................77 7 Zusammenfassung und Ausblick..........................................................79 Bibliography............................................................................................81 List of Tables..........................................................................................86 List of Figures.........................................................................................88 A Appendix.............................................................................................89 A.1 Results of Two-Step Model Order Reduction.....................................89 A.2 Data CD............................................................................................96 / Mehrschrittverfahren der Modellreduktion werden untersucht, um spezielle Probleme konventioneller Einschrittverfahren zu lösen. Eine optimale Kombination von strukturmechanischen Reduktionsverfahren und die Auswahl einer geeigneten Zwischendimension wird untersucht. Dafür werden automatische Verfahren in Matlab implementiert, in die Software MORPACK integriert und anhand des Finite Elemente Modells eines Getriebegehäuses ausgewertet. Zur Auswahl der Zwischendimension werden Empfehlungen genannt und auf Probleme bei der Kombinationen bestimmter Reduktionsverfahren hingewiesen. Ein Pseudo- Zweischrittverfahren wird vorgestellt, welches eine Reduktion ohne Kenntnis der modalen Größen bei ähnlicher Genauigkeit im Vergleich zu modalen Unterraumverfahren durchführt. Für kleine Reduktionsdimensionen wird ein Knotenauswahlverfahren vorgeschlagen, um die Approximation des Frequenzganges durch die System Equivalent Reduction Expansion Process (SEREP)-Reduktion zu verbessern.:Contents Kurzfassung..........................................................................................iv Abstract.................................................................................................iv Nomenclature........................................................................................ix 1 Introduction........................................................................................1 1.1 Motivation........................................................................................1 1.2 Objectives........................................................................................1 1.3 Outline of the Thesis........................................................................2 2 Theoretical Background.......................................................................3 2.1 Finite Element Method......................................................................3 2.1.1 Modal Analysis...............................................................................4 2.1.2 Frequency Response Function.......................................................4 2.2 Model Order Reduction.....................................................................5 2.3 Physical Subspace Reduction Methods.............................................7 2.3.1 Guyan Reduction...........................................................................7 2.3.2 Improved Reduced System Method...............................................8 2.4 Modal Subspace Reduction Methods...............................................10 2.4.1 Modal Reduction...........................................................................11 2.4.2 Exact Modal Reduction..................................................................11 2.4.3 System Equivalent Reduction Expansion Process.........................13 2.5 Krylov Subspace Reduction Methods...............................................14 2.6 Hybrid Subspace Reduction Methods..............................................15 2.6.1 Component Mode Synthesis........................................................16 2.6.2 Hybrid Exact Modal Reduction......................................................19 2.7 Model Correlation Methods.............................................................21 2.7.1 Normalized Relative Frequency Difference...................................21 2.7.2 Modified Modal Assurance Criterion.............................................22 2.7.3 Pseudo-Orthogonality Check.......................................................22 2.7.4 Comparison of Frequency Response Function.............................23 3 Selection of Active Degrees of Freedom............................................25 3.1 Non-Iterative Methods...................................................................26 3.1.1 Modal Kinetic Energy and Variants..............................................26 3.1.2 Driving Point Residue and Variants..............................................27 3.1.3 Eigenvector Component Product..................................................28 3.2 Iterative Reduction Methods...........................................................29 3.2.1 Effective Independence Distribution.............................................29 3.2.2 Mass-Weighted Effective Independence.......................................32 3.2.3 Variance Based Selection Method.................................................33 3.2.4 Singular Value Decomposition Based Selection Method................34 3.2.5 Stiffness-to-Mass Ratio Selection Method.....................................34 3.3 Iterative Expansion Methods...........................................................35 3.3.1 Modal-Geometrical Selection Criterion...........................................36 3.3.2 Triaxial Effective Independence Expansion...................................36 3.4 Measure of Goodness for Selected Active Set..................................39 3.4.1 Determinant and Rank of the Fisher Information Matrix................39 3.4.2 Condition Number of the Partitioned Modal Matrix........................40 3.4.3 Measured Energy per Mode..........................................................40 3.4.4 Root Mean Square Error of Pseudo-Orthogonality Check.............41 3.4.5 Eigenvalue Comparison................................................................41 4 Two-Step Reduction in MORPACK.......................................................42 4.1 Structure of MORPACK.....................................................................42 4.2 Selection of an Intermediate Dimension.........................................43 4.2.1 Intermediate Dimension Requirements........................................44 4.2.2 Implemented Selection Methods..................................................45 4.2.3 Recommended Selection of an Intermediate Dimension...............48 4.3 Combination of Reduction Methods.................................................49 4.3.1 Overview of All Candidates..........................................................50 4.3.2 Combinations with Modal Information.........................................54 4.3.3 Combinations without Modal Information....................................54 5 Applications........................................................................................57 5.1 Gear Box Model...............................................................................57 5.2 Selection of Additional Active Nodes................................................58 5.3 Optimal Intermediate Dimension......................................................64 5.4 Two-Step Model Order Reduction Results........................................66 5.5 Comparison to One-Step Model Order Reduction Methods..............70 5.6 Comparison to One-Step Hybrid Model Order Reduction Methods...72 5.7 Proposal of a New Approach for Additional Node Selection..............73 6 Summary and Conclusions...................................................................77 7 Zusammenfassung und Ausblick..........................................................79 Bibliography............................................................................................81 List of Tables..........................................................................................86 List of Figures.........................................................................................88 A Appendix.............................................................................................89 A.1 Results of Two-Step Model Order Reduction.....................................89 A.2 Data CD............................................................................................96

This thesis examines the relationship between the three artists' workshops Røde Mor (Red Mother), Folkets Ateljé (The People's Studio) and GRAS, who worked between 1968 and 1975 in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Røde Mor was from the outset an articulated Communist graphic workshop loosely organised around collective exhibitions. It developed into a highly productive and professionalised group of artists that made posters by commission for political and social movements. Its artists developed a familiar and popular artistic language characterised by imaginative realism and socialist imagery. Folkets Ateljé, which has never been studied before, was a close knit underground group which created quick and immediate responses to concurrent political issues. This group was founded on the example of Atelier Populaire in France and is strongly related to its practices. Within this comparative study it is the group that comes closest to collective practises around 1968 outside Scandinavia, namely the democratic assembly. The silkscreen workshop GRAS stemmed from the idea of economic and artistic freedom, although socially motivated and politically involved, the group never implemented any doctrine for participation. The aim of this transnational study is to reveal common denominators to the three groups' poster art as it was produced in connection with a Scandinavian experience of 1968. By ‘1968' it is meant the period from the late 1960s till the end of the 1970s. It examines the socio-political conditions under which the groups flourished and shows how these groups operated in conjunction with the political environment of 1968. The thesis explores the relationship between political movements and the collective art making process as it appeared in Scandinavia. To present a comprehensible picture of the impact of 1968 on these groups, their artworks, manifestos, and activities outside of the collective space have been discussed. The argument has presented itself that even though these groups had very similar ideological stances, their posters and techniques differ. This has impacted the artists involved to different degrees, yet made it possible to express the same political goals. It is suggested to be linked with the Scandinavian social democracies and common experience of the radicalisation that took place mostly in the aftermath of 1968 proper. By comparing these three groups' it has been uncovered that even with the same socio-political circumstances and ideological stance divergent styles did develop to embrace these issue.