Thesis (doctoral)--Umeå universitet, 1990. / Added t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-563) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Umeå universitet, 1990. / Added t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-563) and index.

This work examines Swedish literature published during the 2000s in the context of larger debates about individual and collective belonging in Scandinavia. In each of three chapters, I describe a broad thematic domain in which I situate and compare works of poetry, prose and plays by authors such as Jonas Khemiri, Alejandro Wenger, Johannes Anyuru and Marjaneh Bakhtiari. In the first chapter, I examine the domain of Homogeneity/ Heterogeneity, describing a transition from monolithic to multiple, overlapping belongings. The second chapter concerns the domain of Transparency/ Opacity, and the legibility or opaqueness of bodies, language and clothing as markers of identity. The third and final domain, Center/Periphery, contains articulations of the public sphere at two different extremes of Swedish geography: the historic center city and the post-war suburbs. In my conclusion, I summarize how these literary works have both reflected and refracted discussions of national belonging in a time of global migration and increased cultural diversity in Northern Europe.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-229).

Thesis--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-217).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 219-226).

<p> This thesis presents the new investigations on the disturbance decoupling problem (DDP) for the geometric control of max-plus linear systems, which are used to model discrete event systems such as transportation networks, queuing systems, and communication networks. The classical DDP concept in the geometric control theory means that the controlled outputs will not be changed by any disturbances. In practical manufacturing systems, solving for the DDP would require further delays on the output parts than the existing delays caused by the system breakdown, which will be less practical in real applications. The new proposed modified disturbance decoupling problem (MDDP) in this thesis ensures that the controlled output signals will not be delayed more than the existing delays caused by the disturbances in order to achieve the just-in-time optimal control. Furthermore, this thesis presents the integration of output feedback and open-loop control strategies to solve for the MDDP, as well as for the DDP. The main results of this thesis are illustrated by using timed event graph models of a high throughput screening system in drug discovery and a railway transport network.</p>

This investigation began as frustration - frustration, during my attempts at translating Harry Martinson's poetry at being unable to find adequate English equivalents for most of his compounds. The frustration developed into curiosity about the nature of the compounds and their use. The thesis is the result of that curiosity. I have studied the compounds from both linguistic and stylistic points of view. One chapter concerns numbers. Very nearly 4,500 (some 3,500 different) noun compounds have been excerpted from almost 92,000 words of Harry Martinson's published poetry. In addition, some thousand compounds have been excerpted from the manuscript poems in the Harry Martinson archive in Uppsala University Library. Whereas every attempt has been made to be accurate in word-counts and calculations, comparisons across tables may reveal minor discrepancies. Manually calculated figures do not always exactly match the numbers indicated by computer calculations. This may be a result of human error, whether in the manual calculations or in the typing in of the data, but it may also be caused by such factors as compounds appearing in prose passages and section titles (included in some calculations, not in others) or in poems included in more than one collection. In small-scale manual calculations, allowance can be made for such factors, but it is not usually possible to foresee all the repercussions of such adjustments on all other calculations and tables. I am confident that the discrepancies are in no case of a magnitude to affect the conclusions drawn from the figures.

<p>I denna språkvetenskapliga uppsats inom ämnet språk och kön undersöker jag svenska konstsagor ur sagosamlingen Bland tomtar och troll ur ett genusperspektiv. Mitt syfte är att undersöka ifall det finns eller har funnits några skillnader mellan konstsagor skrivna av kvinnliga och manliga författare när det gäller personbeskrivande adjektiv och val av persongalleri. Analysmaterialet består av fyra årgångar Bland tomtar och troll (1913–1992) och hela analysmaterialet innehåller sex sagor av kvinnliga författare och sex sagor av manliga författare. Jag använder mig av både kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder. Resultatet visar att det finns skillnader mellan sagor skrivna av kvinnliga och manliga författare och att dessa skillnader är störst i början av 1900-talet. Den mest påfallande skillnaden ligger i valet av persongalleri: de kvinnliga författarna föredrar prinsessor medan de manliga författarna föredrar hjältar. Resultatet visar också att de kvinnliga författarna beskriver sina personer mer utförligt än de manliga författarna.</p>

<p>I den här uppsatsen undersöks Herr Ivan, en av de tre Eufemiavisorna, med syfte att utröna vilka lexikala skillnader det finns i arvorden mellan de tre svenska och två danska handskrifterna av romanen som finns bevarade från 1400-talet, kallade A–C resp. E–F. Det excerperade materialet består av de arvord som enligt Erik Noreens kritiska utgåva avviker i E–F i förhållande till A–C, med morfologiska och ortofonologiska skillnader borträknade. Vissa gränsfall diskuteras dock. Undersökningen tar upp ett axplock av de utbyten som bedömts som mest relevanta i fråga om mängd, ändringsfrekvens och sammanfall med det nutida ordförrådet i båda språken. Orden i materialet delas upp i ordklasser, och både antalet belägg och lexem har räknats. Materialet visar ingen stor skillnad mellan språken, men det finns dock tendenser till att de danska handskrifternas ordförråd ligger närmare det nutida än vad de svenska gör.</p>