The manufacturing industry has an important role in Sweden's economy and has been producing high quality goods that are exported all over the world for a long time. By using modern technologies such as advanced warehouse systems and digital tools, companies can increase productivity and reduce costs. An example of such modern technology is Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Most of the previous research conducted in the field of ASR has focused on analyzing and addressing various kind of problems related to the performance of an ASR-system. Furthermore, there are also a number of studies regarding how ASR has been used in the manufacturing industry, and more specifically, to facilitate order picking. In this work, the use of speech recognition was investigated as a possible method to facilitate and streamline the inventory process. To investigate this, a prototype for a web application has been developed. The application enables a user, through speech recognition, to speech the article number together with the available quantity in the warehouse. Subsequently, the user receives a confirmation both visually and through sound of which the application automatically registers it in the Monitor ERP software. Data has been collected by observing user tests and conducting interviews with indi-viduals who all have some connection to the warehouse at different manufacturing companies. The results indicated that the inventory process could become more ef-fective by using the application. However, some deficiencies were identified during the user tests, which means that the prototype needs further development and increased robustness to be used as a tool during inventory management. / Tillverkningsindustrin är viktig del av Sveriges ekonomi och har under en lång tid producerat högkvalitativa varor som exporteras över hela världen. Genom att använda moderna teknologier som avancerade lagersystem och digitala verktyg, kan företagen öka produktiviteten och minska kostnaderna. Ett exempel på en sådan modern teknologi är Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Inom området ASR har en betydande del av den tidigare forskningen ägnats åt att analysera och adressera olika problem relaterade till prestandan hos ett ASR-system. Vidare så finns det även ett antal arbeten kring hur ASR använts inom tillverknings-industrin, och mer specifikt, till att effektivisera orderplockningsprocessen inom in-dustrin. I det här arbetet undersöktes huruvida röststyrning kan användas som ett verktyg för att underlätta samt effektivisera inventeringsprocessen. Detta genomfördes tillsam-mans med företaget Monitor ERP, där en prototyp till en webbapplikation har utvecklats. Prototypen ska med hjälp av röststyrning möjliggöra för en användare att säga artikelnummer samt vilket antal som finns i lagret. Därefter ska användaren få en bekräftelse både visuellt och genom ljud, varav applikationen automatisk registrerar in det till Monitors system. Data har samlats in genom att observera användartester samt utföra intervjuer med personer som alla har någon koppling till lagret på olika tillverkningsföretag. Resultatet visade på att inventeringsprocessen kan bli effektivare genom att utföra inventering med hjälp av applikationen. Däremot upptäcktes en del brister under användartesterna vilket betyder att prototypen behöver utvecklas och bli mer robust för att kunna användas som verktyg under inventering.

The usage of autonomous ground vehicles is growingextensively. Therefore, it is important to gain a better understand-ing for the fundamentals of their communication network. Inthis paper, three important areas will be considered: Trajectorytracking, formation control and collision avoidance. Firstly,trajectory tracking is implemented for unicycles to direct them toa reference path. Secondly, formation control is examined for twoapproaches: A method based on virtual structure with a presettrajectory for unicycles and a method based on displacement forpoint agents. Finally, collision avoidance is incorporated withthe displacement-based controller. For this case, agents keepformation without colliding within formation and with staticobstacles in the workspace. The proposed controllers are verifiedthrough simulations in MATLAB. / Användningen av autonoma markfordon har ökat kraftigt de senaste åren. Således är det viktigt att få en bättre förståelse för grunderna i deras kommunikationsnätverk. I detta projekt studeras tre essentiella områden: projektilspårning, formationshållning och undvikning av kollisioner. Först och främst implementeras projektilspårning för en enhjuling där den styrs mot en önskad projektilbana. Därefter betraktas formationshållning genom två metoder: Den första metoden handlar om virtuella strukturer med en förutbestämd bana för enhjulingar. Den andra metoden baseras på en förskjutningsbaserad regulator. Slutligen införs undvikning av kollisioner tillsammans med den förskjutningsbaserade regulatorn för att uppnå ett kollisionsundvikande robotsystem. Samtliga objektiv inom de tre områdena nås med varierande precision. / Kandidatexjobb i elektroteknik 2020, KTH, Stockholm

Thesis (M.A. of Arts)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-54).

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Adapting the concept of the ”popular cultural memory” and its necessary “context knowledge” established by Karin Kukkonen, this bachelor thesis seeks to examine how this memory is “at work” and expresses itself in contemporary fiction, by doing an intertextual reading of the swedish author Amanda Svensson's debut Hey Dolly. Within the intertextual structures of Hey Dolly the reader encounters allusions and references that address almost everything from contemporary popular culture to established authors in the swedish canon, mainly as means for the characters to help them express their emotions and thoughts, by “choosing” from already available content of popular culture to use and modify. The intertextuality alluding to the popular cultural memory does at the same time address the concept of the ideal reader throughout the novel. This ideal reader is addressed by the narrator as one of those “in the know”, as competent enough to see this “popular cultural memory” at work in the novel by “getting” these intertextual allusions and references. Thus any (real) reader has to be equipped with the same expertise of popular culture as the narrator in order to fully understand this intertextuality. The intertextual practices of Hey Dolly should be understood as traits used by the author to express and implicate her/his awareness of the texts “surroundings”, traits indeed found even in the name of Hey Dolly's main protagonist, symptomatically influenced from contemporary, western American commercial culture. Given the premiss where this intertextual framework relies on a heavily contemporary influenced popular cultural context, it potentially would run the risk of not being understood, should future popular culture contexts operate under different premisses. In this regard the high cultural canon memory would have to be regarded as being more stable and “reliable” than the popular cultural memory, as the norms for the canon are more fixed and rarely negotiated.  Arguing that this intertextual reading of Hey Dolly is of an immense value and significant for understanding how the Zeitgeist operates and should be approached, this thesis is still based on the premiss where the intertextual reading of Hey Dolly has largely been nonexistent when looking at how Hey Dolly has been received. Instead in the swedish media we find a consistent dominance of how its reception has been read from almost exclusively a gendered point of view, where Hey Dolly is seen and regarded as the forthcoming of a new representation of the girl/woman ideal. The intertextual reading of Hey Dolly would instead be regarded as “secondary” at best, where the story by itself is self sufficient, even if the reader lacks the necessary context knowledge of how this ”popular cultural memory” is at work in the text.

This thesis examines the ideas which underpinned early nineteenth century Toryism and their development in the late eighteenth century. It argues that a distinct, coherent, refined Tory identity emerged from the Tory splits between 1827 and 1830. This was preceded by a process of renegotiation and consolidation in Tory ideology and identity from 1760 onwards. The period between the accession of George III, in 1760, and the passage of the First Reform Act, in 1832, witnessed consistent and sustained crises regarding the constitution established in Church and state. The outbreak of revolutions in America and France reinvigorated debates regarding the nature and location of political sovereignty as well as the relationship between the crown and parliament. Lengthy wars against each nation were followed by severe economic depressions, the apparent proliferation of domestic political radicalism, and intermittent, but determined, demands for parliamentary reform. In addition, there were persistent attempts to alter the religious basis of the constitution to accommodate both Protestant pluralism and, from 1801, predominantly Catholic Ireland. This thesis contends that the debates surrounding these issues contributed to the rehabilitation and renegotiation of late-seventeenth-century and early-eighteenth-century Tory ideas. It also contends that, in moments of crisis and reaction, old Toryism converged with the conservative elements of an increasingly fractured Whig tradition in defence of the constitutional status quo. This convergence, apparent in the opening decades of George III’s reign, was consolidated in the context of the French Revolution. Consequently, after 1812, a broad, but loose, ideological consensus emerged, labelled as Tory, underpinned by anti-populism, commitment to the preservation of Christian orthodoxy, and the establishment of the Church of England. However, below this broad ideological umbrella, differences persisted which created tensions, contributing to the divisions between 1827 and 1830, and, through them, the refinement of Tory identity.

The United Kingdom is imprinted in our historical memory as the birthplace of modern democracy, the rule of law and respect to private ownership. However, this memory reflects deep history of the 19th century rather than the present state of affairs. The English like other developed nations have acquired the policy of state interventions, nationalization of private enterprise for a compensation, fight against the economic cycle in an unprecedented consensus. Many of the contemporaries assess England through the prism of Margaret Thatcher, however, as demonstrated in this work, her right-winged policy proved an exception to the Conservative Party's rule. Historiography ascribes the reasons of the situation especially to the Labour Party. A number of history works limits the causality of the state growth to the onset of the Laborites. It is apparent, however, that the search for the reasons of the state of affairs needs to quest much deeper in history. Despite its name, the Liberal Party is an institution with a long tradition of state-positive thinking. It was the new Radical Liberals who arrived with a "ransom" theory as well as the program of urban socialism, which does not seem to be a symptom of the laissez faire era in the today's regulated world of private waterworks, gas and electric power...

The essay studies the performance and staging of memory in the Comentarios Reales de los Incas by Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, from a post-colonial perspective. Its analyze Garcilaso´s construction of history based on his individual and collective historical experiences with the goal to establish his authority and erudition and legitimate the Inca Empire as a magnificent civilization comparable to the highest European cultures of Antiquity and Modern times. / El ensayo estudia la performamcia y escenificación de la memoria en los Comentarios Reales de los Incas de Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, desde una perspectiva postcolonial. Se analiza la construcción de la historia por parte de Garcilaso a partir de sus experiencias históricas individuales y colectivas con el objetivo de establecer su autoridad y erudición y así legitimar el Imperio Inca como una grandiosa civilización, comparable a las más grandes culturas europeas de la Antigüedad y de la Modernidad. / Der Beitrag untersucht die Performierung und Inszenierung von Erinnerung in den Comentarios Reales de los Incas von Garcilaso el Inca aus einer postkolonialen Perspektive. Er widmet sich Gar-cilasos Geschichtskonstruktion, die auf seinen individuellen und kollektiven historischen Erfahrungen beruht und darauf abzielt, seine Autorität und Gelehrsamkeit zu begründen, um so mit das Inkareich als eine großartige Zivilisation zu legitimieren, die mit den höchsten europäischen Kulturen der Antike und der Neuzeit vergleichbar wäre.

This thesis reassesses the nature and importance of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Edinburgh and more widely. Based on a microstudy of one chapel community over a twenty-four year period, it addresses a series of questions of religion, identity, gender, culture and civic society in late Enlightenment Edinburgh, Scotland, and Britain, combining ecclesiastical, social and economic history. The study examines the congregation of Charlotte Episcopal Chapel, Rose Street, Edinburgh, from its foundation by English clergyman Daniel Sandford in 1794 to its move to the new Gothic chapel of St John's in 1818. Initially an independent chapel, Daniel Sandford's congregation joined the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1805 and the following year he was made Bishop of Edinburgh, although he contined to combine this role with that of rector to the chapel until his death in 1830. Methodologically, the thesis combines a detailed reassessment of Daniel Sandford's thought and ministry (Chapter Two) with a prosopographical study of 431 individuals connected with the congregation as officials or in the in the chapel registers (Chapter Three). Biography of the leader and prosopography of the community are brought to illuminate and enrich one another to understand the wealth and business networks of the congregation (Chapter Four) and their attitudes to politics, piety and gender (Chapter Five). The thesis argues that Daniel Sandford's Evangelical Episcopalianism was both original in Scotland, and one of the most successful in appealing to educated and influential members of Edinburgh society. The congregation, drawn largely from the newly-built West End of Edinburgh, were bourgeois and British in their composition. The core membership of privileged Scots, rooted in land and law, led, but were also challenged by and forced to adapt to a broad social spread who brought new wealth and influence into the West End through India and the consumer boom. The discussion opens up many avenues for further research including the connections between Scottish Episcopalianism and romanticism, the importance of India and social mobility within the consumer economy in the development of Edinburgh, and Scottish female intellectual culture and its engagement with religion and enlightenment. Understanding the role of enlightened, evangelical Episcopalianism, which is the contribution of this study, will form an important context for these enquiries.