As international competition increased towards the end of last century, companies realized the importance of collaborating and sharing information with suppliers and customers to remain competitive. By sharing information such as forecasts of future demand with partners in the supply chain, it was possible to lower inventory holding costs and increase the service level to customers, and thereby in

Sopor är inte speciellt populära. De luktar ofta illa, de går inte att använda till någonting glamoröst och dessutom kostar de tid, pengar och engagemang att bli av med. ”Sopa” kan vi kalla någon vi tycker misslyckas helt och hållet med sin uppgift, sopgubbe har väl aldrig kunnat mäta sig med veterinär eller pilot i diskussioner och drömmar om framtida yrken och soptippar är kanske den anläggning

Conventional power plants based on fossil fuel without CO2 capture produce flue gas streams with concentrations Of CO2 between 3% and 15%, contributing to the threat of increasing global warming. Existing capture technologies such as post-combustion flue gas treatment using chemical absorption or pre-combustion carbon removal suffer from significant efficiency penalties as well as major increase i

The paper treats the Wigner distribution of scalar-valued stochastic processes defined on R-d. We show that if the process is Gaussian and weakly harmonizable then a stochastic Wigner distribution is well defined. The special cas, of stationary processes is studied, in which case the Wigner distribution is weakly stationary in the time variable and the variance is equal to the deterministic Wigner

Degradation of organic matter takes place in many processes within a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The need for optimisations and extended degradation processes for both organics and nitrogen will increase as outlet demands are strengthened and increasing loads are desired. The purpose of this work was to study the degradation of organic matter at WWTPs within two areas in particular; 1) d

Implementing collaborative change initiatives in supply chains presents various challenges. This paper proposes a framework for identifying potential risk and gain sharing challenges in collaborative change initiatives, and uses the framework to explore risk and gain sharing in an interorganisational implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The proposed framework is base

Som tonsättare upplevde jag starkt skillnaden av att komma från konsertsalen till operasalongen. I konsertsalen står det autonoma verket i fokus, men i operasalongen är det handlingen. Dessutom var skillnaden påtaglig i att planera ett verk inom ett konsertprogram för mindre än 100 lyssnare till att tänka sig 1000 lyssnare och att man ensam ska fånga intresset en hel kväll. I min konstnärliga avha

Vem talar samhället till genom utformningen av staden och arbetsdelningen mellan könen? Hur framställs konsumenten i köpcentrumet? Hur tar sig utsatthet uttryck i staden och hur upplever kvinnor stadens rum nattetid? Speglingar av rum – om könskodade platser och sammanhang samlar aktuell forskning om rummet som könskodat. Utgångspunkten är platsens och rummets betydelse som en fysisk materiell v

Water and salt mass balances for the Dead Sea were modeled. Precipitation, evaporation, river discharges, ground water flows, input/output from potash companies and salt production, and brine discharge were included in the models. The mixing time in the Dead Sea was modeled using a single-layer (well-mixed) a two-layer (stratified) system. Using the single-layer approach the water level was predi

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The thesis is concerned with topics relating to auctions and competitive bidding. In the first chapter, the case of a procurement situation where multiple producers compete in price and quality, but are unable to commit to quality, is treated in a scoring auction context. An optimal scoring rule, for a buyer able to comittto a rule, is characterised. The second chapter is concerned with auction

About narration and memory in Lars Gustafsson’s novel "Windy berättar" (1999).

A novel multitaper spectrogram estimator for Gaussian func- tions is proposed. The multitapers are the Hermite functions and a fixed number of few multitapers are used in the estimate. The weighting factors of the different spectrogram functions are optimized to give the approximative Wigner distribution for the Gaussian function. The performance of the estimator is investigated in terms of resolu

In the Middle Ages, there was an Augustinian monastery in Dalby (Scania). The article gives an overview of what we know about it, concentrating in particular on the foundation of the community c. 1070, the medieval organization of the Augustinian "Order", and the mode of life of Augustinians. The article includes an artistic representation by Petter Lönegård of what the monastery and its church (t