Popular Abstract in Swedish Studien behandlar den förnyade diskussionen kring gudsbegreppet inom delar av den postmoderna filosofin. I den första delen av avhandlingen belyses den idéhistoriska utveckling som lett fram till att gudsfrågan på nytt aktualiserats inom vissa grenar av den västerländska filosofin. Därefter diskuteras två exempel på hur gudsbegreppet formulerats inom ramen för ett postmIn recent years the question of religion in general and of God in particular has moved center stage in contemporary philosophical reflection. The dissertation discusses this development with particular regard to the concept of God. The aim of the study is twofold. First, it examines the historical and intellectual premises for this development. Second, it offers a constructive critical analysis of

Popular Abstract in Swedish Ekonomistyrsystemens utformning och roll är sedan 1980-talet föremål för stor uppmärksamhet mot bakgrund av pågående förändringar i företagens tillverknings- och marknadsmiljö. En grundläggande frågeställning som behandlas i boken är vilken påverkan företagens situation har på ekonomistyrsystemets utformning och om olika ekonomistyrsystem är mer ändamålsenliga än andra The focus of the thesis is the situation of and the management control systems in middle-sized, manufacturing companies. We have examined the relevance of different types of management control systems for different situations and formulated taxonomies of the contingency factors environment, production situation and business strategy. We found two types of situation. The first type, the interactive

The present work is mainly focused on the development of enzyme-based bioanalytical devices, which can further be applied as analytical tools for industrial, medical and environmental applications. The first part of the work deals with the practical applications of thermometric biosensors for determination of various sugars (fructose and lactose) in a real samples. Thermometric biosensors possess

In many reports the improvements of the actors in the construction sector have been requested. One explicit factor that has been called for is an increase in cooperation and communication between the different actors. The Swedish construction sector in general has not been swift in accepting new process improvements as they have been put forward by academics or government. There are many possible

This paper describes some exploratory attempts to apply a combination of finite state transducers (FST) and transformation-based learning (TBL, Brill 1992) to the problem of letter-to-sound (LTS) conversion for Swedish. Following Bouma (2000) for Dutch, we employ FST for segmentation of the textual input into groups of letters and a first transcription stage; we feed the output of this step into a