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During the last few years there has been a very intense discussion on the applicability of adaptive control and on ‘standard assumptions’ made in the traditional theory. Some years ago, the question of what is really the relevant information needed for successful adaptive control was starting to receive some attention. The present work belongs to this tradition. A very brief introduction to the co
This thesis concerns students’ learning and meaning-making in science. The theoretical framework builds upon Human Constructivism. This perspective underlines the unique interplay that occurs between thinking, feeling, and acting in human meaning-making and also stresses the important role of language in learning proc-esses. The aim of the thesis is to learn more about how individual students deve
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As people and countries around the world wrestle with options to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mitigation efforts must accelerate faster than ever if we want to stabilize the concentration of GHG emissions at 450 ppm CO2-eq. Economic incentives for achieving this stabilisation target have received much attention. However, the effectiveness and efficiency of such measures depends on numero
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This work establishes a comprehensive and fully parametric model for the damped vibrations of Gough-Stewart Platforms (GSPs) at symmetric configurations. It is noteworthy that in the literature a complete solution to this problem has not been presented. This work has been carried out in three stages which are the subjects of Papers I, II and III. After the industrial stage of the work which is ref
