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1. Agro-industry feedstock and side stream materials for wood panel manufacturing
Sammanfattning : Wood-based panels are indispensable in many areas, such as the construction industry and furniture production. The intensified demand for renewable materials, rising wood prices and increasing protection zones of forest areas make the wood panel industry consider alternative raw materials. LÄS MER
2. Some acoustical properties of floating floors used on trains
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3. World Wide Workshop: The Craft of Noticing
Sammanfattning : In my research, I consider craft as a discipline that is extremely elastic in terms of propositions and positions. Today craft exists in a highly dynamic space — what I will refer to as the World Wide Workshop — and is essential for noticing, caring, mending and negotiating the complex relationships that individuals and communities have with their sociopolitical, economic and natural environment. LÄS MER
4. Comparing values : essays on comparability, transitivity, and vagueness
Sammanfattning : The primary aim of this thesis is to examine some of the arguments that have been leveled against the idea that all value bearing entities are comparable. A secondary aim is to investigate some putative properties of the relation ‘better than', especially transitivity and (to some degree) vagueness. LÄS MER
5. Incomparable risks, values and preferences
Sammanfattning : Abstract. Consistent valuation and societal prioritization of risks presupposes comparability among risks, that is, in order to rank risks in order of severity, and allocate risk preventative resources accordingly, we must be able to determine whether one risk is better or worse than another, and by how much. LÄS MER