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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Peter England.
1. Stochastic claims reserving in non-life insurance : Bootstrap and smoothing models
Sammanfattning : In practice there is a long tradition of actuaries calculating reserve estimates according to deterministic methods without explicit reference to a stochastic model. For instance, the chain-ladder was originally a deterministic reserving method. LÄS MER
2. Development and results of the Swedish road deflection tester
Sammanfattning : A project to construct a high-speed road deflection tester was initiated in the 1991. A mid-sized truck was used as a carrier for the first prototype. The results were promising and it was decided to build a full-size truck system. The new vehicle, based on a Scania R143 ML, was completed in 1997. LÄS MER
3. "Is the Machine Directive not enough?" : a study of integrating work environment design in an international production development project
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the importance and the processes of integrating work environment design when developing new production systems in international collaborative projects. During recent decades, organisations have developed systematic approaches to deal with work environment design, often as parts of management systems. LÄS MER
4. Distribution and actions of insect tachykinin-related peptides
Sammanfattning : Tachykinin-related peptides (TRPs) have been identified in a number of invertebrates belonging to the mollusca, euchiurdea, crustacea and insecta. The TRPs are named after their sequence similarities and possible common evolutionary relationship to the vertebrate tachykinins. LÄS MER
5. "Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite" : An Edition of Humfrey Lock's Treatise on Alchemy, with an Introduction, Explanatory Notes and Glossary
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contains an edition of Humfrey Lock’s (fl. 1560–1570) treatise on alchemy, and includes an introduction to the edition, explanatory notes and a glossary. The edition presents the text of Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 1490, which was copied out and annotated in 1590 by Dr Simon Forman (1552–1611). LÄS MER