Browsing Doctoral theses (RealTek) by Issue Date
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Environmental monitoring with ground-based interferometric radar systems
(PhD Thesis;2019:56, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The need for environmental monitoring is increasing with climate changes and natural resources exploitation, but the monitoring possibilities are also improving with the technological development enabling high spatial and ... -
Source-separation and on-site wastewater treatment : a combined treatment and resource recovery facility towards a circular economy
(PhD Thesis;2019:4, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The world's water specialists agree to work on increased resource recovery from wastewater and reduced emissions to the environment. Source-separated wastewater treatment systems, which provide opportunities for local ... -
Introducing microclimate into simulation models for buildings
(PhD thesis;2019:33, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The contemporary sustainability imperativeness requires high performance buildings. Smart solutions during the design or retrofitting phase can significantly contribute towards decreasing the energy consumption and ... -
Naturfag for yrkesfagelever : hva teller som kunnskap?
(PhD Thesis;2019:11, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Dette doktorgradsarbeidet søker å utvikle kunnskap og innsikt om undervisnings- og læringsprosesser knyttet til fellesfaget naturfag for yrkesfagelever i videregående skolen i Norge. Den sparsomme forskingen som finnes ... -
Laser-based survey of building objects and buildings
(PhD Thesis;2019:30, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Building information models (BIMs) for facility management is gaining interest. Different technologies for collecting the raw material to extract such model are in rapid development. The most common technologies are based ... -
Sea level, ocean currents, and vertical land motion along the Norwegian coast
(PhD Thesis;2019:80, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Ocean circulation plays a fundamental role in climate and sea-level related studies due to the ocean’s large heat-storage and transport capacity. Ocean circulation can be derived from numerical ocean models, which might ... -
Sewer Overflow Control using Different Modeling Techniques and Internet of Things
(PhD Thesis;2019:55, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Increased urbanization and extreme rainfall events are causing more frequent instances of sewer overflow, leading to the pollution of water resources and negative environmental, health, and fiscal impacts. At the same time, ... -
Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems for Applications in Life Sciences: Biological Sample Preparation and Strawberry Harvesting
(2019;90, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This thesis aims to contribute knowledge to support fully automation in life-science applications, which includes design, development, control and integration of robotic systems for sample preparation and strawberry ... -
Identification of efficient and affordable technologies for sustainable production of biodiesel from various bio-resources
(PhD Thesis;2019:88, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Population growth and a significant improvement in living standards in most parts of the world has resulted in an increasing energy demand. Fossil fuels are used for most of the world’s energy demands. However, fossil fuels ... -
Efficient model selection in the Tikhonov Regularization framework and pre-processing of spectroscopic data
(PhD Thesis;2019:99, Doctoral thesis, 2019)Machine learning is a hot topic in today's society. Data sets of varying sizes show up in a number of contexts, and learning from data sets is important for answering many questions. There is a plethora of methods that can ... -
Hyperspectral imaging : algorithmic advances in variable selection and applications to wood science
(PhD Thesis;2019:77, Doctoral thesis, 2019)According to Beer’s Law there is a linear dependence between the absorbance of a material and the concentration of an absorbing species in the material. Thus, if one is interested in modeling the concentration of an absorbing ... -
Comparative analysis of heterogeneous and homogeneous neural field models
(PhD Thesis;2019:19, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The present thesis is devoted to the comparative analysis of heterogeneous and homogeneous neural field models. The motivation for this work stems from the fact that there is considerable interest in processes in neural ... -
Foundations for BIM-based model checking systems : transforming regulations into computable rules in BIM-based model checking systems
(PhD Thesis;2015:54, Doctoral thesis, 2019-01-08)Building Information Modelling (BIM)-based model checking is maybe the best way to utilize BIM technology and to contribute to the development of new procedures in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) ... -
Scattering and absorption in nano- and microstructured media
(PhD thesis;2020:51, Doctoral thesis, 2020)When electromagnetic radiation interacts with objects of the same wavelength as the radiation, the objects can act as resonators and strong scattering effects appear. The goal of this PhD project has been to understand ... -
Innovative Surveillance and Process Control in Water Resource Recovery Facilities
(PhD Thesis;2020:68, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRF), previously known as Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP), are getting increasingly complex, with the incorporation of sludge processing and resource recovery technologies. Along ... -
Chaos enhanced light trapping in optically thin solar cells
(PhD thesis;2020:3, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Photovoltaics is one of the most important sources of renewable energy. Solar cells with thin absorbing layers can be more cost-effective and leave a smaller environmental footprint than the current commercial technology. ... -
Information extraction from large point cloud data : a deep learning approach
(PhD Thesis;2020:25, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Recent advances in Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors have led to an increasing amount of large scale point cloud data collections. The LiDAR sensors can capture the fine spatial details of a remote environment ... -
Biodiesel production from Jatropha curcas L. seeds from different agro-climatic zones of Ethiopia: seed processing, oil extraction and optimization of biodiesel production using heterogenous catalysts
(PhD Thesis;2020:66, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Energy is basic for development and its demand increases due to population growth, urbanization, and the improvement of living standards in most parts of the world. Nowadays, the energy sector faces dual challenges, the ... -
Teacher education as key to adaptation to environmental degradation in Tanzania: Development of environmental education through participatory action research
(Phd Thesis;2020:35, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Summary of the Thesis Environmental education (EE) is a key component of socio-economic transformation. Thus, teacher colleges and schools emphasize environmental topics in their curricula. Yet, environmental degradation ... -
Fusion of a minimalistic set of sensors for mapping and localization of autonomous agricultural robotic systems
(PhD Thesis;2020:48, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Robots have recently become ubiquitous in many aspects of daily life. For in-house applications there is vacuuming, mopping and lawn-mowing robots. Swarms of robots have been used in Amazon warehouses for several years. ...