To intensify the new product and service development process, companies have to admit that they need to be enriched by new external knowledge outside the company. Utilising customers’ or potential customers’ creativity and ...

This thesis presents a new method for costing the skeletal steel structures used in industrial, commercial or office buildings or constructions. Furthermore it proposes a design concept that takes the joint details into ...

The goals of this study were to investigate the effect of composite structure on the mechanical properties of various hydroxyapatite polyethylene composites; to manufacture and characterize bioactive glass fibres formed ...

Channel equalization is a very important anti-multipath technique in broadband communication systems and it has received much attention during the era of digital communications. Frequency selective fading arises whenever ...

During recent decades, much emphasis has been placed on improving health and safety at work in the European Union (EU) and EU countries, including Finland. There have been major efforts, for example, to develop the recording ...

Semiconductors are an essential part of the modern society. Transistors, solid- state lasers, solar cells, and several other semiconductor devices have shaped the world drastically. The most familiar material is perhaps ...

Increasing market competition forces firms to improve profitability, and outsourcing and partnership contracts are some of the essential means of pursuing cost efficiency. Comparing the profitability of alternative contracting ...

This thesis investigates novel methods of generating ultrashort optical pulses in the visible and ultraviolet wavelength ranges by frequency conversion and supercontinuum generation using mode-locked fiber lasers. Optimization ...

This Thesis focuses on the acceleration of different applications using a run-time reconfigurable array. In the cases under study, the author analyzes the main causes of performance degradation, which are classified as ...

The targets to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate climate change are as much applicable to the road freight transport sector as they are to all other sectors of society. The aim of this research is to support ...