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Lipotoxicity is a condition in which fatty acids (FAs) are not efficiently stored in adipose tissue and overflow to non-adipose tissue, causing organ damages. A defect of adipose tissue FA storage capability can be the primary culprit in the insulin resistance condition that characterizes many of the severe metabolic diseases that affect people nowadays. Obesity, in this regard, constitutes the gateway and risk factor of the major killers of modern society, such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. A deep understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms that underlie obesity and the insulin resistance syndrome is a challenge for modern medicine. In the last twenty years of scientific research, FA metabolism and dysregulations have been the object of numerous studies. Development of more targeted and quantitative methodologies is required on one hand, to investigate and dissect organ metabolism, on the other hand to test the efficacy and mechanisms of action of novel drugs. The combination of functional and anatomical imaging is an answer to this need, since it provides more understanding and more information than we have ever had. The first purpose of this study was to investigate abnormalities of substrate organ metabolism, with special reference to the FA metabolism in obese drug-naïve subjects at an early stage of disease. Secondly, trimetazidine (TMZ), a metabolic drug supposed to inhibit FA oxidation (FAO), has been for the first time evaluated in obese subjects to test a whole body and organ metabolism improvement based on the hypothesis that FAO is increased at an early stage of the disease. A third objective was to investigate the relationship between ectopic fat accumulation surrounding heart and coronaries, and impaired myocardial perfusion in patients with risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). In the current study a new methodology has been developed with PET imaging with 11C-palmitate and compartmental modelling for the non-invasive in vivo study of liver FA metabolism, and a similar approach has been used to study FA metabolism in the skeletal muscle, the adipose tissue and the heart. The results of the different substudies point in the same direction. Obesity, at the an early stage, is associated with an impairment in the esterification of FAs in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle, which is accompanied by the upregulation in skeletal muscle, liver and heart FAO. The inability to store fat may initiate a cascade of events leading to FA oversupply to lean tissue, overload of the oxidative pathway, and accumulation of toxic lipid species and triglycerides, and it was paralleled by a proportional growth in insulin resistance. In subjects with CAD, the accumulation of ectopic fat inside the pericardium is associated with impaired myocardial perfusion, presumably via a paracrine/vasocrine effect. At the beginning of the disease, TMZ is not detrimental to health; on the contrary at the single organ level (heart, skeletal muscle and liver) it seems beneficial, while no relevant effects were found on adipose tissue function. Taken altogether these findings suggest that adipose tissue storage capability should be preserved, if it is not possible to prevent excessive fat intake in the first place.

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Tässä työssä selvitetään miten peltikattoja ja niiden oheistarvikkeita verkkokaupoissa myyvä yritys voi alkaa myydä ristiin eri valmistajien kattoja ja sadevesijärjestelmiä. Työssä tarkastellaan niin tehokkaan logistiikan kuin verkkokaupan vaatimuksia, sekä sitä miksi näitä tuotteita kannattaa myydä verkkokaupassa eikä perinteiseen tapaan rautakaupoissa. Tehokkaan logistiikan mahdollistamiseksi tuotteiden kokoa on muutettava – pitkien tuotteiden kuljettaminen on aina kallista. On pyrittävä käyttämään standardikokoisia kuljetus- ja käsittely-yksiköitä, jolloin kuljetuskustannukset alenevat ja käsittely helpottuu ja nopeutuu. Runkokuljetuksissa keskusvarastoihin pyritään täysiin kuormiin, kun taas jakelukuljetuksissa asiakkaille on pyrittävä kustannustehokkuuteen ja kattavaan palveluverkostoon, jollaisen tarjoaa esimerkiksi Matkahuolto. Verkkokaupoissa sadevesijärjestelmiä myydään kahdella eri tavalla. Kattopaketti.fi -verkkokaupassa asiakas käyttää kattonsa mitoittamisessa pienoisohjelmaa, johon hän syöttää pyydetyt mitat. Peltikauppa.com toimii tavalliseen tapaan, jolloin asiakas valitsee haluamansa tuotteet valikoimasta. Rakennustarvikkeet ovat puuttuneet verkkokaupoista niiden hankalan logistiikan vuoksi. Tuotteet ovat isoja, kömpelöitä ja niitä tarvitaan määrällisesti paljon. Keskittymällä yhteen tuoteryhmään ja hiomalla sen logistiikka kuntoon, on verkkokaupan kuitenkin mahdollista pystyä kilpailemaan perinteisiä hankintakanavia vastaan.

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Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on löytää toimivia ratkaisuja päivittäista-varakaupan hävikin hallitsemiseksi ja kannattavuuden parantamiseksi. Kohdeyrityksenä on myymälä, joka etsii keinoja toimintansa tehostami-seen nimenomaan päiväyshävikkiä silmällä pitäen. Päiväyshävikin synty-minen on ongelmallisinta erityisesti tuoretuotteiden osastoilla, joille asettuu paineita asiakkaiden vaatiman tuoreuden ja valikoiman laajuuden kautta. Hävikkiä ei voida ratkaista vähentämällä tilausmääriä, sillä tässä tapauk-sessa hyllyt ovat usein tyhjiä ja kohdataan toinen päivittäistavarakaupalle vaarallinen ongelma. Kannattavan toiminnan avaimina ovat siis tasapai-noilu hävikin aiheuttamien kustannusten ja menetetyn myynnin välillä. Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittavat, että hävikin hallinta on monien tekijöiden summa ja että kannattavuuden parantamiseksi on omaa toimintaa tarkas-teltava kokonaisuutena. Toiminnan kannattavuuden taustalla on aina asiakkaiden tyytyväisyys ja sen edistämiseksi on syytä tehdä töitä.

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Diplomityössä tutkitaan mobiilisovellusten keskitettyjä jakelukanavia. Nämä uudet jakelukanavat ovat mahdollistaneet sovellusten uuden tyylisen ja helpon jakelun. Työssä tutkitaan itsenäisen kehittäjän näkökulmasta sovelluksen kehitystä Android-, iOS- ja Windows Phone -ohjelmistoalustoilla, ja sen julkaisua App Storessa, Google Playssa ja Windows Phone Marketplacella. Tavoitteena on tutkia huomataanko esimerkkisovelluksen kehityksessä ja julkaisussa merkittäviä eroja jakelukanavien välillä. Prosesseissa havaittiin eroja, mutta ei kuitenkaan niin merkittäviä, että jokin jakelukanava voitaisiin nostaa selkeästi toisten edelle helpompana tai rajoitteista vapaampana vaihtoehtona.

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Electrochemical double-layer supercapacitors have an intermediate position between rechargeable batteries, which can store high amounts of energy, and dielectric capacitors, which have high output power. Supercapacitors are widely suggested to be used in automobiles (recuperation during braking, facilitate engine starting, electric stabilization of the system), industry (forklifts, elevators), hybrid off-road machinery and also in consumer electronics. Supercapacitor electrodes require highly porous material. Typically, activated carbon is used. Specific surface area of activated carbon is approximately 1000 m2 per gram. Carbon nanotubes represent one of prospective materials. According to numerous studies this material allows to improve the properties of supercapacitors. The task of this Master‘s Thesis was to test multiwalled carbon nanotubes and become confident with the testing methods.

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Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli kuvata ja ymmärtää tunneälymallin osa-alueiden ja transformationaalisen johtamisosaamisen ilmenemistä kosmetiikkatoimialalla toimivan case-yrityksen päälliköiden käytännön esimiestyössä. Aihetta tarkasteltiin teoreettisen viitekehyksen kautta empiirisesti myymäläpäälliköille tehdyn kvalitatiivisen teemahaastattelun ja kvantitatiivisin menetelmin kerätyn johtamisen itsearvion vastausten sekä alaisten antamien arvioiden avulla. Tutkimuksesta nousi esille useita yhteneväisyyksiä ja ristiriitaisuuksia aikaisempiin tunneälyn ja transformationaalisen johtamisen tutkimuksiin. Lähes kaikkien muuttujien tilastollisesti erittäin merkitsevät ja korkeat korrelaatiot nousivat tutkimuksen tuloksista yllätykseksi. Tuloksina havaittiin, että päälliköillä oli hyvin kehittyneet tunneälytaidot interpersonaallisten tekijöiden ja yleisen hyvinvoinnin alueilla sekä karismaattisen ja transaktionaalisen passiivisen johtamisen alueilla. Päälliköiden heikoiten kehittyneet tunneälytaidot olivat paineensietokyvyn alueilla. Johtopäätöksenä voitiin havaita esimiesten luovan positiivista palveluilmastoa sosiaalisen vuorovaikutuksen ja merkitysten luomisen kautta ja siten johtaminen perustui vahvasti käytännönläheiseen realismiin ja korkeaan tunneälyyn.

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Lempäälään aiotaan rakentaa uusi kaukolämpölaitos, jossa polttoaineena käytettäisiin haketta. Nykyään Lempäälässä tuotetaan kaukolämpöä maakaasulla, jonka käyttämisestä halutaan siirtyä käyttämään lähialueilta saatavaa biopolttoainetta. Tässä työssä halutaan selvittää, mitä hyötyjä saataisiin hakkeen koneellisesta kuivauksesta. Työn toisena tavoitteena on suunnitella ja pohtia biopolttoaineterminaalin rakentamista sekä käsitellä hakkeen varastointia yleensä. Työssä tutustutaan hakkeeseen aiheesta kertovan kirjallisuuden avulla. Työssä on myös laskettu hakkeen kuivauksesta saatavia hyötyjä hakkeen lämpöarvoon sekä energiatiheyteen. Erityisesti perehdytään metsätähdehakkeeseen, rankahakkeeseen, kuorihakkeeseen sekä sahanpuruun. Laskelmien tuloksista on havaittu, että suurin hyöty hakkeen energiatiheyden parantumisessa saadaan kun hake kuivataan 35 % kosteuspitoisuuteen. Tämän jälkeen energiatiheyden paraneminen tapahtuu hitaammin. Hakkeen kuivauksesta saadaan myös muita hyötyjä kuin energiatiheyden paraneminen. Kuivan hakkeen käsittelyn ja varastoinnin on havaittu olevan vaivattomampaa kuin märän hakkeen. Biopolttoaineterminaalin ja voimalaitoksen tulisi sijaita rinnakkain, jotta hakkeen kuivauksesta saadaan mahdollisimman kustannustehokasta. Näin ollen syntyisi myös säästöjä hakkeen kuljetuksen suhteen. Biopolttoaineterminaalin rakentamista varten tarvittaisiin tilaa alustavien laskelmien perusteella noin yksi hehtaari. Työssä on myös laskettu biopolttoaineterminaalin rakentamisesta aiheutuvia kustannuksia sekä hakkeen kuljetuksesta koituvia logistiikka kustannuksia. Haketerminaalin ja voimalaitoksen sijaintia Lempäälässä on myös kartoitettu.

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The birth of Internet technologies, the developments of fast fashion and multiple retailing channels have created a need for a new, more integrated way for doing retailing. Agility in fast fashion retailing could be seen as a significant way of responding to these changes and furthermore, as a way to respond to consumers’ altering demands. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which agile supply chains and integrated multichannel retailing influence the international fast fashion retailing. A framework for agility in retail was developed based on available theoretical considerations in distribution and communication channels. Qualitative research methods and qualitative content analysis were used. Four expert interviews were carried out to gain new perspectives to the objectives. The rest of the data was collected from an industry specific document, expert video and two expert lectures. Following the data collection, the research material was analyzed with qualitative content analysis. The empirical findings on agility in retail were presented based on a coding frame. It was found that agility in retail has multiple parts, which are overlapping and affecting one another. Furthermore, instead of viewing the agile supply chain and integrated multichannel retailing separately of each other as usual, it was found that they should be integrated, and the term “agility” was proposed to denote this approach. Also, it was found that the most common drivers and constrains of integrated multichannel retailing were the new Internet technologies and customer demand. Brick-and-mortar store, online store, mobile devices and social media were found to be the most common retailing channels. Furthermore, in-store technology, click-and-collect approach, NFC-buying, RFID-technology as well as 3D- digital simulations on fabrics and patterns will enhance agility even more in the future. In addition, environmental issues, customer experiences and communication will be important factors. This study has provided new practical insights for the future retailing. Furthermore, it has contributed to the academic research by discussing the traditional approaches of agility in fast fashion retail and bringing in new insights.

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Työn tarkoituksena oli luoda UPM Kaukaan sellutehtaan kaustisointi- ja meesauunialueelle kunnossapito-ohjelma, RCM eli luotettavuuskeskeinen kunnossapitomenetelmää käyttäen. Tavoitteena oli luoda ennakkohuolto-ohjelma, joka pohjautuu laitekriittisyyksiin sekä optimoida kohdealueen laitteiden varaosien varastointia. Perustaksi työlle luotiin uusi kriittisyysluokittelumalli, joka perustuu PSK 6800 standardiin. Tarvittavien ennakkohuoltotoimenpiteiden määrittämisen apuna käytettiin toimenpiteiden määritysmatriisia. Varaosavaraston optimointia varten luotiin varaosien varastointitarpeen määritysmatriisi. Prosessin suorittamisessa korostui laaja ja osaava projektiryhmä, jonka avulla asioiden läpikäynnissä oli tarvittavat tiedot saatavilla. Projektiryhmässä oli mukana sekä kunnossapidon että käytön henkilöitä. Kunnossapito-ohjelmasta muodostui erittäin kattava. Seisokkia vaativat toimenpiteet ovat aikataulutettu siten, että niitä suoritetaan tasaisesti vuoden aikana. Uusien huoltorivien ansiosta alueen kunnossapito selkeytyy paljon.

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Tietämyksen hyödyntäminen parantaa yrityksen arvontuotannon lopputuloksia - myös vähittäiskaupassa. Vähittäiskaupoille erityisesti asiakastietämys on erityisen tärkeää. Asiakastietämyksen suhteen vähittäiskaupat ovat periaatteessa erinomaisessa asemassa, koska niiden henkilökunta tapaa asiakkaita päivittäin. Viimeisen 20 - 30 vuoden aikana vähittäiskauppa on kuitenkin siirtynyt ketjuliiketoimintamalliin, jossa toiminnan tehostamiseksi suurin osa päätöksenteosta on keskitetty ketjuyksikköön pois asiakasrajapinnasta. Päätöksenteon tueksi tuotetaan runsaasti määrällistä tietoa, mutta ensikäden syvällistä tietämystä asiakkaista päätöksenteossa ei pystytä hyödyntämään. Tämän työn tavoite on ollut kehittää nykyaikaisille vähittäiskaupoille soveltuva tapa saada keskitetyn päätöksenteon tueksi ensikäden asiakastietämystä. Työn metodologia nojaa suunnittelutieteeseen ja konstruktiiviseen tutkimusotteeseen, joissa molemmissa keskeisessä roolissa on konstruktio, jolla pyritään sekä ratkaisemaan käytännön ongelma että tuottamaan uutta teoreettista tietoa. Työn viitekehys muodostuu tietämystä käsittelevästä kirjallisuudesta. Konstruktion muodostamista varten työssä on tutustuttu vähittäiskaupasta löytyviin esimerkkeihin hyödyntää asiakastietämystä. Lisäksi työssä on systematisoitu tietämyksen luomiseen liittyvää käsitteistöä arvoketjunäkökulmasta. Pohjatyön jälkeen muodostettu konstruktio ratkaisee tutkimusongelman liittämällä ketjuyksikön ja asiakasrajapinnan samaan tietämyksen luomisen kehään. Konstruktiossa hyödynnetään arvoketjun ominaisuuksia, tietotekniikkaa sekä arvoketjuun muodostuvia käytänneyhteisöitä. Näin konstruktiossa on pystytty huomioimaan sekä vähittäiskaupan arvoketjun erityispiirteet että tietämyksen luomisen edellytykset.

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The Travel and Tourism field is undergoing changes due to the rapid development of information technology and digital services. Online travel has profoundly changed the way travel and tourism organizations interact with their customers. Mobile technology such as mobile services for pocket devices (e.g. mobile phones) has the potential to take this development even further. Nevertheless, many issues have been highlighted since the early days of mobile services development (e.g. the lack of relevance, ease of use of many services). However, the wide adoption of smartphones and the mobile Internet in many countries as well as the formation of so-called ecosystems between vendors of mobile technology indicate that many of these issues have been overcome. Also when looking at the numbers of downloaded applications related to travel in application stores like Google Play, it seems obvious that mobile travel and tourism services are adopted and used by many individuals. However, as business is expected to start booming in the mobile era, many issues have a tendency to be overlooked. Travelers are generally on the go and thus services that work effectively in mobile settings (e.g. during a trip) are essential. Hence, the individuals’ perceived drivers and barriers to use mobile travel and tourism services in on-site or during trip settings seem particularly valuable to understand; thus this is one primary aim of the thesis. We are, however, also interested in understanding different types of mobile travel service users. Individuals may indeed be very different in their propensity to adopt and use technology based innovations (services). Research is also switching more from investigating issues of mobile service development to understanding individuals’ usage patterns of mobile services. But designing new mobile services may be a complex matter from a service provider perspective. Hence, our secondary aim is to provide insights into drivers and barriers of mobile travel and tourism service development from a holistic business model perspective. To accomplish the research objectives seven different studies have been conducted over a time period from 2002 – 2013. The studies are founded on and contribute to theories within diffusion of innovations, technology acceptance, value creation, user experience and business model development. Several different research methods are utilized: surveys, field and laboratory experiments and action research. The findings suggest that a successful mobile travel and tourism service is a service which supports one or several mobile motives (needs) of individuals such as spontaneous needs, time-critical arrangements, efficiency ambitions, mobility related needs (location features) and entertainment needs. The service could be customized to support travelers’ style of traveling (e.g. organized travel or independent travel) and should be easy to use, especially easy to take into use (access, install and learn) during a trip, without causing security concerns and/or financial risks for the user. In fact, the findings suggest that the most prominent barrier to the use of mobile travel and tourism services during a trip is an individual’s perceived financial cost (entry costs and usage costs). It should, however, be noted that regulations are put in place in the EU regarding data roaming prices between European countries and national telecom operators are starting to see ‘international data subscriptions’ as a sales advantage (e.g. Finnish Sonera provides a data subscription in the Baltic and Nordic region at the same price as in Finland), which will enhance the adoption of mobile travel and tourism services also in international contexts. In order to speed up the adoption rate travel service providers could consider e.g. more local initiatives of free Wi-Fi networks, development of services that can be used, at least to some extent, in an offline mode (do not require costly network access during a trip) and cooperation with telecom operators (e.g. lower usage costs for travelers who use specific mobile services or travel with specific vendors). Furthermore, based on a developed framework for user experience of mobile trip arrangements, the results show that a well-designed mobile site and/or native application, which preferably supports integration with other mobile services, is a must for true mobile presence. In fact, travel service providers who want to build a relationship with their customers need to consider a downloadable native application, but in order to be found through the mobile channel and make contact with potential new customers, a mobile website should be available. Moreover, we have made a first attempt with cluster analysis to identify user categories of mobile services in a travel and tourism context. The following four categories were identified: info-seekers, checkers, bookers and all-rounders. For example “all-rounders”, represented primarily by individuals who use their pocket device for almost any of the investigated mobile travel services, constituted primarily of 23 to 50 year old males with high travel frequency and great online experience. The results also indicate that travel service providers will increasingly become multi-channel providers. To manage multiple online channels, closely integrated and hybrid online platforms for different devices, supporting all steps in a traveler process should be considered. It could be useful for travel service providers to focus more on developing browser-based mobile services (HTML5-solutions) than native applications that work only with specific operating systems and for specific devices. Based on an action research study and utilizing a holistic business model framework called STOF we found that HTML5 as an emerging platform, at least for now, has some limitations regarding the development of the user experience and monetizing the application. In fact, a native application store (e.g. Google Play) may be a key mediator in the adoption of mobile travel and tourism services both from a traveler and a service provider perspective. Moreover, it must be remembered that many device and mobile operating system developers want service providers to specifically create services for their platforms and see native applications as a strategic advantage to sell more devices of a certain kind. The mobile telecom industry has moved into a battle of ecosystems where device makers, developers of operating systems and service developers are to some extent forced to choose their development platforms.

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Video transcoding refers to the process of converting a digital video from one format into another format. It is a compute-intensive operation. Therefore, transcoding of a large number of simultaneous video streams requires a large amount of computing resources. Moreover, to handle di erent load conditions in a cost-e cient manner, the video transcoding service should be dynamically scalable. Infrastructure as a Service Clouds currently offer computing resources, such as virtual machines, under the pay-per-use business model. Thus the IaaS Clouds can be leveraged to provide a coste cient, dynamically scalable video transcoding service. To use computing resources e ciently in a cloud computing environment, cost-e cient virtual machine provisioning is required to avoid overutilization and under-utilization of virtual machines. This thesis presents proactive virtual machine resource allocation and de-allocation algorithms for video transcoding in cloud computing. Since users' requests for videos may change at di erent times, a check is required to see if the current computing resources are adequate for the video requests. Therefore, the work on admission control is also provided. In addition to admission control, temporal resolution reduction is used to avoid jitters in a video. Furthermore, in a cloud computing environment such as Amazon EC2, the computing resources are more expensive as compared with the storage resources. Therefore, to avoid repetition of transcoding operations, a transcoded video needs to be stored for a certain time. To store all videos for the same amount of time is also not cost-e cient because popular transcoded videos have high access rate while unpopular transcoded videos are rarely accessed. This thesis provides a cost-e cient computation and storage trade-o strategy, which stores videos in the video repository as long as it is cost-e cient to store them. This thesis also proposes video segmentation strategies for bit rate reduction and spatial resolution reduction video transcoding. The evaluation of proposed strategies is performed using a message passing interface based video transcoder, which uses a coarse-grain parallel processing approach where video is segmented at group of pictures level.

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This doctoral thesis introduces an improved control principle for active du/dt output filtering in variable-speed AC drives, together with performance comparisons with previous filtering methods. The effects of power semiconductor nonlinearities on the output filtering performance are investigated. The nonlinearities include the timing deviation and the voltage pulse waveform distortion in the variable-speed AC drive output bridge. Active du/dt output filtering (ADUDT) is a method to mitigate motor overvoltages in variable-speed AC drives with long motor cables. It is a quite recent addition to the du/dt reduction methods available. This thesis improves on the existing control method for the filter, and concentrates on the lowvoltage (below 1 kV AC) two-level voltage-source inverter implementation of the method. The ADUDT uses narrow voltage pulses having a duration in the order of a microsecond from an IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) inverter to control the output voltage of a tuned LC filter circuit. The filter output voltage has thus increased slope transition times at the rising and falling edges, with an opportunity of no overshoot. The effect of the longer slope transition times is a reduction in the du/dt of the voltage fed to the motor cable. Lower du/dt values result in a reduction in the overvoltage effects on the motor terminals. Compared with traditional output filtering methods to accomplish this task, the active du/dt filtering provides lower inductance values and a smaller physical size of the filter itself. The filter circuit weight can also be reduced. However, the power semiconductor nonlinearities skew the filter control pulse pattern, resulting in control deviation. This deviation introduces unwanted overshoot and resonance in the filter. The controlmethod proposed in this thesis is able to directly compensate for the dead time-induced zero-current clamping (ZCC) effect in the pulse pattern. It gives more flexibility to the pattern structure, which could help in the timing deviation compensation design. Previous studies have shown that when a motor load current flows in the filter circuit and the inverter, the phase leg blanking times distort the voltage pulse sequence fed to the filter input. These blanking times are caused by excessively large dead time values between the IGBT control pulses. Moreover, the various switching timing distortions, present in realworld electronics when operating with a microsecond timescale, bring additional skew to the control. Left uncompensated, this results in distortion of the filter input voltage and a filter self-induced overvoltage in the form of an overshoot. This overshoot adds to the voltage appearing at the motor terminals, thus increasing the transient voltage amplitude at the motor. This doctoral thesis investigates the magnitude of such timing deviation effects. If the motor load current is left uncompensated in the control, the filter output voltage can overshoot up to double the input voltage amplitude. IGBT nonlinearities were observed to cause a smaller overshoot, in the order of 30%. This thesis introduces an improved ADUDT control method that is able to compensate for phase leg blanking times, giving flexibility to the pulse pattern structure and dead times. The control method is still sensitive to timing deviations, and their effect is investigated. A simple approach of using a fixed delay compensation value was tried in the test setup measurements. The ADUDT method with the new control algorithm was found to work in an actual motor drive application. Judging by the simulation results, with the delay compensation, the method should ultimately enable an output voltage performance and a du/dt reduction that are free from residual overshoot effects. The proposed control algorithm is not strictly required for successful ADUDT operation: It is possible to precalculate the pulse patterns by iteration and then for instance store them into a look-up table inside the control electronics. Rather, the newly developed control method is a mathematical tool for solving the ADUDT control pulses. It does not contain the timing deviation compensation (from the logic-level command to the phase leg output voltage), and as such is not able to remove the timing deviation effects that cause error and overshoot in the filter. When the timing deviation compensation has to be tuned-in in the control pattern, the precalculated iteration method could prove simpler and equally good (or even better) compared with the mathematical solution with a separate timing compensation module. One of the key findings in this thesis is the conclusion that the correctness of the pulse pattern structure, in the sense of ZCC and predicted pulse timings, cannot be separated from the timing deviations. The usefulness of the correctly calculated pattern is reduced by the voltage edge timing errors. The doctoral thesis provides an introductory background chapter on variable-speed AC drives and the problem of motor overvoltages and takes a look at traditional solutions for overvoltage mitigation. Previous results related to the active du/dt filtering are discussed. The basic operation principle and design of the filter have been studied previously. The effect of load current in the filter and the basic idea of compensation have been presented in the past. However, there was no direct way of including the dead time in the control (except for solving the pulse pattern manually by iteration), and the magnitude of nonlinearity effects had not been investigated. The enhanced control principle with the dead time handling capability and a case study of the test setup timing deviations are the main contributions of this doctoral thesis. The simulation and experimental setup results show that the proposed control method can be used in an actual drive. Loss measurements and a comparison of active du/dt output filtering with traditional output filtering methods are also presented in the work. Two different ADUDT filter designs are included, with ferrite core and air core inductors. Other filters included in the tests were a passive du/dtfilter and a passive sine filter. The loss measurements incorporated a silicon carbide diode-equipped IGBT module, and the results show lower losses with these new device technologies. The new control principle was measured in a 43 A load current motor drive system and was able to bring the filter output peak voltage from 980 V (the previous control principle) down to 680 V in a 540 V average DC link voltage variable-speed drive. A 200 m motor cable was used, and the filter losses for the active du/dt methods were 111W–126 W versus 184 W for the passive du/dt. In terms of inverter and filter losses, the active du/dt filtering method had a 1.82-fold increase in losses compared with an all-passive traditional du/dt output filter. The filter mass with the active du/dt method was 17% (2.4 kg, air-core inductors) compared with 14 kg of the passive du/dt method filter. Silicon carbide freewheeling diodes were found to reduce the inverter losses in the active du/dt filtering by 18% compared with the same IGBT module with silicon diodes. For a 200 m cable length, the average peak voltage at the motor terminals was 1050 V with no filter, 960 V for the all-passive du/dt filter, and 700 V for the active du/dt filtering applying the new control principle.

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Tämän pro gradu -tutkielman tavoitteena oli esitellä ja analysoida osaami-sen johtamista sekä tuottaa käytännön suosituksia Alko Oy:n myymälöiden lähiesimiehille heidän henkilökuntansa osaamisen kehittämiseksi. Tämän lisäksi tutkimuksessa pyrittiin kerätyn aineiston avulla luomaan ymmärrys siitä, miten osaamisen johtamiset keinot vaikuttavat asiakastyytyväisyyteen. Tutkimus toteutettiin vertailevana tapaustutkimuksena ja tutkimusaineistoa kerättiin sekä kvantitatiivisella että kvalitatiivisella tutkimusmenetelmällä. Kohdeyrityksen myyjille lähetettiin kyselylomake heidän esimiestensä osaamisen johtamisen toimista, ja kyselystä saadun tiedon syventämiseksi haastateltiin kahdeksaa myymäläpäällikköä osaamisen johtamisen teemoista. Tutkimuksen perusteella pystyttiin muodostaman käsitys siitä, mistä osaa-misen johtaminen koostuu ja miten paremman ja heikomman osaamisen omaavien myymälöiden esimiesten toimet eroavat toisistaan. Vastausten perusteella saatiin myös ymmärrys niistä osa-alueista, joita kohdeyrityksen esimiesten toiminnassa pitäisi pyrkiä kehittämään. Osaamisen kehittämisen perustan muodostavat esimiehen oma esimerkki ja oppimiseen kannustava ilmapiiri. Esimies, joka onnistuu suuntaamaan henkilökuntansa oppimisen tukemaan organisaation tavoitteita, osaa henkilökohtaistaa yhtiön strategian sopimaan jokaisen toimenkuvaan. Oppimisen tukemisessa vaaditaan esimieheltä vahvaa henkilökunnan tuntemusta, tavoitteiden asettamista ja niiden toteutumisen seurantaa. Tutkimus osoitti esimiesten olevan pääsääntöisesti innostuneita työstään ja onnistuvan osaamisen suuntaamisen toimissa hyvin. Esimiehet voisivat kehittää toimintaansa ottamalla oman henkilökuntansa mukaan toiminnan suunnitteluun ja vastuuttamalla heitä myymälän toiminnan ja oman ammattitaitonsa jatkuvaan kehittämiseen.

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Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014