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(University of Malta, Faculty of Arts, Department of History, 2024)This is a comparative study of the two small island states of Iceland and Malta in 1960-2000. It focuses on the role of the two governments as they enacted public policies, intervened in the functioning of their economies and foreign trade, invested ... -
(University of Oxford, Kellogg College, Department of Psychiatry, 2021)Given the prevalence and substantial economic costs of anxiety disorders, and the shortcomings of current treatments, there is dire need for research that helps inform the development of new treatments and medications. The aim of this thesis was ...
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The relationship between international and national law: re-visiting concepts of dualism and monism (University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, 2022-01-14)The relationship between international and national law is increasingly being tested by jurisdictions and decisions of international courts. International courts have multiplied in the last two decades and have become permanent and active participants ...
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(University of Washington, 2015)Nearly all bridge bents (intermediate supports) are constructed of cast-in-place reinforced concrete. Such bridges have served the nation well in the past, but to meet current design expectations, they need to be improved in three areas: 1) speed of ...
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(The University of Iowa, 2011)Rising health care costs place increased burden on patients, health care personnel, administrators and policymakers. Decisions in health care are influenced by data which can be transferred into valuable information and knowledge. Data sets that ...
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(The New School for Social Research, 1999)This dissertation elucidates the adoption o f the notion o f purity and its central role in the process o f national identity making in Iceland. The purpose of such an examination is to add to anthropology's critical understanding of the joint processes ...
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(University of Wisconsin, 1991)This study concerns a reform in elementary education in Iceland, beginning in the late 1960s. The reform has been presented as one of the key links in a chain of projects toward modernizing Iceland, and the educationists who were involved in the reform ...
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(Faculty of Science and Technology of Århus University, 2019-11)This thesis covers experimental work conducted within two distinct fields of cold-atom physics. The first part describes an experiment capable of spatially-selective dispersive measurements of a cold-atomic system in part or in whole, by virtue of a ...
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(University of Vienna, 2012)The thesis covers one of the investment standards of international investment law, namely the full protection and security standard. In Part I, the study is introduced in terms of structure and substance. Chapter 1 provides a description of the scope ...
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(Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009)Autoimmune diseases occur in up to 3-5% of the general population and represent a diverse collection of diseases with regards to clinical manifestations. The unifying factor of autoimmune diseases is tissue and organ damage as a result of an immune ...
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(Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2015)Domestic animals have rich phenotypic diversity that can be explored to advance our understanding of the relationship between molecular genetics and phenotypic variation. Since the advent of second generation sequencing, it has become easier to ...
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(Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Educational Sciences and Mathematics., 2015)This thesis has two overarching aims. The first is to generate further knowledge about Swedish independent schools, specifically regarding the organisation and provision of special support and how these relate to special educational traditions and ...
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(University of California, Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1987)
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Accidents between pedestrians, bicyclists and motorized vehicles: Accident risk and injury severity (Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, 2015)The aims of this work are to better understand (1) the relation between exposure and the risk of an accident between pedestrians and between motorized vehicles and between bicyclists and motorized vehicles occurring at urban intersections and (2) how ...
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(Linnaeus University Press, 2019)Aim: The aim of this thesis was to achieve a deeper understanding of the situation among women experiencing perinatal distress during pregnancy and childbirth and the effects that dissatisfaction in partner relationship and weak social support from ...
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(Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, 2016)
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(California Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis considers the problem of detecting and estimating highly oscillatory signals from noisy measurements. These signals are often referred to as chirps in the literature; they are found everywhere in nature, and frequently arise in scientific ...
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(Karolinska Institutet, Department of Tumor Biology, 1989-10-27)The aim of this study has been tq identify the structural changes during c-myc activation · in relation to tumor pathogenesis, to characterize the Bmyc gene, and to compare the structure and expression of myc gene family members. The myc family members ...
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Perplexities of the Personal and the Political: How Women’s Liberation Became Women’s Human Rights (Umeå Universitet, 2018-10-19)In this dissertation, I analyze understandings and employment of the idea that ‘the personal is political’ and how it appears in feminist politico-theoretical thought and activism in the period from the late 1960s until the middle of 1990s. My focus ...
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(City University, London, 2009)Variations on the act of listening: Twenty-one orchestra audience development events in light of John Dewey’s ‘art as experience’ metaphor This thesis is a contribution to a critical debate about the role and impact of audience development theory on ...