Search for dissertations about: "book of Ruth"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 swedish dissertations containing the words book of Ruth.

2. 1. Costs and Benefits of Delegation : Managerial Discretion as a Bridge between Strategic Management and Corporate Governance

   Author : Yuliya Ponomareva; Sven-Olof Yrjö Collin; Ruth Aguilera; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Managerial discretion; board of directors; agency theory; delegation; control; transition economy; Sweden; Ekonomistyrning; Ekonomistyrning;

   Abstract : This dissertation addresses the question of effective delegation, exploring it through the concept of managerial discretion (i.e., a latitude of managerial actions, which lie in the zone of shareholders’ acceptance). READ MORE

4. 2. Survival of the Tamest : The Domesticated Phenotype in Red Junglefowl Selected for Tameness

   Author : Rebecca Katajamaa; Per Jensen; Dominic Wright; Ruth C. Newberry; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; domestication; chicken; red junglefowl; tameness; brain size; behaviour; cognition; body size;

   Abstract : Early animal domestication was probably associated with reduced fear of humans. Domestication is a process in which animals adapt to humans and the captive environment provided by humans. Selection on tameness as the only trait has previously been found to generate changes in other phenotypes in different animal species. READ MORE

5. 3. Celebrating with Words : Studies in the Rhetorical Works of the Gaza School

   Author : David Westberg; Jan Olof Rosenqvist; Ruth Webb; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gaza school; Late Antique rhetoric; Late Antique oratory; epideictic; Choricius of Gaza; Procopius of Gaza; classical tradition; mimesis; panegyric; funeral speeches; wedding speeches; ecphrasis; Classical philology; Klassiska språk; Greek; grekiska;

   Abstract : This study investigates the School of Gaza, a circle of rhetoricians in Late Antique Palestine. Special attention is paid to Choricius and Procopius of Gaza, and in particular to their epideictic works. READ MORE

6. 4. A Critique of the Live Project

   Author : James Benedict Brown; Ruth Morrow; Queen’s University Belfast Architecture & Civil Engineering School of Planning; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; education; pedagogik;

   Abstract : This thesis develops a critique (understood as “a detailed analysis and assessment of something,” Oxford English Dictionary, 2010a) of the live project by theoretically contextualising live project pedagogies. Unlike preceding doctoral research into the live project (Sara, 2004; and to a lesser extent Carpenter, 2004 and Findlay, 1996), this thesis does not adopt a position of advocacy regarding live projects; but considers them as opportunities for architectural educators to experiment with the discipline and its pedagogies. READ MORE

7. 5. Significance and Diversity of Lake Bacteriophages

   Author : David Lymer; Eva Lindström; Lars Tranvik; Ruth-Anne Sandaa; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; viral ecology; lake; bacteriophage; diversity; phosphorus; Freshwater ecology; Limnisk ekologi;

   Abstract : Viruses has a relatively recently been discovered in high abundances in aquatic systems. Their possible importance has therefore been largely overlooked. READ MORE