Search for dissertations about: "CLAIRE"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the word CLAIRE.

  2. 6. Teaching in an age of complexity : exploring academic change and development in higher education

    Author : Claire Englund; Anders D. Olofsson; Linda Price; Shirley Booth; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Higher Education; Academic Development; Educational Technology; Conceptions of Teaching and Learning; Cultural-Historical Activity Theory; Change and Development; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : Higher education (HE) has expanded and diversified at an unprecedented rate over the last two decades in response to a rapidly changing educational and political climate. Change and development are omnipresent, a constant part of university teachers’ sociocultural and organisational practice at multiple levels; the micro-level, the meso-level and the macro-level Against this background, the aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that influence academic change. READ MORE

  4. 7. Sleepiness : night work, time zones and activity

    Author : Claire Anne Eriksen; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Sleep; work hours; aircrew; influence over work hours; context; activity;

    Abstract : Shift work and travel across time zones affect sleep and alertness negatively, and hence influence accident rate. Self-selected work hours, contextual, and environmental factors affect sleepiness, but it is unclear exactly how. READ MORE

  5. 8. Crowds, Coins and Communities : Digital Entrepreneuring in Emerging Financial Infrastructures

    Author : Claire Ingram Bogusz; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Digitalisation, or activities mediated by digital technologies, is more than the movement of pre-digital practices to digital environments. Instead, it fundamentally changes underlying practices. This thesis studies digitalisation in the field of finance, as entrepreneurs reinvent existing financial infrastructures, piece by piece. READ MORE

  6. 9. DNA-Photosensitization by New Drugs for Photoinactivation of Viruses and Phototherapy of Tumors

    Author : Claire Kanony; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; 7; hydroxyl radicals; singlet oxygen; 8-dihydro-8-oxo-deoxyguanosine; pyropheophorbides; electron transfer; DNA damage; hydrogen abstraction; cyanine dyes;

    Abstract : Cyanines and pyropheophorbides are two classes of photoactivable dyes which are particularly interesting for photosterilization of blood used in transfusion and for treatment of localised cancers by photodynamic therapy (PDT). After a bibliographic review about the principal mechanisms of DNA photosensitization, studies about the photosensitizing properties of these two families of compounds are presented. READ MORE

  7. 10. Assessment of cognition in ageing. Investigating internal validity, occurrence and reversion of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Data from the general population study “Good Aging in Skåne”

    Author : Marie Claire Overton; Geriatrik; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Ageing; Older adults; Cognition; validity; test administrator effects; cohort effects; Mild cognitive impairment;

    Abstract : Given a growing population of older adults and the common occurrence of natural as well as pathological cognitive decline, i.e. dementia, there is a need to better understand how to accurately measure and classify level of cognitive functioning. READ MORE