Search for dissertations about: "Christina Stage"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words Christina Stage.

  2. 1. A perfect score : Validity arguments for college admission tests

    Author : Per-Erik Lyrén; Christina Stage; Marie Wiberg; Simon Wolming; Stephen G. Sireci; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : college admission tests; SweSAT; validity; interpretive arguments; predictive validity; equating; item revisions; subscores;

    Abstract : College admission tests are of great importance for admissions systems in general and for candidates in particular. The SweSAT (Högskoleprovet in Swedish) has been used for college admission in Sweden for more than 30 years, and today it is alongside with the upper-secondary school GPA the most widely used instrument for selection of college applicants. READ MORE

  4. 2. Care and services at home for persons with dementia. Structure, process, and outcomes

    Author : Christina Bökberg; Äldres hälsa och personcentrerad vård; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Dementia; Quality of life; Quality of care; Home care; Nursing; Person-centred care; Chain of care; Lawton s press competence model;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate formal care and services at home, regarding structure, process, and outcomes, for persons with dementia (aged 65+ years) at risk of nursing home admission. Availability and utilization of formal care and services at home for persons with dementia, from diagnosis to end-of-life stage, in eight European countries was described in study I. READ MORE

  5. 3. Transcriptional networks in neuroblastoma and breast cancer

    Author : Christina Manetopoulos; Institutionen för translationell medicin; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medicin människa och djur ; Medicine human and vertebrates ; basic helix-loop-helix; Neuroblastoma; Breast cancer;

    Abstract : Transcription factors of the basic Helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family of proteins are important regulators of cellular processes such as proliferation and differentiation. Many cancer diseases show a block in differentiation, and aberrant regulation of several bHLH factors have been implicated in the development of different malignancies. READ MORE

  6. 4. Gonad development and male gametogenesis

    Author : Christina Österlund; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Testicular and ovarian organogenesis involve a pathway of developmental genes which are differentially regulated in males and females. In mammals, sex determination is controlled by a dominant gene, SRY, located on the Y chromosome. READ MORE

  7. 5. Secondary metabolites from the saprotrophic fungus Granulobasidium vellereum

    Author : Christina Nord; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The production of secondary metabolites by the saprotrophic fungus Granulobasidium vellereum was investigated. G. vellereum is a wood decomposing basidiomycete fungus that arrives at dead trunks of fallen hard wood trees at a later stage of the decomposition process and hence need to outcompete the organisms already colonizing the site. READ MORE