Search for dissertations about: "Cognitive status"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 271 swedish dissertations containing the words Cognitive status.
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16. Agency and Artefacts : A cognitive semiotic exploration of design
Abstract : This thesis investigates the role of artefacts in relation to human agency and design within a cognitive semiotics framework. It deals with questions such as What is agency? What are artefacts and how does agency relate to them? What kind of intentions are involved in the activity of designing? What is human-specific with respect to agency and design? How can the origins and evolution of design be explained? Addressing these questions, the thesis proposes a layered model of agency for explaining the relations between different grades of agentive complexity. READ MORE
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17. Coping, Personality and Cognitive Processes in Burn Injured Patients
Abstract : Being severely burned is a traumatic life event that affects the victim both physically and psychologically. Recovery can be a long process that is dependent in part upon psychological factors, but research in this area is still quite limited. READ MORE
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18. Individual Differences in Multitasking : Support for Spatiotemporal Offloading
Abstract : In both the private and work spheres, multitasking among three or more activities has become and is continuing to evolve as a pervasive element of everyday life, and recent technological advances only seem to be exacerbating the process. Despite attempts to understand the mental processes that let humans successfully multitask, little is known about the functional cognitive level at which these mental processes take place. READ MORE
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19. Pain management in older persons with hip fractures
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate the preoperative management of pain from the perspectives of a literature overview, emergency medical service pain management, an intervention with a fascia iliaca compartment block and the association between cognitive status and the treatment of pain. Paper 1 is an integrative review of the literature on emergency care in patients with hip fractures or suspected hip fractures. READ MORE
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20. Periodontal disease and cognitive disorders
Abstract : Periodontitis and tooth loss have been suggested to be putative aetiological risk factors for dementia and cognitive dysfunction. The identification of new dementia risk factors could lead to new preventive strategies for dementia. READ MORE