Search for dissertations about: "Country risk"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 318 swedish dissertations containing the words Country risk.
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16. Learning from miners' risk management : a case study from the Swedish mining industry
Abstract : This historical - empirical case study deals with miners' collective safety and risk management of an occupational lung disease (Silicosis) at Laisvall lead mine from 1943-1953. About 45 miners contracted the disease and the deaths of 25 are documented. READ MORE
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17. Ethical Issues in the Adoption and Implementation of Vision Zero Policies in Road Safety
Abstract : The aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyze ethical issues in the adoption and implementation of Vision Zero policies. The first article analyses criticisms against Vision Zero goals and measures promoted to reach them. We identify and assess “moral”, “operational”, and “rationality-based” arguments against Vision Zero. READ MORE
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18. Self-Control and Altruism
Abstract : This thesis consists of two theoretical papers on self-control (Chapters 1-2) and four empirical papers (3-6) of which two (Chapter 5 and 6) explore determinants of pro-social behavior, while the other two (Chapters 3-4) examine the relationship between self-control and prosocial behavior. (1) “A Theory of Self-Control-Conflict: The Pyrrhic Motions of Reason and Passion. READ MORE
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19. From Pioneers to Target Group : Social Change, Ethnicity and Memory in a Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Community
Abstract : This thesis focused on an examination of human agency and strategies for responding to rapid social and economic change. Fieldwork was carried out in the community of Visaginas town that was built during the Soviet period in Lithuania. The town is situated next to the Ignalina nuclear power plant. READ MORE
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20. Estimation of risk in the field of osteoporosis
Abstract : Introduction: Osteoporosis has been recognised as an established and well-defined disease that affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan. Osteoporosis has been operationally defined by the WHO on the basis of bone mineral density (BMD) assessment. READ MORE