Search for dissertations about: "DON"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 48 swedish dissertations containing the word DON.

  2. 26. Articulating Alienation : The History and Experience of Subsumption in Rural Kigoma, Tanzania

    Author : Karolina Wallin Fernqvist; Tom Mels; Don Mitchell; Roderick P. Neumann; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; alienation; subsumption; practice; experience; Tanzania; capitalist extension; agricultural change;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the extension of capitalism in a village in Kigoma Region, Northwest Tanzania, from the point of view of how people experience it. Relying on ten months of field work, interviews, and archival material from the British colonial period, it shows how local conditions of production, and the experiences thereof, are influenced by wider processes of change on a regional, national, and global level. READ MORE

  4. 27. Scenes of Writing, Scenes of Looking : Don DeLillo, Claus Beck-Nielsen, and the Politics of the Novel

    Author : Morten Feldtfos Thomsen; Per Bäckström; John Sundholm; Karen S. Jacobs; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; DeLillo; Beck-Nielsen; literature; aesthetics; politics; technology; imagetext; W.J.T. Mitchell; print novel; visual culture; media; intermediality; Rancière; multimodality; materiality; image; vision; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : Cries of the death of the novel and even of literature in general have become cultural commonplaces. In an age seemingly dominated by digital spectacle, many seem to think that traditional print literature has become an almost obsolete cultural practice, bereft of any critical social and political relevance. READ MORE

  5. 28. Utilization of terrestrially derived dissolved organic nitrogen by aquatic bacteria

    Author : Ramunas Stepanauskas; Biologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; amino acids; spring flood; UV radiation; estuarine mixing; microbial loop; bacterial bioassays; marine eutrophication; bioavailability; Dissolved organic nitrogen; DON; extracellular aminopeptidase; Baltic Sea; Hydrobiology; marine biology; aquatic ecology; limnology; Marinbiologi; limnologi; akvatisk ekologi;

    Abstract : I investigated the bacterial utilization of terrestrially derived dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in aquatic ecosystems, and assessed the potential role of river-born DON in marine eutrophication. To determine the bioavailability of DON, I developed a bioassay employing N-limited bacterial regrowth cultures, which were calibrated with additions of inorganic nitrogen. READ MORE

  6. 29. Microphytobenthos and Nitrogen Fluxes, with Special Emphasis on Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (DON)

    Author : Frank Linares; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

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  7. 30. Specific anti-tumour effects of 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine (DON) on carcinoid tumour cells

    Author : Feng Wu; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Medical sciences; carcinoid tumour; diazo-oxo-L-norleucine; mitochondria; apoptosis; PET; MEDICIN OCH VÅRD; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; Medicine; medicin;

    Abstract : Glutamine is essential for cell growth. 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine (DON) is a rather old anti-tumour drug developed as a glutamine antagonist. Previous clinical trials with DON, not including carcinoid tumours, did not prove convincing. Hence the drug was not further used. READ MORE