Search for dissertations about: "Household structure"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 68 swedish dissertations containing the words Household structure.

  2. 11. Isolation, Characterization and Material Properties of Arabinoxylan from Barley

    Author : Anders Höije; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; chemical structure; moisture content; film formation; Arabinoxylan; isolation; mechanical properties; oxygen permeability;

    Abstract : The growing amount of household waste and the limited supply of fossil fuel on earth make it important to find renewable resources for the production of biodegradable polymers for a variety of applications, particularly as packaging and other disposable products. Hemicelluloses are important components in all plants and the second most abundant plant biopolymers on earth. READ MORE

  4. 12. The workings of co-operation : A comparative study of consumer co-operative organisation in Britain and Sweden, 1860-1970

    Author : Katarina Friberg; Peter Aronsson; Mary Hilson; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; consumer co-operation; organisational logic; consumer demand; comparative method; retail trade; legislation for co-operation; household economy; History; Historia;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the workings of co-operation. It proceeds by way of a two-case comparative study, where the units of comparison are local consumer co-operatives: the Newcastle upon Tyne Co-operative Society Ltd., situated in the north-east of England, and Konsumentföreningen Solidar in Malmö, in the south-west of Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 13. Inequality, Globalization and Health

    Author : Therese Nilsson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Liberalization; Height-for-age; Life expectancy; Inequality measurement; Multidimensionality; Globalization; Inequality; Health; Household data; Panel data; Zambia;

    Abstract : This thesis contains four independent studies that analyze various aspects of the nexus of inequality, globalization, and health with the aim to build our knowledge so some of the empirical relationships connecting these three concepts. Using data on four welfare attributes in Zambian households, Chapter 2 explores three approaches to evaluate multidimensional inequality. READ MORE

  6. 14. Servants of Fortune. The Swedish court between 1598 and 1721

    Author : Fabian Persson; Eva Österberg; MJ Rodriguez-Salgado; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; aristocracy; informal power; patronage; prosopography; Court; royal household; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; History; Historia;

    Abstract : In what has been seen as an age of increasing bureaucratisation, did it matter who was close to the monarch? Since the monarch embodied supreme wordly power, the way in which daily life at court was organised was of great importance. One function of the early modern court was, in the words of Geoffrey Elton, to act as a point of contact between monarch and élite. READ MORE

  7. 15. Success at work and in family life : studies in selected Western fertility and family dynamics

    Author : Diana Corman; Elizabeth Thomson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Nativitet; Familjebildning; Invandrare; Sverige; Frankrike; 1970-talet; 1980-talet; 1990-talet; Nativity; Family structure; Immigrants; Sweden; France; demografi; Demography;

    Abstract : This thesis contains three studies that address the issues of childbearing and working life and the connection between working life and success in family life. The first two studies investigate third-birth rates in two West-European countries, based on two national surveys concerning the family and working life. READ MORE