Search for dissertations about: "Kathy"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Kathy.

  2. 1. On dopamine neurons : nerve fiber outgrowth and L-DOPA effects

    Author : Sara af Bjerkén; Ingrid Strömberg; Kathy Steece-Collier; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; dopamine; nerve fiber outgrowth; astrocytes; ventral mesencephalon; GDNF; L-DOPA; L-DOPA induced dyskinesia; Neurobiology; Neurobiologi;

    Abstract : Parkinson’s disease is a disorder mainly characterized by progressive degeneration of dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain. The most commonly used treatment strategy is to pharmacologically restore the lost function by the administration of the dopaminergic precursor L-DOPA. READ MORE

  4. 2. The significance of risk adjustment for the assessment of results in intensive care. : An analysis of risk adjustment models used in Swedish intensive care

    Author : Lars Engerström; Sten M. Walther; Folke Sjöberg; Mats Fredrikson; Kathy Rowan; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Abstract : To study the development of mortality in intensive care over time or compare different departments, you need some kind of risk adjustment to make analysis meaningful since patient survival varies with severity of the disease. With the aid of a risk adjustment model, expected mortality can be calculated. READ MORE

  5. 3. Intersectional intersectionality? Interpretative politics in metacommentaries on intersectionality

    Author : Amund Rake Hoffart; Liisa Husu; Lena Gunnarsson; Kathy Davis; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Feminist theory; intersectionality; additivity; paradigm; storytelling;

    Abstract : The claim that intersectionality has become a dominant paradigm for feminist scholarship and activism constitutes the backdrop to this study. One central arena for making such claims is the genre of metacommentaries on intersectionality. READ MORE

  6. 4. Reconfiguring Subjectivity : Experimental Narrative and Deleuzean Immanence

    Author : Frida Beckman; Danuta Fjellestad; David Watson; Patricia Yaeger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Subjectivity; Gilles Deleuze; immanence; repetition; univocity; the event; Kathy Acker; David Mack; David Lynch.; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to re-think subjectivity in constructive rather than deconstructive terms of disintegration and dismantling. This shift is effected through a reading of Gilles Deleuze that brings together two concepts that are incompatible in his philosophy – immanence and subjectivity – and by my reading of three fictional texts that engage Deleuze in a generative dialogue. READ MORE