Search for dissertations about: "MEMORIES"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 202 swedish dissertations containing the word MEMORIES.
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1. Negotiating Memories : Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia
Abstract : This thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of victimhood as constructed in narratives. To this end, it explores how people who have been socially and politically ascribed as perpetrators construct and negotiate victimhood through narratives after a period of war and mass atrocity and how they are represented in narratives and practices of memorialization. READ MORE
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2. Beyond the noise of time : readings of Marina Tsvetaeva’s memories of childhood
Abstract : Although quite a few researchers have pointed to the significance of the childhood theme in Tsvetaeva’s work, no systematic analysis of her work has been done from this perspective. Nor have her childhood reminiscences been treated as a thematically consistent whole, but have rather been read as instances of the poet’s prose in general. READ MORE
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3. Caches, Transactions and Memories : Models, Coherence and Consistency
Abstract : Computers have brought us inestimable convenience in recent years. We have become dependent on them and more sensitive to their performance. During the past decades, we have been trying to improve program efficiency. The invention of multi-core systems is regarded as the new era of boosting performance of computer programs. READ MORE
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4. Towards Efficient Quantum Memories in Rare-Earth-Ion-Doped Solids
Abstract : This thesis describes experiments aimed at developing a key component in applications such as quantum networks and long-distance quantum communication systems: quantum memories. Quantum memories for light using photon-echo and coherent rephrasing techniques have been developed. The work is carried out on rare-earth-ion-doped inorganic crystals. READ MORE
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5. "Being in the present" : the meaning of the interaction between older persons with Alzheimer's disease and a therapy dog
Abstract : The number of persons with Alzheimer’s disease is increasing world-wide and the disease affects the persons, their families, the health care system and the economy within society worldwide. The symptoms and behaviours caused by Alzheimer’ disease may be difficult to manage for the person and their caregivers. READ MORE