Search for dissertations about: "Nicaraguan"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the word Nicaraguan.

  2. 1. Norovirus and rotavirus susceptibility : studies from a Nicaraguan birth cohort

    Author : Yaoska Reyes; Johan Nordgren; Lennart Svensson; Miren Iturriza-Gómara; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Norovirus; Rotavirus; Birth cohort; Gastroenteritis; Incidence; Children; Secretor; Immune response.;

    Abstract : Norovirus and rotavirus are major causes of pediatric acute gastroenteritis (AGE). It is estimated that norovirus is responsible for ~20% of all diarrheal diseases in children worldwide and causes approximately 200,000 deaths each year, mostly in young children and the elderly. READ MORE

  4. 2. Rotavirus in pediatric gastroenteritis in Nicaraguan children

    Author : Felix Espinoza; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Rotavirus, the most common diarrheic pathogen in children worldwide, causes approximately one third of diarrhea-associated hospitalizations and 800,000 deaths per year. To prevent the enormous health burden of rotavirus-associated disease is a global public health goal developed as well as implementation of safe and effective vaccines to be used in developing countries. READ MORE

  5. 3. IT Service Delivery in Nicaraguan Internet Service Providers : analysis and Assessment

    Author : Will Johnny Flores Delgadillo; Paul Johannesson; Lazar Rusu; Eva Söderström; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; IT; service delivery; Internet service provider; Information technology; Informationsteknik; SRA - ICT; SRA - Informations- och kommunikationsteknik;

    Abstract :   The thesis addresses the research question: How to describe, understand, and explain IT service delivery? Based on the research question, the following research questions were derived:  How to analyse IT service delivery based on ITIL in order to determine its current situation? How to formalize elements of IT service delivery in maturity level that can be used to assess its current status? These research questions are answered by two IT artefacts: an analysis method and a maturity model for IT service delivery. Both of them are constructed by design-science research guidelines. READ MORE

  6. 4. Escherichia coli flora and diarrhea in Nicaraguan children

    Author : Daniel Reyes Navarrete; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : A combination of a phenotyping method (PhP typing) for the identification of clonal groups, and a genotyping method (PCR) for the identification of virulent strains of E. coli were used in order to obtain insight into diarrheal disease morbidity and epidemiology of diarrheagenic E. coli strains in children in León, Nicaragua. READ MORE

  7. 5. Grasping the Peripheral State : A Historical Sociology of Nicaraguan State Formation

    Author : Anders Neergaard; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national arena; international arena; integrative capacity; repressive capacity; extractive capacity; international system of states; world capitalist economy; colonial legacy; peripheral state; nation-state; state formation; Historical political sociology; state forms; state arena; infrastructural power; despotic power.; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The thesis has two aims. The first one is to contribute to the field of political and historical sociology through an understanding of the processes of state formation in a Third World country. The second aim is to describe and analyze the development of the Nicaraguan state from independence to 1990. READ MORE