Search for dissertations about: "Spain"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 133 swedish dissertations containing the word Spain.

  2. 16. An insight into institutional responses to intimate partner violence against women in Spain

    Author : Amaia Maquibar Landa; Isabel Goicolea; Anna-Karin Hurtig; Carmen Vives-Cases; Itziar Estalella; Naeemah Abrahams; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Intimate partner violence; nursing; health system; gender; Public health; folkhälsa;

    Abstract : BackgroundIntimate Partner Violence (IPV) has been widely acknowledged as a major public health issue and a human rights concern. The international burden of this type of violence have lead countries to develop institutional responses to address the consequences for women as well as to reduce its prevalence. READ MORE

  4. 17. Finding One’s Place : An Ethnological Study of Belonging among Swedish Migrants on the Costa del Sol in Spain

    Author : Annie Woube; Birgitta Meurling; Magnus Rodell; Oscar Pripp; Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : lifestyle migration; belonging; transnationality; diaspora; identification; ethnographic fieldwork; migration stories; materiality; Costa del Sol; Sweden; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Abstract : This study explores how Swedish migrants on the Costa del Sol in Spain create belonging and how this is expressed in migration stories and practiced in the daily life. The migrants are part of a migration phenomenon that is conceptualized as lifestyle migration, often to destinations in association with tourism and leisure. READ MORE

  5. 18. From market orientation to orientation towards international marjets (OIM) of born global firms : evaluating the impact of OIM on born global firms' performance

    Author : Rosalina Torres-Ortega; Spain Autonomous University of Barcelona; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Born global firms; market orientation; orientation towards international markets; performance; scale validation; multi-country approach; structural equation model; Företagsekonomi; Business administration;

    Abstract : Although there is a considerable amount of research on market orientation, research on this concept in the context of born global firms is still lacking a precise definition and full operationalization. This research aims to investigate how the market orientation (MO) concept could be understood for a specific type of firm: the born global firm. READ MORE

  6. 19. Women are persons too: Gender and personhood in the abortion debate in post-Franco Spain

    Author : Kerstin Sundman; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; genus; genusantropologi; Spanien;

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  7. 20. Nonparametric Message Passing Methods for Cooperative Localization and Tracking

    Author : Vladimir Savic; Santiago Zazo; Spain Technical University of Madrid; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; cooperative localization; tracking; wireless sensor networks; message passing; particle filtering; belief propagation; RFID;

    Abstract : The objective of this thesis is the development of cooperative localization and tracking algorithms using nonparametric message passing techniques. In contrast to the most well-known techniques, the goal is to estimate the posterior probability density function (PDF) of the position of each sensor. READ MORE