Search for dissertations about: "Specialisation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 83 swedish dissertations containing the word Specialisation.

  2. 1. Market Structure and Integration - Essays on Trade, Specialisation and Foreign Direct Investment

    Author : Karin Olofsdotter; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; econometrics; Economics; Economic Integration; Market Size; Scale Economies; Welfare; Specialisation; Country Capabilities; Trade; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik;

    Abstract : The study analyses various aspects of international economics related to foreign direct investment, trade and specialisation. These issues are considered in view of the increased internationalisation - through trade and foreign direct investment - in recent decades. Special interest is devoted to the effects of economic integration. READ MORE

  4. 2. Splitting and Measuring Intra-Industry Trade

    Author : Joakim Gullstrand; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic policy; economic systems; economic theory; econometrics; Economies of Scale; Economics; Specialisation; Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade; Income Distribution; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Commercial and industrial economics; Industriell ekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at shedding light on three important issues related to intra-industry trade (IIT); the relevance of demand patterns, horizontal versus vertical IIT, and the measurement of IIT. Chapter two analyses IIT between high and low-income countries, and uses a theoretical model that explains the exchange of similar products of different qualities. READ MORE

  5. 3. An Inexplicable Hunger – flutist)body(flute (dis)encounters

    Author : Marina Cyrino; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; flute practices; flutist; performance; composition; improvisation; artistic research; musicianship; standardisation; specialisation; fragmentation; co-creation; collaborative processes; encounters; mixture; mixed practices; multimodal practices; metamorphosis; transdisciplinarity; transversality; flexible subjectivity; processual subjectivity; politics of subjectivation; otherness; othering; resonant body;

    Abstract : This doctoral research is structured by singular encounters, that happened between 2014 and 2018. Together with a series of collaborators, I have developed a critical and poetic methodology through what I call “mixture”, “contamination” and the practice of “un-goaling”, in which my “flutist-body-flute” relation encounters the practices of other artists. READ MORE

  6. 4. Evolution of Vertebrate Vision by Means of Whole Genome Duplications : Zebrafish as a Model for Gene Specialisation

    Author : David Lagman; Dan Larhammar; Xesús M Abalo; Finn Hallböök; Stephan Neuhauss; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; phylogenetics; evolution; vision; visual opsin; transducin; PDE6; genome duplications; subfunctionalisation; Medicinsk vetenskap; Medical Science;

    Abstract : The signalling cascade of rods and cones use different but related protein components. Rods and cones, emerged in the common ancestor of vertebrates around 500 million years ago around when two whole genome duplications took place, named 1R and 2R. READ MORE

  7. 5. Effects of farmland heterogeneity at multiple spatial and temporal scales on house sparrow (Passer domesticus) population ecology

    Author : Maria von Post; Biodiversitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Farmland heterogeneity; house sparrow; agricultural intensification; farm specialisation; landscape complementation; resource separation; population limitation;

    Abstract : Strong declines of European farmland birds in recent decades are assumed to be caused by decreased food availability resulting from agricultural intensification and concomitant loss of farmland heterogeneity. One of the species suffering particularly strong declines in NW European countries is the house sparrow. READ MORE