Search for dissertations about: "West"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 540 swedish dissertations containing the word West.

2. 21. Quantitative Muscle Composition Analysis Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

   Author : Anette Karlsson; Magnus Borga; Anneli Peolsson; Janne West; Todd Parrish; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Muscle Composition; Muscle fat Infiltration; Magnetic Resonance Imaging;

   Abstract : Changes in muscle tissue composition, e.g. decrease in volume and/or increase of fat infiltration, are related to adverse health conditions such as sarcopenia, inflammation, muscular dystrophy, and chronic pain. READ MORE

4. 22. Effects of early probiotic supplementation in a pediatric setting : Focus on body composition, metabolism and inflammation

   Author : Frida Karlsson Videhult; Christina E West; Olle Hernell; Inger Öhlund; Velmurugesan Arulampalam; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Lactobacillus paracasei ssp. paracasei F19; infants; children; growth; body composition; metabolism; follow-up; Pediatrics; pediatrik;

   Abstract : We aimed to determine the short- and long-term effects on growth, body composition, metabolic and inflammatory markers following supplementation with the probiotic Lactobacillus paracasei ssp. paracasei F19 (LF19) during weaning. READ MORE

5. 23. End-user activity-based service design in the built environment context : Exploring everyday life in KTH Live-in-Lab

   Author : Elena Malakhatka; Per Lundqvist; Marco Molinari; Shaun West; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; service design; human activity system; building system; service system; actors network analysis; living lab; sustainable building; Energy Technology; Energiteknik; Building Service and Energy Systems; Installations- och energisystem;

   Abstract : The main goal of this thesis is to communicate the motivation, process, and result of the research project dedicated to exploring the topic of Service Design, based on end-user activities analysis in the built environment context. We have elected to use a KTH Live-in-Lab as a testbed in relation to the chosen living lab network of actors and stakeholders. READ MORE

6. 24. Claiming Rome : Portraiture and Social Identity in the Eighteenth Century

   Author : Sabrina Norlander; Solfrid Söderlind; Shearer West; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; portraiture; new mythology; Grand Tour; gender roles; eighteenth-century Rome; portrait display; reception; Pompeo Batoni; Doria Pamphilj; Barberini; Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study examines two groups of European nobility, the Roman aristocracy and the British Grand Tour travellers, specifically, their attitudes towards Antiquity as expressed in portraits produced in eighteenth-century Rome. Antiquity in this study connotes Ancient Rome, particularly its political system, religious system and architecture, and assumes it to be the quintessence of a Western mythology that had supported the legitimation of the ruling classes since the Middle Ages. READ MORE

7. 25. Politics of Contemporary Education Policy : The case of programming in the Swedish curriculum

   Author : Anthemis Raptopoulou; Tore West; Jonas Gustafsson; Ulrika Bennerstedt; Neil Selwyn; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; policy; politics; education policy; educational technology; digitalization of education; programming; coding; policy networks; network ethnography; critical discourse analysis; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : In recent years, computer programming has been introduced into school curricula in several national education systems across the world making it a key issue on the education policy agenda. In March 2017, the Swedish Government announced their decision to introduce programming as a mandatory teaching element as of the first grade of primary school. READ MORE