Search for dissertations about: "aec"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the word aec.

2. 1. The Regionalisation Process in Southeast Asia and the Economic Integration of Cambodia and Laos into ASEAN

   Author : Lena Lindberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; AFTA; AEC; IAI; ASEAN 3; GMS; ACMECS; CLMV; Cambodia; Laos; regionalisation; regionalism; economic integration; foreign trade.;

   Abstract : This study deals with the current regionalisation process in Southeast Asia, and exploratively examines the various cooperation and integration schemes that are taking place in the region. The main focus is placed on, first, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and, second, the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and the Ayeyawady - Chao Phraya - Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS). READ MORE

4. 2. Creating an environmental sustainability profession

   Author : Stina Månsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental sustainability; practice; environmental managers; AEC industry.; hybrid institutional logics; environmental sustainability professionals; professionalisation processes;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis it to problematize the professionalization processes of environmental sustainability roles by studying how professionals in the Swedish AEC industry actively participate in the continuous creation of an environmental sustainability profession. This is done by investigating how the role of environmental sustainability professionals, as carriers and executers of an environmental sustainability agenda, has developed since the early 1990s, and how they are maintaining a momentum for environmental sustainability practice. READ MORE

5. 3. If you want to go far, go with others – How using a collaborative project delivery model affects the project network in infrastructure construction projects

   Author : Anna af Hällström; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; collaboration; infrastructure construction; social ties; major projects; AEC industry; project network; project management;

   Abstract : The growth of projects has elicited much interest in the last decades, both in academia and amongst practitioners. The increase in scale and complexity has further brought attention to the particulars of interorganisational collaboration: as projects grow, the relevance and impact of interdependencies between participating organisations rise to the surface. READ MORE

6. 4. Role of alveolar epithelial cells in macrophage responses against mycobacterial infections

   Author : Olga Daniela Chuquimia Flores; Carmen Fernández; Diana Boraschi; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Lung; alveolar epithelial cells; macrophages; AEC-derived media; control of intracellular bacterial growth; mycobacterial infections; immunologi; Immunology;

   Abstract : This thesis aimed to investigate the role of alveolar epithelial cells (AEC) on immune responses against mycobacterial infections, specifically, the role of AEC in modulating macrophage functions through the secretion of broad variety of factors.In paper I, we compared murine AEC with interstitial macrophages (PuM) in their ability to take up and control mycobacterial growth and their capacity as antigen-presenting cells. READ MORE

7. 5. Innate and adaptive immune responses in the lungs. Contribution to protection against mycobacterial infections

   Author : Olga Daniela Chuquimia Flores; Carmen Fernández; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is mediated by a combination of innate and adaptive immunity. In this thesis we investigated the role of components of innate system such as TLR2 signalling and alveolar epithelial cells type II (AEC II) in the immune responses against mycobacterial infections. READ MORE