Search for dissertations about: "ambiguity attitudes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words ambiguity attitudes.

  2. 1. Studies on Factivity, Complementation, and Propositional Attitudes

    Author : Roberta Colonna Dahlman; Italienska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Protagonist projection.; Sapere; Ambiguity; Factive islands; Conversational implicature; Presupposition; Entailment; Regret; Know; Factivity; The Interface Hypothesis; L1 Attrition; Verbs of propositional attitude; Complementizer; Gallipolino; Sentential complementation;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a collection of seven papers in which a number of questions are investigated regarding verbs that take a sentential complement as their direct object. These verbs are considered from different perspectives, namely from the perspective of the propositional attitude they express, or from the perspective of the syntactic construction they select, or from the point of view of the implications to which they might give rise. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays in Public Finance and Behavioral Economics

    Author : Arnaldur Stefánsson; Per Engström; Eva Mörk; Mats Persson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Frisch elasticity of labor supply; identification; elasticity heterogeneity; tax compliance; loss aversion; prospect theory; benefit take-up; similarity; distributive justice; moral decision-making; ambiguity attitudes; framing; consistency of choice; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay I: I study how individuals adjust their labor supply in response to a year with tax free income. Due to a transformation from a retroactive to a pay-as-you-earn tax system, income earned on the Icelandic labor market in 1987 was never taxed. READ MORE

  5. 3. At the End of the Funnel: Translation of Improvement Approaches in Healthcare

    Author : Christian Colldén; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Translation; Health care; Value-based health care; Improvement approaches; Psychiatry; Implementation; Ambiguity; Healthcare improvement; Quality improvement;

    Abstract : Myriad approaches aimed to improve different aspects of healthcare organizations, such as Lean healthcare and patient-centered care, are presented to managers in pursuit of operational improvements. At the same time, the focus of healthcare improvement is shifting from quality to value, and value-based healthcare has become one of the more bespoken contemporary improvement approaches (IA). READ MORE

  6. 4. Attitudes of responsibility for musculoskeletal disorders

    Author : Maria E H Larsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : responsibility; attitude; musculoskeletal disorders; cross-sectional study; qualitative content analysis; physiotherapy; outcome of treatment; psychometric properties; validity; reliability;

    Abstract : ABSTRACT Musculoskeletal disorders are common in the population and almost everyone will experience musculoskeletal discomfort at some point in life. Besides causing pain and disability, musculoskeletal disorders also involve economic burdens on individuals, health systems, and social care systems. READ MORE

  7. 5. Attitudes towards organ donor advocacy among Swedish intensive and critical care nurses

    Author : Anne Flodén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Organ donation; Brain death; Advocacy; Professional ethics; Intensive and critical care; Nursing; Psychometric evaluation;

    Abstract : End-of-Life Care in the intensive and critical care unit (ICU) involves the rare situation of caring for brain dead persons who, by their death, become potential organ donors (POD). A consequence might be that end-of-life care continues into after-death care in order to facilitate organ donation (OD). READ MORE