Search for dissertations about: "catastrophe"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the word catastrophe.
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6. Apoptosis, cellular division or mitotic catastrophe? Effects of kinase inhibition and DNa damage in lung cancer cells
Abstract : Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells are generally characterized by a low response to conventional anti-cancer agents, such as DNA-damaging drugs. Treatments that induce DNA damage relies on cellular signalling resulting in the induction of growth arrest and apoptotic cell death. READ MORE
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7. DNA damage-induced cell death : the role of caspase-2
Abstract : Activation of a family of cysteine proteases, called caspases, is an important event during apoptosis. In comparison to other caspases, less is known about regulatory functions of caspase-2. Previous studies from our group established caspase-2 as an essential apical regulator of apoptosis triggered by DNA damage. READ MORE
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8. A Framework for Evaluation of Flood Management Strategies
Abstract : During the last decades, a great deal of attention has been focused on the financial risk management of natural disasters. The reason is that the economic losses from floods, windstorms, earthquakes and other disasters in both the developing and developed countries are escalating dramatically. READ MORE
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9. Surviving in the city : The urban poor of Santiago de Chile 1930-1970
Abstract : This thesis deals with the survival patterns of the urban poor in Santiago de Chile during a period of profound structural changes (1930-1970). Using a qualitative approach and a dynamic analysis, the life histories of 54 interviewees are studied in the framework of the historical, economic, social and cultural conditions of the period. READ MORE
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10. Margaret Atwood's Environmentalism : Apocalypse and Satire in the MaddAddam Trilogy
Abstract : This study considers the way in which Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy functions as an environmental project. The main focus is on how the three novels, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), simultaneously draw on and destabilise the apocalypticism inherent in so much environmental discourse, primarily through the use of satire. READ MORE