Search for dissertations about: "closure"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 422 swedish dissertations containing the word closure.

2. 1. Ideological Closure : Drug Prevention in a Post-political Society

   Author : Filip Roumeliotis; Johan Edman; Börje Olsson; Karin Bergmark; Esben Houborg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Drug prevention; politics; knowledge; ideology; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to critically examine drug prevention as a field of problematizations  – how drug prevention becomes established as a political technology within this field, how it connects to certain modes of governance, how and under which conditions it constitutes it’s problematic, the questions it asks,  it´s implications in terms of political participation and representation, the various bodies of knowledge through which it constitutes the reality upon which it acts, the limits it places on ways of being, questioning, and talking  in the world.The main analyses have been conducted in four separate but interrelated articles. READ MORE

4. 2. Knowledge Closure and Knowledge Openness : A Study of Epistemic Closure Principles

   Author : Levi Spectre; Peter Pagin; Åsa Wikforss; Stewart Cohen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; knowledge; principle of epistemic closure; knowledge openness; evidence; epistemic principles; skepticism; fallibilism; principles of evidence; evidence openness; dogmatism; safety; chance; Bayesianism; Carnap; Cohen; Dretske; Hawthorne; Hempel; Kripke; Nozick; Pagin; Vogel; Williamson; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : The principle of epistemic closure is the claim that what is known to follow from knowledge is known to be true. This intuitively plausible idea is endorsed by a vast majority of knowledge theorists. There are significant problems, however, that have to be addressed if epistemic closure – closed knowledge – is endorsed. READ MORE

5. 3. Almost There : Approaches to Closure in the Works of Sylvia Plath

   Author : Anna Svensson; Rolf Lundén; Erik Löfroth; Steven Gould Axelrod; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : English language; Sylvia Plath; closure; endings; death; creative process; poetry; journals; life writing; Engelska; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This study of Sylvia Plath’s writings investigates aspects of representations of life and life stories. It is composed of three distinct analyses, the shared feature being their focus on the connection between narrative closure and closure in life. READ MORE

6. 4. Vacuum-assisted closure in cardiac surgery - clinical outcome and vascular effects

   Author : Johan Sjögren; Thoraxkirurgi; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; orthopaedics; Surgery; Kardiovaskulära systemet; Cardiovascular system; Infektioner; Infections; endothelium; vascular; central hemodynamics; risk factors; long-term survival; mortality; wound closure; cardiac surgery; vacuum-assisted closure; poststernotomy mediastinitis; traumatology; Kirurgi; ortopedi; traumatologi;

   Abstract : The aim of this research was to clinically and experimentally evaluate the use of vacuum-assisted closure in poststernotomy mediastinitis after cardiac surgery. Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) is a new wound-healing therapy based on the application of a local negative pressure to the wound. READ MORE

7. 5. High Strain Fatigue Crack Growth and Crack Closure

   Author : Michael Andersson; Materialteknik; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; materialteknik; Materiallära; Material technology; crack closure; high strain fatigue; crack grotwh;

   Abstract : Understanding of the growth of fatigue cracks is of utmost importance since such growth often has a profound influence on the life of components subjected to cyclic loading. Thus, reliable fatigue life models enable a more efficient use of materials and improve the performance and efficiency in many applications. READ MORE