Search for dissertations about: "digital adaptation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 157 swedish dissertations containing the words digital adaptation.
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1. Digital play in preschools : understandings from educational use and professional learning
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to improve knowledge on preschool teachers’ educational use of digital play and their professional learning about it. The thesis is focused on three questions; How can preschool teacher educational use of digital play be understood? How can the professional learning context of preschool teachers using digital play for educational purposes be understood? And, How can preschool teacher knowledge needs concerning educational use of digital play be understood? The participants were preschool teachers who had started to introduce tablets and digital play in educational practice. READ MORE
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2. Dose Adaptation Based on Pharmacometric Models
Abstract : Many drugs exhibit major variability in both pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) parameters that prevents the use of the same dose for all patients. Variability can occur both between patients (IIV) as well as within patients over the course of time (IOV). READ MORE
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3. Sexual Selection and Adaptation to Novel Environments
Abstract : The work included in this thesis aims at exploring the environmental sensitivity of benefits and costs of sexual selection through a combined empirical and theoretical effort, to increase our understanding of the impact of environmental change on sexually reproducing populations.Can sexual selection promote adaptation to novel environments? Sexual selection for good genes should accelerate adaptation by granting higher reproductive success to individuals of high genetic quality. READ MORE
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4. Where our feet have taken us : Examples of human contact, migration, and adaptation as revealed by ancient DNA
Abstract : In spite of our extensive knowledge of the human past, certain key questions remain to be answered about human prehistory. One involves the nature of cultural change in material culture through time from the perspective of how different ancient human groups interacted with one another. READ MORE
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5. Adjusting to the extreme : Thermal adaptation in a freshwater gastropod
Abstract : Temperature is a ubiquitous force influencing biological processes ranging from cellular responses to life span. The thermal environment for many organisms is predicted to change with globally increasing temperatures and studies conducted in natural systems incorporating various evolutionary forces, such as gene flow, is needed. READ MORE