Search for dissertations about: "gratitude"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word gratitude.

  2. 1. After idealism and difference : subjects of yellow feelings and sentimental narratives of migration

    Author : Lan Kieu; Maria Carbin; Linda Berg; Lene Myong; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Idealism; difference; universality; ethics; ethnicity; love; migration; endurance; mimetic desire; monolingualism; power; gratitude; agency.; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

    Abstract : After Idealism and Difference is a critical and ethical project of reading the postcolonial other. Taking a void from postcolonial and poststructuralist feminist critique, my thesis aims to deconstruct the privilege of the “marginalia” as the beloved object of feminist scholarship. READ MORE

  4. 2. Payback Time : Essays on Attitudes, Partiality, and Rescuing

    Author : Romy Eskens; Helen Frowe; Gunnar Björnsson; R. Jay Wallace; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; moral philosophy; reactive attitudes; gratitude; supererogation; beneficence; wrongdoing; equality; partiality; duties to rescue; Philosophy; filosofi;

    Abstract : Does the moral quality of someone’s past treatment of us, or of other people, change how we are morally permitted or required to treat them? Many philosophers think so. They argue, for instance, that someone’s supererogatory or impermissible behaviour can permit or require certain positive or negative attitudinal responses, such as gratitude or resentment. READ MORE

  5. 3. Conditional Belonging : Listening to Unaccompanied Young Refugees’ Voices

    Author : Ulrika Wernesjö; Keith Pringle; Elisabet Näsman; Charles Watters; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; unaccompanied refugee minors; belonging; home; place; racialization; negotiation; gratitude; young age; qualitative methods; sociological listening; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : This thesis explores negotiations of belonging among unaccompanied young refugees in Sweden. The thesis further aims to shed light on methodological aspects of bringing out their voices. READ MORE

  6. 4. Optimization in Continuum Flow Problems

    Author : Niclas Wiker; Anders Klarbring; Thomas Borrvall; Ole Sigmund; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Fluid mechanics; Continuum flow problem; Fluid mechanics; Strömningsmekanik;

    Abstract : The work presented in this dissertation was carried out at the Division ofMechanics, Department of Management and Engineering at Link¨oping University,between 2003 and 2008. It was supervised by Prof. READ MORE

  7. 5. Multiple Medicine Use : Patients’ and general practitioners’ perceptions and patterns of use in relation to age and other patient characteristics

    Author : Janne Moen; Lena Ring; Karolina Antonov; J. Lars G. Nilsson; Peter Noyce; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Age groups; Focus group interaction analysis; General practitioners; Multiple medicine use; Patient-doctor communication; Patient-related factors; Polypharmacy; Community pharmacy services; Samhällsfarmaci; Social Pharmacy; samhällsfarmaci;

    Abstract : There are widespread concerns about the increasing use of multiple medicines. The aims of this thesis were to identify older patients' and general practitioners' (GPs) attitudes to and experiences of multiple medicine use, as well as to describe patterns of multiple medicine use in different age groups in association with patient-related factors. READ MORE