Search for dissertations about: "great chain of being"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words great chain of being.
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1. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849
Abstract : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. READ MORE
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2. Role of Lipids in the fate of organochlorine compounds in Aquatic Ecosystems
Abstract : Both results of laboratory experiments and material collected in the field have shown the lipid composition in organisms to have a significant effect on the bioaccumulation of pollutants and on the lipid steady-state concentrations of pollutants there. The redistribution of persistent organic pollutants which occurs in organisms as a consequence of the depletion of lipid depot, was studied in a population of migrating Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). READ MORE
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3. Supply Chain Management in the Construction Industry
Abstract : In this licentiate thesis the implications of a deliberate use of logistics knowledge have been investigated by describing and analyzing the use of a supply chain management approach in the construction industry. A five-step approach is used in the thesis. First, theoretical models are developed from the supply chain management literature. READ MORE
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4. Characterisation of chromosomal aberrations in childhood leukaemia
Abstract : Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common malignancy in childhood, accounting for approximately 25% of all paediatric malignancies. Based on clinical risk criteria and modem laboratory investigations including immunophenotyping, cytogenetics, and molecular genetics, patients can be divided into prognostic groups and assigned to risk- adjusted treatment protocols. READ MORE
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5. The Design and Structure Prediction of Protein Oligomers
Abstract : The minimum free energy state of a protein (the native state) is encoded by its amino-acid sequence. Due to the many torsional degrees of freedom (DOF) available to a polypeptide chain, a vast number of conformations is possible. READ MORE