Search for dissertations about: "hands"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 275 swedish dissertations containing the word hands.

2. 1. Helping Hands : Motion and integration in action memory

   Author : Jan von Essen; Lars-Göran Nilsson; Monik Knopf; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; episodic memory; action memory; cued recall; motor activation; association; sentence integration; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : Verbal information has predominantly been the to-be-remembered materials in human memory research for more than a century. In recent years some interesting deviations from the established rules of verbal memory have been observed in subjects who have been asked to motorically self-perform (enact) action sentences at the encoding phase of the memory task, instead of only hearing or reading them as in a traditional verbal task (VT). READ MORE

4. 2. Constructing Invisible Hands : Market Technocrats in Sweden 1880–2000

   Author : Gabriel Söderberg; Maths Isacson; Lars Magnusson; Janken Myrdal; Deirdre McCloskey; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Markets; technocrats; central banks; agricultural science; Nobel prize; economics and society; asymmetric information; Social Democracy; neoliberalism; social engineering; market history; market engineering; market design; performativity; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

   Abstract : Dominant market theories analyze markets as ahistorical entities without the need for professional groups that manage crucial functions within them. This thesis, in contrast, approaches markets as historical systems that develop over time and that can be constituted in many different ways because of different historical trajectories. READ MORE

5. 3. Practical thinking in programming education : Novices learning hands-on

   Author : Kristina von Hausswolff; Anna Eckerdal; Maria Weurlander; Tony Clear; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Programming education; Novice programming; Hands-on learning; Higher education; Pragmatism; Dewey; Computing Education Research; Datavetenskapens didaktik;

   Abstract : Understanding how novices learn to program is of national and global concern. A substantial number of studies have been conducted within computing education research (CER), and, although some understanding has been gained, research still finds that programming is hard to learn. READ MORE

6. 4. Being in safe hands : the experiences of soft tissue massage as a complement in palliative care. Intervention studies concerning patients, relatives and nursing staff

   Author : Berit Seiger Cronfalk; Peter Strang; Britt-Marie Ternestedt; Ersta Sköndal högskola; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap;

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7. 5. Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders In Female Machine milkers - An Epidemiological, Clinical and Ergonomic Study

   Author : Marianne Stål; Människan i rörelse: hälsa och rehabilitering; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; biaxial eletrogoniometer; movements; wrist positions; pronator syndrome; median nerve entrapment; clinical examination; hands; wrists; upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders; agriculture; Cross-sectional study; female milkers; electromyography muscles of the forearm.; Occupational health; industrial medicine; Yrkesmedicin; arbetsmiljömedicin;

   Abstract : The aims of the thesis were to investigate the prevalence of the upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders in female milkers in relation to other occupational groups; to clarify the relationship between disorders and work environment, psychosocial and life style factors; to compare in a prospective study, pain, ache and discomfort reported by a questionnaire with clinical symptoms and sign; to examine milkers with wrist and hand disorders with regard to type and localization of the tissue injury; to quantify the work load on forearms, wrists and hands during machine milking. An increased risk developing symptoms in wrists and hands was noted in the active milker group compared to the non-milker and the nursing assistant group. READ MORE