Search for dissertations about: "karma"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word karma.

2. 1. The Karma of Products : Exploring the Causality of Environmental Pressure with Causal Loop Diagram and Environmental Footprint

   Author : Rafael Laurenti; Björn Frostell; Andrius Plepys; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Products; Environmental Pressure; Causal Loop Diagram; Environmental Footprint; Industrial Ecology; Industriell ekologi;

   Abstract : Environmental pressures from consumer products and mechanisms of predetermination were examined in this thesis using causal loop diagram (CLD) and life cycle assessment (LCA) footprinting to respectively illustrate and provide some indicators about these mechanisms. Theoretical arguments and their practical implications were subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis, using secondary and primary data. READ MORE

4. 2. Patterns of Destiny : Hindu Nāḍī Astrology

   Author : Martin Gansten; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Candrakalanadi; Devakerala; Gurunadi; Dhruvanadi; Amsanadi; karman; karma; predestination; free will; fate; purusakara; daiva; divination; astrology; jyotihsastra; jyotisa; Nadi; Hindu astrology; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : Like all divination, Hindu astrology (jyotisa) is concerned with central religious issues such as man’s relation to the world, moral responsibility, and the revelation of a coherent divine order underlying human experience. Comprising a descriptive as well as a prescriptive aspect, jyotisa allows for both prediction and the exercise of free will. READ MORE

5. 3. Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields

   Author : Lars Steen Larsen; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gnosis; mysticism; religions experience; Eckhart Tolle; New Age; James Redfield; Theosophy; Agrippa; anthropology; Paracelsus; Western esotericism; USP.; Hermetica; ritual fields; Western esoterism;

   Abstract : The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). READ MORE

6. 4. Panorama of diseases associated with breast cancer

   Author : Haomin Yang; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Although the incidence of breast cancer has increased over time, so too has patient survival. Given these trends, the prevalence of breast cancer has steadily increased in recent decades, exposing these women to other associated diseases which can influence carcinogenesis, prognosis, and treatment. READ MORE

7. 5. Determinants and influence of mammographic features on breast cancer risk

   Author : Shadi Azam; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Mammographic density and mammographic microcalcifications are the key imaging features in mammography examination. Mammographic density is known as a strong risk factor for breast cancer and is the radiographic appearance of epithelial and fibrous tissue which appears white on a mammogram. READ MORE