Search for dissertations about: "life history research"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 270 swedish dissertations containing the words life history research.
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6. Food and Parasites – Life-history Decisions in Copepods
Abstract : In the freshwater copepod, Macrocyclops albidus, food availability, rearing conditions and tapeworm infection clearly affected various life-history traits and their trade-offs. I found that low food availability clearly constrained resource allocations to several life-history (often phenotypically plastic) traits, whereas high food availability either allowed for adjustments in resource allocation patterns or allowed resources to be allocated to several traits without apparent trade-offs. READ MORE
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7. A Battle over Children : Nonformal Education in Norwegian Uniformed Children's Organisations, 1910-1960
Abstract : A Battle over Children investigates how children became targets of political education in different uniformed children’s organisations in Norway between 1910 and 1960. Following the introduction of the Scout movement to Norway in 1910, a range of competing uniformed children’s organisations developed. READ MORE
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8. Creating the Revolutionary Heroines : The Case of Female Terrorists of the PSR (Russia, Beginning of the 20th Century)
Abstract : Representing revolutionary terrorists as heroes and martyrs was a typical feature of the mythology of the Russian revolutionary underground at the beginning of the 20th century. This mythology described Underground Russia, the world of the revolutionaries, as an ideal country inhabited by ideal people. READ MORE
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9. Ready, Willing and Able : The Divorce Transition in Sweden 1915-1974
Abstract : This thesis attempts to extend the historical scope of divorce research in Sweden by providing an analysis ofhow the variations in the divorce rate over time and across geographical areas are connected to the economic, normative and institutional restructuring of Swedish society during the period 1915-1974. The thesis finds that the economic reshaping of Sweden into a modern market economy is at the center of the process that has resulted in decreased marital stability during the twentieth century. READ MORE
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10. A Mention to Those not Mentioned : Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008
Abstract : Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. READ MORE