Search for dissertations about: "middle asia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the words middle asia.

  2. 1. Babblers, Biogeography and Bayesian Reasoning

    Author : Magnus Gelang; Per Ericson; Per Alström; Isabel Sanmartín Bastida; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Africa; Asia; Bayesian inference; biogeography; Cettidae; dispersal; extinction; Middle East; persistence; Sylvioidea; Sylviidae; Timaliidae; vicariance; Systematic Zoology; zoologisk systematik och evolutionsforskning;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I try to proceed one step further towards an understanding of the biogeographic processes forming the distribution patterns of organisms that we see today. Babblers and warblers are diverse groups of passerines that are phylogenetically intermixed with other groups in the superfamily Sylvioidea. READ MORE

  4. 2. Aspect, evidentiality and tense in Mongolian : From Middle Mongol to Khalkha and Khorchin

    Author : Benjamin Brosig; Östen Dahl; Elena Skribnik; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Middle Mongolian; Mongolian; Khalkha; Khorchin; tense; evidentiality; aspect; complex predicates; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

    Abstract : The present thesis consists of an introduction and the following papers:The aspect-evidentiality system of Middle Mongol. Ural-Altaic Studies, 13. (forthcoming)The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian. In: Pirkko Suihkonen & Lindsay Whaley (eds. READ MORE

  5. 3. A phylogenetic analysis of rasborin fishes (Teleostei, Cyprinidae)

    Author : Te-Yu Liao; Sven Kullander; Paul Skelton; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : Rasbora; Chedrina; Danionina; Danionini; Rasborini; Danioninae; Opsariichthyinae; Cyprinidae; Cypriniformes; phylogeny; systematics; Africa; Asia; Systematic Zoology; zoologisk systematik och evolutionsforskning;

    Abstract : The Danioninae (sensu lato) were until recently considered to be a paraphyletic group, comprising about 200 species and distributed over Africa and southern and eastern Asia. There was no morphological diagnosis for the Danioninae, and also the composition of the subfamily, and the interrelationships of included genera have been contentious. READ MORE

  6. 4. Conflicts and Contracts : Chinese Intergenerational Relations in Modern Singapore

    Author : Kristina Göransson; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Southeast Asia; Anthropology; Social change; Modernity; Filial piety; Intergenerational contract; Chinese families; Generations; Singapore; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Sociologi; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of social change on Chinese intergenerational relations in contemporary Singapore. Within only three decades, Singapore has turned into a wealthy and sophisticated metropolis with a highly educated labor force. READ MORE

  7. 5. Capacity Development for Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Assessing the effectiveness of an advanced international training programme in sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa and Asia

    Author : Gilbert Tumwine; Socialmedicin och global hälsa; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; capacity development; capacity building; SRHR attitudes; SRHR behaviours; ITP; LMICs;

    Abstract : Background: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development calls upon all nations to make critical investments in their health systems to deliver universal access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Capacity development is listed among the strategies for achieving sustainable development goals. READ MORE