Search for dissertations about: "relative influence"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 762 swedish dissertations containing the words relative influence.
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1. The Practice of Newspaper Ownership: Fifty Years of Control and Influence in the Swedish Local Press
Abstract : This dissertation deals with a perennial theme in both public and academic debate: how ownership is exercised in the news media. It does so by exploring the main agency through which ownership control is expected to be exerted in the individual media firm: the board of directors. READ MORE
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2. Structures of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers and Preasorbed Mucin : The Influence of Counterions
Abstract : The focus in this thesis has been to gain a fundamental understanding of how different type of salts affect preadsorbed polyelectrolytes, both natural and synthetic. The knowledge from the fundamental work is then applied on a commercial system to investigate if the efficiency can be enhanced. READ MORE
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3. Dimensionality and Predictive validity of school grades : the relative influence of cognitive and social-behavioral aspects
Abstract : The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the relative influence of cognitive and social-behavioral aspects on compulsory school grades and the importance of the different dimensions for the predictive validity of grades. Data is retrieved from the Gothenburg Educational Longitudinal Database (GOLD) and the Evaluation Through Follow-up (ETF) database. READ MORE
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4. Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
Abstract : For abstracts, see full text thesis.... READ MORE
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5. Risk, Relative Standing and Property Rights: Rural Household Decision-Making in China
Abstract : Paper 1 examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and found that the respondents cared to a high degree. READ MORE