Search for dissertations about: "retrospective"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 869 swedish dissertations containing the word retrospective.

  2. 11. Incidence and interval breast cancers in retrospective assessment

    Author : Kerstin Moberg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Breast neoplasm; mammography screening; computer aided detection; interval breast cancer; incidence breast cancer;

    Abstract : The aims of this thesis were to investigate how different review methods used for radiological classification of breast cancers would affect the proportion judged to be false negative, to investigate how computer aided detection (CAD) would affect screening sensitivity, to study the balance between false positive and false negative results and to investigate patient outcome in relation to review result. In a mass screening programme in Stockholm, commencing in 1989 and performed at five independent screening units, interval cancers (presenting in the time interval between two consecutive screening examinations) from two of the units, 103 women, and incidence cancers (diagnosed at subsequent screening examination) from one of the units, 117 women, diagnosed up until July 1993 were identified. READ MORE

  4. 12. Studies on the alpha-recoil implantation of 214Pb and 210Pb in glass surfaces,Implications for retrospective radon measurements

    Author : Birgitta Roos; Lund Medicinsk strålningsfysik; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; unattached activity; attached activity; retrospective radon measurement; long-lived radon progenies; short-lived radon progenies; deposition velocity; implantation; 222Rn; glass surface; etching; simulation; Nuclear physics; Kärnfysik;

    Abstract : Glass sheets are often used in radon surveys to estimate retrospective radon concentrations, as radon progenies are embedded in the upper surface layer. The implanted activity is influenced by a variety of different environmental conditions. READ MORE

  5. 13. Prospective and retrospective memory in normal and pathological aging

    Author : Åsa Livner; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Diabetes is a progressive disease with late complications, one of the most common being diabetic neuropathy (DN). DN can lead to serious complications and accounts for more hospitalization and higher costs than all other complications of diabetes combined. READ MORE

  6. 14. Essays on Economic Voting, Cognitive Dissonance, and Trust

    Author : Mikael Elinder; Sören Blomquist; Henrik Jordahl; David Strömberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic voting; Voting; Regional economic conditions; Political attitudes; Cognitive dissonance; Social capital; Trust; Economic growth; Robustness; Applied econometrics; Elections; Self-interest; Election promise; Pocketbook voting; Prospective voting; Retrospective voting; Child care; Local economic conditions; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay 1: (with Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara) We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. READ MORE

  7. 15. Natural Disasters and National Election : On the 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day Tsunami, the 2005 Storm Gudrun and the 2006 Historic Regime Shift

    Author : Lina M. Eriksson; Kåre Vernby; Charles Parker; Henning Finseraas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; retrospective voting; party support; regime shift; natural disasters; crisis response; international crisis response; international law; effective representation; multiparty systems;

    Abstract : The 2006 Swedish parliamentary election was a historic election with the largest bloc transfer of voters in Swedish history. The 2002-2006 incumbent Social Democratic Party (S) received its lowest voter support since 1914 as roughly 150,000, or 8%, of the 2002 S voters went to the main opposition, the conservative Moderate Party (M). READ MORE