Search for dissertations about: "the effect"

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  2. 16. The Art of Discretion : Essays on Earnings Management, Governance, and Capital Structure

    Author : Amir Kheirollah; Lars Nordén; Michael Graham; Minna Martikainen-Peltola; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; earnings management; accruals modelling; corporate governance; industry regulation; capital structure; bounded rationality; substitution effect; complement effect; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a compilation of three articles on earnings management, governance and capital structure. In addition to these three articles, the introductory chapter establishes the link between these articles and summarizes them.Article I investigates the joint effect of governance mechanisms on earnings management. READ MORE

  4. 17. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson

    Author : Tove Solander; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Gabriele Griffin; Sara Danius; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Shelley Jackson; senses; literary percepts; body art; object art; hypertext; fantastic fiction; minor writing; écriture féminine; queer theory; feminist theory; phenomenology; Gilles Deleuze; engelska; English; Aesthetics; estetik; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. READ MORE

  5. 18. The presence of the past : a life course approach to the social determinants of health and health inequalities in northern Sweden

    Author : Frida Jonsson; Per E. Gustafsson; Miguel San Sebastian; Anne Hammarström; Ilona Koupil; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; social determinants; life course; health inequalities; long-term health consequences; functional somatic symptoms; northern Sweden; Public health; folkhälsa;

    Abstract : Background: Positioned at the intersection between the social and life course epidemiological sub-fields, this thesis builds on the idea that the health implications of life and living conditions can extend over years and decades before becoming expressed in the population patterns of ill-health. The overall purpose was to assess how multiple types of social determinants of health across the life course may contribute to ill-health and health inequalities in midlife. READ MORE

  6. 19. Power of the Pill : Views about Cardiovascular Risk and the Risk-reducing Effect of Statins

    Author : Per Lytsy; Ragnar Westerling; Gunilla Burell; Arne Melander; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Statins; lipid-lowering drugs; cholesterol; treatment expectations; beliefs; adherence; health behaviour; Social medicine; Socialmedicin; Community pharmacy services; Samhällsfarmaci; Family medicine; Allmänmedicin; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap; Community medicine; Samhällsmedicin; Social Medicine; Socialmedicin;

    Abstract : Medical treatments with statins are prescribed to patients with increased risk of cardiovascular events. The benefits from statin treatment are well documented in clinical trials, but long-term adherence in patients is low, indicating that patients have an uncertainty about the necessity and benefits of treatment. READ MORE

  7. 20. Shun the Pun, Rescue the Rhyme? : The Dubbing and Subtitling of Language Play in Film

    Author : Thorsten Schröter; Moira Linnarud; Patrick Zabalbeascoa; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; family films; screen translation; similes; idioms; modified expressions; play with foreign words; nonce formations; play with grammar; rhymes; half-rhymes; alliteration; repetition; dubbing; subtitling; compensation; humour; language-play; wordplay; puns; metaphors; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Language-play can briefly be described as the wilful manipulation of the peculiarities of a linguistic system in a way that draws attention to these peculiarities themselves, thereby causing a communicative and cognitive effect that goes beyond the conveyance of propositional meaning. Among the various phenomena answering this description are the different kinds of puns, but also more strictly form-based manipulations such as rhymes and alliteration, in addition to a host of other, sometimes even fuzzier, subcategories. READ MORE