Search for dissertations about: "women in network systems"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words women in network systems.
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1. Systems and Network-based Approaches to Complex Metabolic Diseases
Abstract : The future of healthcare is personalized medicine, in which disease treatments are tailored based on the individual characteristics of each patient. To reach that objective, we need to obtain a better understanding of diseases. READ MORE
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2. The life situation of patients with heart failure in primary health care. An explorative and interventional study
Abstract : The general aim of this thesis was to obtain a deeper understanding of the life situation of patients with mild to severe heart failure and their spouses, and to determine the effects of a nurse-led intervention on patients with heart failure in primary health care. A phe-nomenographic approach was used to describe how male (N=12) and female (N=12) patients with heart failure conceive their life situa-tion (I, II), and the critical incident technique was used to describe spousal (N=23) experience of factors that influence their support of the patient with heart failure. READ MORE
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3. Angels in Unstable Sociomaterial Relations : Stories of Information Technology
Abstract : I have explored spaces, where negotiations of border transgressions take place and where issues of technology and politics mingle. We meet a diversity of actors in the world of information technology (IT): political texts, people and technology participating in numerous sociomaterial relations. READ MORE
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4. Hanging out in the game café : Contextualising co-located computer game play practices and experiences
Abstract : What social practices are people involved when staying in a game café? What kind of social setting is the game café? What are the attitudes towards playing computer games at home and in public among parents? What are the media representations of co-located game playing in public? What are the sensory experiences of playing co-located game play in public? This dissertation gives a descriptive and analytical account of the contexts and meanings of playing co-located computer games in public settings such as game cafés and LAN parties. The overall aim with the dissertation is to describe and investigate the social and cultural meanings and contexts of playing computer games in a game café. READ MORE
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5. Trading in sexual currency: Transactional sex, sexual coercion and sexual behaviours among young people in Uganda
Abstract : The growing incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among young people, particularly HIV, is a public health concern in Uganda. There is increasing evidence that Ugandan youth engage in risky sexual behaviors, transactional sex, and experience sexual coercion. READ MORE
