Sökning: "I de Groot"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden I de Groot.
1. On new homes and green lands : Three microeconometric essays as if urban costs and rural sustainability mattered
Sammanfattning : This thesis is structured as a compendium of three self-contained articles, all single-authored. In the first paper, I analyze the effect of a mortgage cap, a policy implemented as a macroeconomic prudential measure by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority in 2010, on the likelihood of the young adult population purchasing a house in Sweden. LÄS MER
2. Ordinary people, meaningful pasts – Negotiating narratives in public pedagogical spaces of family history research
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines three family history research experiences as public pedagogical spaces, analysing the narratives presented and participants’ negotiations with these. In the context of enhanced digitalisation and rapidly developing technologies, disturbances in the form of pandemics, hackers, and wars remind us of the instability of the present, raising existential questions and reinforcing the desire to anchor oneself in the past. LÄS MER
3. Selectivity and gas composition in electrochemical systems by mass spectrometry
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis presents experimental studies of gaseous products of two electrochemical systems: the chlorate process and the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery, employing mass spectrometry.The cathodic efficiency for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of the chlorate process was investigated by employing ex-situ synthesized MnOx electrodes. LÄS MER
4. Optimizing sampling of important events in complex biomolecular systems
Sammanfattning : Proteins and DNA are large, complex molecules that carry out biological functions essential to all life. Their successful operation relies on adopting specific structures, stabilized by intra-molecular interactions between atoms. LÄS MER
5. Ecosystem services - a tool in sustainable landscape management
Sammanfattning : In this thesis I have worked with the ambition of approaching the question of how human-ecology interaction can be articulated in a way that is useful as a vector for societal transformation. The thesis addresses the difficult question of how the ecosystem service framework may help to address mismatches between social and ecological systems. LÄS MER