Sökning: "katariina"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade ordet katariina.
1. Evolution of seed attributes, dispersal and population dynamics of plants,with special emphasis on fragmented habitats
Sammanfattning : Theory predicts that life history traits that reduce the impact of environmental variation will exhibit a pattern of negative covariation (trade-offs). In plants, such traits are seed size, spatial seed dispersal and seed dormancy which interact to reduce risk in a variable environment. LÄS MER
2. The Weight of Images : Affective Engagements with Fat Corporeality in the Media
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3. Firms, International Competition, and the Labor Market
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: We propose a model of cross-border acquisitions in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) and private equity-firms (PE) compete over domestic assets. MNEs' advantage lies in firm-specific synergies, whereas PE-firms are good at restructuring. LÄS MER
4. Subjective Well-Being in Swedish Women
Sammanfattning : The present thesis concerns middle-aged women’s subjective well-being (SWB). The interest is focused on the importance of childhood factors, social circumstances, and personality for middle-aged women’s general SWB. LÄS MER
5. Chronic stress among adolescents : Contributing factors and associations with academic achievement
Sammanfattning : According to recent nationwide surveys there have been dramatic increases in stress and serious stress-related health problems among Swedish adolescents. The aims of the present thesis were to investigate the prevalence of perceived chronic stress among sixteen-year-old adolescents who attended their first year at high-ranking high schools in the Stockholm area, to examine if factors that have been found to be relevant in the development of chronic stress among adults also contribute to chronic stress among adolescents, and to investigate the associations between chronic stress and sleep-related variables and academic achievement. LÄS MER