Sökning: "physicality"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade ordet physicality.

  1. 1. Technology as an extension of the human body : Exploring the potential role of technology in an elderly home care setting

    Författare :Anna Essén; Solveig Wikström; Ali Yakhlef; Claes-Robert Julander; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; care; telehealth; information technology; physicality; materiality; Merleau-Ponty; body; emotion; routines; variability; surveillance; privacy; service evaluation; service innovation; emergence; learning; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis explores the potential role and implications of technology in elderly care from the users’ perspective. This exploration is undertaken in terms of five empirical studies of a telehealth project and a meta-analysis of their contributions. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Amerta Movement of Java 1986-1997 : An Asian Movement Improvisation

    Författare :Lise Lavelle; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; improvisation; everyday movements; individuality; physicality; nature and spiritual life; identity; cultural roots; transformation; blosssoming; new developments; communication; bodily expression; flux; intercultural dialogue; Languages of South and South-East Asia; Chinese; Kinesiska och språk från Syd- och Sydostasien;

    Sammanfattning : Amerta Movement is free bodily movement combining the wisdom of Asia with contemporary western dynamics. It is both a concept and a practice. Life is viewed in terms of flux. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Med kroppen som instrument : en studie av new age med fokus på hälsa, kroppslighet och genus

    Författare :Lena Löwendahl; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Teologi; Theology; life story.; qualitative interviews; reflexivity; relativism; individualism; gender; alternative methods; body physicality; New Age; health; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis New Age is studied from a sociological perspective, with a focus on health, body, and gender. One purpose is to examine how people within New Age view and relate to these problem areas. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Radiation in simulations of high intensity laser-matter interaction

    Författare :Erik Karl Wallstén Wallin; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; plasma; nonlinear dynamics; particle-in-cell; Manley-Rowe; radiation reaction; synchrotron radiation;

    Sammanfattning : We consider electromagnetic waves propagating in plasmas, with two main themes covered. First nonlinear plasma theory and wave-wave interaction. Here a wave-wave symmetry, the Manley-Rowe relations, is used as a method of determining the physicality of modified plasma fluid equations. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Vägen till vinnarcirkeln. Travhästen och dess människor mellan sport och spel

    Författare :Sara Berglund; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; harness racing; trotting; horse; gambling; competition; sport; training; breeding; pedigree; sportification; totalizator; quantification; organisation; cloning; insemination; etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; naming; ethnology; kinship;

    Sammanfattning : The way we understand and treat our horses, like the purpose for which they are bred, is culturally conditioned. The transition between differing social formations involves not only new life circumstances for people and animals, but also changed social modes of relating between them. LÄS MER