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1. Meeting ethical and nutritional challenges in elder care : the life world and system world of staff and high level decision-makers
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the thesis was to describe the issue of malnutrition and use it as a focal point of interest in elder care. A further aim was to illuminate how this issue could be addressed focusing on older adults’ integrity and high level decision-makers’ reasoning about ethically difficult situations (I-IV). LÄS MER
2. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. LÄS MER
3. Embedded internet system architectures
Sammanfattning : Today, using computers is a daily thing for many people over the world. We use computers to for example communicate, read news, search for sport events, correspond with e-mail, participate in meetings, and download the latest polyphonic ring tones for our mobile phones. LÄS MER
4. Sea Level Compensation System for Wave Energy Converters
Sammanfattning : The wave energy converter developed at Uppsala University consists of a linear generator at the seabed driven by the motion of a buoy on the water surface. The energy absorbed by the generator is negatively affected by variations of the mean sea level caused by tides, changes in barometric pressure, strong winds, and storm surges. LÄS MER
5. Fångsamhället som inte skulle finnas : Överlevnad och anpassning i fängelse under åren 1890–1920
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies how prisoners could affect and influence their life in two different prison systems and what it meant for how the systems worked in practice. The systems in question are the Philadelphia system (the separate system) and the Auburn system (the congregate system). LÄS MER
