Sökning: "Americas"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Americas.
1. Regional cooperation and conflict management: Lessons from the Pacific Rim
Sammanfattning : Regional cooperation is increasingly important as a means to create peaceful relations and improve economic development. The problem today is not to initiate cooperation, but rather how to handle disputes and maintain good relations. This is done through conflict management mechanisms (CMMs) in most regional cooperation structures. LÄS MER
2. Computational hydrodynamics applied to an America's Cup class keel - best practice and validation of methods
Sammanfattning : Numerical predictions of the flow around yacht keels can be performed with various types of methods. In this work computational fluid dynamic (CFD) computations are validated against wind tunnel studies of an America's Cup Class keel with the purpose of investigating the accuracy that can be achieved with CFD, which methods that are suitable and how they should be used in the best way. LÄS MER
3. The ostracod genus cyprides in the Americas
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4. Mellem afrikaner og kreol : etnisk identitet og social navigation i Dansk Vestindien 1730–1770
Sammanfattning : The central question of the dissertation is whether and how African Caribbeans in the Danish West Indies identified themselves with African ethnic groups. The dissertation discusses if and how such identifications played a role in the social life of African Caribbeans and influenced how new social networks developed in the colony. LÄS MER
5. Finding a balance: Placing Farmers' Markets in the context of sustainability in modern society
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on local food systems in Sweden, using examples from the Farmers’ Markets that are a growing phenomena in Sweden, as well as in many other developed countries across Europe and the Americas and many other developed countries. Farmers’ Markets are about consumers and producers reconnecting and re-establishing the relationships of trust and transparency that are lacking in today’s modern industrial food production and distribution chains through consumers meeting producers and interacting with them directly. LÄS MER