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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 334 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Asia.

  1. 6. Buildning a midwifery profession in South Asia

    Författare :Malin Bogren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; midwifery profession; midwife; midwifery education; midwifery strategy; South Asia; Complex Adaptive Systems; mixed-methods approach;

    Sammanfattning : Midwives are key professionals in improving maternal and child health globally, but establishing a midwifery profession in low-income countries is proving to be difficult. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the situation and building of a midwifery profession in South Asia, and to reveal how influential actors are connected to one another in the building of a profession, especially in Nepal and Bangladesh. LÄS MER

  2. 7. Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia

    Författare :Nadi Tofighian; John Fullerton; Charles Musser; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colonial history; early cinema; film history; distribution; transnational networks; entertainment culture; Southeast Asia; Singapore; postcolonial theory; colonial discourse; ethnicity; race; whiteness; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. LÄS MER

  3. 8. On the weightless economy: Evaluating ICT sectors in the European, Asian and African regions

    Författare :Ibrahim Kholilul Rohman; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; probit; Gini coefficient; Europe; economic growth; ICT sectors; panel cointegration; diffusion; Asia; Africa; panel data; broadband; input-output; production; weightless economy; cellular;

    Sammanfattning : One of the most distinctive characteristics of the weightless economy is the increasingly important role of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sectors, which, according to the OECD (2009), consist of ICT products and media and content products. The ICT sectors have been identified as contributing significantly to the economy through production, measured by the value of the ICT outputs produced and the spillover effects to the other sectors, and the diffusion due to the higher penetration rate of ICT products and services and the impact of the end-users. LÄS MER

  4. 9. Imprints of Roman Imperium : Bronze Coinages in the Republican Eastern Provinces

    Författare :Georgia Galani; Lena Sjögren; Panagiotis Tselekas; Clare Rowan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Roman Republic; provinces; eastern Mediterranean; Greek East; bronze coinage; provincial coinage; provincial minting; Macedonia; Asia; Cyrenaica-Crete; Bithynia-Pontus; Syria; Cilicia; arkeologi med inriktning mot antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Archaeology and Classical Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This study concerns bronze coinages of the Roman Republican provinces in the eastern Mediterranean during the 1st century BC. The Eastern Mediterranean is conventionally thought to include the areas east of the Adriatic Sea, which during the Hellenistic period included various kingdoms that had emerged from the fragmented empire of Alexander the Great. LÄS MER

  5. 10. A phylogenetic analysis of rasborin fishes (Teleostei, Cyprinidae)

    Författare :Te-Yu Liao; Sven Kullander; Paul Skelton; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Rasbora; Chedrina; Danionina; Danionini; Rasborini; Danioninae; Opsariichthyinae; Cyprinidae; Cypriniformes; phylogeny; systematics; Africa; Asia; Systematic Zoology; zoologisk systematik och evolutionsforskning;

    Sammanfattning : The Danioninae (sensu lato) were until recently considered to be a paraphyletic group, comprising about 200 species and distributed over Africa and southern and eastern Asia. There was no morphological diagnosis for the Danioninae, and also the composition of the subfamily, and the interrelationships of included genera have been contentious. LÄS MER