Sökning: "David Gordon"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden David Gordon.

  1. 1. Land Use, Freshwater Flows and Ecosystem Services in an Era of Global Change

    Författare :Line Gordon; Carl Folke; David Molden; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; freshwater; green water; ecosystem services; integrated water resources management; food production; land use and land cover change; vulnerability; resilience; hydrological cycle; global change; Australia; Terrestrial; freshwater and marine ecology; Terrestisk; limnisk och marin ekologi;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to analyse interactions between freshwater flows, terrestrial ecosystems and human well-being. Freshwater management and policy has mainly focused on the liquid water part (surface and ground water run off) of the hydrological cycle including aquatic ecosystems. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Interleukin-1 Receptors and their Ligands

    Författare :David Malinowsky; Gordon W Duff; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; neurokemi och neurotoxikologi; Neurochemistry and Neurotoxicology;

    Sammanfattning : Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is an endogenous mediator of the inflammatory response. IL-1 executes its actions by binding and subsequent activation of the IL-1 receptor (IL-1R) proteins. Among the many systemic effects of IL-1, the fever response was the first to be investigated. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A longitudinal approach to social exclusion in Sweden

    Författare :Miia Bask; Björn Halleröd; David Gordon; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; family; immigrant; longitudinal analysis; social exclusion; Sweden; welfare problem; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four papers, and has as its central theme the accumulation of welfare problems and social exclusion. We use Swedish data and all analyses are based on individuals of working age. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers : A Sudy of the Relational Self in Four Life Stories

    Författare :Martin Shaw; David Mayall; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; life story; relationality; habitus; narration; Gypsy; Traveller; United Kingdom and Northern Ireland; embodied subjectivity; Post- and internal colonialisms; violence s ; self-domination; domination; English language; Engelska språket;

    Sammanfattning : To say that Gypsy and/or Traveller and/or Romany life stories have existed on the periphery of literary studies can be considered an understatement. In this study of the relational self, Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers, examines the discursive and structural complexities involved in the practices of writing and speaking in the production process and narrative trajectories of the life stories of Gordon Sylvester Boswell (1970), Nan Joyce (1985), Jimmy Stockins (2000), and Jess Smith (2002 and 2003). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Conflict and Compromise : An Evolutionary Framework for the Design of Multi-Storey Timber Buildings

    Författare :Magnus Larsson; Andreas Falk; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Träbyggnad; Timber Structures;

    Sammanfattning : In January 1995, the architect John Frazer’s groundbreaking study, An Evolutionary Architecture, was published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the Architectural Association in London. The book proposed a new methodology for the architectural design process, based on a radical repositioning of the role of the architect. LÄS MER