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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Forss.
1. The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. LÄS MER
2. Medical and surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
Sammanfattning : Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with its two main entities Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is a chronic and relapsing inflammatory condition affecting the entire gastrointestinal tract. IBD is associated with reduced health-related quality of life, substantial loss of work productivity and increased morbidity. LÄS MER
3. Women’s encounters with biomedical technology in the realm of cervical cancer screening
Sammanfattning : As a form of biomedical technology, the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear has been described as the most widely used and established cane er- screening tool in the world. In Sweden, Pap smear technology triggered what is today an established secondary preventive intervention directed towards 'healthy' women to detect those at risk for developing cervical cancer, a potentially fatal disease, as well as those with the disease. LÄS MER
4. Planning and evaluation in aid organizations
Sammanfattning : The success (or failure) of aid programmes in developing countries is difficult to measure in terms of results. In fact international cooperation in development programmes seems to have reached few of its objectives. LÄS MER
5. Design for recycling using hot melt adhesive joints
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