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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Noah.
1. Make It Easier : A psychological perspective on sustainable behavior change
Sammanfattning : Human behavior is the cause of most environmental challenges we face today, and widespread behavioral change is urgently needed across actors and scales. Even though the public perception of the current ecological crisis has changed drastically in recent decades, a corresponding shift in behavior is lacking — unfortunately, mere belief in climate change is a poor predictor of taking action. LÄS MER
2. Interplay between mitochondria, primary cilium, diabetes and its complications
Sammanfattning : Diabetes is one of the major health problems of the 21st century. Dysfunction of the insulin secreting pancreatic β-cell together with insulin resistance is central to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The cause of the disease and the underlying mechanisms linking hyperglycemia to diabetes complications are still unclear. LÄS MER
3. Tanzanian primary school learners investing in English : What are their attitudes, expectations and opportunities?
Sammanfattning : The study is about attitudes, expectations and opportunities of Tanzanian primary school learners who invest in English language. It was conducted in Morogoro Tanzania with the aim of exploring, presenting and interpreting why the learners invest in English. LÄS MER
4. Gods, Grammars, and Genres : Towards an Ethics of English Studies in Imperial Sovereignty
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, the author argues that the post-process movement towards genre-based writing pedagogies is reproducing the logic of neoliberal or free-market ideology. By analyzing the relationship between three paradigms of sovereignty (feudalism, the nation-state, and globalization) and institutionalized language, the author demonstrates that teaching writing as multiple and genred as opposed to teaching it as a single, abstract skill is no a more rational approach, but rather a differently rational approach. LÄS MER
5. Exploring the role of gene duplications in plant-insect interactions
Sammanfattning : As evolutionary biologists, we are often curious about the genomic origins of our favorite adaptations. Although some innovations certainly arose de novo, many more originated through the process of whole-gene or within-gene duplication. LÄS MER