Sökning: "causal mechanisms"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 171 avhandlingar innehållade orden causal mechanisms.

1. 11. I välfärdsstatens hägn: Autonomi inom arbetslöshetsförsäkringen : Under the Welfare State Umbrella. Autonomy within the Unem-ployment Insurance

   Författare :Anna Bendz; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Autonomy; political institutions; path dependency; unemployment insurance; welfare state; causal mechanisms; political decision-making; Sweden; Norway; public policy;

   Sammanfattning : The point of departure of this dissertation is the general question of how to combine normative political philosophy with empirical analysis, the argument being that concepts from the political philosophy can and shall be used for the construction of theoretically and empirically relevant research questions. The core concept in the dissertation, which is also the object of the empirical analysis, is autonomy. LÄS MER

3. 12. Epigenetic mechanisms of asthma and allergy

   Författare :Nathalie Acevedo; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Sammanfattning : Allergic diseases such as atopic eczema (AE) and asthma are chronic inflammatory disorders in which the regulation of the immune system is altered, in concert with disease-specific defects in target organs. Their inception requires gene-environment interactions but the molecular mechanisms contributing to the pathogenesis remain unclear. LÄS MER

4. 13. The Karma of Products : Exploring the Causality of Environmental Pressure with Causal Loop Diagram and Environmental Footprint

   Författare :Rafael Laurenti; Björn Frostell; Andrius Plepys; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Products; Environmental Pressure; Causal Loop Diagram; Environmental Footprint; Industrial Ecology; Industriell ekologi;

   Sammanfattning : Environmental pressures from consumer products and mechanisms of predetermination were examined in this thesis using causal loop diagram (CLD) and life cycle assessment (LCA) footprinting to respectively illustrate and provide some indicators about these mechanisms. Theoretical arguments and their practical implications were subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis, using secondary and primary data. LÄS MER

5. 14. Neural Mechanisms Determining Visuospatial Working Memory Tasks : Biophysical Modeling, Functional MRI and EEG

   Författare :Fredrik Edin; Jesper Tegnér; Klaas Stephan; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datalogi;

   Sammanfattning : Visuospatial working memory (vsWM) is the ability to temporarily retain goal-relevant visuospatial information in memory. It is a key cognitive function related to general intelligence, and it improves throughout childhood and through WM training. LÄS MER

7. 15. The Case for Causal Individualism in Social Science

   Författare :Gustav Ramström; Ulf Mörkenstam; Alexandra Segerberg; Raino Malnes; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social ontology; individualism vs. holism; the micro-macro link; social scientific meta-theory; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Social science has, from its very beginnings, been characterized by debates over the true nature of society and about how to best understand and explain it. At the heart of these discussions lies the question of the causal structure of the social world. LÄS MER