Sökning: "contextual analysis"

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  1. 6. Essays on Social Capital, Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health A Health Economic Study

    Författare :Kamrul Islam; Socialepidemiologi; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; economic systems; economic theory; Economics; econometrics; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; epidemiologi; Folkhälsa; epidemiology; Public health; Sweden; Panel data fixed-effect model; Decomposition analysis; Concentration index; Socioeconomic health inequality; Population aging; Survival analysis; Extended Cox model; Multilevel analysis; Unbalanced panel data; Externalities; Crime rates; Election participation rates; Community social capital; Municipality-level social capital; Systematic review; Egalitarianism; Determinants of health; Mortality; Health-related quality of life; Health; Keywords; Social capital; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis comprises four independent research papers and a summary that focus on two related dimensions. The first dimension focuses on the understanding of the production of health. Particularly, the question is asked whether community's stock of social capital influence individual's health. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Complex methods of inquiry: structuring uncertainty

    Författare :PETER BEDNAR; Institutionen för informatik; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; information system; Contextual Analysis; Contextual Dependencies; Systems Approaches; Systems Thinking; Organizational change; Complex adaptive systems; Uncertainty management; Organizational Emergence; Change Management; Organizational Learning; Human Activity Systems;

    Sammanfattning : Organizational problem spaces can be viewed as complex, uncertain and ambiguous. They can also be understood as open problem spaces. As such, any engagement with them, and any effort to intervene in order to pursue desirable change, cannot be assumed to be just a matter of ‘complicatedness’. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Advanced Machine Learning Methods for Oncological Image Analysis

    Författare :Mehdi Astaraki; Chunliang Wang; Örjan Smedby; Iuliana Toma-Dasu; Bjoern Menze; KTH; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Medical Image Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Survival Analysis; Early Response Assessment; Tumor Classification; Tumor Segmentation; Medicinsk teknologi; Medical Technology;

    Sammanfattning : Cancer is a major public health problem, accounting for an estimated 10 million deaths worldwide in 2020 alone. Rapid advances in the field of image acquisition and hardware development over the past three decades have resulted in the development of modern medical imaging modalities that can capture high-resolution anatomical, physiological, functional, and metabolic quantitative information from cancerous organs. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Variational Tensor-Based Models for Image Diffusion in Non-Linear Domains

    Författare :Freddie Åström; Michael Felsberg; George Baravdish; Reiner Lenz; Christoph Schnörr; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; image diffusion; variational formulation; denoising; tensor; non-linear;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses the problem of adaptive image filtering.Although the topic has a long history in the image processing community, researchers continuously present novel methods to obtain ever better image restoration results. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Getting it Together: A Genre Analysis of the Rhetorical Structure of Open University Television Programmes in Science and Technology

    Författare :Rowena Jansson; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; distance learning.; television teaching; metadiscourse; transition; episode; rhetorical structure; Genre analysis; discourse analysis; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with uncovering the organisational structure underpinning Open University television programmes in scientific and technological fields. Using a genre analysis which takes into account the unique contextual configuration in which vision and pedagogical purpose play a vital part a rhetorical structure is revealed. LÄS MER