Sökning: "demographic change"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 167 avhandlingar innehållade orden demographic change.
6. Prejudice in context over time : how demographic, economic and social conditions influence anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescents and adults
Sammanfattning : Background Thesis explores the contexts that influence anti-immigrant attitudes in both adolescents and adults, and how contexts influence changes anti-immigrant attitudes in societies over time. Whereas previous research into anti-immigrant attitudes has either focused on micro socialization factors in adolescence, or threat inducing factors in adulthood; this thesis forwards an approach that synthesizes these two ideas. LÄS MER
7. Tradition, change and variation : past and present trends in public old-age care
Sammanfattning : The general aim of this dissertation is to describe and analyse how public old-age care in Sweden has developed and changed during the last century. The study applies a provider perspective on how care has been planned and professionally carried out. LÄS MER
8. Land use dynamics and demographic change in southern Burkina Faso
Sammanfattning : With the increasing world’s population, coupled with the technology improvement, man has emerged as the major, most powerful and universal instrument of environmental change in the biosphere today. To understand and predict the impacts of this change in the future, long-term reconstruction of land use and cover changes at global, regional and local scales is a prerequisite. LÄS MER
9. Luni sul Mignone och dess kringland. En diakronisk studie av ett mellanitaliskt landskap och dess arkeologi
Sammanfattning : This thesis is an archaeological study of a small region in northern Latium and the diachronical relationship between a nucleated settlement and its rural landscape. The work has a twofold basis: a review of earlier research concerning the settlement Luni sul Mignone in the light of more recent research, and a survey conducted by the present author of the territory of Luni. LÄS MER
10. Gaussian process models of social change
Sammanfattning : Social systems produce complex and nonlinear relationships in the indicator variables that describe them. Traditional statistical regression techniques are commonly used in the social sciences to study such systems. LÄS MER
