Sökning: "embarrassment"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade ordet embarrassment.
1. Portraying Unease : the Art and Politics of Uncomfortable Attachments
Sammanfattning : Portraying Unease critically discusses a tendency amongst politicized scholars to endow artworks with traits of subversion and political productivity. Artworks that address structural discrimination, such as heterosexism, racism, or ableism, are often described as possessing qualities that can challenge unjust systems or initiate political change. LÄS MER
2. Feeling by Doing : The Social Organization of Everyday Emotions in Academic Talk-in-Interaction
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation is concerned with the social organization of emotions in talk-in-interaction. Conversation analytic procedures were used to uncover the practices through which participants in social interaction convey, understand, enact, and utilize emotions that are made relevant to the interaction. LÄS MER
3. Essays on forecasting and Bayesian model averaging
Sammanfattning : This thesis, which consists of four chapters, focuses on forecasting in a data-rich environment and related computational issues. Chapter 1, “An embarrassment of riches: Forecasting using large panels” explores the idea of combining forecasts from various indicator models by using Bayesian model averaging (BMA) and compares the predictive performance of BMA with predictive performance of factor models. LÄS MER
4. Feelings and fellings : exploring the process of communication in forest management conflicts
Sammanfattning : The way we communicate about forest issues has consequences for how forests are managed. Policies and research suggest that public participation in natural resource management (NRM) leads to better informed and more sustainable decisions about the environment. LÄS MER
5. Penile carcinoma : from first symptom to sexual function and life satisfaction following organ-sparing laser treatment
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to describe how patients with penile carcinoma experienced their symptoms, treatment seeking and the impact of the diagnosis and treatment on sexual function, sexual activity and life satisfaction. The thesis contains two studies of patients treated with organ-sparing laser therapy, a retrospective study (Papers II and III) of 46 patients treated between 1986-2000 and a prospective study (Papers I and IV) of 50 patients between 2005 and 2009 and additional 34 partners. LÄS MER