Sökning: "entry thresholds"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden entry thresholds.
1. Moving thresholds : body narratives within the vicinity of gym and fitness culture
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates thresholds that impede bodies from moving to, and within, gym and fitness sites. Thresholds are here understood as gendered social constructs and norms, which direct bodies in certain ways, and thus circumscribing potential movements and capabilities. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Performance and Growth in Swedish Banking
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with performance and growth in the Swedish banking sector, in an era following important changes such as the globalisation of financial markets, the harmonisation of legislation (e.g. the EU banking directives) and the implementation of new technology, such as Internet banking and other electronic delivery channels. LÄS MER
3. Timing options and taxation : essays on the economics of firm creation and tax evasion
Sammanfattning : Taxation of Small Firms under Uncertainty: A Real Option View of Firm CreationThis paper addresses the impact of the tax system on the incentives to become self-employed. The new approach here is that the creation of a firm is assumed to be an opportunity but not an obligation, that is, a real option. LÄS MER
4. Behavioural Atmospheres and Vagueness in the Sharing of Urban Public Places
Sammanfattning : This thesis is an exploration of urban public places and social interactions understood as a sharing of place. Against the background of urbanization, migration, urban densification and new technologies, it can be assumed that our everyday ways of sharing place with one another are becoming more diversified. LÄS MER
5. Short- and long-term neuronal plasticity in hippocampal CA1 region of rat
Sammanfattning : The brain is highly plastic, displaying both short- and long-term changes, resulting from developmental processes as well as learning and memory. Moreover, short-term plasticity such as paired pulse facilitation and depression (PPF, PPD) have long been used to monitor the presynaptic versus postsynaptic changes occurring during more lasting processes such as long-term potentiation and depression (LTP, LTD). LÄS MER