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1. Being provided with a safe haven : Care-dependent older persons' participation in prehospital emergency care
Sammanfattning : Participation in care is a key concept in many welfare societies and serves to guide clinical practice and adapt care to personal preferences and needs in order to promote well-being and quality of life. Previous research has shown that practicing participation in care is complex due to the concept not being clearly defined. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Risks in Investment Strategies
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contains three articles, which investigate different types of risks investors encounter during the investment process.Article I investigates the relation between macroeconomic risk and higher-moment moment risk premia. LÄS MER
3. Funny Bodies, Humour and Grotesque in English Childrens´ Literature
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of grotesque and transgressional humour in English children's literature. The grotesque is seen here as a liminal and ambivalent aesthetic category at the junction between two fields of tension: the fantastic and the real in one field and the comic and the horrible in the other. LÄS MER
4. The Nepotistic Parent; Predator Protection, Kinship and Philopatry
Sammanfattning : Evolution is fuelled by independent reproduction events. Yet, the offspring of at least three percent of all bird species postpone dispersal and forego independent reproduction. LÄS MER
5. On a journey for survival : everyday life during radiation therapy from the perspectives of women with breast cancer and their families
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on women diagnosed with breast cancer and their familymembers. Since a breast cancer diagnosis and its subsequent treatment are astrenuous experience not only for the woman afflicted but also for her familymembers, this thesis aimed to explore the experiences of everyday life duringradiation therapy from the perspectives of the woman with breast cancer andher family, as well as exploring families’ experiences of participating in shortfamily health conversations (SFamHC). LÄS MER