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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 164 avhandlingar innehållade orden scientific discoveries.
1. Success as Science but Burden for Business? : On the difficult relationship between scientific advancement and innovation
Sammanfattning : Today, a general policy and investment recipe for economic growth and innovation, on both a national and an international level, is to base commercial ventures on novel scientific solutions. From this perspective, scientific research is seen as an untapped source of innovation, and the ambition is to make new scientific knowledge more easily transferable to business settings, where it is supposed to generate direct economic benefits. LÄS MER
2. Cracks in the Ivory Tower : Antibiotics Research and the Changes in Academia 1980-2015
Sammanfattning : At the same time as resistance to antibiotics became an increasingly problematic health care concern around the world, major changes occurred in the condition scientists faced when conducting university-based research. This thesis aims to study these changes as they applied to antibacterial and bacteriological research, and how they influenced the researchers’ ability to make new scientific discoveries. LÄS MER
3. Konstitueringen av ett vetenskapligt begrepp : Exemplet - det manliga klimakteriet
Sammanfattning : How are new scientific concepts of illnesses and disorder formed? The last fifty years have seen a dramatic increase in new diagnoses incorporated into medical manuals. The concept of the male menopause, or the andropause diagnosis, is suitable for studying how medical knowledge is produced, since it has alternated between being and not being part of the acknowledged medical knowledge since the beginning of the 19th century, when it was originally launched. LÄS MER
4. Konstitueringen av ett vetenskapligt objekt : Exemplet - det manliga klimakteriet
Sammanfattning : How are new scientific concepts of illnesses and disorder formed? The last fifty years have seen a dramatic increase in new diagnoses incorporated into medical manuals. The concept of the male menopause, or the andropause diagnosis, is suitable for studying how medical knowledge is produced, since it has alternated between being and not being part of the acknowledged medical knowledge since the beginning of the 19th century, when it was originally launched. LÄS MER
5. Disconnected Discoveries: Availability Studies in Partitioned Networks
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with exploring methods for making computing systems more resilient to problems in the network communication, both in the setting of existing infrastructure but also in the case where no infrastructure is available. Specifically, we target a situation called network partitions which means that a computer or device network is split in two or more parts that cannot communicate with each other. LÄS MER