Sökning: "significant consequences"
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1. The Significance of Things : Affective User-Artefact Relations
Sammanfattning : Products help people act, but also thrill, excite, and elicit fear, joy and anger. Artefacts are a natural part of people’s everyday lives, sometimes associated with values, dreams and aspirations. While traditional user-centred approaches have focused on efficiency and effectiveness of use, injury prevention etc. LÄS MER
2. A life-course approach to chronic kidney disease : risks and consequences
Sammanfattning : Successful primary prevention of chronic kidney disease (CKD) relies on understanding the pathways leading to established disease, including how they extend over the life-course. Projects in this thesis examine risk factors for CKD and consequences of impaired kidney function from a life-course perspective using routinely collected health-data in Swedish registers and research cohort data from the United Kingdom. LÄS MER
3. Hate crime victimization : consequences and interpretations
Sammanfattning : The field of hate crime studies is a young one and as such it is characterized by a high proportion of explorative and inductive studies. This methodological approach is well founded when a field is unfolding as they often generate theoretical conclusions or assumptions. LÄS MER
4. Dupuytren´s Contracture : Features and Consequences
Sammanfattning : Dupuytren's contracture (DC) is a fibromatous disease of the palmar fascia of unknown etiology. The present study was undertaken in order to assess pathophysiological mechanisms and consequences. In a cohort study of 2,375 patients operated for DC at the Department of Hand Surgery, Uppsala there was a male: female ratio of 5.9:1. LÄS MER
5. Self-rated Health with special reference to Prevalence, Determinants and Consequences
Sammanfattning : Objectives: The overall aim was to investigate determinants and consequences of global non-comparative self-ratings of health (SRH). Concerning determinants, the aim was more specifically to investigate the association between age, year of investigation, stress-theory based psychobiological variables, and SRH. LÄS MER