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GRETCHEN DAILY Valuing Nature in Business and Policy STANFORD UNIVERSITY Gretchen Daily is Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Bio- logy; Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment; and Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. She is also one of the founders of The Natural Capital Project, a partnership among Stanford University

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Popular Abstract in Undetermined Syftet med avhandlingen är dels att undersöka författarbiografin som litterär text, dels att finna en rimlig ståndpunkt i den teoretiska debatt där biografins fiktionalitet har lyfts fram. I inledningen tar jag upp den teoretiska utveckling som rör detta metaperspektiv. För att ge en ram både åt dessa resonemang och mitt eget val av undersökningsobjekt, ger jag ock

Gentrification is a current and often debated concept that concerns social changes in our cities. The concept relates to a development whereby areas earlier inhabited by less wealthy social groups are taken over by middle and upper middle-class residents. In the discussions of these changes, two perspectives have dominated. Representatives for the consumer perspective argue that gentrification occ

The following study aims to examine the structuring functions of migration in relation to globalization, and how these affect the subject. Through interviewing six persons with the experience of migration and living without documents in Malmö, I have analysed the interviewees’ narratives in relation to a global context. This is a qualitative study produced through a narrative method, with the inte

Credibility assessment of testimony is a very important part in the asylum adjudication procedure. The credibility assessment is intended to tell decision-makers whether they should accept the facts as supported by the applicant’s statement. Only those parts of the statement which are recognized as credible will then be considered in determining the validity of the asylum claim. This thesis exam

The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the frequency of postoperative bleeding in patients on warfarin after tooth removal followed by a complete soft tissue closure of the surgical site. A total of 124 consecutive patients, 69 males and 55 females with a mean age of 71 years (range 28-95 years) were included in this study. Inclusion criteria were patients on warfarin with an INR

The aim of this article is to propose a method for creating a more coherent concept of norms – and to deliver a tentative and open suggestion on how to define norms in a way that might fit into the context of Sociology of Law (further on shortened, SoL). The idea is that the norm concept can be chiselled out through ontological analysis, and that this analysis can be conducted in a way that allow

I den här uppsatsen undersöks förutsättningarna för spanska översättningar i Sverige genom kvalitativa intervjuer med sex svenska förlag. Syftet är att försöka bidra med en förståelse för hur den svenska översättningsmarknaden fungerar och mekanismerna bakom urvalet av den översatta spanskspråkiga skönlitteraturen, som kan sägas vara representerad i relativt låg grad i Sverige. Frågor som ställs t

This paper investigates the usability of a cost model to assess sustainable production. The aim is to develop an established cost model to also take sustainability into consideration and hence evaluate sustainable production on the shop floor. To facilitate the analyse literature have been studied to find indicators for sustainable production. The indicators have then been mapped together with parThis paper investigates the usability of a cost model to assess sustainable production. The aim is to develop an established cost model to also take sustainability into consideration and hence evaluate sustainable production on the shop floor. To facilitate the analyse literature have been studied to find indicators for sustainable production. The indicators have then been mappedtogether with para