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Bak and Joergen. "AU: Information on Denmark." Aarhus Universitet, Danmark, 1999. http://www.au.dk/en/denmark.htm.
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Darin, Lisa Ann. "Immigrant integration in Denmark /." Abstract Full Text (HTML) Full Text (PDF), 2008. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000483/02/1938FT.htm.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2008.Thesis advisor: Richard Benfield. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geography." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-89). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Martinho, Cátia Sirgado. "Denmark : roots of a balanced economy." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10921.
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Mestrado em Economia Internacional e Estudos EuropeusA Dinamarca é uma pequena economia aberta que, durante os anos 1980 e 1990, conseguiu resolver desequilíbrios macroeconómicos e foi reorientada para a exportação. Mais recentemente, e apesar de ter sido seriamente afectada pela crise internacional, a Dinamarca conseguiu manter o seu deficit e taxas de desemprego abaixo da média da UE25. Que razões explicam o desempenho da economia dinamarquesa nos últimos anos? Para se encontrar uma resposta recorreu-se às seguintes questões de pesquisa: - Como é que a economia dinamarquesa se comportou de 1950 até 2010/11? O ponto de partida serão os anos 1950. A análise abrangerá a década de 1970, onde vários desequilíbrios económicos foram construídos, passando pelos anos 1980 e 1990, onde reformas económicas reorientaram o país em direcção à sustentabilidade fiscal, exportações e crescimento económico. A análise acabará na década de 2000 onde, após um período de crescimento consistente, a Dinamarca é atingida pelas mais recentes crises económicas internacionais, e quando, mais tarde, em 2011, estabelece as suas metas e estratégias para atingir a sustentabilidade fiscal nos próximos anos. Que outros factores específicos, além de políticas governamentais e acontecimentos históricos, explicam o desempenho económico da Dinamarca? Depois de delineada a evolução macroeconómica, procuraram-se os elementos estruturais que contribuem para a explicação desse desempenho. Cinco características específicas, e em que medida estas moldaram o desempenho económico da Dinamarca e a ajudaram a enfrentar a globalização e constantes mudanças económicas, serão consideradas. As cinco características mostraram influenciar positivamente o desempenho global da Dinamarca.
Denmark is a small and open economy which, during the 1980s and 1990s, succeeded in resolving macroeconomic imbalances and in reorienting the economy to exports. Nowadays, despite having been seriously affected by the most recent global crises, Denmark has managed to keep its deficit and unemployment rates below the EU25 average. What reasons explain the Danish economy's performance in the latest years? In order to understand it two research questions will be considered: - How did the Danish economy perform from the 1950s until 2010/11? The 1950s will be the starting point. The analysis will go through the 1970s, where several economic imbalances were built up, passing by the 1980/90s where economic reforms reoriented the country towards fiscal sustainability, exports and economic growth. The outline will end in the 2000s where, after a period of consistent growth, Denmark is hit by the international economic crises, and later, in 2011, establishes its targets and strategies for the fiscal sustainability to be ensured in the coming years. What other specific factors, apart from governmental policies and historical happenings, explain Denmark´s economic performance? Five selected features of the Danish economy, and the extent in which they have shaped Denmark´s economic performance and have helped Denmark facing globalization and changing environments, will be considered. All the five features have demonstrated to provide the Danish economy with positive inputs contributing to Denmark´s overall performance.
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Jensen, Janus Møller. "Denmark and the Crusades, 1400-1650 /." Leiden : Brill, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb410255447.
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Yılmaz, Ferruh. "Ethnicized ontologies from foreign worker to Muslim immigrant : how Danish public discourse moved to the right through the question of immigration /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3310006.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 19, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-373).
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Stubager, Rune. "The education cleavage new politics in Denmark /." Århus : Politica, 2006. http://books.google.com/books?id=bRyOAAAAMAAJ.
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Hall, Stewart. "The variability of the Denmark Straight overflow." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579541.
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The overflow of dense water from the Nordic Seas to the North Atlantic through Denmark Strait is an important part of the global thermohaline circulation. Therefore changes to the properties of Denmark Strait Overflow Water (DSOW) may have the potential to influence the global climate. This thesis has used observations from current meters, output from an eddy resolving Ocean General Circulation Model and oxygen isotope ratio data to investigate the mechanisms responsible for variability of DSOW salinity. Three main conclusions have been drawn: • DSOW salinity anomalies are probably caused by changes in the proportions of source waters feeding the overflow, rather than changes in the salinity of the source waters. This is caused by an increase in southward wind stress off the East Greenland coast and a subsequent increase in volume flux of fresh intermediate water arriving at the sill. This results in a freshening of DSOW, with a lag of 4 'li months from the wind stress change. • Eddy variability at the moorings may be linked to different proportions of source waters feeding the overflow at the sill, and therefore may be indirectly linked to the wind forcing off the East Greenland coast. This means that short term variability in salinity of a few days at the moorings, could be driven by processes occurring upstream of the sill on much longer interannual time scales. • DSOW freshwater input derives from meteoric water (i.e. no sea-ice melt input) for the period of June 2009, and a proportion of DSOW source water has also formed sea- ice upstream of the sill. Oxygen isotope ratio analysis is a useful tool to provide an insight into the nature of the regions where DSOW source waters may last have been in contact with the surface.
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Dzalbe, Sania. "Spatial visibility of Greenlanders in Aalborg, Denmark." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172061.
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This thesis studies spatial visibility of Greenlanders in Aalborg by particularly looking and examining three most notable places associated with the Greenlandic community in the city as an indicator into socio-economic conditions of Greenlanders. To meet the aim, ten interviews with the Greenlandic representatives in Aalborg were carried out to find out their feelings and experiences towards these places. This thesis looks at spatial visibility in cities as an indicator into broader socio-economic issues. The results demonstrate how different groups of Greenlanders in Aalborg use urban space to uphold and practice activities that are characteristic to them. Finally, the results indicate that Greenlanders in Aalborg are still heavily subjected to stereotyping and racism which brings attention to the need of Danish government to redesign their integration policies.
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Velkova, Ekaterina Valentinova. "Use of Social Media by Students in Denmark." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-41449.
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The use of social media and its accessibility through smartphones is becoming a more and more researched topic in the field of ICT. In relation to this, the current study attempts to shed light on the general use of social media, Facebook in particular, by youth in Danish context and pays attention to how the accessibility to this media through smartphones affects the interaction between individuals when being together. The research finishes with three conceptual models which goal is to provide future design implications of the studied ICTs in a way that closer meets the user needs and requirements. The models are – one related to Facebook, one general application, and one related to supporting many-to-many communication. The study is of interpretative nature, based on qualitative research approach with a main method for data collection being qualitative semi-structured interviews. There were 8 interviews performed – 3 with students at a secondary school in Odense, Denmark, and the rest with students at the university in the same town. In this way an understanding of the use patterns and issues experienced by the different age groups was attempted. Furthermore, the study contributes with findings to certain discrepancies identified in the current literature, such as the need for context-aware devices, type of friends on Facebook and others. Finally, due to the limited source for data collection, the thesis does not claim for generalizability, but it should be viewed as a small contribution to the studies related to Facebook, particularly applicable within a Danish context.
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Ringquist, Leanne P. "Striving for a Happier America: Lessons from Denmark." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/130.
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American society has lost sight of one of its most valued virtues: Happiness. Research has showed that the United States is behind many other countries in the overall happiness of its citizens. Leading the world in well-being is Denmark. This paper’s aim is to explore possible factors that could be facilitating the well-being of Danish citizens, and applying them to American society. In this search, I explore universal individual factors, as well as factors that lead to the development of a culture and dispositions of its citizens. From these factors, as well as unique characteristics of both countries, I hypothesized determinates of well-being in Demark, as well as factors that are detrimental to American’s well-being. Factors for Demark include uniform cultural ideals, social equality, social programs, and unique perspectives on happiness. Conversely, the lack or low levels of these factors for Americans might attest to lower well-being. By emulating these Danish policies and ideals, the U.S. could produce happier, less stressed Americans.
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Fallesen, Grethe. "The ecology of macrozoobenthos in Arhus Bay, Denmark." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21608.
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The aim of this thesis has been to: 1) assess the state of pollution in the two study areas and relate them to recent changes found in the Kattegat - Belt Sea area; 2) examine the observed spatial and temporal variability in species composition, abundance and biomass in Arhus Bay and the Formes area and relate the variability to antropogenic and natural causes; 3) discuss and assess methods, particularly for the estimation of secondary production and the use of multivariate analyses as methods for examining changes in macrozoobenthic communities. Macrozoobenthos were sampled at 15 stations in Arhus Bay, Denmark from 1985 to 1991 while data from Formes (reference area) included 55 sampling stations from 1986 to 1990. Monthly sampling took place at one station in Arhus Bay in 1990 and 1991. The two study areas are both situated on the eastcoast of Jutland in the Kattegat - Belt Sea area at 13-17 m depth and both receive waste water from long sea outfalls. Although both areas are Subjected to salinity stratification for most of the year, the exposed position of the Formes area on the open Kattegat coast prevents it from suffering from severe oxygen deficiencies, unlike the Arhus Bay which is a sheltered, semi-enclosed sedimentation area where oxygen concentrations in the bottom water can be very low. At Formes the sediment is sandy while it is silty in Arhus Bay. The spatial and temporal variability in the benthos in Arhus Bay could to a great extent be explained by the variation in 7 important species: Abra alba, Corbula gibba, Mysella bidentata, Nepthys hombergii, N. ciliata, Ophiura albida and Echinocardium cordatum. The fluctuations in the number and biomass of A. alba had a pronounced effect on the total abundance and biomass in Arhus Bay. The severe winter of 1986/87 with low temperatures and oxygen depletion under the ice cover practically eliminated A. alba from the bay. A. alba quickly recolonized the area and was found in high numbers in 1988. Studies of growth of A. alba in 1990 and 1991 showed that by the end of 1990 the population had reached an average length of 10 mm while the average shell length was only 5 mm by the end of 1991. The difference between the two years could be attributed to the difference in sedimentation of phytoplankton from the water column. As in other parts of the Kattegat - Belt Sea area, Arhus Bay has experienced low oxygen concentrations in the bottom water in late summer early autumn throughout the 1980s. Only the oxygen depletion under the ice cover in early spring 1987 and the local oxygen deficiencies south of the outlet in 1989 and 1990 actually killed parts of the benthic fauna. Apart from 1981, the oxygen deficiencies have thus been less severe in Arhus Bay than in other parts of the southern Kattegat in the 1980s. The number of species, abundance and biomass decreased at Fornres from 1980 to 1985 while the discharge of BOD was fairly constant during the same period. From 1986 there was a slight decrease in the discharge of BOD but a considerable increase in the number of species, abundance and biomass. At least for the second half of the 1980s there was no straightforward relation between the organic enrichment from the outlet and species composition, abundance and biomass and suggests that other factors are also important influencing the fluctuations in the benthic fauna. Estimates of total secondary community production were found to be very dependent on the method used. The method described by Brey (1990) was found acceptable for estimating secondary production in Arhus Bay but care should be exercised when comparisons are made with other areas where different methods have been used to estimate production. Secondary production was estimated more accurately for some of the abundant species in Arhus Bay on the basis of monthly samplings by the method described by Crisp (1984). Among the multivariate analyses the Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) and nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) proved to be the most successful with the Arhus Bay and Fornes data sets. Two Way INdicator SPecies ANalysis (TWINSPAN) did not work well with the Fornes data because it imposed discontinuities on data sets with continous variation in distribution of species among samples. As community types existed to a certain degree in Arhus Bay TWINSPAN worked well with these data. DCA and MDS were found to be useful techniques for analysing large data sets because they can summarize the data matrices to a manageable form and find possible patterns in the data sets. The results of the analyses can then be used as starting point for more detailed investigations of single species/samples or groups of species/samples. By using different transformations of the raw data the role of dominant or rare species can be assessed. A major 'problem in the assessment of multivariate techniques is the lack of external standards to compare with. The results of multivariate analyses must therefore be assessed critically on the basis of a careful examination of the species list combined with the knowledge and experience of the investigator. The methods used all had their advantages and limitations but each of the different methods added some important information to the picture of the benthic community in Arhus Bay and Fornes. It was thus an considerable advantage to use several different methods to analyse the spatial and temporal variability in the benthic fauna in relation to antropogenic and natural causes.
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Jacobsen, Malene H. "The Everyday Spaces of Humanitarian Migrants in Denmark." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/7.
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Through an analysis of the Danish Immigration Law and asylum system, this research illustrates how the Danish state through state practices and policies permeates and produces the everyday space of humanitarian migrants. Furthermore, it examines how humanitarian migrants experience their everyday life in the Danish asylum system. An examination of state practices in conjunction with humanitarian migrants’ narratives of space and everyday practices, offers an opportunity to explore what kind of politics and political subjectivities that can emerge in the space of humanitarian migrants. This research contribute to our understanding of first, how the securitization of migration has direct impact on the everyday life of humanitarian migrants, second, second, how the state through practices and space governs and de-politicizes humanitarian migrants, and third, humanitarian migrants are able to act politically.
Furthermore, this research problematizes the categorization of humanitarian migrants as “asylum seeker” in order to illustrate how the group of humanitarian migrants is a very diverse group of people from different places with various skills and education-, social-, and economic backgrounds. Even though “asylum seekers” are often portrayed as a homogenous group of vulnerable people we cannot assume that these people understand themselves as vulnerable docile “asylum seekers”.
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Wren, Karen. "International migration to Denmark : majority and minority perspectives." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341834.
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Quill, Smart David John. "Later Mesolithic fishing strategies and practices in Denmark." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322260.
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Christiansen, S. P. "Housing and improvement : a comparative study, Britain-Denmark." Thesis, University of York, 1985. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21045/.
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Vitanza, Daniele. "Carbon flows of waste management system in Denmark." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/1494/.
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Kragh-Muller, G., Rebecca Isbell, Charlotte Ringsmose, and Pamela Evanshen. "Best Practices in Childcare: United States and Denmark." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4356.
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Hansen, Marcus. "A study about gender pay gap for nurses in Denmark : Is there a the gender wage gap for nurses in Denmark?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96212.
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This study investigates the gender earnings gap among nurses in Denmark years 2004-2016. The data at hand will be from Luxembourg Income studies which provided 7078 observations. Furthermore, ordinary least squares method with gender as dummy variable will be conducted. The findings are a raw male-female annual wage gap of 13 percent. After adding control variables, the gap decreased to 7.4 percent. The remaining wage gap can be due to unobservable characteristics. However, discrimination cannot be discounted.
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Whyte, Zachary. "In process : an ethnography of asylum-seeking in Denmark." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504164.
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Glaister, Christopher Graham. "Palynology of late Pleistocene marine sediments in North Denmark." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621662.
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Jacobsen, Malene H. "UNSETTLING REFUGE: SYRIAN REFUGEES’ ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN DENMARK." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/62.
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This doctoral dissertation examines the lived experiences of refuge in Denmark from the perspectives of Syrian refugees. Situated within feminist political geography, it moves beyond examining geopolitics merely from the perspective of the law, the state, and policy makers. Instead, it seeks to grasp the ways in which geopolitics are encountered, experienced, and negotiated on the ground – by the people who are most affected by state policies and practices. It draws on more than ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark with Syrian refugees, including semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and participant observations, as well as interviews with state and non-state actors providing assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan. This dissertation brings insights from feminist political geography into conversation with those from critical refugee studies, border studies, geographies of law, and postcolonial studies in order to unsettle core ideas and terms of reference surrounding what refuge is and how it is practiced.
This dissertation makes three distinct but closely related arguments. First, focusing on family reunification of refugees and how this form of protection became a target in the Danish state’s efforts to prevent refugee immigration, I argue that the geopolitics of refuge needs to be examined in a way that includes but also moves beyond the actual territorial border line as well as the legal border (i.e. the moment a person obtains protection and legal status). Second, through an examination of Syrian refugees’ everyday encounters with the Danish state, I draw attention to the disjunctures between idealized notions of refuge with its ostensible ‘humanitarian’ ethos and the practical articulations of refuge as manifested in the everyday lived experiences of refugees. This is what I term lived refuge. I argue, however, that the dissonances between idealized and actually existing refuge point to the persistent presence of governance within refuge, rather than a lack or an absence of ‘true’ humanitarianism - i.e. a promise of freedom, betterment, and prospect that did not fully materialize. Instead, the state practices, which refugees are subject to within refuge, are enabled and normalized through the asymmetrical relationships between the state and the refugee. Third, calling attention to how Syrian refugees experience, articulate and locate war, I trouble prevailing geographical imaginations of “Europe” and Denmark as spaces of peace, safety, and prosperity. Drawing on Syrians’ experiences of war, I argue that attending to everyday experiences of war in refuge prompts a re-articulation of where war is, what counts as war, and who decides.
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Harms, Teresa A. "Children's services in Denmark : A contextual analysis and critique." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/894.
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The late 1990’s in Australia have seen major stresses in State and Federal systems of early years provision and have highlighted the need to develop an integrated approach to early years policy and provision to meet better the changing needs of Australian families. As an experienced Australian practitioner in the early years, the researcher decided to explore another country’s approach to early childhood provision and to contextualise her Australian experience from a fresh perspective. In Kandel’s (1933, 1955) terms, this is a classic area study rather than one which seeks to merely to compare and contrast.
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Johnson, Jamie Lynn. "The undead bones of Denmark Vesey the complications of history /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/650509161/viewonline.
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Thomson, Catherine Claire. "Danmarkshistorier : national imagination and novel in late twentieth-century Denmark." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27533.
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This thesis centres on the contemporary Danish novel as a conduit for national imagining. Chapter one begins with a discussion of Benedict Anderson's account of the ability of novels to facilitate an imagining of the national community in time and space. Critical responses to Anderson's hypothesis are then situated in the context of late twentieth-century debates on the 'postnational' and 'posthistorical'. Recent Danish historiography attempts to negotiate national histories that recognise not only the contingency of established historical accounts but also their narrative nature, employing textual strategies such as resisting linear chronology and causality, historicising space and place, and fusing (individual) memory and (collective) history. Such texts, hybrid narratives between histories and stories of Denmark (or 'Danmarkshistorier'), implicate a Danish national model reader who is alive both to the homogenising contemporary discourse of danskhed (Danishness) and to its self-ironising subversion. Contemporary Danish literature, it is argued, shares this concern with what Bhabha identifies as the symbiosis of nationalist historical pedagogy and narrative performance. Chapters two to four focus on three novels which map out the Danish experience of the twentieth century and sit at the intersection of the genres which have marked Danish literature in the 1990s: the punktroman and the encyclopedic novel. Thus all three texts explore temporalities alternative to Anderson's interpretation of Benjamin's 'homogenous empty time', and they construct shifting textual communities of national subjects predicated on the liminalities of cultural identities, on the boundaries between historical fact and fiction, and on the tension between privileged and marginal forms of narrative. In chapter two, Peter Hoeg's Forestilling om det tyvende arhundrede (1988) is discussed as an anthropological novel which pastiches postcolonial and magical realist writing to critique the longing for order inherent in national historiography and fiction. Peer Hultberg's Byen og verden (1992) is read, in chapter three, as a spatial history of a community in which local, national and global places and times of belonging can coalesce. Chapter four examines the configurations of individual and collective memory, trauma and event, the epochal and the everyday in Vibeke Gronfeldt's I dag (1998). The thesis concludes with a discussion of the novels in question as sites of textual memory, in which 'postnational' spacetimes, including the term of the millennium and the glocal, can be negotiated.
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Pettersson, Maria. "Legal preconditions for wind power implementation in Sweden and Denmark." Licentiate thesis, Luleå : Luleå University of Technology, 2006. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1757/2006/12.
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Bedsted, Tim V. "A dynamic analysis of the costs of dementia in Denmark /." København, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/362528845.pdf.
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Østergaard, Lars. "Optimizing retail banking channels for mass-market customers in Denmark." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556280.
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The thesis deals with the optimization of retail banks' branch and Internet banking channels resulting from 1) the use of Porter's competitive strategy model which is suitable for the outside- in research approach adopted; 2) the potential for realizing improved efficiency and effectiveness; and 3) customers' requirements and satisfaction with products and services. Six research questions are posed: 1) Is M. Porter's competitive strategy appropriate for use among retail banks? 2) Is it correct that large banks are more cost efficient than are small- medium sized banks? 3) Are mass market retail bank customers generally satisfied with the products and services received? 4) Are there points of differentiation banks may use to remain competitive? 5) Does gender, age, place of residence, or occupation imply different banking requirements and satisfaction levels? 6) Are there customer segments in the marketplace with requirements not fulfilled by traditional retail banks? Banks are encouraged to balance inside-out and outside-in strategic approaches. Banks shall optimize learning, innovation and leadership capabilities as suggested by the Resource Based view to enhance customer experience and reduce inefficiency. Porter's competitive strategy has been extensively used in previous research and therefore here as a starting point for the research. The findings indicate that the differentiation options suggested by Porter are only partly suitable to banks. There are non-sustainable differentiation options which banks may focus on: lower prices; enhanced competences and interpersonal skills of the advisor; branch logistics; and Internet banking features. Large banks are not more cost efficient than are medium sized banks. This is because scale and scope inefficiencies in banking are small and the inability of management to facilitate progress and execute on operational obligations explains almost all the combined 20% X-inefficiency. The analysis results in four customer segments with different requirements particularly for channels. Customers are overall satisfied with products and services. There are significant differences between male and female customers' requirements and satisfaction. The primary data collection was undertaken prior to the financial crisis. A post-crisis investigation is likely to modify importance and satisfaction levels and emphasize the significance of banks offering sufficient lending facilities.
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Warren, Tracy Bernadette. "Women's part-time employment : a comparison of Britain and Denmark." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367006.
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Christensen, Nikolaj. "Flickering flames : the early Pentecostal movement in Denmark, 1907-1924." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7796/.
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This study is the most extensive treatment of Danish Pentecostal history to date. It is also the first case study of early European Pentecostalism focused on describing the hindrances to Pentecostal growth in this part of the world and the ways the movement responded to these. The otherwise successful Anglo-Norwegian preacher T.B. Barratt attempted but failed to make Copenhagen a hub of the fledgling Pentecostal movement from 1907, though the movement managed to penetrate a wide range of socio-economic strata there. The movement was hampered by a relative lack of existing minority denominations, along with rejection by Evangelical and Holiness leaders within the state church. Many Danish Pentecostals themselves undermined the movement's survival, by resisting any departure from its original, ecumenical, spontaneous state. They often pursued interdenominational, itinerant strategies- or travelled abroad as missionaries - rather than forming Pentecostal congregations as in contexts where the movement was more successful. When the inevitable institutionalisation happened, it was accompanied by a few years of dynamic growth, but ended in a debilitating schism. The difficulties imposed by the combination of aggressive secularisation and a monopolistic state church should not be underestimated. These may also help us understand contemporary religious minorities.
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Mastropole, Dana M. "Hydrographic structure of overflow water passing through the Denmark Strait." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101344.
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Thesis: S.M., Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Denmark Strait Overflow Water (DSOW) constitutes the densest portion of North Atlantic Deep Water, which feeds the lower limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). As such, it is critical to understand how DSOW is transferred from the upstream basins in the Nordic Seas, across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and to the North Atlantic Ocean. The goal of this study is to characterize the hydrographic structure of the different DSOW constituents at the sill before the water descends into the Irminger Sea using temperature and salinity (T/S) data from 111 shipboard crossings in the vicinity of the sill, collected between 1990 and 2012. The individual realizations indicate that weakly stratified "boluses" of DSOW frequent the sill and contribute the densest water to the overflow. This study also characterizes the structure, size, and location of the boluses and relates them to the T/S modes found at the sill. Lastly, historical hydrographic data from the Nordic Seas are used to make inferences regarding the origin of the boluses.
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Court, Yvonne. "Alternative explanations of counterurbanisation : The case of Denmark 1970-1983." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1988. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381597.
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Li, Weiwei. "An Investigation of Chinese Master’s Students in Denmark and Sweden." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23124.
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This paper investigates and compares Chinese master’s students in Denmark and Sweden, focusing on their motivation for choosing to study in Denmark and Sweden, their daily life and study acculturation experience, as well as their intentions of staying or returning after graduating.The paper provides information on the current student migration situation, and presents relevant motivational migration and acculturation theories. A semi-structured interview method is then used to gather qualitative data from six Chinese master’s students studying in Denmark and Sweden. In the analysis, the paper applies the theories on the interview data.This paper’s findings suggest that the main reasons for the Chinese master’s students to study abroad is to improve their competencies and experience foreign culture. When choosing the study destination, decisive factors include the quality of the program, the academic reputation of the universities, the use of English in teaching and cultural aspirations.The effects of cultural differences, study situation and finance are factors that affect their psychological well-being during the process of acculturation. Their psychological well-being generally follows a “U” curve with an initial high level followed by a lower level which eventually increases to a higher level once again. The students encounter challenges in their study related to the Danish and Swedish academia’s direct teacher-student and student-student communication, as well as the English language.Regarding the students’ intentions after graduating, some plan to return to China because of family, friends and personal relationship reasons, while others intend to stay mainly for career reasons, but with the intention of ultimately returning to China.
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Barrie, Steven J. "Shakespearean Variations: A Case Study of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1245428198.
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Haberkern, Kerry Ann. "Observations of Bassoon Playing in Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376948169.
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Tansey, Colin M. "Anti-radicalization efforts within the European Union : Spain and Denmark." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Mar/09Mar%5FTansey.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Europe and Eurasia))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Yost, David S. ; Shore, Zachary. "March 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 24, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: anti-radicalization, assimilation, Denmark, European Union, integration, Islam, multiculturalism, Muslims, Spain, terrorism, tolerance. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-77). Also available in print.
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Barrie, Steven. "Shakespearean variations a case study of Hamlet, prince of Denmark /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245428198.
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Stewart, Jon. "A history of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark. 1824-1836 /." Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41091474c.
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Girton, James Bannister. "Dynamics of transport and variability in the Denmark Strait overflow /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11023.
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Sørensen, Anders Dræby. "Exploring learning outcomes in CBT and existential therapy in Denmark." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2015. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/18450/.
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The purpose of this thesis is to draw attention to the special characteristics of the outcome of psychotherapy through qualitative research. The thesis explores a phenomenological and hermeneutic enquiry into the lived experience of psychotherapy in terms of learning outcomes. This includes both Existential therapy (ET) and Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and their possible differences and similarities. I can describe learning as any experiential change that occurs in the participants understanding as result of the therapy in which they participate. Learning outcomes are concerned with the achievements of the learner rather than the intentions of the educator, as expressed in the objectives of an educational effort. The thesis uses Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as a qualitative method to explore meanings of the learning phenomenon generated from themes found in transcripts of semi-structured interviews from twelve participants with an equal length of short time client experience of psychotherapy. That is, six participants who had attended CBT and six participants who had attended ET. Consistent themes from the data indicate that, overall, psychotherapy helps clients to enhance general learning in three major domains: (1) Self and life; (2) Thinking, acting and feeling; (3) Relationships with others. The data also indicates that ET overall helps clients to enhance particular learning of authenticity and insight into self, life and relationships with others with courage, engagement and freedom in an open and personal approach to difficulties and life issues. Furthermore, the data indicates that CBT overall helps the client to enhance particular learning of self-capability and self-esteem with independence in self-chosen relationships and capabilities for organized and appropriate approach to difficulties and life issues. Thus, ET is more oriented towards learning authenticity and self-positioning in life, whereas CBT is more oriented towards learning capabilities for organized and appropriate ways of thinking, acting and feeling. This research points to the value of the learning perspective for therapeutic practice and facilitates a model of psychotherapeutic learning with an understanding of learning outcomes based on motivational learning, learning to do with previous experiences, learning design for process, the therapeutic learning relationship and the educational role of the psychotherapist.
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Stankovic, A. J. "Expansion study and performance analysis of the Denmark community windfarm." Thesis, Stankovic, A.J. (2017) Expansion study and performance analysis of the Denmark community windfarm. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2017. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/36736/.
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Integration of renewable energy generators into rural distribution networks can cause significant problems with voltage rise at the point of connection during times of maximum generation. One such case is the Denmark Community Windfarm, where the rated power of the wind farm has been limited to 90% in order to keep network voltages within acceptable limits. Expansion of the wind farm is forecast by the wind farm operator due to the location’s good wind resource, and therefore overcoming this restriction is required.
A generation analysis has determined that the wind farm does not currently lose much annual production due to the imposed maximum power limit. However, the implementation of an additional wind turbine generator results in substantial impact on the wind farm’s annual production. A battery energy storage system can limit the amount of wasted generation from the expanded wind farm, but such systems are expensive for utility-scale utilisation and so are not yet economically feasible to implement.
Modern wind turbine generator technology can provide dynamic reactive power support to the distribution network. Application of such machines allows the wind farm to generate at its full potential whilst keeping network voltages within acceptable limits. This is confirmed through simulation of the Denmark distribution network.
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Leopold, Seth. "Denmark April 9, 1940-October 1943 : timing as a factor in the Danish rescue of Danish Jewry." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32925.
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It has been nearly sixty years since the October 1943 Danish rescue of Danish Jewry. Since this time, no historian has examined the role that the timing of the planned Jewish round-up played in the degree of success of the rescue. Would a National Socialist round-up of the Danish Jews have been successful if it occurred in 1941 for example? As long as the Danish government was in power, no anti-Jewish measures were implemented in Denmark. Within a month of the Danish government's resignation, National Socialist plans to eliminate Danish Jewry were being drafted. This thesis examines the major events in Denmark that led to the resignation of the Danish government in August 1943, and the failed plan to round-up and deport the Danish Jews. The most important conclusion of this thesis is that to a significant degree, the Danish people were successful in their rescue of Danish Jews because of the timing of the anti-Jewish measures.
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Gazzoli, Paul Michael. "Anglo-Danish relations in the later eleventh century." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609267.
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Croce, Andrea. "Coastal erosion in Nørlev Strand (Denmark): modelling and defense strategies comparison." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017.
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The Danish west coast presents a continue evolution because of its hydrodynamic and geomorphological conditions.
The main topic of the following thesis is to analyse and understand the erosion causes in Nørlev Strand, a small village in the North-West coast of Denmark, close to the most famous Lønstrup in the Hjørring Kommune.
LITPACK is the software package used as support of the study: LITDRIFT is used understand the erosion (causes and magnitude), LITLINE to simulate the yearly shore-line tendency, LITPROF to see how change the cross-shore profile in case of storm and after, restoring a “normal” condition.
Finallly, a solution to erosion is proposed based on local citizens (low visual impact and cost) and Danish Coastal Authority will (the body responsible giving permissions to any changes on the coast).
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Troshchenkov, Sergii. "Influence of Immigration on the Unemployment Rate : -the Case of Denmark." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet (USBE), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-54387.
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Konstantopoulou, Nikoletta. "Banks' Customers Satisfaction and Stock's Returns : Banking Sector - Sweden, Norway, Denmark." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Economics, Finance and Statistics, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-18376.
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Theoretical studies posit that marketing strategies increases customers’ satisfaction and loyalty and decreases the systematic risk of the company’s stock. Many variables such as size, book-to-market and others, which have no special standing in asset-pricing theory, show reli-able power to explain the cross-section of expected stock’s returns. By adding customers’ sat-isfaction to one of them, this research involves discovering the relationship between custom-ers’ satisfaction and stock’s returns systematic risk, if any, by conducting a panel data analy-sis of seven banks in Sweden, Denmark and Norway through the period of year 2002 – 2011. The results verify a significant negative relationship between customers’ satisfaction and stock’s returns systematic risk.
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Tindbæk, Lasse. "The Lunch Business Industry in Sweden and Denmark - A comparative study." Thesis, KTH, Affärsutveckling och Entreprenörskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-98476.
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Lorenz, Andrea. "Variability of benthic foraminifera north and south of the Denmark Strait." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://e-diss.uni-kiel.de/diss_1646/d1646.pdf.
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Bohnerth, Jan Christoph. "Energy cooperatives in Denmark, Germany and Sweden : A transaction cost approach." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-254915.
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By 2020, at least 20 percent of the gross final consumption of energy in the European Unionshould be produced from renewable energy sources. The cooperative movement as such is not new, buthas a long history in the agricultural and credit sector. Over the last years, energy cooperatives havebecome an important option for decentralized electricity production. The transaction cost theory has beenapplied numerous times to agricultural cooperatives, but not to energy cooperatives. A number of casestudies and a subsequent survey analyzed the main benefits and challenges associated with energycooperatives as well as their relation to each other.The study revealed that while Denmark and Sweden focus mostly on wind power as a source for theirelectricity generation, German cooperatives use a more diversified portfolio. The differences are due tonational legislation and affect the total installed capacity as well as membership numbers. Although theindividual motives to join a cooperative vary, the reasons to establish a cooperative clearly show adedication to support renewable energies. The most important benefits associated with this organizationalform are the positive environmental impact as well as local value creation, ownership aspects and thelimitation of the individual liability. Contrarily, most of the disadvantages discussed concern factors outsideof the cooperatives such as the change of regulatory frame conditions and the insecurity towards thedevelopment of the electricity price. Transaction costs play a minor role since professional governancestructures are in place and the trust among members prevents opportunistic behavior.
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Bergström, Kamilla. "Job satisfaction and emotional work tasks : dentists in Sweden and Denmark." Licentiate thesis, Malmö högskola, Odontologiska fakulteten (OD), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7754.
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Avhandlingen består av två studier som utgår från projektet ”Det goda arbetet”. Det överordnade syftet med projektet Det Goda Arbetet var att använda tandvård som ett exempel på ett arbete där relationerna med patienterna utgör arbetets kärna. Denna typ av arbete (även kallat människovårdande arbete) har speciella psykosociala arbetsmiljövillkor och känslomässiga krav som måste tas hänsyn till vid organisering av arbetet. Syftet med den första studien var att beskriva bakgrunden och utvecklingen av frågeformuläret ’Svenska och Danska tandläkares uppfattning av ’Det Goda Arbetet’ och att skapa ett mått för generell arbetstillfredsställelse, applicerat på fyra organisatoriska miljöer. Syftet med den andra studien var att introducera konceptet emotionellt arbete i tandvård genom att ge en teoretisk överblick av de emotionella aspekterna av arbetet, villkoren under vilka arbetet utförs och de potentiella effekterna på tandläkarnas välbefinnande. I kappan har kompletterande resultat från projektet Det Goda Arbetet inkluderats i syfte att ge en empirisk illustration av hur tandläkare upplever de emotionella faktorer som relaterar till patient-interaktionen och deras arbetsglädje. Data från 1226 danska och svenska verksamma tandläkare samlades in i November 2008 med en svarsprocent på 68 %. Ett additivt index skapades för att mäta generell arbetstillfredsställelse, och resultaten visade statistiska skillnader i tandläkarnas uppfattning mellan de olika organisatoriska miljöerna (Svenska offentliga/privata och Danska offentliga/privata). De danska offentliga tandläkarna hade den högsta graden av generell arbetstillfredsställelse medan de svenska offentliga hade den lägsta graden. En möjlig förklaring till detta kan vara att danska offentliga tandläkare skiljer sig från de andra tre grupperna i karakteristika vad gäller både tandläkare och patienter. Den låga graden av generell arbetstillfredsställelse hos de offentliga svenska tandläkarna kan möjligtvis vara en effekt av New Public Management-tänkande i sättet att organisera tandvård. Tilläggsresultaten visade att de svenska offentliga tandläkarna hade mycket mindre energi till sina privatliv i jämförelse med de andra tre grupperna och bara hälften av dem förväntade sig att fortsätta arbeta som nu fram till pensionen. Att arbeta med eller på människor handlar mycket om att skapa goda interaktioner och relationer mellan vårdgivaren och patienten. Goda patientrelationer kan vara ett primärt- och/eller sekundärt mål för att göra andra saker, som t.ex. den kliniska behandlingen, lättare. För många vårdgivare är relationerna med patienterna en arena där de kan leva ut sin potential som människor och kan upplevas som en bestående inre glädje av arbetet, kallat eudaimonia. I patientrelationen utför tandläkaren emotionellt arbete som ett sätt att intervenera med patienten för att vägleda denne i en bestämd riktning. Tandläkare har uttalade emotionella arbetsuppgifter i sina interaktioner med patienterna, emellertid har dessa emotionella aspekter av arbetet hitintills varit ett försummat forskningsområde inom odontologin. De emotionella arbetsuppgifterna är betingade eftersom att tandläkarens incitament inte är endimensionella och därför kräver de en hel del emotionell flexibilitet, uppmärksamhet och reflektion av tandläkaren. Påverkan från marknadskrafter och managerialism på de professionella värdena inom tandvård kan av tandläkaren uppfattas som motstridande och utmana villkoren för emotionellt arbete och tandläkarnas välbefinnande. Denna forskning syftar till att starka och uppmuntra olika nivåer av tandvård till att ytterligare undersöka, förstå och stötta dynamiken i de emotionella aspekterna av arbetet för att skapa en hållbar arbetsmiljö där värden och logik kan uppfattas som kompatibla med tandvårdens professionella värden.The thesis consists of two papers which are based on a research project called ‘Good Work’. The overall aim of the Good Work project was to use dentistry as an example of work which has close relations with patients at its core. This kind of work (also called human service work) has special psycho-social work environment considerations and emotional requirements, which need to be considered when organizing work. The aims of the first study were to describe the background and development of the questionnaire ‘Swedish and Danish Dentists’ Perceptions of Good Work’ and to create a measure of overall job satisfaction, applying the measure in four organizational settings. The aim of the second study was to introduce the concept of emotion work in dentistry by giving a theoretical overview of the emotional aspects of work, the conditions under which it is performed and the potential effects on the dentist’s wellbeing. Additional results from the Good Work project have been included in the thesis with the purpose of giving an empirical illustration of how dentists experience the emotional factors related to patient interaction and their job satisfaction. Data from 1226 Danish and Swedish practising dentists was collected in November 2008, with a 68% response rate. An additive index was created to measure overall job satisfaction showing statistical difference in the dentists’ experience according to affiliation (Swedish public/private, Danish public/private). The Danish public dentists had the highest degree of overall job satisfaction and the Swedish public dentists had the lowest. A reason for this difference might be that Danish public dentistry differs from the other three groups in the characteristics of both dentists and patients. However, the lower job satisfaction for the Swedish public dentists could be an effect of New Public Management thinking in organizing dentistry. The additional results showed that Swedish public dentists had substantially less energy left for their private lives compared with the other three groups and only half of them expected to continue working as they do now until retirement. Working directly with or on people is very much about creating good interactions and relations between the health professional and the patient. Good patient relations can be a primary aim and/or a secondary aim, to make other things, e.g. the clinical treatment, easier. To many health professionals their relations with the patients is an arena in which to activate their human potentials and can be experienced as a lasting intrinsic joy from work, called eudaimonia. In the relation with the patient the dentist performs emotion work as an intervention toolkit to direct the patient in a specific direction. Dentists have extensive emotional work tasks in their patient interactions, however this emotional part of dentists’ work is, so far, a neglected research area of odontology. The emotion work tasks are conditioned because the dentists’ incentives are not one-dimensional and require a great deal of emotional flexibility, attentiveness and reflection by the dentist. The influence of the market and managerialism on the professional values of dentistry may challenge the conditions for these tasks in the patient interaction and the wellbeing of the dentist if they are experienced as contradictory. This research aims to encourage and empower different levels of dentistry to further investigate, understand and support the dynamics of the emotional aspects of work with the aim to constitute a sustainable work environment where values and logics can be experienced as compatible with professional values.
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Middaugh, Karen Lee. "“The golden tree”: The court masques of Queen Anna of Denmark." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1061385436.
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