Children displaying early behavior problems are at risk of experiencing problems in education system and often face poor life chances later in life. As with other mental health problems, there is a social gradient in child ...

The thesis consists of seven essays dealing with policies to mitigate climate change. The first three essays analyze aspects of international cooperation to abate emissions. More specifically, the first essay studies the ...

From the snow and ice of Scandinavia to the glamour of Monte Carlo, from the heat of Kenya to the thin air in the Argentinian mountainsides, the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) has served up passionate motorsport drama ...

English Summary This dissertation monograph investigates village-level solar power supply, which is one of the potential solutions for providing access to basic electricity services for people who are not served by ...

Following the 2006 UN draft Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, disability has undergone a radical conceptual shift in international policy making. Disability is no longer a purely biomedical condition. ...

There is considerable consensus that impairment in executive functions (EF) constitutes a central source of the disability in children and adolescents with ADHD. Recent studies, however, have reported that EF test results ...

This thesis is about the organisation of a space of equality and conviviality where people come in order to express themselves and to listen to others.<br><br> In slam, as the title says, the stage is the entire world ...

The concept of freedom is a perennial bone of contention in normative political theory, and also the fundamental topic of this thesis. The thesis is divided into an introductory chapter, and three parts with two chapters ...

Perceived health status (HS) and quality of life (QoL) are regularly used as outcome variables to evaluate the effect of various treatments for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Disease-specific ...