Thesis--Copenhagen. / "Niels Haislund ... has undertaken the translation."--Pref. "Dansk resumé": p. [481]-490. Bibliography: p. [467]-477.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 372-384).

Inaug.-diss.--Jena. / Vita.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Vladimir Nabokov, throughout a literary career spanning six decades, five countries, three languages, two continents and two calendars, was an inveterate reviser, constantly changing, translating and altering his own works. Indeed, Nabokov himself acknowledged that ‘even the dream I describe to my wife across the breakfast table is only a first draft’ (SO, xv). The very process of writing was, for Nabokov, inextricably linked with the act of revision. In his memoirs, for example, Nabokov compares his father’s handwritten texts, which were produced in ‘slanted, beautifully sleek, unbelievably regular hand, almost free of corrections’, against his ‘own mousy hand and messy drafts […] the massacrous revisions and rewritings, and new revisions, of the very lines in which I am taking two hours to describe a two-minute run of his flawless handwriting’ (SM, 139). This thesis will examine the deliberate, visible revisions, which Nabokov leaves purposefully within his fiction. The first category of revision, developmental revision, represents the evolutionary arc of central thematic matter within the author’s work. Secondly, fictional revisions are those implemented within the individual narratives of Nabokov’s texts, which are assigned as the work of Nabokov’s author-characters. Transtextual revision is carried out across texts and languages, creating links between individual works. Finally, extratextual revision, which is implemented to the individual text from an external vantage point, leads to the destabilisation of these texts as a result of Nabokov’s authorial intrusions. Taken together, these deliberately visible revisions destabilise the autonomy of texts, causing them to become incomplete. This results in a cohesive, self-reflexive oeuvre, within which all component parts can be seen together. This results in a dynamic model of oeuvre construction, which leads to the formation of what will be termed a ‘supertext’, that is a fully connected oeuvre, which has only its own self as reference.

International migration is a highly discussed topic, with its repercussions on economic growth, labour force, population’s age-distribution, and many others. While most of the literature focuses on how immigration affects economic growth, this paper aims to shed a light on emigration and its effects on the source countries. Using a two sets of panel data for Baltic and Nordic countries for the time frame between 1990 and 2017, the authors aim to find the relationship between immigration and economic growth, and emigration and economic growth. Regression outputs conclude a positive relationship between emigration and economic growth in the Nordics and a negative one with the Baltics. However, no significant relationship is found between immigration and real GDP. Based on the regression results, discussion on possible policies targeted to increase the positive externalities of migration is presented.

Målet med denna studie var att undersöka inverkan av brus, normaliseringen av Laplacianen, antalet kluster k och antalet grannar i närhetsgrafen knn på en implementation av spektral klustring. Med hjälp av den framtagna klustringen skulle lämpligheten att använda spektral klustring i en oceanografisk tillämpning utvärderas. Undersökningen utfördes på SMHIs data från två väderstationer under två olika tidpunkter: Vinga (Juli, 2019) och Visby (Juli, 1987). Datan behandlades med hjälp av MATLABs zscore-funktion och användes sedan i den spektrala klustringsalgoritmen. Klustringens kvalitet avgjordes genom att betrakta den spektrala tätheten, beräkna den genomsnittliga variansen mellan kluster och granska egenvärdenas storlek. Resultaten visade att bruset kunde försummas, att den icke-normaliserade Laplacianen var att föredra samt att k = 12 och knn = 15 var ett optimalt parameterval förVinga 2019. Dessutom tycktes vissa oceanografiska fenomen, såsom tidvatten och Ekmaneffekten, återfinnas i klustringen. Slutligen tycks spektral klustring vara en lämplig metod för enklare oceanografiska tillämpningar, även om valet av parametrar måste testas för varje applikation av algoritmen.

No / In the wake of the First World War, at a time marked by the rise of national self-determination and government based on majoritarian democracy, national minorities emerged as a controversial socio-political issue and significantsecurity challenge in Europe. Thisessay examines how leading statesmen and League of Nations officialconceptualised and shaped the international minority protection regime in Geneva, which extended primarily to the new states in Central and Eastern Europe. Equally, it addresses how “national minorities” understood their own position in Europe and their relationship to the League. Thecase is made that members of both minority and majority populations (the latter including statesmen and League officialsdid not inhabit the same psychological space in the 1920s, with the result being that the minority question remained a proverbial time bomb ticking at the heart of international relations.

No / Ewald Ammende was a Baltic German businessman who championed the rights of national minorities in the 1920s. He helped set up the Verband der deutschen inderheiten in Europa, played a part in the achievement of cultural autonomy in Estonia and established the Congress of European Nationalities. Although in the 1930s his career went awry as a result of compromising with National Socialism, this paper looks at the intellectual and practical world he inhabited in the early part of the previous decade. The views he held at this time about how best to preserve peace and stability in Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals defined him as a 'liberal nationalist'.

A sediment core from Himmerfjärden estuary, south of Stockholm, was examined to detect records of eutrophication on the site since the opening of the sewage treatment plant Himmerfjärdsverket in 1974. The core was analysed with respect to the diatom record and lithology. Four macrofossil that were found in the sediment were dated using 14C-dating.    This study aims to detect changes in the environment of Himmerfjärden by using the diatom stratigraphy record. The results have been interpreted and discussed regarding natural environmental and climate change and/or anthropogenic impact, and detected changes will be associated with the history of the sampling site. The results show that the lowermost zone started to deposit around 1300-1490 cal yr BP and the homogeneous sediment indicates that the area was not suffering from hypoxia at that time. There is a successive transition towards more distinct lamination further up in the core which show that the environment in Himmerfjärden have changed and become hypoxic. This may have to do with factors such as the opening of heavily trafficked Södertälje Canal, and also the increased nutrient input from Himmerfjärdsverket.    This study could be a part of the process of working towards a “good environmental status” in the Baltic Sea. However, continued and improved work is needed for further and more accurate interpretations.