Essays about: "Robert Said"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Robert Said.

  1. 1. The Interplay Between the Agency of Civil Society Organizations and Foreign Aid : What does Analyzing the Agency of Civil Society Organizations in Lebanon Reveal About the Possibilities for Transforming the Hegemonic Relationships Within Foreign Aid?

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Mohamad Aljounde; [2023]
    Keywords : Hegemony; Aid; civil society; International organizations; Lebanon; MENA;

    Abstract : The flow of political aid into civil society organizations has sparked extensive debates and controversies surrounding the impact of foreign aid on the efficacy of said organizations in recipient countries. These discussions explore foreign aid through theoretical and empirical lenses, investigating its implications on global, regional, and national levels of analysis. READ MORE

  2. 2. Exploring Patient Classification Based on Medical Records : The case of implant bearing patients

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Artificiell intelligens och integrerade datorsystem

    Author : Benjamin Danielsson; [2022]
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    Abstract : In this thesis, the application of transformer-based models on the real-world task of identifying patients as implant bearing is investigated. The task is approached as a classification task and five transformer-based models relying on the BERT architecture are implemented, along with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a baseline for comparison. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Libertarian Vision of LazarusLong : A Libertarian Reading of Robert A. Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Axel Hederstedt; [2017]
    Keywords : Libertarianism; Libertarian; Lazarus Long; Robert A. Heinlein; Time enough for love; David Boaz.;

    Abstract : Writers tend to exude political views and ideas in their works. Robert A. Heinlein and his works havebeen interpreted from multiple political standpoints, yet almost no such interpretation has beenapplied to his later works. READ MORE

  4. 4. A Newer New Age. Irony and the Enchantment of Atheism in Syntheist Religion

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Robert Wedin; [2016-01-29]
    Keywords : religious reconfiguration; contemporary esotericism; irony; atheism; discourse analysis;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study how the stipulations of religious thought changes as society gets increasingly digitalized, life become more virtual and people get interconnected through the internet. The thesis engages with the new religious movement Syntheism, which is considered to be an example of said changes. READ MORE

  5. 5. On Identification of Hidden Markov Models Using Spectral and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Methods

    University essay from KTH/Reglerteknik

    Author : Robert Mattila; [2015]
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    Abstract : Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are popular tools for modeling discrete time series. Since the parameters of these models can be hard to derive analytically or directly measure, various algorithms are available for estimating these from observed data. READ MORE