Essays about: "STS"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 42 essays containing the word STS.
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6. Evaluation of Sentence Representations in Semantic Text Similarity Tasks
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : This thesis explores the methods of representing sentence representations for semantic text similarity using word embeddings and benchmarks them against sentence based evaluation test sets. Two methods were used to evaluate the representations: STS Benchmark and STS Benchmark converted to a binary similarity task. READ MORE
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7. Internet of Beings : Speculating about more-than-human interactions in the urban environment
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : Designing for societal engagement and benefit, aiming for the inclusion of humans, has been largely implemented within interaction design research. However, recent studies on entanglements and more-than-human worlds in interaction design, participatory and speculative design, in combination with Science & Technology Studies (STS) and ANT (Actor-network theories), revealed new opportunities for designers for the development of methods and practices, particularly about designing new forms of engagement with and through design artefacts for the benefit of the natural environment in the city. READ MORE
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8. The Undemocratic Mandate of Economic Expertise
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : This thesis investigates a pattern of co-production within the field of science and technology studies as it applies to economic ideas and events of the 20th century. The intellectual traditions of Keynesian social liberalism and neoliberalism are traced historically. READ MORE
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9. Collaborations between public and private actors in promoting sustainable transitions
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : There is a lack of academic knowledge concerning mechanisms through which sustainable transitions are promoted. Sustainable transitions in the infrastructure system are key to achieve multiple other SDGs, and the infrastructure development gap is particularly critical in developing countries. READ MORE
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10. Translating “gender” into Arabic: “jins ” , “jinsayn ” , “naw ʽ” or “jindar ”? A study of the translation of the concept “gender” in single- and multi-word expressions in feminist knowledge building
University essay from Lunds universitet/Arabiska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : The terms “gender” and “sex” are central to feminist concerns. In English scholarship “gender” is disputed within and outside of feminism, despite its seemingly political correctness as an alternative to “sex” (Olson 2012; Gunnarsson 2011). READ MORE
