Essays about: "define danger"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words define danger.
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1. Forgotten Practices: A case study of social struggles in agrarian Uppsala, and its implications for Swedish farming
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : This thesis set out to map the relation Swedish farmers have to their occupation and production, while also investigating what challenges farmers experience which in turn might affect social sustainability in Swedish agriculture negatively. Agriculture was approached as a case of low social sustainability based on the fact that more than one-third of Swedish farmers are over retiring age, while young people increasingly seem to move away from the sector. READ MORE
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2. Analysis and Simulation Study of Stochastic Time-To-Collision as a Severity Measure in Traffic Security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistikAbstract : Traffic accidents are extremely rare, creating the need for surrogate methods for safety analysis that makes efficient use of the information provided by traffic conflicts, which also are limited in availability. The severity measure time-to-collision (TTC) in combination with extreme value theory have so far been one of the primary measures used to infer traffic safety levels, but it relies on unrealistic assumptions that results in severity measures that do not always agree well with observed danger. READ MORE
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3. Participatory Art for Social Change? : A study of the quest for genuine participation
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : A number of theories suggest that participatory arts based approaches have the potential to contribute to development and social change. However, the nature of participation and participative approaches is multi-layered and complex, and critics have voiced concern for depicting participatory art initiatives in an oversimplified, uncriticised positivistic manner. READ MORE
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4. Autonomous Weapons – the “Kalashnikovs” of Tomorrow? An Analysis of the Meetings of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems within the framework of the United Nations' Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : After the invention of gunpowder and the development of nuclear weapons, the world faces a third revolution in warfare: lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Since 2014, states, scientists and civil society activist have been discussing the risks of such systems and possibilities to regulate them within the framework of the United Nations’ Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). READ MORE
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5. An optimal control approach for rescue process during a fire disaster.
University essay from KTH/Optimeringslära och systemteoriAbstract : Abstract This thesis aims to construct a realistic model of a leader led evacuation during a fire. By introducing a leader-follower idea we formulate this as a optimization problem. This is then attempted to be solved by optimization methods and some heuristic methods. READ MORE
