Essays about: "history based"

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  1. 6. Marketplace in Ostrava – Market within market

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Agáta Kocirova; [2024]
    Keywords : marketplace; market; The Czech Republic; Czechia; Ostrava; shadow architecture; placemaking; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The market has existed since the time people started trading. In the Czech Republic, and in Ostrava, the history of markets was influenced by a number of circumstances during the past which led into the present situation in the city. READ MORE

  3. 7. Relevant Dutch Lexical Influence in Contemporary Modern Japanese

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för japanska och kinesiska; Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Willem Koen; [2024]
    Keywords : Japanese Language; Dutch-Japanese; Dutch Lexical influence; Loanwords; Lexical exchange; Lexical influence; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : During the Edo Period of Japanese history, many loanwords entered the Japanese language through communication with the Dutch. Now, 164 years after the last significant linguistic exchange took place between the Dutch and the Japanese, it is interesting to see what lexical influence still exists in contemporary modern Japanese and which loanwords have fallen out of use. READ MORE

  4. 8. A labour-free childhood? African perspectives on international child rights policies.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande

    Author : Dorotea Reuterswärd; [2023-11-22]
    Keywords : childhood; child labour; child rights; policy; literature review; ideal type; postcolonialism; Africa;

    Abstract : This paper notes that one prominent trait of Western thinking about children is that childhood should be protected and care-free. For example, if children are engaged in work, their childhood is seen as 'lost'. READ MORE

  5. 9. New ideal types of development? The case of the United Nations Association of Sweden and the information and communication strategy

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Hanne Andersson; [2023-11-08]
    Keywords : Foreign aid policy; Strategy for information and communication; Civil society organisation; Development; Agenda 2030; Internationalism; Isolationism; Protectionism.;

    Abstract : This qualitative case study examines how varying perspectives on development shape foreign aid budgets and how this leads to consequences for civil society organisations and society as a whole. Since Sweden´s new government took office, substantial cuts have been made to the foreign aid budget, notably reducing funding for the information and communication strategy. READ MORE

  6. 10. A computational model of metapopulation dynamics and organism-mediated nutrient flow

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap

    Author : Amanda Hansson; [2023-08-07]
    Keywords : computational model; population dynamics; metapopulation dynamics; nutrient flow; simulation; spatially explicit; individual-based;

    Abstract : The aim of this project was to assess, using in-silico experiments, how different life history char-acteristics, such as age at maturity and dispersal ability of individuals, influence the dynamics of a metapopulation. To achieve this, a novel model of a spatially explicit metapopulation, with organ-ism-mediated nutrient flow between fragmented habitat patches, was implemented by means of computer simulations. READ MORE