Essays about: "local features"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 336 essays containing the words local features.

  1. 1. Constructing Spaces of Intervention in Gothenburg's Urban Periphery; The production of “vulnerable areas” in the City’s official documents

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Melissa Lennartsson; [2024-01-26]
    Keywords : Vulnerable areas; urban policy; place-making; advanced urban marginality; safety security nexus; neoliberalism; Gothenburg;

    Abstract : This study explores the construction of the “vulnerable area” by critically analyzing the assumptions, representations, and discourses that inform official documents targeting such neighborhoods. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on local policy produced in the City of Gothenburg, this thesis finds that such texts – through their imagination of space – produce “vulnerable areas” as spaces of intervention in need of extraordinary treatment. READ MORE

  3. 2. Local History Awareness : And its Influence on Young People in a Post-Communist Region

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Marwan M. Hassan; [2024]
    Keywords : local history; place attachment; regional affiliation; regional pride; civic engagement; social trust; regional identity; mobile learning; mobile website; post-communist communities; retrospective qualitative interviews; Eberswalde; East Germany;

    Abstract : This project explores the impact of a mobile website (MWS) designed to enhance knowledge and interest in local history among residents of Eberswalde as a sample for an Eastern German post-communist city. It aims to strengthen the sense of regional identity and attachment, potentially affecting their decision to remain in or leave the region. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sympathy in Plotinus

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Oscar Jablon; [2024]
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    Abstract : In this thesis, I make intelligible Plotinus’ notion of sympathy by explicating the cause of sympathy within Plotinus’ universe and the effects of sympathy. I do this by using a framework inspired by the Stoic literature on sympathy which distinguishes between three interrelated features of sympathy: Unity, global sympathy, and local sympathy. READ MORE

  5. 4. Classifying femur fractures using federated learning

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statistik och maskininlärning

    Author : Hong Zhang; [2024]
    Keywords : Atypical femur fracture; Federated Learning; Neural Network; Classification;

    Abstract : The rarity and subtle radiographic features of atypical femoral fractures (AFF) make it difficult to distinguish radiologically from normal femoral fractures (NFF). Compared with NFF, AFF has subtle radiological features and is associated with the long-term use of bisphosphonates for the treatment of osteoporosis. READ MORE

  6. 5. FROM SPACE TO THE SUBSURFACE. Examining Relations Between Vegetation Indices and Local Groundwater Storage.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Gustav Antonsson; [2023-11-06]
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    Abstract : This study aimed to examine the relationship between vegetation indices, NDVI and NDWI, and groundwater levels in the county of Kalmar, utilizing correlation and regression analysis. Further, by examining related geospatial features the study aimed to interpret the statistical outcomes to identify significant temporal and spatial patterns. READ MORE