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1. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE
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2. Compression of Large-Scale Aerial Imagery : Exploring Set Redundancy Methods
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/DatavetenskapAbstract : Compression of data has been historically always important; more data is gettingproduced and therefore has to be stored. While hardware technology advances,compression should be a must to reduce storage occupied and to keep the data intransmission as small as possible. READ MORE
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3. Messing With The Gap: On The Modality Gap Phenomenon In Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Industriell teknikAbstract : In machine learning, a sub-field of computer science, a two-tower architecture model is a specialised type of neural network model that encodes paired data from different modalities (like text and images, sound and video, or proteomics and gene expression profiles) into a shared latent representation space. However, when training these models using a specific contrastive loss function, known as the multimodalinfoNCE loss, seems to often lead to a unique geometric phenomenon known as the modality gap. READ MORE
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4. Chelating agents in NiMo sulfided catalysts and the effect of nitrogen compounds on hydrodearomatization and hydrodenitrogenation reactions
University essay from KTH/KemiteknikAbstract : Hydrering är en viktig process för att producera produkter med önskade egenskaper samt att uppfylla de lagliga krav som existerar med avseende på miljö och hälsa. Reaktionerna som sker vid hydreringen är katalytiska vilket innebär att förstå sam utnyttja de mest lämpliga katalysatorerna är av yttersta vikt. READ MORE
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5. Gravitational Waves in Bimetric Gravity
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för fysik och astronomiAbstract : Understanding the cause of the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the most pressing issues in modern cosmology. An alternative to the LambdaCDM-model is bimetric gravity which is an extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity. READ MORE