Essays about: "reading event"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 34 essays containing the words reading event.

  1. 11. Factors influencing the share repurchase decision : A look into Nordic firms

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Fredric Wållberg; Ezra Anglemier; [2021]
    Keywords : Corporate Governance; Share Repurchases; Logistic regression; Payout Policy;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between share repurchase decisions and severalfinancial variables the year before. We link financial theories such as signaling,substitution, leverage, excess capital, corporate governance, employee stock option, andlegitimacy theory to this relationship and create a hypothesis to test in a quantitative study. READ MORE

  3. 12. Perceiving Terrorism: A survey experiment about how Swedish students define terrorism based on the perpetrator’s ethnicity

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Niklas von Mentzer Marcev; [2019-02-20]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to analyze how students perceive the concept of terrorism based on the ethnicity ascribed to the perpetrator. Studies conducted in the US have shown that the public defines political violence differently depending on the language used to describe the event, white perpetrators are more often called mass shooters while perpetrators of other ethnicities are more frequently called terrorists. READ MORE

  4. 13. Design and Tests of a Biofeedback Based Weight Bearing Rehabilitation Device

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

    Author : Stanley Setiawan; [2019]
    Keywords : biofeedback; weight bearing; rehabilitation; prototype; wearable; embedded systems;

    Abstract : As upper-limb rehabilitation devices development continue to grow, lower limb rehabilitation devices have limited development. Thus a device that measures weight bearing of heel and forefoot during gait and also produces auditory feedback at certain thresholds were made in this project. READ MORE

  5. 14. Storytime at Irish Libraries : How public libraries can boostearly literacy through reading promotion events

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    Author : Mariana O'Driscoll; [2019]
    Keywords : library and information science; reading promotion; early literacy; storytime; children’s library; sociocultural perspective; digital technologies; multimodal learning;

    Abstract : The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to explore how libraries’ storytime for babies and toddlers can be construedas a reading promotion event which boosts early literacy, by ways of a multiple-case study of storytime at four public libraries in western Ireland. The study will also explore how the different libraries design these events and include different elements of traditional reading and storytelling, multimodal reading and technology, participation, and accessibility and inclusion through a sociocultural lens. READ MORE

  6. 15. Design and verification of a USB 3.0 readout system for Timepix3 hybrid pixel detectors

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för elektronikkonstruktion

    Author : Till Dreier; [2018]
    Keywords : Hybrida pixeldetektorer; utläsningssystem; FPGA; Timepix;

    Abstract : This thesis describes the design, implementation, and verification of a USB 3.0 readout system for Timepix3 detectors. Timepix3 is a hybrid pixel detector consisting of a 256x256 pixel matrix with a 55 μm pitch and a timing resolution of 1.56ns. READ MORE