Essays about: "social acceptability"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words social acceptability.
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1. A Consumer Perspective on Reshoring Production: Insights from Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Background: Reshoring refers to the process of bringing back manufacturing activities from foreign countries to the home country. The phenomenon is receiving increasing attention from companies and academics for factors such as increasing labor costs in offshore locations, supply chain disruptions, and a growing preference for locally made products. READ MORE
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2. “Don’t do it, but do it” : Exploring a legal window of opportunity for safe abortion and the role of healthcare practitioners in implementing the right to health in Ethiopia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Unsafe abortion is a major contributing factor to maternal mortality with 47,000 largely avoidable deaths occurring globally every year, the majority in the global south. Ethiopia has taken a unique approach to addressing maternal mortality impacted by unsafe abortion through a 2005 reform of the abortion legislation in which abortion is illegal but available under a range of exceptions. READ MORE
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3. In-depth Analysis of the Presence of Aboriginals in National Politics : Political Predicament of Taiwanese Indigenous People
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Abstract : Inspired by the barriers to social integration between aboriginals and non-indigenous people in Taiwan, as well as the limitations of representation and participation in national politics, and extending to turn deeply to aboriginal identity recognition and related movements, this dissertation adopts liberalism as grand background and takes scholarly scientific theory constructivism to illustrate the meanings and applicability of discourse analysis method in order to investigate textual materials notably official documents including the Constitution and Acts, press releases as well as academic articles about how those materials describe indigenous peoples. Additionally, through the deployment of practical theories such as (post) colonialism, multiculturalism, representative democracy and deliberative democracy to interpret social and political facts in Taiwan. READ MORE
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4. Policies in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles
University essay from KTH/TransportplaneringAbstract : This master thesis project analyses the impact of vehicle automation on a public transport system and private vehicles sharing a common transportation network. The main objectives of the report were to demonstrate the impacts of automation, determine the relevance of different policy instruments for mitigating the impacts of automation, and create a macroscopic model adept at performing this analysis. READ MORE
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5. Measuring social acceptability of mobile voice user interfaces
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Even though mobile voice user interfaces have been available for several years, their use in the public space is still low. Voice user interfaces (VUI) introduce a new and highly visible behaviour, which raises questions if or where their use is socially acceptable. READ MORE
