Essays about: "vintage"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 28 essays containing the word vintage.

  1. 11. Vintage Workers: A Qualitative Study on Age Discrimination in Hiring Among High-Skilled Occupations

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Elvira Ekberg; Fredrik Bauer; [2020]
    Keywords : Age Discrimination; Older Worker; Hiring; Stereotypes; Ideal Worker;

    Abstract : At a point in time when demographic aging is inevitable, countries across the globe try to encourage older workers to remain in the workforce past the set retirement age. Meanwhile, the academic debate emphasizes how these supply-side reforms are undermined by demand-side barriers in the form of hiring discrimination among older workers caused by age stereotypes. READ MORE

  3. 12. Nowcasting with Dynamic Factor Model and Real-Time Vintage Data: A financial market actor's perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Filip Östlund; Marcel Attar; [2020]
    Keywords : Nowcasting; Macroeconomic Prediction; Dynamic Factor Model; DFM; Pseudo Real-Time Vintage data; U.S. GDP Growth Rate; Financial Market Actor; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : We develop and examine a dynamic factor nowcasting model (DFM) from the perspective of a financial market participant. The first point of analysis is the examination of its performance. Unlike other papers, we evaluate with daily frequency so that the performance metric reflects a continuous nowcasting signal. READ MORE

  4. 13. On Music and Spatiality : Spatialization as a vehicle towards a chimærical space

    University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteori

    Author : Fredrik Mathias Josefsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Chimærical space; Spatialization; Electroacoustic music; Composition;

    Abstract : According to Kierkegaard it is through our sense of hearing that we can make this journey within, “Gradually, then, hearing became my most cherished sense, for just as the voice is the disclosure of inwardness incommensurable with the exterior, so the ear is the instrument that apprehends this inwardness, hearing the sense by which it is appropriated.”[1] The music is an invitation to all participants to become wanderers. READ MORE

  5. 14. A 3D Sub-Surface Characterisation of the Arnager Greensand, South-west Skåne

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Gregory Marcel Davies Jones; [2019]
    Keywords : Arnager Greensand; digitization; depth conversion; reservoir; storage potential;

    Abstract :  A surface characterisation of the Arnager Greensand in south Sweden, a deep saline aquifer found to be suitable for geological storage of CO2 or energy storage, was undertaken in this thesis. Vintage seismic reflection data only available as scanned tiff images of the final stacked sections were digitized and processed using modern interpretation software to provide new insights into the morphology of the Arnager Greensand and to analyse the reservoir’s potential as an energy storage unit. READ MORE

  6. 15. Princesa de la calle - Dress turned streetwear : Exploring possibilities in re-design, in relation to second-hand evening dresses witha focus on street wear silhouettes

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Nathali Elfström; [2019]
    Keywords : Secondhand; Dresses; redesign; streetwear; draping;

    Abstract : This work aims to explore the possibilities in re-design by using secondhand party-dresses as the main material to construct new garments with a focus on street wear silhouettes. Deconstruction is commonly used when working with secondhand and will also be used in this work, as well as draping. READ MORE