Essays about: "Cultural Engineering"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 92 essays containing the words Cultural Engineering.

  1. 21. The national and the international influences on the drafting of the South African Bill of Rights : A study on the South African transitional legal culture.

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studier

    Author : Claudia Cazzetta; [2020]
    Keywords : South Africa; legal culture; Bill of Rights; Constitution; constitutional influences.;

    Abstract : The South African democratic transition in the 1990s represents one of the clearest cases of practical implementation of constitutional engineering. The process was aimed to the creation of the principle of national unity in the fundamental text first, hoping it would be mirrored consequently by a popular sentiment. READ MORE

  3. 22. Sweet Blood Surveillance: An ethnographic approach to diabetes management through the Diabetes Care Network

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Jesse Vargas; [2020]
    Keywords : Diabetes Care Network DCN ; Type 1 Diabetes; Sociotechnical System; Ethnography; Technology and Engineering; Medicine and Health Sciences; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Is the management of Type 1 Diabetes best left to the medical sciences, or do the social sciences have a stake as well? In ‘Sweet Blood Surveillance,’ I push back against the perceived domination of scientific objectivity to make space for the subjective experience of diabetes in the maintenance of glucose levels through a collaboration with medical technical objects. To accomplish my task, I create an analytical tool, the Diabetes Care Network, in order to conceptualize the sociotechnical system of postmodern diabetes care, focusing on the social group of the User. READ MORE

  4. 23. How do Cultural Characteristics and Software Engineering Practices Interplay?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Ameera Darwish; Anna Henryson; [2019-11-18]
    Keywords : software engineering practices; culture; global software development; architecture; design; culture dimensions;

    Abstract : This paper is an empirical study looking at the usage of software engineering practices and culture characteristics through the culture dimensions defined by Geert Hofstede. Using a survey to collect data from software engineering professionals worldwide, in a timespan of three weeks, the data is analysed by taking the responses from Indonesia and Sweden, and mapping them to the selected four culture dimension indices. READ MORE

  5. 24. The rise of Brutalism and Antidesign : And their implications on web design history

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/JTH, Datateknik och informatik

    Author : Ellen Brage; [2019]
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    Abstract : The following bachelor thesis is written by a student at New Media Design within Informatics at the School of Engineering, Jönköping University. The background of this study is based on the emergence of web design trends brutalism and antidesign, which have been argued to originate from styles used during early periods of the web’s history. READ MORE

  6. 25. Emerging Principles in Obstetric Teamwork

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Christopher Neuhaus; Dag Erik Lutnaes; [2019]
    Keywords : teamwork; obstetrics; resilience; cognitive systems engineering; patient safety; FLMU06; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : There is widespread consensus that teamwork constitutes one of the key requirements in today’s multidisciplinary and highly complex system of delivering care. In recent years, increasing attention has been given to questions of how to define, teach, measure, and improve teamwork in healthcare. READ MORE