Essays about: "GARP"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word GARP.

1. 1. Promoting Sexual Tolerance : A study of Sexual Dissidence in John Irving’s The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire, and In One Person

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Author : Daniel Remåker; [2015]
   Keywords : John Irving; sexuality; sexual tolerance; sexual dissidence; perversion; John Irving; sexualitet; sexuell tolerans; sexuellt oliktänkande; perversion;

   Abstract : Abstract The purpose of this essay is to show that John Irving uses differentiating sexuality in his novels as a means of promoting sexual tolerance. This is done by using Jonathan Dollimore’s theoretical framework called sexual dissidence, which stems from a deconstruction of the Freudian usage of  perversion, and applying this framework to The World According to Garp (1978), The Hotel New Hampshire (1981) and In One Person (2012). READ MORE

3. 2. Evaluating habitat suitability and spectral heterogeneity models to predict weed species presence

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Christina Fotiou; [2014]
   Keywords : GARP; herbicide resistant weeds; climate change; spatial heterogeneity; habitat; regression; NDVI; Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis; GIS; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyze whether the presence of weed species resistant to herbicides is related to landscape heterogeneity and environmental variables. C3 and C4 weed species, such as Chenopodium album, Conyza canadensis, Amaranthus retroflexus, Papaver rhoeas, Sorghum halepense, Echinochloa crus-galli and Lolium rigidum, are studied in two differing bioclimatic countries, Greece and Germany. READ MORE

4. 3. Distress Proneness as a Personalized Indicator of Cognitive Decline: : results from the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care (SNAC)

   University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, psykologi och idrottsvetenskap, PPI

   Author : Carl Garp Duvall; [2012]
   Keywords : Gerontology; dementia; neuroticism; distress proneness;

   Abstract : Distress proneness, as indicated by the personality trait neuroticism, has been linked with increased rates of a variety of age-related cognitive pathologies. The current study examined changes in cognitive ability over a six-year period in a 66-year-old cohort of aging individuals classified as highly distress prone. READ MORE

5. 4. Digital Tools for Product Development and Organizational Management

   University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Textilhögskolan

   Author : MD.AHASHAN HABIB; LEFAYET SULTAN LIPOL; [2010]
   Keywords : cad; pdm; cam; plm; erp;

   Abstract : The report illustrates about the digital tools those are used for product development and organizational management (apparel sector). We went to Lectra Sweden AB, DTS solutions AB to search our planned information about those tools. We got some additional information from them as well. READ MORE

6. 5. Method evaluation of GIS-based prediction tools for biodiversity : habitat suitability for birds in Stockholm, Sweden

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

   Author : Malin Birgersson; [2007]
   Keywords : urban ecology; habitat suitability index; habitat suitability; HSI; GIS; prediction tools; biodiversity; birds;

   Abstract : Swedish cities are from a European point of view considered small, sparsely populated and green. Stockholm city has a great deal of its nature and older cultural landscape remaining, which is unusual in large metropolitan areas. READ MORE