Essays about: "Granger."
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21. The Angel in the House: Performing to Gender Expectations with Anne Shirley and Hermione Granger
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : This essay explores how adolescent girls in two pieces of children’s fiction are portrayed in children’s literature from the start and end of the 20th century to examine how they perform their gender in relation to expectations as informed by the Angel in the House discourse. Anne of Green Gables and the Harry Potter series were published at the start and end of the twentieth century, and both texts engage with the discourse. READ MORE
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22. Hawkes Processes on Socialand Mass Media: : A Causal Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement inthe Summer of 2020
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistik, AI och data scienceAbstract : In this work we study interactions in social media and the reports in mass media during the Black LivesMatter (BLM) protests following the death of George Floyd. We implement open-source pipelines to process the data at scale and employ the self-exciting counting process known as Hawkes process to address our main question: is there a causal relation between interactions in social media and reports of street protests in mass media? Specifically, we use distributed label propagation to identify such interactions in Twitter, that supported the BLM movement, and compared the timing of these interaction to those of news reports of street protests mentioning George Floyd, via the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project. READ MORE
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23. Holocene vegetation change and its correlates in fennoscandia
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskapAbstract : Climatic and anthropogenic legacy has differently impacted vegetation and its community composition. To determine the extent and origin of changes across Fennoscandia, representative regions were defined that entailed sufficient spatial and temporal data. READ MORE
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24. Title: Does Bitcoin hedge inflation risk? A multivariate time series analysis
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis investigates whether Bitcoin can be considered a valuable hedge against inflation risk. The research examines the relationship between Bitcoin and inflation, the two variables' forecast ability, and how an exogenous shock simulated on one variable affects the other. READ MORE
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25. The Influence of Gold Market on Bitcoin Prices : Is there a correlation?
University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella HandelshögskolanAbstract : Background: This paper analyses the influence of fluctuation in gold market on bitcoin prices. Based on previous studies, in present market conditions, volatility in gold prices have caused price changes in several other major assets in the market, such as crude oil. Gold fluctuations are likely to stimulate uncertainty in some other major assets. READ MORE