Essays about: "Historical documents"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 142 essays containing the words Historical documents.

  1. 21. The Gendered Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 as a Critical Juncture for NGO Program Policy? Insights from The Hunger Project

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Carolina Ernst; [2022]
    Keywords : Critical Juncture; COVID-19; Historical Institutionalism; Institutions; Non-Governmental Organizations; Path Dependence; Women’s rights; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis employs a historical institutionalist lens to analyze whether the gendered impacts of COVID-19 have initiated a critical juncture in The Hunger Project’s program policy. Crises such as COVID-19 may lead actors within organizations to question existing policies, giving them greater opportunities than normal to transform these, with lasting consequences. READ MORE

  3. 22. Historical ecology of the Greater Burgan oilfield : economy, technology, politics, and workers

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Saleh Youssef; [2022]
    Keywords : Oil extraction; The Greater Burgan Oilfield; Petrocultures; Assemblage thinking; Kuwait econ-omy; Oil peak; Migrant labour; Environmental History;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the current state of crude oil extraction and production in the Greater Burgan oilfield, Kuwait's largest and oldest oilfield. This thesis is based on interviews with oilfield workers, analyses of official documents from the Kuwaiti government and the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), and my own experience as an oilfield worker in Kuwait. READ MORE

  4. 23. News article segmentation using multimodal input : Using Mask R-CNN and sentence transformers

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Gustav Henning; [2022]
    Keywords : Historical newspapers; Image segmentation; Multimodal learning; Deep learning; Digital humanities; Mask R-CNN; Historiska tidningar; Bildsegmentering; Multimodal inlärning; Djupinlärning; Digital humaniora; Mask R-CNN;

    Abstract : In this century and the last, serious efforts have been made to digitize the content housed by libraries across the world. In order to open up these volumes to content-based information retrieval, independent elements such as headlines, body text, bylines, images and captions ideally need to be connected semantically as article-level units. READ MORE

  5. 24. Democracies in Danger : An Analysis of Democracies' Deconstruction in Their War to Dismantle Islamic Terrorism

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Simon Virserius Hayon; [2022]
    Keywords : Terrorism; Democracy; War on Terror; Critical Terrorism Studies;

    Abstract : The 9/11 attacks changed how western societies, and with them the world, view terrorism. To respond to these events, western democracies allied to fight for their values against what they saw as their sworn enemies. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Potentially Disadvantaged Groups : An Analysis of How Industry 4.0 Can Promote Decent Work and Equality for Women and Older Employees

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Eva Koller; [2022]
    Keywords : Industry 4.0; Decent Work; Inequality; Gender; Ageing ;

    Abstract : Digitalisation, and the related idea that digitalisation will cause a technological transformation that will lead to a “fourth industrial revolution” (Industry 4.0), is a global major topic with a huge impact on many parts of our life. READ MORE