Essays about: "Historical documents"
Showing result 31 - 35 of 142 essays containing the words Historical documents.
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31. The Chilean Old-Age Pension System in Light of International Human Rights Law and the Inter-American Jurisprudence on the Right to Social Security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In the early 1980s, during the darkest years of Pinochet’s dictatorship, an apparently innocuous but radical decision was made: to implement an old-age pension system based on individual accounts mandatorily administered by private for-profit entities called ‘pension fund administrators’ (‘AFPs’, by its acronym in Castilian), in which the workers’ social security regarding old-age pensions was in practice totally dependent on their individual saving capacity during their working life. This was a completely novel system at that time, even at the international level, and part of a package of reforms allegedly directed to refound and modernise the country, deeply transforming the functions of the State and the role of the private sector, and causing a multiplicity of consequences felt until today in all possible areas of society and where, of course, human rights are no exception. READ MORE
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32. Improvement of Optical Character Recognition on Scanned Historical Documents Using Image Processing
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/DatavetenskapAbstract : As an effort to improve accessibility to historical documents, digitization of historical archives has been an ongoing process at many institutions since the origination of Optical Character Recognition. The old, scanned documents can contain deteriorations acquired over time or caused by old printing methods. READ MORE
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33. Automatic Handwritten Text Detection and Classification
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för visuell information och interaktionAbstract : As more and more organizations digitize their records, the need for automatic document processing software increases. In particular, the rise of ‘digital humanities’ precede a new set of problems on how to digitize historical archival material in an efficient and accurate manner. READ MORE
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34. Imperial Dignity to Princely Autonomy: a historical-philosophical study on the evolution and meaning of sovereignty in the Holy Roman Empire
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : This thesis conducts a study in conceptual history into the meaning of sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire, a European political institution of states that lasted from 962 to 1806 AD. Three classical theorists in sovereignty, namely Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, and Samuel von Pufendorf comprehend the main philosophical corps of the thesis, which will be operationalised by studying three constitutional documents from the Holy Roman Empire: the Golden Bull, the Treaty of Osnabrück, and the Treaty of Münster. READ MORE
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35. Digitization of Swedish Caribbean Colonial History
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologiAbstract : Digitization of Swedish Caribbean Colonial history is part of a research project that works on digitizing historical documents and artifacts from the Swedish colonial timeline of 1784-1878. This thesis aims to improve the accessibility of the digitized artifacts, improve the presentationof the artifacts, and provide more information about the digitization project. READ MORE
