Essays about: "London"

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  1. 11. Urban Planning for Better Air Quality : A case study of the Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods in London

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Greta Gustafsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods; London; Green Infrastructure; Urban Planning; Air Pollution;

    Abstract : Air pollution affects the environment negatively, boosts climate change, and is the cause of millions of deaths per year, first and foremost affecting the people living in urban areas. Since the early 20th century, many cities have been planned around cars, which are the main contributors to the bad air quality. READ MORE

  3. 12. Integrating Fire Evacuation into the Building Information Modelling Workflow

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Brandteknik

    Author : Nazim Yakhou; [2022]
    Keywords : Fire Safety Engineering; Building Information Modelling; Fire Evacuation; Performance Based Design; Golden Thread of Information; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Building Information Modelling (BIM) is arising gradually as a useful methodology in the AEC field. One of the many benefits of BIM is coordination between stakeholders from multiple disciplines. However, the field of Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) is relatively lagging by its lack of integration into this digital workflow. READ MORE

  4. 13. Dissonance in Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Kristian Jeremic; [2022]
    Keywords : Elizabeth Gaskell; Mary Barton; George Orwell; Down and Out in Paris and London; Marxism; class; class consciousness; historical materialism; Althusser; internal distantiation; unreliable narrator; intranarrational unreliability; extratextual unreliability; representations of poverty;

    Abstract : This essay identifies a type of narrative dissonance in the depictions of working-class conditions within Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. In this thesis, the dissonance is argued in part to be the effect created when an author belonging to one social class attempts to portray a class separate from their own. READ MORE

  5. 14. Signal detection of FX Fixing events

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för beräkningsvetenskap

    Author : Anton Sjöström; [2022]
    Keywords : Machine learning; Deep learning; Trading; Time series;

    Abstract : This master thesis investigates the price dynamics of two currency pairs, GBP/USD and EUR/GBP, during the event called the “London 4 PM Fix”, which is a daily event. The dynamics of this event is understood by first creating a mathematical model to find the theoretical optimal trading strategy given a number of assumptions. READ MORE

  6. 15. “We Were Called Low-Grades” : Current Archival Approaches to the Digitization and Dissemination of Eugenics Collections

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Georgia Gilbert Gladitz; [2022]
    Keywords : Digitization; Eugenics Collections; Access and Care; Digital Knowledge Dissemination; Difficult Histories; Archival Methodologies; Statens institut för rasbiologi; The Wellcome Library; The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement; The Canadian Eugenics Archive;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. READ MORE