Essays about: "MELiSSA"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 73 essays containing the word MELiSSA.
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1. Constructing Spaces of Intervention in Gothenburg's Urban Periphery; The production of “vulnerable areas” in the City’s official documents
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : This study explores the construction of the “vulnerable area” by critically analyzing the assumptions, representations, and discourses that inform official documents targeting such neighborhoods. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on local policy produced in the City of Gothenburg, this thesis finds that such texts – through their imagination of space – produce “vulnerable areas” as spaces of intervention in need of extraordinary treatment. READ MORE
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2. Estimating historic ranges of extinct scavenging birds from North America during the late Pleistocene using co-occurrence data from the fossil record
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskapAbstract : The aim of my study was to estimate and compare the historic range of nine scavenging birds from North America that went jointly extinct with their mammalian megafaunal prey in the Late Pleistocene. Although the severity and timing of their co-extinction are strongly correlated, there has been little analytical support in providing estimates for the possible geographic distribution of scavenging birds prior to the extinction event. READ MORE
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3. Accelerating Regions: How Accelerators Adapt to Institutional, Social, and Spatial Contexts
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Given the calls to examine accelerators across different regions and contexts, we ask the research question: How do accelerators adapt to institutional, social, and spatial constraints of emerging and established ecosystems? With this research question, we conduct qualitative research to understand how two different accelerators, one located in Skåne, Sweden and another located in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are affected and shaped by their contexts. These cases were deliberately selected to contrast the regional constraints stemming from established and emerging regions (Eisenhardt and Gaebner, 2007). READ MORE
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4. Autonomous Control in Advanced Life Support Systems : Air Revitalisation within the Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : In recent years international space agencies have become more and more explicit about long term lunar and Martian space missions. With the space program Terrae Novae, the European Space Agency puts forward a focus on the development of Human & Robotic Exploration technologies essential in enabling such long term missions. READ MORE
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5. Challenges, needs, and connection points in EFL teachers’ and students’ perspectives of formative assessment
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)Abstract : Formative assessment is an educational approach that challenges the traditional summative ways of teaching. Although formative assessment has been found to stimulate learning development, it also involves difficulties for teachers to implement. READ MORE
