Essays about: "Old Uppsala"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 257 essays containing the words Old Uppsala.

  1. 16. European Union Membership: A Blockade for Arms Dealers? : A qualitative analysis of the membership's effect on the illicit trade of Small Arms and Light Weapons

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Beata Lampers; [2023]
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    Abstract : This paper empirically examines the relationship between the European Union (EU) membership and its effect on the level of illicit trade of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Researchers have emphasised cooperation with the EU and similar organisations as a key to reducing the illicit trade in arms. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish Enlightenment; Enlightenment; topographical literature; parish descriptions; Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers; travel journals; Norrland; science in practice; superstitions; slumbering riches; imperial gaze; Northern Sweden; Medelpad; Ångermanland; Åsele Lappmark;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE

  4. 18. Evaluation of two-stage GAC filtration for PFAS reduction in drinking water

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Julia Söderberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances PFAS ; Granular activated carbon GAC ; drinking water; removal efficiency; DWTP;

    Abstract : PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of chemicals found in a wide range of industrial and consumer products. Due to their persistent nature and widespread use, concerns have been raised about their impact on human health and the environment. READ MORE

  5. 19. China's elderly trapped in the digital age : A qualitative study on the elderly in a fourth-tier city

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Siyu Xu; [2023]
    Keywords : Chinese elderly; ICTs; digital divide;

    Abstract : China is moving into an aging society, and the quality of life of the elderly has become a topic of public concern. With the development of ICT technology, China’s digital level is increasing, and there is a digital literacy gap between the young and the elderly, and the intergenerational digital divide is widening. READ MORE

  6. 20. On indirectivity in Azeri : A discourse-analytical study of the functions of {-mỊš}/{-(y)ỊB-DỊ(r)} and {Ị-mỊš} in South Azeri varieties

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Frida Larsson Taghizadeh; [2023]
    Keywords : Turkic languages; Azeri; evidentiality; indirectivity; discourse types;

    Abstract : Johanson (2003: 274) refers to the grammatical categories of evidentiality found in Turkiclanguages as indirectivity, characterised “by reference to its reception by a conscious subject”.The East Old Turkic post-terminal verbal item in -miš and copula particle in ermiš are theoldest known markers of indirectivity in Turkic and have been morphologically preserved inthe West Oghuz languages. READ MORE