Essays about: "Proxy model"
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21. Effect of tree age on masting signal in tree-ring chronologies of beech in southern Sweden
University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research CentreAbstract : Masting is a synchronous and highly variable production of seeds in tree species. Masting may reflect a reproduction strategy to cope with seed predation. In beech, temperature is the cue controlling annual variability in seeding. Masting behaviour in beech typically begins around the age of 40 years. READ MORE
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22. Investigating a possible dearth of stars with zero angular momentum in the solar neighbourhood.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisation; Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionenAbstract : Background. Carlberg & Innanen (1987) first proposed the idea of measuring the solar re- flex velocity (the velocity of the Sun around the galactic centre), Vg,⊙, using the momenta of the stars in the solar neighbourhood. The proposal was a consequence of the work of L. READ MORE
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23. Intergenerational blame attribution - a consequence of the perceived personal post-crisis economy of youth in Sweden?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Motivated by recent claims from youth that older generations are jeopardizing their future, the purpose of this thesis is to study potential explanations for the variation of intergenerational blame attribution among Swedish youth. Ordinary least squares regression analysis is conducted on survey data, especially focused on young participants, to test several hypotheses about how perceived economic threats and one’s value orientation can impact young people’s motivation to blame elderly generations for economic difficulties. READ MORE
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24. Messing With The Gap: On The Modality Gap Phenomenon In Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Industriell teknikAbstract : In machine learning, a sub-field of computer science, a two-tower architecture model is a specialised type of neural network model that encodes paired data from different modalities (like text and images, sound and video, or proteomics and gene expression profiles) into a shared latent representation space. However, when training these models using a specific contrastive loss function, known as the multimodalinfoNCE loss, seems to often lead to a unique geometric phenomenon known as the modality gap. READ MORE
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25. The link between ESG and financial performance in sensitive and non-sensitive industries. A quantitative study of the European market
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Purpose: The topic of ESG and its relationship with financial performance has been studied by researchers for the last decades. In this thesis, to further understand the relationship between ESG and financial performance, industry affiliation has been considered. READ MORE