Essays about: "Raymond"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 essays containing the word Raymond.

  1. 1. Unsettling Norms : Negotiating Dominant Culture in 'The Addams Family'

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Madelina Barve; [2023]
    Keywords : Popular Culture; Counter-Hegemony; The Addams Family; Genre; Aesthetics;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the three most popular and acclaimed live-action versions of The AddamsFamily, those being the 1964-1966 sitcom The Addams Family, the 1993 film Addams FamilyValues, and Netflix’s 2022 series Wednesday, to understand how these popular culture textsnegotiate dominant norms and culture in American society. These iterations cover sixty years of cultural negotiation on non-conformity and each attend to a specific politics of conformity in their time. READ MORE

  3. 2. Transgender and gender-diverse youth caught in the intersection of policy making, politics, gender-affirming care, and feminist discourse

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Julia Hagstedt; [2022]
    Keywords : Transgender youth; policy making; feminism; UK; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how presuppositions and assumptions can affect policy making, by investigating if anti-trans and 'gender critical' rhetoric may have affected the now reversed NHS policy ‘Amendments to service specification for gender identity development service for children and adolescents’ which directly influenced the still in use Karolinska University Hospital policy, ‘Policyförändring gällande hormonell behandling till minderåriga patienter med könsdysfori inom Tema Barn’. By using the Foucauldian inspired poststructural WPR policy analysis method by Bacchi and Goodwin, it was uncovered that the underlying assumptions and presuppositions of the hegemonic ‘truths’ the representation of the problem relied on, assumed dominance through an increase of anti-transgender and anti-gender-diverse rhetoric in political and public debates, and in media. READ MORE

  4. 3. Mortality Prediction in Intensive Care Units by Utilizing the MIMIC-IV Clinical Database

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Raymond Wang; [2022]
    Keywords : Clinical Data Science; Mortality Prediction; MIMIC-IV; Machine Learning; NLP; ICU;

    Abstract : Machine learning has the potential of significantly improving daily operations in health care institutions but many persistent barriers are to be faced in order to ensure its wider acceptance. Among such obstacles are the accuracy and reliability. READ MORE

  5. 4. Skador på kultur- och fornlämningar i samband med föryngringsavverkning : med fokus på oregistrerade lämningar

    University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

    Author : Glenn Faxhag Raymond; [2022]
    Keywords : röse; kolbotten; kulturstubbar; fossil åker; markberedning;

    Abstract : Årligen görs uppföljningar i Skogsstyrelsens regi och fältkontroller över hur skogsbruket i Sverige påverkar registrerade kultur- och fornlämningar. Hittills har det dock inte gjorts någon uppföljning och jämförelse för oregistrerade lämningar. READ MORE

  6. 5. Human Brains and Thinking Machines : Artificial Soul, Life and Consciousness

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Raymond Anneborg; [2022]
    Keywords : Strong Artificial Intelligence; Soul; Life; Consciousness; Mind; Human Brain; Thinking Machine; Materialism;

    Abstract : In this paper, I examine if strong artificial intelligence can be achieved or not. Can machines have a mind, be conscious, think and have subjective experiences, just like a human? I analyze David Chalmers arguments supporting the possibility of strong AI and conclude that his emulation argument and principle of organizational invariance is not a sufficient condition for strong AI. READ MORE