Essays about: "Role Conception"

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  1. 6. A Defense of the Permissibility of Prejudice

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

    Author : Lucas Lainpelto; [2023]
    Keywords : Prejudice; stereotypes; epistemology; ethics;

    Abstract : This paper argues for the counter intuitive notion that some prejudice is morally justified. The argument is divided up into three parts: (1) what prejudice is, (2) the role of epistemology and (3) the final moral argument. The first section initially establishes a working definition which allows prejudice to be justified epistemically. READ MORE

  3. 7. Dimensioning study of EPR2 fuel pool cooling system

    University essay from KTH/Fysik

    Author : Thomas Rubler; [2023]
    Keywords : EPR2; PTR; spent fuel pool; heat exchange; EPR2; PTR; bassäng för utbränt kärnbränsle; värmeväxling.;

    Abstract : The PTR system allows the EPR2 fuel pool to be cooled. The evacuation of the residual power fromthe pool is ensured by several heat exchangers and pumps, which have to be dimensioned in order to meetdifferent requirements.In order to dimension them, the worst-case scenario of the components must first be determined. READ MORE

  4. 8. Towards a new aesthetics of care : a critical reading of Nassauer’s cues to care

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Jack Richold; [2023]
    Keywords : cues to care; Joan Nassauer; Timothy Morton; strange stranger; sublime; scenic; broken windows; ecological function; aesthetics of care; design through maintenance;

    Abstract : Joan Nassauer’s concept of cues to care has been influential within landscape design since her seminal essay Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames was published in 1995 and her research is often used to justify the need for marking landscapes as owned, although there have been critical voices too. The enduring popularity of cues to care as a design method is due to how open it is to interpretation, and this thesis examines various landscape interventions that can be classed as cues to care, both explicitly and implicitly. READ MORE

  5. 9. Talk to the Sea: Deep-sea mining, the arts, and contesting narratives of extraction in the deep ocean.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Nicholas Frederick Olivier Lepage; [2023]
    Keywords : deep-sea mining; resource frontier; commodities; arts; extractivism; narratives; imaginaries.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The deep-sea may be on the verge of becoming the latest frontier for resource extraction of critical metals and minerals in order to build renewable energy technologies such as electric vehicles. This thesis examines the narratives used by the deep-sea mining company The Metals Company to justify the extraction of polymetallic nodules from the seabed in the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. READ MORE

  6. 10. Is Mobility as a Service an effective solution to achieve smart mobility? A multiple case study of European MaaS aggregators.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Luigi Esposito; [2022-08-05]
    Keywords : MaaS; MaaS Aggregators; Smart mobility;

    Abstract : Mobility as a Service is a new concept that has raised enormous expectations since its launch, as it seemed to be the ultimate solution to transition to a smarter and more sustainable urban mobility. However, a few years after its conception, MaaS aggregators have collided with operational reality and many challenges and critical aspects have arisen. READ MORE