Essays about: "Scientific paradigms"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words Scientific paradigms.

  1. 1. CLIMATE SCEPTICISM AND THE POPULIST RADICAL RIGHT : A case study of the Sweden Democrats

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Elinor Appelberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Climate Scepticism; Climate Policy; Sweden Democrats; Sweden; Populist Radical Right; Right Wing Populism; Climate Change.;

    Abstract : Literature on climate policy of political parties’ points to an emerging congruence between populist radical right parties and scepticism toward climate change and climate policy. This thesis explores this nexus via a case study of the Sweden Democrats (SD) climate policy over a period of twelve years (2010-2022). READ MORE

  3. 2. Reinforcement Learning for the Optimization of Explicit Runge-Kutta Method Parameters

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematik LTH; Lunds universitet/Matematik (naturvetenskapliga fakulteten); Lunds universitet/Matematikcentrum

    Author : Mélanie Fournier; [2023]
    Keywords : reinforcement learning; numerical analysis; Runge-Kutta; policy gradient; REINFORCE; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : Reinforcement learning is one of the three main paradigms in machine learning, which is increasingly used as a method to approach scientific problems. In this thesis, we introduce and use reinforcement learning to find the optimal parameters of a numerical solver. READ MORE

  4. 3. Towards Uncertain Futures - Envisioning Scenario Stories of Human Nature Relationships on the High Seas

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Hannah Marlen Lübker; [2022]
    Keywords : High Seas; Uncertainty; Reconnection; Imagination; Transformation; Futures;

    Abstract : The High Seas, the areas of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction, are experiencing a starkincrease in industrial activities, ranging from fishing to deep sea mining to offshore oil and gasextraction. Marine resources are exploited unsustainably and the benefits of this exploitationare shared unequally. READ MORE

  5. 4. When outputs of artistic research meet academic infrastructures : Antelopes in the horse pen

    University essay from

    Author : Annika Wahlström; [2021]
    Keywords : Artistic research; scholarly communication; academic publishing; institutional repositories; publishing practices;

    Abstract : Artistic research is a relatively new and understudied topic in scholarly communication within Library and information science. This knowledge deficit, combined with ill-fitting systems and categories, maintains the status of artistic research as something mysterious and different. READ MORE

  6. 5. On the Silk Road with Giovanni Arrighi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Simon Frohlund; [2021]
    Keywords : World-systems analysis; Systemic cycles of accumulation; Hegemonic transitions; China; Scientific paradigms; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores contradictions, inadequacies, and competing formulations within Giovanni Arrighi’s theory of systemic cycles of accumulation (SCAs) as a Kuhnian scientific paradigm. This has been carried out through a comparative study on how the theory has been applied by scholars on the issue of the prospective hegemonic rise of China in the contemporary setting. READ MORE