Essays about: "Starling"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Starling.
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1. Flying with starling entrepreneurs : An explorative case study into how foreign entrepreneurs navigate entrepreneurial ecosystems and mobilize resources.
University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella HandelshögskolanAbstract : Background: In order to create and grow a successful start-up, entrepreneurs need a variety of resources. To obtain these easier, many entrepreneurs move to entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE), where resources are abundant and more accessible. READ MORE
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2. An alternative explanation for scale-free speed correlations in starling flocks: coarse-graining in time
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för fysik och elektroteknik (IFE)Abstract : In a celebrated series of experimental observations, starling flocks have been shown to be characterized by scale-free, long-ranged spatial correlations in their velocity fluctuations. While this is expected for velocity orientation correlations on the basis of simple symmetry-breaking arguments, the same scaling-free behaviour for speed (i.e. READ MORE
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3. Re-Imagining the Victorian Woman: Female Representations in Four Neo-Victorian Novels from 1990 to 2010
University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : Neo-Victorian literature is a subgenre of historical fiction that is set during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 until 1901. There are divergent opinions on the emergence of the genre; however, the time frame established in this dissertation spans from 1990 until the present moment. READ MORE
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4. Reimagining sustainability science for life beyond the Anthropocene : multispecies conviviality, meaningful postmodernity and politics of ‘otherwise-than-power’
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Sustainability Science (SS) is known for aspiration to support societies towards ecologically sound trajectories – a fabulously reflexive, ultimately critical and deeply self-aware field with a diverse community of highly skilled and creative researchers of noble goals, rigorous training and active engagement with ‘real life’ (so we claim, or at least aspire for). We try hard to alter extinction of life as we know it and contribute to a flourishing planet, yet go behind starling trends, “losing the battle to save the earth from ourselves” (Woodruff, 2012, p. READ MORE
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5. Tracing Shadows : The “analogue” and the indexical sign-status of the photographic object
University essay from Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : This essay looks at the way the photograph functions as a sign, and how an interest in analogue technique and related sensitivities can be analysed and understood in selected works by Maria Miesenberger, Lotta Antonsson, Vera Lutter, Joachim Koester, Walid Raad, Simon Starling and Tacita Dean. A number of thematic, technical and conceptual interests and sensitivities are approached under the term “analogue”, in order to differentiate the “analogue” as a sign-function from the analogue as mere technique. READ MORE
