Essays about: "Thresholds"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 317 essays containing the word Thresholds.

  1. 16. Floating Thresholds – On the Idea of the Portal in Architecture

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Ivan Grelz; [2023]
    Keywords : Portal; Gate; Architecture; Theory; Threshold; Liminal; Nature; Myth; Ritual; Speed; Depth;

    Abstract : This project investigates a specific concept within architecture: the portal. Divided into eight independent chapters, all possible to read as stand-alone parts, the thesis – a hybrid essay consisting of text, images, drawings and models – uses the portal as a springboard, or tool, for approaching existing theories on the invisible forces that shape the world and our built environment. READ MORE

  3. 17. Wind Turbine Recovery Forecasting using Survival Analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Anton Palets; [2023]
    Keywords : Survival analysis; Recovery Forecast; Wind Turbine; Availability Forecast; AFT model; Aalen s model; Cox regression; Cox Proportional Hazards; Variation Processes; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : The goal of this thesis is to present a methodology for predicting time until recovery of failed wind turbines. The necessity is motivated by the potential for more accurate wind energy export forecasts. The current approach rests entirely on having an expert examine the turbine and produce a time estimate. READ MORE

  4. 18. Energy Poverty: Geospatial Modelling in 2021 Berlin using publicly available data : KTH Thesis Report

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Rita Aparici Quiñones; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Energy services are essential for human development and well-being, and the unequal distribution of them leads to inequalities and vulnerabilities. Energy poverty, generally understood as the inability to heat a household, is an increasingly pressing issue that in the context of political and climatic instabilities could affect more and more households. READ MORE

  5. 19. Cyber Sovereignty: The Application of the Principle of Sovereign Equality of States in Cyberspace and its Impact on Human Rights

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Tilda Cederlund; [2023]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Public international law; Cyber Security; Cyber operations; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Uppsatsen siktar på att undersöka olika tolkningar av suveränitetsprincipens tillämpning på cyberoperationer som faller under trösklarna i våldsförbudet och non-interventionsprincipen. Vidare undersöks hur suveränitetsprincipens tillämpbarhet på dessa cyberoperationer kan påverka de mänskliga rättigheterna till yttrande- och åsiktsfrihet. READ MORE

  6. 20. GIS and remote sensing based mapping of microtopography and vegetation composition in a boreal mire complex

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Nils Helge Havertz; [2023]
    Keywords : Microtopography modelling; Remote sensing; Boreal mixed mires; Object Based Image Analysis OBIA ; random forest RF ;

    Abstract : Small scale variations in mire surface elevation referred to as microtopography are fundamental characteristics of mire ecosystems especially in the boreal region. Microtopography commonly classified into hummocks and hollows play a major role in several ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical processes including vegetation composition and carbon and methane dynamics. READ MORE