Essays about: "amateur"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 54 essays containing the word amateur.

1. 6. Assessment of Lower Limb Muscle Strength: Feasibility and Implementation on Exxentric’s SingleExx Machines

   University essay from KTH/Medicinteknik och hälsosystem

   Author : Maximilian Geisler; [2023]
   Keywords : Force measurement; Lower limb strength; Symmetry assessment; Flywheel-based leg extension machine; Prototype development; Isokinetic dynamometer; Kraftmätning; Styrka i nedre extremiteterna; Symmetribedömning; Flywheel- baserad benförlängningsmaskin; Prototyputveckling; Isokinetisk dynamometer;

   Abstract : Measuring lower limb strength and symmetry is a common practice in elite sports to determine the return to sports point in time during rehabilitation, and this information could be useful for amateur athletes too. However, the devices used for this are highly sophisticated and hardly accessible. READ MORE

3. 7. Bibliophiles : Amateur Reviews in a Media Compact Society

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Alva Svenning; [2022]
   Keywords : Literary field; Bourdieu; social media logic; user agency; Facebook groups; readers; mediatization; book industry; amateur reviews; literary critics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Bourdieu once spoke of ‘autonomy’ as a cornerstone to the making of a field, an element that demands the creation of contextually tied social values and hierarchies. Within the literary field, these hierarchical structures have been embedded for a long time, ranking cultural producers and other industry-leading agents above the social and the common; the ordinary reader. READ MORE

4. 8. Professional v. Amateur reviewers: What does their language actually tell us? : A Descriptive Text Analysis of Early Adopters

   University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle

   Author : Erik Andreasson; [2021]
   Keywords : Early Adopters; Review; Reviewers; LIWC; Text Analysis;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to find and categorize differences in the language used inonline reviews by early adopters. By filling this gap in knowledge, marketers can betterunderstand the nature of an online review, be it derived from professional or amateurearly adopters. READ MORE

5. 9. Chess and Twitch : Cultural Convergence Through Digital Platforms

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Erik Johansson; [2021]
   Keywords : Online fan communities; cultural convergence; platform affordances; Twitch.tv;

   Abstract : This thesis studies online fan communities, using the recent popularity of chess on live streamingplatform Twitch.tv as a case study to examine audience and cultural convergence between high and popular culture in a digital community setting. READ MORE

6. 10. Bluffing AI in Strategy Board Game

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

   Author : Johan Leijonhufvud; Albin Henriksson; [2021]
   Keywords : Strategy game; Stratego bot; Tactical AI; Counterfactual regret minimization; Chance sampling;

   Abstract : Games have been a field of interest for researchin artificial intelligence for decades. As of now, it is over 5years ago an AI for the strategy game Go, AlphaGo, beat worldchampion Lee Sedol 4-1, which was considered to be an enormousmilestone for AI. READ MORE