Essays about: "ascent"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 34 essays containing the word ascent.

  1. 21. Prospect Utility Portfolio Optimization

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Niklas Lindeke; [2016]
    Keywords : Utility Maximization; Portfolio Choice; Gradient Ascent; Sparse Group LASSO; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Portfolio choice theory have in the last decades seen a rise in utilising more advanced utility functions for finding optimal portfolios. This is partly a consequence of the relatively simplistic nature of the quadratic utility, which is often assumed in the classical mean-variance framework. READ MORE

  3. 22. Welfare Entitlements, Mitigating Tactics and Coping Strategies within the Mountaineering Industry in the Khumbu Region of Nepal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Sixten Lundqvist; [2015]
    Keywords : social structures; third sector; community; welfare; risk; Nepal; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Khumbu region of northeast Nepal has experienced dramatic socio-economic change along with the rise of tourism. The mountainous villages have developed and abandoned traditional lifestyles as tourists from all over the world come to experience the dramatic scenery of the Himalayas and ascent its peaks. READ MORE

  4. 23. I Think I Am Going Up, I Think I May Rise - Death and Rebirth in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2014]
    Keywords : Elena Ciobanu; Elizabeth Grosz; Erika Fischer-Lichte; Simone de Beauvoir; Christianity; mythology; Ariel; The Colossus and Other Poems; Sylvia Plath; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis is a thematic analysis of two major themes in the poetry of Sylvia Plath: Death and rebirth. The idea is to look at selected poems by Plath without taking into account biographical data. The thesis investigates death as perfection, the act of dying and the performative aspect of rebirth. READ MORE

  5. 24. Failure after success - A study of extreme right party failure in Eastern Europe

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Adam Cwejman; [2013-09-24]
    Keywords : Extreme right parties in Eastern Europe; party failure; incumbent party failure;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes failures among extreme right parties (ERPs). A majority of studies describing ERPs has been devoted to party success and parties on the ascent. More rarely are ERPs studied when incumbent or when they are in the process of failing or have recently failed. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Functions of Journey and Ascent in Selected Short Stories in Margaret Drabble’s A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

    University essay from Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Daria Zheltukhina; [2013]
    Keywords : Psychological journey; ascent; multiple angles; Margaret Drabble s short stories.;

    Abstract : The present essay studies the functions of journey and ascent as recurrent motifs in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble. The relationships between the geographical and psychological journeys and ascents are explored. READ MORE