Essays about: "catastrophe"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 65 essays containing the word catastrophe.

  1. 16. Stuck in the Truck: Oil Dependency, Acceleration, and the Nature of Catastrophe : An Ecocritical Reading of The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Sonya Helgesson Ralevic; [2020]
    Keywords : The Wages of Fear; Le Salaire de la Peur; Henri-Georges Clouzot; ecocriticism; petro-fiction; Anthropocene; oil film; film noir; ethnographic film; spectacle;

    Abstract : As a medium of modernity, film has always been entwined with the energy regime sustaining it. This thesis is interested in the interrelation between film and oil, and approached as a piece of petro-fiction, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film The Wages of Fear (1953) is subject to a close, ecocritical analysis. READ MORE

  3. 17. Flood Prediction System Using IoT and Artificial Neural Networks with Edge Computing

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

    Author : Eric Samikwa; [2020]
    Keywords : Internet of things; Flood prediction; Artificial neural network; Edge computing; Long short-term memory.; Sakernas Internet; Översvämning av översvämningar; Artificiella neuronnät; Kant datoranvändning; Långt kortvarigt minne;

    Abstract : Flood disasters affect millions of people across the world by causing severe loss of life and colossal damage to property. Internet of things (IoT) has been applied in areas such as flood prediction, flood monitoring, flood detection, etc. READ MORE

  4. 18. AI Safe Exploration: Reinforced learning with a blocker in unsafe environments

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Marco Koivisto; Philip Crockett; Axel Spångberg; [2019-11-12]
    Keywords : Artificial Intelligence; Reinforcement learning; Safe exploration; Blocker; Machine Learning; Baby AI Game; Gym Mini Grid;

    Abstract : Artificial intelligence can be trained with a trial and error based approach. In an environment where a catastrophe can not be accepted a human overseer can be used, but this might lower the efficiency of the learning. READ MORE

  5. 19. Towards a Societal Transformation - a qualitative study of grassroots innovations within waste management in Zanzibar

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Victoria Rice; Johan Knape; [2019-07-09]
    Keywords : Grassroots innovations; evolution and development of grassroots innovations; social innovation; challenges and constraints of grassroots innovations; sustainability; waste management; scaling;

    Abstract : The issue of waste is an increasing global problem, affecting people, animals and ecosystems. Zanzibar has experienced a dramatic increase of incoming tourists, with a growing waste problem as a result. READ MORE

  6. 20. Resilience from within or without? : An ethnographic study of resilience mechanisms in southern Colombia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Amanda Amigues; [2019]
    Keywords : Resilience; recovery processes; peacebuilding; post-conflict; post-disaster reconstruction; Colombia;

    Abstract : The emergence of resilience in the peacebuilding field shows an important change of paradigm and turn to the local context. So far few ethnographic research has been done to understand how resilience works locally and what are the mechanisms helping individuals to cope and recover from a crisis. READ MORE