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1. Marginalisation of bisexual asylum seekers: a discourse analysis of Swedish case law
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : Bisexual individuals are often construed as ‘half homosexuals’, and thus seen as less vulnerable to sexual minority intolerance and persecution. According to bisexuality scholars, however, bisexual individuals are subjected to double discrimination, as they are marginalised both by the heteronormative society and the homosexual minority group. READ MORE
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2. Teacher characteristics and choicesand their effects on reading achievement: A comparision between Sweden and Quebec
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Purpose. The purpose of this study is to compare teacher and classroom factors that are believed to affect students’ reading achievement scores at the fourth grade level by using PIRLS 2011 dataset. READ MORE
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3. Class and Nonideal Social Ontology : Social Power, Hegemony, and the War of Positions
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofiAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to elaborate the analysis of economic class within Burman’s ontological framework. To alleviate some shortcomings of Burman’s framework, I will make use of concepts presented by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. READ MORE
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4. Using Synthetic Data For Object Detection on the edge in Hazardous Environments
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för reglerteknikAbstract : This thesis aims to evaluate which aspects are important when generating synthetic data with the purpose of running on a lightweight object detection model on an edge device. The task we constructed was to detect Canisters and whether they feature a protective valve called a Cap or not (called a No-Cap). READ MORE
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5. Gravitational Collapse of a Massless Scalar Field in a Theory of Minimally Modified Gravity
University essay from KTH/FysikAbstract : This thesis explores the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field in a minimally modified gravity theory denoted VCDM (V replaces $\Lambda$ in the $\Lambda$CDM abbreviation), a class of theories propagating the same degrees of freedom as general relativity at the expense of broken 4D diffeomorphism invariance. Numerical evolution of the equations of motion reveals that for small initial scalar profile amplitudes, no black hole forms from the collapse. READ MORE