Essays about: "collapsing"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the word collapsing.
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1. Exploring Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background in Hyper-Kamiokande
University essay from KTH/FysikAbstract : This thesis studies the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) that is expected to be detected in the future neutrino detector Hyper-Hamiokande. DSNB refers to the flux which is made up of neutrinos from all past core-collapsing supernova explosions. READ MORE
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2. To what extent has the European Endowment for Democracy facilitated the growth of an ecosystem of independent media organisations in Lebanon? (2017-2023)
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationerAbstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between the ecosystem of independent media organisations in Lebanon, and their relationship to the European Union, specifically the European Endowment for Democracy. The analysis follows a trajectory starting from Beirut all the way back to Brussels, the lens of focus widening as it reaches its conclusion. READ MORE
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3. Intention and Indiscernibilia: : Against Interpretive Intentionalism
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetikAbstract : What determines the meaning of a work of art? This paper considers three theories of art-critical interpretation: moderate actual intentionalism (the artist’s intention partly determines the work’s meaning), hypothetical intentionalism (the work’s meaning is the best hypothesis of what the artist could have meant), and the value-maximizing theory (interpretations which maximize the work’s value are to be preferred). I argue that moderate actual intentionalism is incoherent, collapsing either into the intentional fallacy or into an extreme form of intentionalism. READ MORE
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4. Body-Safe Apocalypse : Sexual Materiality and Frameworks for Design During and Beyond Collapse
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)Abstract : Following the Covid-19 pandemic, a relatively mild global disruption, our global society experienced large-scale shortages of high-tech materials, the increasing cost or absence of many commodities usually taken for granted, and the floundering of industries that facilitate our global industrial civilisation such as shipping and aviation. By comparison, catastrophic climate change stands to be far more devastating. READ MORE
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5. The Dissatisfaction of Utopia in Iain M. Banks's Culture Novels
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The Culture is a utopian civilization that features in the science-fiction novels of Iain M. Banks that has some claim to be as comprehensively satisfactory and universal in its appeal as possible. READ MORE