Essays about: "concreteness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the word concreteness.

  1. 1. “It must be fun for you to help a bit on the farm” : A qualitative study of the social, institutional, and economic activities and roles of women and inclusion in livestock farming in southern Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Julia Andersson; [2022]
    Keywords : Farming Women; Gender Equality; Patriarchy; Agriculture; Reproductive Labour.;

    Abstract : Farming women have between the year 1950 and the present time had to fight hard to participate in the farming sector in Sweden to the same extent as men. There are old, gendered biases towards women who labour on farms by people both on and outside the farms. READ MORE

  3. 2. Concreteness fading for teaching programming

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Gustav Johansson; [2019]
    Keywords : programming; serious games; concreteness fading; education;

    Abstract : This dissertation presents a study that explores a specific implementation of concreteness fading used in a serious game that teaches programming. Concreteness fading consists of first presenting concepts with concrete representations before swapping them gradually with their concrete, normal counterparts. READ MORE

  4. 3. Challenging the dual coding theory : Does Affective Information Play a Greater Role in Abstract Compared to Concrete Word Processing?

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Ingrid Almgren; [2018]
    Keywords : abstract word-processing; DCT; ERP; semantic representation; concreteness effect; imageability; recognition task; categorization; emotional valence;

    Abstract : It has long been held that concrete material has a processing advantage over abstract material, as predicted by Dual Coding Theory (Paivio,1991), although this has been challenged. For example, based on evidence for behavioural and neuroscientific studies, Kousta,, Vigliocco, Vinson, & Del Campo, (2011) proposed that emotional valance had a greater influence in the processing of abstract words, and that under some circumstances there may be no concreteness effect and might even be an abstractness effect. READ MORE

  5. 4. Using Coh-Metrix to investigate changes in student texts : Comparing student writing from 1999 and 2009

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jennifer Törnqvist; [2015]
    Keywords : Coh-Metrix; Cohesion; Student writing; Text quality; Extramural English;

    Abstract : This study investigates Swedish students’ texts from two time periods: 1999 and 2009, in search of cohesive evidence indicating a change of quality influenced by the development of the Internet. The method used in this study is the application of a computational tool that provides measures of language and discourse called Coh-Metrix, which provides measures along several cohesion variables, including word concreteness, deep cohesion, verb cohesion and lexical diversity. READ MORE

  6. 5. ADAPTATION TO URBAN FLOODS BY PLANNING AND DESIGN : GUIDELINES FOR AN ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT TO URBAN FLOODS AND STORM WATER USE TAKING AS A CASE STUDY THE CITY OF BILBAO

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Naia Landa Mendez; [2014]
    Keywords : Adaptation - Urban floods - Drainage Systems - Urban Design -Architecture- Planning;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to propose a set of adaptive strategies and design solutions to manage floods and storm water in cities from the perspective of an architect and urban planner, based on empirical evidence and the level of effectiveness of the suggested measures. The study takes as an example the city of Bilbao due to its high risk of suffering fluvial and pluvial flooding exacerbated by tidal variations and see level rise projections. READ MORE