Essays about: "creatures"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 60 essays containing the word creatures.

  1. 21. Enabling Circular Economy in Local Solid Waste Management - The Case of Muang Kalasin Municipality, Thailand

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Pornpimon Somneuk; [2020]
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    Abstract : The volume and complexity of solid waste have increased locally and globally. Waste pollution has environmental, social, and economic impacts on every country, such as mistreatment of waste caused air quality and water contamination, plastic particles from human activities are carried out to the seas and harm marine creatures, people can face health problems from polluted air and water as well as plastic-contaminated seafood. READ MORE

  3. 22. Still Life Portrait : Contemporary jewelry in the form of still life painting

    University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab

    Author : Tongxin Gao; [2020]
    Keywords : still life; life and death; permanence and impermanence; objects; materiality; jewelry;

    Abstract : This paper presents an investigation in how a jewelry artist understands the life and death, permanence and impermanence of human, objects, and other creatures, by communicating still life in the form of jewelry. I will bring up a fact that death and impermanence have been forgotten by my peers, and use still life and contemporary jewelry to discuss it. READ MORE

  4. 23. Gorgon motifs on Archaic Greek coins

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Elma Mujkanovic; [2020]
    Keywords : Gorgon; iconography; mythology; Athens; Neapolis in Macedon; gorgon; ikonografi; mytologi; Aten; Napolis i Makedonien.;

    Abstract : The Gorgon is a creature described as terrible in ancient literature. It was depicted with glaring eyes, tusks and a hanging tongue and was a part of Greek antiquity from Archaic to Roman Period. The Gorgon motif has frequently been adorned on different materials. READ MORE

  5. 24. M8 the Four-legged Robot

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : FREDRIK ANFLO; [2020]
    Keywords : mechatronics; robotics; quadruped locomotion; sound detection; speech recognition.; mekatronik; robotik; fyrbent förflyttning; ljuddetektion; röstigenkänning;

    Abstract : In recent times robots are becoming more and more common. They are everywhere. Walking, running, swimming, flying and many of them have much in common with the creatures inhabiting this planet. A lot of it in order to make them appeal more to us, instead of simply being portrayed as stone cold machines. READ MORE

  6. 25. Investigating and Modeling the Emergent Flocking Behaviour of Sheep Under Threat with Fear Contagion

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

    Author : Gabriel Chang; Michaela Stjerndal; [2019]
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    Abstract : Virtual environments can feel lifeless or robotic, and a way to combat this is the inclusion of living creatures with life-like behaviour. Wanting to bring this into computer animation, Craig W. Reynolds formulated a model to simulate the flocking behaviour of birds. READ MORE