Essays about: "gun control"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words gun control.

  1. 1. LAUGHTER PREDICTION IN TEXT BASED DIALOGUES Predicting Laughter using Transformer-Based Models

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Hemanth Kumar Battula; [2022-06-20]
    Keywords : Transformer; BERT; Laughter; Sliding Window;

    Abstract : In this paper we will attempt to predict and assess the performance of predicting laughter using a BERT model (Devlin et al., 2019), and a BERT model finetuned on the Open subtitles dataset with and without considering dialogue-acts classes as well as sliding window of dialogues. READ MORE

  3. 2. Guns N’ Houses : On Gun Violence and Housing Prices in Sweden’s Metropolitan Areas

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Linnea Nydahl; [2022]
    Keywords : gun violence; shootings; housing prices; difference-in-differences;

    Abstract : This paper examines the impact of confirmed shootings on the attractiveness of a neighborhood, measured through local housing prices, in Sweden’s major metropolitan areas during 2016-2019. A novel difference-in-differences approach is proposed where control groups are selected from areas that will be exposed to shootings in the near future but have not yet been so, thus mitigating the problem from previous studies that shootings might be a result of underlying unobserved factors for the neighborhood. READ MORE

  4. 3. "Stick vs. Rope. Gun vs. Strand." : The Monomyth and the Hero as Warrior in Kojima Productions' 2019 Video Game Death Stranding

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Beatrice Näsling; [2022]
    Keywords : Kojima Productions; Death Stranding; video game; Joseph Campbell; monomyth; hero s journey; violence; heroic archetypes.; Kojima Productions; Death Stranding; TV-spel; Joseph Campbell; monomyt; hjältens resa; våld; hjältearketyper;

    Abstract : Released in 2019, the video game Death Stranding follows the monomythic structure described by Joseph Campbell in his 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The journey begins with the protagonist, Sam “Porter” Bridges, reluctantly accepting his calls to adventure, and, as he begins to move west, he receives supernatural aid from an increasing number of helpers he encounters along the way. READ MORE

  5. 4. Mikrobiologisk kvalitet på is från ismaskiner och vatten från automater : en kontroll av verksamheters hygienrutiner

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Marta Marciniak; [2022]
    Keywords : provtagning; mikrobiologi; rengöring; vatten; vattenautomat; barpistol;

    Abstract : Mikrobiologiska föroreningar av dricksvatten är globalt den allvarligaste risken för människors hälsa (World Health Organisation WHO, 2004). Den här studien genomfördes som en del av ett tillsynsrelaterat provtagningsprojekt om mikrobiologisk kvalitet på is från ismaskiner och vatten från barpistoler/vattenautomater hos livsmedelsverksamheter i Alingsås kommun. READ MORE

  6. 5. Predictive Maintenance of Servo Guns

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för informationsteknologi

    Author : Joakim Ifver; [2022]
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    Abstract : This bachelor thesis investigates the possibility of implementing a system to detect defects with extractable data from ABB’s servo guns. By looking at the deflection data i.e., the electrode position at every stroke, multiple methods are applied to investigate the behavior of the data. READ MORE