Essays about: "language barrier"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 78 essays containing the words language barrier.
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6. Assessing International Students’ Healthcare Access : A qualitative study examining the barriers to healthcare access faced by international students in Halmstad
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärdAbstract : The human right to health and access to good quality healthcare services is a fundamental and universal principle. However, certain population groups face unique challenges that restrict their healthcare access resulting in illness and impacting their quality of life. READ MORE
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7. Throughput Analysis of Safepoint-attached Barriers in a Low-latency Garbage Collector : Analysis of a Compiler Optimization in the HotSpot JVM
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : When using managed programming languages, there is an essential benefit in having a fast and efficient compiler and garbage collector; one garbage collector currently under development is the HotSpot low-latency concurrent Generational Z Garbage Collector. Concurrent memory management runs application threads and garbage collection threads simultaneously. READ MORE
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8. Establishment of Swedish start-ups in Germany : A study of start-ups establishing in a foreign country
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : Background: Sweden and Germany are closely linked with one another, with cultural similarities, long history of trade and close geographic proximity. Germany is an attractive country for Swedish companies to establish in due to its central location in Europe and its position as Europe's biggest economy. READ MORE
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9. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE
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10. Designing and evaluating a board game prototype as a storytelling method to raise awareness about refugees’ language barriers
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska fakultetenAbstract : The thesis takes a research through design approach to identify the potential of a storytelling board game concept to raise awareness about societal challenges. Knowledge of existing serious game examples illustrating the social issues, designing a board game prototype iteratively, and evaluating with co-creation sessions helped to comprehend the potential of the subject. READ MORE
