Essays about: "miami"
Found 5 essays containing the word miami.
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1. The Time-Varying Correlation between Regional Home Prices and The Impact of Central Bank Balance Sheet Policies on Home Prices : A Graphical Descriptive Statistics Approach on The US Housing Market
University essay from KTH/Fastighetsföretagande och finansiella systemAbstract : There has been a growing interest in economic policies and their impact within a country among the real estate economics research community in recent years. After the economic crisis of 2008, an unconventional monetary policy was created, and it has been called quantitative easing (QE), an instrument of economic policy applied through central banks to boost the economy in periods when conventional monetary policy is not satisfactory. READ MORE
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2. Catastrophe Bond : What are they and why invest in them?
University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggandeAbstract : For a little over twenty years, the niched asset class catastrophe bonds have existed. Despite of their now relatively long existence, they are still unknown to many and are usually only available for large, institutional investors, mainly within the insurance market, pension funds and hedge funds. READ MORE
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3. Identifying active water flow paths in a tropical wetland with radar remote sensing data (wetland interferometry) : The case of the Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografiAbstract : Despite being one of the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetland areas have been heavily affected by human activities. The Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM) in Colombia is one of these wetlands, where the inadequate construction of roads modified the hydrology and connectivity of this water body, generating massive mangrove mortality episodes. READ MORE
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4. Abject and Liminal Bodies : The Dead Body in CSI: Miami and Six Feet Under
University essay from Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK)Abstract : This study researches fictional representations of dead bodies in two television series in which representations of dead bodies are prominent features. The study introduces a brief history of the human body as a societal metaphor. READ MORE
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5. Collaboration Between Children : working with the educational software Quest Atlantis
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnadAbstract : Will the different levels of knowledge contribute to a collaborative learning? This thesis is based on a tuition experiment with children in small groups, working with the educational software Quest Atlantis at Kensington Park Elementary school in Miami. During this research we have found some similarities and new concepts within Damon’s and Phelps’s three peer learning concepts (1989). READ MORE