Essays about: "normative validation"

Found 5 essays containing the words normative validation.

1. 1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Claudia Bern; [2023]
   Keywords : Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. READ MORE

3. 2. Validation of Biomarkers for the Revision of the CEN/TR 15522-2:2012 Method : A Statistical Study of Sampling, Discriminating Powers and Weathering of new Biomarkers for Comparative Analysis of Lighter Oils

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Kemi

   Author : Robert Lundberg; [2019]
   Keywords : Oil fingerprinting; forensic; validation; GC-MS; oil spill sampling; diagnostic power; correlation; weathering; diesel; crude oil; biomarker;

   Abstract : The revision of the CEN/TR 15522-2:2012 methodology contains new biomarkers to facilitate forensic fingerprinting of the variety of oil types that can be a part of different crimes and the purpose of this project is to validate the biomarkers of the new methodology. Biomarkers were validated by examining corresponding diagnostic ratios compatibility with the internationally used sampling cloth, discriminating power, correlation and simulated weathering sensibility through GC-SIM-MS analysis followed by statistical evaluation with t-tests, diagnostic power, Pearson correlation matrices and MS-PW plots respectively. READ MORE

4. 3. Smartphones in Media - The New York Times: Representation of the smartphone and the paper’s potential for normative influence of smartphone behavior

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Hanna Meyer zu Hörste; [2017]
   Keywords : smartphone; New York Times; social norms; representation; media effect factors;

   Abstract : This thesis sets out to investigate the representation of smartphones by one of the biggest English daily newspapers of the world – the New York Times – and further sheds light on the potential influence the newspaper has on the norms of smartphone behavior. The research is conducted in two parts. READ MORE

5. 4. Regulations on conflict of interest for higher civil servants and public officials - Enhancing a state’s legitimacy or just a pretty illusion?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Ane Tømmerås; [2015]
   Keywords : State legitimacy; regulations on conflict of interest; legitimacy; political quarantine; legality; normative validation; OECD; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : OECD and other organizations argues in favor of the implementation of regulations on conflict of interest for higher civil servants and public officials, often including quarantine time for these employees when changing jobs. They do this with the argument that it will increase the population’s confidence in their governments, which again is claimed to be a cornerstone of the functioning of the states. READ MORE

6. 5. IKEA Planning Year Cycle

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Produktionsekonomi

   Author : Christian Lycke Bladh; Fredrik Starling; [2010]
   Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : IKEA is currently in the progress of integrating Business Process Management (BPM) into the current functional organization. In order to investigate how to increase the accuracy of the capacity planning, IKEA saw a need of examining the processes connected to Plan & Secure Capacity, a sub process to the main process Supplying. READ MORE