Essays about: "oxenstierna"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word oxenstierna.
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1. Thinking outside the Baltic : Swedish ambitions in Norway at the height of the Great Power Era
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this study is to examine the seldom researched Swedish geopolitical interests inNorway in the first half of the 17th century, with the brief 1658 conquest of Trondheim as itscentral event of inquiry. Through the study of privy council protocols and chancellor AxelOxenstierna’s correspondence, the study builds a case for the confluence of security, commerce, andthe concepts of nations as the influencing factors that shaped Swedish imperial foreign policy in thedecades leading up to the dramatic war of 1658, yielding a theoretical construction of the Empire’sBaltic doctrine, or the Oxenstierna doctrine, as an explanatory model for Sweden’s early modernexpansion patterns. READ MORE
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2. Warehouse Vehicle Routing using Deep Reinforcement Learning
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologiAbstract : In this study a Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithm, MCTS-CNN, is applied on the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) in warehouses. Results in a simulated environment show that a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can be pre-trained on VRP transition state features and then effectively used post-training within Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). READ MORE
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3. Estimating Median Visiting Times using Re-identification
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematik LTHAbstract : Using customer visiting times stores can analyse customer behaviour and gain insights to help improve the store experience. This thesis investigates the possibility of using person re-identification to create a system that can estimate the median visiting time. Neural networks were used to analyse images of persons from two different views. READ MORE
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4. Predicting house prices using Ensemble Learning with Cluster Aggregations
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologiAbstract : The purpose of this investigation, as prescribed by Valueguard AB, was to evaluate the utility of Machine Learning (ML) models to estimate prices on samples of their housing dataset. Specifically,the aim was to minimize the Median Absolute Percent Error (MDAPE) of the predictions. READ MORE
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5. Remote Sensing and Statistical Analysis of Fracture Populations Around Lake Thingvallavatn, SW Iceland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : This study aims at a description and statistical analysis of tectonic and magmatic fractures in the Western Volcanic Zone (WVZ) on Iceland. Two fracture populations are studied with respect to their distance to the Hengill volcano: The southern area is between 0-10 kilometers from the volcano and the northern area is between 16-25 kilometers from the volcano. READ MORE
