Essays about: "paleontology"
Found 5 essays containing the word paleontology.
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1. "Technology Changes, Humans Don't?": A cultural analysis on how young adult women’s ordinary phone call habits led to the refusal of a new smartphone personal security application.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : Since at least 2011, designers and developers around the world have been creating innovative mobile applications for women’s use to increase their sense of security while alone in public space; however, there is little known about women’s everyday use of personal security applications nor how the personal security application phenomenon is making an impact in society. A small Swedish start-up company designed their own personal security application called SecurityApp and as their intern, I conducted an ethnographic research study focusing on young adult women’s interaction with their new application. READ MORE
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2. Multistressors Related to Climate Change and Their Effects on Global Biodiversity during the Cenozoic Age
University essay from Lunds universitet/Miljövetenskaplig utbildningAbstract : As multistressors have been shown to have significant effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, the following study was made with the purpose of examining how a number of stressors specifically connected to climate change may have varied during the latest 65,5 million years and whether it is possible to predict potential effects on global biodiversity in the future. The analyses focused on global species richness during the Cenozoic age along with variables such as variations in atmospheric CO2, sea surface temperatures and global sea levels derived from analyses of various stable isotopes found in marine sediments. READ MORE
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3. Late Devonian vertebrates from Siberia: a synchrotron microtomography study of bone bed material
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildningAbstract : This is an investigation of new vertebrate fossil material from the Late Devonian locality of Ivanovka, Uryup River, Siberia. This bone bed material, circa 375 million years in age, represents a unique opportunity to fill a gap in our understanding of Late Devonian diversity, biogeography, and vertebrate evolution: Siberia, at the time, was an independent continent, and yet its fauna remains virtually unknown in comparison with the other paleocontinents, Euramerica and Gondwana. READ MORE
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4. Paleontology and Sedimentology of the Alum Shale Formation at Björnberget, Västerbotten County, Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : A new locality of the Alum Shale Formation at Björnberget, Västerbotten County, of the lower allochthon of the Caledonian front is described herein. Two new species of acrotretid brachiopods were found. Tingitanella vilhelminia n. sp. READ MORE
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5. Study of the Taxonomy and the Inter and Intra Specific Variability of Phacopidae from the Lower Devonian of Algeria: Morphometric Approach and Meaning.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : An Algerian Phacopid fauna, described by Lemaître in 1952, is reexamined here. Species arereevaluated in order to be in agreement with modern taxonomy. To characterize the size and shape of our specimens, as well as inter- and intraspecific variations, a morphometric analysis was performed. Only holaspids were analyzed. READ MORE
