Essays about: "posit"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 53 essays containing the word posit.
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6. Resolution Without Revolution: Green Capitalism, Ecological Management, and the Carbon Dioxide Removal Industry in the United States
University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi; Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is quickly moving from mere imagination to material reality. As I write, billions of dollars are flowing into this nascent industry from government, philanthropy, and venture capital; this thesis thus attempts to grasp history as it flies. READ MORE
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7. “Perhaps the most important lesson I learned was how closely connected the different forms of inequality are.” : A thematic analysis of the Everyday Sexism Project
University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Abstract : This thesis set out to explore how, through a radical feminist lens and using the theory of a continuum of violence by Dr. Liz Kelly, the Everyday Sexism Project community thinks about the issue of everyday sexism, how they view everyday sexism in relation to larger, more severe acts of sexist violence, and whether they see potential for change and/or eradication of the former. READ MORE
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8. ESG performance, a driver for shareholder value creation? Evidence from mergers and acquisitions
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : With an increasing demand for firms to become more sustainable, business managers are increasingly using merger and acquisition (M&A) investments as a tool to enhance both environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and corporate financial performance (CFP). This study aims to further understand the impact of ESG performance as a factor for creating shareholder value for the acquirers by 1) examining the impact of target firms' ESG performance on acquirer abnormal returns and 2) examining whether high ESG performing targets can help enhance the ESG performance of the acquirer. READ MORE
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9. Leveraging Posits for the Conjugate Gradient Linear Solver on an Application-Level RISC-V Core
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Emerging floating-point arithmetics provide a way to optimize the execution of computationally-intensive algorithms. This is the case with scientific computational kernels such as the Conjugate Gradient (CG) linear solver. Exploring new arithmetics is of paramount importance to maximize the accuracy and timing performance of these algorithms. READ MORE
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10. “God Lives in Peru Today” : The israelita religious movement and the transmission of faith across digital and transnational networks
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Nordiska LatinamerikainstitutetAbstract : After emerging from the central Peruvian Andes in the 1950s, the israelita religious movement has expanded across Latin America and beyond, reaching the urban centers of the Global North. The growth of the Peruvian israelitas makes part of a regional trend that has transformed the Latin American religious field. READ MORE
