Essays about: "topographical literature"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words topographical literature.
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1. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE
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2. Streamlining 3D City Modeling for Urban Flow Simulations by Automatic Integration of Multisource Topography
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för fysikAbstract : In the workflow of computational fluid dynamics, geometry preparation is commonly the most time-consuming step. For a fast CFD simulation, automatic surface reconstruction to obtain 3D city models for a chosen area is essential. To address this need, a literature study was conducted to map available data suitable for 3D city models. READ MORE
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3. From Text to Space and Vice Versa : The Travel Accounts of Sir William Gell and Edward Dodwell in Phocis and Boeotia
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMAbstract : This thesis examines and compares two travel accounts in the regions of Phocis and Boeotia in Greece, as they appear in the book of Sir William Gell “The Itinerary of Greece: With a Commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an Account of the Monuments of Antiquity at Present Existing in that Country (1819) and on the two volumed book of Edward Dodwell A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece: During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806, Volume 1 & 11 (1819). More specifically, the thesis explores the extent of the area that these travelers managed to cover during their routes, the places with historical and archaeological interest that they mentioned at least, their moves among the various chronotopes, and the use of their predecessors’ texts for on their routes. READ MORE
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4. Cu2O/TiO2 Nanorod Heterojunctions: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications as Solar Cells on the Nanoscale
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för teknikvetenskap och matematikAbstract : Novel solar cells are being synthesized from sustainable, non-toxic, and economic materials. All metal oxide semiconductors are one such class of these materials. READ MORE
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5. Moral emotions and their neural correlates
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : This thesis aims to investigate and present what the most recent research can disclose about moral emotions and their neural correlates. This literature review provides an overview of some frameworks and theories regarding moral emotions and their neural correlates, with a specific focus on positive and negative moral emotions such as compassion, pride, gratitude, guilt, shame, and embarrassment. READ MORE
