Essays about: "toy"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 108 essays containing the word toy.

  1. 11. No more pink barbies? : Investigating customer acceptance towards gender neutral marketing initiatives

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring och turismvetenskap (MTS)

    Author : Alina Steindl; [2023]
    Keywords : Gender stereotypes; gender stereotypes in marketing; ethics in marketing; gender pay gap; gender inequality; gender neutral marketing; children’s toys;

    Abstract : Background: Marketing communication often uses gender-stereotyped messages to reach their target groups more effectively. Activities like this can have harmful consequences, especially when aimed towards children. Those effects have been found to also contribute to gender inequalities, among other aspects. READ MORE

  3. 12. Why rent if you can buy? : Exploring Drivers of Collaborative Consumption and Communication Strategies for Consumer Behavior Change

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Andrea Wielath; [2023]
    Keywords : Keywords: Collaborative Consumption; Sustainable Consumption; Motivators; Environmental Communication; Thematic Analysis; In Depth Interviews;

    Abstract : Collaborative Consumption is an economic model wherein consumers gain access to goods without acquiring ownership, for example through sharing, trading, swapping, or renting (Belk, 2014). This approach is often viewed as a means to enhance resource efficiency and transform the economy in a sustainable way (Botsman, 2013). READ MORE

  4. 13. Body-Safe Apocalypse : Sexual Materiality and Frameworks for Design During and Beyond Collapse

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

    Author : Joshua (Ev) Carr; [2023]
    Keywords : collapse; sexual practices; materiality; design theory; philosophy of design; meta;

    Abstract : Following the Covid-19 pandemic, a relatively mild global disruption, our global society experienced large-scale shortages of high-tech materials, the increasing cost or absence of many commodities usually taken for granted, and the floundering of industries that facilitate our global industrial civilisation such as shipping and aviation. By comparison, catastrophic climate change stands to be far more devastating. READ MORE

  5. 14. Messing With The Gap: On The Modality Gap Phenomenon In Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Industriell teknik

    Author : Mohammad Al-Jaff; [2023]
    Keywords : Multimodal machine learning; Representation learning; Self-supervised learning; contrastive learning; computer vision; computational biology; bioinformatics;

    Abstract : In machine learning, a sub-field of computer science, a two-tower architecture model is a specialised type of neural network model that encodes paired data from different modalities (like text and images, sound and video, or proteomics and gene expression profiles) into a shared latent representation space. However, when training these models using a specific contrastive loss function, known as the multimodalinfoNCE loss, seems to often lead to a unique geometric phenomenon known as the modality gap. READ MORE

  6. 15. Investigation of portfolio strategies by means of simulation

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för matematiska vetenskaper

    Author : Alexander Schälin; [2022-07-01]
    Keywords : Constant proportion portfolio insurance; Option based portfolio insurance; Irrational fraction brownian motion; Constant elasticity of variance; Ho-Lee; Black- Derman-Toy;

    Abstract : Portfolio insurance strategies are constructed to limit an investors loss but still reward them when the market goes up. In this thesis we compare two portfolio insurance strategies, Constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) and Option based portfolio insurance. READ MORE