Sökning: "Ronald Last"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden Ronald Last.

  1. 1. Regional industrialisering och auktoritära-liberala värderingar : En undersökning av sambandet mellan industrialiseringsgrad, ojämlikhet och den konservativa backlashen

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Författare :Sandin Anton; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Deindustrialization; industrialization; Ronald Inglehart; conservative backlash; authoritarian-liberal values; regions; inequality; Avindustrialisering; Industrialisering; Ronald Inglehart; konservativ backlash; auktoritära-liberala värderingar; regioner; ojämlikhet;

    Sammanfattning : According to Ronald Ingleharts research deindustrialized and affluent societies are expected to have increasingly open, progressive, and tolerant citizens. However, during the last decade political developments have been reversed. More than 25% of Europeans now adays vote for a right-wing populist party. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Från Reagan till Clinton : Bilden av USA:s politik i svenskkvällspress 1984-1996

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Författare :Erik Gref; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Narrative; USA; Swedish press; Reagan; Clinton;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to study notions of the USA in Aftonbladet and Expressen, the two major Swedish evening papers, during the American presidential elections of 1984 and 1996. This thesis examines how the predominance of Ronald Reagan's neoliberalism in the 1980s, the US victory in the ColdWar and the success of Bill Clinton's New Democrats in the 1990s affected the notions of the USA expressed in the a forementioned Swedish newspapers. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Social robots powered by IBM Watson as a support for children with health problems

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för visuell information och interaktion

    Författare :Isak Kabir; Kalle Kindvall; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Watson; Artificiell Intelligence; Pepper robot; IBM; Engagement; Social robots; Perception of robots; Watson; Artificiell Intelligens; Robotar; Pepper robot; Softbank Robotics; IBM; Engagement; Sociala robotar;

    Sammanfattning : Over the last few years, there has been a growing interest for social robots withhuman-like behavior and their application in healthcare and education. However,there are still plenty of issues that needs to be resolved. One of these challenges isto enable the social robots to fill its role effectively, by creating engagement. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Climate Crimes : Climate change and deforestation: a case-study of state-corporate crime in Peru

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Latinamerikainstitutet

    Författare :Margherita Capriola; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Peru; Amazon; climate change; environmental crime; state-corporate crime; palm oil industry; indigenous peoples;

    Sammanfattning : During the last decades, climate change studies have been focusing more intensely on its anthopocenic essence, as the consequence of production and consumption patterns that require the intensive exploitation of the environment. In line with this school of thought, and new generations of studies on environmental crime, this work aims to present the environmentally and climate-related issues arising from land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon; focusing on those casual mechanisms developed from the collusion between Peruvian-economic policies and new private actors such as transnational corporations (TNCs). LÄS MER

  5. 5. Localisation of TRP Channels in Mammalian Skin

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Examensarbeten i molekylärbiologi

    Författare :Rebekah Beck; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Biology and Life Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Perception of temperature in mammals is critical for their survival, it enables them to perceive the world around them and act with an appropriate physiological or behavioural response. However, the full understanding of the thermosensory system in mammals has thus far been clouded. LÄS MER