Sökning: "Structural break"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 87 uppsatser innehållade orden Structural break.

  1. 11. Sexy 16-Year-Old Baby-Eater: Gendered, Sexualized, and Racialized Discourses in Exalted, Second Edition

    Master-uppsats, Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Författare :Niels-Martin Ström Josefsen; [2021-11-26]
    Nyckelord :Roleplaying games; Exalted; feminist post-structural discourse analysis; representation; geek culture; race; gender; sexuality; Dungeons Dragons; discourses; White Wolf; misogyny; fantasy; genre subversion; social constructivism; media tropes; monstrous women; monstrous motherhood; infantilization; trans representation; sexualization; animalization;

    Sammanfattning : Previous research finds roleplaying games, as well as the wider spectrum of geek culture that they exist within, to be defined by discourses favoring a white, heterosexual, cis-male viewpoint, drawing up and reproducing stereotypes and tropes that are inherently misogynist, homophobic, and racist. Heretofore, research into discourses of gender, sexuality, and race in roleplaying games has focused overwhelmingly on market leader Dungeons & Dragons (1971- ongoing), largely neglecting to scrutinize other well-established titles that may adhere to or break from the same tendencies. LÄS MER

  3. 12. A Gendered Approach to Understanding Salinity Intrusion Impacts: A Case Study on a Coastal Region of Bangladesh

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Författare :Dilafroze Khanam; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Climate change; Salinity intrusion; Gender roles; Social insecurities; Gender equality; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This study sheds light on the salinity-induced social insecurities of coastal women and adolescent girls of Bangladesh and shows how salinity contributes to creating and intensifying those insecurities. Moreover, the study explores the gendered division of labor and shows how coastal females’ gender roles are accelerating to their deprivation and disadvantaged situation. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Raka eller (inte raka)? : En semiotisk bildanalys av rakhyvelsföretaget Estrids marknadsföring utifrån postfeministiska diskussioner.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Melinda Grothén; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Postfeminism; femwashing; commodified feminism; stereotypes; femvertising; woke-washing; body hair;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to examine, based on a qualitative semiotic image analysis, how feminist aspects are used by companies for commercial purposes. The starting point for the study is a critical feminist perspective with a theoretical background in the complex discussions about postfeminism, commodified feminism, femwashing and femvertising. LÄS MER

  5. 14. A Non-linear Analysis of Cointegration in South-East Asian Equity Markets

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Författare :Massimiliano Severi; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Cointegration; South-East Asian stock markets; Time series comovements; Markov-switching models; Regime-shifting models;

    Sammanfattning : This paper investigates the presence of cointegration among the main stock markets in South-East Asia, namely those of Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Part 1 of the thesis studies the relationship using Markov-switching models, while Part 2 uses regime-shifting models with one structural break. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Using Artificial Neural Networks to optimize scattering probabilities

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Teoretisk partikelfysik - Geonomgår omorganisation

    Författare :Erik Rustas; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Machine Learning; Artificial Neural Network; Monte Carlo Method; Unweighting; Physics and Astronomy;

    Sammanfattning : Monte Carlo event generators are used by theoretical particle physicists to get a better understanding of the phenomena in particle physics. Given the improvements in precision and accuracy of event generators, using these tools can be very CPU intensive. LÄS MER