Sökning: "The British Isles"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 uppsatser innehållade orden The British Isles.
1. Unlock those closed doors
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvårdSammanfattning : The present work aims to investigate the current situation regarding the conservation profession and the communication to the public through outreach initiatives, especially from the point of view of the conservators. In the latest decades outreach and communication have been taking a preponderant role within the profession of conservation, causing changes in the daily tasks of conservators and new demands in terms of skills which professionals need to acquire. LÄS MER
2. Cromwell on the Moon; Or, Printing, Popularity, Persuasion : An Account of Text Reuse Patterns and Eighteenth-Century Utopian Thinking
Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMSammanfattning : This thesis approaches eighteenth-century utopian thinking from a new methodological angle, namely by utilising the Reception Reader, an open-access text reuse detection tool, to study a sub-corpus of 39 utopian works available in ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), the largest collection of digitised eighteenth-century texts printed in the British and Irish Isles. As the first study of text reuse in utopian thinking, this thesis shows that text reuse detection is a viable method for gaining new insights into eighteenth-century utopian thinking. LÄS MER
3. Co-occurring Cold Extremes in North America and Unusually Warm Weather in Europe
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Luft-, vatten- och landskapsläraSammanfattning : In this project, we identified and examined the 50 coldest extreme temperature eventsin North America (CENA) and the 50 warmest extreme temperature events insouthwestern Europe (WEEU) during the winter seasons from 1948 to 2023. For theanalysis, we utilized daily NCEP-NCAR reanalysis data for temperature, sea levelpressure (SLP), and 500hPa geopotential height (Z500). LÄS MER
4. The Magnetic Properties and Fabrics of Upper Pleistocene Loess on La Motte, Jersey, and their Palaeoclimate Implications
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperSammanfattning : The island of Jersey is an interesting location for palaeoclimate reconstruction given the likely impact of variations in North Atlantic climate and European ice sheet extent during the last glacial period considering their proximal location. These last glacial climatic variations are recorded in the loess sequence from La Motte, Jersey and in order to reconstruct these changes, a detailed magnetic analysis was performed. LÄS MER
5. Mapped: How Activists Shaped the Face of the British Isles
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikationSammanfattning : This essay explores the methodology used to produce the investigative report Mapped: How Activists Shaped the Face of the British Isles, evaluating whether or not the project was effective in fulfilling its purpose, and articulating some of the new questions it raised. This project’s purpose was to produce a piece of investigative journalism to industry standard, designed for publication in an established media outlet as identified by the student. LÄS MER