Search for dissertations about: "engagement"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 721 swedish dissertations containing the word engagement.
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11. Concrete Fashion: Dress, Art, and Engagement in Public Space
Abstract : This dissertation is an example of artistic research that explores the border between fashion design and contemporary art, in order to place situated bodily practices within the larger field of exploration and ideology, and to discover new formats. The activities engaged in explore the dressed body as a contemporary art medium, and the performances are carried out in public space and within everyday life. READ MORE
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12. Making sense of sensing: Learning through Maker-based Civic Engagement
Abstract : In the last decade or two, initiatives engaging the public in scientific activities have become increasingly popular. For example, in air pollution monitoring with Do-it-Yourself (DIY) low-cost sensors. READ MORE
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13. Political comedy engagement : Genre work, political identity and cultural citizenship
Abstract : Political comedy is a hybrid genre that mixes political news and analysis with comedy and entertainment. As it becomes more and more popular in most media forms and national contexts, researchers struggle to understand its role in relation to other types of political media, and of citizenship; in this sense, it challenges scholarly conceptualisation of political media and citizenship. READ MORE
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14. Engagement in Medical Research Discourse: A Multisemiotic Discourse-Semantic Study of Dialogic Positioning
Abstract : This study investigates how medical researchers engage with a background of prior and anticipated utterances in a collection of highly cited English-language medical research articles. Taking a multisemiotic, systemic-functional approach, I examine the verbal, visual, and mathematical resources used by medical research writers to construe, engage with, and position themselves in relation to a dialogic background of different voices, positions, and propositions. READ MORE
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15. Wet clutch engagement characteristics
Abstract : A wet clutch test rig has been built to examine the engagement characteristics of wet clutch plates. The apparatus is specially designed to include a drive torque. Input and output characteristics of the apparatus are similar to those in automotive automatic transmissions. READ MORE