Search for dissertations about: "illustrated book"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 723 swedish dissertations containing the words illustrated book.
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1. Taking possession of astronomy : Frontispieces and illustrated title pages in 17th-century books on astronomy
Abstract : The thesis is a survey of 291 frontispieces and illustrated title pages in European books on astronomy from the 17th century. It is a quantitative and qualitative survey of how motifs are related to consumption, identification and display. READ MORE
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2. Gravity Illustrated. Spacetime Edition
Abstract : This thesis deals with essentially four different topics within general relativity: pedagogical techniques for illustrating curved spacetime, inertial forces, gyroscope precession and optical geometry. Concerning the pedagogical techniques, I investigate two distinctly different methods, the dual and the absolute method. READ MORE
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3. Human exposure to persistent organic pollutants : Illustrated by four case studies in Europe
Abstract : An extensive use of chemicals in countless consumer products has resulted in human exposure to several persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Sufficient knowledge about their chemical composition properties and environmental faith is required, to be able to proper risk assess and regulate the substances. READ MORE
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4. The Pahlavi translation technique as illustrated by Hōm Yašt
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5. Modeling financial volatility : A functional approach with applications to Swedish limit order book data
Abstract : This thesis is designed to offer an approach to modeling volatility in the Swedish limit order market. Realized quadratic variation is used as an estimator of the integrated variance, which is a measure of the variability of a stochastic process in continuous time. READ MORE