Search for dissertations about: "salience"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 71 swedish dissertations containing the word salience.
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1. Evolution of Mimicry and Aposematism Explained: Salient Traits and Predator Psychology
Abstract : Aposematic species have evolved conspicuous warning signals, such as bright colors and striking patterns, to deter predators. Some edible and harmless species take advantage of this deterrent effect by mimicking their appearance. Mimicry is a great example of how natural selection produces remarkable adaptations. READ MORE
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2. Perspectives on fixedness: applied and theoretical
Abstract : This thesis is about fixedness, or the process whereby orthographic words group together and congeal into fixed expressions that might subsequently reduce and become single words. The discussion focuses on three levels: realization, conceptualization, and discourse. READ MORE
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3. Talk the walk : Empirical studies and data-driven methods for geographical natural language applications
Abstract : Finding the way in known and unknown city environments is a task that all pedestrians carry out regularly. Current technology allows the use of smart devices as aids that can give automatic verbal route directions on the basis of the pedestrian's current position. READ MORE
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4. Logic Salience : Navigating in institutional landscape of funding volatility and ideological disputes in nonprofit hybrid organizing
Abstract : The concept of institutional logics is key to those who investigate organizational change, especially those who seek to understand the tension and impact of combining the logics of market and mission. Such a combination of logics, being an espoused financial sustainability solution for the funding-scarce nonprofit sector, is an increasingly prominent phenomenon. READ MORE
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5. Phonological Adoption through Bilingual Borrowing : Comparing Elite Bilinguals and Heritage Bilinguals
Abstract : In the phonological integration of loanwords, the original structures of the donor language can either be adopted as innovations or adapted to the recipient language. This dissertation investigates how structural (i.e. phonetic, phonological, morpho-phonological) and non-structural (i. READ MORE