Search for dissertations about: "walk"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 211 swedish dissertations containing the word walk.
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1. 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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2. Walk this way : Verbs of motion in three Finno-Ugric languages
Abstract : The verbs of motion in North Khanty, North Saarni and Hungarian, three genetically related, but geographically, culturally and historically separated languages, are analysed from a synchronic and diachronic point of view. The study is based on material deriving from informants and written sources in each language. READ MORE
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3. A Walk on Istiklal Street : Dissident Sexual Geographies, Politics and Citizenship in Istanbul
Abstract : Building upon ethnographic material and literature dating from the early 1970s until the 2010s, this thesis is about the production and transformation of dissident sexual geographies through the interplay of sexual politics and citizenship in Beyoğlu and Aksaray, two districts of Istanbul, Turkey. In particular, the interdisciplinary inquiry is composed in the form of a walk on Istiklal Street in Beyoğlu district, historically a central location for cruising activities, finding sexual communities and organising political events among LGBT circles. READ MORE
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4. A Random Walk in Statistical Physics
Abstract : This thesis deals with some aspects of the physics of disordered systems. It consists of four papers and an introductory part. An introduction, suitable for physicists, to theoretical computer science and computational complexity is contained in chapter 2. READ MORE
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5. Take a Walk on the Wild Side : The Behaviour, Attitude and Identity of Women Approached by Satyrs on Attic Red-Figure Vases from 530 to 400 BC
Abstract : This study examines the behaviour, attitude and identity of women approached by satyrs on Attic red-figure vases from 530 to 400 BC and in particular how modern conceptions have influenced earlier interpretations of these women. In order to illustrate the diversity of the interactions between women and satyrs, five motifs have been chosen for study – Movement, Rest, Reclining, Body care and Sex. READ MORE