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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 24 avhandlingar innehållade orden Czech Republic.
1. Remote Sensing of Forest Decline in the Czech Republic
Sammanfattning : This thesis describes the localisation and quantification of deforestation and forest damage in Norway spruce forests in northern Czech Republic using Landsat data. Severe defoliation increases the spectral reflectance in all wavelength bands, especially in the mid infrared region. LÄS MER
2. Reel Socialism : Making sense of history in Czech and German cinema since 1989
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a comparative study of the communist past as depicted in Czech and German feature films since 1989, or ‘reel socialism’. It is the first detailed study of post-1989 Czech history films and the first comparative study of German post-reunification cinema. LÄS MER
3. An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain : Material and Metaphor
Sammanfattning : The Iron Curtain was seen as the divider between East and West in Cold War Europe. The term is closely connected to the Cold War and expressions such as ‘behind the Iron Curtain’ or ‘after the fall of the Iron Curtain’ are common within historical discussions in the second half of the twentieth century. LÄS MER
4. Incumbent Renomination : Accountability and Gender Bias
Sammanfattning : Party recruiters in proportional-representation (PR) systems are forced to do what their majoritarian counterparts are not: they need to rank-order all their candidates on the party ballots based on whom they most wish to get elected. Consequently, new candidates and incumbents alike compete for a limited number of electable ballot slots. LÄS MER
5. Coal, commerce and communism : Empirical studies on energy history in the Czech Republic
Sammanfattning : This thesis employs an international comparative perspective to empirically analyse the Czech energy transition between 1830 and 2010. It addresses the utilization of energy in shaping modern economic growth through structural and technological change and the implications of those changes on specialization and foreign trade. LÄS MER