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1. A Utopian Quest for Universal Knowledge : Diachronic Histories of Botanical Collections between the Sixteenth Century and the Present
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the history of botany as a global collection-based science by tracing parallels between utopian traditions and botanical collecting, from their sixteenth-century beginnings to the present. A range of botanical collections, such as gardens, herbaria and classification systems, have played a central role in the struggle to discover a global or universal scientific order for the chaotic, diverse and locally shaped kingdom of plants. LÄS MER
2. The Hong Kyôngnae rebellion 1811-1812 : conflict between central power and local society in 19th-century Korea
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3. Experimental and theoretical studies of some transition metal halides
Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises both experimental and theoretical studies on transition metal (TM) containing molecules and then mainly on CrF and CrCl. Both the experimental and theoretical parts have been aimed at a depend understanding of the electronic structure. LÄS MER
4. Pulsed laser experiments in chemical physics
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5. Shared Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models
Sammanfattning : A fundamental task in machine learning is modeling the relationship between different observation spaces. Dimensionality reduction is the task of reducing thenumber of dimensions in a parameterization of a data-set. In this thesis we areinterested in the cross-road between these two tasks: shared dimensionality reduction. LÄS MER
