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1. 1. Are Beautiful traffic environments safer than Ugly traffic environments?

   Författare :Helena Drottenborg; Trafik och väg; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; driving behaviour; traffic safety; eye blink; heart rate; mood; basic emotional process; environmental psychology; gestalt theory; ugly; aesthetics; beautiful; speed.; Road transport technology; Vägtransportteknik;

   Sammanfattning : To link aesthetics to traffic safety, the field of environmental psychology was consid-ered. A new model of driving behaviour was developed, based on Lewin’s (1951) equation, B = f (P,E) and by employing Küllers’ (1991) model of the basic emotional process. LÄS MER

3. 2. Smart, Fast and Beautiful : On Rhetoric of Technology and Computing Discourse in Sweden 1955-1995

   Författare :Magnus Johansson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :rhetoric of technology; computing history; technological discourse; technological frame; actor network; STS; social construction; computerisation; information technology; computer science; government policy; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : Ever since the computer was introduced some 50 years ago, its role in society has been increasing. From being a tool for scientists and technicians, the computer has become a concern for everyone. Different actors engaged in introducing — or denouncing — this technology, have used many strong words for winning others to the cause. LÄS MER

4. 3. A Beautiful Failure : The Event of Death and Rhetorical Disorder in the Gospel according to Mark

   Författare :Joel Kuhlin; Bibelvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Death of Jesus; he Gospel according to Mark; Mk 15:6–39; Papias of Hierapolis; Progymnasmata; rhetoric; failure hamartêma ; narrative διήγησις; diêgêsis ; taxis τάξις ; lexis λέξις ; ; disorder; social death; The Logic of Sense; Gilles Deleuze; event; ataxia; diêgêma διήγημα ; chreia χρεία ; parataxis; paradox; parable; Franz Kafka; Der Prozeß; Josef K.; suspension-execution σταυροῦν: staurôn ; suspension-pole σταυρός: stauros ; Aelius Theon; dianoia διάνοια ; Francis Bacon;

   Sammanfattning : Is there beauty in rhetorical failure? This study is an exploration of disorder and death in the Gospel according to Mark (Mk). With a surviving fragment from the second-century theologian Papias of Hierapolis, the early reception of Mk locates insights into the composition of Jesus’s death, especially through the concepts of ataxia and rhetorical failure. LÄS MER

5. 4. Myth Aestheticization

   Författare :Ileyha Dagalp; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aestheticization; myth-making; enchantment; aesthetic work; past- themed consumption; cultural branding; aesthetics;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis theorizes the process of myth aestheticization for marketing and consumption. A concept of myth aestheticization springs from a simple yet complex idea: What if something is not “aesthetic” in and by itself, but it is made “aesthetic”? This thesis would like to refine the argument that aestheticization entails a process that typically translates myths into beautiful, sublime ideals and (re-)produces as something beautiful and/or sublime by brands and consumers, is a way through which consumer culture operates. LÄS MER

7. 5. Combinatorial Considerations on Two Models from Statistical Mechanics

   Författare :Johan Thapper; Svante Linusson; Peter Jonsson; Jakob Jonsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; fully packed loop model; rhombus tilings; hard particle model; independence complex; discrete morse theory; Discrete mathematics; Diskret matematik;

   Sammanfattning : Interactions between combinatorics and statistical mechanics have provided many fruitful insights in both fields. A compelling example is Kuperberg’s solution to the alternating sign matrix conjecture, and its following generalisations. LÄS MER