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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 56 avhandlingar innehållade orden bottom-up theory.
21. Det motsägelsefulla partnerskapet : En studie av utvecklingspartnerskap som organisationsform inom EQUAL-programmet
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to describe and analyse development partnership as an organisational form for governing and organising developmental work. The partnerships studied in this thesis are within the EU initiative EQUAL, aimed at combating discrimination and exclusion in working life and the labour market. LÄS MER
22. Frihetens rike : Wikipedianer om sin praktik, sitt produktionssätt och kapitalismen
Sammanfattning : This study is about voluntary productive activities in digital networks and on digital platforms that often are described as pleasurable. The aim of the study is to relate the peer producers’ perceptions of their activities on a micro level in terms of play, game, work and labour, to their views on Wikipedia’s relation to capitalism on a macro level, to compare the identified ideological formations on both levels and how they relate to each other, and finally compare the identified ideological formations with contemporary Marxist theory on cognitive capitalism. LÄS MER
23. Understanding China’s Rise : Competing Online Identity Discourses behind Short-term Changes in Foreign Policy
Sammanfattning : China has undergone a remarkable rise in the past four decades, its economy and material power growing substantially. These developments have led to several interlinked debates about how we should understand this rise. LÄS MER
24. Staging urban emergence through collective creativity: Devising an outdoor mobile augmented reality tool
Sammanfattning : The unpredictability of global geopolitical conflicts, economic trends, and impacts of climate change, coupled with an increasing urban population, necessitates a more profound commitment to resilience thinking in urban planning and design. In contrast to top-down planning and designing for sustainability, allowing for emergence to take place seems to contribute to a capacity to better deal with this complex unpredictability, by allowing incremental changes through bottom-up, self-organized adaptation made by diverse actors in the proximity of various social, economical and functional entities in the urban context. LÄS MER
25. Towards Intelligent Deformable Models for Medical Image Analysis
Sammanfattning : Medical imaging continues to permeate the practice of medicine, but automated yet accurate segmentation and labeling of anatomical structures continues to be a major obstacle to computerized medical image analysis (MIA). Deformable models, with its profound roots in estimation theory, optimization, and physics-based dynamical systems, represent a powerful approach to the general problem of medical image segmentation. LÄS MER