Sökning: "congenial"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade ordet congenial.
1. Artefactual Intelligence: The Development and Use of Cognitively Congenial Artefacts
Sammanfattning : How can tools help structure tasks to make them cognitively easier to perform? How do artefacts, and our strategies for using them, develop over time in cognitively beneficial ways? These are two of the main questions that are explored in the five papers collected in this thesis. The first paper details an ethnographic study conducted on people cooking in their homes. LÄS MER
2. Studies in knowledge representation : modeling change - the frame problem : pictures and words
Sammanfattning : In two studies, the author attempts to develop a general symbol theoretical approach to knowledge representation.The first study, Modeling change -the frame problem, critically examines the - so far unsuccessful - attempts to solve the notorious frame problem. LÄS MER
3. Ärkebiskop Erling Eidem i kyrkostrid och världskrig : En studie i förhållningssättet till Tyskland under andra världskriget med beaktande av de svensk-engelska kyrkorelationerna 1933–1945 belyst genom tre utrikesdepartement
Sammanfattning : This Study is concentrated on the Swedish Archbishop Erling Eidem during the German Church Struggle and the Second World War. Sweden was a neutral Country and Eidem did not want to do something that wasn’t congenial with the Swedish State. He has been criticized for being a by-stander when he was expected to be an activist. LÄS MER
4. Döden, kroppen och moderniteten
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with attitudes towards death and the dead body in Sweden during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. This was a period of intense social and cultural change, during which Sweden was transformed from an agricultural society to a modem industrial state. LÄS MER
5. Något betydelsefullt : Leonid Dobyčins möten bortom orden i den sovjetiska samtiden
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the 1931 short story collection Portret [The Portrait] by the Russian author Leonid Ivanovich Dobychin (1894–1936?). My main argument is that the principal theme in Dobychin’s writings arises out of the complexities of human encounters. LÄS MER