Sökning: "focusing and defining"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade orden focusing and defining.
1. Defining moments : a cultural biography of Jane Eyre
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the ways in which various practices, such as novel-writing, publishing, book-reviewing, reading for pleasure, adaptation and studying English literature, have produced Jane Eyre’s complex cultural profile. The organizing principle of the study is Paul du Gay, Stuart Hall et al’s ‘circuit of culture’, which identifies five key processes or ‘moments’ as being productive of the meanings that a cultural artefact or text comes to possess. LÄS MER
2. Sacrifice and Symbol : Biblical Shelamim in a Ritual Perspective
Sammanfattning : For the sacrifice shelamim in the Hebrew Bible, scholars have suggested a number of different interpretations and uses. This sacrifice also had an ambiguous role in Israelite culture. LÄS MER
3. Fieldwork and Fiction : Ethnography and Literature in the French Caribbean
Sammanfattning : The birth of French Caribbean literature is in many ways tied to a nontheorized and circumstantial use of ethnography. Ethnography is mainly referred to as a discourse of knowledge having to do with defining and questioning the notion of culture which, in this case, was important to Martinican authors trying to articulate identity. LÄS MER
4. Word Representations for Emergent Communication and Natural Language Processing
Sammanfattning : The task of listing all semantic properties of a single word might seem manageable at first but as you unravel all the context dependent subtle variations in meaning that a word can encompass, you soon realize that precise mathematical definition of a word’s semantics is extremely difficult. In analogy, humans have no problem identifying their favorite pet in an image but the task of precisely defining how, is still beyond our capabilities. LÄS MER
5. The Role of Suppliers and Resellers : Cases of Timber Product Distribution Channels
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to explain the impacts of distribution channel developments on the roles of timber product distribution channel actors. The role of channel actors in this dissertation is defined as the structured behaviour pattern that combines activities and resources in distribution channels. LÄS MER