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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 178 avhandlingar innehållade ordet valley.

1. 16. "Gold is illusion" : the Garimpeiros of Tapajos Valley in the Brazilian Amazonia

   Författare :Enrique Rodriguez Larreta; Michael Jackson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Guldgrävning; sociala aspekter; Brasilien; Tapajós; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Sammanfattning : This study analyses the formation of power relations and hierarchy among the gold diggers of the region of the Tapajos in the lower Amazonas. Following the route of immigrants who escape from social death in the Brazilian Northeast driven on by the dream of gold, this book analyses the daily life of a community of gold diggers. LÄS MER

3. 17. Både finsk och svensk : modernisering, nationalism och språkförändring i Tornedalen 1850-1939

   Författare :Lars Elenius; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modernisation; nationalism; ethnicity; assimilation policy; national identity; marriage pattern; language shift; Torne Valley; elementary school;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with the impact by modernisation and nationalism on the ethnicity and national identity among the Finnish speaking minority in the Torne Valley in the north of Sweden. The starting point is 1809 when Sweden lost the Finnish part of the kingdom to Russia. LÄS MER

4. 18. Archaeological and Historical Reconstructions of the Foraging and Farming Communities of the Lower Zambezi : From the mid Holocene to the second Millennium AD

   Författare :Hilário Madiquida; Paul Sinclair; Karl-Johan Lindholm; Dr Munyaradzi Manyanga; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mozambique; Zambezi Valley; Late Stone Age; Early Farming Communities; Long-distance trade; Afro-Portuguese; Written sources; Archaeology; Historical Ecology; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis I combine new archaeological surveys and excavations together with the historical and ethnographic sources, to construct a long term settlement history and historical ecology of the lower Zambezi River valley and delta region, in Mozambique. The evidence presented indicates that people have settled in the area since the Late Stone Age, in total eight new archaeological sites have been located in archaeological surveys. LÄS MER

5. 19. Conquête, survie et disparition. Italien, français et francoprovençal en Vallée d’Aoste

   Författare :Jérôme-Frédéric Josserand; Michel Contini; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Romance languages - general; Aosta Valley; language in contact; language death; language in family; language in community; context; identity; culture; environment; Romanska språk - allmänt; Romance languages; Romanska språk; romanska språk; Romance Languages;

   Sammanfattning : The present study deals with the linguistic situation in the Aosta Valley, which is situated in Northern Italy. Several languages, dialects as well as "patois" are used in this area and this thesis concerns three of them, namely Francoprovençal, French and Italian. Francoprovençal used to be the language of the people but is now decreasing. LÄS MER

7. 20. The Novelty in the Uncanny : Designing Interactions to Change First Impressions

   Författare :Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann; Ginevra Castellano; Christopher Peters; Ingela Nyström; Gabriel Skantze; Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Human-Robot Interaction; Uncanny Valley; Social Robotics; Human Perception of Robots; Multimodal Behavior; Computer Science with specialization in Human-Computer Interaction; Datavetenskap med inriktning mot människa-datorinteraktion;

   Sammanfattning : In 1970, Japanese researcher Masahiro Mori published a seminal paper where he hypothesized that robots that appear human-like but are still distinguishable from being human would not attract people towards them, but instead cause an uncanny sensation. This phenomenon, known as the uncanny valley effect, has been widely studied within the social robotics community, and a multitude of experiments have since been conducted supporting Mori's hypothesis. LÄS MER