Education as a Human Right: Paulo Freire Case in the Point The purpose of this paper is to understand why education is a human right. I will look at works by the late Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator. Paulo Freire worked for many years on developing a pedagogy to promote humanity. His goal was to [...]
Sustainable Community Development in the Baltic Sea Region
This study examines Sustainable Community Development (SCD) in the context of the Baltic Sea Region. The research focuses on understanding a model for SCD piloted in Robertsfors, Sweden. The model is said to be transferable to any community around the world. This study seeks to understand the concepts and tools used in the Robertsfors Model. [...]
Effect of Khartoum City for Water Quality: chemical analyses
This thesis assesses the water quality of the River Nile around the city Khartoum in Khartoum State, Sudan Republic, and investigates eventual influences of the city on the River Nile by analysis of the following parameters: temperature, pH, and conductivity, and Adsorbable Organic Halogen (AOX), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), Total Organic Carbon(TOC) and [...]
Water colour trends in Lake Mälaren
The aim of this thesis was to determine whether there has been a trend of increasing or decreasing water colour, absorbance, in Lake Mälaren during the last 35 years and whether it could be correlated with water discharge. The discharge was accounted for using regression analysis. The data material was analyzed for trends using a [...]
How to create cultural clusters in historical regions
How to create cultural clusters in historical regions Is there a way of attempting to stabilize economy by making a cultural cluster in a historical city? This is the central question in my thesis. The cluster theory has influenced many sectors around the world. Firenze has been chosen as study case because the city is [...]
Integrating Economics with a Strategic Sustainable Planning Method; To enhance decision making processes.
The complexity of environmental, social, economical, and technological objectives creates a challenge for decision makers when prioritizing the right measures that will move a project or organization toward sustainability at least cost. Currently there are methods or tools available to assist in this decision making and through a strategic approach potentially enhance the process. The [...]
Informal and Formal Care for the Elderly
This dissertation consists of two essays. In the first one I exploit geographic variation in the Medicare Home Health Care reimbursement rate that arose as a result of legislation passed in 1997 to identify the impact of government coverage of home health care visits on the living arrangements… Contents Chapter 1: Institutional Background 1.1 Introduction [...]
An Introduction to Needs Based Design
This is a supplement to the thesis entitled “Co-creating community with a Needs Based approach to design and planning”, by the same authors. It is meant as an introduction to Needs Based Design, for practical application my developers, designers, planners, architects, municipal governments and all others planning the development of a community. Author: Natalie Haltrich, [...]
Blind source separation
Title: Blind source separation in real time using Second Order statistics A multi stage approach to speech enhancement methods improves the quality of separation over standard techniques such as spectral subtraction and beamforming. Two algorithms are implemented for convolutive mixtures in two of the important stages of a speech enhancement system, the source separation stage [...]
The United Nations Security Council Reform: A Critical Approach
The world has been witnessing a significant transformation in the last three decades. The power of change, on the horizontal dimension, influences a very broad sphere. The range of change affects almost every aspect of human life varying from politics to economics, culture, identity, religion, state, society, etc. On the vertical dimension, its effects are [...]