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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"representation studies"”.
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Health systems in the news: The influence of media representations on health system functioning in the Western Cape health system
… campaigns is well-established. Media representation research involves the analysis of discourses in media and has been used to study a range of public health issues. However, there is a major gap in representation studies of health systems, in high-, middle- and low income countries. …
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Occupying Politics: Black women reimaging power and representation in Rio de Janeiro's Legislative Assembly
… theory, this research reconceptualises political representation beyond Pitkin's classical understanding of “making the absent politically present”, arguing instead that politics, democracy, its processes, spaces and agents themselves can be objects of representation.<br /><br /> Drawing from an …
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Representation Learning for Grounding Vision and Language in Hierarchical Robot Planning
The objective of the thesis is to enhance representation learning for grounding vision and language in hierarchical robot planning, aiming to improve the full autonomy and robustness of robot systems for indoor household activities. Autonomous robots interact with local operational environments by …
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The Child in Games: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous
Drawing across game studies, childhood studies, and children’s literature studies, this thesis catalogues and critiques the representation of children in contemporary video games. It poses two questions: 1) How are children represented in contemporary video games? 2) In what ways do the …