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Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art
on Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. The first part of the series focuses on some of the most important writings on art and beauty in the Western philosophical tradition, covering Plato, Aristotle, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. The second part of the series focuses on questions about understanding works of art and about the nature of art. This part examines the interpretation of literature, the expression of emotion in music, and the definition of art.
Architectural Anthropology – Approaches and Analysis
Organizing, coding and analyzing empirical data
Combining methods from architecture and anthropology
Visual ethnography and different types of registration
Forms of writing about and representing data in your thesis
Anthropological field method - Architecture, cities and spaces.
Qualitative research methods developed in anthropology are increasingly used among other disciplines e.g. architecture, urban planning and design. But how can anthropological methods contribute to your project, and what are the analytical implications of using such methods? The course will focus on how anthropological field methods can be applied and developed in relation to architecture, housing, city, space and built environments. The course is relevant for you, if you are either planning to do field work/ qualitative interviews / participant observation, or have already done so.The focus will be both on how to design, plan and conduct empirical data collection in the field, and how to process the data and move from field work to the analysis and methodological reflections of your thesis. The specific subjects will be adjusted to the needs and interests of the course participants, but may include discussions about:- Defining and getting access to the field- Recruiting informants- Tips and tricks for qualitative interviews- Techniques for participant observation- Field notes and visual registration techniques- Ethical dilemmas and methodological reflections- Organizing and analyzing empirical data. The discussions will be based on the course literature and lectures as well as the participants’ presentations of their own projects. Before the course all participants are therefore obliged to send a 3 page synopsis introducing their project’s objective, field site, plan and status of the field work and current methodological considerations.
Systematic Approaches to Policy Design
Introduces approaches to analytical decision-making for policy design.
Personalized Telehealth - An Interdisciplinary Approach
Personalized Telehealth, Informatics and Patient-centered technology - an Interdisciplinary Approach
a comprehensive introduction to personalized telehealth in an interdisciplinary approach by addressing challenges in future personalized healthcare systems from design of new technologies, data mining and implementation to evaluation of telehealth programs at scale.
S201805, Health Sociology – studies and inspirations from the Bourdieuian tradition
It has become increasingly necessary in our globalized world to seek better understandings of the inequalities of health outcomes, and the role our healthcare systems can play in improving outcomes or reproducing health inequities. A new approach to the study of healthcare by engaging with Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual triad of capital, habitus and field. This triad - and his unique methodology - provide a way of understanding the most significant issues facing healthcare analysts around the world today - why do health inequalities, such as race, class and gender, persist, despite the growing levels of funding from governments and the private sector? Why is it so difficult to reform and improve healthcare services? Why do patients find the healthcare system so difficult to access and navigate? In this course, we seek to address these and many other questions about health and healthcare. The course offers clear explanations of Bourdieu's concepts, and the ways in which scholars from around the world have used a Bourdieusian framework to explore the mechanisms of health inequalities. Drawing upon their own research, these scholars will demonstrate the ways in which Bourdieu's concepts have been leveraged through a variety of case studies of health and healthcare from around the world.
Central nervous system mechanisms of pain inhibition and sensitisation
Noxious stimuli evoke sensorimotor reflexes, cortical potentials, responses in the autonomic nervous system, and emotions. Robust and prolonged nociceptive input may induce peripheral and central sensitisation due to inflammation or lesions of the nervous system. Various somatosensory, psychological and pharmacological interventions are able to modulate these correlates of nociception and pain via neuronal networks in the brainstem. These supraspinal circuitries cause descending inhibition and facilitation of pain. The course deals with anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology of the nociceptive system and its modulation by brainstem modulatory circuitries.
Peripheral sensitisation
Central spinal sensitization
Experimental models
Supraspinal descending inhibitory systems
Descending facilitatory impact on nociception
Diffuse noxious inhibitory control
Advanced Technologies for Green Wireless Communication Networks
“Green” has nowadays become a well-‐known concept and an appealing trend. Efforts to reduce energy consumption are now important topics in wireless communication networks. One example is the battery-‐less Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). WSN features the potential for a broad range of applications including environmental sensing, industrial monitoring, health care etc. As a natural consequence WSNs have attracted a lot of interest in recent years. However, most existing WSN nodes are powered by batteries. The use of batteries limits the widespread deployment of WSNs, as regular replacement of batteries is too costly. Thanks to recent advances in energy efficient technologies, WSNs are at the brink of a breakthrough, as truly “green” battery-‐less operation is becoming feasible.
Green wireless communication networks mainly focus on energy efficiency improvement, aiming at the realization of low power, sustainable, or battery-‐ less operation of the networks. It involves multidisciplinary research covering advanced topics from hardware architectures (smart antennas, microwatt transceivers, energy harvesting) to signal processing (data fusion, compressed sensing) and protocol techniques. This course provides an overview of the challenges and progresses within this area. In addition, the course addresses the principles and design methods of different technologies enabling the future generation green wireless communication networks (mainly on WSN and 5G wireless systems). The topics include:
Green wireless communication networks: an overview
Microwatt transceivers and energy harvesting for battery-‐less WSNs
Multiple-‐antenna technologies for 5G wireless systems
Energy-‐efficient data fusion for wireless communication networks
Compressed sensing for power efficient communication
Protocol techniques for green and tactile 5G networks
Prerequisites: Basic circuit theory, basic physics, basic knowledge on wireless
communication systems, elementary knowledge on wireless sensor networks.
Stability and Control of Grid-Connected Voltage-Source Converters
Voltage Source Converters (VSCs) have commonly been used with renewable power sources, flexible ac and dc power transmission or distribution systems, regenerative drives, and transportation electrification. As the increasing use of VSCs in electrical grids, the dynamic characterizations of VSCs are playing a critical role in building a stable and resilient power-electronic-based power system. This course thus devotes to cover the fundamentals and state-of-the-art of modeling, stability analysis, and control topics for the VSCs in the grid-connected applications.
Vector current control
Grid synchronization and direct voltage control
Impedance-based modeling and validation
Stability of current control with LCL-filters
Stability impacts of grid synchronization and direct voltage control
Active stabilizing techniques for VSC-fed systems
The Role and Contribution of Theory of Science in the Health Science
