Social Sciences

2021, Norway, Social Sciences / 19.07.2021

This study explores the pattern behind Chinese women’s desire to “beautify” their facial features and what builds their standards of a “beautiful face”. By examining the evolution of manners toward commodified beauty, the overall progression of China on its way to modernization is unveiled. The essay follows a chronological order from the traditional beauty ideals in late-imperial China, which are...

2021, Estonia, Social Sciences / 19.07.2021

Word embeddings are an influential machine learning framework in natural language processing that represents each word in a large text body with a vector. Geometric relationships between the vector representations capture meaningful semantic relationships between the corresponding words. The research paper “Gender stereotypes in Estonian word embeddings” emulated experiments of earlier English literature on the subject, but in the context...

2020, Social Sciences, Switzerland / 19.07.2021

This paper proposes the comparison of two works of fiction, Homer’s Odyssey and the BBC’s Doctor Who, based on similarities in creation, structure, and content. A complex understanding of both works and their cultural significance is gained by methods of close readings and aspects of media archeology. The second oldest work of western fiction and the ongoing British science fiction...

2020, Social Sciences, Spain / 19.07.2021

This paper aims to highlight the general ignorance of transhumanism, as well as provide some key concepts to form an informed opinion about it. To this end, the fundamental aspects that concern it will be exposed and analysed and the repercussions that this philosophical approach may have in the fields closest to the human being, namely the social, ethical and...

2020, Ireland, Social Sciences / 16.07.2021

Gender stereotyping negatively impacts on emotional development, mental health and career choices. In this project we carried out a statistical investigation into prevalence of gender bias in 376 pupils aged 5-7. We devised research activities to gauge their views on various aspects of gender stereotyping, such as: linking emotions/feelings to gender; rating the competency of males/females in STEM/Non STEM occupations;...

2020, China, Social Sciences / 16.07.2021

Having participated in Adolescent Robotics Competition in which a dactylophasia robot was designed for the surdomute, which inspired us to do the study with a hope that potential risks of early childhood autism can be predicted and identified so that the autistic children will be identified, treated earlier and they will recover earlier . Beginning with the current risks the...