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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"A Mask"”.
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A Mask Made of Metonyms: Racialized Masquerade
My contribution to the charged discourse of cultural appropriation seeks to contextualize its utilization in popular performances so casual in their production and consumption that they are often overlooked. In fact, their deceptively benign playfulness is what makes them remarkably effective in …
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Images: A Mask for Scuola Vecchia della Misericordia,Venice
This thesis engages in the idea of a mask in Architecture. It is a mask for Scuola Vechchia della Misericordia, in a small campo in Venice. The thesis further explores the following ideas through a set of drawings and images : 'Revealing' made possible through the degree of concealment. 'Parting of …
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Giving and Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Adiaphora in A Mask and Paradise Regained
… to redress that oversight with reference to A Mask and Paradise Regained, while also answering a question that Medine raises but does not satisfactorily resolve: Why gratitude? Both texts have been read as responses to the early modern debate about the doctrine of things indifferent, or …
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“More than a mask”: A multidimensional model of autistic women’s experience of camouflaging
Autistic individuals may engage in various strategies to better align with non-autistic social stereotypes; most commonly termed camouflaging. Previous research has suggested that autistic women are more likely to camouflage than autistic men. However, there is debate concerning the nature of any …
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Design and Fabrication of a Mask Projection Microstereolithography System for the Characterization and Processing of Novel Photopolymer Resins
The goal of this work was to design and build a mask projection microstereolithography (MPμSL) 3D printing system to characterize, process, and quantify the performance of novel photopolymers. MPμSL is an Additive Manufacturing process that uses DLP technology to digitally pattern UV light and …
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Exploring the tension between Coleridge's Poetic Faith and disbelief in the metatheatrical strategies used in a Mask, a Key and a Pair of Broken Wings
… strategies employed in my thesis production: a Mask, a Key and a Pair of Broken Wings, a triptych of three short plays. The paper pursues a deeper understanding of the nature of an audience's engagement with onstage narratives. The production explores existential dilemmas through stories about …
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An Analysis of Catcher's Mask Performance to Attenuate Head Accelerations
… study were to measure the ability of catcher's masks to attenuate head accelerations upon impact with a baseball, and to compare these head accelerations to established injury thresholds for concussions. Testing involved using a pneumatic cannon to shoot baseballs at an instrumented (3-2-2-2 …
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Investigation of fabrication process development for integrated optical grating structures
… are used. These methods preclude the need of a mask, require few processing steps, and can be used to write features of sizes desired for optical gratings. In this research, we explore and develop processes to create sub-micron gratings by both these methods. A resist bi-layer is patterned by …
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Characterization of Amorphous Carbon Films for Mask Protection during Ion Beam Bombardment
… simplest terms the use of a beam, incident on a mask, to transfer the mask pattern onto the substrate. This process is utilized by every semiconductor company to create the microchips, which make modern life possible. Though photons are the industry standard, atom/ion beam lithography is a …
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Using Phoneme Groups to Train Deep Learning Models to Remove Reverberation in Cochlear Implant Stimulus Patterns
… address this problem is through time-frequency masking, where the time-frequency representation of reverberant and/or noisy speech is elementwise multiplied by a matrix of gain values, known as a mask, in an attempt to suppress reverberation and noise. Because the mask requires knowledge of the …
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Reducing spectral reflections through image inpainting
… images. The process involves the generation of a mask, refinements to that mask such as background segmentation and morphological dilation, and finally the inpainting of the specular regions. This method improves on existing single pixel methods by incorporating both color and texture infilling of …
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Hydrophobic nanostructured glass surfaces using metal dewetting process
… reactive ion etching utilizing silver as a mask. The silver mask is the result of a solid state thermal dewetting process which is controlled by varying the temperature and time of the process. Using this fabrication process, contact angles up to 137 degrees was achieved. Further surface …
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Gallery For Art
For my thesis I explored the idea of the mask in relation to architecture. For my project I designed an art gallery located in Georgetown Washington DC which is composed of three layers: a structural layer, an environmental casing, and an outer layer. Theoretical parallels are drawn between the …
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What if Structures Could Speak?
… line of truth behind the structure, creating a mask for it. This project explores the direct use of the structure to define the form and the facade through the wrapping of structure, allowing the structure to speak for the form of the building with no interruption. With this continuity between …
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Addressing Occlusion in Panoptic Segmentation
… the object detection pipeline in UPSNet, a Mask R-CNN based design for panoptic segmentation. We also discuss an issue with the segmentation mask prediction of Mask R-CNN that affects overlapping instances. We perform extensive experiments and showcase results on the complex COCO and …
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Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings
… hierarchical role, where architecture becomes a mask to the landscape as an analogy for the political mask and the various guises assumed in the representation of identities, both personal and architectural.
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Maneuvers in the Oeuvre: The problem of confession in the works of Foucault, Mishima and Winterson".
… works. Focusing on Mishima?s Confessions of a Mask and Winterson?s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, I argue in Chapter 2 that the identifiability of autobiographical elements in the works reinforces the paradox of authenticity and facade that the novels present. In Chapter 3, I argue that …
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Submicron patterning using laser interference lithography
… solely in means of pattern delineation. IL is a "mask less" technique that employs the interference fringe pattern of two coherent beams, and can therefore be generated with a commercial laser. Due to its simplicity, Interferometric Lithography provides an attractive supplement to existing methods …
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A journey back home through a mask for the 21st century : the legacy of Commedia dell'Arte in postdramatic theatre with particular focus on the centrality of the actor in devised performance : a practice-as-research PhD based on three years of research, culminating in this thesis, an ensemble devised performance A Floating Caravan Under the Moon (2015/16) and a solo piece Home/Finding Home (2017/18)
… can be described as a reinvention of Commedia Masks through a rediscovery of Commedia dell’Arte’s principles, as discussed by Flaminio Scala in his prologue to Il Finto Marito (1619); first and foremost, the notion of ‘Actor as Creator’ that is foundational to my practice. Utilising the …
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AI-informed model analogs for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction
… Using an artificial neural network, we learn a mask of weights to optimize analog selection and showcase its versatility across three varied prediction tasks: 1) classification of Week 3-4 Southern California summer temperatures; 2) regional regression of Month 1 midwestern U.S. summer …
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