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Showing 1 to 20 of 11522 for “"Creating"”.
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Creating Virginia
Creating Virginia is a novel which explores questions of family relationships and memory, and the connections which bind the present to the past. The title character, Virginia Dare Paige, is soon to turn fifty. Her children are grown and life with her husband has become a stale routine. Feeling …
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Dressing Up the Past: Creating and Re-Creating Acadian Identity
During the early twentieth century, Acadian women dressed up in a costume based on the main character from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1847 epic poem Evangeline at nation-building events to symbolize the Acadian people and its past. Acadians came to consider the Evangeline costume to be the …
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Creating Liminal Spaces
The work described in this thesis was completed as partial fulfillment for the Master of Fine Arts degree, West Virginia University. I describe how I work with a variety of media, tools, and materials to search for expression within the painting of the liminal space between the real and the …
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Subcultures creating culture
The purpose of this work is to apply the methods of textual semiotics to subcultures, in particular to the little known glam subculture. Subcultures have been the main research field of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, known for its interdisciplinary approach, and for its …
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Creating the Carrot
… center for emotionally disturbed youth). Creating sound tracks and video projects has proven to be an effective motivator for many of the students in my music classes. Students engage in the subject matter, think creatively and produce culturally relevant artistic projects. Reaching out to …
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Creating the Carrot
… center for emotionally disturbed youth). Creating sound tracks and video projects has proven to be an effective motivator for many of the students in my music classes. Students engage in the subject matter, think creatively and produce culturally relevant artistic projects. Reaching out to …
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Creating a creative university
The research focuses on an auto-ethnographic case study of the creation of a new university specialising in creativity in Singapore between 2003 and 2005. The author is the President and CEO of that institution and the Vice Chancellor designate of the University of the Arts Singapore (UARTS@). …
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Creating music by listening
… aims to computationally model the process of creating music using experience from listening to examples. Our unbiased signal-based solution models the life cycle of listening, composing, and performing, turning the machine into an active musician, instead of simply an instrument. We accomplish …
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Creating effective global teams
This thesis examines various aspects of high performance, globally dispersed teams through an in-depth case study. Aspects explored include: Understanding the leadership role in teams where members are physically dispersed, Learning how to build and maintain trust within teams that are not located …
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Creating high performance enterprises
How do enterprises successfully conceive, design, deliver, and operate large-scale, engineered systems? These large-scale projects often involve high complexity, significant technical challenges, a large number of diverse stakeholders, distributed execution, and aggressive goals. In this context, …
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Factors affecting job creating and low job creating firms owned by women in Kenya
… which inhibit the expansion of employment in job creating (over 4 employees) and low job creating (4 or less employees) firms owned by women in Kenya, the characteristics of women owned businesses and the strategies they use to promote growth of their businesses. One hundred women entrepreneurs in …
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Digital imaging: Creating new realities
More and more it is becoming increasingly difficult to discern photo reality from digital reality. Digital imagery is revolutionising photography and challenging preconceived notions of this art form. Over the years, photography has been viewed metaphorically as a window on the world and on the …
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Creating a Portable Wireless Display
… thesis is a first step towards analyzing and creating head/wrist mounted displays capable of transmitting images from a remote computer. The thesis starts with an overview and proceeds with a discussion on the concepts involved behind the functioning of the prototype. It then provides a …
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Creating Industry-Ready Ph.D. Graduates
<p>In the United States, engineering doctoral education is largely designed to prepare graduates to become original researchers and work in an academic or a national lab. Yet, the majority of engineering Ph.D. graduates are being employed in industry. This phenomena leads to the question of how …
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Creating a Personal Writing Space
Writing.
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Creating sustainable communities in 'NewcastleGateshead'
This thesis focuses on one of the most controversial and ambitious urban regeneration policies of recent years – the plan to create sustainable communities via Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders (HMRP). Announced as a ‘step change’ in urban policy to overcome problems of low demand and abandonment …
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Creating an Accessible Microtonal System
… to fit the purposes of a new system, rather than creating a bespoke theoretical and notational system optimized for its own purpose. For the purposes of this research, the octave will be divided into sixteen equal steps. A principal reason for this choice is that this division will preserve the …
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