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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Déjà-Vu"”.
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A graphical environment for Déjà Vu app development
Déjà Vu is a platform that allows people to build web applications from clichés, reusable implementations of software concepts. A cliché provides user interface elements and a database-backed web service in a single package, and the actions provided by clichés can be connected together to create …
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Using natural language processing to characterize the phenomenology of déjà vu
… psychologists began empirically studying déjà vu—the odd sensation that one is re-experiencing something from the past while being certain of the situation's novelty. Prior work, investigating déjà vu's subjective phenomenology by soliciting retrospective reports in a survey, uncovered …
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Utopic Déjà Vu: The Power of the Public Hallucination in the UAE
… This thesis will lay out a framework for utopic déjà vu, a new critical term to describe how the guest worker survives in a city undergoing rapid change: of a past under constant regeneration, a present that is always in flux, and a future that demands constant resources and psycho-spatial …
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Adversarial Déjà Vu: Jailbreak Dictionary Learning for Stronger Generalization to Unseen Attacks
… across a wide range of tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety guardrails and elicit harmful behavior. Defending against such attacks is particularly challenging when adversaries introduce novel strategies that differ from those observed during training or …
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Eye've seen this before: building a gaze data analysis tool for déjà vu detection
… the understanding of the phenomenon known as déjà vu, an investigation into the use of eyetracking was needed. Through the use of an advanced eyetracking device, open-source software, and previous research into déjà vu, this thesis provides a discussion and analysis of the development for a …
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Déjà vu all over again! : the reluctant rise and protracted demise of Scott Lithgow Limited
This thesis charts the growth and demise of the two largest shipbuilding firms on the Lower Clyde in Scotland, Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Limited of Greenock, [established 1711 ] and Lithgows Limited of Port Glasgow [established as Russell & Company in 1874 and as Lithgows Limited …
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The Trace of Everyday Life: The Interpretation of Déjà vu in Fine Art Practice
… research project investigates the use of déjà vu as an artistic strategy of ‘affect’, in relation to the spatial and temporal displacement associated with déjà vu and the unheimlich (i.e. uncanny/ unhomely). My practice, and its theoretical contextualisation, address ideas that are …
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Creating a cliché library for social applications
Déjà Vu is a platform for the end-user development of web applications. It reduces the complexity of web development by encapsulating common functionality across the web into a library of clichés. Users select clichés that represent core concepts in their application, specify various configuration …
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Declarative assembly of web applications from predefined concepts
… has been implemented in a platform called Déjà Vu. We outline and compare our approach to conventional approaches to web application development and we present results from a case study in which we used our platform to replicate a collection of applications previously built by students for …
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In Ordinary Trauma: Notes on Time
… time, flashbacks, repetitions, blind-spots and déjà vu. When creating a narrative, one can either choose to use the past or the present tense, so how might one narrate a life in which the past is still so alive in the present?</p> <p>I developed an methodology in response to trauma memoirists …
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Obsessed With the Image: Vulgar Auteurism and Post-Cinematic Affect in the Late Films of Tony Scott
… and mainstream audiences. This group, termed as “vulgar auteurism,” distinguished directors like Michael Mann and Paul W.S. Anderson for their audacious and unique formal styles, often using digital technologies and imagery. This thesis proposes that the films and filmmakers associated with vulgar …
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Romantic Citation and the Receding Future
… The Last Man cites literary texts as a form of déjà vu by which we discover ourselves as extinct proleptically in the literary past. Chapter 3 proposes that Percy Shelley’s re-cycled tropes and circular plots in the later poems encode the later poetry’s archaeological pull toward his corpus’s …
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The Embedded American Artist
As our world ramps up the speed of its connections, our identities merge with increasing speed and angles of confluence. Not only are new identities created, but also the more fringe social and cultural elements of our world are exposed to mainstream consciousness. My work is a product of my own …