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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Edo"”.
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Strategies of Adaptation: Constructing <i>Gōkan</i> in Late-Edo Japan
Towards the end of the Edo period (1603–1868), one of the driving forces behind the construction—and reconstruction—of stories in commercial publishing was adaptation. This dissertation investigates the late-Edo system of literary production and consumption, and interrogates the mentalities behind …
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Aesthetics of colours in Japanese traditional paintings and woodblock prints in the Edo Period
The aim of this thesis is to examine and study Japanese traditional colours: gold and red for the Kanō school, blue and purple for the ukiyoe, including their symbolic meanings, pigments, how they were applied in art works and how they were related to Japanese aesthetics. This thesis is comprised …
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Reading the Lines: Edo period nyohitsu and the construction of meaning through script form
… taking the same name which were published in the Edo period, with its heyday between 1650 and 1750. Highly cursive and kana-dominant, it drew on Heian and medieval aristocratic writing practices, and its materiality, with eye-catching chirashigaki 散らし書き scattered mises-en-page and renmen …
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Eating Edo, sensing Japan: food branding and market culture in late Tokugawa Japan, 1780-1868
… specialty foods in the political capital of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868). The development of infrastructures as well as the proliferation of the publishing industry resulted in a considerable scale of information and material circulations in Japan. Cookbooks, …
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The role of internet-based technology in customer satisfaction in the banking sector: empirical evidence from Edo State, Nigeria
… sector. Using a sample of 426 bank customers in Edo State, Nigeria, the thesis seeks to ascertain whether I-BT resources in the bank have an impact on customer service delivery and satisfaction thereof. Theoretically, the Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory (EDT) and Affect Theory have been used to …
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Continuous dynamic optimisation using evolutionary algorithms
Evolutionary dynamic optimisation (EDO), or the study of applying evolutionary algorithms to dynamic optimisation problems (DOPs) is the focus of this thesis. Based on two comprehensive literature reviews on existing academic EDO research and real-world DOPs, this thesis for the first time …
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Indigenous Knowledge Management Practices: Looking at the Historical Perspectives of Palm Oil Extraction in Ologbo Ikpoba-Okha of Edo State of Nigeria.
… palm oil producers in Ologbo Ikpoba-Okha of Edo State and specifically explore how KM information is gathered, stored and disseminated. Also, this research did not only discuss the issue of palm oil extraction in Ikpoba-Okha Nigeria, but also further promote economic development in various …
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Experimental Design Optimization and Thermophysical Parameter Estimation of Composite Materials Using Genetic Algorithms
… for both Experimental Design Optimization (EDO) used for the determination of thermal properties, and Simultaneous Parameter Estimation (SPE). Because of their advantageous features, Genetic Algorithms (GAs) were investigated for use as a strategy for both EDO and SPE. The EDO and SPE …
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Shaping the present, crafting the past: imaging self-narrative in the life and work of Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900)
… print designers born and trained in the late Edo period (1603–1867[1868]) who came to artistic maturity during the following Meiji era (1867[1868]–1912). The socio-political, technological, and cultural changes occurring in the Meiji era posed new challenges to the long-established industry of …
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The Living Works: Methods of Viewing Japanese Tattoos Through the Lens of the Kabuki Theater
… actors on ukiyo-e woodblock prints during the Edo period (1615–1868) in Japan. Kabuki actors regularly wore tattoos on their skin to associate themselves with the characters that they played. These tattoos included longstanding motifs of these characters created within ukiyo-e printmaking. The …
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Incompatibility of Diophantine Equations Arising from the Strong Factorial Conjecture
… formulated by Arno van den Essen and Eric Edo. The problem is motivated by several outstanding problems including the Jacobian, Image, and Vanishing conjectures. In this defense, we discuss how the conjecture can be reformulated in terms of systems of integer polynomials and we present …
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Valences of Vengeance: The Moral Imagination of Early Modern Japanese Vendetta Fiction
The Edo period (1600-1867) was an era of revenge, both in lived reality and on the printed page. During the Edo period, revenge for the murder of a senior family member was considered a virtuous act of filial piety, and, following certain bureaucratic protocols, it was legal for junior family …
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Edocentric Architecture: Reconciling the Past with the Present
… the context of a dwelling in southern Nigeria's Edo-culture.
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Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation Problems with Different Requirement Satisfaction
… Studies in Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization (EDO) typically allow for many individual evaluations before the environment changes. When the environment changes very quickly, unsolved challenges arise where typical population-based algorithms may be negatively affected by this limiting number of …
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Of Mice and Maidens: Ideologies of Interspecies Romance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
… studies by examining otogizoshi (Muromachi/early Edo illustrated narrative fiction) concerning relationships between human women and male mice. The earliest of these is Nezumi no soshi ("The Tale of the Mouse"), a fifteenth century ko-e ("small scroll") attributed to court painter Tosa Mitsunobu. …
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Removal of carbon dioxide and water using a solid amine adsorption bed for extended space flight
… used for the shuttle extended duration orbiter (EDO) missions. A computer model was developed to predict the adsorption of carbon dioxide and water onto a polyethyleneimine coated acrylic ester substrate (designated HSC+). Nineteen experimental adsorption breakthrough tests were conducted using a …
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Nakano Flow: Designing for Spatial and Temporal Flow in urban Tokyo
… rapidly developed from its feudal form of the Edo period through cycles of destruction, growth and transformation since modernization. The plaza space adjacent to Nakano Station in Tokyo exemplifies this pattern, with an urban context drawing from many different eras of Tokyo’s urban history …
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Kabuki as a Women's Performing Art
… events of women’s involvements starting from the Edo Period (1603-1868) to the modern periods of Meiji (1868-1912), Taishō (1912-1926), and a little after. This timeline section of this paper will be divided into three parts: one part dedicated to women’s involvement in the Edo Period, a second …
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When Worlds Collide--Art, Cartography, and Japanese Nanban World Map Screens
A number of Momoyama (1573-1615) and Edo (1615-1868) period folding screens feature Western maps of the world as their subject. These map screens are among the earliest examples of Japanese visual culture to feature pictorial imagery shaped by European cartographic science, geographic knowledge, …
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Re-evaluating Murakami's Superflat: toward a contextualized interpretation of contemporary Japanese art
… a direct connection between the aesthetics of Edo period (1603-1868) and contemporary Japanese art. Murakami built his own production studio and branding devices as an attempt to further codify Superflat as a unique movement in Japanese art. As a result of Murakami’s tactics and the popularity …
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