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Showing 1 to 20 of 744 for “"Empty"”.
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Empty Pleasures
My work examines the ways we covet extravagant objects in Western society. I explore the vain and the humble veneration of status symbols, mementos, and personal icons. Through a satire of pompous display, I critique our society's fixation on materialism.;I use a digital process to mimic commercial …
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Empty caves
This MA thesis is divided into three parts. 1) A Preface, which concerns the act of writing this work, with a reflections on the attendant difficulties regarding editing and editorial distance. A placement of the poetry in relation to "South African writing", and to late 20th century poetry. A …
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The Illuminated Empty Spaces
… as a result of grief. <em>The Illuminated Empty Spaces</em> aims to define the space that grief leaves behind, and ultimately define what that space creates room for.</p>
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Revitalizing Kuwait's empty city center
The phenomenon of land vacancy in Kuwait's city center and its adverse effect on both the image of the city and land economics was investigated, and issues of symbolism, character, and identity were addressed. In addition to the description of the physical and natural environments, social context, …
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On the content of empty categories
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1982.
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Empty admiration: Robert Lewis Dabney’s expository homiletic
Russell St. John, “Empty Admiration: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Expository Homiletic,” Doctor of Philosophy, Middlesex University/London School of Theology, 2018. ----- This thesis argues that while American homiletician Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) crafted a robust expository homiletical theory, his …
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New optimization models for empty container management
This thesis investigates the reasons why nowadays empty container repositioning represents a crucial issue for the shipping industry. Moreover, taking into account information collected through surveys and meetings with industrial experts, we provide a broad overview of current logistic practices …
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Empty Railcar Repositioning Subject to Travel Time Uncertainty
The empty railcars repositioning strategy generates no income but is crucial for a good service quality, it should then satisfy two main objectives: fullling the customer demand and generating as little expense as possible. Moreover, because of breakdown or heavy traffic, variation on travel times …
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An Empty Promise? Digital Democracy in the Smart City
The digital transformation affects every part of our societies and everyday lives, including the processes and structures of our democracies. On the one hand, information and communication technologies have the potential to lower the threshold for political communication and participation. On the …
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Ultrasonic circumferential waves in empty and water-filled tubes
… experiments. Experiments are carried out on both empty and fluid-loaded cylindrical shells at different frequencies. With the specially developed experimental configuration, propagation of a new flexural wave type in a water-filled tube is observed. Mode conversions are also observed between the A …
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Empty container logistics optimization : an implementation framework and methods
Empty container logistics is a huge cost component in an ocean carrier's operations. Managing this cost is important to ensure profitability of the business. This thesis proposes a 3-stage framework to handle empty container logistics with cost management as the objective. The first stage studies …
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Electric vehicle design, racing and distance to empty algorithms
… required. This is referred to as the Distance to Empty (DTE). Recent studies have shown that current DTE algorithms are inadequate and cause "range anxiety" among users. This is because conventional approaches only use past driving data to estimate DTE and thus are unable to accurately predict …
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Optimizing empty container repositioning in a truck-rail intermodal network
… industry requires repositioning of empty containers. Empty container repositioning (ECR) describes the strategy for empty container relocation to reduce cost and satisfy demand. ECR costs the transportation industry billions of dollars per year worldwide, so the efficient and …
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A dynamic and stochastic model for distribution of empty containers
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1994.
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Empty coffers--tax reform politics in Boston and New York
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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My witness is the empty sky : journeys of the beat generation
My Witness Is the Empty Sky: Journeys of the Beat Generation is a piece of travel writing and ficto-critical writing, aiming to combine historical information with creative work. In this way it tells the story of the Beat Generation in various world-wide locations, concentrating on the life of the …
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From Empty Lot to Garden Plot: Urban Agriculture in Chula Vista
<p>This project is an exploration of how agriculture can be incorporated into the fabric of the city of Chula Vista, which has both uniquely urban and suburban areas. The proposal is to integrate agriculture as a design tool to reconnect to the city’s agricultural past and as a model for cities of …
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