Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 1625 for “"Encounters"”.
-
Close Encounters
Abstract: The expressiveness of the human figure is the syntax and vocabulary that I use to explore the things that make us human. In coming to really know an individual, we not only gain insights into our own psychological make-up, but we may extrapolate our findings to the broader human …
-
Encounters with neighbours
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten und Anwendungen von Recurrence Plots. Nach einer Übersicht über Methoden, die auf Recurrence Plots basieren, werden neue Komplexitätsmaße eingeführt, die geometrische Strukturen in den Recurrence Plots beschreiben. Diese neuen Maße erlauben …
-
Encounters & Spatial Controversies
… of structures, boundaries and rules. How such encounters unfold and are responded to and/or recounted – these questions lie at the heart of my work. The form of the work has varied. I have, for example, created posters, performances and a film. Some works have taken the form of insertions of …
-
Fragments of Encounters
FRAGMENTS OF ENCOUNTERS is an experimental interactive performance project operating within a 'practice as research' (PaR) paradigm-defined as a continually emergent and open-ended process. The participation and interaction of the audience and the feedback received from lecturers and fellow …
-
Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades
… reason we have titled the dissertation Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades, with each chapter designed to facilitate a kind of cross-fertilization of ideas from a variety of intellectual perspectives. Looking at the dialogue from various perspectives has allowed us to cast some new light on …
-
On Sensorial Encounters with Architecture
This is a study of the body and architecture, the way in which the two experience one another, the way in which one can inform the other. This thesis was centered around the consideration of the senses not as separate inputs, but as one harmonious quality of perception. The project began as an …
-
Small Businesses Encounters with Information Technology
… carried out by business owners during IT encounters. These aspects are composed together into a process model. My findings are consistent with previous work in noting a considerable time lag between awareness and adoption of IT innovations among small businesses, and in highlighting the …
-
Intimate Encounters; Staging Intimacy and Sensuality
This text is a partial record of the conception and development of Reflections of Red in a Mirror of Desire that opened on February 20th 2006 for a three day run ending on February 22nd. The majority of the text is focused on the events and research that provided the concept for the show. Some of …
-
Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… or ethical truth. Instead, the stage prompts encounters with an array of human-adjacent entities, the unhumans of my title: frightening and comic stage devils, simulated racial Others, uncanny echoes, and even the books central to humanist study. The media innovations of the theater thus …
-
Scriblerian Ethics: Encounters in Satiric Metamorphosis
<p>"Scriblerian Ethics" proposes that the aesthetic and ethical standpoint of the writings of the Scriblerians (Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, Oxford, Parnell) can be better understood through an attunement to their orientation towards the Longinian sublime and to the metamorphic poetics of Ovid. The …
-
Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism
… experience and modernist literature. SURPRISE ENCOUNTERS argues that a dominant framework of shock and rupture has obscured a nineteenth-century conception of surprise, which transformed models of mind and narrative on both sides of the Atlantic. I draw on Ralph Waldo Emerson's formulation of …
-
Unsteady Aerodynamics of Wing-Gust Encounters
… and the physics of large amplitude wing-gust encounters is unknown. This work is a fundamental study into the physics of such interaction. The aims are to uncover the phenomenon which contribute toward the force response of the wing. In particular, the role of free vortices and added mass are …
-
Contextual fittingness of everyday activity encounters/
This is a pilot study for the development of a method of analysing activity patterns of users with respect to the designed physical environment. Empirical data in the form of daily-diaries and preferences of college students is used in identifying the functional properties of a university setting. …
-
When an eddy encounters shelf-slope topography
Eddies in the ocean move westwards. Those shed by western boundary currents must then interact with continental shelf-slope topography at the western boundary. The presence of other eddies and mean lows complicates this simple picture, yet satellite images show that mesoscale eddies translating …
-
Embodying Topeng: Gender, Training and Intercultural Encounters
This research centres on the Balinese performance tradition known as topeng which translates as Balinese masked dance-drama. In Bali this genre is performed traditionally in spaces reserved for religious ceremonies. The research questions the extent to which, and how, it may be possible for a …
-
Mediating chance encounters through opportunistic social matching
Chance encounters, the unintended meeting between people unfamiliar with each other, serve as an important social lubricant helping people to create new social ties, such as making new friends or finding an activity, study or collaboration partner. Unfortunately, social barriers often prevent …
-
Socialising The Archive: Art and Archival Encounters
… archive, The Baring Archive, and the onward encounters this precipitates, this thesis explores how knowledge is negotiated and archival authority sustained, at the intersection of multiple forces; by human actors coming into contact with documents under particular conditions, localities, …
-
Unsteady Aerodynamics of Wing–Vortex Gust Encounters
… force computation. This thesis investigates encounters between isolated spanwise vortex gusts and a simplified flat plate wing, with the aim of demonstrating transient gust load alleviation. Three sets of experiments are conducted in a water towing-tank facility. Force balance and planar …
Page 1 of 82