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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Fountain"”.
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Arethusa : a fountain through sculpture
… constructed as an independently running fountain. The sculpture is composed of ceramic figures, and is installed at the M.I.T. Student Center Library. The written paper begins with a statement about water and traces the myth of Arethusa, the subject of my fountain sculpture, through …
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Fountain codes for the wireless Internet
… The thesis concentrates on a specific version of Fountain codes, namely on Luby transform codes. More specifically, we consider their concatenation with classic error correction codes, yielding schemes, such as the concatenated Luby Transform and Bit Interleaved Coded Modulation using Iterative …
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Design Of Fountain Codes With Error Control
… a binary erasure channel (bec), and designing fountain codes with error control property by integrating lt codes with turbo codes over a binary input additive white gaussian noise (bi-awgn) channel. A simple yet efficient technique for decomposing the rsd into two entirely different degree …
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Fountain in perpetuity: a historical examination of Islamic fountain design from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries and a contemporary interpretation
… thesis is an examination of the development of fountain design in the work of selected key Muslim engineers, covering the period from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries lt first introduces, translates and examines a previously undocumented fifteenth -century manuscript, Al-Riv. %a/r a! …
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"The Fountain of Life": John Gill’s Doctrine of Christ's Eternal Sonship
John Gill believed that without the doctrine of eternal generation the doctrine of the Trinity could not be upheld. For Gill, this doctrine provided the foundation for the distinctions between the persons within the Godhead and evinced the Son’s divine nature. Both of these aspects of Gill’s …
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Boullée's Forgotten Fountain : the redesign of the Bibliotheque du Roi, 1785
… to frame an urban place and house a public fountain. This thesis demonstrates that in our haste to allegorize Boullée's unbuilt redesign of the Bibliotheque du Roi we failed to adequately interrogate the architectural drawings he produced. In this thesis I unearth drawn and built …
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The Spirit of Columbus: Civil War Memory in the Fountain City, 1865-1880
<p>During the Civil War men and women from Columbus supported the Confederate war effort through direct military service and the Ladies Soldier’s Friend Society. After the Civil War, the women of Columbus organized the Ladies Memorial Association to beautify Linwood Cemetery and build a Confederate …
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Analysis of fountain effect for tiltrotor configuration using computational fluid simulation and experimental method
… flight conditions and influences on the fountain effect. Further, a CFD simulation tool was used for comparison to these experiments. Also, a PIV experiment was performed to visualize the fountain effect’s flow structure, which occurred on the wing in the hover flight condition. A series …
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Effects of Turbidity on Anti-Predator Response and Foraging Behavior in the Fountain Darter, Etheostoma fonticola
… affected by turbidity. The federally endangered fountain darter (Etheostoma fonticola) is an important species for investigating the impacts of turbidity on behavior. Etheostoma fonticola is endemic to the clear, spring-fed waters of the San Marcos and Comal Rivers. These rivers are currently …
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Grassroots unity and the Fountain Trust international conferences: a study of ecumenism in the charismatic renewal
… on the five international conferences of the Fountain Trust in the 1970s and focuses on two grassroots activities: worship in general and the celebration of the eucharist in particular. Worship in this setting nurtured unity through charisms, but the eucharist exposed the inadequacy of this …
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Mating behavior and the effects of turbidity on preferences for size in the fountain darter, Etheostoma fonticola
… behavior as well as mating preferences. The fountain darter, Etheostoma fonticola, is federally endangered making it an especially important species for examining the effects of turbidity on social behavior. Etheostoma fonticola is endemic to only two clear, spring-fed rivers in central Texas …
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In Pursuit of a Molecular Fountain of Youth: The Identification and Characterization of Lifespan Regulators in Drosophila
Over the past century, average human lifespan has experienced steady increase despite lack of substantial intervention or understanding of the aging process. In fact, many organisms have the latent potential to live much longer than they normally do. This indicates lifespan determination is an …
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A Garden Locked, A Fountain Sealed: Female Virginity as a Model for Holiness in the Fourth Century
<p>Despite centuries of Christian theologians and lay Christians alike assigning and/or accepting an entrenched misogyny in the writings of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, close examination of their work on its own terms and in its own time reveals that, in fact, they did not hold women in lesser …
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Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Pennsylvanian and lower Permian Fountain formation in Perry Park, Douglas County, Colorado
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-217).
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Understanding key factors influencing habitat quality for the endangered fountain darter (Etheostoma fonticola) in the Comal River.
… of the lake where DO is low enough to threaten fountain darter survival, but there is little cause for concern under current conditions.
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Establishing Patterns in Vegetation Associations of the Fountain Darter Etheostoma fonticola in the San Marcos and Comal Rivers of Texas
… for aquatic habitats and fish communities. The Fountain Darter Etheostoma fonticola, found only in spring systems of the San Marcos and Comal rivers in central Texas, is reported to associate with vegetation for feeding, reproduction, and refuge. Descriptions of associations with vegetation …
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Restating artistic value : why do people pay 2,000,000 US.D. for a urinal signed by R. Mutt?
This thesis examines how Marcel Duchamp's artwork Fountain has been reproduced and evaluated over time. The original piece was made in 1917 and was lost soon after it was created. Fountain has become renowned through its representations, descriptions, and copies and replicas of various scale; …
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