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Fragmented
<p>This thesis, <strong><em>Fragmented</em></strong>, outlines Rebel’s explorations with materials and techniques that led to the creation of his current work that was presented in his MFA Exhibition. <strong><em>Fragmented</em></strong> focuses on elements of abandoned and ignored structures found …
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Fragmented Self
… own selves, they can touch many other souls. In Fragmented Self, I employ composited 3D animations of my own body parts juxtaposed over still and moving images. Each body part and piece in Fragmented Self is a metaphorical representation of a specific experience I have lived through. The …
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Cosmopolitanism Now: Fragmented Belonging
… cosmopolitanism for the contemporary moment as fragmented belonging, critiquing and moving beyond traditional cosmopolitan frameworks grounded in universal reason, seamless integration, or coherent identity. Through close readings of Teju Cole’s <em>Open City</em> and <em>Tremor</em>, and Mohsin …
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Trading Dynamics in a Fragmented Market
… for the access and removal of liquidity from the fragmented US equity market, de</p> <p>facto linking the trading activities across trading venues. These transformations have not only</p> <p>changed how equity markets function but also how market participants interact with the market</p> <p>and …
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Decentralized Machine Learning over Fragmented Data
… stems primarily from healthcare data being fragmented across thousands of institutions, each safeguarding patient records in regulatory-compliant silos. The problem is not limited to healthcare but extends to other industries with fragmented data across institutions and individuals. Instead …
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The Mystery That Prevails: Drawing Fragmented Worlds
The body of work I have made for my thesis exhibition is built from organic imagery that hints at diagrammatic filtering of information, but repeats, contorts and layers to become an unsettling conversation between the known and the unknown. In this essay, I discuss my use of repetitive drawing and …
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Spatio-Temporal Connectivity in Dynamic Tropical Fragmented Landscapes
Expanding human occupation on the planet reduces and fragments native habitats, threatening biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and services. Tropical regions have recently been experiencing unprecedented amounts of forest conversion and fragmentation. As tropical forests harbor a large fraction …
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Forensic Reconstruction of Fragmented Variable Bitrate MP3 files
… tend to fail when the files to be recovered are fragmented. Recovering the fragmented files is one of the primary challenges faced by file carving. In this research we focus on Variable Bit Rate (VBR) MP3 files. MP3 is one of the most widely used file formats for storing audio data. We develop a …
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HABITAT USE BY SPRUCE GROUSE IN A FRAGMENTED SYSTEM
… the Yellow Dog Plains has become increasingly fragmented and high quality spruce grouse habitat has decreased and is being replaced by intermediate quality habitat.</p>
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Small Mammal Habitat Associations in a Fragmented Agricultural Landscape
… examine how small mammals select habitats in a fragmented agricultural landscape in southeast Georgia. I captured small mammals at 71 trap sites within 33 locations in Bulloch and Candler Counties, Georgia. Prior to trapping, each site was classified based on predominant habitat type. Within …
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Designing Contiguous and Minimally Fragmented Nature Conservation Reserve Networks
This dissertation is built upon some recent studies which dealt with two important spatial criteria, namely reserve contiguity and minimal fragmentation, using graph theoretic approaches and linear integer programming. The optimization methods presented in those studies are modified to improve …
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The problem of fragmented farm holdings in Bavaria, Germany
The field of land reform may involve greater opportunity for land ownership by the cultivator, consolidating small and uneconomic holdings, or the problem of bringing together the many small, widely dispersed plots belonging to the individual farmer so that he can operate efficiently. Although …
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Defining a place: focal point for a fragmented town
… centers, individual outlying communities become fragmented and disparate, with a loss of focus paralleling their loss of activity. The fabric of these towns becomes irregular, with holes appearing where occupants left. The street no longer holds a rhythm or cohesiveness. It struggles to maintain …
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Autonomous Loading of Fragmented Rock: Admittance Control for Robotic Digging
… controller for autonomously digging in fragmented rock piles was developed and tested by using a 1 t surface loader, and a 14 t Atlas Copco Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) vehicle. This admittance-based Autonomous Loading Controller (ALC) had superior consistency over both digging at constant …
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The Fragmented Body and the Artwork of Berlinde De Bruyckere
… of Berlinde De Bruyckere, positioning her fragmented figures in the context of contemporary art debates and exploring the role of the artist in changing the visual representation of the body fragment. De Bruyckere’s fragmented figures, often inspired by actual events and problems, reflect …
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Discovering fragmented speech: Towards a Bakhtinian approach to the unconscious
Fragmented speech, the discovery of which forms the basis of this dissertation, provides the aim and direction of our thesis. The aim is to clarify precisely what fragmented speech is, and subsequently define its application. In this thesis, we begin by providing the historical background to the …
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Insect Conservation Within the Severely Fragmented Eastern Tallgrass Prairie Landscape
… the conservation of insects within the severely fragmented tallgrass prairie ecosystem. In one study, insects were surveyed within natural area remnants and developed habitats in an attempt to gauge levels of remnant-dependence for 17 prairie and savanna-inhabiting taxa. In a second study, plant …
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The Fragmented Republicanism of Nineteenth-Century Italy (c. 1830s-1880s)
… in nineteenth-century Italy, though it was fragmented. To demonstrate this, I analyse the works of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869), Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso (1808-1871), Francesco De Sanctis (1817-1883), and Pasquale Villari (1827-1917) – who represent a …
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Offerings for a ghost film: From fragmented work to cosmic assemblages
… art forms, this curtailed many elements of the fragmented practice of making, showing and discussing cinema. This leaves us with many gaps in the ways we address the life of cinema; the entangled processes of production and exhibition as well as the many branches into other disciplines and areas …
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