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Showing 1 to 20 of 1802 for “"Framing"”.
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Forest Framing
… provide accessible and economical systems of framing, placing special emphasis on the diverse materialities of wood in its natural form, wild wood. Harvesting of wild wood helps prevent the spread of wildfires, it does not contribute to deforestation, and local application would reduce …
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Framing Movement
This thesis seeks to understand how architecture and concepts of movement can inform each other. In this context, the relationships of permeable frame and impenetrable mass become the main constituents of a space in which movement is celebrated. A frame system serves as the principal container for …
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Framing Architecture
… making of architecture through the concept of framing. The work was conducted at the Academia d'Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland, under the direction of Peter Zumthor, Miguel Kreisler and Myriam Sterling, emphasizing the relationship between ordered structures and contextual propriety. …
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Framing in crime news
The purpose of this study was to investigate if televised news programs overrepresent or underrepresent certain races as perpetrators or victims. Three weeks of crime news programming were surveyed. The races of perpetrators and victims were identified and coded. Those findings were then compared …
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Framing Eve in "Paradise Lost"
Although John Milton's Paradise Lost presses readers towards fashioning Eve as a temptress, the text simultaneously invites an interpretation Eve as a composition of active goodness. Readers, however, tend to accept inherited cultural stereotypes and ideological constructs of Eve as a temptress …
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Focus, polarity and framing effects
… (NLQ) (Moxey, 2006). In experiments on framing effects a listener is able to infer a previous volume of liquid in a glass from the way the glass is now described (Sher & McKenzie, 2006). The experiments reported here aim to take a closer look at how these inferences are made during …
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Evaluation of GFRP framing connections
… as simply supported in a GFRP bonded-bolted framing angle configuration. To achieve this, nine framing angle connection tests were performed. The assumption was found to be valid for the 2 bolt bonded, the 2 bolt unbonded, and the 3 bolt unbonded framing angle connections tested, however, …
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Framing Analysis of Kosovo Independence
… it as a democratic step. This thesis uses the framing theory to content analyze newspaper articles in seven languages (N=191) that appeared between November 17, 2007 and May 17, 2008, three months before and three months after Kosovo became an independent state. The thesis uses the five generic …
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U.S. Media Framing of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1999: Religious Framing in anInternational Conflict?
This study examines the framing of religion in the news coverage of a conflict between India and Pakistan which happened from May 5, 1999 and July 30, 1999 in selected U.S. news outlets. The study looks into the coverage of the conflict in seven national and regional U.S. newspapers, and three U.S. …
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Numeric Conversions Ameliorate the Framing Effect
… or negative light. This bias is known as the framing effect. Previous research has shown that high numeracy, the ability to understand simple mathematical and probabilistic concepts, makes such framing effects smaller, at least when numbers are involved. Here, we test the possibility that this …
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Framing Impressions: Image, Drawing, and Collage
The architectural image acts towards two primary objectives; to represent what is there and to make present what is not. This differentiation between the two constitutes a frame in which what is not present can appear. Images considered as such allow for the exploration of the formal questions of …
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Roanoke Passenger Train Station: Framing Icons
This thesis explores the framing of graphical qualities of the passenger train and the city of Roanoke, Virginia. A passenger train station frames these icons and brings people directly to the train. This framing creates a new icon for the city. An area on the train tracks is revitalized and …
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Media framing of marriage practices in Afghanistan
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Framing Ole Miss Coverage In Mississippi Newspapers
The University of Mississippi, a public institution also known as Ole Miss, is naturally of public interest and consequently is the subject of constant, and sometimes controversial, media coverage. Through the last few years, Ole Miss Athletics has garnered much of that media attention due to its …
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Framing spacetime in the mapping of aerotory
Mapping is a process of negotiation, and maps have agency in “uncovering realities previously unseen or unimagined” (James Corner, 2011). One “reality” nowadays much experienced but less “seen,” and therefore less mapped, is the territory of air transportation which provide air travelers with …
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The effects of contract framing on misconduct
… study examines the effects of incentive contract framing on two types of misconduct: misreporting and shirking. I conduct a 2x2 between subjects experiment, manipulating incentive contract framing (Bonus/Penalty) and the awareness of the opportunity to misreport (Before Effort/After Effort). I …
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"Framing in Eudora Welty's ""the Golden Apples"""
This dissertation argues that the analytical and critical vocabulary currently available to scholars in the field of oral interpretation significantly limits what they can see in a literary text and consequently what they can transform into performance. In an effort to expand this vocabulary, the …
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Framing Coordination in Collocated Computer-Mediated Communication
This thesis explores the framing of coordinative experience in collocated computer-mediated communication. It highlights the importance of low- level coordinative properties through multifaceted examination of the transcript of the first minute of a constructed coordinative situation. In efforts to …
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