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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Gardening"”.
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Computer gardening
This report documents the initial development of a computer-controlled system for the production of three-dimensional forms. The project involved the design and construction of a carving device which was attached to an existing x-y plotter. The carving device was connected to a computer graphics …
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Gardening at night
Summary in English.|Word processed copy.
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Gardening at Arm's Length
… with a Master of Fine Art thesis exhibition, Gardening at Arm’s Length, this dossier provides supporting components: an extended artist’s statement, documentation of my artwork, an interview with artist Mary Mattingly and my Curriculum Vitae. Throughout the program, I have explored the …
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The Joys of Gardening
The Joys of Gardening is a virtual experience in which the viewers are invited to roam and explore a garden maze scattered with features including a greenhouse, a fountain, a gazebo, and a variety of personal gardening videos. One of the main attractions includes an opportunity to interact with a …
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Community gardening as social action: the Australian community gardening movement and repertoires for change.
There has been a resurgence of community gardening activity in Australia over the past decade. This coincides with increasing concern about food security, urban sustainability, social isolation and the preservation of community space. Community gardening has been adopted by divergent actors, from …
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Habitual gardening and the human gut microbiota
The student, Marina Brown, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-07-20 at 14:08.
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Gardening across the life course : A qualitative study of the meaning of everyday gardening and its links with well-being
… people garden and the benefits they derive from gardening but little academic study into the topic. The literature has tended to take a snapshot look at gardening with little consideration of the patterning to people‟s experience across their lives. This study takes a life course perspective and …
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Detection of antibiotic resistance genes in gardening composts
Compost is an organic fertilizer widely used for gardening. To evaluate the risk of antibiotic resistance and potential pathogens in composts, two homemade composts, eight commercially available composts, and one immature swine mortality compost were collected and analyzed by high-throughput …
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Gardening the elements in a landscape of technology
Gardening the Elements in a Landscape of Technology discusses three multisensory environmental sculptures: Wave Garden, Eyes of the Wind, and Thermal Delight. Each of these installations explores the relationship between people, nature and technology. It is my thesis that technology can be used to …
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Stewardship gardening: multifarious meanings through community, ecology, and food
… IL in 2010. This phenomenon of faith-based gardening is designated as stewardship gardening within this thesis. While these gardens are recently conspicuous, they are certainly not new; disparate connotations of environmental stewardship have developed since the Garden of Eden. The …
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The Transformative Possibilities of 'Noticing' in Community Gardening and my Life
… peoples. It is in the projects of community gardening and my life that I have chosen to ‘notice’ the prevalence of a mechanistic, functionalist world view that infuses the moral limitations of dominant order. I have been attentive to noticing how this order influences the [un]ethical …
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A Case Study of a Beginner Gardening Program in North Carolina
… the development and implementation of a beginner gardening program and its influence on program participants in an area known to be food insecure within North Carolina. The researcher utilized multiple means of qualitative methods including: 1) semi-structured pre- and post- interviews with …
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Growing a greener Tacoma: The historical roots of Tacoma's urban gardening movement
… to define a clear understanding of the urban gardening movement today, by offering a comprehensive definition of the movement, as well as investigating the reported benefits to individuals and communities of urban gardening. And second, this thesis gives an account of the historical roots of …
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Attitudes toward and interest in community gardening in two low-income neighborhoods
… was to determine attitudes toward community gardening and community gardening needs of residents in two low-income neighborhoods, Amett Benson (AB) and Parkway-Cherry Point (PC)neighborhods in the city of Lubbock, Texas, as well as to investigate resources available for community gardening. A …
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Disaster and Hope in the Comic Universe of 'Gardening in the Tropics'
… comic with, predominately, Olive Senior’s <em>Gardening in the Tropics</em>, alongside Jamaica Kincaid’s gardening studies and Mona Lisa Saloy’s essay on environmental destruction. To conclude, I consider how the comic style might help mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis, if …
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Shifting Grounds: How Urban Gardening Practices Enact the Relations between Play and Work
This thesis discusses how urban gardening practices enact the relations between play and work, based upon a comparative ethnographic study of allotment, community and guerrilla gardening in London. It deploys participant observation and garden go-alongs, and makes use of photography to engage with …
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The Factors Affecting Elementary School Teachers' Integration of School Gardening into the Curriculum
… school teachers’ implementation of school gardening in the curriculum. This research also sought to qualitatively describe the current application of school gardening by the study population in the elementary school curriculum, and to identify avenues in which the horticultural community …
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Youth Gardening: Opportunities for Strengthening Life Skills and Educational Achievement with Special Populations
… This research explored the use of a youth gardening project as a preventative program by examining the effects on self-concept. The study involved two groups of inner city youth participating in a Department of Parks and Recreation summer program. The test group participated in gardening …
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From lifestyle media to lived practice: an ethnography of class, gender and ordinary gardening
… is about the ordinary cultural practice of gardening. Using an interdisciplinary framework and holding 'ordinary aesthetics' at the forefront of the analysis, it asks if the garden is a site where identities of class and gender are played out. Arguing that domestic gardening has historically …
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