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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"Glance"”.
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The Cretan Glance : The Syncretic Spirit in the Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis
The seven novels of Nikos Kazantzakis' great period of 1942-1956, i.e., Freedom or Death, Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Greek Passion, Saint Francis, The Fratricides, and the Report to Greco, are examined in order to make evident the spirit of synthesis in perceiving the chaos …
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A glance backwards: An analysis of youth resiliency through autoethnographical and life history lenses
1 PDF file (xiii, 209 pages)
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How many can you see at a glance? The role of attention in visual enumeration
There is considerable controversy as to how the brain extracts numerosity information from a visual scene and as to how much attention is needed for this process. Traditionally, it has been assumed that visual enumeration is subserved by two functionally distinct mechanisms: the fast and accurate …
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Newly Licensed Teenaged Drivers: A Field Study Evaluation of Eye Glance Patterns on Straight Road Segments
… insight into the development and change of eye-glance behaviors over the first six months of driving, the differences between novice teenaged drivers and experienced parent drivers, and how passenger presence affects eye scanning patterns. Results from this study found significant differences …
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A Glance in their Direction: The New York City Press and their Coverage of African Americans during World War II
<p>My thesis examines the New York City press’ interpretation of African Americans and the Civil Rights movement of World War II. I seek to determine in what measure the press reported on African Americans in the military and at home during the war including segregation of the Armed Forces, and the …
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Informing Design of In-Vehicle Augmented Reality Head-Up Displays and Methods for Assessment
… work were to 1) understand changes in drivers' glance behaviors when using different types of displays, 2) investigate the impact of HUD position on glance behaviors, and 3) examine the impact of HUD graphic type on drivers' behaviors. Specifically, we captured empirical data regarding changes …
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Towards a Safety-Centric Evaluation Framework for Augmented Reality Head-up Displays
… evaluates the inadequacy of conventional glance-based metrics, highlights the safety risks posed by inattentional blindness induced by AR HUD interfaces, and fosters international, cross-sector dialogue to advance AR HUD evaluation practices. Study 1 examined sustained-glance thresholds, …
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Effects of variations in driving task attentional demand on in-car navigation system usage
… to which they drove. Data were collected on eye glance duration and glance patterns. The overall results for both studies showed that drivers do in fact adapt to some degree to increases in attentional demand. Generally speaking, as attentional demand levels increased, drivers adapted by …
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An Industrial Designer's Ethic, A Study: Products for Urban Ecology
… of living in a materialistic society. At first glance, sustainable living and product design seem incongruent. Perhaps through investigation of the nature of product design and models of sustainability, a plan can be established which actually strengthens the reality of each in light of social, …
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Getting the gist of websites: Exploring the effects of display duration, size, and resolution
Users can make judgments about web pages in a glance. Outside of a few studies, no known research has examined what semantic information can be extracted from a web page within a single fixation, but the scene perception literature provides a possible framework for understanding how viewers can …
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Combining raster- and vector-representations for image and geometry processing applications
… also draw parallels between these two, at first glance, completely different areas in computer graphics, and show a way to address problems posed in these areas in a unified manner. We present a number of novel approaches which provide several improvements over previous works by appropriate …
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Explaining Viking expansion
… has neglected to give all but a cursory glance at the factors involved in Viking expansion. This thesis studies and explains employment opportunities, political motives, and societal norms as separate, individual motives that perpetuated Scandinavian migration, conquest, and adventure …
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Writing Strong Fiction: Influences of Point of View on Character
… in creative writing to provide an expansive glance into the ins and outs of the interrelation between character and viewpoint, thereby strengthening the beginning writer's grasp of premiere concepts while simultaneously providing resource for further research. </p>
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Blinded by the White: Soul-Searching for the Pedagogical Possibilities of Otherness in the White Hearts of Parents Raising Children of Color
… upbringing of their children. This study takes a glance at the educational impacts these children are facing today and calls for the creation of a critical multiculturalism.
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Geometric Constructions from an Algebraic Perspective
… branches of math would seem unrelated at first glance. I will try to bridge Geometry and Abstract Algebra just a bit with the following topics. We can be sure that after we construct our basic parallel and perpendicular lines, bisected angles, regular polygons, and other basic geometric figures, …
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A morphological-poetic approach to Hemingway's "Up in Michigan"
… anti-romantic theme in what appears at first glance to be straightforward journalistic style. But the prose, like almost everything else in this story, is deceptive, for lurking beneath the flat surface of its denotative diction and simple syntax lie linguistics strategies and dynamically …
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The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York
<p>As a passing glance at the popular texts of any given period reveals, the subject of vengeance is nearly inescapable; on billboards, websites, and year end lists, revenge represents a curious constant even amid disparate media. This study explores the cultural commonalities that align revenge …
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Potential Energy Surface around the Tropylium Ion.
… the highly symmetric tropylium ion to give a glance of possible mechanisms for its formation and decomposition. Our results have confirmed some of the mechanisms reported in the literature, and in addition new areas are explored in the report.</p>
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A Study of the Wheat Market
… market of this prominent cereal; and, second, a glance into its production and distribution, especially with regard to the United States of America. Furthermore, an investigation of the fluctuations in the price of wheat has been incidentally made.</p>
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