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Showing 1 to 20 of 460 for “"Hear"”.
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What do children hear? : what do children understand?
'What Do Children Hear? What Do Children Understand?' is a study of a prep grade of children and their interaction in a day-to-day classroom teaching-learning situation. It is a brief glimpse at the complexity that is a part of teaching children. Research studies show and acknowledge differences in …
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Touch taste hear smell see remember : District Six
My interest lies in the evocation of emotion through the sensory experience of architecture. I believe this is linked to issues of memory and spirituality, both dealing with an essence of other - a sense of presence or life that makes one aware that one is not alone in that space but is rather …
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Hear Us Out: When Colleges Talk About Tuition Increases
In the decades that followed World War II, tuition at American colleges was well within the financial reach of most families. Since 1980, however, it has grown more expensive to attend both public and private colleges, as tuition has surged at a rate that has far outpaced inflation. At the same …
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Can You Hear Me Now: Being Deaf and Healthcare Experiences.
<p>The primary objective of the study was to examine how deaf culture impacts an individual's experience in accessing healthcare. Research conducted by Montoya et al. (2004) found that the adult deaf population is severely underserved in the healthcare system. Sheppard and Badger (2010) found that …
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"Hear Dem Cryin:" Rastafari and Framing Processes in Reggae Music
In social science, reality is too frequently conceived of from the point of view of European or American white men. I intend to examine the perceived realities and world-view of a marginalized oppressed group, the Rastafarians. The contemporary social movement literature focuses heavily on framing …
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
"Ears Taut to Hear" investigates the sustained engagement between American literature and sound reproduction technologies during the twentieth century. Through an analysis of texts by Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Alan Lomax, Sidney Bechet, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. …
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Cognitive Audio: Enabling Auditory Interfaces with an Understanding of How We Hear
Over the last several decades, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists have made strides in understanding the complex and mysterious processes that define the interaction between our minds and the sounds around us. Some of these processes, particularly at the lowest levels of …
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If you could see what I hear : editing assistance through cinematic parsing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.
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As you cannot hear the sound of losing: researching the gambling environment through performance
… common experience. The performance As you cannot hear the sound of losing grew from this research, into an exploration of the melancholy that can be felt by the individual as a result of engaging with gambling environments. You cannot hear the sound of losing in these places; the reality of losing …
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Can You Hear Me Now?: Doctor-Patient Communication and Applications of Neurosurgery in Telemedicine
This research project explored patient's perceptions of telemedicine. This is a new technology that allows doctors and patients to meet in two different locations and have their medical appointments through videoconferencing equipment. Three research questions were posed dealing with telemedicine, …
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"Oye Mi Voz!" (Hear My Voice!): The Perceptions of Hispanic Boys Regarding their Literacy Experiences
The purpose of this study was to uncover the perspectives that pertain to the literacy experiences of young Hispanic boys. Hispanic boys will be asked to describe, feel, judge, and make sense of their public and private literacies (Faulkner, 2005). This phenomenological study embraces two methods …
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“We Don’t Hear All The Stories”: East Timorese Youth And Education About The Indonesian Occupation
The role of formal and informal education in shaping youths’ historical memories of violence is not well understood (Cole & Barsalou, 2006; Worden, 2014). Few research studies (Bellino, 2017; Russell, 2020; Worden, 2014) have explored how youth engage and negotiate with contested history via formal …
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Hear (no) evil, see (no) evil, speak (no) evil: artistic representations of Argentina's "Dirty War"
My dissertation utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to analyze Argentina’s “Dirty War; in it, I argue that our view of the Other is the key to not repeating the past. Literature has long been accepted as a resource for understanding culture; this dissertation moves beyond literature, and …
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Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Exploring Quinoxaline Derivatives as a Treatment for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
… world living with some degree of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and 1 billion young adults at risk of developing NIHL. Currently, there are no FDA-approved drugs that protect the inner ear against NIHL. To address this need, my thesis aims to investigate the therapeutic potential of …
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Present day prophets: defining Black girlhood spirituality in saving our lives hear our truths (SOLHOT)
… Black Girlhood Spirituality in Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT) and Beyond is based on nine years of participant observation in the collective, Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT). SOLHOT is a praxis that centers and celebrates Black girlhood through artistic and radical …
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Can You Hear Me? Reflexive Feminist Methodologies and Diasporic Self-Representation in the Digital Age
In this exploratory thesis project, I consider what emerging approaches we can take as social scientists to showcase and critically engage self-representations of diasporic individuals, who often lack visibility and legibility within the dominant cultural archive. Filmmaking as a social research …
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