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Showing 1 to 20 of 397 for “"Human experience"”.
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BELKNAP OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN EARLY AMERICA
… is used to illustrate a type of history denoted "humanist" history. The goal of humanism is to uncover general truths from specific experiences. Thus, emphasis is placed upon Belknap's life-experiences and feelings rather than his place in the culture of eighteenth-century New England. The author …
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Toward digitizing the human experience : a new resource for natural language processing
… and no one has devised a way to program this experience into a computer. This dissertation presents a methodology and proof-of-concept software system that enables non-experts, with some training, to create simple experiences. For the purposes of this dissertation, an experience is a series of …
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Development of a knowledge base using human experience semantic network for instructive texts
… in the form of a knowledge network called the human experience semantic network (HESN). The knowledge base also consists of domain knowledge having different classified terms and key phrases of the specific domain.
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Modeling and analysis of affective influences on human experience, prediction, decision making, and behavior
… affective elements are well-known to influence human decision making. This dissertation presents a theoretical and empirical framework on how human decision makers' subjective experience and affective prediction influence their choice behavior under uncertainty, frames and emotions. The …
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“Giving something back”: A case study of woodland burial and human experience at Barton Glebe.
This thesis engages with the recent innovation in British funerary rites known as ‘natural’ burial through an interview-based case study of one particular site, Barton Glebe, which offers ‘woodland’ burial. Through ethnographic description and socio-cultural analysis the values, concepts and …
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Protective-restoring to maintain self integrity : a grounded theory of the human experience of dog relinquishment
… for some people as the death of a loved human, little is known about the human impact of losing a dog through relinquishment. This qualitative study sought to explore the experience of dog relinquishment from the perspectives of a Western Australian sample of 21 relinquishers, 10 adults …
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Experience-Oriented Ecological Design: A Methodological Framework to Improve Human Experience in Urban Public Space Ecological Design
This thesis proposes that sensory experience should play an important role in setting up a direct relationship between people and the natural environment, and it is based on the premise that contemporary urban public space ecological designs. Are often deficient in this regard. In order to develop …
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Seeing the city within the context of human experience both past and present : a framework for planners to learn about the city and inform planning practice
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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PUPIL : constructing the space of visual attention
This thesis explores the nature of a human experience in space through a primary inquiry into vision. This inquiry begins by questioning the existing methods and instruments employed to capture and represent a human experience of space. While existing qualitative and quantitative methods and …
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Perceptions of the Ordinary
… examine the central psychological themes of the human experience. Through painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, I investigate various ways of translating personal and universal experiences into open-ended visual allegories. These psychological narratives are intended to function …
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Adult Daughters
… Daughters explores the complexities of the human experience through short and long-form fiction.</p>
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CONTEXT AND THE AUTHENTIC SELF: THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED STEM OBJECTIVITY NORMS ON SELF-CONCEPT BELIEFS AND WELL-BEING
… STEM objectivity norms on people’s anticipated experiences in those contexts. In Study 1, people consensually perceived STEM professionals as more objective than subjective and having greater capacity for mental agency (e.g., planning and self-control) than human experience (e.g., emotions and …
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Light Force: An Exploration of Light Through Design
… of light and what it means to design and the human experience? Can light be material? How does light change space into place?
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Optic Revelation
… of light as a medium. How does light affect human experience? The revelations produced in this thesis showcase the beauty of seemingly mundane daily occurrences. Architects are the stewards of the built environment. Design application in a building directly contributes to daily human …
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Mrs Engels
… present, sometimes called ‘direct’ or ‘present experience’. But is it true that the present is a more solid, knowable form of human experience than the past? Is direct engagement with reality even possible? Does the present exist at all, except as an historical fiction? The essay uses the theory …
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Soft exchanges for interaction design
The boundaries and fabric of human experience are continuously redefined by microorganisms interacting at imperceptible scales. Though hidden, these systems condition our body and the environment we inhabit. Instruments such as microscopes and satellites have allowed us to observe scales of human …
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Willa Cather and the Classics
… crises and of expressing the universality of human experience. In turning to the Classics, Cather reinforced her belief that only two or three human stories go on repeating themselves.
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Kick Me
Human experience, particularly the trials and tribulations of growing up, is the foundation on which I build. In this body of work, I represent these somewhat unsettling times. I use flattened space, strong diagonals, and vibrant color to add energy to the compositions. An underlying structure of …
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Primary and Secondary Causality in the Thought of St. Anselm: A Speculation on Divine Omniscience, Predestination and Grace in the Context of Human Freedom and Spirituality
… faith, hope and grace affirm the authenticity of human freedom, and serve as an intermediate connection between primary causality (eternal, divine omniscience) and secondary causality (temporal, human experience). This dissertation places specific emphasis on Anselm's De concordia, a treatise in …
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