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MIT i² : idea incubator
… remains the primary method of incubating ideas. MIT i2 is an architectural solution to this issue, and is situated on the Charles River along the Harvard Bridge, the point of greatest pedestrian activity compared to the other parts of the waterfront. This project ultimately changes the …
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The Déploration as Musical Idea
… unidentified as such, the déploration as musical idea forms the subject of this study. With a canon of thirty works spanning the late-fourteenth to the late-sixteenth centuries, the déploration tradition provides the historian with unique insight on composerly self-understanding during this era. …
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An idea for a library
This project arises as a result of carefully considered variations on themes of an established model. The thesis uses Michelangelo’s Biblioteca Laurentiana as the basis for a new library in New York City. This use of an historical precedent can be seen as the desire for continuity, and as an …
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A Faint, Blue Idea of Order
<p>Wells Oliver, a mathematician, and his partner Malin move to Kythera, a remote Greek island, from Canada and Sweden, their respective countries of origin. In doing so, they hope to transform their lives in a way that will allow them to focus on their budding love affair, but they are also …
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Ortega's Idea of Culture and Education
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726752.pdf: 6280496 bytes, checksum: 21c5a7f9c7bb467d922c393d6eeb3bd0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Problem solving and The Idea Machine
… techniques are compared and contrasted and an ideal type is developed. The Idea Machine (TIM) is introduced and the six major steps involved with the technique are described. Results of using TIM in conjunction with three projects are presented. Improvements in TI:M sessions are described and …
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Work integration social enterprise: a NEET idea
The on-going global economic difficulties and the subsequent increases in unemployment have led the UK government to look at innovative ways of reintegrating unemployed people back into work. Nowhere is this more critical than in the area of youth unemployment, which in the UK is steadily rising …
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The Idea of Vacuity in Chaucer's Works
… theology and philosophy in Chaucer’s time. The idea of the void became intricately tied up with God’s power, and, simultaneously, with the mind’s capacity to imagine counterfactual realities. Using the philosophical currents of the 14th century as a guide, this study explores how a contemporary …
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Student project teams : great idea - wrong species?
This research dissertation presents the findings of an investigation of the literature into the question of whether the use of student project teams helps create a more effeetive learning environment for the development of the sort of skills referred to above or are they, as Argyris suggests, …
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Design for surprise and idea generation methods
… phase of the design process, specifically during ideation. In product and service markets with multiple competitors and where product differentiation is difficult, surprise, if used correctly, can be an indispensable differentiator-creating emotional attachment and fostering brand loyalty. A …
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Nostalgia and the idea of urban ruin
… the thesis project strives to discover how the idea of an urban ruin can inspire new forms of spatial-temporal experience. The physical and spiritual qualities of the Greek temples, in particular the Doric Order, are analyzed in order to understand the fundamentals in architecture such as …
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Building an Intelligent Filtering System Using Idea Indexing
… of documents. In this thesis, we propose the idea-indexing model to improve document representation for the filtering task in IR. The idea-indexing model matches document terms with the ideas they express and indexes the document with these ideas. This indexing scheme represents the document …
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Students with disabilities: making IDEA transition services work
… the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), therefore, the probability for a successful transition from high school to adulthood for these students is severely jeopardized. Transition planning is a formal process of long-range cooperative planning that will assist students with …
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Adolescents' Idea of Fiction in Their Own Writing
<p>Twelve seventh-grade students in a selected county in Georgia served as subjects for interviews to determine why students choose realistic topics when writing fiction stories. The interviews revealed that the students wrote stories that reflected a part of their personal lives. The stories …
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The French Revolution and the idea of progress
[INTRODUCTION] The fact of change need not necessarily imply progress. Nevertheless, by progress we mean change. That which is static cannot be progressive. Progress implies progression in the direction of a desirable goal. Any change other than in that direction would be retrogression. Progress …
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The idea of planning in India, 1930-1951
… notion which was eventually to develop into the idea of planning during the two decades prior to Independence. But however nationalist, this idea, far from being the product of any autonomous Indian thinking on the question, was formed not merely in response to British bureaucratic efforts at …
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The idea of planning in India, 1930-1951
… notion which was eventually to develop into the idea of planning during the two decades prior to Independence. But however nationalist, this idea, far from being the product of any autonomous Indian thinking on the question, was formed not merely in response to British bureaucratic efforts at …
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The Idea of Tragedy in Garcia Lorca's Theater
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:41:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7500399.pdf: 11323736 bytes, checksum: 5d5f5b2a970acb1d8eb9e36c10a43126 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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