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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Icarus"”.
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The Icarus Machine : a kinetic sculpture that demonstrates gyroscopic precision
Inspired by the desire to unite aspects of art and engineering into a comprehensive whole, I have designed and manufactured a kinetic sculpture that demonstrates gyroscopic precession. The aim of this project is to explore the interplay between two seemingly separate fields, art and engineering, …
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Spatial structuring in trait variation in Polyommatus icarus in a functional context
The Common blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus (Rott,) , is widespread throughout its Palaearctic distribution and persists in areas with differing climatic conditions. It is known to be a highly variable butterfly with marked within and between population variation in morphology, thermal biology, …
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L'APPARATO DEI PMT DI ICARUS E IL SUO SISTEMA DI "SLOW CONTROL".
… poter essere legato nel nucleo in decadimento. ICARUS T600 è il rivelatore di lontananza del programma Short Baseline Neutrino del Fermilab (USA), che prevede tre Time Projection Chambers ad Argon liquido lungo la linea di fascio del Booster Neutrino Beam, ai fini della ricerca di un segnale di …
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Ars Audax: The Myth of the Flight of Icarus and Its Reception Since Antiquity
When considering the reception of Icarus, scholars traditionally have not taken into account the focalizing character. In this thesis I argue that there are two divergent threads of reception for the Icarus myth, stemming from the versions in Ovids Ars Amatoria and Metamorphoses and in Horace's …
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Dedalus And Icarus: The Influence of James Joyce on the Poetry of Hart Crane
<p>This dissertation is a pioneer study of the influence of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses on Hart Crane's White Buildings. As such, it is both an influence study and a close reading of Crane's finest poems in a new light.</p><p>The first part of the essay (the …
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Study on measuring Neutrino interactions with the ICARUS detector and addressing its cosmic ray background.
… along the Booster Neutrino Beam, in this setup ICARUS serves as the far detector. The primary goal of the program is to prove or disprove anomalous results from previous experiments that imply the existence of sterile neutrinos. ICARUS was moved from its original deep underground location at …
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Flavonoidinduzierte phänotypische Plastizität in der Flügelfärbung des Bläulings Polyommatus icarus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) und ihre Bedeutung für Partnerwahl und Arterkennung
… die Larven des Gemeinen Bläulings Polyommatus icarus in Abhängigkeit von der Art und dem Organ der Futterpflanze spezifisch Flavonoide unterschiedlicher Typen und Mengen sequestrieren. Während der späten Puppenentwicklung wird der Großteil der Flavonoide in die Flügel eingelagert. Bisher war …
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Flavonoidinduzierte phänotypische Plastizität in der Flügelfärbung des Bläulings Polyommatus icarus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) und ihre Bedeutung für Partnerwahl und Arterkennung
… die Larven des Gemeinen Bläulings Polyommatus icarus in Abhängigkeit von der Art und dem Organ der Futterpflanze spezifisch Flavonoide unterschiedlicher Typen und Mengen sequestrieren. Während der späten Puppenentwicklung wird der Großteil der Flavonoide in die Flügel eingelagert. Bisher war …
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Facultative butterfly-ant interactions - the role of variation in composition of nectar secretions
… myrmecophilous species, the Palaearctic P. icarus and the subtropical Zizeeria knysna were used. Both Polyommatus species are closely related, Z. knysna is a far more distant relative. To obtain high numbers of caterpillars a new method for breaking the egg diapause of the univoltine P. …
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
… Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl as representative texts, this thesis extends Frederic Jameson’s theory of “effacement” and Jean-François Lyotard’s “postmodern condition” to investigate the spread of the magical realist genre and techniques beyond its postcolonial …
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Comets in the near-Earth object population
… 2003, Ph.D. thesis; Stuart & Binzel 2004, Icarus 170, 295) estimate 30% of the entire NEO population resides in orbits having a value of Tj < 3. Combining these two factors suggests that approximately 16% of the total NEO population has both dynamical and physical properties consistent with …
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Using Museomics to Investigate Extinction and Decline in British Butterflies
… species; and the Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus), a species with stable demographic trends. This was achieved using whole genome shotgun sequencing of both historical museum samples and modern samples, and using these sequences for population genomic analysis. As A. crataegi drew closer to …
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Sieve : an XML-based structural Verilog rules check tool
… The input to the tools is a Verilog design file. Icarus Verilog is modified to parse this Verilog into an XML format. The tool then uses this format, along with the rules that have been defined, as inputs and performs the checks that are specified.
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Babel
… preceded me and still fallen (far and hard as Icarus)—is prideful, exploratory, and ultimately human. The titular pun may be taken more or less seriously. Hear the train whistle. It is our attempts at the Divine, a nexus of journeys and somehow in itself too a destination.</p>
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Mythology in the poetry of Maksimilian Volosin: The metaphor of consciousness
… by Orpheus, Laocoon, Oedipus, Odysseus, Icarus, and Zeus. These references to Greek mythology allow us to trace the path of Volosin's poetic persona: acceptance of the limitations of the human predicament, quest for self-knowledge, departure from the native land, wanderings, and return to …
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Modeling and analysis of hybrid geothermal-solar thermal energy conversion systems
… of thumb developed from Aspen HTFS and Aspen ICARUS software and from other sources. Detailed models for the hybrid solar-geothermal system were developed using Aspen Plus and Aspen Dynamics. Turbine flexibility relative to vapor flow rate, temperature and pressure variations was analyzed. In …
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How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics
… Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations and icarus descent and illustrate how the theory of disidentification can be performed utilizing the techniques of biomythography (Lorde, 1982) and critical fabulation (Hartman, 2008) that gesture towards a complication of rigid identity theory. …
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A comparative study of binary synthesis modelling software for neutron star mass estimates
… most common spider modelling codes, Phoebe and Icarus, following the first ever comparison between them. We find that the codes behave quite similarly, as is expected, though there are some differences in how the surface gravity of the companion star is handled, which has some effects on the …
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Myth in the Early Collaborations of Benjamin Britten and William Plomer
… on a Greek myth (possibly Arion, Daedalus and Icarus, or Phaëthon). Far from being footnotes to the parables, these early collaborations established Plomer and Britten's working relationship and brought to light their common interests as well as their independent ones. Their successive early …
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Using auxiliary gas power for CCS energy needs in retrofitted coal power plants
… of the MEA unit is estimated using the Aspen Icarus Process Evaluator, and the capital cost of the external GT plants are estimated using the Thermoflow Plant Engineering and Cost Estimator. The gas turbine options are found to lead to electricity costs similar to integration, but their …
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