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Imaginary Interfaces
… devices. In this dissertation, I present Imaginary Interfaces, which return spatial interaction to screenless mobile devices. With these interfaces, users point and draw in the empty space in front of them or on the palm of their hands. While they cannot see the results of their …
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An Imaginary, Average Sun
<p><em>An Imaginary, Average Sun </em>is a novel about J, a computer programmer and data analyst, who discovers an algorithm that can predict her future. The book is composed of sections and fragments that investigate the lead up to and fall out from J’s discovery and the effect it has upon her …
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Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary
… character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary--novel, short stories, autobiographies, and films. Rather than engaging in historical arguments about the deeds and legacy of Nasser, my dissertation makes a case for literature and art as alternative archive that questions, erases, …
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Imaginary Values of Meromorphic Functions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:09:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709213.pdf: 2476196 bytes, checksum: d838ec28b09a2da240a9a14d02c8e426 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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And if the imaginary... : an investigation of the imaginary and our relation with our built surroundings
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981.
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A Theory of Nonlinear Negative Imaginary Systems
In this thesis, we aim to generalize the negative imaginary systems theory to a broad class of nonlinear systems. A formal definition will be given for the negative imaginary property in the nonlinear domain by invoking a new dissipativity notion with an appropriate work rate. This formula is …
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P-Class Towers of Imaginary Quadratic Fields
We conclude with a preliminary description of some joint work with Nigel Boston on the asymptotic distributions of non-abelian G with respect to the discriminant.
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Link complements and imaginary quadratic number fields
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1981.
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The nature, function and development of imaginary friendships
… the relationship that some children have with an imaginary companion.<br/><br/>BACKGROUND: The focus of much recent research on imaginary companions has been on comparing children who do and do not have one. Studies that gain a deeper insight into these relationships by detailing them in a more …
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The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan, 1931-1945
"Technology" has often served as a signifier of development, progress, and innovation in the narrative of Japan's transformation into an economic superpower. Few histories, however, treat technology as a system of power and mobilization. This dissertation examines an important shift in the …
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Sequencing the Body: Prisons and the Spatial Imaginary
… with these spaces includes additive, excisive, imaginary and redactive processes to highlight existing and hidden conditions. The desire is to inspire potential points of interjection for restorative justice and to shift the public perception of the prison industrial complex, while also being …
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Imaginary Forces: The Reformist Poetics of Victorian Fairyland
Imaginary Forces identifies the liberal, recursive mid-Victorian literary fairy tale as a specifically reformist institution, rather than as the subversive or reifying genre it is frequently claimed to be. The study argues that tales used romantic recastings of traditional forms to invigorate …
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Columbus' imaginary: A critique of post-colonial identity
This study examines the construction and negotiation of post-colonial identity in everyday life. Specifically, it addresses the mechanisms and practices by which a community of immigrants to the U.S. from the Indian subcontinent comes to terms with its self-representation(s). The analysis uses …
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Units and class groups of imaginary octic fields
… 4 and 5 this method is applied to real and imaginary bicyclic biquadratic extensions of Q. In chapter 6 a method for determining the unit group of an imaginary octic field is given. In the final chapter all imaginary octic fields of class number less than or equal to 16 or prime class number …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
<p>“Imaginary Friends” investigates the potential of the ‘imaginary friend’ as a narrative device in picture book storytelling. By combining the research of Marjorie Taylor on ‘imaginary companions’ and Lois Rostow Kuznets on ‘toy animals’ in literature, I seek to give form to the concept of the …
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Time Machines: technology, temporality, and the Victorian social imaginary
… invested and embedded on the level of the social imaginary and its material mediation. This allows historians again to speak of a process of secularization, albeit only on this particular level. However—and contrary to Taylor—the thesis argues that the temporal structure of Victorian modernity …
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The Jesuit Imaginary: Higher Education in a Secular Age
… and the social. The way of envisioning, a Jesuit imaginary, views selves and social milieus as interrelational and transformative of each other.
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Creating Imaginary Worlds on the Page and in the Mind
This PhD by published works explores world-building in the light of the author’s writing practice, which has been informed by his own neurodivergence in general and his aphantasia in particular. It has also been informed by Wolfgang Iser’s phenomenological exploration of the reading process. The …
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