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Showing 1 to 20 of 750 for “"Imagine"”.
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Imagine a house
It is the proposal of this thesis, that house can be the embodiment and manifestation of three independently assertive elements; site, function, and of a hierarchy of ideas, pertaining to the design of home.
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K3 Imagine : self-service bot
The Self-service bot is a project that was initially done in the fall of 2018 and is a chatbot that assists users in browsing and buying products through a messaging platform such as Facebook’s Messenger by using natural language. We took it upon us to improve the current version of this bot as …
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Imagine Pershing Square : experiments in cinematic urban design
… of Place," takes a constructivist approach to re-imagine the park through its users' aspirations. This project runs concurrent with an international competition to redesign the park, which provides a benchmark for comparing the project's findings with conventional use of film in design practice. …
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Snapshots to re-imagine teacher quality in southern Chile
Considering the important role of teachers in improving learning outcomes, teacher evaluation is considered a priority for educational policy makers. This dissertation addresses three issues related with teacher quality and teacher evaluation in Chile. The first paper examines the …
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Imagine Blacksburg: Using immersive 3D models to explore density
This project explores the challenges of increasing density in a college town grappling with how to appropriately respond to expected population growth. It presents a concept idea for a section of Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia that meets the various planning goals for the community. It also …
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The IMAGINE Project: Inspiring Vulnerable Adults Through Art and Mindfulness
<p><em>The IMAGINE Project</em> tackles the issue of stress reduction for a population that faces high stress levels due to environmental instability with co-morbidities of prior physical, cognitive, and social issues. Despite the need of stress reduction approaches in a population under these …
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Impact of Imagine Learning English in Two Northern Mississippi Schools
The study, Impact of Imagine Learning English in Two Northern Mississippi Schools, describes an effectiveness study of the impact that the computer program Imagine Learning English (ILE) has on English language learning. The study sought to determine the impact of ILE on the annual yearly progress …
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Imagine Yourself: Explorations in Fostering Personal Expression with Generative AI
… based research methodology to iteratively create Imagine Yourself, a new digital experience adapting off-the-shelf text-to-image generation technology to support young people creating personal representations and stories. Imagine Yourself combines OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 image generation technology with …
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Imagine Another World: A Philosophical Approach to Black Speculative Arts and Literature
Imagine Another World responds to the surge in horror and science fiction in contemporary Black cultural and theoretical projects. This work reads into the expressed conditions of Blackness that yearns for and that builds other material or immaterial realities. Worldbuilding is a way for collective …
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Move, make, imagine: bringing imaginal, embodied and relational consciousness to change work
Haven is a wholesome girl with big teeth who comes from Maine. She has lived in Spain for years, so she is not so innocent anymore. Perhaps that is why she began to lurk around this inquiry, wending her savvy way into autoethnographical experiments, turning them,sometimes, into fiction. Reality …
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"Now Imagine You're One of Them": Using Serious Games to Induce Identification with Out-Groups
<p>The purpose of this study was to expand our understanding of the utility of identification in the reduction of out-group derogation. Specifically, this research examined the extent to which individuals can be persuaded to identify with members of a perceived out-group, particularly through the …
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Urban Agriculture for Future Worlds? Just Imagine! A Study of Transformation Looking at Auckland’s Alternative Food
To respond to climate change, scholars argue society needs to be transformed. However, efforts to convey this need have failed to encourage sufficient action – driving calls for more imagination, and more detailed explorations of what transformation actually means. Focusing on Tāmaki-Makaurau …
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Now imagine she's white: An exploration of Black women's intersectional educational leadership and hidden barriers to retention
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Explorations in AI and Creative Learning New Tools to Expand How Young People Imagine, Create, and Tinker with Scratch
… Scratch projects; and Scratch Spark, which reimagines the new learner experience by using generative AI to help users create personally meaningful “spark projects.” This thesis describes the process of imagining, creating, and reflecting on these tools, including many of the challenges and …
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Imagine this: a test of imagination, message framing and reference-level on attitude, self-efficacy and intention to perform exercise
… health promotion ads frequently ask viewers to imagine the consequences that may occur if the viewer does not engage in the recommended health behavior (e.g., regular exercise, quitting smoking). Sometimes these messages are designed to emphasize negative outcomes associated with inaction (i.e., …
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“I can’t imagine you being a social worker without upholding social justice:” an exploration of how social justice is modeled in an MSW program
Social work is a helping profession that centers social justice as one of its six core pillars. Social workers are tasked to uphold social justice by promoting social change and challenging injustices through their work with the most vulnerable and oppressed populations in our society. Hence, …
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The hardest to achieve, the easiest to imagine: an examination of predictions about outer space during The Space Race in the Huntsville Times, Houston Chronicle, and Orlando Sentinel
For thousands of years humans have made predictions about outer space in fictional and non-fictional works. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union proved space exploration was possible with the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik I. This event marked the beginning of The Space …
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Sartorial disruption: an investigation of the histories, dispositions, and related museum practices of the dress/fashion collections at Iziko Museums as a means to re-imagine and re-frame the sartorial in the museum
In this thesis I investigate and interrogate the historical and current compositions, conditions and dispositions of three collections containing sartorial objects of three formerly separate museums – the South African Museum, the South African National Gallery and the South African Cultural …
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Evidence of compression and probabilistic representation during mental imagery
… single kite floating across the sky is easier to imagine than simultaneously imagining hundreds of kites flying independently. So why are some scenes harder to imagine than others? As the human imagination is heavily dependent on the amount of information remembered to successfully generate …
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