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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"Inscription"”.
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Inscription of in-fibre photonic devices by an infrared femtosecond laser
In this work, a point by point method for the inscription of fibre Bragg gratings using a tightly focused infrared femtosecond laser is implemented for the first time. Fibre Bragg gratings are wavelength-selective, retro-reflectors which have become a key component in optical communications as well …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
In the United States in the mid-1960's, Chicano cultural nationalists mobilized a generation by recuperating the history and mythology of the pre-conquest Aztecs as strategies of political resistance. Claiming themselves la Raza de Bronce the Bronze race) in their art, literature, and political …
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Inscribing Violence: Quantifying the Impact of World Heritage Site Inscription on Direct and Structural Violence.
… of types of violence associated with the inscription of sites. The background to this study explores the application of Galtung’s Triangle of Violence, which considers the symbiotic dynamics of cultural violence, structural violence, and direct violence. In so doing, I constructed the …
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Demystifying the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron : a new examination of the Scientific American text
… and white photograph and brief description of an inscription which he dated to the 3rd-century BC. The subject of this inscribed stele was an Athenian law, resolved by the nomothetai, requesting the examination of various structures at Brauron in order to determine what buildings were in need of …
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Multicultural Connections: A Study of Intertextual Linkages and Overlaps in a Culturally Diverse Classroom
… of this study is to address the pervasive inscription of conceptual boundaries with respect to culture by identifying and documenting process related to the inscription of overlaps. Intertextual connections among cultures have been overlooked, unrecorded and often silenced in educational …
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L' adaptation universitaire chez l'enfant unique
… si l'adaptation universitaire et les motifs d'inscription de l'enfant unique sont différents de l'enfant non unique."
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
… absent bodies and to project their metaphorical inscription in heaven, Anglo-Saxon authors defined selfhood and community in relation to death and the afterlife. Whether inscribed on stone, inked on parchment, or carved into the very landscape, the written text was therefore a mechanism and a …
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The Signatory Imagination: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Don DeLillo
… of writers and poets concerned with signatory inscription. By this, I mean the writing, tracing, branding, embossing, tattooing, or engraving of the name of a person or place onto various kinds of surfaces, as well as other forms of marking that approximate autography. My contention is that …
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Handel As Arranger And Producer: Listening To Pasticci In Eighteenth-Century London
… I argue that the genre was produced as a form of inscription of these listening and reading habits. By redefining the pasticcio as a form of listening inscription, my project reconsiders baroque opera’s aurality as paradigmatic of pre-Enlightenment reading and listening practices. Drawing on …
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CIRCOLAZIONE DEGLI OGGETTI ISCRITTI DI EPOCA ORIENTALIZZANTE IN ETRURIA. AGGIORNAMENTO E APPARATO CRITICO
… features of the producers and recipients of the inscriptions and supports. At the heart of the research is the catalogue, in which the inscribed object is analysed as the product of multiple factors ranging from the intention to create it to its actual realization, with particular attention to …
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Charming Fictions and Guilty Repetitions: Authorship Other(-)wise by Calixthe Beyala and Carol Shields
… repetition and a manipulative autobiographical inscription to respond to some of the contemporary challenges posed by geopolitics and its cultural divides.
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RETHINKING ABSENCE: ART PRACTICE AND THE CRITICAL METAPHYSICS OF JACQUES DERRIDA AND JACQUES LACAN
… lt thereby allows for the possibility of a re-inscription of signification for absence to occur.
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When Dyspraxia Meets Dyslexia At 11+
… of their body by disciplinary power. This inscription tends individuals to conformity to the single truth of the dominant power through hierarchical observation, normalisation and the examination. I argue that power is weighted in favour of the professionals. However, I assert that this …
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Sartorial Choreography: The Materiality and Performance of Clothes-Making Gestures
… by movement but also on material marks (inscription) created through gestures, for example, stitches, drawn marks, holes and notches. The research centres on the gestures of hand weaving, hand embroidery, cutting and sewing techniques, particularly from the eighteenth and nineteenth …
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Towards a new art of reading
Reading has a long history, marked with shifts in inscription and language and with evolutions in the architectural typology of the library and reading room. How - and what - we read changes over time. Towards a New Art of Reading imagines a future state of readership, affective reading - capturing …
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Writing and characterisation methods for UV-photosensitivity based devices and their applications
… the development of a holographic method for the inscription of chirped gratings at arbitrary wavelength is presented. The latter resulted in the fabrication of gratings for pulse-width suppression and wavelength selection in diode lasers. In co-operation with research partners a number of samples …
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Grains of truth : science and the evolution of international desertification policymaking
… and evolved in tandem: authorization, inscription, and boundary work. Authorization is the process that determines whose knowledge counts and what methods of knowledge production are valid. Inscription describes the means by which institutional resources and priorities embed problem …
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Sculpting the narrative : the material practice of Epi-Olmec art and writing
… in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec produced inscriptions using one of the most complicated hieroglyphic systems known from the ancient world. In the 2nd century CE, a group of such literate sculptors carved the La Mojarra Stela, one of the great masterworks of ancient Mesoamerican stone …
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“Of Considerable Interest But of No Great Importance”: Models of Relationality in the Work of Jane Bowles
… and other function via processes of reading and inscription. These models work as criticisms or investigations of relational practices; however, more interestingly, the formal elements of Bowles's work, her poetic, aesthetic, and metafictional choices, demonstrate a relationship between reader …
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