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Inspiration to Illumination
This thesis is the result of insights gained from investigation of the work of Carlo Scarpa and applied to the making of a lamp. Scarpa's work has influenced this work in many ways but most fascinating is the way detail is used. The indirect connection between parts and blending of precious and …
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Human inspiration for autonomous vehicle tactics
Tactical control is needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and continuous, dynamic change. Given the likelihood of time constraints and high risks associated with poor tactical choices, current autonomous vehicles do not possess the decision making abilities to successfully perform in …
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Acoustics as an Inspiration in Architecture
Material is a common denominator between acoustics and architecture. The most basic building blocks of material are the elements: Earth, Water, Air (and Fire). Water is explored as an acoustic reflector, air as an escape path for sound, and earth as diffusor/absorber/reflector. This exploration of …
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Architecture and the Inspiration of the Museum
Architecture exists through human experience. As the product of the relationship between a building and a person, architecture gains meaning when it is viewed and contemplated by an individual moving throughout a building. Architecture simultaneously engages the body and mind of one who experiences …
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Issues in Biblical Inspiration: Sanday and Warfield
… involved informulating a doctrine of Biblical inspiration. It does so through a careful analysis and comparative evaluation of two contrasting concepts or models of inspiration. William Sanday and Benjamin Warfield were selected as prominent representatives of a liberal and a conservative …
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On the Democritean concept of poetic inspiration
The concept of poetic inspiration as a species of madness has usually been traced back to Democritus of Abdera, who is believed to have been the first to use the vocabulary of ecstatic possession for the characteristic activity of the talented poet, in implicit contrast with that of the …
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Rognvald’s Compass: Navigating Inspiration from Orkneyinga Saga’s Imprint
Skaldic bard Earl Rognvald Kali Kolsson bequeathed a twelfth-century legacy of poetry woven into Orkneyinga Saga; this thesis explores the relationship with contemporary writers who have produced their own saga-inspired work based on his original imprint. The central argument addresses a particular …
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Methodological investigations into design inspiration and fixation experiments
Designers often look for inspiration in their environment when exploring possible solutions to a given problem. However, many studies have reported that external stimuli may constrain designers’ imagination and limit their exploration to similar solutions, a phenomenon described as design fixation. …
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Crossing the Air-Water Interface: Inspiration from Nature
This dissertation aims to contribute toward the understanding of water-entry and -exit behaviors in nature. Since water is nearly a thousand times denser than air, transitioning between the two mediums is often associated with significant changes in force. Three topics with implications in …
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Inspiration and Novelty: Creativity and the Modularity of Mind
Creativity is the channel by which new ideas are generated, and through which all new and valuable things of any kind, artefacts or ideas, are added to human culture. As the entire cultural environment is composed of entities which are either themselves new or are copies of things which once were …
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Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierachy and Inspiration
… it does for the Latin Doctors, but the mode of inspiration by the Holy Spirit that is appropriate to the secular hierarchies. Chapters 3 and 4 concern contrasting positions on the degree to which this natural law can be politically relalised in the Christian Era. Chapter 3 outlines the influence …
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The Muse Re-Evaluated: Diverse Manifestations of Poetic Inspiration
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:49:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820966.pdf: 9617446 bytes, checksum: 4ad93a5079ec7455a0f04e94345be036 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Food webs: Realizing biological inspiration for sustainable industrial resource networks
This thesis considers the problem of how to design an industrial network to reduce cost, increase efficiency, and reduce environmental burdens. A recent approach is further developed that uses analogies with biological food webs to guide industry design. Studying ecological food webs shows that …
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The Inspiration of Imogene Coca: A Biography and Original Musical
Imogene Coca was a pioneer of comedy for women on stage and television. Her career in performance spanned the twentieth century. In the 1950s she was known as America’s funnyfaced little imp and “Imogene Coca” was a household name. Today that name is getting lost amidst a sea of male clowns and her …
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19th Century Gothic Inspiration: Investigating the Next Generation of Poes
… of his literature serve as the source of inspiration for many 20<sup>th </sup>and 21<sup>st</sup> century gothic literature writers. Two of Poe’s poems that will be analyzed and critiqued include, “The Sleeper” which was originally published in 1831 and “The Raven” published in 1845. There …
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Remediation by inspiration : artist-driven models for environmental clean-up
While often seen as utilitarian and technical, environmental remediation efforts have significant cultural, social and physical impacts. Accordingly, they demand responses that utilize a multi-disciplinary approach to the cleanup. The twelve case studies explored in this thesis represent examples …
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