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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Instant Gratification"”.
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I Was Thinking Something In The Car, But Now I Forgot
… verse poetry left around town, captured with an instant camera using a capitalist lens and developed in the bottom of a purse. Sometimes found, sometimes torn down, sometimes scribbled, riddled, pickled, stickled, belittled, embrittled and initialed, sometimes made by mistake but always left …
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Timely/timeless : temporality and perpetuity in architecture
… mere footnotes to the insatiable obsession for instant gratification, much of today's architecture profession has maintained its philosophy around past glory and heroism. Many of us continue to approach architecture with the conviction for the enduring qualities of our craft while dismissing the …
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The Enduring Image
… with the beauty it can access in a moment of instant gratification. It often has no regard for a process that requires personal discipline to capture a moment, a place, or an idea. I find little enjoyment in the immediate, when I can instead experience what happens when the combination of …
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Developing a Toolkit for a Social Awareness Community Exhibit
… social media) have helped to create a culture of instant gratification, hyper-stimulation, and over-exposure. By engaging the community in the development of an exhibition, on the other hand, the exhibit can become “responsive to the needs and interests of local community members; a place for …
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Incremental Design Techniques with Non-Preemptive Refinement for Million-Gate FPGAs
… thread, the incremental approach offers the instant gratification that designers expect, while preserving the fidelity attained through batch-oriented programs. An incremental FPGA design tool has been developed, based on the incremental placement algorithm and its background refiner. Design …
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A study of Myspace and Facebook from the perspectives of uses and gratification and impression management
… (SNS), from the perspectives of the uses and gratification model and impression management theory. As a qualitative exploratory study, this thesis had three objectives. First, it investigated why young people use SNS. Second, it sought to discover how members use SNS for self-presentation. …
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Color/Shape/Form/Space
… it expands. My research considers our culture of instant gratification and contemplates how to compete with it. We are consumed by pleasure and the ease of its acquisition. It is my intent to express this via an experience of fabricated eye candy to examine our cultural wants and needs. …
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Color/Shape/Form/Space
… it expands. My research considers our culture of instant gratification and contemplates how to compete with it. We are consumed by pleasure and the ease of its acquisition. It is my intent to express this via an experience of fabricated eye candy to examine our cultural wants and needs. …
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The Development of Reward Sensitivity- Exploring the Role of Culture and Parental Education on Adolescent Development
… individuals toward decisions that favor instant gratification. Given that reward-seeking may increase during adolescence and early adversity may promote greater risk-taking in pursuit of reward, the present study tested whether individuals exposed to early adversity displayed heightened …
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Simulated annealing algorithm for customer-centric location routing problem
… sales as the consumer culture enters an era of instant gratification. We argue that minimizing customer waiting time will bring better performance and win over market share by providing the quickest delivery service that is expected by the majority of consumers. We propose solving the location …
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Lenses of Connectivity: Adapting the Impact of Urban Highways on American Cities
… in these cities by the false opportunity and instant gratification that comes with so-called 'technological progress.' This, yes this, epitomizes the urban core of a majority of cities across the United States early in the early 21st century. What is to be the future legacy of these American …
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Enhancing GNU Radio for Run-Time Assembly of FPGA-Based Accelerators
… this is that by adding these accelerators, the "instant gratification" dynamic of the GNU Radio is lost. In this thesis, an enhanced GNU Radio flow is presented that seamlessly augments the GNU Radio software-only model with FPGAs, yet preserves the GNU Radio dynamics by providing full-custom …
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Framing Crime and Social Problems: How Students Perceive the Legality of Digital Piracy
… enjoy music or movies today (i.e., available instantly at the touch of a button through digital streaming services like Spotify and Netflix) grew out of the effectiveness and success of digital piracy endeavors. The ability to stream millions of songs and movies from virtually any internet …
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A Modular Flow for Rapid FPGA Design Implementation
This dissertation proposes an alternative FPGA design compilation flow to reduce the back-end time required to implement an FPGA design to below the level at which the user's attention is lost. To do so, this flow focuses on enforcing modular design for both productivity and code reuse, while …