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Showing 1 to 20 of 616 for “"Invention"”.
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The Invention of Rhythm
<p>“The Invention of Rhythm” dismantles the foundational myth of modern English verse. It considers its two protagonists, Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who together brought English poetry out of the middle ages: the latter taking the former’s experiments with Romance language verse …
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Invention and exploration in discovery
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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The Art of Invention: Antonio Canova's Bozzetti
… sketches reveal Canova’s complex method of invention, which can be understood as both a mental and physical activity. Long dismissed as mere studio props, the bozzetti are, in fact, crucial to understanding Canova’s significance at the intersection of classical ideals and the pursuit of …
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Imaginative Projection: A Method of Curriculum Invention
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:53:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606949.pdf: 19019069 bytes, checksum: de6453f1f871571c0b31cccc566bcce1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Designing rules--heuristics of invention in design
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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The Invention and Development of Electrophoretic Light-Scattering
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:01:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317465.pdf: 3676417 bytes, checksum: 56c2e805cc5a77415f4d0fb5a0137b98 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Invention from first principles via topologies of interaction
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989.
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Beyond Invention: How Hackers Challenge Memory & Disrupt Delivery
This dissertation uses a case study of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly to consider how the practices of a hacker public might be theorized as a rhetorical activity. The project is contextualized within a history of hacking (building from a narrative that centers on Levy's 1984 book Hackers) and within …
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Civic Space: An Architectural Framework for Urban Invention
This project represents the search for an architecture within the physical, historical, and political situation that an existing city presents. Set within the physical bounds of Savannah, it builds upon an understanding of the city as a series of Utopian propositions existing subliminally and often …
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Zimbabwean stone sculpture: The invention of a Shona tradition
"This thesis details how Zimbabwean stone sculpture has been creatively conceived in terms of a ""tribal"" renaissance by the first director of the National Gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, Frank McEwen. Despite the complexity belying the movement's history, McEwen initiated the Shona sculpture …
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Multisite optical neuromodulation : invention and application to emotion circuits
A single neural circuit, such as the network of neural populations involved in learning, expressing, and regulating fear, may spread across many brain regions and show functional heterogeneity among spatially overlapping cell types within each region. These populations, represented as discrete …
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Invention and implementation of technologies for continuous flow synthesis
In this thesis, I have optimized a synthesis of rufinamide an important epilepsy medication. This convergent synthesis generates two reactive intermediates in situ (aryl azide and propiolamide) and then combines them in a regioselective click reaction utilizing copper tubing as the catalyst. Next, …
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Inventive Response: How Teachers' Responses to Students' Writing Prompt Invention
… practices. It engages with the concept of "invention" from a rhetoric/composition standpoint in order to ask: To what extent do different formative written responses on student writing function inventively? What are students' perceptions of instructors' written responses on their papers? How …
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Re-Imagining Invention (post)pedagogy From Ulmer's Electracy To Design
… can be seen as creatively re-working the invention model that was devised and promoted by Ulmer in 1984. Through this history of invention in composition, Ulmer's invention model of writing instruction is clearly seen as both situated within a contemporary American Romanticism, and …
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From Knowledge to Invention: Exploring User Innovation in Irish Agriculture
… understood in such developed countries. These inventions, often shared with other farmers rather than introduced to the market, arise from a process of user innovation (von Hippel, 2005). This thesis examines Irish farmers’ motivators in the creation and subsequent sharing or commercialisation …
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The invention of Scottish literature during the long eighteenth century
"The invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century" examines the limited place in the canon traditionally allowed to creative writing in Scotland during this period and the overarching reading of creative impediment applied to it in the light of Scotland's fraught and not …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… truisms “individualism,” “blackness” and “invention.” Beginning with William Carlos Williams’ formulation of descent (as a practice necessary for establishing national literary identity) in <em>In the American Grain</em>, the project resolves around the question, How can the critic make …
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