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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Kastner"”.
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The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads
… workers were designed by German architect Alfred Kastner (1900-1975), with his then unknown assistant Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974). These unornamented, functionalist buildings adapted avant-garde European architectural forms into an American context in order to house the group in improved living …
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Finite-Difference Methods for the Wave Equation with Reduced Dispersion Errors
A new methodology was proposed in Finkelstein and Kastner (2007,2008) to derive finite-difference (FD) schemes in the joint time-space domain to reduce dispersion error. The key idea is that the true dispersion relation is satisfied exactly at some specified wavenum- bers. Liu and Sen (2009) …
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Jean-Georges Kastner's Traité general d'instrumentation: A Translation and Commentary
Georges Kastner's (b Strasbourg 9 March 1810; d Paris 19 December 1867) Traite général d'instrumentation (1837), an important contribution to instrumentation study, is often overlooked because of its chronological proximity to Berlioz's Grand traité d'instrumentation (1843). Kastner's complete and …
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An Investigation of the Coherence of Instrumental Accumulation, Using a Sculptural Methodology
… 4, New York, December 1966 p.19, reproduced in Kastner, J. and Wallis, B. (1998) Land and Environmental Art London, New York: Phaidon p 27.
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Pursuit of the Principalship
… Administrators, 2005), and Vermont (Hinton and Kastner, 2000). One concern of those who predict a shortage of qualified applicants for the principalship is that educators complete principal preparation programs but do not pursue positions. Various reasons for this reluctance to apply have been …
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“A (Re)turn to the Archive: Reading the Lives and Works of Yvonne Vera and Dambudzo Marechera”
In this dissertation, I read the life and work of the Zimbabwean authors, Yvonne Vera (1964 – 2005) and Dambudzo Marechera (1952 – 1987), against a set of assumptions about the work of African life storytelling in late liberalism. The circulation and reception of narrated lives in the global …
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Making Our Time Together Count: How to Use Workshops to Increase Well-Being through Connection
This Capstone explores how well-being can be increased through creating conditions for connection in workshop experiences. It begins with an overview of workshops followed by a literature review of the general field of positive psychology and two specific elements of social connection: belonging …
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Spectral-Domain Iterative Techniques for Analyzing Electromagnetic Scattering From Arbitrary Bodies
In the past, methods for solving electromagnetic scattering problems in the frequency domain have been developed largely for the low-frequency (moment method) and high-frequency (asymptotic techniques) regimes. The intermediate, or resonant, frequency range has been analyzed by combinations of …
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Ecology and conservation of the Såli (Micronesian Starling, Aplonis opaca) in the presence of the invasive Brown Treesnake (Boiga irregularis) in Guam, Mariana Islands
The world's islands are of singular importance from a conservation perspective because they hold a disproportionate share of global biodiversity. However, island ecosystems are fragile, and the introduction of invasive species poses an especially grave threat to their species. My research took …
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Estudo comportamental e estereológico em um modelo de tolerância induzida à isquemia em ratos adultos
… à isquemia (PULSINELLI et al., 1982; SCHIMIDT-KASTNER & FREUND, 1991; NETTO et al., 1993; NELSON et al., 1997), e está relacionada com a memória tanto em humanos como em animais (SQUIRE, 1992). Vários trabalhos mostram que os animais isquêmicos apresentam pior desempenho em tarefas de …
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Public perception: comparing tobacco industry public relations campaigns of today and yesteryear
<p>This study compared public perception of tobacco industry public relations campaigns of today and yesteryear. Little study has been devoted to the public's changing perception of tobacco public relations since the Master Settlement Agreement changed tobacco public relations efforts in 1998.</p> …
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Songs of sand and grit : a collection of narrative literary journalism
The introduction explicates the nature of narrative literary journalism and situates the four stories within this edifice. This body of work experiments with the classical form of narrative literary journalism. The Soul Searcher tells the story of the ethnomusicologist John Turest-Swartz who wants …
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The emergence and evolution of a generalized marimba technique
This thesis examines the development of marimba technique in the United States since 1940 from the perspective of the stylistic and musical evolution of the instrument's repertoire, along with the performers and composers who first brought recognition to the marimba as a serious means of musical …
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M-Studio : an authoring tool for context-aware mobile storytelling
The pervasiveness of high-speed wireless networks and handheld computers provide a channel for context-aware video delivery. Mobile cinema is a new form of motion picture experience in which discrete cinematic events are delivered based on a consumer's navigation through space and time, via this …