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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Lightness"”.
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Discourse on Lightness
… opacity, diffusion, reflection, floatation and lightness. It explores the crucial relationship of its bold tensile structure with the habitable spaces.
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Lightness - A bookstore in Chicago
… a place to sense the ordinary but precious lightness in their lives, to give them a place to read, to dream, to see the life of other people and to feel the beauty of nature.
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Lightness of Being and the Burden of Gravity
… and physical self. In my thesis exhibition, The Lightness of Being and The Burden of Gravity, I employed the medium of video installation in order to provide a space that evoked both the ephemeral and the physical sense of being. In my support paper, I discuss this exhibition in depth, as well as …
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A chapel in Back Bay : heaviness and lightness
… development of the chapel alone. Heaviness and lightness are the inspiration for this thesis. I have come to understand the words less in terms of their conventional meanings and more of a dialogue between ranges of architectural forms which complement one another. An experience of a place can …
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Irreconcilable Oppositions: "<em>Es Muss Sein</em>" and <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em>
<p>Milan Kundera's <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em> is a novel written in response to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's myth of eternal return. Through questioning Nietzsche's myth, Kundera creates an existential framework that rejects eternal return and illustrates his …
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Bestiaries the animal and the human in Mila Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
… I read Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace in line with Agamben's notion of the fluidity of the human-animal border. The first chapter of this dissertation, 'Behaving like Animals', offers a reading of the biblical tale of Genesis and of the …
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A phenomenological study of clients’ experiences of ‘lightness’ and ‘aliveness’ in psychotherapy within the context of Vajrayana cross-cultural therapeutic practices.
… of change in this form of therapy: 'experiential lightness' and 'experiential aliveness'. 3. To answer the following three research questions that are enabled by pursuing the above two aims: a) What is the phenomenon of ‘lightness’ and ‘aliveness’ as experienced in psychotherapy and how does it …
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Perception of Lighting and Reflectance in Real and Synthetic Stimuli
… lighting in a scene, a phenomenon known as lightness constancy. Classically, lightness constancy has been explained as a 'discounting' of the lighting intensity (Helmholtz, 1866), and this continues to be a common view today (e.g., Brainard & Maloney, 2011). However, Logvinenko and Maloney …
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An Investigation of Color Memory as a Function of Hue, Saturation, Lightness and Observer Imagery Vividness for Blue, Green and Orange Test Hues
… of the three dimensions of hue, saturation and lightness at a time. Consistent with previous research, errors were greater for the lightness conditions followed by saturation, and least for hue conditions Additionally, a signal detection analysis indicated that d-prime was greatest for the hue …
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The Effects of Stimuli Type, Size, and Articulation on Estimating the Luminance Contrast of Real and CRT Targets
… Based on previous research, it was expected that lightness constancy would increase as stimuli moved from a spotlight, to paper, and finally to a CRT monitor. Lightness constancy was also expected to increase with articulation, and to vary as stimuli sized increased or decreased. Two separate …
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Image usefulness of compressed surveillance footage with different scene contents
… In automated face recognition systems, `mixed lightness' scenes were the most affected and `low lightness' scenes were the least affected by compression. In contrast the HVS for the face recognition task, `low lightness' scenes were the most affected and `medium lightness' scenes the least …
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Evaluation of variability of instruments used in pork quality assessments
… of variation contributed by each factor to CIE lightness (L*), redness (a*), and yellowness (b*), chroma and hue. Based on previous research, the average untrained consumer is able to distinguish approximately 3-L* units, 0.4-a* units, and 0.9-hue angle units. Loins evaluated with machine 1 were …
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There’s more than one way to beat the heat: What anal probes reveal about thermal responses in Neotropical beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
… is correlated to morphological attributes (color lightness, size, and pubescence) and thermal responses (heating rates and maximum temperature). Preserved specimens from Central and South America, representing species with stratum preferences, were heated in a laboratory setting. Color lightness …
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Portable church: parable and paradox
… standardization, openness, spaciousness and lightness...vitality."
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Do music and art influence one another? Measuring cross-modal similarities in music and art
… examined the cross-modally linked continuums of lightness of color and height of pitch within comparable paintings and music of a time-determined art movement. The model of comparison extracted, measured, and contrasted the attributes of brightness of color and height of pitch in works from two …
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Sennsory Textural Attributes Of A Fruit-Filled Microwaveable Waffle Product
… roughness, scorching, color evenness, and color lightness. Five treatments of microwave powers and heating times were compared. Significant differences were observed for degree of scorching, surface roughness, and crispness with attributes more affected by time than power. Overall appearance, …
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unclosure: Workstation for Aquarcheology
… interrelation of structure and space, lightness, and locality are the issues that are studied pertaining to the question of "temporariness" and "permanence" in architecture.
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Effects of packaging and soy protein isolate antioxidant on lipid oxidation of ground beef
… (p $<$ 0.05) visual red and brown color, color lightness, and acceptability, L*, a*, and b* values, and TBA value.
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Elemental shelters for nomads
… from structural ponderousness to structural lightness." "[...] As a consequence of the myriad of more-with-less, invisible, technological advances of the 20th century, it is now technically feasible that within 10 years we can have all of humanity enjoying a sustainably higher standard of …
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