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Showing 1 to 20 of 711 for “"Maker"”.
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Decision making strategies: the influence of task complexity, decision importance, decision maker impulsivity, and decision maker gender
… complexity, decision importance, and decision maker impulsivity on decision making behavior were studied in this thesis. Measures involving time and acquisition of information were devised as well as specialized measures of decision strategy complexity. Thirty-six subjects classified as either …
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Market Maker : an agent-mediated marketplace infrastructure
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Autism and Occupation: Video Modeling for Maker Activities
… using video modeling (VM) while engaging in Maker activities is an essential part of occupational therapy research. Participants in this study were four individuals with ASD recruited from a project-based studio located in San Rafael, CA, and one staff member. The qualitative portion of this …
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An information theoretic model of the decision maker
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981.
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The sinner, the stranger, the sacrifice maker : an apocryphal autobiography
This report serves as a kind of explanation and expansion upon the work I have taken on the past few months. It explores how the concepts of memory and perspective play a role in the narratives that we create. I accomplish this through my work with board games and theatrical recreations. It further …
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Form-maker and collaborator : the role of the structural engineer
… there is a detailed discussion of the 'form-makers' and 'collaborators' in the context of the present day, in an effort to describe the basis for quality in structural engineering.
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Hands On: Building a Maker Space from the Ground Up
… My research also highlighted a clear need for "maker" facilities in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area--colloquially known as the DMV--[D]C, [M]aryland, [V]irginia ("May 2023 OEWS Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Definitions," n.d.). While there are plenty of fantastic ways to enjoy art …
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"Like a Donut Maker, Only Slower": Don Delillo's Advice to Writers
<p>This dissertation acts as a compendium and an analysis of DeLillo's writerly counsel, with an eye to how this advice might promise fresh ways to consider and analyze his fictions. Chapter one focuses on DeLillo's statements to the larger writing world - advice found in interviews and published …
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Information Aggregation in Decision Markets under a Modified Hanson Market Maker
… market utilizing the Hanson automated market maker. The key distinction of our environment when compared with previous studies in the prediction market space is in the introduction of a conditional market that allows subjects to make conscious decisions to infuence market outcomes, and thus it …
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Remote embodiment for augmented collaborative help (REACH): Supporting distributed maker communities
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Making space : pedagogical interventions to foster equity in introductory maker education
The maker movement has spread widely among both adults and children, but its recent integration into K-12 education has forced makerspace coordinators to examine their work through a new lens. Experienced makers need little beyond safety training to get started making their own projects, but new …
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Design of a precise, affordable braille label maker for the blind
… of people with blindness, there is no label maker on the market that meets the requirements of users. The goal of this thesis is to design a precise, affordable, language independent, personal braille label maker as a tool for the blind. The work presented couples methods and tools from both …
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Re:presenting making: the integration of new technology into ceramic designer-maker practice.
… into the practice of the ceramic designer-maker, in order to assess the impact of new technologies on practice. A critical contextual review (including analysis of visual material) revealed a developing interest in environmental issues and computer technologies in designer-maker practice. A …
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Portable electromechanical braille label maker : from a 2.009 prototype to a product
… a portable electromechanical Braille label maker that was developed in the MIT class 2.009, product engineering processes. The discussion focuses on the steps that have been taken thus far towards making the alpha prototype into a commercially available device, and discusses the steps that …
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Intermediation and disintermediation of resources for entrepreneurship and innovation in the maker movement.
The maker movement phenomenon represents potential disintermediation of producer innovation as well as intermediation of creative processes for entrepreneurs and innovators. This dissertation introduces the maker movement phenomenon and its relevance for research on entrepreneurship and innovation. …
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The Autonomous Maker within: 'Fantasia' in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art Theory (1501-1568)
This thesis investigates the significance of the notion of fantasia for artists and critics of art in Italy during the sixteenth century up to the definitive edition of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives (1568). It charts the pre-history of this term in an age before the imagination was attributed paramount …
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The Mind of the Maker vs. the mind of the maker : Dorothy L. Sayers' trinitarian theory of creation applied to her plays Zeal of Thy House and The Devil to Pay.
… that she outlined in her book The Mind of the Maker and elaborated in other Christian essays in The Whimsical Christian: Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World. The nature of her theory is that every act of creation mirrors the three-fold structure of the master Creator, and thus can be …
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