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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Material environment"”.
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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement
… ethos in its approach to technology and materials. Rather than engage with ‘complete’ technologies, such as a technology supplied as ready-to-go item, the DiY practitioners examined in this thesis engage with the raw materials of garbage and recycling, ‘incomplete’, broken and discarded …
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ŠIAULIŲ UNIVERSITETO SOCIALINĖS GEROVĖS IR NEGALĖS STUDIJŲ FAKULTETO APLINKOS VERTINIMAS: STUDIJUOJANČIŲJŲ POŽIŪRIS /
… not many researches devoted to determine, what material environment conditions must be created, that each student who is seeking effective studies, will be enabled to this activity. In empirical part, was the most important to determine what the material environment conditions are made in …
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Mains, Drains and Strains: The Emergence of Urban Water and Waste Systems in the United States
… professions and a significantly transformed material environment. An analysis of this process suggests new ways of thinking about technology, social action and concepts of progress.
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On the social reception of material form and space, or, the SUV in the melee
… are seen, the possibility that a single material environment can embody conflicting social roles is proposed. A trope---the melee---is introduced as a model for the reception of material form and space that is grounded in bodily experience tempered by memory and projection. Three 'tries' …
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Specimen size effects in slow strain-rate testing
… of specimen dimensions in slow strain-rate environmental effects testing. Tension tests of free machining brass were conducted in a mercuric nitrate solution at a constant crosshead displacement rate of 10⁻³(inch/sec). Thirty-six smooth round bar specimens with different dimensions were …
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Laboratorization of Everyday Life: Adaptations among Robots, Laboratory and Society
By investigating the social and environmental politics that are embodied in service robots, I show how both the laboratory culture and wider society expect their own respective values and environmental cultures to displace the other. This dissertation highlights the importance of understanding how …
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Chemical and structural analysis of grain boundaries in Inconel 690 for corrosion resistance
… the combination of tensile stress, corrosive environment and material susceptibility; it is frequently an intergranular attack. Material-environment combinations for SCC readily exist in nuclear power plants, and are critical for to the longevity of the reactor components. Inconel 690 (alloy …
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Making kin and taking care: intra-active learning with time, space and matter in a Johannesburg preschool
… paying particular attention to the agency of the material environment. The learning spaces of a preschool and its neighbouring park emerge as key players in the lively thinking-with that is sparked off by our engagements with each other: people, other creatures, plants, spaces, things, energies, …
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How the classroom schools: A focused ethnography exploring the built classroom environment and its inhabitants in one kindergarten
… around the sociology of a classroom’s built environment and its young inhabitants. I spent three months immersed in a kindergarten classroom where I used child-centered research methods (ie. the kids created collaborative and individual classroom maps and conducted child-led video tours) …
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New Constructions of House and Home in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Cinema (2005-2015)
… of attention from human subjects to the material environment defamiliarises the domestic sphere and complicates its relation to the nation. The house thus does not act as ‘a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability’ (Bachelard), but rather as a medium through …
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Thinking the Financial Subject with Contemporary French Thought: Ontology, Time, and the Critique of Capitalism in the Work of Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, and Frédéric Lordon
… certain encounters of the subject with their material milieu, undoing subject’s possibility to unfold long-term habit-forming processes. I claim that this temporality stems from finance’s increased influence in shaping our material environment. Engaging with heterodox voices in economics and …
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Constructing trust in acute inpatient mental healthcare facilities : the role of physical, social and symbolic environments of care in supporting therapeutic safety
… realist inquiry into how the physical habitat/material environment supports or hinders the creation of therapeutic safety in acute inpatient mental healthcare facilities. The literature review indicated that trust is integral to therapeutic relationships but acts of trust were unlikely without …
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Housing qualities: Myths and meanings in Auckland, New Zealand
… These approaches to housing quality focusing on material dimensions dominate the literature and are commonly quantitatively measured. This study moves beyond the reductionist representation of housing quality concepts that often do not incorporate insider experiences and non-material dimensions; …
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
… teacher and peers, and active in exploring the material environment. At home, parents’ beliefs and practices about English writing and learning show differences from those at preschool; but there are also signs that parents have begun to adopt school practices. </p><p>In Chinese Sunday school, …
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Re-making collectives. A study of changes in the living environments of mainland Greece, 2500-2100 BCE
This thesis investigates changes in the material remains of settlement sites excavated in central and southern mainland Greece and dating from ca. 2500 to 2100 BCE (later Early Bronze II to Early Bronze III). The 23rd and 22nd centuries BCE have long been identified as a period of significant …
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The impact of American missionaries on the Bura people of Nigeria
… a period of fifty years.Differences in the material environment are most easily observed and marked change can be seen in such things as the common attire of the people, in the kinds and amounts of equipment available for use in ordinary tasks and in the style of houses in which many Buras …
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New Routes to HCI - A transdisciplinary approach
… as well as examining the physicality or materiality of artefacts in terms of their congruence with the paradigm of the ‘embodied mind’. The preliminary studies and literature review carried out for the research revealed that the model of the mind currently proposed by HCI as the basis for …
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Walking in Landscapes of Displacement: The Spatiality of Transcultural Activism
… the global “north” and “south” divide. In both environments, the research adopts a street-level perspective to study the relationship between national and municipal governance, global politics, spatial imagination, architectural intervention, and the agency of displaced persons to navigate these …
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Original stories and tales emphasizing the theme of conservation for use with kindergarten children to which are attached a group of poems for children of the same age
… I have been forced to create my own teaching material. After much thought upon the subject, the following stories and poems resulted. As they unfolded in my mind, I told them, orally, to my kindergarten children, to find how they reacted to them. Now, hoping that they may be of use to other …
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Injustice and discrimination through assimilationist policies and education against Native American students: a capability approach
… Play and Control over one’s political and material environment. All may be severely compromised within the present educational system for Indigenous students within the United States. I will argue that The Capability Approach provides an appropriate theoretical lens to address specific …
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