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Showing 1 to 20 of 625 for “"Mirrors"”.
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House of Mirrors
… original object and its reflection. Different mirrors produce different angles, lighting, tone, and mood. The mirror is a tool of reference and of introspection; of confinement and of freedom. ... Shifting between poetry and prose, my manuscript is two-fold. I am the one holding the mirror, …
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Smoke and Mirrors
<p> When a human trafficking ring comes to town, a grieving graduate student must choose between investigating on her own to save her sister or leaving the investigation to her impassive cop boyfriend.</p>
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Mobile social mirrors study
Studies have shown that real time collaborative visualizations that are designed to augment a group activity prove to be helpful to participants in general. Visualizations projected on large tabletops or walls that reflect a social mirror affects group dynamics and encourages balanced …
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Binary actuation of solar mirrors
… actuators to adjust the shape of an array of mirrors. To explore this concept, an experimental system was refurbished and recalibrated. This experimental system was used to explore the range of possible configurations that could be reached by a simple binary actuated system. System models are …
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Sub-Optical Resonators With Grating Mirrors
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:24:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000882.pdf: 1595756 bytes, checksum: 9fb41fa5e6a846aa646228bf8fcf012d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Social mirrors: visualization as conversation feedback
… with additional feedback. The Social Mirrors capture interaction patterns and reflect visually aesthetic representations in real-time. The designs demonstrate additional cues alongside the traditional social cues one might expect by integrating this feedback directly into the …
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Automated Fiber Coupling with Actuated Mirrors
… arrays. In this thesis, we present a design for mirrors actuated by servos that allow the precise, repeatable alignment of lasers in free space optical setups. We then apply these actuated mirrors to automate fiber coupling, where laser beams are coupled from free space into a fiber waveguide. We …
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Courtly mirrors: the politics of Chapman's drama
This thesis argues that the drama of George Chapman (1559-1634) can be read in light of his deep ambivalence towards the political elite of the Jacobean court. It suggests that Chapman’s lack of success in securing courtly patronage, and his constant battle with indebtedness (which resulted in …
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Inside/out : mirrors for reflective, creative thinking
In this document I present three tools for reflective, creative thinking: Pillow-Talk, the NeverEnding Drawing Machine and Calliope. These tools make use of the "distorted mirror" metaphor for self-reflection. They are designed to debunk myths of creativity as an acquired faculty and instead …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
My dissertation contributes to current scholarship on nineteenth-century American naturalism by arguing that the emergent theories of determinism and pragmatism were antithetical to, and yet dependent upon, one another. On the one hand, Stephen Crane’s fiction reveals determinism’s heavy weight …
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Hands. Words. Mirrors. A letter to my mother.
<p>My capstone project is a memoir of my mother in a letter format, where I tell my mother the story she forgot, who she was, where we were, and where we’re headed. After my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2013, my focus on telling my family history shifted from research of the family to …
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SOLAR MIRRORS CHARACTERIZATION FOR CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER TECHNOLOGY
… of solar reflectors such as: polymeric film mirrors, aluminum mirrors and thin glass mirrors, together with: the lack of available norms in this area, and a valid methodology to compare the performances of the candidate reflectors; highlights the necessity to conduct a more detailed analysis …
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Analysis and fabrication of paraboloidal CFRP sandwich mirrors.
… applications has driven the study on composite mirrors for several years. For example, the primary parabolic mirror in a balloon-borne, Cassegrain telescope required an optical quality better than 30 microns in figure RMS error. A parametric study on composite sandwich mirrors was conducted by …
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Mirrors to Toric Degenerations via Intrinsic Mirror Symmetry
We explore the connection between two mirror constructions in Gross-Siebert mirror symmetry: toric degeneration mirror symmetry and intrinsic mirror symmetry. After briefly exploring the case of degenerations of elliptic curves, we show that the Gross-Siebert mirror construction for minimal …
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Structural analysis and design of adaptive lightweight mirrors
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993.
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The design and fabrication of movable micromachined mirrors
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1988.
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