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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Order and disorder."”.
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Order and Disorder in Protein Biomaterial Design
<p>Crystalline and amorphous materials have been extensively studied for their interesting properties, but they comprise a very small portion of the total materials space. The properties of most materials are a consequence of the interactions between their ordered and disordered components. This …
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Order and disorder: a hotel in Alexandria, Virginia
… an investigation into the limits of monotony and an addition of an exception to their rank, that is why the design for a hotel has been chosen. The secondary theme to crystallize my beliefs about urban design was possible by choosing a site of inherent complexity in a diverse context.
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Between order and disorder: ultracold atoms in a quasicrystalline optical lattice
Quasicrystals are long-range ordered and yet non-periodic. This interplay results in a wealth of intriguing physical phenomena, such as self-similarity, the inheritance of topological properties from higher dimensions, and the presence of non-trivial structure on all lengthscales. However, …
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The interplay between order and disorder in cholesteric hydroxypropyl cellulose films
… from the physical interaction between light and nanostructured materials, unlike pigments and dyes, where colour is achieved by selective absorption. The formation of a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase is one route to achieve such structuring on the nanoscale. An especially promising …
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Meditative poetry, covenant theology, and Lucy Hutchinson's order and disorder.
I argue that Order and Disorder (1679), Lucy Hutchinson's biblical epic on Genesis, is a meditative poem, while claiming that Hutchinson's study of Independent theologian John Owen's covenant theology informed her narration of the events in Genesis. I offer a reading of the poem as a whole to show …
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To teach, move, meditate, and oppose : Lucy Hutchinson's rhetoric in Order and Disorder.
Lucy Hutchinson's biblical poetic paraphrase, Order and Disorder, employs rhetorical strategies that enable her to teach and move her audience, meditate for her own spiritual benefit, and oppose the atomistic doctrine of Lucretius. In this dissertation, I begin to examine the poem using a …
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Terahertz spectroscopy to explore the role of vibrational dynamics in systems with varying structural order and disorder
Understanding the processes occurring in materials with varying structural order and disorder, such as pharmaceutical mixtures, has profound implications for drug formulation and delivery. Pharmaceutically active biological molecules such as peptides, proteins, and antibodies need to be formulated …
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… Davideis, John Milton's Paradise Regained, and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and spiritual formation of their readers. In my study of these authors' biblical epics, I focus on their use of epideictic rhetoric: speech which directs praise …
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Discipline and savagery : the spectacle of the post-apartheid South African school
In describing and evaluating a South African semiotic of order and disorder, this dissertation traces representations of school discipline through examples of colonial and apartheid to key contemporary discursive practices. In this interdisciplinary dissertation three contemporary sets of texts are …
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Chaos by design: The constructivist stage and its reception
… of this dissertation is that the formation of and response to Russian constructivist stage design is motivated by a dynamic relationship between order and disorder, in social and artistic terms. Therefore, I begin with a discussion of what order meant, to society and to artists, in the period …
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Efficient Numeric Computation of a Phase Diagram in Biased Diffusion of Two Species
… under the influence of a uniform electric field and an excluded volume condition undergoes an order-disorder phase transition, controlled by the particle density and the field strength. This transition may be continuous (second order) or continuous (first order). Results from previous discrete …
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‘Static dynamic’: An urban Outward Bound centre for youth
… opposite, that of feeling ‘dynamic,’ varied and energetic and thereby congruent with the youthful participants. Research has developed a number of spatial devices that can be characterised by the word ‘contrast’; order and disorder, contrast in scale, interiority and exteriority, angularity …
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Communication and Community at East Wind
… participant observation, field interviewing, and document analysis to examine communication behaviors used in the community. It is argued that the communicative negotiation of tensions between opposing forces in community life function to construct the community's ever-shifting sense of …
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Between representation and practice: contesting public space in New Orleans' Jackson Square
… on either the past or present. Using historical and ethnographic methods, I contribute to understanding public space over time from an everyday point of view, a variety of social scales. Further, departing from a generally political-protest focus that much geographic literature centers on, my …
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(Un)Cleanliness: Reclamation of Body and Site
… is a service--a way of helping people and the environment--and I wanted my thesis to reflect this idea. This thesis combines human rehabilitation and environmental remediation in order to study how these two types of healing interact. Specifically, the program of the building is a …
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The legal philosophy of al-Ghazali: law, language and theology in al-Mustasfa
… al-Ghazali is a major figure in Muslim thought and famous for his writings on theology and mysticism. Al-Ghazali’s first career was that of a jurist and he had made major contributions to the jurisprudence of the Shafii school. As time goes on his juristic contributions are increasingly being …
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Essays on ‘disorganization’ in contemporary organizations.
… management thought consisted of assuming ‘order’ as a necessary condition for increasing employee productivity. However, from mid- century a number of studies started to indicate that assuming ‘order’ as a necessary condition for productivity is misguided. More recent studies have shown …
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Eumelanin and polydopamine : self-assembly, structure, and properties
… hierarchical structure of eumelanin is described and validated in molecular dynamics simulations. For the first time, the gap between primary, secondary, and aggregate structures of eumelanin is bridged. Based on the hierarchical structure, a new explanation of the photoprotective function of …
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The Most Dangerous Sect: Baptists in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, 1905-1929
… of profound religious searching, possibility, and change in Russia through the prism of the Baptists, the fastest growing non-Orthodox religious movement among Russians in the early twentieth century. From the 1905 imperial declaration of religious toleration to the Bolsheviks' retraction of …
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Observing the 2D Bose glass in an optical quasicrystal
… are a class of materials that are long-range ordered yet not periodic. These unique features make them a fascinating middle ground between order and disorder, thus providing an ideal platform for studying a wealth of physical phenomena. This thesis contains three experimental works that my …
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