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Showing 1 to 20 of 195 for “"Pause"”.
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.Pause.
<p><em>.Pause.</em> is a series of fifteen abstract oil paintings that represent a visual inspection of changing mental/emotional states of being as we navigate life. My subject matter consists of natural and organic forms that twist, contort, overlap, and flow. These aspects—combined with dramatic …
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Pause
Pause is a necessity within the rhythm of life. There are pauses everywhere around us; we pause when we breathe, we pause when we speak, and we pause when we think. Pause is a crucial part in the most beautiful pieces of music, it is in between our bites of food and sips of coffee. Pause is what …
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Pause to catch up
My practice is often predicated on a web of references to alternative histories, architecture, intimate public spaces and films. The complex layering of references can give the impression that somebody knows the purpose of the space, what’s happening behind the scenes. This powerlessness offsets …
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The television pause function
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989.
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Reducing pause times with clustered collection
Clustered Collection reduces garbage collection pauses in programs with large amounts of live data. A full collection of millions of live objects can pause the program for multiple seconds. Much of this work, however, is repeated from one collection to the next, particularly for programs that …
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Rest and Pause in The Faerie Queene
… connection to Spenser’s poetic practice. As pauses in the temporal fabric of The Faerie Queene, I show, they are necessary to sustain the poem and to shape its course. This is a study, therefore, of how things come to a halt in The Faerie Queene, the paradigm of which is the medial caesura of …
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Kairos: Architecture and the Pause for Good Taste
… Slow is the seizing of an opportunity - a pause for pleasure in the mundane. Architecture is fast, constantly engaging all our senses. It is through a deliberate pause that I find pleasure in thinking, drawing, and experiencing. Good taste is the wisdom that pleasure must be seized; the …
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The perception of clauses in 6- and 8-month-old German-learning infants : influence of pause duration and the natural pause hierarchy
… speech and the role a prosodic marker such as a pause may have in the segmentation process. In the speech signal, syntactic clauses often coincide with intonational phrases (IPhs) (Nespor & Vogel, 1986, p. 190), the boundaries of which are marked by changes in fundamental frequency (e.g., Price, …
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A Place of Pause, Architecture that can De-Stress
This thesis explores the connection between Architecture and mental- health. This fast-paced world has led to people dealing with large amounts of stress. There comes a time when one needs to be distracted from their day-to-day tasks that affect their mental health. This thesis not only looks at …
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c-Myc regulates transcriptional pause release and is a global amplifier of transcription
… RNA Polymerase II (RNA Pol II) transcriptional pause release. Transcriptional pausing occurs when additional regulatory steps are required to promote elongation of genes after transcription has initiated. Chapter 2 identifies transcriptional pausing as a general feature of transcription by RNA …
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The Pause: Re-Thinking Housing Through a Lens of Social Isolation and Loneliness
… social cohesion, emphasizing the vital role of "pauses" in facilitating human interaction and community engagement within built environments. Drawing inspiration from historical precedents and vibrant urban settings like the North End in Boston and plazas in Paris, this study advocates for a …
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A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RIBOSOME PAUSE SITES IN MESSENGER RNA THROUGH NEW SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY
Ribosome frameshifting, pausing, and termination events have a profound effect on the accuracy and reliability of protein synthesis. A variety of translational control mechanisms combine to ensure the fidelity of this process. Mechanisms, such as aminoacyl-tRNA selection and codon:anticodon …
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Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: an Examination through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project
… to examine variation in speech rate and silent pause duration by North American English speakers of four ethnicities in North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Washington, DC, and Newfoundland. This work brings a wide range of previous research from different areas of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, …
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Path place pause: re-establishing vibrancy and cultural identity in Pniël by redefining the square
Buildings provide a source of culture and cultural identity, forming part of the cultural fabric of an area with traces of the past assisting in the development of a place (Fransen, 2006). Cultural identity appears to be threatened in many mission towns in South Africa as issues of gentrification, …
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RNA G-quadruplexes and polyamines effects on translation: data analysis and development of software for ribosome pause prediction
… described in chapter 2. The presence of ribosome pauses in the upstream of G-quadruplex regions and the lack of an existing tool to identify ribosome pause sites motivated me to develop a tool for the prediction of the ribosome pauses using ribosome profiling data. This lead to the development of …
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The pregnant pause: exploring expectations and experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in a Cape Town body positive community
This dissertation explores the concepts of pregnancy and motherhood held by women in body positive communities in Cape Town, South Africa. By focusing on their expectations and experiences of these concepts within body positive communities and their wider social circles, the research examines what …
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Pause; Pivot; Position: A Case Study about Higher Education Communication Strategies and Decision-Making Processes during Two Concurrent Crises
<p>The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the communication strategies and decision-making processes of executive higher education leaders at a specific, residential liberal arts higher educational institution. Supplemental interviews with three executive leaders at similar …
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A study investigating the comparative effects of an audiation pause in tonal pattern training on fourth and fifth grade children
… immediately and students who echoed after a pause, and 2) to examine how the variations in response time in tonal pattern training effects the performance of high and low aptitude students.</p> <p>The sample for this study consisted of approximately 140 fourth and fifth grade students who …
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The Effect of Temporal Manipulation of Disfluency on the Perception of Stuttering
Results indicated that both factors (pause duration and vowel duration) affected listeners' perception. In general, repetitions with short vowel and pause durations were judged as more representative of stuttering, whereas repetitions with longer vowel and pause duration were judged as more …
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