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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Physical Context"”.
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How a Museum Exhibit Functions as a Literacy Event for Viewers
… questions designed to aid their recall. The Contextual Model of Learning (Falk & Dierking, 2000) was used for describing the phenomenon and for the analyses of the data. The Contextual Model of Learning describes museum learning as the interaction of three spheres: the Physical Context, the …
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MARCS: Mobile Augmented Reality for Cybersecurity
… can be employed to visualize data within a cyber-physical context to restore user perception and improve comprehension; thereby, enhancing cyber situational awareness. Multiple generations of prototypes, known collectively as Mobile Augmented Reality for Cyber Security, or MARCS, were developed to …
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Jefferson Park : case study of a public housing project in transformation
… the historical political, social, and physical context in which that redevelopment takes place. The study uses that historical context and the current realities as the basis for the evaluation of the programs, processes, and products of that redevelopment. The purpose is to measure the …
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"""Carving the world"": Inca monumental sculpture and landscape"
… of Inca monumental sculpture is presented. The physical context of these carved rocks is discussed, whether they have been integrated within architectural settings, or are to be found near springs, rivers and irrigation-canals. Arguments are presented to suggest that three separate styles can be …
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"This is the fluffy robot that only speaks French" : language use between preschoolers, their families, and a social robot while sharing virtual toys
… as conversation partners within a shared play context for children and their families. It addresses an underserved age for language learning, where early learning can greatly impact later educational success, but that cannot benefit from text-based interventions. With the goal of establishing a …
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A load identification and diagnostic framework for aggregate power monitoring
… methods may overlook potential features with key physical context in the development of soft faults due to a lack of faulty load data in publicly available datasets. Therefore, a physically informed feature space must be selected and evaluated specifically for FDD applications in which load …
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The way we live now : a new apartment house for Broadway
… accompanying text is intended to provide some contextual background: the introduction sets out the main issues I struggled with, the other chapters provide some of the historical, cultural, and physical context of the design, while a concluding section describes the design process.
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Marriage or a Multiplicity of Meanings? The Dextrarum Iunctio on Roman and Early Christian Funerary Monuments
… informed by Place Studies, which focuses on the physical context of the motif and the monument. I suggest that the change in the type and the physical location of the monument provided the impetus for changes in the function of the dextrarum iunctio, making it an inherently multivalent motif. The …
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Context : physical and psycho-cultural : a design for the concert hall in Sarajevo, Bosnia
… that emphasizes the active role that the physical context, including its embedded cultural implications and poetic ideas, might play in the process of architectural design. A successful architectural project in that sense would not only be visually related to its context in a meaningful …
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The recovery of substance and intimacy : material and character in architectural design
… a given spatial order, and relate it to its physical context.
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Nostalgia and the idea of urban ruin
… role in creating time in architecture: it gives physicality to the transience, allows time to be experienced with one's senses and imagination. In that sense, time is neither metaphorical and prescriptive, but physical and personal. Using the physical context of Fort Point Channel as the stimulus …
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Paucities of Monitoring and Evaluation Arrangements of Johannesburg-Based Non-Governmental Organisations Intervening in Substance Abuse, A Research Conceptualisation
… of literature, that is, on the (i.) research's physical context or setting, (ii.) research problem, and (iii.) past and current studies on and evaluations of the research problem. Specifically, the interrogation on the research problem analysis makes use of the problem tree, trend analysis, and …
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Liberian Refugee Women's Personal Narratives on the Effects of War on Motherhood
… cognitive competence</p><p>and the social and physical context, with changes in these contexts influencing the</p><p>competencies parents' inculcate in their children. Furthermore,</p><p>there is sparse literature focusing specifically on African refugees' experiences prior …
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Indoor Human Sensing for Human Building Interaction
… to our experiences as we perceive them in a physical context. Just like a book or film may induce a sense of presence, so too may our modern sensor drenched infrastructures and mobile information spaces. With the recent development of personal and ubiquitous computing devices that we always …
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"Art is a Hardy Plant:" : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the cultivation of a transitional aesthetics
… the ways in which a larger discursive and physical context transformed the architect's own understanding of his work and its function in a new democratic society. Recognizing, and valuing, the presence of nature in Latrobe's writings offers us a new way of understanding the architect's …
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MOBLLM: Model Building LLMs via Symbolic Regression and Experimental Design
… or superhuman levels. In particular, their in-context learning capabilities and the domain-specific knowledge they have via their vast pretraining corpus, as well as their fine-tunability for specific tasks drove a lot of attention and research in the field. However, applications of LLMs to the …
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Garden of the mind
… materials. Branch and root came from the physical context of nature, and were engaged with human-made objects such as light bulb, cardboard, and cloth. The choice of materials allows me to examine how I feel about the surroundings. For example, I use cardboard as a medium to express a …
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KNOWLEDGES, CONTROVERSIES AND FLOODS: national-scale flood management in Bangladesh
… understandings of flood management that are contextual, adaptive and indefinite, challenging many of the assumptions associated with the prevailing understanding. The findings inform several findings: that individuals close to the poverty line are uniquely vulnerable; that disasters merge …
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Settlements of Afghan refugees in Pakistan : an evaluation of conditions and identification of problems
This thesis deals with the physical design of urban public housing projects. To meet the objectives stated in the preface, the following issues were addressed: The social hierarchy of the community; the administration of the settlement; the maintenance and operation of the settlements; and finally …
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Designing in context : a new building for Boston's Beacon Hill
The importance of contextually sensitive design is once again becoming recognized by the architectural profession. A contextual design is based upon an understanding of historical and social factors as well as the physical context of the project. This thesis is an exploration of the relationship …
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