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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Physical change"”.
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A morphology of consolidation : spatial form and physical change in an American suburb
… analysis of the spatial form and structure of physical change within an American suburb. Typified as middle class, residential, and single family, one finds in such settings detached one or two story houses on 1/8 to 1/4 acre lots. One central argument is that physical change, or change of …
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On Tower Road : a critical analysis
… to comprehend the impact of growth/development/change on the architectural interpretation of an urban environment. The primary scope of this dissertation is a visual analysis of Tower Road - an urban space which has gone through a recent physical change. However the author believes that gaining …
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Phrases of the kinetic : dynamic physicality as a dimension of the design process
… natural ability to draw our attention, provide physical feedback, and convey information through physical change. This dissertation postulates that the ability to experiment, prototype, and model with programmable kinetic forms is becoming increasingly important as digital technology becomes …
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Site specificity as the decolonial model : an interpretive study of the Groote Schuur Menagerie
… was part of his imperial agenda. Abandonment, physical change over time and immersion of the zoo structures in spontaneous vegetation growth, has blurred the distinction between the architectural objects and the original topography, creating a new hybrid landscape with a particular microclimate …
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Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature
… the body and pain to emphasize their characters’ physical features to the reader. As characters physically manifest emotions or experience violence, their appearances change, and these differences depend on physical descriptions. Marks on the body give it texture and depth, creating a layering …
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A sensor-based physical tool adaptation framework for facilitating motor skills learning
… learn throughout their lives involve mastering a physical tool, such as riding a bike, writing with a pen, or playing basketball. When learning these skills, people often use physical learning aids to provide support. However, currently these learning aids only come in predefined levels. For …
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Towards greener stationary phases : thermoresponsive and carbonaceous chromatographic supports
Polymers which are sensitive towards external physical, chemical and electrical stimuli are termed as ‘intelligent materials’ and are widely used in medical and engineering applications. Presently, polymers which can undergo a physical change when heat is applied at a certain temperature (cloud …
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Freeze Casting of Aqueous PAA-Stabilized Carbon Nanotube-Al2O3 Suspensions
… that upon resting, the suspension undergoes a physical change which must be completed to obtain advantageous microstructure. Freeze cast Al2O3 discs with and without CNTs were measured using a concentric ring test, with strengths on the order of one MPa. The freeze cast sample was successfully …
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The Perceptual Specificity of Representations of Complex Scenes for Rotation, Translation, and Reflection
… specificity refers to the degree to which a physical change to a stimulus, upon re-presentation, alters performance in any type of memory test. I investigated the perceptual specificity of scene representations for various kinds of changes to naturalistic scenes using eye movements and a …
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Transnational Impact on Urban Change. Modern Projects in Vinh, Vietnam
… forward by social actors, as well as into urban change resulting from the implementation of such visions. Focusing on the period from 1973 to 2011, it traces the application of three different visions for urban development in Vinh: The Socialist City, The Modern and Civilized City, and the …
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Wearable computing and contextual awareness
… to the minicomputer to the desktop. Just as the physical hardware changes, so does the use of the technology, tending towards more interactive and personal systems. Currently, another physical change is underway, placing computational power on the user's body. These wearable machines encourage …
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Exploring anomie in a special life-stage: adolescent anomie and aggression
Adolescence is a critical biological and social transitional period, resulting in a variety of new emotions in teenagers. Feelings of normlessness, purposelessness and meaninglessness are among these emotions. These feelings of normlessness, purposelessness, and meaninglessness are often referred …
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Biomechanically Constrained Ultrasound to Computed Tomography Registration of the Lumbar Spine
… phantom where the curvature of the spine is changed between preoperative and intraoperative imaging. For datasets where the spine curve between two imaging modalities was artificially perturbed, the proposed methodology was able to register initial misalignments of up to 20 mm with a success …
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Modeling and control of quartz crystal operated in liquid for bio-sensing application
… detected, the signal transducer can measure a physical change due to the binding event. One promising type of detector is the Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM). The QCM is a piezoelectric mass-sensing device. A QCM device works by sending an electrical signal through a gold-plated quartz …
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Evaluation of environmental materials as thermal witness materials
… pyrometers struggle to describe the dynamic changes in the environment. The presented research focuses on the development of thermal witness materials that are injected into the combustion environment, where they travel with the expanding gases and undergo a quantifiable physical …
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AMBIGUOUS BODIES: GENDER NON-CONFORMITY AND BODILY TRANSFORMATION IN EARLY MODERN ITALIAN ART
… how artists rendered bodies that underwent a physical change, transforming from conforming men and women into ambiguous or gender-fluid entities. However, the alterations to these figures’ forms did not relegate them to the period’s third category of gender, the hermaphrodite. Rather, they …
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Air jet vortex generators for wind turbines
… and required less mass flow, even though the physical change was minor. This indicates that further optimisation of air jets may be achieved. Further wind tunnel testing showed that it should be possible to eliminate the fan used in the full scale trials and use one of two 'passive' blowing …
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System modeling and modification via modal analysis
… damping through normal mode corrections. Then a physical space mathematical model may be assembled from the modal properties for complete and truncated modal vector system descriptions. Therefore, this method will deal with the general case where the number of degree-of-freedom exceeds the number …
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Integrated Model Development for the Assessment of Food Security in China Related to Climate Change and Adaptation
… framework, which integrated the bio-physical and socio-economic processes within the food system across different scales. The framework provides a useful tool for the assessment of food security and possible adaptation related to climate change. It was applied in China, a country with …
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Cultivating Lost Land: Livelihood and Depopulation on São Jorge Island, Azores
… as “already lost” (*já perdido*). Watching the physical change of their gardens and terraces was an unsettling and confusing experience that metonymically condensed broader concerns about the moral imperative of agricultural labour, the lack of desirable conviviality, the gendered dynamics of …
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