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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Piecing"”.
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Piecing together creativity: feminist aesthetics and the crafting of quilts
<p>When traditionally feminized crafts such as quilting are embraced as fine art, the discourses surrounding their "elevation" often serve to bolster the power of art world establishments by referencing the tenets of modernism and employing mutually reinforcing aesthetic hierarchies. In this …
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PIECING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE OF TREATING HEMOPHILIA A UTILIZING AAV BASED GENE THERAPY
Genetic disorders are a major health issue. They include any disease caused by a genetic mutation or deletion. Disorders range from Hemophilia, Cystic fibrosis, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy to diseases like Cancer and Huntington’s Disease. While these diseases may seem vastly different, they all …
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Piecing together the magic mirror : a software framework to support distributed, interactive applications
Developing applications for distributed platforms can be very difficult and complex. We have developed a software framework to support distributed, interactive, collaborative applications that run on collections of self-organizing, autonomous computational units. We have included modules to aid …
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Piecing a Quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the Making of African American Women's History
This is a critical analysis of Jessie Carney Smith's Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women's and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at …
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Piecing a quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the making of African American women's history
This is a critical analysis of Jessie Carney Smith’s Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women’s and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at …
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Piecing together modular : understanding the benefits and limitations of modular construction methods for multifamily development
The primary purpose of this thesis is to explain the benefits and limitations of modular construction as it pertains to primarily wood-frame, multifamily housing in the United States. This thesis attempts to educate the consumer/builder/developer about what the modular construction process entails …
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Piecing it together : youth perceptions of the linkages between communication and adjustment to out-of-home placement
… youth interviewed shared their experiences of piecing together information from various sources in order to develop a more cohesive understanding of the reasons for entry and what would happen during their time in foster care. The youth engaged in a dynamic process of accessing information and …
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"Piecing Together the ""Mosaic Called Diversity"": One Community College's on-Going Experience With Hiring a More Diverse Faculty"
Implications for policy and practice along with recommendations for future research are provided.
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Piecing Together the Triassic/Jurassic Stratigraphy Along the South Flank of the Uinta Mountains, Northeast Utah: A Stratigraphic Analysis of the Bell Springs Member of the Nugget Sandstone
<p>Nomenclature for the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic strata along the south flank of the Uinta Mountains has been somewhat confusing because of the position of the study area between southern Wyoming, where one set of names is used, and central/southern Utah where a different set of formation …
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Girls in war, women in peace : reintegration and (in)justice in post-war Mozambique
… interviews, and a wide range of documents. Piecing together the narratives of over 70 informants, the dissertation chronicles the way in which the war and the post-conflict environment, and to a lesser extent, the historical cultural milieu, have contributed to these women’s current …
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When the Power is Out: Strategizing for Electricity Disruptions in Lilongwe
… cope with and navigate around disruptions, by piecing together an array of technologies and infrastructures. Drawing on in-depth interviews and observation, I argue that households build assemblages of infrastructures, bringing into their energy sources a mix of older technologies, as well as …
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Lights, audience, profit: The evolution of the Las Vegas spectacle
… forces that change Las Vegas. What follows is a piecing together of myths, opinions, visual accounts, personal memories, and some documented chronologies of the development of the current shows in Las Vegas.
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Towards designing more effective systems by understanding user experiences
… focus. This thesis then presents Teasing Apart, Piecing Together (TAPT), a Software Engineering design process developed to address this gap in the field of software design. TAPT enables the understanding of user experiences and scaffolds the redesign of these for new contexts. After explaining …
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Fragments of Joshua
… Krip realizes that he alone is most capable of piecing together a "portrait" so to speak of Josh's life. He is motivated to do so by love for his friend, but also by a sense guilt: Krip believes that certain events point to his negligence in regard to their friendship. He decides to gather …
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Kate Brew Vaughn: Marketing Domestic Expertise
… to be seen as an expert in household affairs. Piecing together Vaughn's professional life with newspaper accounts, encyclopedic entries, archival documents, census records and an assortment of publications written by her, this paper explores the equivocal meaning of an expert within the domain …
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The Golden Country
… with narrative -- specifically, through piecing together her version of the truth from the other characters' stories. Along with the novel itself, the dissertation includes an introduction that reflects on female quest narratives and places my manuscript in the context of contemporary …
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Zat Lun: A Family History
… I have been less concerned with uncovering or piecing together the “truth” or “reality” of my family history or the history of Burma/Myanmar, and more concerned with finding a language and form that will allow me to write about identity and alterity on my own terms. The book consists of …
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Advantages of Magic Systems in Literature
… novel, The Augur, has evolved and developed. Piecing together arguments for the study and delving into the intricacies of three very different Magic Systems served as a wellspring of inspiration for the System in my own story. The close link between the study and the creative piece submitted …
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Piercing together a girlhood : (re)visiting memories of site using nostalgia as a catalyst for coping with atopia
… black girls/women. Consequently a large part of 'piecing together a girlhood' involves engaging with what Quashie (2004) calls the 'girlfriend aesthetic'. Quashie's 'girlfriend aesthetic' offers a methodology for re-membering by providing a reflective surface; you see in the experience of the …
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