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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Quixotic"”.
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Magnetic resonance imaging of the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO₂)
… eXtraction of Oxygen and TIssue Consumption, or QUIXOTIC, is introduced. The key innovation in QUIXOTIC is the use of velocity-selective spin labeling to isolate MR signal exclusively from post-capillary venular blood on a voxel-by-voxel basis. This isolated signal can be related to venular …
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Homecoming Festivals: The Re-accentuated Image of Don Quixote in Western Novel
… with Don Quixote, and thus become “quixotic.”
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Ecosystem Reboot : How scientists are building an inside-out Noah’s Ark for Florida’s vanished coral reefs
… breeding and propagating them on land, with the quixotic hope that the reef can one day be rebooted from its backup copy. To do so, Florida’s coral community would need to collect thousands of corals, find places to warehouse their charges, and figure out ways to grow big, genetically diverse …
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Coloring Perception: Spencer Finch and the Art of Seeing
… artist, Spencer Finch. He has embarked on a quixotic mission of trying to measure, capture, and replicate the temporal qualities of light and color. His interest lies in capturing the fleetingness of the moments he experiences. To some extent Finch is successful in his impossible quest. Even …
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Occult Communism: culture, science and spirituality in late socialist Bulgaria
… Institute of Suggestology. I contend that as quixotic as Zhivkova’s vision was, her policies contributed to the liberalization of art and culture in a period that has long been associated exclusively with stagnation and decay. In so doing, my work questions the failure of utopianism in late …
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A Commentary on 'Local Public Service Television'
… methodology is therefore reflective and at times quixotic, working through a variety of methods and forms of organisation and practice in pursuit of what has long been an evident - if overlooked - public objective, the realisation of a more identity enhancing localised form of television …
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MRI based cerebral oxygenation measures in humans : technical development for use across lifespan
… of eXtraction of Oxygen and TIssue Consumption (QUIXOTIC) technique for measurements of global oxygen extraction fraction by eightfold while improving robustness to physiological noise and motion. We also corrected the effect of residual cerebrospinal fluid signal on transverse relaxation time …
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Mind Playing Tricks: Individualism, Upward Mobility, and the Commitment to Self-Determination Among the Urban Poor
… or does it signify a seductive but quixotic pipe dream that allays feelings of failure, stagnation, and a lack of exposure to broader social contexts? This dissertation examines the concept of individualism among residents of a low-income, long disadvantaged urban community. Using …
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Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives
… by being represented as too delayed, too quixotic, or too unfeasible. My dissertation understands ‘liberalism’ as a tripartite entity: first, the onto-epistemologies inaugurated and normalized by the Enlightenment, that also authorized the violent processes of colonialism, imperialism, and …
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Museum, design, organisation: an exploration of spatialities and a project in modelling museum design activity
… cites as latterly more crucial figures.' This 'quixotic' aspect of the designer's position is crucial to any argument about personal integrity and social value: this enigmatic journeyman and traveller follows a lonely path guided by emotional (instinctual) as much as by intellectual and …