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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"Reconfiguring"”.
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UN2 : reconfiguring the world city
The establishment of the United Nations' "permanent headquarters" in New York City was hailed as an epochal triumph: the era of post-war internationality- in terms of global politics and architectural modernism--was to be continuous and encompassing. Sixty years later, however, the UN's physical …
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A Self-Reconfiguring Platform For Embedded Systems
The JBits Application Programming Interface has significantly shortened FPGA reconfiguration times by manipulating the configurable resources of the FPGAs directly under software control. The execution of JBits programs, however, requires a Java Virtual Machine to be implemented on the platform …
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Reconfiguring the ship environment for damage stability enhancement
It has often been said that, from a fundamental Naval Architecture perspective, the primary design objective to be achieved is for a ship to remain afloat and upright (safety-related objectives). This is particularly true in case of vessel flooding, where this objective becomes harder still. The …
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Distributed reinforcement learning for self-reconfiguring modular robots
… generating distributed controllers for self-reconfiguring modular robots using reinforcement learning. The promise of self-reconfiguring modular robots is that of robustness, adaptability and versatility. Yet most state-of-the-art distributed controllers are laboriously handcrafted and …
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'Kōrero Tuku Iho': Reconfiguring Oral History and Oral Tradition
The studies of oral history and oral tradition each have their own distinctive bodies of literature and preferred methodologies, yet share significant overlaps that make them difficult to differentiate. For many indigenous peoples, oral histories and traditions are key to their their past, present, …
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Re: Drawing. Reconfiguring a feminist response to life drawing practice.
ABSTRACT This practice-based thesis aims to explore and demonstrate the conflict that exists between traditional, male-oriented attitudes and feminist perceptions of the female nude within the context of life drawing practices. The research interrogates the problematisation of life-drawing practice …
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Self-reconfiguring System-on-Chip using Linux on a Virtex-5 FPGA
Diese Arbeit dokumentiert eine Studie über rekonfigurierbares Rechnen. Das Konzept des rekonfigurierbaren Rechnens ist beinahe gleich alt wie elektronisches Rechnen überhaupt. Zur Erkundung praktischer Aspekte wird ein in Xilinx Virtex-5 Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Struktur eingebettetes …
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Reconfiguring housing governance in Glasgow post-stock transfer: regulatory and liberatory possibilities
The 2003 Glasgow housing stock transfer was underpinned by the political rationale of community ownership: an ideal that aspired to empower citizens by devolving both ownership and control of council housing from the state to local communities. This ambition was to be achieved through a two-tier …
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Test Cases: Reconfiguring American Law, Technoscience, and Democracy in the Nuclear Pacific
This dissertation is a sociolegal history of American nuclear weapons testing and contamination in the Marshall Islands. It uses weapons testing as a window into changing patterns of America’s offshore imperialism following World War II. Tracing the legal aspects of testing and contamination, it …
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Reconfiguring the Republic Dream: New Equitable Housing Types in Post-Socialist Tbilisi
Post-socialist Tbilisi is a city with a rich yet rapidly disappearing built heritage. The city’s long and layered histories as well as its location at the crossroads between Asia and Europe have shaped its urban and architectural forms to reflect its multicultural and cosmopolitan character. …
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Reconfiguring motherhood an autoethnography of ADHD, care, and knowing in the homeplace
This autoethnographic study examines how receiving an adult diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) transformed the researcher’s understanding of her maternal identity as a Black mother and shifted her literacy practices to support both her and her daughter’s regulation and …
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Shells and Stages for Actuated TUIs: Reconfiguring and Orchestrating Dynamic Physical Interaction
Research on Actuated and Shape-Changing Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has been explored widely to design embodied interactions using digital computation has been explored widely. While advanced technical approaches, such as robotics and material …
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Life Between Construction Sites and Reconfiguring Public Space: The Current Case of Istanbul
The recent urban transformation and redevelopment of Istanbul has been associated with gentrification resulting from the neoliberal policies of the current government. This inevitably has changed and shaped daily life, streets, neighbourhoods and created a city that seems to be constantly under …
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Reconfiguring French Secularism: The Mosque as the New Multicultural Space of Young Muslims
<p>This dissertation explores the ways in which secularism communicates with Islam both as a socio-political concept and as daily practice in the context of France. Most studies examine this process through the uses of the headscarf or within the framework of terrorism. This study suggests a fresh …
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“I Don’t Want to Cook”: Reconfiguring the Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
<p>In the scholarship that considers ways in which the concept of domesticity features in the lives of black and white women in history, there is less discussion of how these women’s unique challenges led them to alter the traditional domestic space. This dissertation first assesses a range of …
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Reconfiguring the side-chain functionality of cationic helical polypeptides toward maximized gene delivery capabilities
The rational design of effective and safe non-viral gene vectors is largely dependent on the understanding of the structure-property relationship. This thesis aims to report the design of a new series of cationic, α-helical polypeptides with different side charged groups (amine and guanidine) and …
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Reconfiguring racial uplift: church-sponsored African American rhetorical work in the early twentieth century
… activism. The result is what I have called reconfiguring racial uplift, local race work conducted by lesser-known black individuals and black communities. Bethel members have not become figures of national recognition, and their work, and that of their most visible rhetors, when made public, …
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