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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"Skins"”.
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Designing building skins
… to be considered in the design of building skins in an urban environment. The 'information age' has paradoxically seen the demise of the facade as an important signifier of cultural meaning. Homogeneous and minimally articulated skins have become silent and passive masks, creating anonymous …
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Receptive Skins : towards a somatosensitive architecture
In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, this mediation is mechanical, deterministic, and static-often seeing the human as a generalizable and problematic input. With advances in material science however, …
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Advanced building skins : translucent thermal storage elements
… can be used to create new adaptable building skins and allow for an active interaction with the environment to reduce energy consumption in buildings. This thesis investigates the function of the building enclosure in relation to these new material developments and recent changes in the …
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Digital material skins : for reversible reusable pressure vessels
… a new class of materials called digital material skins, that will revolutionize the fabrication and assembly of everyday functional objects to spacecraft structural applications, by embedding the intelligence not in the fabrication tools but in the materials themselves, to create reusable and …
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Control of Sound Radiation From Structures with Periodic Smart Skins
… beams and beams coupled with periodic smart skins in both finite and infinite configurations. Results show that periodic beam can radiate less sound than equivalent uniform structures. Results also show the potential of periodic skin for application to the structural radiation problem for …
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Biological factors influencing the nature of goat skins and leather
… histological and hydrothermal analyses of dried skins, and physical testing of leathers. This work formed part of a larger project sponsored by the Natural Resources Institute, who provided the Brazilian goat skin raw materials. The basic chemical constituents (moisture, fat and nitrogen) of …
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Reading Skins: A Braille Learning Facility in Old Town Alexandria
… body of modern construction is made up of skins that convey no intentions of interaction between human skin, delivering a concoction of low quality materials that time and again are layered the same way and only aim to be cost efficient. The result is a bland, empty and "flat" experience. …
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Optimizing the Extraction of Phenolic Antioxidant Compounds from Peanut Skins
Peanut skins are a low-value byproduct of peanut blanching operations. They have been shown to contain significant levels of phenolic compounds with demonstrated antioxidant properties. The effects of two types of extraction methods: solid-liquid extraction (SLE) and microwave-assisted extraction …
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"Old Tales in New Skins": Three Authors Reinvent the Fairy Tales
- - The Grimm's fairy tales are considered to be of the same importance as ancient myth or biblical form. A revision allows for the "original" text to tales' problematic associations with the patriarchal and heteronormative traditions and insist tale adaptations: Anne Sexton's (1971), Olga …
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Incorporation of Bio Based Flax Fiber Reinforced Polymer Skins for Packaging Enhancements
… The objective of introducing natural composite skins is to reduce/eliminate the compressive loading subjected to the boxes while stacking in warehouses.
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Characterization of A-type Proanthocyanidins in Peanut Skins Using MALDI-TOF MS
… composition of cranberries and peanut skins. New oligomeric and polymeric proanthocyanidins in peanut skins, including heteroproanthocyanidins and proanthocyanidins with sugar moieties or galloyl esters, were tentatively identified. Solid phase extraction (SPE) and HPLC fractionation …
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U.K. youth television: moral panic and the process of U.S. adaptation in Skins
… migrating to the U.S. in the form of shows like Skins and Misfits. The original versions of these programs are very popular, and when these programs are adapted, they remain popular but lose their unique stylistic qualities and their alternative political messages about youth. This thesis …
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The molecular biology of anthocyanin biosynthesis in grape berry skins / Paul K. Boss.
Copies of author's previously published works inserted.
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Old truths in new skins: animal imagery in the works of Nikolai Leskov
Animals complicate everything. They are implicated in science, in theology; they change the course of human development in its technological, cultural, and many other aspects. Animals have often provided material for thinking about what it means to be human, since they have been harnessed by …
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Flexible and stretchable tactile sensing skins using microwave transmission lines and piezoresistive rubber
… shear. While there exists a variety of tactile skins with impressive sensitivity, resolution, and integration, they are complex, expensive to fabricate, and delicate. This thesis explores two distinct technologies for creating a sensing skin based on molded PDMS silicone rubber. The first, which …
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Control of the common ecto-parasites causing damage to hides and skins to Pakistan
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Entomology, 1948
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Application and Characterization of Bioactive Compounds in Peanut Skins, a Waste Product of Virginia Agriculture
Peanut skins have long been a waste product of the peanut industry. The aim of this project was to find suitable applications for this rich source of natural bioactive compounds. Solvent extracts of peanut skins and a multistep solvent extraction process to yield oligiomeric procyanidin (OPC) …
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Analysis and Design of a Morphing Wing Tip using Multicellular Flexible Matrix Composite Adaptive Skins
The material presented in this thesis uses concepts of the finite element and doublet panel methods to develop a structural-aerodynamic coupled mathematical model for the analysis of a morphing wing tip composed of smart materials. Much research is currently being performed within many facets of …
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Bi-anisotropy, Non-Locality and Theory of Electromagnetic Multipoles for High Performance Smart Electromagnetic Skins (SES)
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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