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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Story Structure"”.
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UTILIZING A HIGH-RESOLUTION CFD-BASED MODEL TO REPLICATE THE BURNING OF A TWO-STORY STRUCTURE IN THE MAUI WILDFIRE
… Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), the area where structures and other human development meet with undeveloped wildland, grows by millions of acres per year in the United States. The WUI experiences unique challenges when considered in the realm of fire protection engineering, with potential fires …
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The use of Keith Johnstone's concepts of 'Circles of Expectation' and Vogler's generic story structure as directorial aids in comedy theatre
… of 'Circles of Expectation' and Vogler's generic story structure as directorial aids in comedy theatre. The method with which the research problem was explored was through writing and directing a comedy with UCT Drama Students entitled Image! The play opened at The Standard Bank National Arts …
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Analysis of tenability, ventilation, and water application in large-scale residential fires
… environment. Experiments were conducted in one-story and two-story residential structures, with nine occurring in the one-story structure, and eight occurring in the two-story structure. Tenability conditions were determined based on CO inhalation and temperature data. In the one-story …
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Reconstructive and reproductive processes in children's recall for prose structure and content
… compared on accuracy measures of both recall structure and content as a function of the form of the presented story and the recall instructions provided. Forty-six kindergartners, 45 second-graders, and 48 fourth-graders listened to four two-episode stories. In two of the stories, the episodes …
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Orbital
… to explore the use of traditional narrative structure to enhance immersion in virtual reality. The story structure of Orbital was developed based on the developmental steps of 'The Hero's Journey,' a narrative pattern identified by Joseph Campbell. Using this standard narrative pattern, …
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Occupant tenability in large-scale residential fires: an analysis of heat exposure, toxic gases, water application, and fire-service ventilation
… Northbrook, IL, with nine experiments in a one-story structure and eight experiments in a two-story structure. Different types of fires were studied in both structure types, including living room fires, bedroom fires, and kitchen fires. Some of the major findings of the study were that toxic …
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Structural Damage Assessment Using Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Immune Systems
… using simulated acceleration data of a four story structure exhibiting various damage states via computer simulation.</p>
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Mass media in the writing process of English as a second language kindergarteners: A case study examination
… the home serving as models of grammar, syntax, story structure. An investigation was made using English as a Second Language (ESL) kindergarteners, the classroom writing center, participant-observation, teacher as researcher, and case study methodology to investigate the following questions: Do …
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A web-controllable shaking table for remote structural testing under seismic loading
… allows students and researchers to excite a two-story structure, which is three feet high, by vibrating its base while receiving accelerometer readings from its three levels. Registered Internet users may upload their own input data, such as the seismic ground acceleration of a newly occurring …
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Imaginative writing of deaf children
… evaluation of children’s stories an “Imagination Story Scale” was developed based both on the literature review and on the in-depth analyses of four children’s imaginative stories. The scale consists of four categorised divisions (story structure, story plot, linguistic imagination, originality) …
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Characterization of structural properties and dynamic behavior using distributed accelerometer networks and numerical modeling
… estimates of the base-line dynamic behavior of a structure. A common method for making this estimate is through measuring structural motions using sensors deployed in the structure of interest. This procedure was applied to the Green Building, a 20 story structure on the campus of the …
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Narrative Skills in Children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
… with the same vocabulary age (VA) performed on story retelling and story generation tasks. The children were asked to retell two stories of different lengths (Stein and Glenn's Melvin, the Skinny Mouse and The Tiger's Whisker) and generate two stories from different stimuli (wordless picture …
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Feedback Control of Multi-Story Structures under Seismic Excitations
… control of the dynamic response of multi-story structures to seismic excitations. The seismic excitations are represented by arbitrary unknown stochastic disturbances. The research consists of modeling of the structure with a control system and a control design in the state space. A …
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Narrative space and time : the rhetoric of disruption in the short-story form
… and temporal disturbances in the modem short story structure. Edgar Allan Poe's "indefinitiveness" and Kenneth Burke's "actualization" serve as historical foundations for this investigation, which leads to contemporary frameworks proposed by such theorists as Gerard Genette, Umberto Eco, …
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Case study for identification and evaluation of construction innovations: the Hotel Georgia project
… ad-hoc innovations in some AEC projects, without structured frameworks for their assessment, resulting in varying success for these innovations. The primary goal of the thesis is to test an existing framework for evaluating innovative design and construction technologies for high-rise buildings by …
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Weighing the Financial and Sustainable Benefits of High Performance Structures in Seismically Active Regions
… advantages and disadvantages of high performance structures by comparing the financial and environmental impacts of a <em>performance based </em>four-story office building to one designed to meet minimum code-level requirements.</p> <p>To generate a comparison, the lateral system of a four-story …
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Distributed real-time hybrid simulation: Modeling, development and experimental validation
… demonstration is conducted using a three story structure equipped with an MR damper. The structure is tested on the shake table and its global responses are compared to RTHS and dRTHS configurations where the physical MR damper and numerical structural model are tested in local and …
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