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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Terra Incognita"”.
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Terra Incognita
… Artist's UnknownImagined ArchitectureSubterranean Architecture: Natural and Man-MadePirenesi's Carceri PrintsGaudi's Architectural ModelsSelf-Reflexion and the Subconscious in Art-MakingArt and Ecstasy
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Engineering serendipity : Terra Incognita and other strange encounters with global news
… and proposes a design intervention called "Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World" to help address the geographic dimension of information diversity. Terra Incognita brings together aspects of serendipitous information discovery, personal informatics and "nudge" applications to provide …
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The explorer in English fiction
… of a home culture in confrontation with terra incognita or unfamiliar peoples. There is, as it turns out, a strong family resemblance between the novels that fall into this category whether they belong, like Robinson Crusoe, Coral Island or Lord of the Flies, to the "desert island" …
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The Prester John Legend and European conceptions of Alterity before 1800.
… Prester John, ‘existed’ in spaces of ignorance (Terra Incognita) that exhibited a different category of knowledge to that of the ‘known’ world, from the European perspective. As Europeans expanded their knowledge of the World, through travel and exploration, figures of curiosity were pushed …
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Eric Overmyer's on the Verge a Production Focusing on Feminine Values
… who leave their world in the year 1888 and enter Terra Incognita, a fanciful world that propels then into the future until they land in the year 1955. The women in Overmyer's play are three extraordinary explorer/adventurers whom, I believe, are based upon three women explorers who actually lived …
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A Field Survey and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Based Investigation of the Archaeological Landscape in the Niger River Valley, Republic of Benin
… in the region, the landscape here was a terra-incognita. In order to archaeologically investigate the area, several methods were used consisting of a field walking survey, and the use of satellite remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). An integration of these methods, …
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The Jewish Arabic Dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia): Phonology, Morphology, Syntax
… whose linguistic features and isoglosses remain terra incognita. A lack of text corpora and appropriate data, in turn, has caused an almost complete absence of syntactic studies in the field. The main objective of the thesis is thus a detailed comparative analysis of Jewish Gabes with particular …
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An archaeological investigation of the Kirfi area, northern Nigeria: craft, identity and landscape
… of an area that has up to now been a virtual terra incognita and make a wider contribution to African archaeology by interpreting the impact of ‘Hausaisation’ on the southern Bauchi area.
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«Ικανότητες δημοκρατικού πολίτη στην πρωτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση: ενσωμάτωση στο πρόγραμμα σπουδών του μαθήματος της Γεωγραφίας Ε΄ και ΣΤ΄ Δημοτικού»
… μεταπτυχιακή εργασία ξεκινά μια περιπέτεια στην “terra incognita” για να διαμορφώσει πρακτικές γεωγραφικού πεδίου εργασίας. Το πεδίο της έρευνας εστιάζει στη δημιουργία ΠΣ (syllabus) στη Γεωγραφία των τάξεων Ε΄ και ΣΤ΄ ενός ιδιωτικού δημοτικού σχολείου στην Αθήνα. Κεντρικός στόχος είναι η …
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The Explorer in English Fiction
… of a home culture in confrontation with terra incognita or unfamiliar peoples. There is, as it turns out, a strong family resemblance between the novels that fall into this category whether they belong, like Rohinson Crusoe, Coral Island or Lord of the Flies, to the "desert island" …
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The Influence of Relational Knowledge on the Transition out of Secondary School: An Investigation of How Social Capital and Social Goals Affect Educational Pathways
… schools provide services and resources remain terra incognita. To address this gap in research, this study investigated the availability and identification of useful knowledge held in both family and school relationships that supports procedural preparation for college and explains the …
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Re-thinking Photographic Portraiture of 21st Century Italian Migrants in the Arc Lémanique area
… by the experience of physically migrating to a terra incognita? Research conducted in the archives of Swiss-French illustrated magazines (L’Illustré and L’Hebdo) and other online publications has highlighted distinctive photographic representations of Italian migrants in Switzerland from the …
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Lord Aberdeen and Conservative Foreign Policy, 1841-1846
… along with Chapter Two, treads historiographical terra incognita. Britain’s engagement with America is then analysed; the discord of preceding years, various festering diplomatic sores, and America’s growing influence had combined to throw relations into sharp focus. This study re-examines …
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Flow, sediment transport and bedforms under combined flows
… this study was able to populate zones of the Terra incognita region previously defined in the literature (Southard, 1991). In this thesis, the stable bedform configurations under a diverse range of flow conditions were studied and divided into no motion (NM), 2D symmetric ripples (SR), 3D …
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Late Quaternary sand ramps in south-western Namibia - Nature, origin and palaeoclimatological significance
… has been developed. In Namibia, sand ramps were terra incognita. This study defines, classifies and systematizes sand ramps, investigates the formative processes and examines their palaeoenvironmental significance. The study region is located between the coastal Namib desert and the Great …
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Large-scale molecular dynamics investigations of ion-induced compositional dynamics leading to nanopattern formation at semiconductor surfaces
… with structures such as ripples, quantum dots, terraces, and ordered holes being obtained for various experimental conditions. However, theoretical modeling is well behind the experimental progress, and even for “simple” systems such as noble gas ion irradiation of silicon surfaces there exist …