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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Transience"”.
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Transience and Permanence: An Architectural Dialogue
… Overall, the composite approach addresses transience and changing family demographics through the modular, prefabricated, core functional units. Prefabrication is adopted for saving time and expenses of construction. Assembly line techniques, grouping of similar tasks and use of skilled …
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Transience and durability in Japanese urban space
… of social reproduction are expressed in terms of transience and durability within urban form. A methodology is developed to explore the changing interrelationship between six conceptual ‘entities’ – the individual, household, dwelling, establishment, premises and site. Metrics are identified for …
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Qualitative analysis of transience in population dynamcis
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Permanence/Transience: The Afterlives of Ann Hamilton's Installations
For this essay, I have examined four installations—the capacity of absorption (1988), privation and excesses (1989), lineament (1994), and human carriage (2009)—and their afterlives as seen in a table; a grouping of a hat, chair, and sheet; balled threads of text referred to as book/balls; and book …
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Diapycnal mixing transience and the meridional overturning circulation
… flow to examine the examine the effects of the transience of diapycnal mixing on the MOC. The strength of the MOC was found to be insensitive to mixing transience when mixing occurred uniformly on basin boundaries. For mixing that was highly localized in space, a ten-fold increase in transience, …
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Bathrooms, bubbles and systems : archigram and the landscapes of transience
The dissertation studies the Archigram, the primary avant-garde architectural publication in Britain from 1961 to 1970, and the related avant-garde practices that engendered the high-tech movement. Drawing on the histories of technology, architecture and popular culture, the study explores the …
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Planning for simultaneous transience and stability : neighborhood transformations in Nabaa, Beirut
… urban planning in the context of population transience. It uncovers how communities negotiate their differences and diversities in their everyday life. These issues are important because planners rarely propose policies for neighborhoods and communities with a high population turnover. …
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Female migrant farmworkers: The meaning of health within the culture of transience
… for further research into the culture of transience and the development of health policies for transient populations.
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The transience of the interior self: Exploring the lost Real within a creative visual praxis
This research investigates psychological ideas of the interior self as transient and its relationship to the Real within a creative practice that includes video, projection and animation. The significance of the research is in the critical development of my creative practice and its creative …
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An Analysis of How Student Transience is Related to Achievement Test Scores in a Northeast Tennessee Elementary School.
… examine the relationship between student transience and achievement test scores. Few studies use quantitative measures to investigate the relationship of transiency on achievement. This study is significant because the researcher used data collected through quantitative methods to examine …
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Grendel’s Mother in the context of the myth of the Woman in the Water
… and the overarching themes of chaos and transience. By examining the imagery in Beowulf and its contemporary literature, this thesis studies the figure of Grendel’s mother in the context of this myth, looking at how the nature of motherhood and the element of water combine to form a …
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Dynamics of planetary waves in the atmosphere
The following problems: (1) The effects of wave transience on the propagation of planetary waves in the stratosphere; (2) The coupling of the equatorial and extratropical quasi-biennial oscillations; and (3) The propagation of planetary waves between the troposphere and stratosphere; are …
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One-Dimensional Excited Random Walk with Unboundedly Many Excitations Per Site
… <p>We give criteria for recurrence versus transience, ballisticity versus zero linear speed, completely classify limit laws in the transient regime, and establish a functional limit laws in the recurrence regime.</p>
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Strange Measure
… from scale, the earlier question of movement, transience, within this expanse. Transience as flux, flux as that antithetical to architecture's fixing in time, even as time is expressed. A way to think while working -- to 'think' expanse while working with enclosure, to 'think' the meander while …
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Market capitalization and earnings persistence: the earnings response coefficients of tax generated earnings changes
… evaluation of the relative permanence or transience of the component of earnings resulting from revenue law changes. Two proxies for tax generated earnings changes are evaluated though an examination of earnings response coefficients. The results indicate that tax generated earnings …
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Alternative realities: the absence of men and the quest for autonomy in female Hobo narratives
… hobo narratives that deal explicitly with female transience in order to further locate her in a genre of hobo writings. Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees feature female protagonists who move beyond the domestic sphere to pursue a life of transience. This …
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Mobility, *Being, Global Network: A Technography of Laptops and Cellphones
… terms, but also conceptual movements such as transience in identity. Being refers to a Heideggerian state of 'pure being', moments of revelation in which the truth about meaning and how we enframe our world erupts. Network refers to the ever-mutating actor-network. Nations partition the global …
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Nature Naturing Ziran in Early Daoist Thinking
… e.g., being and nonbeing, permanence and transience, truth, reality, freedom and so on are reinterpreted and gain refreshed meanings. Therefore being and nonbeing do not exclude each other, but are playful and at one with each other; Freedom allows the spontaneity of nature instead of …
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Beijing, bed, and breakfast : unpacking transient identities
… will bring together two private spaces: one of transience (identity without consciousness of place) and one of domesticity (place without consciousness of identity).
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Animals in Motion
… underlying anthropocentric anxieties about the transience of the material animal body. Employing ekphrasis as their primary method, the poems intentionally blur these source images with their animal referents and human viewers in hopes of coaxing into the foreground the common imagination that …
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