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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Whyte"”.
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At the margins of ordered freedom : the problem of the sidewalk as public space in New York
… as a system. The work of Jane Jacobs and William Whyte in the 1960s is studied since it represents a critical engagement with the sidewalk, and a reaction against the 'scientific' planning orthodoxy exemplified by the public housing projects of Robert Moses. Jacobs' reappraisal of the social …
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Bringers of epiphany: depictions of the feminine in the shorter fiction of George Mackay Brown
… short stories. By bearing in mind Christopher Whyte and Douglas Gifford's very different observations of the place these female characters occupy in the texts, it will be discovered whether or not Brown's gender ideology is constraining and limited. The thesis will examine in four chapters the …
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The Social Life of Privately-Owned Public Spaces: Investigating the history and social outcomes of POPS—one of the most powerful tools for creating public space in modern American cities.
… Using the framework created by William Holly Whyte for assessing social space, it investigates the social life of three plazas in the South Lake Union neighborhood in order to reach its ultimate conclusions about what works, what doesn’t, and how these spaces might be improved.
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The Independent Group's encounters with logical positivism and searches for unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition
… Aspects of Form, edited by Lancelot Law Whyte and including a wide range of essays by leading scientists of the day, as well as by Konrad Lorenz, Rudolf Arnheim, and Ernst Gombrich. In tracing the discourses of "form" and "unity" to several distinct sources, my study charts the unmapped …
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Stop, Talk & Learn: socialization in a university open space
… with Trudy Wischemann (1998) and William “Holly” Whyte (1980). These design elements are categorized by the types of socialization that they can facilitate: manifest, latent, and spontaneous interaction. Next, a case study of Spaights Plaza on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus was …
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Neuropsychological Outcome following Perinatal HIE: Utility of MR Spectroscopy
… or death (30%) (McCulloch, Taylor, & Whyte, 1991). Prognosis after HIE is often difficult to establish because traditional predictors, such as Sarnat scores, Apgar scores, and pH, do not always account for adequate variance in outcome. The prognostic utility of MR Spectroscopy in the …
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Alternative contracting for informal economy financing
… Christian Rogerson and Eleanor Preston-Whyte' s recent collection, "South Africa's Informal Economy", is testament to the broad application of the informal economy. Beyond the debate of definitions and characteristics is the debate on how to assist the informal economy. Leiman suggests …
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Skapandi kennileiti á Íslandi: Rannsókn á menningarlegu gildi listrænna inngripa í almenningsrýmum
… Landry, 2008; Project for Public Spaces, 2012; Whyte, 1980) og staðartengsl (Low & Altman, 1992; Scannell & Gifford, 2010). Gögnum var safnað með rafrænni spurningakönnun og greind með lýsandi tölfræði og þemagreiningu. Sjónum er beint að því hvernig íbúar skynja menningarlegt gildi skapandi …
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Evocative and evidentiary : interpreting the city through non-fiction filmmaking
… Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980) by William H Whyte. Each case requires a thorough contextualization and location with urban studies, planning and film histories. The thesis, therefore, is arranged as a chronological exploration of the antecedents and turning points that explain the difference …
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Pakistani villagers in a British city. The world of the Mirpuri villager in Bradford and in his village of origin
… of America (Gans: 1965; Rose: 1964; Wirth: 1956; Whyte: 1969). This work was initially undertaken to establish, in one particular ethnic minority, the migrant's attitudes and appreciation of his migration and his situation in Britain. It was immediately apparent that no adequate evaluation or …
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Entrainment in Saldanha Bay
… and moves approximately 6° to the south (Preston-Whyte and Tyson 1988), creating a pressure gradient over the Benguela region. The presence of the thermal low over the adjacent subcontinent increases the existing pressure gradient, and enhances the equatorward air flow. This seasonal modulation of …
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Differentiating Small Urban Space as a Type and an Idea
… with the preferred characteristics identified by Whyte (1980). The second study investigates the term as an idea and seeks to extract a descriptive set of categories from interviews conducted with practitioners in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. An analysis of interview …
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Cationic liposome-mediated transfection of mammary epithelial cells with AAV-based plasmid DNA
Cationic liposome-mediated delivery of adeno-associated virus (AAV) based plasmid DNA has potential for efficient and safe delivery of DNA into a number of different cell types. The objective of this thesis was to develop techniques for transfecting adult somatic mammary epithelial cells with the …
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Building design team communication: practice and education.
This study examined three propositions: - (i) there are problems in the building design team created by difficulties of communication between different professional disciplines, (ii) communication difficulties are primarily a function of cultural differences instilled by vocational education, and …
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David’s political mourning in the Hebrew Bible: an analysis of how David mourns in instances of political significance
With growing research indicating that mourning is culturally bound, criticisms of David’s political mourning by scholars such as Pamela Reis and Malul Meier seem increasingly uninformed. Both sympathetic and critical readers of David can often make conclusions without considering that David lives …
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Improving my teaching of maths to develop student attitudes towards the subject.
The skills and concepts that are developed in our primary maths education have a significant impact on our daily lives through our engagements with each other and our environment. Therefore, it is important to promote maths education and learning in a positive and engaging way. The purpose of this …
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Let these things be written
Let These Things be Written comprises an historical novel and a critical commentary on the creative process which informed it. The novel is a re-imagining of the life of St Cuthbert and is presented from the point of view of the anonymous monk of Lindisfarne who compiled Cuthbert’s first Vita or …
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Helpful and unhelpful elements of support for families with missing loved ones
UK police receive a call about a missing person every 90 seconds and limited existing research suggests families left behind to cope with the ambiguous loss of a missing loved one will experience a range of problematic emotions which often leads to physical symptoms and deteriorating health. This …
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Surrogate Model Optimisation for PWR Fuel Management
Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) fuel management is an operational problem for nuclear operators, requiring solutions on a regular basis throughout the life of the plant. A variety of conflicting factors and changing goals mean that fuel loading pattern design problems are multiobjective and, by …
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