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Showing 1 to 20 of 1470 for “"Worlds"”.
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Brane worlds, brane worlds : it's party time : excellent
In recent years branes have had significant impact in the construction of higher dimensional theories of SUSY breaking, and of gravitational phenomena. In particular they provide strong motivation for considering anomaly mediation as a mechanism of SUSY breaking communication. Anomaly mediation …
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Blazing Worlds
<p>Blazing Worlds is a collection of short stories exploring themes of understanding, isolation, the world of work, and identity. These stories follow characters who are searching for connections to others, to their environments, to their work, and to themselves. The protagonists of these stories …
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Between Two Worlds
<p>“Original Sin”—evocative and powerful words, but what if they were applied to one of the world’s most popular fairy tales? This thesis explores Snow White in the context of the Seven Deadly Sins and the grand fall of Adam and Eve. The forbidden fruit manifests itself in different ways, pulling …
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Identity across possible worlds
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Philosophy, 1975
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Postmodern Alienation: Projecting Worlds/Feigning Subjects
… by an alternating focus on characters and worlds, my project offers a framework to consider the fragmentation of the modern subject in postmodernity. On one hand, I roll back the theoretical critique of the subject and, on the other, show that modernism's basic configuration of …
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The many worlds of Liz Jordan
My creative thesis, The Many Worlds of Liz Jordan, is an urban-portal fantasy about authors who travel to secondary worlds , experience stories 1 first-hand, and only then write them up as “fiction.” The work is influenced by a number of writers, such as Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and James …
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There Are Other Worlds than These
Short stories.
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Procedurally generated realistic virtual rural worlds
Manually creating virtual rural worlds is often a difficult and lengthy task for artists, as plant species selection, plant distributions and water networks must be deduced such that they realistically reflect the environment being modelled. As virtual worlds grow in size and complexity, climates …
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Applying probabilistic rules to relational worlds
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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(In)Justice in Nonideal Social Worlds
… argue, track our efforts to realize just social worlds, in ways that paradigmatically ideal and nonideal approaches to justice by themselves cannot. In this essay, I focus specifically on the question of how theories of justice can guide action in social worlds with systematic oppression. I …
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The Mothership: Multiplanetary Becomings and Reproducing Worlds
… multiplanetary future in which we will build new worlds, terraforming environments both physically and ideologically. These “moon to mars” missions mark a new era of deep space exploration, the first in fifty years since the Apollo missions in the 1970s. This time, NewSpace venture capitalists are …
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The Formation and Evolution of Habitable Worlds
… in the hunt for habitable and inhabited worlds. In addition, the measurements of these exoplanets may be noisy and the spectral signals of interest weak, necessitating a robust framework of theoretical and numerical models to guide collection and interpretation of the data, of which the …
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Ancient Maya Afterlife Iconography: Traveling Between Worlds
The ancient Maya afterlife is a rich and voluminous topic. Unfortunately, much of the material currently utilized for interpretations about the ancient Maya comes from publications written after contact by the Spanish or from artifacts with no context, likely looted items. Both sources of …
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Learners’ Experience of Presence in Virtual Worlds
… participants’ experiences of presence in virtual worlds as a specific case of mediated environments, and the factors that support that experience of presence, with the aim of developing practice when using these technologies in learning and teaching. The thesis begins with a framework that was …
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Performances of Marginalized Identities in Virtual Worlds
… explores performances of identities in virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. While virtual worlds are popularly imagined as spaces where any performances of identity are possible and welcomed, constraints of both design and culture create a dominant or preferred performance …
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The Mystery That Prevails: Drawing Fragmented Worlds
The body of work I have made for my thesis exhibition is built from organic imagery that hints at diagrammatic filtering of information, but repeats, contorts and layers to become an unsettling conversation between the known and the unknown. In this essay, I discuss my use of repetitive drawing and …
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Chaos and Scrambling in Quantum Small Worlds
… quantum system, which we term ‘quantum small worlds'. These are strongly-interacting systems that interpolate between completely ordered (nearest-neighbour, next-to-nearest-neighbour etc.) and completely random interactions. They are systems of quantum spin particles in which the network …
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