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Showing 1 to 20 of 9387 for “"absence"”.
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Presencing Absence
… of Jean Baudrillard; and that of an embracing of absence, presented in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and the works of such artists as John Cage, George Brecht, Pauline Oliveros, Bill Wegman, David Hammons and others.
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Measuring absence cultures: an examination of absence perceptions of males and females
… perspective. The purpose was to measure the absence cultures (Nicholson and Johns, l9S5) of male and female employees through the use of policy capturing (Hobson and Gibson, l9S3). Absence was split into three dimensions: Personal Health, Stress Relief, and Family Responsibility (Nicholson …
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Dante's Poetics of Absence
This thesis carries out a systematic analysis of absence in Dante Alighieri’s Commedia. In particular, it examines those absences which Dante renders conspicuous, and proposes the importance of the interpretation of conspicuous absence in the poem: a subject which has only ever been examined in …
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Present absence /Absent Presence
In this project melancholy and the related experiences of loss and longing as explanatory concepts, are the basis fromwhich visually interpret the body of practical work that emphasises the role of emotion and personal experience in locating meaning.
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Drifting absence :: drafting memory
The emotive power of a memorial derives from its ability to engage the viewer in active remembrance. The project considers the limitations of a monumentality which embraces a distinct division between viewer and memorial. Collapsing the traditionally bifurcated relationship between the viewer and …
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Father Absence Effects on Military Children
The effects of father absence on military children were studied by use of a questionnaire and personal interviews. The sample consisted of U.S. military officers and their dependents stationed at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. The study focused on the nature of the absence and how …
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Filled With Absence: Spaces for Mourning
Long ago the stories common to men were clearly present in their architecture. Sculpture, mosaics, paintings, stained-glass windows, all blatantly told the beginning, the morals, the epics, and future of humanity. Today these elements have all but disappeared along with the stories that they told. …
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Attendance Decisions: Implications for Absence From Work
… made little progress toward an understanding of absence from scheduled work. There is a conceptual and methodological discrepancy between the daily, specific, discrete nature of work absences and the somewhat stable, general, continuous nature of the constructs used to explain absences. …
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Islamic automata in the absence of wonder
This thesis looks at the interpretive difficulties posed by the Islamic automata, or hiyal manuscript--an ingenious genre of medieval illustrated manuscripts that describes and depicts mechanical devices such as water clocks, trick vessels, and automata. I choose to focus on the ways in which the …
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Decision making in the absence of conscious awareness
… whether information processed in the absence of a stimulus—or of conscious awareness of a stimulus—can influence decision accuracy. Using a motion decision task, in Chapter 2 we show that simply delaying responses after stimulus offset can almost double decision accuracy, even In the …
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Mind the gap : absence as signifying function in comics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. English, 2010
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Texturing absence: a geography of the disappeared Woodstock Beach
… unacknowledged. What does the presence, and then absence, of Woodstock Beach mean for people and place in Cape Town? Understanding the role of Woodstock Beach in the making of the city requires a methodological approach that is attuned to both presence and absence. The method of ‘texture' draws on …
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Visual Transfer Learning in the Absence of the Source Data
Image recognition has become one of the most popular topics in machine learning. With the development of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and the help of the large scale labeled image database such as ImageNet, modern image recognition models can achieve competitive performance compared to …
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Inferring Malware Detector Metrics in the Absence of Ground-Truth
… to file-scanning malware detectors in the absence of ground-truth labels? This problem has recently started to receive attention from the research community, but our understanding is still at a superficial level because there are many unaddressed questions. The present dissertation makes a …
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Evidence for Absence of Latchbridge Formation in Phasic Saphenous Artery
Tonic arterial smooth muscle can produce strong contractions indefinitely by formation of slowly cycling crossbridges (latchbridges) that maintain force at a high energy economy. To fully understand the uniqueness of mechanisms regulating tonic arterial contraction, comparisons have been made to …
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